Coaching
Mind Your Way offers a range of coaching and behavioural profiling services for individuals and groups. We support people and organisations who seek to develop their leadership and performance, enhance career progression and satisfaction, and deliver impactful diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in academia.
Our commitment to evidence-based practice means that our coaching services build on existing theory and research, both from the growing coach-specific literature and from related knowledge domains such as the behavioural sciences, adult education, psychology, and philosophy.
By combining coaching with behavioural profiling, we accelerate clients’ insights into their own and others’ strengths and development areas, communication skills, personal motivators and derailers, and how to build thriving and productive teams.
Coaching is time for you: time to think about what matters, what you want to change, and how to go about it. We rarely take time out to think strategically, or to introspect on crucial areas of our lives and careers. Coaching offers space for such strategic introspection.
Our Coaches
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Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt
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Nicola Markus
What our clients say
How does coaching work?
Coaching offers a personalised learning experience that builds opportunities for long-term change.
As a methodical conversation-based process, coaching is designed to enhance the skills, performance, and development of individuals and groups by encouraging them to explore challenges, set goals, develop and implement action plans, and measure and appraise their own progress in order to better achieve desired outcomes. The coach serves as a facilitator and guide who leads clients through this process in an egalitarian and collaborative fashion.
Coaching for equity, diversity, and inclusion
Achieving equity, diversity, and inclusion in academic leadership remains a sizeable challenge.
The example of gender illustrates this point: Today, only 1 in 6 Australian professors are women, and less than 1 in 10 in some STEM disciplines. System-wide policies and programs are vital means to achieve positive change.
Coaching can support individuals – including but not only women – to navigate intersecting forms of bias in the academic workplace, and to assess how they impact their lives and careers.
It can also lay the groundwork for cultural change from the top by exploring senior leaders’ own biases and beliefs, and encouraging them to adopt and implement inclusive policies and practices.