Enterprise Excellence Podcast with Brad Jeavons

210, Leader as Coach, Leader as Trainer with Sunny Queen Ops Manager, Christopher Price.


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If you want to build an internal project management system that your leaders can own, teach, and sustain—just like Sunny Queen—reach out.
 Connect with Brad on LinkedIn, call 0402 448 445, or email [email protected]

Episode Summary

In this episode, Brad sits down with Christopher Price, Operations Manager at Sunny Queen Australia, to discuss how they built their own project management and execution system from the ground up.
 Instead of buying external training, Christopher chose to co-create a tailored approach—starting with the voice of the employee, running a simple maturity review, and designing a learning system leaders can deploy and improve over time.
 The conversation explores how Sunny Queen aligned Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Leadership around a common execution model, and how simplified tools, strong leadership ownership, and rapid iteration accelerated engagement and capability building. 

Summary Keywords

#EnterpriseExcellence #ProjectManagement #ContinuousImprovement #StrategyDeployment #Lean #Agile #ChangeManagement #ADKAR #VoiceOfEmployee #MaturityAssessment #Leadership #OperationalExcellence #ExecutionRhythm #VisualManagement #TeamAlignment #LeaderAsCoach #LeaderAsTrainer #Culture #Simplification #SunnyQueen 

Introduction

Every organisation wants consistent execution—but very few build a system that fits their culture, their people, and their way of working.
 In this episode, Brad Jeavons speaks with Christopher Price, who led an innovative approach at Sunny Queen to create an internally owned project management system. Rather than relying on generic, off-the-shelf programs, Christopher started with deep listening: gathering the voice of employees across Sales, Operations, Engineering, and Marketing, and assessing strategy and project capability through a simple 1–5 maturity rubric.

From there, he and Brad co-designed a modular learning system that built clarity, consistency, and capability—enabling leaders to coach, facilitate, and improve the system over time. This episode reveals the exact steps Sunny Queen took to embed learning, simplify tools, and build a model that works enterprise-wide.

 

Episode Links:


Youtube:https://youtu.be/mol6IUaRD10


Enterprise Excellence Academy: https://enterpriseexcellencegroup.com.au/ 

Contacts

 

Connect with Brad on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradjeavons/. Call him on 0402 448 445 or email him at [email protected]

Connect with Christopher on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-price-a7175131/

 

What's next?

·      Review your current project execution approach — Identify whether your teams have a consistent, simple method to plan, manage, and deliver improvements.

·      Engage your people — Run a quick voice-of-employee or maturity check to understand what’s working, what’s not, and what’s missing.

·      Start building your own system — Tailor a project management process that fits your culture so leaders can coach, train, and sustain it internally.


To learn more about what we do, visit https://enterpriseexcellencegroup.com.au/
Thanks for your time, and thanks for helping to create a better future.

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