Services & Pricing
Something has brought you here.
This work is for aspiring and early-career social work leaders who want to stay grounded in their values as they step into leadership.
Whether you are navigating that transition yourself, or you lead an organisation that is losing capable people through it, you are in the right place.
This work also serves allied health professionals, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists and youth workers who lead in human services settings and identify with the values that drew them to care-based practice.
There are three ways we can go deeper. Each one begins with the same question: what kind of leader do you want to build your career on?
1:1 Leadership Coaching
One conversation at a time. Unhurried. Shaped entirely by what you bring.
Leadership Circles for Social Workers and Human Services Practitioners
A small, curated group. Six sessions. Twelve weeks. The kind of peer connection that changes everything.
Leadership and Wellbeing for Teams
Evidence-informed. Tailored to your context. Grounded in nine countries of research.
1:1 Leadership Coaching
A space to reconnect with who you are as a leader.
Leadership can feel clear on paper and uncertain in practice. The gap between the role you are in and the leader you want to be is rarely about skills. It is almost always about identity.
These sessions are designed for social workers stepping into leadership for the first time, or navigating the reality of leading in complex systems where the cost of staying has started to outweigh the reward.
The work also speaks to allied health professionals, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists and youth workers who lead in human services settings and find themselves navigating the same questions about identity, values and what it means to lead well.
Each session is shaped entirely by what you bring. The approach draws on reflective practice, values-based inquiry and 35 years of experience inside human services systems.
Clients often find they leave with greater clarity in how they are making decisions and why. A stronger, more grounded sense of who they are as a leader. Less overwhelm and steadier responses under pressure. Clearer boundaries and ways of working that are sustainable over the long term. More confidence in navigating the complexity that is specific to social work leadership.
This is not the kind of support that asks you to become someone else. It is the kind that helps you become more fully yourself.
*This investment may be tax deductible depending on individual circumstances. Please consult your tax advisor.
If you are in government or a larger NFP, this investment may be claimable against your professional development allowance. Language that tends to work in a PD request: 'leadership coaching aligned to reflective practice and values-based leadership in community services.'
*Investing in yourself
$320 per session
$870 for 3 sessions
$1,560 for 6 sessions
Inclusive of GST
Investing in your people
(organisation-supported)
$480 per session
$1,290 for 3 sessions
$2,340 for 6 sessions
Exclusive of GST
Leadership Circles for Social Workers and Human Service Practitioners
Leadership was never meant to be done alone.
There is something that happens when leaders come together in a small, carefully curated group: the isolation lifts. The sense that you are the only one navigating this dissolves. And the thinking gets sharper, faster and more honest than it ever does alone.
The Inside Out Leadership Circles bring together six to eight social workers at a similar stage in their leadership journey. Over twelve weeks, the group meets fortnightly for 90-minute facilitated sessions to explore real leadership challenges, build reflective practice and develop the kind of peer connections that research confirms are one of the strongest protective factors against burnout and early career exit.
In between sessions, participants have access to a shared private peer channel where the conversation continues. The peer connection does not pause between fortnights. That is where much of the value lives.
This is not a training program. There are no correct answers and no prescribed frameworks to master. It is a facilitated space where you can think out loud, be challenged gently and leave each session with something clearer than you arrived with.
Six 90-minute facilitated sessions over twelve weeks, fortnightly. Plus a shared peer channel active throughout.
Small curated group of six to eight participants at a similar stage. Real leadership challenges explored in real time. Cross-organisational insight you cannot get from within your own team. Structured reflection drawing on a purpose-built social work leadership framework developed through the Churchill Fellowship research. Peer connections that continue well beyond the twelve weeks.
The research is clear: peer connection in leadership is not a nice-to-have. It is a protective factor. And it is one of the most underused resources available to social work leaders.
**Individual
$1,499 per participant
Inclusive of GST
Organisation-supported
$2,799 per participant
Exclusive of GST
**This investment may be tax deductible depending on individual circumstances. Please consult your tax advisor.
Next intake: September 2026. Circles are carefully composed to ensure each participant has a genuinely useful peer group. A short initial conversation ensures the fit is right for everyone.
Leadership and Wellbeing for Teams
The problem your workforce strategy may not yet cover.
Social work organisations across Australia are losing capable leaders earlier than most workforce strategies account for. The evidence from leadership research is consistent: the transition into a new leadership role is the highest-risk period. For social work leaders, who navigate identity shift, values tension and peer relationships simultaneously, the early months are when support is lowest and risk is highest. Not the burnt-out veterans. The values-driven practitioners you just promoted.
Most organisations respond by recruiting harder. The research points elsewhere.
Social workers do not leave because they lack commitment. They leave when the conditions around them make it impossible to remain themselves. When the gap between the leader they are being asked to be and the person they actually are becomes too wide to hold.
This is a solvable problem. The evidence from nine countries of Churchill Fellowship research is identifying exactly what conditions change that outcome.
Two ways organisations work with me:
Support for an intact leadership team: facilitated workshops and sessions designed to build reflective practice, strengthen team culture and address the specific identity and wellbeing challenges of leading in complex systems. Typically delivered as a series of sessions tailored to your team's context.
Support for a cohort of aspiring leaders: a private Leadership Circle for a group of identified high-potential or newly promoted social workers within your organisation. The highest-value investment you can make in your leadership pipeline, because it addresses identity, belonging and peer connection at exactly the moment they are most at risk.
Replacing a mid-career social worker costs an average of 1.5 times their annual salary. That is before the disruption to clients, team stability and institutional knowledge. Across a sector where social workers are nationally listed among the top 20 occupations in demand, and where demand is projected to grow by more than 23% over the next decade, the cost of solving a retention problem with a recruitment strategy is compounding every quarter.
This is not generic leadership training. It is identity-led, evidence-informed work grounded in nine countries of original research into what actually keeps social work leaders well, grounded and in the profession long term. Every engagement is tailored to your context. There are no off-the-shelf programs here.
And if your organisation is already doing exemplary work on retention, leadership development or succession planning, I would love to hear from you too. The research needs those stories just as much.
Organisational engagements are scoped to your context and needs. Tailored programs begin from a half-day facilitated session. The starting point is a conversation.