COACHING EXPERIENCE

Sue works one-on-one with senior leaders, emerging leaders, and those making the transition to complex decision-making environments where new thinking and skills are required. She has worked with individuals and teams across the public and private sectors.

Sue assists leaders to grow the mindset and behaviours necessary for transition to senior executive roles. Her senior government service makes coaching in the public sector a particular passion. Sue has facilitated public sector group and individual coaching on building high performance teams, ethical decision making and leadership in complexity. She is equally comfortable in the private sector. Sue works with the coaching mode that best suits the client including face-to-face, phone or by videoconference.


COACHING STYLE AND APPROACH

Sue leverages her clients’ strengths to provide the right balance of challenge and support for insight and professional growth. She brings presence and keen observational skills to encourage a widening of perspectives for clients. Her coaching draws on a range of cognitive-behavioural and solution-focused approaches to practical problem solving. Sue’s corporate emphasis is galvanising systems for mental wellness and strengthening leaders’ capacity to build psychological safety in teams for higher performance.


BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Sue understands the complexity of thinking and collaboration that is required of leaders today. She spent the last decade as a senior executive advising the Commonwealth government on national security, criminal justice, and international law. She has worked internationally at the United Nations in Egypt, Bhutan, and in Sudan and has represented Australia at the UN in New York as a diplomat. Most recently, in 2023, she led the Integrity Taskforce in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet which developed integrity and ethical leadership recommendations currently being implemented across the Australian Public Service.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Frameworks for ethical decision making

• Building psychological safety in teams through explicit behaviour and team contracting

• Managing the transition from manager to leader

• Understanding the link between thoughts, emotions and behaviour at work and reframing them for enhanced performance
  

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS

• Design Lead, International Online Design firm - shifting from technical to strategic view, improving role clarity and delegation to free up team leader to focus on bigger picture, strengthening united leadership and understanding unique perspectives of stakeholders to find solutions.

• Doctoral Academic, Commonwealth scholarship program - managing transition to the public sector, integrating research into social policy delivery to the public.

• Emerging executive leaders’ groups, Australian public service - lifting integrity in decision making, bolstering role, purpose, and values, shift from expert mindset to enabling teams, lifting awareness on the neuroscience of decision making and tackling internal biases.