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It's leaders with "sideways experience" who tend to be the strongest performers when they reach the top of an organisation, according to a leadership coach.

When Erica Nelson first joined the Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation, she coached about 15 leaders one-on-one.

Now, as chief leadership development officer, coaching more than 50 leaders individually and conducting group coaching at every leadership layer across the organisation, she tells HR Daily a key part of her work is to broaden people's perspectives of leadership and career progression.

"Having worked in coaching and leadership for a long time, I cannot tell you the number of people I've seen who have... gone into their first leadership position, or the next layer of leadership, because they think they should and that's what 'career progression' means – and gotten there and then have hated it."...