Dimity Kemp works alongside ambitious founders, leaders and professionals navigating growth and transition. She has spent her career inside high-growth technology businesses, building leadership and People systems that enable companies to scale without loosing what made them successful.

She led the People function through Afterpay’s merger, extraordinary growth and global expansion, before joining Shippit and venture capital firm Square Peg as Head of People.

With earlier experience in consulting and banking, Dimity brings a pragmatic, commercial lens to leadership and organisational challenges.

Today, she combines fractional People leadership, executive coaching and team effectiveness to help founders and leaders gain clarity, build momentum and lead in a way that is distinctly their own.

Founders can be CEOs, but they didn’t necessarily become CEOs in the way most traditional CEOs did. That difference matters.

In this interactive session, we’ll rethink how People & Culture partners with founders. Rather than starting with what a CEO should look like, we’ll explore what made your founder successful in the first place: their strengths, instincts and the role they naturally play. We’ll then look at the downstream impact of those strengths as a company grows, and how to build a leadership system around them - amplifying what’s exceptional, complementing gaps and developing what genuinely needs to change.

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What you'll leave with:

1. A new lens for understanding founders: why the path to becoming a founder-CEO matters, and what it means for how you partner with them.
2. A practical way to understand your founder: identifying their distinctive strengths, the function they naturally represent, and the downstream impact on the organisation.
3. A framework for building around them: what to amplify, complement, protect and develop as the company grows.