“Not many times we are offered the opportunity to reflect upon self as strategy to develop your leadership skills. Evolving Leaders Leading Change Program is a great example of how sustainable change can be embedded by knowing self first before bringing others into any potential corporate change. Highly recommended!

Vitor Rocha – Palliative Care Lead

  “Nicola is a strong and capable consultant who seeks to deliver with wit, wisdom, and a focus on the end users benefit. It is telling that of all the projects in my portfolio Nicola’s has been the work with the strongest positive feedback and engagement by a difficult group of stakeholders. Add to that her ability to hit time-frames and budget – need I say more.” Top Qualities: Great Results, High Integrity, Creative

Godfrey Boyd, Practice Director ANZ

I cannot speak highly enough of Nicola and Hamish – it was privilege to participate in the Leading Change program that they facilitated within our workplace. They are a dynamic duo with the extraordinary ability of being able to balance an abundance of knowledge and expertise in leadership development, with a genuine humility and an honest kindness capable of drawing the best out of program participants. Thank you Hamish – Thank you Nicola.

Sue Wilson, RN PhD – Evaluation and Data Management Lead 

Nicola is a fabulous coach and facilitator. Her style of active listening and insightful prompts helped me to deeply think through a range of professional and personal challenges that were reducing my day to day wellbeing and leadership effectiveness.  The most powerful part of her work is her ability to help me find simple changes that I can commit to and that have made a real difference to the way I lead my life and team.  I’d recommend working with her on your own journey of self-discovery.

Cameron Fitzgerald- General Manager Strategy and Planning

“Nicola ran an art therapy workshop for my team.  This workshop was incredibly powerful in unlocking inhibitions, confronting fear, opening creativity, and building cognitive capacity.   Nicola has an innate ability to help individuals develop greater resilience and coping mechanisms to stressful situations. Her ability to safely hold the group, nurture and support and develop trust amongst the participants was exceptional. Anyone that gets the opportunity to sit with Nicola and indeed work with her receives trust, love and unwavering commitment to making this world a much healthier and happier place to live. I feel incredibly grateful to have met and worked with her.  I will definitely engage Nicola again.”

Elise Morris, GM People and Culture I Select

I had the pleasure of working with Nicola as she led the development of our Organizational Culture program. City West Water is an organization committed to undertaking a significant transformation through building our leadership capability and improving our organizational culture. This area of our culture program, which Nicola led, required significant work to first develop the strategy and then develop a program that matched our context. Nicola through her engaging and people cantered approach has helped lay the groundwork for what is now the implementation of this program- I have no doubt it will have a profound impact on our business.

David Ryan – Managing Director City West Water

Thank- you Nicola for creating such amazing energy in the way that you hold the space for us. It feels like it frees me to open up and look into myself in a way I would never know how to do. It’s really liberating. I have experienced so much positive energy and new revelations and enormous clarity for the year ahead”

Karen Woods – Teacher – Education Department of Victoria

 “I was in the hands of true professionals who were aware of and new how to best manage the kinds of challenges that would rise up as we took my team on a journey of deepening connection and strategic development. As a therapist myself, I was interested in the dynamics that played out between different members of my team as we shifted the lay of the land to reap greater benefits from all our efforts.  Nicola was able to help me see those parts that were not visible to me, and even to actively guide me to deal with situations that were not coming easily to me.  Her approach was gentle but confident and I felt heard and validated, as well as being clearly redirected at times when I reverted to old patterns.  I am so grateful for the personal learnings, along with the many team developments that occurred during our time together.  A truly warm and creative experience that got us re-focussed and on-track for an exciting next phase.”

Dr Katrina Skewes McFerran, Professor and Head of Music Therapy, University of Melbourne

The workshop was personally profound (in terms of the insights I gathered) as well as professionally very useful and inspiring.  Nicola combined her obvious technical expertise in the modality with a warm, gentle and compassionate demeanour. Despite having only known her for a few days, I felt very “held” and thus safe enough to be able to go deep into my own process in a short period of time. Her session was definitely, for me, a highlight of my time on retreat”. Thank you, Nicola”

Michaela Pitt – Psychologist NSW

“This program has given me a new level of self-awareness, and ability to handle stressful or challenging situations that trigger me.  The power of such a simple act is astonishing. Within a week of daily meditation practice, my team noticed a difference in me; I was calmer and more capable of broadening my perspective when faced with difficulties.  I recommend learning this practice to anyone who lives and works with other people”. 

Janoel Liddy, Group Work Institute

“Thank you once again for the volume of thought and care that you have put into working with the team. You have unlocked a lot within the team and given me, as the leader, a deep insight into each individual team member and the larger system we work within. We now have a clear plan  THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU” 

Lea Waters – Former Professor Gerry Higgins Chair, University of Melbourne & Leading expert on Positive Education, Positive Organizations and Strength-Based Parenting and Teaching

Nicola uses personal reflection – enhanced by drawing, writing and discussions – to increase our awareness of what we’re present to in our bodies, feelings, and thoughts. She holds a very safe space for whatever comes up for each person. Taking a break for the constant mental chatter and accessing the three centres of intelligence (head , heart and gut)  is the development that is essential to leaders  today. Personally,. I feel greater clarity and  more centred. – this has flowed onto the whole of leadership and life

SJ Chapman – Executive Coach & Director Intuitive Flow

When we first met Nicola, our small business had gone through a growth spurt and our team culture was very much disconnected. Nicola worked closely with us to develop business values that resonated with each of us personally and helped transform the way we want to work together. The visual activities were a hit with our team of creatives and allowed them to be open and engaged. Nicola’s work is honest, genuine and a reflection of her quest to add to the love in the world and to create truly living breathing human places to work”.  

Sarah Gonsalves – Co-Owner The Style Co.

Nicola is a superb facilitator with a natural ability to hold a safe space where you can completely relax and be yourself.  Thank you, Nicola, for introducing this practice into my life, I can feel things shifting and I have no doubt that I will continue to experience the growing benefits.  I have been recommending Nicola’s workshops and this practice to many people in both my professional and personal life.” 

Cass Spong – Director Entheos Consulting

 I feel greater clarity, more loving towards myself and feel better able to make decisions in my life.  Nicola holds a safe, professional, and accepting space that makes all feel welcome no matter what is going on for them.  I have found myself continuing to practice after the course which is an indicator of its practicality and ability to be integrated”.  

Eve Wilson, Facilitator The Potential Project

Nicola provided me and the broader IT Leadership team critical support and guidance on a major IT transformation. Nicola brings a unique blend of practical expertise, together with an obvious level of care for the stakeholders affected by the change while also ensuring a successful business outcome. She has a warm and engaging style and takes a personal level of enrollment in the change mission which I found to be a differentiating characteristic. Nicola was highly effective at guiding and coaching the senior IT leadership team through the dynamics of the change. Nicola’s caring approach together with deep technical knowledge in her field were a key ingredient in a successful transformation.

Chris Stevens – CIO Vanguard Investments