"Human leadership enables performance."
This belief sits at the core of everything we do — and it comes from our founder's two decades of leading transformation across Microsoft, AWS, Gartner, government, and enterprise.
Organisations perform best when leaders genuinely take care of their people. Clarity, trust, and psychological safety aren't soft concepts. They are essential conditions for accountability, execution, and resilience.
Too many transformation programs treat people as resources to be deployed rather than humans with finite capacity. At EEG, we apply a human leadership lens to every engagement — ensuring transformation delivers results without compromising the wellbeing of the people responsible for delivering it.
Three principles.
Every engagement.
We work with leaders navigating constant change, increasing scrutiny, and competing priorities — across both public and private sectors.
03
Real transformation
Measurable outcomes that improve performance, not plans that look good in presentations. We work closely with leaders to ensure strategies are achievable — and that change strengthens capability rather than exhausting people.
Two decades of experience.
One clear point of view.
Cindy Schwartz
Founder & Principal
Founded
Executive Excellence Group, 2018
Background
Microsoft · Gartner · AWS
EXPERIENCE
20+ years senior leadership Australia & US
sECTORS
Federal & State Government · National Security & Defence · FSI · Technology · NPO · Start-ups
aLSO
Founder, EXCEED Leadership Pty Ltd
Forthcoming book
You Were Never Behind: What They Never Told Leaders About Confidence, Competence, and Staying Power. Expected release in late 2026..
Cindy Schwartz founded Executive Excellence Group in 2018, drawing on two decades of senior leadership across technology, consulting, and the public sector in Australia and the United States.
Her career spans director-level roles at Microsoft across Asia-Pacific and Japan, C-suite advisory work at Gartner, and General Manager roles across Advisory, Consulting, and Product at Citadel Group — a government and defence technology firm.
Most recently at AWS, she led Digital Innovation and Customer Solutions for Australia and New Zealand, and served as Amazon's Emotional Intelligence Lead across Asia-Pacific and Japan. She has also served as a Non-Executive Director in the social enterprise and start-up sectors.
What connects that experience is working at the intersection of hi-stakes strategy and operational reality - cloud operating models, transformation, enterprise technology decisions - where the constraints are real, the accountability is high, and the margin for error is narrow. She works across public and private sectors and understands the different pressures leaders face in each.
Cindy has spent fifteen years mentoring and developing female leaders in technology and business. That commitment led to the founding of EXCEED Leadership, EEG's dedicated leadership development practice, and her forthcoming book.
Part of the EEG suite
Introducing EXCEED Leadership.
Leadership development is not an add-on to our advisory work — it is core to what we believe. EXCEED Leadership is EEG's dedicated leadership development practice, built to formalise and scale the programs, IP, and frameworks Cindy has developed over two decades of leading and mentoring. This program is built to provide a pathway to next level and excellence.
EXCEED delivers development programs for the Future Leader (high-potential individual contributor), Future Executive (high-potential manager), and Executive Leaders — supporting organisations serious about building the leadership capability required for sustained performance.
