Leadership & Team

Founded and led by Sonia Battye, who brings over 20 years of experience in the government sector, our team understands the unique challenges you face. Our carefully designed coaching programs and team workshops draw on this real-world experience to give you the clarity, confidence, and courage you need to excel both at work and in your personal life.

All our programs are grounded in Emotional Intelligence—because sustainable leadership starts with self-awareness, empathy, and the ability to connect meaningfully with others.

Leadership Development

Strong leadership is never one-dimensional. 

These programs take a holistic, emotionally intelligent approach to leadership development—supporting government leaders to grow from the inside out. With a focus on communication, connection and collaboration participants will gain clarity confidence. These experiences nurture the mindset and habits needed to lead authentically and inspire long-term impact. 

Personal Leadership Leverage

The Personal Leadership Leverage Program is my flagship program—a 10-week transformational journey created for women in government leadership who are ready to take control of their leadership and life.

Born from my own deep dive into Personal Leadership, this program is designed to help you move beyond chaos, stress, and self-doubt and step fully into your power.

Through Emotional Intelligence self-assessment, coaching, and practical tools, you’ll build deep self-awareness, strengthen emotional resilience, and create a clear, purpose-driven roadmap to lead and live with clarity, confidence, and courage

Leader as Coach

Ready to empower your team and drive change with clarity and speed? 

Leader as Coach gives leaders the tools to shift behaviour, increase productivity, and enhance performance through emotionally intelligent coaching conversations.

Build trust, ask better questions, and support others to think more clearly and act more effectively—without doing it all yourself. 

Lead, Empower & Thrive

This program helps women lead with impact by harnessing the power of Emotional Intelligence
Lead, Empower & Thrive equips leaders with practical tools to connect deeply, communicate with presence, think strategically, and build influence—online or in-person.

The result? Greater engagement, stronger relationships, and more courageous leadership. 

Team Development

Unlock Your Team’s Potential with Emotional Intelligence!

High-performing, productive teams don’t happen by chance — they are built on trust, self-awareness, empathy, and strong communication. Emotional Intelligence is the foundation that enables teams to navigate pressure, adapt to change, and collaborate effectively. Our services are designed to help leaders and teams develop the emotional skills needed to perform at their best, foster positive workplace cultures, and drive sustainable results. 

Applied Emotional Intelligence

This practical program is designed to help people enhance how effectively they demonstrate emotionally intelligent behaviour — and in doing so, improve how they Connect, Communicate, and Collaborate with others. Team members at all levels become more self-aware, empathetic, and resilient

Grounded in the latest in Emotional Intelligence and Social Neuroscience, Applied EI equips participants with the tools to manage their emotions intelligently, so they can make better decisions, demonstrate more effective behaviours, and consistently perform at a higher level — even under pressure. 

Leading with Psychological Safety

Great leaders create safe spaces for real conversations, honest feedback, and meaningful growth. 

This program helps leaders cultivate psychological safety using emotionally intelligent tools and strategies.

Learn how to set the tone for openness, address unproductive behaviours with empathy, and build a culture of trust where your team feels seen, heard, and valued. 

The Science of Wellbeing

Boost the wellbeing of your workforce. Reduce stress and increase productivity and engagement 

With emotions running high in today’s world of constant change, it’s more important than ever to understand what drives wellbeing. This program uses emotional intelligence as the foundation for building awareness of ourselves and others — and turning that awareness into healthy, sustainable habits. Participants explore practical strategies across four key areas: mental, physical, social, and environmental wellbeing. They’ll learn how to manage their energy, deepen relationships, and build habits that support vitality, confidence, and meaningful performance. 

Bespoke

Build a better team

Build a better workplace with our research-based coaching and consulting solutions for managers, teams and individuals!

A positive, diverse and inclusive workplace environment maximises productivity, engagement and innovation. We offer a range of solutions for managers, teams and individuals to improve communication, relationships and performance.

We help you develop better relationships and communication skills. We give you the tools, techniques and insights you need to create a culture of trust, collaboration, empowerment, productivity and innovation in your workplace.

Know what you want and how others want to be treated. Know the strengths and limitations of others. Know how to work collaboratively. Know your company's culture, values and goals.

We work with you to create solutions to help you build a thriving team environment.

 

Workshop design

We take time to understand your team, and how we can help you achieve goals. We have extensive experience in designing programs and strategies, using different techniques for different types of groups, and meeting specific needs.

We offer facilitated in-person workshops at your workplace or we can deliver virtually to save time and travel.

Consultation

Flexible design & solutions

Whether you're looking for learning and development, organisational design, or workforce planning we can help! After working closely with you to understand your needs, our consultants will lead the project - guiding you every step of the way. We'll keep you updated with progress reports along the way and make sure everything is delivered on time.

Contact us today to find out how we can help you and your organisation grow.


Testimonials

 

“Working with Sonia has had a priceless impact on my life personally and professionally. As a mentor and coach, Sonia has been culturally understanding and provided a safe space for me to yarn about my experiences and career. Sonia utilised her ability to build strong rapport to understand me and challenge my thinking to support me to reflect and understand where I am at in my career and what I need to be doing to continue on my learning and development journey. In my short time working with Sonia, my mindset and confidence have grown and I have achieved outcomes that I am proud to say have been a result of the ongoing support, advice, coaching and challenging that Sonia brings to the table. “

Ethan Gordon - Mentee Indigenous mentoring program

“Transitioning into (sort-of) retirement after 30 years in Project Management and Team Building, I was looking to ‘unplan’ my personal life and stop working to ‘Other Peoples’ deadlines. Sonia’s involvement in coaching helped enormously in this process, though it entailed applying the processes in a somewhat unorthodox way! Sonia’s ability to flex the materials, and to work very closely with me on a one-one basis, demonstrated her true professionalism yet highly personalised approach. I would be happy to recommend Sonia’s services at any time!”

Jerzy Fraczek
Director NDP4Results

“Working with Sonia as a career coach has been an extraordinary opportunity for me. The impact of the time we spent together is considerable. Sonia is a wonderful and charming, but through her no nonsense and direct approach she was able to challenge me at the right time in the right way. I am very grateful for the time we spent together and feel fortunate I was able to benefit from her considerable talents and skills. Sonia is an excellent executive coach.”

Executive Director
NSW state government department

 

“Faced with some persistent workplace problems and difficult decisions, but with a personal sense of purpose, I asked Sonia to help me to organise my priorities and set a clearer path. She used a variety of helpful techniques to promote reflection and considered decision-making. Importantly, she encouraged me to identify my own solutions based on my own experience, rather than imposing them. Sometimes the conversations were challenging, but Sonia was always supportive, encouraging, honest, and compassionate. I would warmly recommend a discussion with Sonia to help guide you in your career.”

Senior Social Impact Specialist
NSW state government department

“I feel very fortunate I had the opportunity to work with Sonia as my career coach. She worked with me as I transitioned between roles, helping me understand my work and personal life boundaries and values. Sonia asked me the tough questions I needed answer to clarify my priorities, and she helped me find the courage to make fundamental career decisions. Sonia’s commitment to my journey was above and beyond my expectations and was exactly what I needed”.

Senior Manager
NSW state government department

 

“Sonia has a very gentle, but firm approach and she doesn’t give up on you. She is always willing to find an approach that works for you personally, at your pace. She is generous with her time and is willing to give very practical support if needed. Her deep knowledge of the HR field and how she applied it to give me the language I needed to see that I really did have something valuable to offer.”

Career transition client

 

“Sonia worked with me to create meaningful and realistic goals for change. Her caring but persistent challenges forced me to stop hiding in generalities and feel-good non-goals, and instead take meaningful action. She provided the support and insight I needed, particularly in areas of personal growth I found challenging. I’m so much happier - I highly recommend working with her!”

Healthcare Provider

“Working with Sonia has changed my life. I cannot believe the transformation in just 12 months; I’ve completely changed industries, and doubled my salary. Her insight, guidance, and accountability during the hiring process was indispensable.”

Consultant

“Sonia did a great debrief. In-fact I think the debrief of the EQ (emotional intelligence) assessment was far more illuminating than another I have undertaken.”

Executive Director
NSW state government department

 

 “Sonia was brilliant going through the 360 emotional intelligence debrief. She challenged me with really robust questioning and conversation.”

Executive Director
NSW state government department