WELCOME TO OUR TEAM
We are an energetic and eclectic cohort of collaborators who span the globe and are recognised for the expertise we bring to our chosen fields. We value interdependence, independent thinking and doing our bit to make the world a little better, safer and fairer.
Deborah Pascoe
Deborah is founding director of the Phronesis Foundation and has over two decades of consulting experience. Prior to consulting, she spent over 10 years as an employee in a large, multinational organisation in a variety of market/ business management and senior leadership roles. The latter part of her employment involved moving the organisation forward in its philosophy and framework for sustainable business improvement. Deborah’s diversity of roles brings to her work a high degree of business credibility underpinned with a passion for people development and growth.
Organisations can be demanding at best, brutal at worst. Deborah knows first-hand how tough it is to be a leader in organisational life. As such, she is passionate about helping organisations create positive, stimulating environments where people can be the best they can be because they to want to. She has strong values around learning and self-development and seeks to help create workplaces where people can reach their potential.
Deborah has a Masters in Applied Science (ISM) and is a member of ISPSO (the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations and GRA (Group Relations Australia). She has presented and facilitated at international conferences and has published in the peer reviewed journal Socioanalysis. She is currently a scholarship PhD candidate researching complex adaptive leadership skills, cognitive rigidity and learning trauma.
Deborah is a Certified Master Lectical Coach & Facilitator, an accredited Thinking Environment Facilitator and is accredited to a number of assessments including the LDMA (Leadership Decision Making Assessment), HBDI (Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument) and a range of leadership & team effectiveness surveys.
Benny Ausmus
Benny is an executive coach and facilitator who walks side by side with leaders. He conducts demanding and engaging sessions that develop leaders’ capabilities through real world challenges and builds on their talents and growth edges as they to work to shape their future.
Benny’s coaching experience across IT, Tech, renewable energy, recruitment, management consulting, manufacturing, professional services, retail, hospitality, finance and education affords him the broad background to design and deliver solutions for leadership development, organisational design, team building, workforce planning, learning and development, selection, performance management, and transformational change. Benny has the scale of knowledge and experience that shines in his consultations, workshops and coaching sessions.
Benny usually works with savvy business owners, emerging leaders, executives and CEOs. For over 10 years, he has provided clients with a high return on investment through his services. Benny builds a leader’s mental models, brings forward the questions that others may be too afraid to ask, then casts a transformational leadership compass to navigate uncharted waters.
According to many of his clients, Benny has a rare capacity to elevate a person’s hidden gifts from the deepest corners of their psyche. He can teach them to think accurately and acutely of themselves, and deeply of the world. Benny’s style of inspiring others is unique, especially in the coaching world. Benny weaves a leader’s spirit, strengths, and potential together and show them how to overcome obstacles, see further, think differently, feel deeply, and win. Benny consistently instills the mindset into his clients that digging deep and finding the well of strength in tough times comes from knowing ourselves and taking considered action to transform the world around us.
Business leaders have many different philosophies and styles that make them unique and Benny’s gift is to seamlessly work with those dynamics to design, iterate and execute powerful strategies for improvement and growth.
Bridget Blackford
Bridget has over 15 years international experience working in a range of different businesses as an Executive Coach and Organisational Development Consultant.
She has extensive experience in designing and delivering strategic change, performance improvement and leadership development programmes in complex and challenging environments for clients in a variety of industries including professional services, government, telecommunications, media, health, social enterprise and financial services.
Given her interest in the impacts of global economic, political, social and technological changes on Australian organisations, Bridget’s consultancy work is focused on supporting leaders and organisations to strengthen their capability and develop and maintain high performing teams in the face of ever-changing and increasingly complex business challenges.
AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
- Change and Transformation
- Executive Coaching
- Leadership Development
- Psychometrics
- Organisational Design
- Learning and Development
Coaching Experience:
As an executive coach Bridget works with mid to senior level executives, tailoring her approach to their unique individual and organisational challenges and goals. She has significant experience supporting aspiring and current leaders to navigate career transitions, create high performing teams, manage organisational change and enhance workplace performance.
Her ability to translate the diverse professional and personal experiences of her clients into tangible resources for professional growth enables her to work with individuals from varied backgrounds and professions.
Clients work with Bridget in a range of areas, including:
- Leadership Development
- Career Transition
- Emotional Intelligence
- Resilience
- Conflict Management
- Executive Assessment and Development
- Cross-Cultural Team Development
- Complex Organisational Change
Focusing on strengths, values, and self-awareness, Bridget is a highly empathic coach who balances her approach with pragmatic challenge and honest, constructive feedback. She uses a range of creative techniques and assessments to elicit new insights, perspectives and possibilities for her clients.
Her approach is informed by her research in the global political economy, diversity, organisational dynamics, and high performance leadership.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
BA (1st class Hons) English (Curtin University, Western Australia)
MSc Global Politics (London School of Economics) Diploma in Organisation Development (Roffey Park)
Diploma in Executive Coaching (AoEC, UK)
Certificate IV Training and Assessment (Inspire Education) Certificate in Executive Coaching (Roffey Park)
ACCREDITATIONS
- International Coaching Federation Accredited Coach (ACC)
- Certified Professional Lectical Coach
- Certified Thought Code Consultant
- Time to Think Facilitator
- The Leadership Circle 360 Profile
- Hogan Personality Assessment (HPI, HDS, MVPI, Judgement & 360)
- Hogan 360
- Global Leadership Profile
- EQ-I 2.0 and EQ 360 (Emotional Intelligence)
- Resilience at Work (RAW)
- MBTI I & II Practitioner
- WAVE Professional Styles
- NEO PI-R
- British Psychological Society Test User Level A&B
- Leading and Managing Change Practitioner (Penna)
- Prince 2 Practitioner
- Managing Successful Programs (MSP) Practitioner
MEMBERSHIP
International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) B Corp (Benefit Corporation)
VOLUNTARY
Executive Coach – Global Sisters
Executive Coach – Young Entrepreneurs in the North (YEN) Program
Executive Coach – Australian Leaders Program (Marketing Academy)
Rudi Doku
Rudi has a valuable and sought-after mix of skills and experience across the domains of technology, business operations and human behaviour.
His initial career path concentrated on demanding and technical software engineering where he contributed to and led major projects in the private and public sectors involving technology architectures. These included:
- Developing an integration strategy for a global airline
- Guiding a procurement plan for a strategic crew management system acquisition for the airline
- Creating a ground-up solution architecture for a State Government single client view solution
- Gathering requirements, mapping processes and managing stakeholders through an Oracle implementation involving geological assets for a global mining company
Rudi has built on, and broadened his areas of expertise into leadership development, initially in a large corporate environment and more recently as a professional adviser to the public and private sector.
Rudi brings a range of leadership skills and tools to his work that includes organisational development, team up-skilling, personal leadership development and integrated programme design.
Whether in technology or leadership advice, the capacity to relate to and win the confidence of staff in demanding and stressful jobs is vital. Rudi has a calm presence that is underpinned by a methodical approach, attention to detail as well as a capacity for holistic thinking, whatever the business environment.
Rudi has also coached and mentored emerging and established managers both in large corporates and academic institutions.
His academic qualifications include:
- INSEAD, Singapore, Executive Masters in Consulting and Coaching for Change
- Griffith University, Brisbane, Master of Information Systems
Robert Eames
Robert has forty years experience in strategic management and consulting at all levels from Board to front line. He has worked both as manager and consultant in Australia and overseas in strategic, operational, financial and marketing areas. He has extensive experience in business review and reform across sectors and within organisations of all sizes. Robert is an experienced business facilitator and conference presenter.
Robert’s legacy with clients concentrates large and small business reform – from scoping and assessment through analysis and recommendation and on to implementation. This expertise is enhanced by strengths in information technology and finance, enabling him to span these complementary elements of business management.
His academic qualifications are in Management Science (MSc) from Imperial College, London, and Geography (BA Hons). He has Graduate Diploma in Corporate Finance, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and has a TAE40116 workplace education qualification.
John Eklund
With over 40 years’ experience in management and organisation development consulting, John uses his expertise in Leadership systems and human behaviour to drive measurable, sustainable initiatives for individual, team and organisational effectiveness.
John facilitates business performance improvements. His work with organisations aligns people to strategic business goals through the design and implementation of rigorously effective systemic organisation methodologies. This incorporates company structure, people systems, culture, leadership systems and development, team building, coaching and employee engagement.
Dr Katherine Hoekman
Dr Katherine Hoekman recently held the position of Director of Teaching and Learning at Caulfield Grammar School, leading a talented innovation team supporting educators to reimagine PreK-12 learning across five campuses. As a School Innovation Consultant at AISNSW, she joined a dynamic team assisting schools from across Australia in the ELEVATE project with programs to address the needs of high potential students. She was an adjunct lecturer at UNSW, and Senior Lecturer in Gifted Education at School of Education at UNSW for over a decade, as well as consulting to over 500 schools on the ways to meet the cognitive, motivational and affective needs of gifted students. She was also the Director of Research and Innovative Learning at Abbotsleigh for seven years. As the Director of the Eileen O’Connor Centre she led a team of inspiring specialists addressing the complex needs of diverse learners using assistive technology across the Archdiocese of Sydney.
Katherine has been an invited presenter at many regional, national and international conferences, and relishes opportunities to help design inspiring educational experiences to address the developmental needs of learners of all ages. Katherine’s roles on Executive teams at the school, university and system level have involved impact coaching and learning with educators to design innovative learner-centred opportunities for growth and development. This has required strategic and operational skills to promote collaboration, adaptive leadership, disciplined design and future-focused system thinking.
Andrew Hollo
Andrew is one of Australia’s leading experts in realising the potential of organisations and groups to develop ‘big ideas’ and gain collective results.
He does his best work with organisations that deliver societal benefit, are ‘system organisers’ and are
community-invested. Much of his work is in demanding, complex sectors and where work across
organisational and sector boundaries is required. He has a high level of skill in challenging existing paradigms,
getting diverse views to clear, and highest-value, conceptual agreement in the shortest possible time.
In over 20 years, Andrew has led more than 1000 projects for clients who deliver substantial public value:
government and non-government, privately held and non-profit
Some recent / current projects involving complex multi-stakeholder
strategy development:
- Developed strategic prioritisation frameworks for United Nations
Environment Programme (2021 – current), Red Cross Lifeblood
(current) and Department of Health (2021 – 2022). - Led / facilitated strategy formulation and reporting & assurance
systems for numerous public and private Hospitals, Rural Health
Services, Community Health Services, Mental Health, Disability and
Aged Care services (2007 – current). - Developed university-led research strategy for Monash University
(2021 – current) and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (2022). - Developed strategic directions for governments, including
Department of Health (2021), Department of Environment, Land,
Water & Planning (2021 – current), Department of Justice &
Community Safety regions (2014 – 2019), and Department of Jobs,
Precincts & Regions Health & Medical Research Workforce (2021). - Developed strategy, commissioning planning, governance processes
and organisational design for Primary Health Networks across
Australia (2016 – current). - Developed organisational strategy and bid strategies for numerous
housing, homelessness and human service organisations Australiawide (2010 – current). - Developed future vision (Community Plans) and 4-year strategy
(Council Plans) for numerous metropolitan and rural local
governments (2008 – current). - Assisted clients to develop and enlist support for breakthrough
concepts including a Wellbeing Strategy for Catholic Education Western Australia (2020 – current) and a City of Wellbeing concept
with City of Maroondah (2016 – 2019).
- Developed organisational strategy for member-based advocacy
organisations such as Australian Institute of Company Directors
(2020 – 2022) and numerous healthcare professional & industry
membership groups (2010 – current) - Strategy formation with statutory authorities and regulators, including
Magistrates and Children’s Courts, Victorian Curriculum and
Assessment Authority, Environment Protection Authority and
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation (2011 – 2022). - Developed strategic directions for organisations operating on the
boundary between public and private value, including social banks
(Bendigo, RACQ), Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation
(APCO), Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) and
Agriculture Victoria Services (AVS) (2019 – current). - Guided the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships concerned
with issues such as catchment wide health service planning (VIC),
human service workforce planning (VIC), primary mental health (TAS
and NSW) and coordinated
child and family services
(VIC), injury prevention,
affordable housing and
accident compensation
research (VIC).
Core capabilities include:
- Strategy creation, especially where simplicity is sought in complex operating environments.
- Group facilitation, particularly where differing paradigms exist or where agreement is not easily gained.
- Design of conceptual models / frameworks requiring synthesis of complex ideas.
Wendy Geraghty
Wendy has over thirty years experience in management and consulting. She has worked in operational and financial management, and has consulted in a variety of industry sectors, both public and private. She has extensive experience in process re-design, business strategy, organisation reviews, change management, communication, course development and workshop facilitation. She also has broad experience as a manager of complex business environments, customer service, and of project teams implementing change.
Her academic qualifications are a Masters of Business Administration (Executive) from AGSM, a Masters in Information Systems Management from the Swinburne University of Technology as well as an Associate Diploma in Diagnostic Medical Radiography from Riverina CAE, and a Building Societies Institute Associateship in Economic Principles and Financial Law. Wendy is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
Peter Georgiadis
Peter brings over 33 years of management and leadership experience in stainless steel production, processing and distribution. He is authentic, passionate and inspirational, having a long proven track record in creating, organising and leading well-functioning, high performing, market leading businesses, delivering sustainably good financial performance, with a safe, energetic, engaged & stable workforce. Disciplined professional with a positive attitude focused on operational, manufacturing and sales excellence leading to customer satisfaction and earning high respect of industry peers.
Impressively extensive global and Australian business experience in sales and marketing of stainless steel and metals processing. Experienced in successfully implementing project management and change management programs.
Naturally providing visionary leadership with strong interpersonal skills. Believes in empowering people to perform “better than their best” by being fair, compassionate, understanding, honest and supportive.
Focusing on efficiently managing the three key resources, People, Time & Information to achieve sustainable growth and long term value. Combining a relaxed, confident, knowledgeable and easy to understand presentation style, which results in highly effective ability to clearly communicate and be fully understood.
Strong interest and desire to help organisations better understand and manage mental health issues drawing from personal experiences.
Michael Griffiths
Michael is a Director and Founder of Cornerstone Integral – one of Australia’s boutique organisational and leadership development consulting firms. Michael has over 35 years of consulting experience in which he has consulted with a vast range of clients in a variety of industries and countries including in a range of elite corporate environments and educational institutions.
Michael has a unique ability to work at all levels of an organisation from a CEO in the heart of the Melbourne CBD through to a frontline operator at a mine site in northern Queensland or teachers and students in the education system. Over the many years of consulting experience, Michael has been able to develop close partnerships and relationships with his clients such that he has become a trusted adviser and typically continues to work with his clients no matter what organisation they belong to and over long periods of time.
He has driven many cultural transformation projects across small, medium, and large corporate clients both in Australia and internationally. He believes that cultural transformation must consider the nuances of people’s behavior rather than take a blanket generic approach that many organisations take. Likewise, his approach to Leadership Development is similar in that the development of both individual perspective and behavioral capability is critical to the effectiveness of any leadership approach.
His driving philosophy in his consulting approach is a firm belief in the untapped potential of people in organisations and that the role of an effective consultant is facilitating the growth of that potential, therefore maximising an organisation’s potential.
As a founder and director of a consulting organisation with Integral Theory as the heart of the consulting approach and with qualifications and a background in organisational, performance and sport psychology, Michael has been instrumental in developing what has become known as an Integral approach to organisational, community and coaching development.
Michael firmly believes that the Integral Framework as developed by Ken Wilbur is the most important advancement in contemporary organisational and individual development practices today. This is particularly important when organisations and institutions are wanting to expand individual perspectives and evolve collective cultures. The application of this approach to all areas of corporate life is unique and Michael is passionate about working with individuals and teams who are wanting to take their performance to a level beyond where they have been.
Michael has qualifications in Psychology and Sociology with Graduate Diploma in Social Psychology, Performance Science, and a Masters in Organisational Psychology and is a current member of the Australian Psychology Society
His client work in the last 5 – 10 years includes:
Large Victorian Private APS School Sports Program
Implementation of an Integral Approach to Sports
During 2022 began the process of engaging all the sports leaders across the sports program to reimagine the future of sport. This meant establishing a strategic direction and ensuring clarity of purpose and values. The school has over 400 coaches 2500 athletes competing every weekend across 21 sports. The challenge is to ensure on an ongoing basis every coach and student understands what is required from a values perspective. As of June 2023, the program of transformation has meant the school has had significant performance improvement at both an individual and team level.
An Iconic Victorian Food Brand
Currently working with the Senior and Middle Leaders of an organisation who provide food products in the FMCG industry.
Developing Team and Leadership Capability across the organisation
Redesigning and establishing the organisational values
Developing an implementation plan to cascade these redesigned values into the business
Australian Timber Industry:
The development of the 2025 Strategic plan and designing the structure and roles to create a fit for purpose organisation. The implementation of the values and behaviours into the organisation through the development of leadership capability. Coaching of Senior Leaders over a period of 12 months in 2017 and more recently designed and developed a Leadership Development program that includes 8 months of Coaching for a team of senior leaders
International Renewable Energy Organisation
Throughout 2017 a Thai based organisation needed to develop the structure and roles for senior leaders to ensure there is accountability cascaded through the organisation. Established the organisational values and behaviours. Designed & implemented a multi-tiered Leadership Development program to assist the organisation’s senior leaders and frontline leaders to communicate, lead and manage in times of significant change.
Large Victorian Private School Values and Cultural Transformation
Cultural Change Management Strategy Design and Implementation
Designed and developed a change strategy to change the culture in line with a desire for the institution to meet the future needs of Australian education
Developed Strategic Plan that takes the organisation to 2031
Facilitated Change Leadership Programs to gain commitment to the change
Reviewed and revised key people systems to support change activity
In collaboration with key stakeholders redesigned and developed Values and Behaviours as well as developed a comprehensive implementation plan
Design and facilitated workshops at all levels to gain commitment & build capability across the organisation.
Ron Laurie
Ron has over 20 years’ experience as a leadership facilitator for some of Australia’s largest employers and leading organizations. Prior to this Ron had a highly successful career in the graphic arts and imaging industry which engaged him in various management and leadership roles involving, take-over and acquisitions; organization transformation; restructures; sales management; TQM and project managing cutting edge innovative applications of new innovative technology. Throughout his career the evolving cultural dynamics of organizations and the role that leadership plays in influencing organization’s success and results shaped his thinking and interest. Today he draws upon this extensive practical experience to inform his practice as a leadership and cultural change facilitator.
Ron is a Senior Associate with Cornerstone Integral. He comes from his own successful consulting practice of 20 years, where he pioneered applications of Integral Theory; from this platform he designed leadership programs, advised government, education, manufacturing, sport, health sector and facilitated organizational transformation and leadership development initiatives. His facilitation approach seeks to explore the interplay of awareness, thought & action in the development of leadership capacities as they navigate the tensions of working and leading in complex and uncertain environments.
Ron’s past and present clients describe him as a “highly-experienced, capable facilitator and educator”; having “enormous strengths as a large-group facilitator, small-group leader and individual coach”; being “passionate, competent, and professional” and doing this with “great openness, warmth and humor, which makes working with him both fun and expansive” others say “he’s able to see patterns out of complex data, sense into subtle relationship dynamics, and synthesize it all into practical action.”
Experience
Ron has been involved in several large scale leadership transformation initiatives, including: providing an extensive and specialized leadership development program for over 3,000 leaders in the telecommunications sector over a 3 year period and a multi-tiered management and leadership program for a national organization of over 100,000 employees in a 5+ year ongoing cultural transformation program. He has worked international with leading Tech companies in the USA. Ron also facilitates a large-scale simulation experience involving the active participation of over 60 participants in exploring world issues, trends and challenges in today’s global environment. In addition to this he is a certified executive coach and has logged over 2,000 hours working with C-Suite level executives in SME and corporates.
A continuing passion for research has kept Ron fully informed of leading edge discoveries in the human potential development field for the past 20 years. His ongoing professional development covers adult developmental psychology, organizational systems and culture. The culmination of his research has converged with the emerging field of Integral Theory. He is accredited in many assessments instruments and intervention processes.
Personal
Ron is a self-made success having been born in the rough and tumble environment of Glasgow, Scotland from a working class background. He has lived and worked in Australia since 1982 and has been happily married for over 30 years with 2 grown up children and a couple of grandchildren
Katie O’Keeffe
Over the last 20 years I have developed my craft in leadership, high performing teams and organisational development. I have worked with many of Australia’s largest and most iconic institutions and organisations to impact transformational change through their leaders and teams. I have extended my background as an elite triathlete and coach with formal research and study in neuroscience and team development and combined all of this into a unique approach to developing high performing leaders and teams.
My ambition is to change the world one team a time through building teams and leaders who perform at their best.
Towards the end of my sporting career, I started coaching and discovered that being at my best meant helping others to be their best. It’s a privilege to work with leaders and teams in business and experience the lasting impact this leaves on people and organisations.
I have worked with many of Australia’s largest and most iconic institutions and organisations to impact transformational change through their leaders and teams.
Some of these include:
- Designing and leading a groundbreaking research project into high-performing teams. This project has involved over 5 years of research into what defines and makes a high performing team, developing a comprehensive model and assessment and working with a wide range of in-tact business teams over a 6-month project timeline. This research is ongoing, and the initial findings will be published in 2022.
- Designing and delivering a leadership development program for the IT leadership team at one of Australia’s most iconic manufacturers. This program was specifically designed to build the capability of the leadership team to lead through the unique VUCA conditions presented during Australia’s COVID year in 2020.
- Strategy execution and agile leadership for to support a whole of business transformation for the procurement and supply chain organisation within one of Australia’s largest telecommunications providers.
- A transformational leadership program for the top 100 leaders of one of Australia’s top Universities as a key initiative to support the University wide transformation program.
- A transformational leadership program for the top 3000 leaders of one of Australia’s largest retailers to help them deliver their second wave of transformation.
Dr Jonathan Reams
Jonathan practices the cultivation of leadership through awareness based consulting, coaching and action research on leadership development program design and delivery in a variety of settings. He has a position at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), serves as Editor-in Chief of Integral Review, and is a co-founder of the Center for Transformative Leadership and of the European Center for Leadership Practice. He brings awareness based leadership development practices to his work, focusing on how the inner workings of human nature can develop leadership capacities for today’s complex challenges.
Jonathan’s PhD (2002) is in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University, where he researched the intersection of consciousness development with leadership. Since then he has combined teaching, research and practice in this area through program design and delivery as well as executive coaching and consulting. He teaches courses at NTNU on coaching, counseling and leadership development, and has presented at international conferences on topics such as leadership development, consciousness research, and transformative learning.
Caroline Shahbaz
I’m a philosopher, pioneer, seeker, author, and educator, driven by life’s core questions: why am I here, who am I, what do I want, and what do I fear?
With a background in clinical, depth and liberation psychology, I’ve spent years in management consulting specializing in organisational transformation and leadership development. Drawing from diverse cultures, perspectives, spiritual teachings, and Jungian psychology I address my clients’ needs with clarity and compassion.
Fascinated by the interplay of individual and collective consciousness and unconsciousness, my journey, shaped by being a third-generation Armenian genocide survivor, has uncovered motivations and conflicts from hidden layers of the psyche. These experiences have granted me profound insights into the essence of Being and Being-in-Relationships, shaping my understanding of relationships and societal influences on individuals, groups, and organisations.
Recognizing the broader cultural and political contexts that underpin personal and interpersonal issues, I offer assistance through www.metapsychotherapy.com for therapeutic services and www.transformingrelationships.com.au for educational programs. I invite you to share in this transformative journey with me.
Dr Brendan Smith
Experience
Brendan has twenty years’ experience working to improve Private and Public Sector organisations and specializes in cultural alignment, leadership and transformation.
Current role
Brendan spends most of his time working with and coaching leaders to positively influence culture and effectiveness.
Educational Background and Professional Interests:
He has a Doctorate in Organisational Psychology and is also an Accredited Practitioner in a range of diagnostic tools to promote individual, team and organisational transformation.
He is a registered Psychologist within Australia and a certified Executive Coach.
Brendan’s professional interests include open-space technologies, integral cultural assessment and organisational learning.
Candice Smith
Candice has worked for over two decades to help bring out the innate humanity of individuals and organizations in the public and corporate sectors. Following a first career in academic publishing, she transitioned into facilitation and coaching in 2004 to help build individual and team effectiveness through more courageous and value-rich relationships. Born in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, she was initiated into organisational life in the early days of post-Apartheid democracy. Driven by a need to shift the quality of human interaction at an individual, group and systemic level, Candice trained in the Thinking EnvironmentÒ with Nancy Kline, the founder of Time To Think, in 2005. This work is about encouraging a way of being that says “You matter, your thinking makes a difference; and if you knew that, what would you do now?” In 2008, Candice established Time To Think’s South African office and four years later, she emigrated to Australia.
Current Role
As a coach and facilitator, Candice helps develop sustainable practices for individuals and organisations who want to more deftly navigate these increasingly complex times by shifting to a more inclusive and collaborative culture. She regularly leads Time To Think open and qualifying courses. Working in-house, her leadership development experience in the corporate and public sectors of Australia, Asia and Africa includes financial services, banking, construction, petrochemicals, customer engagement, academia and government.
Educational Background and Academic Activity
A Masters in English Literature supports Candice’s passion for creative thinking. She holds an international accreditation in coaching and she is a Time To Think Global Faculty member. In 2016, Candice completed a 9-month Integral Project Leadership incubator as part of the Meta-Integral program. This takes a holistic approach to some of the world’s most complex challenges in this time of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Challenge and Ambiguity).
Candice lives in Melbourne with her husband Peter. She’s nourished by deep belly laughs, a good dance and following a meditation path.
Jenny Vulcan
Jenny Vulcan is an experienced leadership and team facilitator who is highly sought-after by clients wanting to get the best out of themselves and their teams. Working with passion and compassion, Jenny gives leaders the tools and strategies needed to maximise team performance. She works with senior, emerging and frontline leaders across a variety of industries and organisations.
Jenny is widely recognised for her expertise in: creative program design and facilitation, supporting leaders to lead and anchor change, facilitating cultural alignment, assisting teams to set up for success as well as, inspiring organisations to embrace a refreshing approach with their customers and employees. She has considerable business experience in sales, marketing, change management, organisational and leadership development.
Sarah Dalziel
Sarah Dalziel brings over 20 years of leadership experience in global blue-chip companies such as Orica and BlueScope Steel. Her depth of experience across diverse geographies and markets has equipped her with the skills needed to navigate cultural change, growth and development in any industry. Sarah has successfully steered organisations through cultural transformations, organisation restructures and integrations following mergers and acquisitions.
Sarah’s deep experience in organisational development is backed by her formal education, including an MBA from Melbourne Business School. She is also a Graduate of the Company Directors Course (GAICD). At Sage Engaging, Sarah integrates this academic foundation with hands-on experience as a business-savvy People and Culture Executive, strategically contributing to senior leadership teams.
Chloe Hall
Chloe works with individuals and organisations to enable positive, sustainable change.
She is a great listener with an innate ability to bring out the best in the people she works with bringing practical wisdom to the fields of culture, leadership, performance and capability through:
• Coaching (IECL certified)
• Design
• Facilitation
With experience across a range of industries, including Venues & Events, Community Services, Higher Education and Oil & Gas, Chloe has built a reputation for enabling people to reach their potential – transforming culture, improving leadership and creating work environments where people feel safe to be themselves and willingly contribute their best.
Rachel Kemmis
Rachel has over 20 years’ consulting experience in developing organisational and leadership performance, shaping culture and guiding transformation. She recognises that systems drive behaviour and offers a deep understanding of how to enact change, through and with people, in complex systems.
Rachel works with courageous leaders who grasp the importance of intentionally shaping functional, productive organisational systems and practices so that they, and their people, can direct attention to the highest value activities.
Her clients value that she provides timely, trusted advice, develops strong working relationships that allow her constructively challenge thinking, and where useful, apply sound process discipline, all in service of making progress.
Current Role
Rachel offers four primary areas of expertise, each underpinned by her understanding of how to shape organisational culture to drive performance:
• Setting and implementing strategy. Rachel works with senior leaders to guide strategic analysis, the design and application of strategic planning approaches, and to develop associated strategic narratives.
• Design of target operating and service delivery models (including the redesign and implementation of adapted organisational structures), so that organisations can more successfully enact strategy. This work typically includes and determining the optimal transformation pathway and integrating this work into the established strategy and operational plans.
• Transformation and improvement. Applying relevant approaches and change management tools to address barriers and enable greater individual and collective performance, adapting the emphasis over time to ensure new practices are embedded.
• Capability development, such as through active leaning transfer through each engagement; the design and rollout of over 50 longitudinal leadership programs to drive organisational, team and project performance (for emerging leaders through to executive leaders); and coaching leaders across a range of sectors and levels.
Educational Background and Academic Activity
Rachel is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, holds a Master of Business Administration (Macquarie Graduate School of Management) and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) (Australian National University).
As an executive coach, she holds the Level II Coaching Accreditation (Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership) and is a Certified Career Path Appreciation practitioner (BIOSS).
She works with a suite of profiling tools, including the Centre for Creative Leadership’s 360° suite, DiSC® Behavioural Model and Saville & Holdsworth’s Occupational Testing and Personality instruments
(including OPQ and MQ).
Rain Jago Ratajczak
If you are looking for someone to help you create a culture of listening in your organisation, you have come to the right place. Listening is the least-valued, and most valuable skill in your professional armory. Great listeners are data gatherers who test assumptions in real time, and richly understand what is happening in their context. Great listeners ask great questions. The journey of their listening involved sacrifice and a growing up that gratefully connected them to Earth, our common home. Great listening crosses the personal, professional, artistic and spiritual divide.
Great listeners are embodied. They use the data of their senses to deepen their understanding of what is wanting to emerge in the enterprise and its ecosystem. They are grounded in the Purpose of the organisation. This grounding fuels their passion for what they do, and the depth in their contribution from Board to entry level.
If it’s Deb’s job to ground all discussions in pragmatic reality, it’s my job to help you learn to listen: at scale. Together, she and I are a great team.
My skills as a facilitator of your best listening come from my background in law (let us hear all perspectives to find a rational order), public policy (let us hear where the consensus lies, and where the possibility for innovation is) executive coaching (let us hear what is hardest to say, and then act on our insights) and musical performance (let us hear the music of the spheres and sing it so that all may rejoice). A Zen priest since 2004, and an Integral Coach since 2011, I have been described by military clients as “the Grand Master of silence”, as someone who holds a quiet process that allows people to step forward, speak from their magnificence and purpose, and hear others do the same. This is impact. And this is our collective future.
Domains of expertise: awakening leadership through an understanding of the developmental lives of women and girls (Lisa Miller, Carole Gilligan), adaptive leadership (Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, Jennifer Garvey Berger), Indigenous justice and engagement (Aunty Lesley Williams), organisational culture (Andy Fleming, Otto Scharmer).
Select client list: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Orana Steiner School, Boeing, King and Wood Malleson’s, Australian National University, the Australian Water Partnership, Queensland Women’s Legal Service, Royal Australian Navy, San Francisco Zen Center.
Please be in touch in with Deb to schedule a discussion with us to deepen your listening – and your impact.