Search our insights, learnings and perspectives across our impact areas.
Why Great Leaders Slow Down to Move Forward
Leadership development and team performance improve when leaders take time to slow down and reflect. Sparrowly Group’s Giovanna Lever introduces her Six C’s framework, showing how deliberate reflection builds stronger alignment, deeper connection, and greater consistency - helping leaders move forward with clarity and confidence.
Beyond the Logo - How place branding builds identity, economies and community
Place branding and placemaking go far beyond visual identity - they shape how communities see themselves and how others see them. Sparrowly Group’s Jackie Hicks shares insights from the City Nation Place Australasia forum, exploring how storytelling, collaboration and community engagement turn place brands into powerful economic and social drivers for towns, cities and regions.
Shut up and Listen!
Workplace communication and engagement are at the heart of strong relationships and successful teams - yet genuine listening is often the missing skill. Sparrowly Group’s Giovanna Lever shares practical strategies to master active listening, build deeper connections and create lasting engagement that drives better collaboration and business outcomes.
Customer Voices Matter - A Guide to Feedback Mastery
Customer feedback and experience management are powerful tools for business growth - if you know how to use them. Sparrowly Group's Giovanna Lever explores how to embrace feedback with confidence, turn insights into action, and strengthen relationships that drive loyalty, satisfaction and long-term success across your customers and your business.
The 8 ingredients to successful business
Small business growth and leadership take more than passion - they require persistence, adaptability and purpose. As Sparrowly Group enters its ninth year, Managing Director Giovanna Lever shares eight key lessons from building a thriving consultancy from the ground up, offering inspiration and practical advice for current and aspiring business owners across Australia.
Mindset Mangement for Business Owners
Sparrowly Group Owner and Managing Director, Giovanna Lever shares her strategies on how she maintains a positive mindset for business and personal success.
Shut up and take my money....said nobody ever.
Sparrowly Group’s, Giovanna Lever shares her views on the pitfalls of many businesses today in lazy sales and why playing the long game and care is so critical.
You are never too important
According to Giovanna Lever, it doesn’t matter if you’re the Queen of England or someone starting out in your career or new business, if you are brave enough, if someone has recommended that we would be a good fit to meet (with no strings attached), then she will always make the time.
Dear Small Business Owner...
Giovanna Lever’s personal letter to small business owners. She has helped many small to medium sized businesses become profitable, retain happy customers/clients and scale successfully.
Breaking up is not hard to do…
Professional breakups don’t necessarily mean a disaster. Giovanna Lever explains when it is well managed and with both parties best interests as the focus, can, in most cases lead to a more positive outcome long term.
Creating a culture of trust
Giovanna Lever shares why is it so important to create a culture of trust?
Walk and Talk - the new meeting space
Should walking and talking be the new "coffee"? Hear what a leadership expert, Giovanna Lever has to say about the importance of incorporating exercise into your meetings.
Circle of Influence
In many professional landscapes people only care about who you are and what you do. Hear what Giovanna Lever has to say about networking without a business card.
Tax Planning
Tax planning is sometimes seen as the less important part of our professional development. Learn more about why Giovanna Lever believes in the importance of implementing tax planning.
Does our opinion matter?
People are the most important assets to a company, but is it possible that our opinions can sometimes be insignificant in the corporate world? Giovanna Lever explores this notion.
The art of networking
Networking can often be people's worst nightmares. But why? Giovanna Lever shares how to implement skills to improve your networking abilities at the next work event.

