About
Hello, I’m Leah.
I’m a coach, a listener, and someone who has lived through a turning point of my own. This page is the long version of who I am, so you can decide, in your own time, whether I’m the right person to sit alongside you.
My story
Life rarely follows the script we wrote for it. Mine didn’t. There was a first act: a 15-year career in leadership and culture, working with organisations including Citi, Kmart, MYOB, Common Purpose, and The Reach Foundation. There were the plans, and the version of myself I thought was permanent.
Then the ground shifted. For me, that turning point was navigating a Grade 2 brain tumour diagnosis while also becoming a mother. In the messy middle of that disorientation, I realised the “old ways” of making sense of the world didn’t fit anymore.
What I learned in the slow, unglamorous work of rebuilding is that recovery and reinvention don’t happen in grand gestures. They happen in small, honest steps, taken with people who don’t need you to pretend. That is the whole foundation of how I work: no gloss, no jargon, no toxic positivity.
Skills & experience
Coaching & mentoring
One-to-one work with people navigating work, change, recovery, and life transitions, always at the pace of the person in the chair.
Leadership & facilitation
I bring two decades of experience designing leadership programs and facilitating workshops. Whether it’s developing teams’ capability or holding the room for hard conversations, you get the grounded support needed to enable your people to step centre stage.
Lived experience
I’ve navigated my own turning point. I don’t direct from the audience; I coach from the wings, knowing exactly what it takes to step back into the light.
Mother & stepmother
No classroom has stretched my capacity to navigate the messy middle quite like motherhood and stepmotherhood. It provides an ongoing, lived understanding of what it means to face disorientation, resilience, and love.
Accreditations
The letters matter less than the listening, but for the record:
- Diploma of Developmental Coaching, Vertical Development Institute
- Bachelor of Commerce, Human Resources Management and Sociology
- Certified Yoga and Meditation teacher
- Mental Health First Aid
This section will grow as the site does. If you’d like to know more about my background before we chat, just ask. I’m happy to share.
See how we can work together