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professional and leadership coaching
Coaching Style
Before pursuing my second career as a sociologist, I began my career journey as an ice hockey coach, with a decade of clinical and team coaching experience across both my native Canada and Australia.
Like the professional world, ice hockey is a fast game. If your strategy is to follow the puck, you will quickly learn it moves faster than you can. In both cases, you can have a highly skilled team with passionate leaders; but without technique and vision, they will tend to play the game reactively rather than proactively.
Without a solid technical foundation (management and leadership skills, alongside organisational expertise), it can be difficult to develop your team into a highly-functioning unit. I'll introduce you to the evidence-base on how to develop and lead a team who can both collaborate efficiently, and perform independently without oversight when needed.
Without strategy, you and your team will find yourselves in a reactive space; always chasing shifting organisational priorities, struggling to collaborate effectively, grappling with a lack of role clarity, and quickly burning out. We'll work together to explore what the research tells us about developing a solid strategic approach to leadership, so you can move out of a reactive space, and lead with confidence and vision.
In hockey, we like to say you can either chase the puck (and end up playing the other team's game); or you can go where the puck is going to go, which means developing the vision necessary to play your own game. Through engaging the evidence-base on effective leadership and strategic planning, I'll coach you on how to develop your game, play with vision, and achieve success.
Coaching services
1:1 Coaching, Led by You
1:1 Coaching, Led by You
1:1 Coaching, Led by You
For those seeking a long-term coaching arrangement, where you drive the direction. First, we'll develop some goals to work towards. Then, we'll meet regularly to workshop your needs as they arise, with concepts, theories, and the research evidence-base delivered in response to your priorities at the time. Sessions can be offered weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, with discounted bundling options available.
Delivery Method: 1:1
Schedule: Weekly, Fortnightly, or Monthly
Payment Method: At delivery or Upfront (bundled sessions)
Critical Issue Coaching
1:1 Coaching, Led by You
1:1 Coaching, Led by You
If you find yourself faced with a challenging issue at work, we can work together to find solutions, backed by an expert with a research evidence-base. This can look like a one-off session to workshop solutions, ongoing ad-hoc support, or a set of 3-5 sessions delivered as the situation unfolds. Specialised support can cover themes like navigating conflict, diversity and inclusion needs, and/or organisational change.
Delivery Method: 1:1
Schedule: Ad-hoc, negotiated as-needed
Payment Method: At delivery or Upfront (bundled sessions)
Coaching Curriculum Packages
A Structured Approach to Learning Across 5 Sessions
A Flexible Approach to Learning:
Coaching Curriculums can be offered as a standalone service
delivered 1:1, or in small groups of up to 5; OR
As a follow-up opportunity to delve deeper after attending a corresponding Professional Development Workshop.
e.g. You may wish to have your whole team attend a PD workshop; and provide a Coaching Curriculum package to your leaders to support integration.
Overview:
Culu(Re)organised offers a range of structured, curriculum-based coaching packages aimed at uplifting organisational culture in core areas which are frequently identified as friction-points. In these packages, delivered as either 1:1 or group-based coaching, you or your team will learn what the research evidence-base tells us about organisational culture and leadership in your chosen curriculum area. Then, you will gain the practical skills to translate this knowledge into your professional role and/or leadership style.
Delivery Method:
- Prior to each session, you will receive a set of learning materials introducing key concepts and theories requiring 1-hour of prep time
- In each live session, participants will consolidate their learning by workshopping real-world examples chosen from their own experience.
- You will be guided through how to apply the key concepts and theories in your own practice, leveraging the evidence-base to find solutions
- Each session is delivered online via Zoom (face-to-face negotiable)
- 1:1 or 1:2 sessions are 1-hour in length
- Group sessions of 3+ are 1.5-hours in length, with a max of 5 people
Schedule: Weekly, Fortnightly, or Monthly
Payment Method: Upfront (prior to first session)
A full list of the coaching curriculum packages is provided below.
Management and Leadership Foundations: From Technique to Strategy
Target Audience
Aimed at those who are either new to middle-management, or moving into middle-management role with a wider scope of duties.
Schedule: Weekly, Fortnightly, or Monthly
Curriculum
Across five pre-planned sessions, we will navigate themes including:
- Discerning when to use management or leadership skillsets
- Strategic communication and psychological safety for teams
- Influencing senior leaders and managing up
- Team planning, role clarity, and leading with vision
- Understanding and navigating your organisational culture.
Why it Will Help
One of the most common friction-points in organisational culture surrounds transitioning promising professionals into skilled leaders. Many who are new to leadership progressed into their role after demonstrating high performance across more junior duties: project management, maintaining good peer relationships at work, and delivering in their specialised area. For many, this can lead to difficulty letting go: in an area where you're used to overseeing everything from planning through to delivery, only offering broad guidance and oversight can feel like losing control. Often, this leads to micromanagement, a decline in role clarity, morale, and productivity across the team, and delays in delivering on the broader organisational priorities associated with middle-management duties. This coaching curriculum supports new and emerging leaders to avoid the pitfalls common in the early stages of the leadership journey, and brings the skills and knowledge necessary to lead a thriving team.
Vision and Strategy in Organisational Culture for Senior Leaders
Target Audience
This coaching curriculum can be delivered across one of two streams:
(1) Aimed at those currently adapting to a more senior or strategy-based leadership role, or experienced middle-managers thinking about taking the leap
(2) Aimed at established senior leaders looking to expand their skillsets and keep up-to-date with best practices for healthy organisational culture
Please note that if group delivery is selected, only one mode can be chosen.
Schedule: Weekly, Fortnightly, or Monthly
Curriculum
Across five pre-planned sessions, we will navigate themes including:
- Fostering psychologically safe practices within organisational culture
- Consulting effectively with organisational stakeholders
- Developing and supporting emerging leaders
- Establishing your strategic and organisational vision
- Navigating change processes and avoiding common pitfalls
Why it Will Help
In roles requiring strategising across an organisation or major operational area, senior leaders are often required to make decisions that impact a wide range of stakeholders. In most cases, this means leading across a variety areas, many of which are likely to fall outside your own expertise and professional experience. To do so effectively, it is essential to recognise the value of institutional and subject matter expertise; consult effectively with diverse stakeholders; and develop other leaders who can provide trusted guidance across your blind-spots. These skills are necessary not only for maintaining quality collegial relationships, but also for navigating change processes, ensuring boundaried role clarity for yourself and others, and establishing a strategic vision that will allow both you and your organisation to thrive. In an era where psychological safety at work is rapidly emerging as an OH&S concern--with role clarity, change management, organisational culture, and workload all impacting employee wellbeing--effective senior leadership skillets are becoming more important than ever to an organisation's success. This coaching curriculum supports senior and emerging strategic leaders to strengthen their approach to stakeholder engagement, uplift organisational culture in key areas, and both lead and model the implementation of psychologically safe workplace practices.
Leadership for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Target Audience
Established and emerging leaders in diverse organisations, with responsibility for delivering and/or strategising organisational culture initiatives related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Schedule: Weekly, Fortnightly, or Monthly
Curriculum
Across five pre-planned sessions, we will navigate themes including:
- Understanding systemic barriers to equity, inclusion, and belonging
- Psychological safety for inclusion, wellbeing, and belonging
- Applying an intersectional lens to leadership and decision-making
- Effectively addressing complex inequities within your team, including those relating to caring responsibilities, cultural and linguistic diversity, gender diversity, neurodiversity, and disability
- Integrating your organisation's approach to EDI into practice
Why it Will Help
Research tells us there is an enormous gap between official organisational narratives on EDI, and the implementation of these aims in practice. Many leaders are committed to creating inclusive workplaces, but require support to translate positive intentions into organisational impact. In this coaching package, we take a two-pronged approach: First exploring general and evidence-based principles for supporting EDI at work; and then learning how to identify the strengths and limitations of your organisation's own systems, processes, policies.
Neurodiversity at Work or School
Target Audience
This Coaching Curriculum can be delivered in one of two streams:
1) Neurodiversity for Employers
2) Neurodiversity for Educators
For audiences who require both streams, e.g. schools or universities with neurodivergent staff and students, an additional two sessions can be added onto your single-stream price, to allow for full delivery at a discounted rate.
Schedule: Weekly, Fortnightly, or Monthly
Curriculum
Across five pre-planned sessions, we will navigate the following themes:
- Introduction to Neurodiversity and cultural sensitivity
- Navigating Disclosures and providing reasonable adjustments
- Supporting Executive Functioning at work or school
- The Intersectionality of Neurodiversity
- Taking a strengths-based approach
Why it Will Help
Around 1 in 5 people (20% of the population) are Neurodivergent, including those who are Autistic, ADHD, Dyslexic, or navigating a variety of mental health conditions. Many employers and educational institutions are finding themselves receiving more disclosures than ever before, and grappling with how to respond and support their staff and/or students effectively. Led by an expert who has published scholarly research on neurodiversity, and led Australia's first university-based neuroinclusion project, you will learn how to translate the research evidence-base in this area into practical outcomes in your workplace or learning environment.
Custom Coaching Curriculum: Organisational Culture Uplift Designed For You
Target Audience
Organisations who want an evidence-based coaching curriculum, customised to their needs. Target audiences can include specific departments (e.g. People and Culture, or teams and divisions with unique development goals); or groups (e.g. you may nominate a group of 5 leaders, promising professionals, or take a cohort-based approach such as on-boarding new staff).
Schedule: Weekly, Fortnightly, or Monthly
Curriculum
Across five pre-planned sessions, we will navigate a total of 5 themes of your choosing from the below list:
- Introduction to Organisational Culture
- Strategic Communication for Leaders
- Navigating Difficult Performance Conversations
- Navigating Difficult EDI Conversations
- Authority, Hierarchy, and Ethical Leadership
- Establishing Employee Resources Groups
- Leading Hybrid and Flexible Teams
- Developing Ways of Working Agreements (supervisor/supervisee)
- A Strengths-based Approach to Neurodiversity at Work
- Strategic Planning and Effective Stakeholder Consultation
- Topics outside of this list, but within my range of expertise as a sociologist, can be negotiated
- You may also choose up to 2 topics listed in any of the above curriculum packages
Ready to take the next step?
Get in contact and we will arrange a time to discuss.
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