About Simon Hallsworth | Executive Coach & Leadership Mentor
About Simon

The man who speaks
what no one else will.

Simon Hallsworth has spent fifteen years working at the deepest level of human potential. He is not a motivational speaker. He is not a strategist. He is the person you sit across from when you're finally ready to be honest.

Simon Hallsworth

A professional
father. A truth
teller.

Simon doesn't coach from a playbook. He coaches from the conviction that every leader he sits with carries gifts, talents, and a God-given capacity that hasn't fully been accessed yet. His job is to see those things clearly — and to speak them into existence.

He describes himself as a professional father. Not because he's soft. Because he operates the way the best fathers do — he sees who you actually are, not just who you're performing, and he refuses to let you settle for less. This quality translates directly into his coaching — regardless of who sits across from him.

His approach is relational, direct, and truth-first. For clients of faith, the Biblical foundation is explicit. For those without, the wisdom translates — because truth doesn't require a label to land.

He has worked across corporate leadership, elite athlete coaching, startup acceleration, not-for-profit sector leadership, faith community development, and youth education.

"I don't help people fix their businesses. I help them become the person their business — and their family — has been waiting for."

What Simon Brings

Precision. Simon reads people quickly and accurately. He hears what's not being said. He names patterns the client hasn't named yet.

Honesty. He will say what your board won't, what your partner can't, and what your previous coach danced around. Without cruelty. Without apology.

Depth. He does not do surface-level work. Every engagement goes to the root — identity, pattern, belief — not just the presenting problem.

Wisdom. Fifteen years of pattern recognition across hundreds of leaders. Simon has seen this before. He knows what this is.

How He Works

This is not coaching as you've experienced it before.

Truth First

Simon doesn't soften what needs to be said. He has spent fifteen years learning how to say hard things in a way that lands without crushing. That is a different skill to being blunt. He knows the difference.

Relational, Not Transactional

Simon is not a technique delivery system. He is a human being who invests in the humans he works with. The relationship is the container. Without it, nothing else works.

Identity-Level Work

Most coaching works on behaviour. Simon works on identity — the layer beneath behaviour where the patterns actually live. Change at that level is permanent. Change at the surface level is not.

The Professional Father

He sees the gifts in people and speaks them into existence.

Simon is a father. That is not incidental to his coaching — it is central to it. He leads his family the way he leads his clients: with love that holds people to a standard, and honesty that refuses to let them disappear into a performance.

He brings that same quality into every coaching engagement. The clients who work with Simon often say the same thing: he saw something in me before I could see it myself. And then he wouldn't let me unsee it.

"The best leaders I've worked with didn't need more information. They needed someone to hold up a mirror and refuse to look away. That's what I do."
Simon Hallsworth
Background

Fifteen years. One focus.

Corporate Leadership

Mentoring C-suite and senior executives across major Australian organisations in resources, professional services, and construction.

Athlete & Performance Coaching

Working with elite athletes on the performance psychology that separates good from exceptional.

Startup & Founder Coaching

Supporting founders through high-pressure growth phases — the personal dynamics of scale, team, and decision-making under pressure.

Not-for-Profit Leadership

Senior leadership experience within community development and service organisations — leading teams, culture, and mission alignment.

Faith & Community

Extensive work in faith-based organisations and community leadership programs. Wisdom applied across secular and sacred contexts.

The real conversation starts with one call.

10 minutes. Simon listens. You talk. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest conversation about where you are and where you want to go.