Strategic Sessions
Whether you're facing a unique challenge or seizing a new opportunity, Strategic Sessions can help you achieve clarity and make progress swiftly.
Experience the benefits of 90-minute intensive coaching when you need it. Each session is customised to address your specific needs, allowing you to focus on what matters most. With flexible scheduling, you can book a single session or multiple sessions as required, without any long-term commitment. We begin with a quick questionnaire to understand your unique challenges and goals. Each 90-minute online meeting is designed to provide you with actionable insights and a clear plan. Click the + below to see more details.
Each 90-minute session is $1,950+GST (AUD).
(Past clients can customise their session—give me a call!)
What do you want to do?
Figure out what you love doing
and let go of all the other stuff.
Who do you want to be?
Get clarity on your ‘why’, then
get out of your own way.
How do you do it?
Set clear goals and expectations
for yourself and others.
Who do you want to be?
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Providing direction as you transition into a new role, bringing clarity and focus. Ensuring you know your motivations and goals, while addressing any fears and limitations.
Are you already:
Thinking you're ready for an executive role?
Questioning if you really want to be an executive?
Wondering are you clear why you want this?
Trying to figure out what is expected of an executive?
Aspiring to be the best executive you can be?
This Strategic Session will help you align your actions and decisions around transitioning to an executive role with your values and vision. We’ll leverage your strengths and ensure you receive the support you need, exactly where you need it.
Enabling you to transition to a new role!
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Moving from controlling the work to taking control your executive role. Leveraging your strengths, to re-map your role and focus your energy and efforts effectively.
Are you already feeling:
Overwhelmed and out of your depth?
Misaligned with the business?
Family and friends are getting the dregs of you?
Out of control?
You're getting something wrong?
This Strategic Session will empower you to take control of your role as executive. By challenging your assumptions and learning to let go, you’ll be able to clearly define your role and set the right expectations for you and your team.
Enabling you to take control of your role!
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Rise to the occasion. Take the plunge. Embrace the challenge. Lift your game. Raise the bar. Push the envelope. Take it to the next level. Seize the opportunity.
You know what you need to do!
Are you:
Playing small?
Avoiding the truth, putting up walls?
Too open to others’ opinions?
Hiding, avoiding, turning a blind eye?
People pleasing?
This Strategic Session will help you to create strategies to take on the challenges you’re avoiding. Together, we’ll design approaches to enhance your capability and confidence as a high-performing executive.
Enabling you to Step up – Lean in – Level up!
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Whether you want to craft your legacy, expand your community globally or create a visible, valuable role, we’ll design a roadmap for your future. A clear strong mindset will lead to action.
Be bold
Be intentional
Be discerning
Be courageous
Be remarkable
Be uncompromising (of your values)Are you:
Crafting ambitious goals?
Optimistic and determined?
Excited to stretch?
Developing your legacy?
Ready to go BIG?
This Strategic Session will help you develop a roadmap of the steps necessary to realise your ambitions and stay ahead of the game, to become the executive you aspire to be.
Enabling you to play the bigger game!
What do you want to do?
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Figuring out what’s the work you really want to do, and not do! Through this role clarity, you can relinquish control, delegate tasks, and empower team members to free you up to do the work you love.
Are you:
Trying to please everyone?
Blaming the process, the people, the printer?!
Overcommitted and overstretched?
Just trying to keep up and constantly moving the goalposts?
Involved in every decision (putting the business at risk)?
This Strategic Session will help you achieve clarity in your role to learn to let go. Trusting others to handle responsibilities will allow you to focus on strategic vision, innovation, and growth, fostering a more efficient and collaborative work environment.
Enabling you to learn to let go!
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What sets exceptional leaders apart is their ability to recognise the urgency of making tough decisions about the future of some members of the team. Either they don’t have the necessary capabilities, or they have behaviours that are impacting not just you, but the people around them.
Are you:
Feeling you can’t trust anyone to step up?
Finding everything is taking longer than planned?
Always redoing people’s work?
Carrying people who are no longer suitable or capable?
Tolerating the ‘brilliant jerks’ and bad behaviours?
This Strategic Session will help you take action to address some of your people-related challenges so you can build a team you can trust.
Simultaneously, your team can be confident in your support and commitment to their wellbeing.
Enabling you to make the tough calls, today!
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It’s not me, it’s them. People are miserable, they’re avoiding you and looking elsewhere for work. You believe people are engaged, empowered, enabled, educated, encouraged and emotionally connected in their roles. The likelihood is that they’re not. These are the pitfalls of assumptions.
Are you wondering why:
Something’s not working?
You feel misaligned with the team?
You have to do everything?
Everything taking longer than planned?
People are not stepping up?
This Strategic Session will help you to explore what’s not working for you and why your team seem unhappy. We’ll identify potential areas of assumption and develop ways on how to engage your team more effectively. Freeing you up to do the work you love.
Enabling you to address your assumptions!
How do you do it?
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We all set goals. But how much consideration do we give to the quality of the goals and how achievable they really are? On top of this, we then don’t effectively communicate what we expect of others, and more so, how we expect them to achieve it.
To be the best, are you:
Feeling pressure to be ‘more strategic’ and ‘more visible’?
Setting extra high expectations without data or context?
Demanding results but not sharing how to get there?
Sabotaging success by challenging everything?
Avoiding the truth and ignoring pleas for help?
This Strategic Session will help you to provide context and clarity to your goals and equip you with the tools to communicate them effectively for greater business results.
Enabling you to set the right expectations!
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Friction pervades our lives. The key lies in recognising it and minimising it. There are inherent expectations of you as an executive that revolve around delivering optimal results for the business. Begin by setting higher expectations for yourself and reducing the little things that consistently get in your way.
Are you:
Always running late, and overcommitted?
Travelling at inconvenient times?
Allowing your work to impact your family time?
Putting your wellbeing last?
Doing all the admin tasks yourself?
This Strategic Session will help you recognise and truly believe that as an executive, tolerating inconveniences (like you’re an intern) is not okay! You’ll learn to value your time, encouraging others to do the same.
Enabling you to reduce the friction!
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Prepare for the transition of responsibilities and leadership when you step down or move on from your current role. It involves identifying and developing potential successors, ensuring continuity and stability within the organisation.
Is this you:
Is not having a successor holding you back? (The answer is YES!)
Do you understand the importance of having a ready-now successor?
Are you honestly a little afraid to have a nominated successor?
What are the rules for succession?
Do you know where to start to find the right person?
This Strategic Session will help you identify, and begin to develop, a successor. This will allow you to move on to a new position as it arises or to just take a holiday when you need it.
We’ll design a clear role description for you, and for your successor.
Enabling you to plan for your succession!
“Working with Mary is both fun and very powerful. Mary has an inspiring natural style that makes you want to lean in, learn and evolve yourself to the next level.”
Liz Webb, CEO, EMM Consulting