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We develop self-aware, resilient and authentic leaders.

Our mission is to help leaders tackle their biggest challenges and thrive.

We do this by focusing on the “inner work” of leadership.

Our belief is that the complex challenges we face as organisations, and as a globe, cannot be solved by technical fixes.

To make progress, we need to address the deeper mindsets, motives and habits that hold us back, but that are also the key to unlocking our best work.

Dr James Donald - Facilitator and Coach at LeadWell

James is an authority on the inner work of leadership, and has spent the last fifteen years working and researching in leadership and positive psychology.

Our offerings draw on the latest leadership and psychological science, including James’ own academic research, published in world-leading peer-reviewed journals.

We co-create powerful, immersive leadership programs to help leaders navigate complexity and do their best work.

Thank you for considering working with us.

Our clients include:

We partner with our clients to make progress on their biggest challenges.

Read our clients’ testimonials to see how our work together has benefited them

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Leadership programs

Our 3, 6 and 10 month Leadership programs are powerful learning experiences that challenge and up-skill leaders to hone their mindset, resilience and authentic selves.

Keynotes and Speaking

We deliver engaging presentations on the science of human resilience, stress-management and mindfulness-based strategies to manage today’s workplace.

Coaching

We draw upon the latest coaching science and mindfulness-based coaching approaches to assist leaders in addressing their biggest strategic challenges.

Testimonials

Just amazing! I now catch my mind wandering off and have learned to refocus it on the present task or person in front of me. Instead of leaking all this energy worrying or ruminating, I now feel like I can consistently engage fully with what I want to be doing. It’s a skill that takes practice, but I can already see the benefits. James was very engaging.
— Senior Manager, Qantas
Extremely useful in and out of the workplace. I’ve spoken a lot about this session since.
— Senior Manager, Qantas

This program really strengthened my capacity to view tough moments in a broader perspective – thank you James!
— Manager, Commonwealth Treasury
Thank you again for running the course, it has made an immeasurable difference to my life…. When I interview a refugee, it is hard not to take on their desperation and pain … the mindfulness techniques have helped me in so many ways …. I really don’t think I could do this work without what I learnt with you!
— Social Worker, UNHCR

Thi program provided a fantastic opportunity to reflect on how I approach my leadership roles and what I could do differently. James and Claire struck a great balance between providing us with new tools and letting ideas emerge from the sharing of own experiences. The one-on-one coaching sessions were useful for helping me reflect on my goals and opportunities to improve my leadership skills, while the group sessions exposed me to new mindfulness techniques and tools for applying empathy, managing conflict, and empowering those who I work within a leadership capacity.
— Dr Alex Baumber, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation, UTS

Thank you very much for a very insightful and practical course. There should be more of it in the workplace!
— Staff member, IBM
Fantastic session. There should be more of this across the business.
— Senior Manager, Qantas

I really appreciated the chance to press “pause” on my leadership and reflect on some of my ongoing challenges. The self-reflections we did were really valuable, and helped me to see the blind spots and triggers I bring to what I do, and how I can shift these. The work on values was great and will help me to navigate some more difficult conversations with clarity. Thanks James for a great session
— Senior Executive, UTS

Your sessions gave my team some practical tools to manage stress and emotions that they could apply immediately in their every-day work.
— Manager, Family Court of Australia
These sessions gave me a practical range of evidence-based things to try. Thank you!
— Lawyer, ABC