Driving empowered performance
Achieving empowered performance requires action. For more than 20 years, Lincoln Turvey has helped CEOs and executive teams identify and fix the organisational issues that ultimately show up in the numbers — slower growth, weaker margins, inconsistent execution, rising complexity and performance left on the table.
ABOUT
Building high performance organisations
Drawing on deep experience leading large-scale transformation and performance improvement across complex businesses, Lincoln quickly identifies where leadership, accountability, structure, operating rhythm, incentives and ways of working are helping — or hindering — performance.
Known for his direct, practical approach, he works closely with leadership teams to create clarity, cut through complexity and implement meaningful change without unnecessary bureaucracy. He has worked across listed, private equity-backed and privately owned businesses ranging from mid-sized enterprises to large, complex organisations operating across aviation, mining, industrial, manufacturing, agriculture, food and consumer sectors — often during periods of significant growth, transformation, integration or performance pressure.
Businesses rarely underperform because people are not working hard.
Over time, strategy disconnects from execution.
Decision-making slows down
Accountability weakens & execution becomes inconsistent
Leadership teams lose alignment
Capability gaps emerge
Incentives stop driving the right behaviour
Complexity builds faster than the business adapts
How does this happen?
- Sometimes this happens through growth.
- Sometimes through transformation, integration, restructuring, or leadership change.
- Sometimes the business has simply drifted from the disciplines that once made it effective.
Our focus is straightforward
We help leadership teams build businesses that execute more effectively through stronger leadership, disciplined performance systems, effective team design, operating systems that support execution, aligned reward and incentive structures, and the capability and mindset required to perform at a consistently high level.
CASE STUDIES
Executive leadership and hands-on delivery.
Lincoln’s background combines executive leadership experience with hands-on transformation delivery. He has worked inside businesses undergoing major operational, structural, and cultural change — where execution quality, leadership capability, and organisational effectiveness had direct commercial consequences.
Viva Advisory’s approach
Practical, commercially grounded work focused on helping businesses operate more effectively, execute more consistently, and perform at a higher level over time.
Mick Hewitt, Hewitt Foods Group CEO
The Viva Advisory Solution
Viva Advisory works with businesses facing complexity, growth, transformation, integration, or execution pressure — regardless of size.
20 years of experience leading transformation and organisational change across complex businesses including BHP, South32, Virgin Australia, Flight Centre, Thiess, Rio Tinto and Qld Royal Flying Doctor Service. Senior advisory work delivered directly by Lincoln Turvey.