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Business success is all about trusted leadership.

Hi, I'm Daria, your high-trust, high-impact leadership expert.

Support your senior leadership team to level up and give new managers the tools they need to succeed.

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Businesses that trust me to lift their leaders' game

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Wired for success. High-energy, high-impact leadership development that meets your organisation's needs

Develop your senior leaders

Evolve your leaders from individual experts into an integrated, high-performing team.

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Train your new leaders

Set your new managers up for success from the start with training tailored to your needs.

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“I highly recommend making time and budget available to work on development as a leadership team. It is so vitally important … We were a bunch of individuals. Daria has helped us come together as a cohesive, high-performing team who are incredibly tight.”
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Lesley Francis-ZiogasCEO, Ngahuia Group
“I highly recommend making time and budget available to work on development as a leadership team. It is so vitally important … We were a bunch of individuals. Daria has helped us come together as a cohesive, high-performing team who are incredibly tight.”
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Lesley Francis-ZiogasCEO, Ngahuia Group

One-on-one coaching to maximise your potential

Coaching for business leaders

Support your growth and development as a leader, gain insights into your strengths, diagnose factors holding you and your team back from peak performance, and resolve those tricky challenges.

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Strengths coaching to unleash your awesome

Coaching to help you identify your genius strengths and spend more time living and working from your Zone of Genius. Once you know your strengths, and what to do with them, you’ll be unstoppable.

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“I was thinking of changing careers when I first met with Daria. I was feeling stuck and full of self-doubt. The coaching sessions I had with Daria were by far the best investment I have ever made for my personal and professional development. She gave me so much confidence.”
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Karolina WilloughbyClinical Support Specialist
“I was thinking of changing careers when I first met with Daria. I was feeling stuck and full of self-doubt. The coaching sessions I had with Daria were by far the best investment I have ever made for my personal and professional development. She gave me so much confidence.”
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Karolina WilloughbyClinical Support Specialist

First time leaders

Join the Lightning Leadership Lab

Available as an in-house programme in 2025

Learn how to navigate common challenges faced by new leaders. Develop your leadership skills in a supportive group. Build a network of other new leaders to be your cheerleaders and collaborators throughout your career.

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“Daria is able to lead new leaders forward through the sticky and uncomfortable and into the stuff of real change. As a coach, she is keenly observant, highly skilled, and deeply compassionate. She helps you lift, grow, and transform.”
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Tracey CunninghamDirector, Science and Wellbeing Australia Pty Ltd
“Daria is able to lead new leaders forward through the sticky and uncomfortable and into the stuff of real change. As a coach, she is keenly observant, highly skilled, and deeply compassionate. She helps you lift, grow, and transform.”
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Tracey CunninghamDirector, Science and Wellbeing Australia Pty Ltd

High-trust leaders get better business results

The success of your business is dictated by how much trust you have with your team. Without trust, time and energy is wasted second guessing and questioning motives. The more a senior leadership team trust one another personally and professionally, the faster things can move.

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6 ways leadership development pays off

Play to your strengths

Know what each leader brings to the table, and where they fit in your leadership mix.

Increase productivity

When the right people are doing the right tasks, productivity grows. Boost efficiency and mastery.

More collaboration

Move from separate silos into a cohesive team working together towards your business goals.

Culture of trust

Try new ideas together, knowing you trust each other to deliver. Trust speeds everything up.

Less friction

Try new ideas together, knowing you trust each other to deliver. Trust speeds everything up.

Practical tools

Get proven tools and frameworks to help you tackle your challenges and manage your load.

6 ways leadership development pays off

Play to your strengths

Know what each leader brings to the table, and where they fit in your leadership mix.

Increase productivity

When the right people are doing the right tasks, productivity grows. Boost efficiency and mastery.

More collaboration

Move from separate silos into a cohesive team working together towards your business goals.

Culture of trust

Try new ideas together, knowing you trust each other to deliver. Trust speeds everything up.

Less friction

Try new ideas together, knowing you trust each other to deliver. Trust speeds everything up.

Practical tools

Get proven tools and frameworks to help you tackle your challenges and manage your load.

I’m here to support managers to show up in their full power and become the high-trust, high-impact leaders you need

Being a leader is hard. Every leadership team struggles with the same things, yet 82% of new leaders get no training at all.

There's a smarter way to lead...

Let me show you how ➡️

Leadership success story

How Ngahuia Group evolved their senior leaders from a bunch of individuals to a unified team

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My book

Unleash Your Awesome

Your guide to identifying your genius strengths. Find clarity on what you love, discover what you’re great at, and achieve more without burning out.

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Level up your leaders and level up your growth

Let’s talk about how leadership development can energise your people, lift your performance, and deliver high-quality, sustainable results.

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