Michelle's
Training and Development Programs

I’m passionate about health and community sector professionals thriving at work, built on having access to best practice leadership, supervision and workplace culture. 

As hard as we work to align clinical work with evidence, our health system often overlooks the need to align leadership, supervision, teamwork, workforce wellbeing, and workplace learning culture with evidence. 

I have developed a unique range of engaging, transformative programs that meet the professional development learning needs of leaders, supervisors, employees, and teams. 

These programs are informed by best practice principles, strong values and extensive experience working in the public mental health system, as a clinician, supervisor, leader and manager. They are backed by a significant evidence-base from clinical, neuroscientific, leadership, psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and organisational development research areas. 

Our workforce is enhanced by practical, engaging and evidence-based development programs that both support and assist them to build their capacity, skills, practical wisdom, and self-awareness. 

My strength and reputation in training and facilitation is my ability to connect with people. I create psychologically safe learning spaces that help participants build confidence through deeper knowledge and practice wisdom, scaffolding and frameworks that make the principles easy to integrate. I love simple and easy to implement strategies and share these to make a tangible difference.

The programs are delivered in-house (in-person or online) or are available as public programs where participants enrol from a wide range of workplaces. The current programs include:

Participants are not just blown away by the quality of the programs, they love the extensive resources and embedding programs that supports their long-term commitment to building their capacity.

These programs have been delivered to over 50,000 public and private health and community sector professionals, throughout Australia and New Zealand, and are increasingly including participants from across the globe.

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS’ FEEDBACK …

  • “Thank you for an awesome training, Michelle! I love how much information we all have to ponder on and awesome resources to help us to apply it into practice. Thank you also for modelling creating such a psychologically safe learning environment. You really practice what you teach.

    I was honestly so blown away with how you managed to create such psychological safety in an online PD. I am usually quite anxious about public speaking and engaging with lots of new professionals and doing it on Zoom is often harder for me. The way you set the space and intentions for the training allowed me to feel safe to express myself in break-out rooms and with the larger group which helped me get the most out of the training. I got so much out of the course and am so excited to put it all into practice.”

    -Jen Allum, Clinical Leader - Therapy Matters

  • “Thank you for the fantastic training last week. People have come away feeling inspired and very positive. A great way for us to start our work on our mentoring & professional supervision program.

    Everyone has said that they are able to see how valuable this program is, and how useful it is for there to be a separation between line management and the mentoring and professional supervision program. Goal kicked!”

    -Siobhan Newman, Quality and Integration Manager - Your Community Health

  • “I just wanted to say thank you so very much for providing such a rich, positive and meaningful learning experience for me. It has been the most valuable professional development training I have attended.

    I have a long way to go, but have already started to use some of the frameworks and questions in my supervision sessions this morning and can already feel my confidence growing, knowing that I have so many more resources I can draw upon.“

    -Lauren MacGregor , Speech Pathology Leader - Autism Queensland

  • “Thank you for the 2 day workshop last week. What an action-packed, interactive, thoughtful and helpful course you ran.

    I had heard it was good, but it was better than I imagined. I think the way you taught us was inspired and so very engaging. “

    -Dianne Singleton , Occupational Therapist and Practice Owner

If you would like to discuss your goals and how Michelle can support them