Work with Kylie

The right support, shaped around you

Kylie works with leaders and organisations across Australia and internationally, offering executive leadership coaching; leadership development programs; organisational culture and strategic advisory; board and executive facilitation; and keynote speaking. Every engagement is built around your specific context, challenges, and goals.

Executive Leadership Programs

“I don’t teach leadership theory, I translate lived experience into wisdom, courage, and clarity for others.” Learn more

Tailored leadership development for executive teams, emerging leaders, and organisations. Programs are designed around the real challenges people are facing, not off-the-shelf frameworks, and are built to create lasting capability rather than a one-off event.

Who it is for

Organisations investing in their leadership pipeline, executive teams looking to strengthen collective capability, and emerging leaders preparing for greater responsibility. Suitable across government, corporate, and not-for-profit sectors.

What you will work on

  • Leadership capability and effectiveness

  • Culture, values, and accountability

  • Leading through change and complexity

  • Decision-making and strategic thinking

  • Executive presence and communication

  • Building high-performance teams

  • Executive team effectiveness

How it works

Every program begins with a thorough understanding of your organisation, your people, and what you are trying to achieve. Delivery is flexible, ranging from a single intensive day to a structured multi-session program over several months to a year. Coaching support can be integrated to embed learning and translate insight into measurable outcomes.

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Executive Coaching

Confidential, practical coaching for senior leaders seeking a trusted thinking partner with lived executive leadership experience. This is not a templated program. It is a trusted relationship built around who you are, what you are navigating, and what you need to excel.

This isn’t traditional coaching. This is access to over 30 years of lived leadership experience.

Who it is for

This is executive coaching informed by lived experience, strategic insight, and the integration of head, heart, and intuitive wisdom. Senior executives, CEOs, board directors, and emerging leaders navigating complexity, transition, high-stakes decisions, or the next chapter of their leadership journey benefit greatly from this style of coaching. Available nationally and internationally.

What you will work on

  • Leading with confidence, clarity, and conviction

  • Making high-stakes decisions under pressure

  • Executive presence and leadership presence

  • Navigating complexity, politics, and organisational dynamics

  • Leading through uncertainty, change, and transition

  • Integrating strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and intuitive wisdom

How it works

Coaching engagements are tailored to your goals, context, and stage of leadership. Programs typically run over three, six, or twelve months and may be conducted in person or virtually.

Leadership is rarely predictable. Between sessions, support is available when important conversations, decisions, or moments of uncertainty arise. Because sometimes the most important leadership work happens in the moments you didn’t plan for.

For leaders seeking focused support around a particular challenge, strategy, interview, or decision, individual intensive sessions are also available.

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Leadership Masterclasses

A focused, high-impact session designed for organisations seeking to address a specific leadership challenge with depth, insight, and immediacy. Masterclasses are interactive, highly engaged, and shaped entirely around the needs of the room. Focused conversations. Practical insight. Immediate application.

Who it is for

Leadership teams, executive groups, and organisations seeking leadership masterclasses informed by over thirty years of lived experience, strategic insight, and the integration of head, heart, and intuitive wisdom. Particularly valuable during periods of transition, pressure, growth, or organisational change.

Leadership challenges we solve

  • Leading with courage, presence, and wisdom

  • Decision-making under pressure and uncertainty

  • Executive presence, influence, and authority

  • Culture, accountability, and performance

  • Leading organisational change and transformation

  • Integrating strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and intuitive wisdom

Kylie works with leaders to strengthen discernment, deepen self-awareness, and navigate complexity with courage, presence and wisdom.

How it works

Masterclasses are delivered as a two-hour, half-day, or customised session, either in person or virtually. Kylie works with you beforehand to understand the challenge, context, and desired outcome, ensuring every session is relevant, practical, and immediately applicable.

These are not off-the-shelf presentations. They are focused leadership conversations designed to create insight, challenge thinking, and support action.

No slides for the sake of slides. No theory without application.

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Strategic Advisory and Facilitation

An independent, experienced perspective informed by more than thirty years of expertise. Kylie works alongside boards, executives, and leadership teams to understand what is really happening beneath the surface, to identify what matters most, and to create practical pathways forward during periods of complexity, change, and uncertainty.

Who it is for

Boards, executive teams, and organisations seeking an independent, experienced perspective on leadership, governance, culture, and performance. Particularly valuable during periods of transition, growth, disruption, crisis, or significant organisational change.

Support can include

  • Leadership and organisational reviews

  • Culture, performance, and governance diagnostics

  • Executive team facilitation and strategic planning

  • Organisational change and transformation

  • Leadership effectiveness and decision making

  • Complex stakeholder engagement and strategic influence

  • Independent strategic advice during periods of uncertainty

How it works

Advisory engagements are structured around your specific situation, whether that is a defined project with a clear scope or an ongoing advisory relationship. Kylie brings curiosity, discretion, and a focus on practical outcomes to every engagement.

The goal is not a report. It is progress.

Kylie brings strategic insight, deep human understanding, and the ability to recognise patterns, risks, and opportunities that are often difficult to see from inside the system.

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