Coaching
Resilient Leadership

Reflecting on your experience provides an opportunity to gain insights to your strengths, leadership practices and identify blindspots so that you can lead more effectively with greater self-efficacy.
Resilient Leadership enables individuals to maximise their own potential, leverage the strengths and collective wisdom of their teams, and foster the collaborative culture that drives sustainable success.The capacity to lead and influence is dependent on a person’s self awareness, how they impact others and how others impact them.
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A Tailored Partnership
I work with leaders who are navigating the transition into more senior leadership roles. Because the capacity to lead and influence is dependent on a person's self-awareness, how they impact others and how others impact them, we focus on the relational dynamics to foster trust, influence and fulfilment. This tailored approach enables you to focus on specific goals, improving your self-awareness and your overall confidence and impact as a leader.
The Reality of Leadership
Your technical expertise opened the door to your current success; however, transitioning into new leadership roles requires evolving how you show up for your team and your organisation without depleting your energy.
The Approach
Working with Therese is a holistic, strengths-based approach at the intersection of leadership, wellbeing and team effectiveness. We look at your specific roles, context and the demands you experience to inform your future leadership behaviours. This is an opportunity to:
  • Reflect on your experiences.
  • Make changes that strengthen your capacity to lead with impact.
Coaching is confidential and delivered in-person or virtually over a 6-month period.
If you’re ready to work together, book a call
RESILIENT LEADERSHIP

Values Model

The transition from a technical expert to a people leader is often challenging. The transition requires a shift from doing the work to leading, influencing, and enabling others.

To clarify your development, ask yourself these questions:
  • What crucial leadership capabilities are you currently avoiding or neglecting that are essential for your success?
  • Are you maximising your influence and building an engaged, high-performing team, or are you relying on technical skills alone?
If your answer yes to any of these questions, let's chat.
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TESTIMONIALS

What others have to say

“Therese is a skilled coach & facilitator, both for individuals and for teams. Therese is inherently collaborative and skilfully works with people to co-design meaningful and sustainable solutions and interventions. Compassionate leadership and leading in a way that sustains wellbeing are at the core of Therese’s work, both in her own way of working, but also the way she is able to coach existing and developing leaders. Her style is engaging and supportive, and I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending her work.”
Jarrard O’Brien
Executive Director, People and Culture
13/01/2025
"The Resilient Leadership Program was transformative for our Nursing Leadership team. Therese Christofas’s expertise and tailored, multi-modal approach, designed specifically for our nursing virtual leaders, helped the team shift form managing demands to leading with confidence, clarity, and fulfilment. By integrating leadership, wellbeing and team effectiveness, the program provided practical strategies that strengthened collaboration, influence, and coaching, while fostering trust, belonging, and shared goals. I highly recommend this program to any manager wanting their leaders to move from surviving to thriving.”
David Wright,
Divisional Director, Virtual Health
04/03/2026
“Our staff participated in the leadership development course. Therese was able to adapt her sessions to a hybrid model - some in person, some virtually, to accommodate our workplace environment. The program gave staff practical tools, deeper self-awareness, and the confidence to lead with purpose. We’ve already seen a stronger collaboration, more proactive decision making and an uplift in morale. I recommend this course to any organisation committed to growing capable, empowered leaders."
Ella Tunbridge,
Nurse Unit Manager, Victorian Virtual Emergency Department
17/03/2026
“Therese designed a leadership series for Senior Social Workers to reflect on their leadership approach and expand their perspective on leading themselves and others. This has empowered them to lead with greater confidence. The noticeable benefits include the way the seniors are adapting how they relate to and communicate with one another, strengthening teamwork, and creating deeper relationships across the department.Therese listens deeply, facilitates meaningful conversations, and provides a space that is both caring and sensitive to individual needs while also challenging our perspectives. I would highly recommend Therese, as she delivers on her promises.”
Penelope Vye,
Associate Director,Social Work and Spiritual Care
24/01/2026
“Therese provided multiple structured sessions for our team, designed to facilitate and develop our leadership skills and enable us to align our ways of working together within our operational teams. The sessions provided insights into individual strengths, work preferences and areas for development and have provided us with a common language moving forward in our supervision and teaching sessions.”
Adrienne Munro,
Associate Director,Occupational Therapy
26/11/2026
“Therese delivered an engaging and thought provoking workshop focused on Mindful Work to University staff. The online session landed well with busy people who were experiencing various stages of workplace change while also needing to navigate complicated projects involving multiple stakeholders. Therese is an expert facilitator and blends content, reflection and coaching seamlessly in her work.”
Mark Krnjaic,
Director,Organisational Development
11/11/2025
“The training was fantastic. Therese is a great presenter with a friendly demeanour and a wealth of knowledge. Her presentations are very engaging with relevant content that is easy to understand and apply to the workplace. Her training has greatly enhanced my capacity and understanding of leadership and my own leadership style. Highly recommend her training for both established leaders or those new into a leadership role.”
Tim Gauci,
Senior Social Worker
15/01/2026