“All intentions, not fastened to action, are blown away by the wind of time.”
— James Samana - Insights of a long distance walker (1998)
Helping you to build your insights (Leadership Development)
I have been studying, practicing, applying and teaching leadership for most of my adult life.
Most recently within the Australian Public Service as an Ethics Advisor, then Strategic Analyst in the Centre of Leadership and Learning, and finally as and A/g Director, and Senior Executive Service Learning Designer, Facilitator, and Coach for the Leadership Team within the APS Academy.
My passion is to help leaders from Australia (and beyond), across the sectors to use the evidence based frameworks as well as the micro-skills and practices to develop their leadership identity and achievements.
There are a variety of ways to work with me in order to develop your leadership insights:
Leadership Coaching
When ‘leadership’ is the central theme of your coaching sessions, our conversations will span your lived leadership experiences as well as some relevant frameworks and the micro-skills to make these work. Coaching is designed to help you to explore your insights. I will work with you to help you to access insights and build your skills to achieve results.
Leadership Coaching with me is coaching that is specifically aimed at exploring your path toward your best self as a leader. Leadership coaching not only helps to develop your self-awareness, but it can give you the confidence to achieve your goals.
Webinars
Coaching can unlock specific challenges, where you may like to learn different approaches to from the evidence base as well as from other leaders interested in the same topic.
Webinars are a great way for you to take control of your leadership development, and get tailored instruction designed to meet your needs, but also to help include other leaders who want to learn and contribute their experience on the matter.
Short Courses
Leadership is made up of countless challenges that require out attention. An Insightful Path short course looks into these challenges, relevant research into the skills and frameworks that could be used to address them.
James Learning programs can be tailored and designed to meet the individual, team, or larger group’s need, and could cover a variety of topics, such as:
Holding difficult conversations: An examination of some of the skills you can build to get outcomes from your difficult conversations.
Facilitating for the non-facilitator: A discussion of, with micro-practices to help build your ability to facilitate outcomes in meetings, workshops, or within your team.
The Key insight to your success (Identity): join James and discuss some of the concepts of identity, its nature, and some micro-skills to help you work with it to unlock discretionary effort.
Psychological Safety: and the micro-skills to support it: A series of 90-60 min online workshops to help individuals take 'self-agency’ and create cultures that are psychologically safe.
To find out more about these and other sessions:
Building your public service skills: An examination of, and practice in some of the skills it takes leaders at all levels within the public service to contribute and thrive.
Leadership frameworks to unlock potential in your executive team: An investigation into some of the evidence base and research on how leaders build effectiveness in their organisation and teams, with pragmatic exercise to enhance both.
Multiple possible topics from you: James is an AVID reader, researcher, content creator, and a very compelling thinker.
Feel free to book in some time with me for a conversation on how a micro-skills session or webinar can meet your needs!