Workshops & Speaking
Grounded conversations for organisations navigating pressure, responsibility, and pace
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I’m often invited into organisations where people are capable, committed, and carrying a lot and where the pace of work has made it harder to pause, reflect, and choose deliberately.
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This work isn’t about motivation or performance.
It’s about restoring steadiness in how people think, decide, and lead under pressure.
How this work supports organisations
Through workshops, facilitated conversations, and speaking engagements, I help teams and leaders:
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slow reactive momentum without losing effectiveness
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make clearer decisions in complex or high-pressure environments
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strengthen decision-making under pressure so responsibility doesn’t turn into self-override
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communicate with more presence, clarity, and steadiness
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The tone is practical, grounded, and human, without forced vulnerability or performative exercises.
Workshops
Interactive, reflective sessions designed to create space for pause, clarity, and recalibration, tailored to the context and challenges your organisation is facing.
Leadership Conversations
Smaller, focused sessions for senior leaders navigating responsibility, complexity, and sustained pressure.
Speaking Engagements
Keynotes and talks that invite reflection and reorientation offering language and perspective that continue to resonate well beyond the session.
Formats
Common themes explored
Rather than fixed programs, sessions are shaped around themes such as:
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Decision-making under pressure
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Responsibility without self-override
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Sustainable leadership in fast-moving environments
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Staying connected to judgment and discernment when pace increases
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Creating steadiness without slowing progress
What organisations often notice
“The session helped our team slow down just enough to think more clearly. Conversations shifted, and decisions felt less reactive.”
- Workshop Participant, Local Council
“There was no pressure to perform or ‘open up.’ The space itself changed how we spoke and listened.”
- Leadership Development Attendee
“Monica’s presence brought calm and clarity into a complex moment for our organisation.”
- Community Services Manager
Feedback from organisations and audiences is available here.