Training & Executive Coaching
for Organisations
Strategic Planning
Change is inevitable. But it doesn't need to be chaotic.
I've conducted countless strategic planning sessions that result in co-designed documented Strategic Plans for managing change, seeking new direction, getting back on track and ending chaotic disorganisation. Delivering in Darwin and across the Territory and Australia by arrangement.
Organisations like No More and The Women's Innovation Network NT benefitted from everyone having their say, multiple options being presented and a consensus being reached.
Digital Marketing & The Web
Understanding marketing in today's online world.
No one got into business to do marketing. But it's a neccessary part of the game. Likewise, a lot of us find ourselves doing marketing as part of our multi-disciplinary roles and we're finding the whole online world a little overwhelming.
I have guided over 2000 small businesses through marketing online since 2017 through Business Station and Business Enterprise Centre NT.
I've trained staff from Matt Wright Adventures, Charlies of Darwin, Ocean Buyers Agency, Perth Speech Therapy and even government agencies in the Northern Territory and New South Wales.
Design Thinking
When you want new revenue sources or to produce new products.
Design Thinking is one of those really annoying academic concepts that no one really uses because it's full of jargon that no one understands.
My Design Thinking workshops break down the mess and make it fun and effective for teams looking to build new products, design new services or come up with new ideas for revenue.
I've taught it at Charles Darwin University and Central Queensland University. And I've helped the teams at Darwin Innovation Hub, Catholic Care and City of Darwin get their design thinking breakthroughs.
LinkedIn & Thought Leadership
Leaders are surfaced, discovered and created on LinkedIn.
Organisations can't ignore LinkedIn. Especially when 16 million Aussies are active on it - and they are doing business, finding jobs and unskilling in a time when skills are hard to find and very in-demand.
However, few organisations have a LinkedIn strategy and their executives aren't active on the world's biggest professional platform.
But they are waking up to the opportunity and LinkedIn use has skyrocketed in the last few years.
I was awarded a LinkedIn Top Voice status in 2024: only 300 are awarded globally each year.
I provide training and executive coaching on how to work with LinkedIn for individuals and organisations using a tested and provdem method.
Entrepreneurship
We're all part of the sales and innovation departments these days.
Even if we are not business owners, there's value in employees learning about entrepreneurial thinking.
It's not necessarily about starting businesses. Entrepreneurship helps your team thinking from the point of view beyond just their own role - and to the bigger picture of how organisations operate, and how thinking beyond the routine and set processes can transform an organisation from stagnant to dynamic.
My entrepreneurship workshops are based on both experiences as a serial entrepreneur, my studies with University of NSW in Marketing and Business Information Systems as well as the principles in the curricula that I've taught at Charles Darwin University, Central Queensland University and the Australian Catholic University.
The workshops are highly interactive and practical.
Social Media for Business
It's changed the way we communicate forever - especially in business.
If you're a business without an online presence, you're not in business. However, business treats social media like it's a television or radio ad.
In this comprehensive full-day program, your team will learn about the platforms, the purpose, the best practices, the fine line between brand values and the attention economy as well as forming a content plan for your business that will not only reach your target customer, but lead them to engagement.
Speaking with Confidence
Confidence isn't born, it's learned.
The power of public speaking can be used to inspire, move and transform teams. But even at the smallest level, it brings the confidence to speak up in meetings, contribute to team work and collaborate with others. Simply, public speaking is less about TEDtalks and more about everyday use of our voices and our thoughts.
This is what Study NT Student Ambassadors, NT Training Awards Participants, Airport Development Group and Real Estate Institute of the Northern Territory learned when they used this training.
AI Literacy
Using AI safely, privately and effectively in 2025.
Your staff are already using ChatGPT. Even if they've been told not to. So you could try and. "policy your way out of it" or you could provide the tools and training for them to use it safely and more effectively.
My half-day and full-day AI tools training introduces your team to not only the tools, but to how to best use them to get real work done in a privacy-first and safe way.
You'll learn how to integrate AI into your workflows so that everyone works better, faster and more accurately without compromising data privacy and business confidentiality.
Specialist Training for Government
Things in government are a little different to the private sector.
I have been delivering Digital Skills, AI Literacy, Strategic Planning, Design Thinking, Social Media and Crisis Communications training for the public sector for years now through local councils like Coomalie Community Council, West Arnhem Regional Council, Trade & Investmetn Queenland, NSW Health, WA Small Business Development Corporation, Northern Territory and Queensland Governments, Austrade and Ausindustry.
I am also a contracted trainer for the Public Sector Network across all three levels of government in Australia and both levels in New Zealand.
All my training programs are available and contextualised for both your government and local application.
Latest from The Saturday Sprint
The real reason you're getting nowhere
I want to ask you a serious question, and I need you to be honest with yourself before you answer it.
Why haven't you launched that new service yet? Why haven't you put your prices up? Why does that marketing plan you wrote six months ago still sit in a folder on your desktop, untouched?
If you are like most of the business owners and professionals I speak to, your answer is probably something along the lines of, "I just don't feel ready," or "I need to do more research," or perhaps the classic, "I'm just waiting for the right time."
I am going to challenge that. I don't think you lack preparation. I don't think you lack resources. And I certainly don't think you lack ability.
I think you are suffering from a dopamine overdose. I believe that the news cycle and the device in your pocket are occupying so much of your brain's bandwidth that you have no confidence, no plan, and no ability to make positive changes in your life.
We are living in an era of unprecedented information access, but it has come at a terrible cost: our ability to think clearly and act decisively.
The Comparison Trap
Let’s get real for a moment. I talk a lot about confidence and personal branding, but I am not immune to the psychological warfare of social media.
I have noticed a distinct pattern in my own life. When I spend a little more time scrolling through Instagram, I start to feel bad. It is subtle at first, but it digs in deep. I look at the feed and see people who are better looking than me. They are younger than me. They seem infinitely more successful and so damned happy.
Logically, I know it is a highlight reel. I work in marketing; I know how the sausage is made. I know about the filters, the lighting, the rented cars, and the debt behind the smiles. But my primitive brain doesn't care about logic. It just sees "better" and makes me feel like "worse."
It makes me feel like rubbish. And that feeling of inadequacy leads directly to anxiety. When you feel anxious and "less than," you do not make bold business moves. You hide.
The only way I have been able to get around this is to implement a strict boundary. I have stopped scrolling Instagram entirely, with one exception: I am only allowed to do it while I am on the toilet.
True story.
By relegating the infinite scroll to a few minutes of biological necessity, I have taken away its power to dominate my day. It sounds ridiculous, but it saved my sanity.
The Adult Dopamine Epidemic
We spend a lot of time wringing our hands about what social media is doing to our kids. We worry about their attention spans, their self-image, and their social skills. And we should.
But while we are focused on the kids, we have completely missed the real dopamine epidemic—our own.
As adults, we like to think we are disciplined. We tell ourselves we are scrolling for "market research" or "staying informed." But let’s be honest: we are addicted to the hit.
Every time you pull down to refresh your email, check your LinkedIn notifications, or doom-scroll through the latest headlines, you are frying your dopamine receptors. You are training your brain to crave distraction rather than depth.
This is a disaster for leadership and innovation.
Innovation requires boredom. It requires silence. It requires a brain that isn't constantly processing new inputs. If you fill every spare second of your day with a podcast, a news article, or a social feed, you are leaving zero room for your own original thoughts to bubble up.
You cannot lead a business or a team effectively if your brain is in a constant state of reactive chaos.
It Is Not Just Instagram
Instagram is just the beginning. The visual comparison is toxic, but the "professional" and "informational" inputs are just as dangerous.
I have had to severely limit my news intake. Living in the Northern Territory, or anywhere in Australia for that matter, the news cycle is designed to keep you in a state of high alert. It is always a crisis. It is always urgent. It is always bad.
When you start your day with bad news, you are priming your brain for threat detection. You go into your business looking for problems rather than opportunities. You become risk-averse because the world feels dangerous.
And I have had to limit my LinkedIn intake as well.
LinkedIn has become a strange performative theatre. It is full of people shouting about their "hustle," their 4:00 AM wake-up calls, and their seven-figure turnovers. If you spend too much time there, you start to feel like you are failing because you haven't scaled to a multinational corporation by lunchtime on a Tuesday.
This constant input creates a paralysis. You consume so much information about what everyone else is doing that you forget whatyouare supposed to be doing.
Reclaiming Your Brain
So, if you are feeling stuck, anxious, or unable to execute your plans, I want you to try something. It is not a new app or a productivity hack. It is a subtraction.
1. Isolate the inputs.Identify the apps or sources that make you feel anxious or inadequate. Is it the news? Is it LinkedIn? Is it Instagram? Be honest about how you feelafteryou consume them.
2. Create physical boundaries.Don't charge your phone in the bedroom. Buy an old-school alarm clock. The first hour of your day sets the tone for everything that follows. Do not give that hour to Mark Zuckerberg or the ABC news desk. Keep it for yourself.
3. Embrace the "Toilet Rule" (or similar).If you must check these things, relegate them to the dead time in your day. Do not let them bleed into your productive hours or your family time.
4. Sit with the silence.This will be uncomfortable. When you stop scrolling, you will feel bored. You might even feel a bit of withdrawal. Good. That boredom is where the magic happens. That is where your business plan gets written. That is where your confidence comes back, because you are listening to your own voice, not the noise of the world.
The Bottom Line
You do not need more information. You do not need to see what your competitors are doing. You do not need to know the breaking news the second it happens.
You need your brain back.
Your confidence, your ability to plan, and your capacity to lead are all sitting there, waiting for you to clear the fog. Put the phone down. Step away from the news.
The world will keep spinning without your constant attention. But your world—your business, your life, your growth—needs you to be fully present.
Let’s get back to being effective, not just informed.
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