Organisational Wellness and Leadership
Some of the most important work in the world is being done by people who are quietly running on empty
Humanitarian workers, development professionals, NGO staff, program teams — people who chose this work because they care deeply, and who have learned to keep going long past the point where they should have stopped.
The organisations that support these people well don't just retain better staff. They do better work. The connection between how people feel inside and the quality of what they deliver is not soft — it is structural.
This is the work I do with organisations.
What I Offer
Staff Care and Wellbeing Frameworks
I design comprehensive, context-appropriate staff care and wellbeing frameworks for humanitarian and development organisations — co-created with staff, grounded in trauma-informed practice, and built to last beyond the consultancy that produced them.
This is not off-the-shelf wellness programming. It is rigorous, participatory, and honest about the structural conditions that make this work so demanding.
Leading for Equity, Safety and Inclusion (LESI) Training
LESI is my flagship leadership training program, available for organisations to commission as an in-house team training.
It is a trauma-informed, practical program that helps teams build cultures where psychological safety, equity, and inclusion are not aspirational values but daily practice. It is grounded in nervous system regulation and a seven-question coaching framework that participants can use with each other as a peer support tool long after the training ends.
Self Care and Wellbeing Frameworks
This is not off-the-shelf wellness programming. It is rigorous, participatory, and honest about the structural conditions that make this work so demanding.
My approach is:
Strengths-based — beginning with what your organisation is already doing well, not leading with a deficit lens
Co-designed with staff — using consultation methods that go beyond surveys and focus groups to access what staff genuinely need, including somatic and inner reflection practices that help people drop below the cognitive level
Trauma-informed — grounded in nervous system regulation, the Window of Resilience, and psychoeducation that translates across cultural contexts
Collective-culture aware — explicitly designed for staff from non-Western backgrounds, resisting the wellness industry's individualist assumptions
Sustainable by design — built with internal champions, working groups, and implementation guides so the framework doesn't live on a shelf
What this looks like in practice:
A typical engagement runs 12–14 weeks and includes a strengths-based organisational review, structured staff consultation across geographies and levels, framework design with an internal working group, manager capability building, and a full handover and implementation guide.
I have designed and delivered this work for DFAT's Humanitarian Division, DT Global, and The Difference Incubator, among others. My field experience is direct and current — I have taught safeguarding staff how to stay regulated while receiving disclosures of sexual violence, run financial stress and wellbeing sessions for local staff in Papua New Guinea, and built secondary trauma prevention into the architecture of a $175M program from the ground up.
Leading for Equity, Safety and Inclusion (LESI) Training
LESI is my flagship leadership training program, available for organisations to commission as an in-house team training.
It is a trauma-informed, practical program that helps teams build cultures where psychological safety, equity, and inclusion are not aspirational values but daily practice. It is grounded in nervous system regulation and a seven-question coaching framework that participants can use with each other as a peer support tool long after the training ends.
LESI has been delivered inside DFAT-funded programs, NGOs, and development contractors across the Asia-Pacific. It is adaptable for remote and in-person delivery, and for teams working in high-stress, resource-constrained, and culturally diverse environments.
This is for your organisation if:
Your team works in gender equality, safeguarding, or social inclusion and you want them equipped to lead this work from a regulated, grounded place
You want to build a culture of psychological safety and peer support, not just tick a compliance box
Your staff are carrying a heavy load and you want them to have a shared language and toolkit for supporting each other
I work with humanitarian organisations, DFAT-funded programs, NGOs, development contractors, and mission-driven institutions who are serious about the wellbeing of their people — not as a HR checkbox, but as a foundation for sustainable impact.
Past clients and partners include DFAT, DT Global, The Difference Incubator, and programs across Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.
Who I Work With
Let's talk about what your organisation needs
Every engagement begins with a conversation. I offer a free 30-minute call to understand your context, your team, and what would actually be useful — before either of us commits to anything.
