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From Mongolia to Meaningful Moments: A Creative Leadership Journey
In recent weeks, I had the privilege of working with a remarkable group of leaders from Mongolia through the University of Queensland’s International Development Women’s Leadership Program.
Crackin’ Open Your Leadership Powers: A fresh, adaptive and creative framework
Helen Zink and I are teaming up with Crackin’ LnD (Down Under), an energised community for learning and development professionals across Australia, NZ and the Pacific, to share a creative, adaptive approach to leadership, one that helps you tune into yourself, your team, and the moment.
The Visual Shift: A New Way to See and Shape Your Virtual Sessions
Connection over content is something we hear regularly when working with people.
Some of the most meaningful connections and conversations I’ve had in my work haven’t started with words – they’ve started with images.
Think You Don’t Need a Facilitator? Let’s Explore That…
Connection over content is something we hear regularly when working with people.
Some of the most meaningful connections and conversations I’ve had in my work haven’t started with words – they’ve started with images.
🎨 Artful Update: From Local Walls to International Pages
It’s been an artful time with The Gap Creative’s Winter Solstice Exhibition held at the Gap High School Tula Gallery. The Gap Creative is a very active membership-based community for artists located in The Gap of which there are many.
How To Decide If You’re Ready For Facilitation
Embarking on a journey of innovation and change within your organisation is a significant undertaking, requiring careful reflection and preparation.
To help you assess your readiness for a successful facilitation and coaching engagement, I’ve created a guide titled “5 Essential Steps to Catalyse Change,” which is designed to encourage you to thoughtfully consider a few key aspects.
A Good Time to Buy Locally – End of Financial Year
Maverick Minds is an approved pre-qualified supplier by Local Buy, Queensland’s leading procurement partner. This significant result makes our organisational development and facilitation services more accessible to a broad range of public sector and not-for-profit organisations, and simpler for you to get involved.
Superpowers for Coaching-Inspired Leadership
Over the course of many years of coaching and facilitation work and conversations, my colleague Helen Zink and I have identified 11 Leadership Coaching Superpowers – qualities and behaviours that support leaders in navigating complexity with greater clarity, curiosity, and care.
Stuck in Uninspiring Virtual Sessions?
Tired of struggling to create genuine connection in your online coaching, facilitation and meetings? You know words alone often fall short, leaving people disengaged and interactions that often feel flat and transactional.
Opportunity to Unwrap Your Year – Online session
Unwrap: Your Year in Motion offers a moment to step out of your busyness and take a breath. To reflect not just on what you’ve done, but on where you find yourself now, and where you might be headed next.
Intrapreneurship – Innovating From the Inside
As the Founder of Maverick Minds, I started the business from scratch, taking on financial risks and making decisions with a vision as an entrepreneur. I also need to innovate and improve my systems while managing various constraints as an intrapreneur.
Learning, Leadership and Rebellious Curiosity
Attending the BiiG Public Sector Conference, whose tagline, ‘Insight Innovation Impact,’ hinted at its purpose, offered a welcome reminder: good people are doing good work in the public sector, and we need more of that.
Ready to shift your thinking and make the next move?
Our unique digital facilitation and coaching cards can help with that.












