DIVERSITY & BELONGING STATEMENT


I acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, live and play. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging and I recognise their continuing importance and their connection to the land, culture, stories and traditions. I extend my respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cultures across communities.

My life and work are built on the foundational values of Connection (Humanity), Authenticity, Wellbeing, Community and Sovereignty. This means I am deeply committed to exercising what is within my power to create equity in the world through my own activism and through the support of businesses and leadership that prioritise humanity and support inclusive practices and processes.

My personal and business journey to understanding my own privilege, systemic biases, and actions and its impacts of inequity based on gender, sexuality, race, ableism, neurodiversity and more has begun in recent years starting from my own lived experience and perspective of race.

Through my work as an active community volunteer and leadership development facilitator and mentor for Rotary International and Initiatives of Change for over 10 years and qualifying and as a life coach elevated my awareness and the impact of my own actions in my life, career, business on others and the wider community, which created a desire to change and do better.

Seeing the need and desire to integrate holistic wellbeing as a foundation into my own life, my business and the humans I partner and work with, it became a necessity of further understanding and deepening my relationship with diversity, equity and inclusion. This ignited the calling to continue my activism through my work as a leadership, mindset and life coach.

My coaching work is specifically focused on supporting anyone who identifies as a woman or with an underrepresented identity. I welcome people of all ages, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and religions to my work. This includes anyone who holds an underrepresented identity such as being Black, Brown, Indigenous, a Person of Colour, a person with a disability, or anyone who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, non-binary, trans, gender fluid, gender nonconforming, queer, intersex or asexual.

I provide partial and full scholarships for my group programs to support the accessibility and ability to serve those that may not have the financial means. For each scholarship, I prioritise the most marginalised. To express your interest and find out more, please contact me via the contact form on the website.

I am committed to ongoing training and development and have participated in paid training and programs from Desiree Adaway, Jessica Fish, Whiteness at Work, Annie Gichuru, Sharyn Holmes, Lilian Kikivu, Mikaela Eagan, Simone Seol, Sora Schilling, Anjali Sunita, Dr. Yasmene Mumby, and more.

Work, education & training that focuses on humanity, diversity and belonging I have invested my commitment, time, money and energy into include:

  • The Beautiful You Coaching Academy Life Coaching Course (graduated July 2019)

  • The Being Profile (Ontological Performance Assessment) Practitioner Training & Accreditation by Engenesis founded by Ashkan Tashvir (qualified in April 2022)

  • Represented by Annie Gichuru, a group program supporting awareness and action for racial equity (completed August 2022)

  • Devoted Energy Coaching School by Sora Schilling (graduated August 2022)

  • Delivery of TEDx talk on The Cost Of Fitting In sharing a glimpse of my personal journey and learnings on racial oppression (delivered at TEDxCecilstreet September 2022)

  • Liberating our Time Workshop by Whiteness at Work (participated January 2023)

  • Cultural Awareness and Truth Telling by Mikaela Eagan The Wellbeing Connexion, a self-paced online program supporting awareness on the Australian First Nations people and Aboriginal history, context and culture from a First Nations perspective (currently in training)

I wish to acknowledge that since I’ve committed to the work of prioritising wellbeing, humanity and belonging, I’ve actively learned that I have not always been conscious of the actions and decisions I made that may have caused unintentional harm, and for that I apologise and humbly walk with the lessons.

My commitment is to learn from mistakes, stay informed and educated to the best of my ability and always do better.