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ACCELERATE THE POSSIBLE

Amplifying potential equates to finding brave new ways to shift old ways of being and doing. It means rewiring your mind to think like a renegade to forge new paths and make it into that 1% bracket.

Coaching with Vanessa and her skilled team will prepare leaders for the mental heavy-lifting to evolve, build their empathy and impact and become adaptive problem-solvers. We help our clients tap into and channel that 60% brain power that is waiting to be unlocked. The secret to taking leadership skills to the next level.

Draw from our vast expertise in coaching, psychology, neuroscience, and personal transformation to help you to break-through limits of your thinking to get out of your won way, accelerate your own growth and be prepared to tackle whatever life throws at you.

Packages available or book a “Quick-fire” session.

At times, having a trusted individual validate our ideas becomes crucial for making swift decisions, especially when time is not on our side.

My "Quick Fire Sessions" are designed to provide busy leaders with the opportunity to utilise me as a sounding board, ensuring a comprehensive exploration of their ideas.

Schedule a call today.

QUICK-FIRE SESSIONS

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  • Vanessa Vershaw is a true inspiration; her energy infuses all those around her. She’s like adding truffle to your olive oil, taking your leadership to an entirely new level. Vanessa took me on a journey to level up my thinking and showed me that a world can exist beyond the one society chooses for you. I am forever transformed because of having her in my corner.

    Dino Otranto, CEO, Fortescue Metals Group

  • “The easy route is to operate our lives, headlights off, in a mild fog. We don’t mind making a wrong turn because we haven’t quite worked out our destination. We just figure we’re there or thereabouts.  Vanessa dares you to live life differently. And there’s a real paradox to the interactions you have with her. The more uncomfortable and pressing the conversation, the more lucid your ambition becomes, the more comfort you can derive from having a plan. Her work celebrates the unique skills of every individual, but ultimately manifests itself in a more positive mindset, more deeply engrained organisational values, greater cohesion and, ultimately, higher performance.”

    Chris Rodwell, CEO - CCIWA

  • Vanessa was the catalyst to send me on my journey of self-confidence and growth and I haven’t looked back. She helped me see myself for who I am – the strengths I never knew I had, and the weaknesses I didn’t know how to tackle.

    Mriganka Jaipuriyar, Head of News, Asia, S&P Global Platts

mentoring

FOR BUSINESS & LEADERS

It’s lonely at the top. 

Just about every monarch in history had a trusted advisor to guide them in their leadership journey.

WHO IS YOURS?

We understand that not all leaders have time or bandwidth to engage in deep, lengthy coaching programs and development experiences – they are busy juggling the multitude of pressing demands that must get solved in real time, yesterday. What they do need from us is a quick hit of wisdom to check in on their thinking, before firing on all cylinders feeling confident and reassured.

That’s where we come in.

Geared to accommodate insanely busy schedules, we stand alongside you to provide high-speed business mentoring during those critical moments.

This works on a monthly arrangement giving leaders the flexibility to call on us on speed dial for valuable, short and sharp, laser-focused sessions to solve their most pressing issues often, on the spot.

We are and have been trusted advisors to Fortune 100 and ASX-20 leaders for over 20 years; the critical sounding board for people who want things done quickly and well.

It’s always the right time to level up your life, and your leadership.

 

books

UNREASONABLE AMBITION

Created as a handbook for current and emerging leaders readers will walk away with a new perspective and toolkit to face the revolutionary era we are living in. Written for modern-day corporate leaders this book will:

  1. Reveal the secrets to building an unreasonably ambitious mindset.

  2. Teach you how to awaken your full potential ('the sleeping giant within') and ignite your inner hero.

  3. Show you how to take the steering wheel back and become the entrepreneur of your own life.

  4. Provide a proven methodology to adapt and thrive no matter the conditions.

  5. Equip you with practical tools, strategies and mind hacks to tap into the power, resilience and courage you have within you to create the life you want. Because success is a choice.

bITCH FIGHT

To think that women have won the battle toward creating an equal working world remains an aspiration that we must continue to work towards. Working as coaches for many years, we have been witness to just about every barrier blocking career success and workplace crimes.  And yet witnessing first hand successful professional women behave badly towards other women at work remains some of the most corrosive behaviour we have ever seen. Women blocking their female colleagues rise up the ranks is a key contributor to the ongoing challenge for women to achieve equality.

Despite the fact that the incidence of women sabotaging other women at work remains pervasive, it remains a phenomenon cloaked in silence. This is because the situation is known all too well most of us don’t know what to do about it and, don’t want to talk about it. In fear of being labelled “politically incorrect”, or as discriminatory the subject remains a taboo issue that isn’t given the air-time it demands.

No matter which way you slice it, most people regardless of sex, when confronted with women behaving badly, are ill equipped to deal with them and end up either leaving the organisation or, becoming a victim. If it’s true that managers spend about 42% of their time managing workplace conflict then trying to avoid dealing with the bitches at work will leave you worse off and is not a good career strategy. Learning to better manage bullying behaviours at work is the only solution. 

In this challenging and highly powerful book, two well known coaching psychologists Jean-Francois Ducharme and Vanessa Vershaw join forces to expose the reality of the queen bee syndrome and the stark truth behind unconscious discrimination. They share very real and moving personal stories and hard data from detailed research to lend credence to the issues at play.   Most importantly, real remedies are suggested in hopes of combating these controversial realities in today’s world of work. This is a must read for every leader looking to build inclusive organisations for everyone to thrive.

MICRO-LEARNING

BITE SIZED LEARNING THAT PACKS A PUNCH

With endless options for leadership learning these days, plus millions of tips and tricks on being a better leader it can get overwhelming. But becoming a more effective leaders isn’t just a simple click away or following a checklist.

Vanessa has developed a series of webinars and workshops based on the psychology of work, leadership and transformation - where participants learn to generate new mental models for themselves.

When our thinking changes, we can start getting different outcomes.

in the media

A former budding Journalist with the ABC, her media features include Channel 7, 10 as well as regular appearance on Channel 9 as a Workplace Psychologist. Vanessa is also a regular on national radio covering topics around future of work, diversity, inclusion, leadership, organisational psychology, transformation, and world issues. She has been published and featured inThe Australian, Financial Review; Diplomat Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen,Ottawa Business Journal, WA Business News and Emergent Magazine to name but a few.