An experienced facilitator and behavioural change specialist, Suzanne is able to engage groups quickly, deeply, and meaningfully.
I use well-tested facilitation techniques that truly engage and promote active participation of every person in the room at their own pace and level of contribution. Rapport, safety and connection are key to shifts in communication, emotional intelligence and relationship work.
The beautiful essence of longer form programs (as opposed to short workshops) is that they have the consistent, deep dive of experience and reflection opportunity built into them.
These programs run over short periods of time that enable learning between sessions to embed changes participants are making as they practice and consider the learnings.
Deep psychological design ensures that the process and content is both logical, emotional and relevant for the outcomes required for each client.
Check out Suzanne’s flagship programs
PEERSHIP
You may think you already know the biggest risks in your organisation.
Hint: it’s not your competitors. Nor, is it technology.
The biggest risk lays within the senior leadership team in peer-to-peer relationships.
Turn a blind eye here and highly skilled functioning individuals start to grapple with elitism, division, righteousness and protecting their patch.
Turn a blind eye here and new leadership teams who are forming, start off on the wrong foot in mis-trust and confusing subtle power plays.
Getting to the Cohesive stage takes dedicated peer-ship through the willingness to communicate, trust, believe in self and each other. The next level of organisational survival is significantly leading beyond self. This takes a tribe of people in peer-ship.
CULTURAL CURIOSITY
This program is co-presented with Yamaji man, Rhys Paddick.
In every level of leadership the need to stretch thinking, boundaries and ideas is critical to business success. Leaders are required more than ever to break down barriers for their people, systems and processes.
Critical thinking and increased initiative does not happen when leadership minds are rigid or bound. Whilst workplace structure and guiding rules are valid, progress and growth for team relationships and business outcomes require leaders who can think for the business and relate to their people.
Using an Indiginous lens, drawing from traditional methods of problem solving, this program doubles as a behavioural leadership program with a heavy dose of cultural awareness. Traditional ways of breaking down barriers of difference between people helps Australian leaders to unite and progress through broad thinking and diversity in approaches to problems. Imagine a culture of united people who hold a stewardship not only for their workplace culture, but their country. Australian businesses that regard and respect our collective history that break barriers of difference across our multi-cultural landscape will prosper and connect into our future.
“Investing in Suzanne’s peer-ship program was a turning point in the development of the Executive Team at Brightwater. The difference with working with Suzanne is that programs are individually designed for your team and are completely flexible. This is no “off the shelf “ product. The outcomes we achieved together included a more robust and honest way of working, reduced barriers to communication and more agile and clear decision making. The team has rapidly moved into a more highly functioning space”
“I was recently part of a global company restructure and I approached Suzanne to help me through this period of transition. My challenge was to combine two senior leadership teams in different locations, each affected by their own organisational changes and lead one aligned Australian team with no disruption to performance output. I knew what I wanted to do but didn’t quite know how to approach the myriad of human factors and competing priorities that might turn an opportunity into an operational disaster. Suzanne’s coaching skills helped me both personally and professionally.
My coaching sessions with her were supportive and designed to help me uncover the answers by often looking within. Once we had established my personal and professional goals and made adjustments to my leadership style, Suzanne then facilitated meetings with my new team where we were able to talk about our challenges honestly and set our own team expectations with regards to values and behaviours. My new team is now settled and operating in a mode that is required for future success. Alignment, trust and commitment to helping each other are key factors to our new way of working together.
These behaviours have not only helped us through a difficult transition but are now resulting in new business performance highs, all in a much shorter time period than I imagined. Thank you Suzanne, your guidance has been invaluable.”
