we need more rebellious leaders
As a certified coach for rebellious, heart-centered female leaders, I’ll support you to navigate the challenges and triumphs of leadership, ensuring that you not only make a difference in the world but also prioritise your own well-being and attain success on your own terms.
I’ve found a way to really embrace my inclusive, circular, feminine leadership in a structured, male-dominated and often hard-edged world.
From my time as a lawyer, then diplomat, to my roles in Government working on high-profile challenges, I’ve always wanted to make an impact that truly makes an impact on the lives of Australians. After establishing an in-house consulting function and leading on innovative fast-paced projects for Government, I’ve changed pace a little and I’m now a consultant on cyber security matters.
The best part of my career? I’ve connected with incredible, high-achieving women who have coached me to find my personal leadership strategy. It hasn’t always been easy. I had to learn how to manage myself to avoid burning out. I’ve had to develop the way I embrace diversity and empower those around me.
My leadership finds a way to mix the practical world of business expertise with the deeper wisdom of energetic practices, intellectual curiosity and embodiment rituals that I’ve gleaned from my personal healing journey. I’ve been able to share my own hard-earned advice on quickly creating high-performing teams and empowering cultures.
I offer a no-nonsense, concrete approach to getting you results, delivered with gentleness and compassion. Let’s find your leadership code and the way you’re ready to create lasting change in the world right now (while maintaining your sanity).
“Whatever you feel you lack, do not feel you need it to please others. All you need is not acceptance from others, but from yourself, in the end you are the only one that counts! Nobody is going to live along with you, more than yourself. Start liking the idea! It’s gonna be a while! Khulu 🙂”
embracing the worst parts creates Your power
When I was fifteen I went to South Africa for a school semester. At the time life back home in Australia was hard. I was lonely and just wanted to fit in.
My time in South Africa was an adventure – a fresh start. One day, a girl named Khulu handed me this note. It’s been sticky-taped to a page in my old journal for almost twenty years. I found it again at Christmas last year, when I was rifling through a dusty bookshelf in my childhood home. The tape was yellow and the ink had faded so I could barely make out the words.
After I read it, I dropped the thin black notebook on my lap and thought about how I’ve spent my whole life trying to learn this lesson. I couldn’t quite shake my people-pleasing tendencies or my need to ‘fix’ whatever people might not like about me. It was a way to fit in and avoid loneliness.
Life might’ve been very different if I’d just followed Khulu’s advice back then. By my mid-20s I had my dream life – the exact job I’d wanted as a little girl, lots of travel and an inspiring circle of people around me. But a different story lay underneath. I was sure that the bullying was a sign that I wasn’t enough. I was a high-achiever but I was also an anxious people-pleaser.
One day, I realised I couldn’t truly lead and make big changes if I couldn’t stand up for what I believed for fear of upsetting someone or not fitting in. I had to find a way to hear my own voice, back myself and turn down my inner critic. I had to belong to myself.
Working with powerful coaches, I’ve found ways to be authentic and increase my self-worth. I’ve owned the parts of myself I was most ashamed of so that it doesn’t bother me what others think now. I’m free to make the powerful decisions I need to make as the best leader I can possibly be.
I’m finally free to role model the kind of leadership and connection I wanted to experience myself twenty years ago, as a young girl clutching a hand written note on a bench in South Africa.
My favourite thing in the world now is supporting others to find their authentic selves and watch their lives transform.
I love seeing women step into their unique power and the ripple effect when they go on to have a positive impact and legacy on the world.
Being a coach feels like a radical act of defiance. I’m saying yes to a calling that embraces everything that made me different growing up. Everything that I rejected – being a sensitive soul and a quiet listener who avoids the spotlight, enthralled with the stories and potential of others.
Are you ready to be reconnected to your power and worth? I’d love to support you. You can find out more by booking in a discovery call today.