"It’s hard to put into words how powerful this journey has been. I went from feeling invisible to understanding what’s truly important to me, and it’s no longer tied to what other people notice. I’m more present at home, more at ease in my skin, and more certain of my value. If you’re feeling stuck or lost, don’t wait. This work truly changed my life."
— Louise, EL2 APS
I see you...
You’ve already achieved so much.
You’ve led teams, shaped policy, navigated complex systems, delivered outcomes, and carried responsibilities most people will never fully understand.
But now…something deeper is calling.
Not to more of the same, but to a new way of leading.
One grounded in authenticity, executive presence, feminine power, and an inner clarity that no traditional leadership program can teach.
Leadership Reimagined™ is not another course.
It is a profound evolution.
Instead of waking up tired, with a quiet sense of dread about the day ahead, you begin your mornings feeling grounded, clear, and confident in who you are as a leader AND a woman.
Rather than walking into executive meetings feeling unseen, talked over, or subtly needing to prove yourself, your presence alone shifts the room. People pause. They listen. They actively seek your perspective.
You no longer feel the pressure to hold everything together, stay in control, or be across every single detail. Instead, you lead from deep inner trust, knowing when to speak, when to pause, and when to say nothing at all.
The changes you’re experiencing in your body, energy, and moods are no longer something to manage, suppress, or hide. They become a source of wisdom, discernment, and quiet authority.
The questions you’ve been carrying...
Is it time to step back? Retire? Try something different?...
begin to reveal themselves for what they really are.
Not a signal to withdraw, but an invitation to step forward in your APS career. More powerfully. More truthfully. More fully yourself than ever before.
You’d want to know more, right?
"I didn’t realise how disconnected I’d become. Working with Emma helped me remember who I am and what I bring to the world. I’ve stepped back into my power. Softer, wiser, and more grounded than ever."
— Linda, Retired Public Sector Leader
this stage of leadership (and life) isn’t just cognitive.
It’s physiological, emotional, and identity-based.
As women, as we move through midlife, our bodies and inner worlds change.
Hormones shift.
Energy fluctuates.
Sensitivity deepens.
Priorities evolve.
There is often a quiet but undeniable sense that something within you is changing.
Yet most leadership frameworks expect you to keep showing up exactly as you always have.
To lead the same way.
Perform the same way.
Suppress what’s changing rather than integrate it.
This creates a profound disconnect.
You are transitioning into a new life season, while still trying to lead from an identity that no longer fully fits.
And this is where many accomplished women begin to question themselves. Not because they’re less capable, but because they’ve outgrown the model they were taught to succeed within.
This is why traditional leadership programs won’t work for you at this phase of your career.
They don’t address YOU. Your changes, your shifts, your EVOLUTION.
They DON’T teach you how to lead with your body, your intuition, or your accumulated wisdom.
They DON’T show you how to trust what you’re sensing.
They DON’T help you integrate who you are becoming into how you lead.
Leadership Reimagined™ helps you translate internal change into external authority, so what once felt destabilising becomes your greatest source of strength.
So, instead of feeling like it’s time to step back, you discover how to step forward differently. With clarity, confidence, and a deeper, more grounded presence.
By being supported through the void as you move through a natural evolutionary process and identity shift, you reconnect with your self-trust, inner clarity, and a way of leading that is sustainable, embodied, and deeply impactful.
After all, that’s why you joined the APS, right? To have an impact. To make a difference.
"I was worried I wouldn’t be able to maintain the momentum.... but I didn’t need to. It’s just who I am now. These changes stuck because they weren’t surface-level. They were deep and true and aligned with my values."
— Alice, Partner, Consulting Firm
I spent more than 14 years building a successful career in the Australian Public Service (APS), rising from APS6 to SES Band 1, leading large teams, managing multi-million-dollar budgets, and delivering complex reform in high-pressure environments.
From the outside, it looked like success.
On the inside, something was changing, and none of the places I was taught to look for answers could meet me there. Traditional leadership programs, executive coaching, and performance frameworks helped me do leadership well, but they couldn’t help me navigate the deeper evolution I was experiencing as a woman in midlife. The shifts in my body, energy, identity, and sense of purpose were real, and they were asking for something different.
What I eventually realised is this: I wasn’t falling apart, I was standing at a crossroad.
Leadership Reimagined™ was born from that threshold and from years of working with senior women who were having the same experience but had no language for it.
Today, as a Leadership Success Coach and Master HeartHealing™ Practitioner, I work with accomplished women, particularly across the public sector, who are ready to move beyond striving and into a form of leadership that is embodied, grounded, and deeply aligned.
This work is powerful on its own. But it is transformational in the community. There is something that happens when women do this work together. When we realise we are not alone, not “behind,” or not losing our edge, but stepping into a new, wiser expression of power.
Leadership Reimagined™ is built on the globally recognised Success Saboteur Archetypes® framework and infused with my own body of work in Feminine Leadership and the Seasonal Leadership Framework™. This program takes you beyond mindset into the deep, identity-level transformation required for your next chapter of leadership and life.
In this live group program, I guide you through five integrated layers of change that traditional leadership development simply doesn’t address because they sit beneath skills, strategies, and performance.
THIS is the work that reshapes how you lead, not just what you do.
As a senior leader, you’re trained to keep going.
To manage complexity.
To absorb pressure.
To adapt to machinery that rarely slows down, let alone asks how you are holding it.
So when midlife arrives, it doesn’t announce itself neatly.
It interrupts.
Not because you’re no longer capable.
But because the system you’ve been succeeding in was never designed to evolve with you.
At this stage of your career, the familiar leadership strategies of pushing harder, staying composed, and relying on intellect alone start to feel misaligned.
The work may still matter, but the way you’ve been doing it no longer fits who you are becoming.
This isn’t your body letting you down.
It’s your leadership asking to evolve.
Midlife is the point where many senior APS women are quietly reconciling decades of responsibility, unspoken compromises, and the personal cost of holding roles that shape policy, services, and outcomes for others.
It’s the moment where questions surface that traditional leadership development doesn’t know how to hold:
Is this still where I’m meant to lead?
Do I step back or do I step forward differently?
How do I retain influence without burning myself out?
The changes you’re experiencing in your body, energy, and emotional landscape are not something to manage, suppress, or professionalise away. They are signals of discernment. The kind that deepens judgment, sharpens authority, and brings a more magnetic yet grounded form of executive presence.
What looks like uncertainty is actually a transition.
NOT a signal to withdraw from leadership but an invitation to lead with greater self-trust, wisdom, and internal authority than ever before.
This is not the end of your contribution to public purpose.
It is the threshold into the most conscious, impactful, and powerful phase of your leadership career.
It’s your arrival at the crossroad.
After all, as a senior leader in the APS, you didn’t get to this level by accident.
You succeeded because you learned how to navigate complexity, responsibility, scrutiny, and high-stakes decision-making. Often, in systems that were never designed with women’s bodies, cycles, or leadership rhythms in mind.
These patterns are not flaws or weaknesses.
They are highly intelligent survival strategies developed over years of navigating responsibility, scrutiny, power dynamics, and unspoken expectations about how women must lead in hierarchical systems.
In fact, they are often the very patterns that helped you succeed.
You know, the...
Over-functioning to prove you deserve the level you hold
Being politically savvy to stay on the safe side of the Executive
Proving your competence (over and over and over again) to maintain your authority as the expert in the agency
Maintaining control as a way to avoid risk or failure
Pushing through fatigue to meet unrealistic deadlines and expectations
But as you enter this next season of leadership, the same patterns that once protected you begin to limit your influence, energy, and clarity.
Midlife doesn’t create these saboteurs. It reveals them.
Because when your identity is evolving, any unconscious pattern that no longer fits rises to the surface.
Not to sabotage you, but to be resolved.
This is why traditional leadership development falls short at this stage of your career.
It teaches you how to manage systems, but not how to evolve the inner leadership identity required to lead with authority, presence, and feminine power in this next chapter.
Leadership Reimagined works at this deeper level by identifying, understanding, and healing the Success Saboteur Archetypes™ that are quietly shaping how you lead, decide, and show up now.
The Five Success Saboteur Archetypes™
Leadership Reimagined™ addresses the inner shift that naturally occurs when experienced women reach a leadership crossroads. It helps you identify and understand the subconscious success patterns that are shaping how you lead, decide, and show up now so you can lead in a way that feels energising, aligned, and genuinely impactful.
Here’s how it works
Leadership Reimagined™ is designed to support deep transformation without overwhelming your life or competing with your role.
The program unfolds over a series of focused modules, each giving you the time, space, and structure to integrate real change, not just learn new ideas.
"I was worried I wouldn’t be able to maintain the momentum.... but I didn’t need to. It’s just who I am now. These changes stuck because they weren’t surface-level. They were deep and true and aligned with my values."
— Alice, Partner, Consulting Firm
A CONSIDERED SPACIOUS RHYTHM
Each module runs over six weeks:
- Five weekly lessons, released one at a time, so you can move at a steady, intentional pace
- Followed by an integration week, allowing insights to settle before moving forward
This rhythm honours the way meaningful change actually happens... through reflection, embodiment, and application, not rush or intensity.
LIFE SUPPORT WITHOUT PRESSURE
Within each module, you’ll be invited to two live Q&A calls (via Zoom).
These calls are a space to:
- ask questions
- deepen understanding
- receive guidance in real time
Attendance is always optional. All calls are recorded, so you can engage in the way that best suits you.
A PRIVATE SPACE ON YOUR TERMS
You’ll have access to a private collaboration space for the program community.
This space is intentionally designed to be:
- supportive, not performative
- optional, not required
You are free to engage:
- actively, through reflection and conversation
- quietly, by reading and processing in your own time
- or privately, without posting at all
There is no expectation to share more than you wish. Many women choose to do this work deeply and privately, and that is fully honoured here.
ONLINE, ACCESSIBLE, AND DESIGNED FOR REAL LIFE
- All content is hosted inside a secure online learning platform
- Lessons are available to revisit as often as you like
- Live calls are held via Zoom and recorded for later viewing
You can engage from anywhere, at times that work alongside your responsibilities.
THIS IS NOT A PROGRAM YOU NEED TO "KEEP UP WITH"
Leadership Reimagined™ is not about pace, performance, or pressure.
It’s about creating the conditions for:
- clarity
- self-trust
- embodied leadership
You move through the program with intention, not urgency.
WHAT WE INTENTIONALLY DON'T DO
- No forced sharing
- No public processing
- No performative participation
- No rigid timelines
This is a space where senior women can do deep work with dignity, discretion, and choice.
