Leadership Consulting
Helping good managers become great leaders.
Supporting organisations to perform within a culture where people matter.
When leaders start with strong foundations, their leadership starts to create long lasting impact immediately.
With the right tools, leaders can make a big impact from the early stages of their career.
The Leadership Foundations workshop has been developed as a practical learning opportunity for people in leadership or managerial roles.
Participants learn critical leadership skills that form the essential foundations of being an impactful leader. The workshop is a one-day program designed to provide these tools for early career leaders:
build essential leadership skills that prevent costly management mistakes
tools for effective team leadership, goal setting and decision making
confidence to handle challenges and inspire team members
opportunities to network with peers and mentors, building a strong foundation for career growth
Leadership Foundations 2025 will be facilitated at The Exchange Orana in Dubbo.
Thursday, 20th March 2025 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM AEDT
Ticket sales close Thursday 13th March at 5pm or once all places are filled.
Workshop Content
This workshop is specifically designed for people who are new to leadership or managerial roles. This workshop has been delivered annually over the past 3 year to participants from a diverse range of organisations and levels of experience. Sectors like government (human services), early childhood education, retail, real estate, animal health, insurance, financial services and agribusiness.
The workshop is limited to 20 participants to provide everyone an opportunity to actively engage in discussions and address current gaps in their knowledge and skills. Participants consistently provide feedback about how much they value learning in a smaller than usual group.
Pre and post workshop evaluations show the greatest impact for participants has been learning how to:
effectively manage poor performance
communicate more effectively
provide developmental feedback to others, and
Workshop topics we will cover include:
Identifying Your Professional Values
Defining Your Optimal Leadership Style
Examining Your Work Habits
Exploring Your Communication Style
Mastering Developmental Feedback
Encouraging Effective Team Collaboration
Who I work with
Are you an emerging leader new to a leadership or managerial role?
Want to learn how to develop your leadership skills and style in a way that feel authentic to your personality?
Let me help you build on your existing strengths and lean into developing areas of your leadership practice that need to be enhanced.
Are you a seasoned leader looking to refine your leadership skills?
Have you reached a stage where your leadership needs a refresh?
We can work together to revitalise your leadership practices to help grow the success in your team.
Do you have a team of leaders you want to get on the same page?
Whilst it is common to form leadership teams, not all leadership teams work cohesively as a group.
If your organisation is looking for a significant return on investment, leadership team coaching is a hothouse of possibilities. I draw on 25 years of experience in group work that enables me to support leadership teams to move from storming (conflict) to performing (cohesion).
If your workplace culture needs a reboot, enhancing the collective capabilities across your leadership team is the most effective way achieve maximum impact. When you work as a group to develop everyone’s skills and abilities, as well as addressing any unique challenges that prevent the group from functions means teams can both learn and grow together.
Managers and leaders - what’s the difference?
Leadership is focused on people and relationships. Leaders coach for growth, create psychological safety, navigate conflict and create a trusting workplace.
Management is focused on resources and tasks like recruitment, change management, compliance and planning.
Great leaders rely on both leadership and management skills to effectively lead a team.
It is important to understand there are different functions in leadership and management. Being clear about these differences will help you create effective leadership and management practices so you can pull the right levers at the right time to get the optimum results.
I work with managers, leaders, and leadership teams to help them become great leaders. I support organisations to cultivate a workplace culture where people succeed.
Belinda Mawhinney Consultancy
Created to deliver a customised professional development service for leaders and organisations.
I work in partnership with leaders, leadership teams and whole organisations committed to upskilling their people to lead a successful workplace culture.
Designed with you, delivered for you.
My Approach to Consultancy
I teach strategies to emerging leaders and seasoned leaders that actually work. Here’s how.
Capacity Building Services
Capacity building services includes 1:1 leadership coaching, leadership team group coaching and customised leadership training.
There are no one-size fits all approaches to your unique challenges.
We work together to formulate the best plan to achieve your goals. I want you to achieve your version of success by starting where you are now.
Impact
We start by identifying your goals and outcomes.
We will co-design the best solution to elevate your leadership capabilities. Your leadership language and skills will grow as you learn practical and meaningful skills to build your capacity to lead.
Clients benefit from my advanced professional services experience of being a manager, strategic leader, Social Worker, and researcher. Each of these experiences has developed my skills and knowledge, all of which is invested in supporting you to achieve your goals.
Together we work on developing leadership skills and strategies to lead teams with purpose and impact.
My consultancy services go beyond individual professional growth. I enable leaders to grow their capacity to lead by focusing on fostering interpersonal relationships primarily at work, but the impact on relationships can be seen beyond the constraints of a workplace.
Effective leaders play a critical role in creating and fostering a positive workplace culture. When leaders are skilled and understand how to create strong relationships they are better able to navigate leadership challenges and work successfully in complex environments.
I work with clients to support them to integrate new skills into regular leadership practices. The impact of consistent leadership practices have a ripple effect that extends well beyond a leader’s immediate team. These practices can also have a significant influence on strengthening relationships in all domains of life.
“Learning to be a better leader through this workshop has also allowed me to be a better Dad.”
My unique combination of training as a qualified Social Worker, balanced with decades of experience leading and managing enables me to support clients to develop both professionally and personally. This approach enables clients to experience improvements in relationships with colleagues, clients and the wider community.
Delivery Options
We work together to understand exactly what you need and how to optimise the impact of my services.
Identifying your specific goals will allow us to work out whether you need a quicker, express support package (3 x 60 minute sessions) or a long term support (like a 12-month program).
For individual capacity building, online options are available.
Where goals relate to teams, group based services are best delivered in person.
I work with clients across Australia.
Meet Me
Dr Belinda Mawhinney
I am adaptable, intuitive, direct, caring, and supportive professional.
I draw on my experiences of being a Social Worker, manager, strategic leader, and researcher (that’s the Dr bit) and roll this up into my consultancy practice. This means I have an extensive range of skills and knowledge built over 25 years’ experience working in professional services and running multiple businesses.
I offer more than coaching.
I provide a holistic range of services designed to have maximum, long-term impact. Services include training, facilitation, coaching, and project management.
“Belinda is really intuitive she can quickly understand the complex needs of an organisation and is able to implement strategies and work with key members of the business to create personal growth.”
— Rachel Kerin, Founder & Director, Kerin Health Co
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