Executive Coaching

Knowing yourself, which includes understanding your patterns, your strengths and your areas of challenge, is the most important factor of being the most authentic and empowered leader that you can be. Further, understanding the systems that you work within significantly enhances leadership style.

Knowing yourself can certainly be a journey, with different layers and levels unearthed at different times during your career. Walking together we can dive into knowing the true you, and explore the different systems that influence your leadership style. From this space of understanding you can learn how to let go of patterns that don’t serve, enhance your strengths, and transform your areas of challenge within the environment that you operate.

Wisdom Tribes

wisdom : ability to discern inner qualities and relationships; a wise attitude, belief or course of action; the teachings of the ancient wise ones

tribe : a group of persons having a common character, occupation, or interest; a natural group

Have you been looking for your ‘Wisdom Tribe’? Do you want a safe space to connect with senior women in leadership to talk about the things we don’t usually talk about, but that impact us as women? Are you looking for a place to be, to learn, to support, to be supported, and to be validated? What would it feel like to share and connect with other senior women in leadership, in a small intimate group that meets monthly, creating space and time to come together for each others mutual growth?

‘Wisdom Tribes’ are :

a small intimate cohort of senior women in leadership (max. 10)
who meet once a month
who journey together for 12 months
who get to co-create a safe and confidential space for sharing and wisdom
and who learn and grow individually and collectively – for self, organisation, community and the wellbeing for all

By creating a ‘Wisdom Tribe’ we can co-create a deeper place to be, to learn, to support, to be supported, and to be validated for individual and collective growth.

Leadership Consulting

Sometimes we need someone from outside an organisation to understand what’s going on within an organisation. Someone who can engage key stakeholders, garner relevant information, feed this back in a concise and effective manner, and also provide recommendations on future direction. This is where Leadership Consulting can give pulse checks, inform on culture and culture change, guide policy and procedures, collect real-time information on employee well-being and satisfaction, and assist with direction in dynamically changing environments.

I can work with you to tailor and deliver projects that provide real time feedback in an organisational setting.

Workshops

Leadership workshops come in all shapes and sizes – from half day to multiple day, from experiential to informative, from something more general to a completely customisable experience.

I can offer a range of options, including but not limited to the following topics :

Leadership
Trauma Informed Leadership
Team Dynamics
Personal Transformation
Mindfulness
Psychological Safety
Toxic Behaviours
Team and Individual Healing – Working with Trauma/Grief/Overwhelm
Trauma
Vicarious Trauma
Compassion Fatigue
Self and Team Regulation
Communication
Self-Awareness
The Imposter Syndrome
Resilience
Perfectionism

I can work with you to design, customise and deliver your next experience.

360 Feedback

Understanding what we do well, identifying growth edges, and discovering what holds us back in a leadership space are all invaluable to be the most effective leader that we can be. This is where 360 feedback (feedback from Managers, Peers, Subordinates and Others) can help you and/or your organisation delve deeper into leadership styles.

I am Certified in the Leadership Circle Profile Assessment. The Leadership Circle Profile is a powerful immersive experience that highlights what’s going on beneath the surface, it can help identify patterns that you may be stuck in, and it offers insights and practical ways to harness your growth edge. Coupled with individual coaching, the Leadership Circle Profile Assessment can offer you the leadership breakthrough you’ve been reaching for.

Harnessing Midlife Power

Recognising that there are 1.6M women in Australian workplaces experiencing symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, there is a ripe invitation for more inclusive workplaces that honour, support and empower women in midlife.

As a now menopausal woman and informed by my professional experiences in psychology, leadership development and coaching, I’m deeply aware of the challenges that women in midlife are experiencing in workplaces. In conversations with clients and colleagues I’m hearing a growing call for increased openness about this topic and, I’m also noticing that perimenopause and menopause is gathering international momentum, with more awareness, more research and more discussions.

There’s a clear need for action here in Australia, as research tells us that Australian women leaving the workforce prematurely during this time costs our economy $10billion per year, and female workers lose more than $17billion per year in earnings and superannuation as a result of early departure from the workforce.

The time is now to spark conversations, increase awareness, overcome the challenges, and unleash the power of midlife. Bespoke solutions to your individual circumstances can be co-designed with curiosity, care, and impact.

I’ve recently been a guest on a fabulous radio show and two most awesome podcasts, discussing the impacts of trauma and perimenopause. Here’s the link to the Peri M Party radio show, the Sage Women podcast, and the Peri Menopause Power podcast.

Facilitation

Often we have a topic, a stuck point, or a pain point that we can’t seem to find a way into, out of, through, around, over or under. This is where a skilled facilitator can assist you and/or your team to work with the topic at hand, and come to a new understanding of the very same thing that you haven’t been able to solve.

I can work with you and/or your team to resolve those issues that seem unresolvable.

Team Dynamics

Do you notice a sense of ‘stuckness’ with how your Team collaborates? Do you sense there is a dialogue that isn’t happening that needs to happen, so that you can be the most effective Team you can be? What you’re noticing is the structural or team dynamics. These dynamics can be helpful; however, they can also hinder.

Using the Kantor Structural Dynamics model, we can look a diagnosing the stuck points, and enhancing the communication and decision making within your Team. This truly is a powerful tool.

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