obsidian Mentors
Our Mentors are experienced and successful executive leaders who have operated at the highest levels in Blue Chip businesses.
They act as Facilitators, Guides, Mentors and Confidantes to direct each group through the program, leading workshops, providing experience, counsel, feedback and asking the tough questions that are going to drive development.
Chris Baddock
Non Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer (CEO),
Business Coach, Business owner,
Strategy Facilitator and builder of achievement cultures.
Drawing from experiences of using culture and behaviours to achieve business success, Chris offers a unique perspective on cultural development, behaviour, and engagement. An accredited LSI coach and certified Caliper Partner with real-life experience, he emphasises and promotes a focus on the behaviours required by leaders to achieve business sustainability.
Chris has a long history of building partnerships with key customers across the liquor and grocery categories. A member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, an accredited Human Synergistics Coach and graduate of the Australian Graduate School of Management,
Chris was most recently CEO, Australian Liquor Marketers (a division of Metcash Ltd). He has more than thirty years' experience in FMCG and over twenty in the Drinks Industry, working in both supply and retail including Lion & Woolworths.
Chris was appointed Director of Pinnacle Drinks in February 2015, a wholly owned subsidiary of Endeavour Drinks owned & exclusive Beer, Spirits and Wine to BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Progressive NZ and Summergate China. In addition, Chris ran Cellarmasters, Woolworths Liquor Export and the digital team. During this time Chris served as NED for Gage Roads and Chair, Southtrade International.
Before joining Woolworths Chris spent 11 years with Lion Australia in several senior management roles including Managing Director of Fine Wine Partners and National Customer & Sales Director of Lion Australia.
Chris has built his career around a simple philosophy that constructive behaviours are a critical factor in long term sustainable results.
Michael Floyd
Helping Australian businesses attract, engage and develop great people - Executive Recruitment, Leadership & Talent Consulting
Managing Director, Carrera & Obsidian Leaders
Executive Coach, Advisory Board Member
Michael Floyd has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of talent, leadership, and business performance — not as an observer, but as a practitioner who has lived the challenges his clients face.
In 2002, Michael founded Carrera on a simple but demanding premise: that finding the right person for a critical role requires genuine insight into both the business and the individual. Having worked inside the industries he recruits for, Michael understood what exceptional commercial talent looked like from the inside — and what it cost an organisation, in time, momentum and culture, when the fit was wrong. That conviction shaped a founder-led firm built on depth of relationship rather than volume of transactions, with client partnerships that routinely span two decades.
Over time, Michael's work evolved naturally beyond search. He recognised that placing the right person is only the beginning — what determines whether that investment pays off is what happens next. This realisation led him deeper into leadership development, executive coaching and organisational consulting; work he describes as the most meaningful of his career.
As a coach and facilitator, Michael works with leaders across the spectrum — from emerging managers stepping into their first senior roles to seasoned executives navigating complex organisational challenges. He is known for his capacity to help leaders see potential in themselves they hadn't yet recognised, and for his ability to unlock the collective capability of leadership teams. His board experience across commercial enterprises gives him a strategic lens that grounds his development work in business reality, not theory.
Michael brings this same philosophy to Obsidian Leaders. The program reflects everything he has learned about what separates leaders who grow from those who plateau: self-awareness, authentic connection, emotional intelligence, and the discipline to keep developing — even at the top.
Outside of work, Michael is a committed community contributor, a busy dad, and a competitive tennis player who applies the same intensity on court that he brings to the boardroom.