There are so many people and organisations that I admire, doing great and admirable work. And I want to share the goodness with the world! Below you’ll find a selected mix of people, organisations and resources that I have found helpful personally and professionally.
This list will grow over time. I’d love to hear about people, organisations and resources that you’ve found helpful – you can email me, or send me a note via my contact page.
Awesome practitioners
Professional development
- Tracey Cunningham at Science and Wellbeing is a talented coach and facilitator with a background in education and the corporate sector. I highly recommend having her take you through the MSCEIT emotional intelligence assessment.
- Tash Pieterse is a talented coach and podcaster who helps you become the leader in your life, so you can better lead others.
- Brooke Trenwith at Potential to Performance. Brooke assists students, parents, and educators to maximise their learning and turn potential into performance.
Business services
- Sarah Davies at Sweet Spot Business Coaching will guide you to establish and expand your own businesses, gaining clarity on the value you offer, your ideal client, and how to negotiate sales in a way that everyone wins.
- Peter Jacobsen, Oxygen8 Business Consultant. Peter is an experienced senior manager, and offers a fresh, insightful perspective to support your journey through business ownership.
- Carley Nicholson will support you to develop Peace Under Pressure – workplaces that remain calm and productive even in stressful times.
Personal development
- Dr Bex Bell of Remix Coaching, and author of ‘Inner Critic to Inner Coach: How to heal imposter syndrome, end self-sabotage, and own your greatness’. Bex is a brilliantly kind, encouraging human, with practical wisdom to share.
- Kate Duder at Inside Matters. Kate is passionate about health and wellbeing, and discovering and sharing ways to promote wellness and thriving.
- Suzi Wallis is an experienced Counsellor & Family Therapist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, who is passionate about helping her clients learn new strategies, to create the life they deserve. She specialises in communication upskilling, conflict management, working with couples (of any gender or gender combination), grief & loss support for all.
Researchers, writers, and resource hubs
- Jon Acuff, author of multiple books that have helped me get out of overthinking, through procrastination, and into results.
- Brené Brown, a gifted researcher and storyteller in the areas of courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She has written multiple books, and hosts two podcasts, all of which I cannot recommend highly enough. If I had to pick one, it would be Dare to Lead, which brings together so much of her knowledge, insights and wisdom.
- Conscious Leadership Institute, an organisation dedicated to building conscious business cultures of trust and intentionality. I particularly love their work on being above or below the line, explained in the simple video ‘Locating Yourself‘.
- Angela Duckworth, researcher and author, an expert in measuring and building “grit” (the ability to stick with things and see them through).
- Jeremy Dean’s Emotional Culture Deck*, a great way to build emotional intelligence for individuals, teams and families. Use the code “DARIAWILLIAMSON” to get a 10% discount on your purchases
- Adam Grant, organisational psychologist, speaker, author and podcaster and big thinker about work, motivation, and being human.
- Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism, and in my opinion even more importantly, Effortless.
- Todd Kashdan, psychologist and provocateur. I love his concept of principled insubordination, and find his social media posts and newsletters to be interesting and thought-provoking (underlining why he called his newsletter ‘Provoked’!)
- Ingrid Fetell Lee, whose book Joyful* has changed the way I look at my environment – and the choices I make about how I curate it – to boost my experience of joy in a sustainable way.
- Positive Psychology.com, a repository of knowledge, insight and resources for applying research-backed positive psychology principles to work and life.
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