đMaybe this sounds familiar? đ
You're new to leadership
You want to create a high performing happy team
But not lose your soul doing it
And you're not sure where to start, so you're trying or doing 'everything'
You find yourself mentally and emotionally exhausted
Leading your team is draining you rather than energising them...
This is when you need CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP, at scale!
đż Conscious Leadership Starts Within đż
Leadership today isnât about having all the answers.
Leadership is about how you show up - in uncertainty, in pressure, in conversation, and in connection.
Itâs time to reframe our approach to leadership, to focus on the immense power of human consciousness, connection and collaboration.
Because there is no separation between whatâs going on inside of you and whatâs happening around you.
By first cultivating our own character, emotional operating system, values, and purpose weâre able to lead from the depths of our own authenticity, empathy, and self-awareness. This creates a ripple effect that transforms the way we learn, lead and love but also the world around us.
When you lead yourself well, everything else shifts
đż Choose Your Path đż
Whether youâre growing yourself or your team, thereâs a place to start
đ¤ For Your Team
Conscious Leadership for Teams
A powerful introduction to inside-out leadership that shifts how your team thinks, communicates, and shows up - together.
This is where teams begin to:
move out of stress and reactivity
communicate with more honesty and care
take ownership and responsibility
reconnect with purpose and each other
You'll be able to unlock the human potential of your team by using appreciative inquiry, having life-giving conversations and inviting all the voices into the room: leveraging collective wisdom. YOU don't need to know all the answers!
This empowers you to lead, love and live in a world of adversity, uncertainty and complexity. And people!
Itâs practical and experiential. And it's often the reset teams didnât realise they needed.
Start with a 2-hour transformational workshop
A simple, high-impact way to create immediate shift.
From here, teams can move into deeper transformation work.
This is where we build on self leadership and explore leadership alignment and leadership rhythm. So the aspirations you're all working so hard to achieve can become a reality.
đ§ For You
1:1 Leadership Coaching
Leadership can feel heavy. You (think you) are expected to have all the answers.
To hold the team together.
To keep performing, no matter whatâs going on.
And sometimes⌠itâs a lot.
This is a space for you where you can slow down, pause, think clearly, and understand whatâs really driving how you show up - your patterns, reactions, beliefs, and behaviours. Because the biggest thing getting in your way is rarely âout there.â
Make a choice for 1:1 coaching, to
gain clarity and self-awareness
respond rather than react
lead with more calm, confidence, and intention
make better decisions - for you and your team
This is deep, practical, real-world work.
Not theory. Not surface-level fixes.
[A Harvard Business Review of 140 leading executive coaches showed that while only 3% of coaches were hired to attend to the personal lives of executives, over 75% of the coaches found themselves assisting executives with personal issues - the 'whole' of themselves. The "opponent within is more formidable than the one outside".]
⨠Why This Work Matters â¨
Most leadership challenges arenât just operational, theyâre human.
Stress.
Uncertainty.
Conflict.
Pressure.
You canât eliminate these - but you can change how you meet them. I often say you can't control what's going on Out There, but you can choose how you show up to it (it probably gets super annoying for my daughters, to be honest!!).
And that's why personal transformation - leading from the inside out - becomes the foundation for positive organisational change.
Because when leaders become more conscious:
teams become more connected
communication improves
energy shifts
performance follows
Not because people are pushed harder... but because theyâre connecting, responding, thinking and working differently.
How cool is THAT!!??
đ¤ Not Sure Where to Start? đ¤
Thatâs completely normal.
Every leader, every team and every org is different.
Letâs have a conversation about where youâre at, whatâs going on, and what might help.
đą A Different Way to Lead đą
WHETHER YOU'RE LEADING a business, a team, or just holding it together at the dining table, it may feel like 'everything' is changing at a rate faster than you can adapt.
The truth is life IS messy and full of uncertainty and weâre navigating unchartered waters â at work, at home, in our heads.
We can't change what's going on around us.
So you donât need to have it all figured out. You donât need to do more.
But you do need to become more aware of whatâs driving you - and how that impacts others. We can become more conscious of what is going on inside of us, the influence we have, and we can choose how we show up.
Thatâs where conscious leadership begins. Leadership is not 'becoming' a leader (and it's definitely not title, rank or role!) - it's about awakening to the leader you already are, to the influence you already have.
Leadership Isnât About Having All The Answers
Itâs About Fostering An Inner And Outer Environment
Where Challenges Are Met With Equanimity And Creativity
For
your
team
I help your team communicate, connect and create. They'll break free from cycles of stress + reactivity that are costing them 'everywhere' and they'll enhance resourcefulness + leadership presence - influence - in moments of stress, exactly when needed!
I help your team solve problems at three levels:
personal level - stemming from thoughts + behaviours that are unconscious and reactive
relational level - the inevitable conflict that arises from navigating continuous change
organisational level - the lack of trust and safety and energy-depleting workplaces
By normalising what's going on for them, providing opportunity to share what's really going on and how to deal with it with greater presence, calm + resilience, the entire energy of the team can shift.
"Rhonda brings her calm and grounding energy and expertise to every session. Her ability to effortlessly connect and engage with people creates an atmosphere of warmth and openness, fostering an environment where shared dialogue and reflection is valued, propelling the kaupapa of the session. Her use of interactive activities, mindfulness practices and reflective exercises keeps sessions dynamic and engaging, holding our team's attention from start to finish. She seamlessly weaves the stories and perspectives of our shared koorero together, supporting us to make meaning and connect the content to our professional and personal lives. The content itself is absolutely fantastic, made accessible because Rhonda has a remarkable knack for distilling complex concepts into easily digestible insights.
â Lia Hockly-Carrick â Manager, Old MacDonald's Morrinsville
"We have learnt personal skills on how to cope with everyday stressors, relearnt why we think in certain ways and how to adjust some of those situations. We learnt a lot about each other and how to effectively deal with each otherâs differences. Rhonda is a fantastic facilitator and is compassionate and caring whilst also keeping everyone constantly engaged. It would have to be one of the best investments we have made for ourselves our staff and business as a whole".
â Sharlene Hird â Owner, Stihl Shop
"Whilst some consultants have good content, Rhonda goes further by curating great content based on lived experiences together with a sense of deep personal care she brings to those she works closely with. Her highly tuned facilitation skills enable her to customise programs and interventions with a real lasting impact for her clients. Great facilitators like Rhonda can read the room and adapt delivery on the spot to ensure content covered has a better chance of being embedded into practice for the people she's working with, rather than being just heard and then forgotten".
â Simon Wickham, (ex) CEO Harkness Henry Lawyers
"Rhonda facilitated a two day strategic direction setting hui with the Waikato District Council executive leadership team at very short notice. I was nervous as she and I had only 1 conversation on what I hoped to achieve.
Rhonda worked with our People and Capability executive manager over a few days and I provided documents for context. The outcome was excellent due in no small part to Rhondaâs fantastic facilitation skills. She seamlessly led us through a clear and collaborative process that allowed everyone to contribute in a respectful, honest and safe way.
I thoroughly recommend Rhonda and Our Minds Matter (NZ).
â Craig Hobbs â CEO Waikato District Council
Mindfulness
Positive Psychology
Neuroscience
Substance of My Mahi
Vulnerability
is the #1 requirement for connection and trust (Brene Brown)
Psychological safety
is the #1 pathway to effective teams (Google's Aristotle Project plus more...)
Emotional intelligence
is the #1 skill being looked for in leaders (SixSeconds plus more...)
Mindfulness (or conscious leadership)
is the #1 tool for stress reduction (anyone who has ever practiced mindfulness - plus research!)
That's why I use neuroscience + research, and the research backed tools of conscious leadership, mindfulness + positive psychology to inform all of my work.
Because whether you're a leader of a family, 10 or 10,000 people, you're a human first and foremost.
Which means you have INFLUENCE on everyone around you and everything inside of you, whether you're aware of it or not! Your reactions, emotions, fears, self limiting beliefs and your view of the world cannot NOT have influence.
What's the
research?
Positive Psychology shows us that happier people are
smarter,
healthier,
more creative and
31% more productive
Being a great leader means being comfortable that you can't be expected to know everything. You just don't know what you don't know!
53% of NZ workers are feeling burnout from work (employment hero 2022)
Research shows that 25% of staff are suffering with chronic stress in silence
The pandemic has meant that 41% of people place less importance on their career (employment hero 2022)
50% of us are more likely to be loyal to an employer whose commitment to health is good (employment hero 2022) AND they're more satisfied, more committed and more productive
1 in 5 people will experience depression in any given year (wellplace.nz)
Only 30% of large scale change efforts succeed - meaning 70% don't costing billions
The return on investment for health and wellness is between $2.30 and $10.10 (PwC)
Employees of organisation who invest in their 'whole health' are nearly 8 times more engaged (Right Management Research, NZ and Workplace Survey 2017)
Organisations where health and wellbeing is promoted have better financial performance by 2.5 times (Right Management Research, NZ and Workplace Survey 2017)
"Rhonda's energy was infectious... The interactive activities and exercises she incorporated to keep the session engaging and dynamic, ensured that every participant remained involved and interested throughout. Rhonda's knack for managing group dynamics created a safe and inclusive environment where everyone felt valued and heard. What sets Rhonda apart from other facilitators is her ability to connect with each participant, encouraging open dialogue and participation from everyone. Rhonda's flexibility in adjusting the content and approach based on our staff's needs ensured that every participant went away from her session, having gained meaningful understanding of the material and they could apply it practically straight away".
- Nikki Willis - Acting Principal Te Kowhai School
"Rhonda is an acute listener, she hears what is being said, she focuses on everyone so not just those who speak the most. She has a warm and caring manner which people feel. She connects well, giving time to build the relationships needed. She shares of herself appropriately to enable that connection. She spent time initially with myself as manager finding out what our needs were so that she could tailor the sessions to meet our specific needs. She treated us with respect and dignity, and we felt we were really valued by Rhonda as people and for the mahi that we do. She was culturally respectful and we all appreciated her joining in with our cultural practices such as starting with karakia. She is very knowledgeable and is well researched. She connects new ideas with other topics so one area flows to another and refers back again to previous concepts as new information is added"
â Libby Jones â Manager, Jigsaw North Manaaki WhÄnau Services
"It has been game changing for us to have Rhonda supporting the team at HMS Trust. She brings great insight and support to our team and does so in an encouraging and supportive way, while also challenging oneâs thinking. As a leader in an organisation you are always thinking how to invest and support your team and even more so in the last two years with the impact of Covid on mental âhealth and well-being. Rhonda has become an integral part of the support we provide to our staff and others connected to our organisation. One of our organisationsâ values is family and Rhonda has become one of our family."
Integral part of the support we provide to our staff - Ellie Wilkinson.
My mission is to help you lead yourself from the inside out so you can do, feel, think and connect better.
Using world class cutting edge coaching methodologies (I know, big call!), and the science backed principles of mindfulness, neuroscience and positive psychology.
I'm all about transformation - because unless you do something different with what you know, its all just more information.
And who needs more information!!??
