What We Do
The Coxswain Alliance Difference
Your company is unique, and so are we. We’re Coxswain Alliance, an operational improvement consulting firm that does things differently. Before making recommendations, we invest significant time in learning what currently works in your organisation and what’s falling short, we get to know your people, processes and goals. With this information in hand we develop tailored solutions that address your organisation’s unique needs and improve operational performance.
“They genuinely sought to understand our people and our business—every nook and cranny of it.”
Your leaders always remain in charge and won’t be told they’re “doing it wrong.” Instead, we’ll carefully observe, offer constructive feedback, and make thoughtful recommendations. Then, from senior to front-line management, you’ll see us working alongside your people as your improvement strategy is deployed, answering their questions and coaching them every step of the way—because we’re in this together.
Core Services
We understand that every organisation and industry has unique challenges—there’s no one size fits all template solution. But there are some fundamental issues that affect all organisations when striving for greater productivity and enhanced revenue.
Our core services address these fundamental issues. Your customised solution may require a combination of some or all our services. Let’s talk about your immediate issues – with an eye on your big picture.
Process optimisation
Analysing, re-designing and implementing new processes to better service your customers.
Tools for managing more effectively
Enhancing and implementing new ways of managing your processes to reduce costs, increase efficiency and streamline decision- making. Ensuring your people have the suitable tools to make decisions, increase productivity and reduce costs.
Navigating Change
Supporting people through the change, ensuring their understanding and engagement as well as setting out roles and accountabilities.
Executive alignment
Aligning executive teams to strategic goals, and planning for the execution of those strategies, including what role the executive will play.
Developing leadership and management capability
Interventions and programs to provide the organisation’s leaders with the requisite skills to operate more effectively and have greater impact. Give your people the skills they need.
Coaching
Coaching of your managers – and implementing internal coaching processes – to ensure the ongoing development and support of your people in new ways of doing things. This is to ensure you effectively maintain momentum.
Learning and e-Learning
How do you provide your people with the required training and development? Can you also translate your learning approaches to the e-environment? There are increasing pressures from people in all organisations for e-Solutions, including how they manage their development.
Complementary services
We have built relationships with a range of organisations that complement our ability to deliver to a range of needs of our clients. Rather than seeking to be ‘all things to all people’, we recognise that at times we need to work with other resources to deliver to your needs.

About Us
Formed in 2009 by a core group of operations consulting professionals, Coxswain Alliance provides a broad range of consulting services with a focus on how to work most effectively within the Australian and Asia-Pacific context. Our team offers you extensive corporate managerial and consulting expertise, including over 150 years of combined experience within a global operational consulting firm.
Helping companies across industries analyse their existing procedures and design an efficient, results driven operating model has been our mission from day one, but we don’t stop there. As implementation specialists, we roll up our sleeves and help you execute your strategy— supporting you throughout the change process.
How We Work – What You Can Expect
We’ll sit down together and have candid discussions about roles, responsibilities, and anticipated outcomes—so you have a clear understanding of what you’re getting for your investment.
“We understood who they were, why they were there, and what outcomes to expect.”
Our people will continuously communicate with you and your teams throughout your project, so everyone is clear about what’s happening. Even after our time together, you won’t be forgotten. We’ll check in on you, and you and your staff can contact us anytime with questions or concerns—at no additional cost.
“The Coxswain Alliance Team checked in post-implementation daily, then weekly, then monthly—
and still touch base years later. They’re truly invested.”
Why Our Name
Cox• swain / koks’n/ noun
a person who steers a (small, usually racing) boat; a person in a racing shell who usually directs the rest of the crew.
Just like in a rowing crew, our consultants play a key role in helping organisations navigate and steer through the challenges of a dynamic competitive environment. By working in alliance with our clients’ teams, we identify and help maintain the best course to reach their objectives. We provide the motivation and coordination to ensure that the crews have the power and rhythm to achieve the goals. Like the coxswain of a boat, we can see the destination because we have done this before.
This analogy gives us our name – Coxswain Alliance – and the certainty that our work will always be in your best interests. Because when we are on the same boat, we are all focused on the same goals.
Sector Experience
Experienced Management Consultants
Unlike many firms with a narrow scope of expertise, our team offers you decades of management consulting experience across a broad range of industries and functional areas. Guided by your business objectives and their knowledge, our consultants work with your people to develop and implement a tailored optimization solution.

Industry experience
- Financial Services, IT and Human Resources
- Mining and Mining Production Operations
- Logistics and Distribution
- Manufacturing, heavy and light
- Utilities
- Healthcare
- Higher Education and Training
- Services and Retail
- Hospitality
Functional experience
- Operations and Operations Management
- Planning and Scheduling
- Asset Management / Maintenance and Engineering
- Call Centre Functions
- Back Office Functions
- Workforce Planning
- Sales Management and Effectiveness
- Supply Chain & Procurement Management
As such we offer
- Strong project management skills.
- Planning for and commencing business improvement activities.
- Process documentation and analysis, using a range of methodologies including 6 Sigma and Lean.
- Business process improvement – eliminating ‘waste’, becoming and staying lean.
- Development and installation of management tools and techniques to support decision-making and improve performance.
- Organisational effectiveness – closing the gap between strategy and implementation.
- Change management – guiding real and sustainable change.
- Strong and compelling workforce engagement approaches.
- Leadership consulting – challenging conventional thinking.
- Strong education and training, underpinning improvement programs.
- Coaching with consulting – supporting individuals, teams and organisations.
- Enabling a culture of continuous improvement.
- Supply chain improvement – unlocking supply chain thinking.