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.

Half Day Session + Report from $3300

Full Day Session + Report from $5500

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.

Half Day Training from $3300

Full Day Training from $5500

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.

Half Day Training from $3300

Full Day Training from $5500

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.

Half Day Training from $3300

Full Day Training from $5500

Private Consultations from $550

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.

Half Day Training from $3300

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.

Full Day Training from $5500

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.

Half Day Training from $3300

Half Day Training from $5500

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.

Half Day Training from $3300

Full Day Training from $5500

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.

Half Day Training from $3300

Full Day Training from $5500

Latest from The Saturday Sprint

A man at work writing with discipline

The trick that helped me write consistently

January 05, 20256 min read

It’s amazing how one decision can transform everything. Last year, I started hitting the gym—classic New Years resolution, right?

But the real game-changer? It wasn’t the weights.

It was the words. Writing daily shaped my life in ways the gym never could.

I have been pretty good at writing since I was a kid.

I remember going each week to Mrs Tolley's Creative Writing after school class when I must have been around 9 or 10 years old. It was perfect for my wild imagination and although I can't remember a single lesson or activity we did apart from some puppet show that I put on with a blonde puppet I called "Uzo", it must have stuck.

I didn't really notice that I could writing until I started working in radio in 2001.

Within my first week volunteering there I was writing ads, announcer scripts, promotions proposals and replying to emails from listeners and other complaining members of the public.

This continued until I became "Creative Director" at Hot 100 FM in Darwin in late 2003. I put that in quotes because there was nothing creative about what I was doing. I was pumping out up to twenty new ad scrips a day for businesses I knew nothing about and who wanted their name, phone number, website address, physcial address and entire product inventory mentioned in 30 seconds.

But what I set out to do early last year was different to this.

I knew how to write.

But I didn't know how to be consistent with it.

And since I was now a year into taking LinkedIn seriously, I wanted to replicate the momentum I'd gained with my weekly newsletter. But I wanted to produce good content daily.

And that meant learning to write consistently.

So I looked at the people who were doing really well at it.

Justin Welsh. Dan Koe. Chris Do. Dakota Robertson. Yeah I know. All guys. Because you might have noticed that I'm also a guy. So I tend to relate more easily to the content produced by other guys. And I won't apologise for that.

What they all had in common was some system or method that they used.

It would usually involve setting aside time, activating some kind of focus mode and then using systems and processes to do the work.

And what they produced was outstanding. I took a particular liking to Dan Koe. He's stoic, doesn't smile, is not flashy or loud. I wanted to be a bit more like him.

Consistent. A deep thinker. A student of life. Reasonable. Disciplined. And unapologetically himself.

So as I learned more about what Dan and the others did, I started building my own routine.

5am wake up.

5.30 at the gym.

7 am was writing time.

8 am is when the official work day started.

You're probably expecting me to add an ice bath into all this, but I am not an ice bath guy and I really don't trust wellbeing trends because they never last more than a year before something else becomes the in-thing.

That's not the point though.

I had a routine. And that routine involved me writing content for every single weekday - and usually the weekends as well in a disciplined way.

How?

Topic Selection Strategy

First, I had to work out what I was writing about. My topics, if you will.

In my case, it's three main topics around Social Media, Entrepreneurship and Confidence.

Each of those topics have tonnes of sub-topics under them that I can tap into. For example, in the world of Social Media, I can talk about making video, writing text-based posts, the platform updates, starting an online channel when you're over forty or any number of topics. This post right now is related to the topic of Social Media in fact.

How you choose which topic to talk about comes down to these three questions, really.

  1. What do you know lots of stuff about?

  2. What do people ask you advice about?

  3. What is something that you now about that you see that others are making money from?

You don't have do Ikigai tests, although I did mine and really benefitted from it.

You don't have to see a career counsellor or get some mindset coach to guide you through aligning your chakras or whatever.

It's just about what's in demand that matches what you happen to be a bit of a wiz at.

That's the start.

Now you need to work out how to write. That's not what this is about today. But I will be doing some content on that soon that I think will be helpful if the writing itself is what you struggle with.

But honestly, most of the people I've worked with don't struggle with the writing once I get them on the right method.

They struggle with consistency and stamina.

The struggle to keep doing it on a regular basis and the struggle to keep doing it even they don't think it's doing anything for them.

Because it probably won't. At least for a while.

How I conquered the consistency piece is the trick here though.

I am not a particularly reliable or consistent person.

So what I did was tie the consistency of one thing to the consistency of another.

I had been going consistently to the gym from January 9 2023 to mid February. So I had developed a habit of waking up in the morning and moving my body. So what I did was tie my writing to going to the gym.

I was starting to really enjoy going to the gym.

So I decided to wake up an hour earlier than I had been. Instead of waking at 6am to head to gym and be at the office at 8 am, I woke at 5 am to be at the office by 7 am.

7 am was going to be my writing time.

Before anyone else was in the office.

Before I opened my emails for the day.

Before any meetings or Zoom calls or taps on the shoulder from colleagues.

And that let's me focus on what I want to write.

It's usually at this point that someone asks why I need to wake up so early. And it's simple really. I'm better in the mornings. I'm more creative and more alert.

My days are full of people and meetings and thinking fast on my feet. If I'm not hosting a workshop, I'm in a string of advisory meetings with clients or I'm brainstorming strategy with someone.

By the end of the day, I'm spent. Mentally and creatively. And because my people battery is dead, so too is my writing battery. I can't work after work. But I can work before it.

Plus there's something really cool about getting into the city when it's still dark and seeing the garbage truck drivers, street cleaners and joggers doing their thing while it's still relatively cool in Darwin.

So that's really it.

I don't have a particularly secret hack on how to be consistent.

It's just looking at what I am already disciplined and consistent at and linking the new thing I want to be consistent at to that thing.

And it's worked really well.

I've had a newsletter every week. I've posted something everyday. I've increased my following by a few thousand and made more money through consultations and training that I got from people on LinkedIn.

So yeah - not really a secret. Just an idea I tried that might work for you too.

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Dante St James

Dante is the Director of Australian Digital Education & Retail Group and Founder of Clickstarter, Speakstarter and Dante St James Consulting.

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