services

I provide the following services, click on each to learn more about what they are and what approaches I utilise. I often work with collaborators on larger projects. I have an inspiring network of experts in various fields. 

 

• Coaching (I'm a sounding board, reframer, and provocateur)
  • I create safe spaces and use questions, reflections, and reframing to guide people to realise they have the answers and more potential than they could have ever imagined. 
  • Examples of ways to engage me: schedule a daily, weekly, or monthly meeting to have deep and meaningful conversations. 
  • Examples of things we might do: work on a specific issue arising for you at work; explore the foundations of your worldviews and values; explore your positionality; share emergent learning; explore ideas in deep democracy and ecology.

 

• Consulting (I'm a collaborative auditor, analyser, and advisor) 
  • I work as collaboratively as possible with teams to support them to audit and analyse organisational issues and develop meaningful and effective solutions. Here the team is responsible for implementing the work and I'm an auditor, analyst, and advisor supporting them. 
  • Examples of ways to engage me and my collaborators: hire us for a day,  week, month, or year (either casually, part-time, or full-time) to work collaboratively with your team to support them to analyse issues and develop solutions. Things we are particularly good at include:
    • Balance, Boundlessness, and Belonging (our framework to replace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Power, Justice, and Belonging). 
    • Building team trust and collaboration skills and capacity 
      
    • Unlocking individual and team potential and innovation
    • Building monitoring, evaluation, and impact skills and capacity 
      
    • Developing a holistic and systems mindset and skillset
      

 

• Collaborating (I'm a guide, facilitator, and temporary team member who leads when it makes sense) 
  • I work as collaboratively as possible with teams to co-analyse organisational issues and co-create and implement meaningful and effective solutions. Here I am part of the team that is responsible for delivering the work and I work in the team. I may have more experience than other team members in analysing organisational issues and developing innovative solutions. The team may give me the authority to lead or facilitate processes and work while it makes sense. I also do some of the work when appropriate.  
  • Examples of how to engage me and my collaborators: hire us for a day, week, month, or year (either casually, part-time, or full-time) to join the team and deliver the work. For example, you might hire me to develop a monitoring, evaluation, learning and impact framework with your team and lead its implementation until the team is confident to take over. 

 

• Cooperating (I'm an equal, long-term, member of a cooperative with you) 
  • I work collaboratively with you as equal members of a cooperative. We co-create the cooperative and work towards its purpose together.
  • Examples of how we might work together: we decide to co-create a cooperative (a decentralised community of interest) around supporting the world to be more communal, collaborative, and caring. Or, we decide to co-create a cooperative (a place-based community) around meeting the needs of the local community while contributing to the wellbeing of the communities around us. 

 

I'm not your typical management consultant, organisational development partner, or change manager. 

I create spaces and processes for people to jointly explore what is possible and harness the wisdom in the room. I believe deeply in group genius and the power of deep and genuine collaboration to unlock unimaginable potential. Through fun and engaging activities and frameworks, people find their individual voices and collective harmony. 

For me, the key is to move past the platitudes and the good intentions. To make real and lasting change, people engaging me need to be sincere.  It's okay if you have strong ideas about the best way forward. You just need to be genuinely open to divergent perspectives and new ideas. You need to be open to sharing decision-making power. It's okay to be fearful of what might happen. It's okay to be scared of uncertainty. It's not okay to orchestrate a process to get people to get on board with a predetermined direction or to not genuinely cultivate collective determination. 

I'm here to support teams as they jump off the cliff of traditional hierarchical management and dive deep into the boundless ocean of collective organisation. 

Shall we jump and I'll show you how to swim on the way down? 

If you'd like to peek into the ocean of opportunity before taking this leap, I understand. Click here to learn more about collective organisation, self-management, emergent collaboration, regenerative stewardship and some of the frameworks, processes, and tools that can support your team's transformation. 

My influences and worldview lineage comes from my experiences in the School of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, the School for Social Entrepreneurs, the School of Life, Social Leadership Australia, Kaospilots, the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, and my 15+ years working with and for First Nations led organisations.