Everway and The Pillars: Driving Clarity, Focus, and Resilience to Exceed Growth Targets
As Everway scaled its presence across Australia and New Zealand, the leadership team faced a common challenge: ambitious growth targets collided with a rapidly expanding team, increasing complexity, and mounting pressure. To maintain momentum without burnout, Everway turned to The Pillars to embed clarity, focus, and resilience across its ANZ operations.
Industry
SAAS
Product used
The Pillars Program; Work Deep Dive; Wellness Module
Building performing resilient thriving growing teams for rapid growth
The Challenge
Everway’s ANZ business unit was entering a pivotal phase: Scaling fast across new regions, launching new service lines, and onboarding talent at pace. But success brought strain:Teams were spread thin across priorities.
Everway recognised that traditional productivity frameworks weren’t enough. The team needed to develop the internal capacity to lead and deliver, without sacrificing wellbeing or strategic clarity.
The Solution
Everway partnered with The Pillars to run a 7-months program designed support the team in meeting ambitious growth targets by building inner capacity and cultivate a growth mindset.
Additionally, The Pillars Team was tasked to uncover individual and team resistors, as part of Everway’s quarterly offsites.
The Pillars gave our team a system to stay grounded, aligned, and energised, even as the pace picked up. It helped us not just hit our numbers, but do it in a way that’s sustainable.
- Brian Walsh, Head of APAC, Everway
Results
Measurable impact on all participants
All participants have shown significant improvements in wellbeing and their work capacity, which was reflected in survey results and performance reviews. Some participants have made significant career progress during the program.
Building capacity, reducing burnout
Without an exception, participants’ capacity ratings have continuously improved over time (35% in 6 months), while burnout propensity ratings have decreased by an average of 15% in the same time period.
Higher performance and better team dynamics
Be removing personal resistors and cultivating capacity, participants have accelerated their leadership capability development, resulting in enhanced performance and achieving organisational goals.
Impact on participants
Changes in capacity and Burnout Propensity
Why it worked
Whole of life approach
The Pillars focused on internal leadership (how to manage self) before external execution (how to manage others), setting participants up to take the next step in their leadership journeys.
Tangible actions
The Performance Equation and clear blueprints gave the team clear guidance towards enhanced sustainable performance and directed development both in a personal and professional context.
Measurable impact
Impact is directly measurable, benefiting both the participants by demonstrating progress and decision makers who can rely on both qualitative and quantitative metrics of success.
Conclusion
With The Pillars embedded as a core part of its leadership culture, Everway’s ANZ team continues to scale with strength. Balancing ambition with clarity, pace with presence, and performance with resilience.
