The Conversation That Starts the Work
Most of my work takes place in conversation, not as a method, and not as a process, but as a way of making sense of things that have become difficult to explain alone.
People tend to arrive with a similar feeling. They know they have valuable experience, but they struggle to describe it clearly. Their work no longer fits neatly into roles, titles, or familiar categories. What once felt obvious now feels strangely hard to articulate.
A conversation creates enough distance to see what’s actually there. Patterns begin to emerge. Assumptions surface. Language starts to shift. And often, what changes first is not the situation itself but how it’s understood.
The Working Model of Your Expertise
At the centre of my work is a structure I call the Working Model of Your Expertise. It’s built around three things:
Where your work applies: the specific situations where your judgment is most valuable
What change it creates: not what you do, but what genuinely shifts when you’re involved
How that change actually happens: the underlying logic that makes your work reliable, not just occasional
Most experienced professionals have a strong instinct about all three. What’s usually missing is the language to make them visible to themselves and to others.
The first conversation is a direct review of where you currently stand with each of these. It’s not an interview or a discovery call. It’s a working session that takes your experience seriously from the first minute.
What the conversation includes
It’s sixty to ninety minutes and is conducted online. We work through each element of the Working Model together. We’ll look for what’s already clear, what’s partially formed, and where the gaps are. By the end, you’ll have a clear picture of where your expertise currently sits: what’s working, what’s undefined, and what would make the biggest difference to name properly.
That picture alone is often enough to shift how someone approaches the next stage of their work. And for many, it opens a longer thread toward something more defined and more usable.
To begin
The first conversation is AUD$450 + GST. If you’re ready to take your experience seriously, this is where that starts.