Helping people think clearly, work together and navigate change
Strategy Development | Change and Transition | Leadership and Team Development
How I Work
For more than thirty years I have helped organisations across the community, government and private sectors navigate change and improve the way people work together.
The work includes making sense of complex situations, engaging the people who need to be involved, and developing practical pathways forward that people understand, support and can act on.
Depending on the situation, this will involve designing and facilitating organisational reviews, planning and decision making processes, stakeholder engagement and team development workshops that help people think together before moving forward.
People support what they help create.
Most organisations today are dealing with change
Sometimes change arrives from outside: new regulations, shifting markets, funding pressures, workforce challenges or changing community expectations. Sometimes it comes from within: a desire to improve services, strengthen culture, rethink strategy or respond to emerging opportunities.
Wherever it comes from, change usually involves uncertainty and competing priorities, and there may be no obvious right answer. People can have different perspectives on what is happening, what matters most and what needs to change. They may also be dealing with different pressures, expectations and concerns about what the change will mean for them and their work.
Working through this requires people to think together, make sense of what is happening, explore different perspectives and work out a way forward that people understand and can support.
Common Challenges
I work with organisations facing challenges such as:
- Developing strategy in uncertain environments
- Navigating organisational change and transition
- Improving collaboration across teams
- Making sense of complex situations
- Strengthening leadership capability
- Facilitating planning, review and decision-making
- Building understanding, engagement and ownership
Whether the challenge involves a small team, an executive group or a whole organisation, the aim is the same: helping people think together, make informed decisions and move forward with confidence.
Consulting Services
How can I support you?
Strategy Development
Helping organisations clarify direction, identify priorities and develop practical plans for the future.
Services include:
• Strategic and Business planning
• Stakeholder engagement
• Environmental scanning
Change and Transition
Supporting organisations to navigate change in ways that build understanding, commitment and capability.
Services include:
• Change planning
• Transition support and developing change readiness
• Communication planning
Leadership and Team Development
Building the skills and relationships needed to lead effectively in complex environments.
Services include:
• Leadership development
• Collaboration capability
• Communication skills
• Conflict resolution
• Facilitation skills
Workshops
Supporting all of these consulting services, I deliver practical workshops that help people develop the capabilities needed to lead, collaborate and navigate complexity.
Workshops can be delivered in-house or offered as public programs open to participants from different organisations and sectors.
The emphasis is on what’s practical: helping people develop skills, frameworks and ways of working that they can apply immediately in their day-to-day roles.
In-House Workshops
Current topics include:
Leading Change
Helping leaders and teams understand the human side of change and build ownership, engagement and momentum.
Collaboration in Practice
Explores how people can work together more effectively across teams, functions and organisational boundaries.
Facilitation Skills
Helping leaders and team members design and lead productive meetings, workshops and planning processes.
Working with Complexity
Practical approaches for addressing challenges where there is uncertainty, competing perspectives and no simple solution.
Public Workshops
From time to time I offer public workshops that bring together participants from different organisations, sectors and professional backgrounds. These workshops provide a valuable opportunity not only to learn new skills, but also to exchange ideas and learn from the experience of others facing similar challenges.
Collaboration in Practice
One Day Workshop
Brisbane: Friday 27 November 2026
Collaboration is more than communication and teamwork.
Working effectively with others can involve making sense of complex situations, hearing different perspectives, developing shared understanding, coordinating action and adapting as circumstances change. How well people collaborate can also be affected by the organisational conditions in which they're working.
There’s more involved in collaborating well than we might think — and, like most things, it’s something we can work on and get better at.
Collaboration in Practice is a practical one-day workshop for anyone who spends a fair bit of their time trying to get things done with other people.
Bring a Real Challenge
You’ll bring a genuine collaboration challenge from your own workplace and work with it throughout the program.
During the workshop, you’ll explore the challenge from different perspectives, practise new approaches and use your Participant Workbook to capture and apply your learning.
Back at work, you’ll try one or two useful things and notice what happens.
The Learning Journey
Understand the situation → Think together → Work together → Learn together
The aim is not to give you a single model or a long list of techniques. It is to help you become more capable of working with others when the answers are not obvious.
Three to four weeks after the workshop, an individual coaching session provides an opportunity to reflect on what happened, what you learnt and what you might try next.
- Friday 27 November 2026, 9:00am–4:00pm
- UQ Brisbane City, 308 Queen St, Brisbane.
- $880 (inc GST)
My role is to help create the conditions where that knowledge can emerge, be shared and translated into meaningful action.
I have spent more than thirty years working with organisations across the government, community and private sectors.
My work has included strategic planning and change and transition management, stakeholder engagement, leadership and team development, and program evaluation.
I’ve recently returned to consulting after four years working with a not-for-profit organisation that supports children’s learning and development through a neurodevelopmental movement program. In an R&D and strategy development role, I helped guide the organisation through a period of significant change, growth and innovation.
That experience reinforced, on a regular basis, something I’ve seen many times in change management projects: that the people closest to the work usually know a fair bit about what is really going on — and what might make it better.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and Master of Business Administration, The University of Queensland
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
Certified Administrator, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
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