Ways to work with me

Working with individuals

Working With Me

For leaders carrying real responsibility.

Many of the people I work with are founders, CEOs and senior leaders navigating sustained pressure, important decisions and complex organisational dynamics.

Leadership can become isolating when expectations are high and there are few places to think out loud.

My work creates space for that pause.

Together, we explore how you currently meet pressure, how your leadership patterns shape the environment around you, and what is required to lead the next phase more deliberately.

The aim is not only to lead more effectively at work, but to move through life with greater clarity, steadiness, and intention at home as well.

This work integrates:

• leadership diagnostics and pattern awareness
• coaching for clearer thinking and decision making
• structured reflection that translates insight into everyday leadership practice • building your capacity to get results through others

Engagements typically begin in one of two ways, depending on what you are navigating.

Leadership Reset for CEOs & Founders

Illuminate - Executive Wellbeing Reset Program

A leadership reset for CEOs, founders and executive teams carrying sustained responsibility.

Illuminate creates space to pause, reflect honestly on the pressures leaders are facing, and realign how they want to lead the next phase of their organisation.

It is also the most effective starting point for understanding your current leadership baseline.

Through leadership diagnostics and structured reflection, leaders gain clear insight into what is working, where pressure is building, and where the greatest leverage for change sits.

For many leaders, this reset provides the most valuable early data about what will support them and their teams moving forward.

Individual Leadership Work

For founders, executives, and professionals navigating important decisions, transitions, or personal leadership growth.

The You Project

A structured self-leadership intensive designed to help individuals understand their operating patterns under pressure and strengthen their decision-making, boundaries, and direction.

1:1 Coaching

Tailored support for where you are right now. Available as 4 or 6 session packages to support integrated change over time.

Deeper Leadership Development

Insight to Impact - Senior Leadership Development Program

Insight to Impact is a senior leadership development program designed to embed healthier leadership patterns into your organization's everyday practices. By scaling your ability to achieve results through others, this program empowers individual leaders and leadership teams.

The program begins with an in-depth 360-degree survey, gathering feedback from key stakeholders. This feedback is then translated into personalized, actionable behavioral change plans that directly impact business performance and employee engagement.

Following the feedback diagnostic, individual coaching is aligned with the leadership team. This collective approach leverages each leader's unique skill sets, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic vision. The result is sustained leadership dynamics that have a measurable cultural impact, directly correlated to improved business outcomes and team effectiveness.

Working with organisations

Leadership and Culture Transformation

I work with leadership teams and organisations navigating growth, complexity, and transition, when responsibility has increased, expectations have shifted, and the old ways of working are no longer sustainable.

This work strengthens how people think, relate, and take responsibility together under pressure, creating clearer leadership, healthier cultures, and more deliberate decision-making.

Organisational work is typically structured across four connected pathways:

  • Builds shared understanding of human behaviour under pressure and strengthens how teams work together day-to-day.

    Used when:
    Teams are under pressure, communication is strained, responsibility is uneven, or unspoken tension is present.

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  • Supports intact teams to embed the Foundation and practise new ways of working in real conditions.

    Used when:

    • Teams are under pressure and defaulting to familiar habits

    • Communication, decision-making, or accountability patterns are becoming strained

    • Responsibility is unevenly carried or unclear

    • Teams need a shared language for what is happening between people

    • Insight is needed to translate into more deliberate ways of working

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  • A preventative, evidence-based leadership review for founders, CEOs, senior leaders, and executive teams carrying significant responsibility.

    It creates space to pause, think clearly, and reset how leadership is being carried — supporting steadier decision-making, clearer leadership, and sustained effectiveness under pressure

    Used when:

    • Leaders or executive teams are carrying sustained pressure or fatigue

    • Clarity and effectiveness are being compromised by pace and load

    • Organisations want to support leadership wellbeing as a foundation for performance

    • There is a need to reset before strain becomes burnout or disengagement

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  • Structured leadership development to translate insight into sustained behavioural and cultural change.

    The pathway begins with a 360° leadership review to uncover blind spots. Once seen, these patterns can’t be unseen. The work then supports leaders to embed clearer decision-making, shared responsibility, and more deliberate leadership individually and collectively, by working to strengths and forming shared agreements that lead to better outcomes, aligned to business strategy.

    Used when:

    • Attrition and disengagement are increasing

    • High performers are creating cultural risk

    • Talent needs to be developed and retained, not just driven

    • Leadership behaviour needs to shift to support sustainable performance

    • Old ways of doing things are no longer sustainable

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Gassho Wellness Centre

In-Person Coaching & Group Programs Sydney

Gassho Wellness Centre in Neutral Bay is my Sydney location for in-person coaching conversations and small group leadership programs.

It offers a quiet, professional environment where leaders and professionals can step away from the pace of work and engage in thoughtful reflection and meaningful dialogue.

Sessions at Gassho include:

• 1:1 leadership coaching and coaching programs
• Small group leadership and personal development programs

For Sydney-based leaders who value working face to face, Gassho provides a calm and supportive setting for this work.

From those I’ve worked with

  • Insight To Impact - Senior Leadership Development Program

    “Simone was instrumental during our 360 review process at AST, offering exceptional coaching that was both insightful and actionable. Her strategic guidance helped our management team navigate complex feedback, enhancing our leadership skills and team dynamics. Simone’s ability to foster an open, supportive environment encouraged genuine growth and improved cohesion. I highly recommend her for any team eager to enhance their leadership dynamics.”

    Leandro De Lima, Head of Marketing, Branding, Innovation AST

  • Common Ground Foundation + Pathways

    "Thanks for facilitating a great couple of days with all our partners – it exceeded my expectations."

    Andrew Hoffmann - ANZ Chairman, Partner Audit and Assurance, Nexia Australia

  • Insight To Impact - Senior Leadership Development Program

    “I’m better prepared to have tough conversations if needed…I recommend the Insight To Impact Leadership Development and Training Programs to everyone. It is very worthwhile.”

    Bek Hooley - AAPM NSW and ACT Practice Manager of The Year 2020, Winner National General Practice 2022 and NSW/ACT General Practice of the Year 2022

  • Insight To Impact - Senior Leadership Development Program

    “This program teaches you all the skills they don’t teach you in medical school.”

    Dr Rowena McMullen - Neonatologist Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

  • Common Ground Foundation + Pathways

    “An amazing experience to all that participated…this has resulted in a strong value driven organisation, individual insight for all staff and awareness of others with a strong code of aligned behaviours.”

    Kelly Hansen - CEO NOVA For Women and Children

  • Illuminate Executive Leadership Reset

    “I feel more positive, energised with a new perspective and clarity about the steps towards creating what I want to make happen.” Ben Arthur - CFO Device Technologies