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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.
Balancing Act – Leadership lessons from the high ropes
It’s the mid-2000s, and I’m at the Banff Centre, nestled in the breathtaking Canadian Rockies. After presenting at the Art of Management and Organisation Conference, I’d decided to extend my stay for a holiday and participate in a creative leadership programme, focused on art and landscape and designed to challenge.
Leadership in Full Colour
What if a single image could help you remember the kind of leader you want to be, right when it matters most?
Over the last few months, Helen Zink and I have been exploring a set of coaching superpowers, simple yet powerful mindsets and behaviours that support leaders and teams to grow, connect, and lead with intention.
Coaching to Boost Leadership Superpowers
My colleague Helen Zink and I work with leaders and teams, and we know that leadership comes with a unique set of challenges.
Over the past weeks, we’ve shared 10 coaching superpowers for leaders to experiment with, plus an 11th bonus superpower. We suggested that making the most of these superpowers requires investment.
One powerful way to maximise your resources, invest in your future, and bring these superpowers to life is by working with a professional coach or team coach.
Art Update – Reasons To Be Cheerful
Many of you will know that I don’t just talk about creativity – I make art too. From my year-long daily art project mm365, to exhibitions, competitions, and time spent in my studio, making art continues to be an important and joyful part of my life.
Is Your Organisation on Track to Reach Its Potential in 2025?
Ready to inject fresh energy into your team’s thinking and discover innovative leadership approaches? Keen to create real, lasting change within your organisation and navigate complexity with greater ease?
Kindness Counts in Leadership
While journaling my thoughts in the evening, a practice I find essential in daily life, I discovered a focus on kindness emphasised by leaders in both the recent Canadian and Australian elections, which resonated with me. What caught my attention is that both current leaders talked about kindness as a strength, not a weakness.
Ready to shift your thinking and make the next move?
Our unique digital facilitation and coaching cards can help with that.