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  • Tailored to your team
  • Prevention and recovery
  • Healthier people. Stronger performance.
Who we are

Multi-award-winning specialists in corporate performance and recovery.

The Change Room brings together high-performance specialists in leadership, culture, performance and recovery. We work with Australian organisations across government, health, insurance and business, helping leaders and their people turn insight into action. Our approach combines a proven framework with tailored design and hands-on implementation support, focused on stronger performance and sustainable change.

What we work to improve

  • Stronger leadership, engagement and culture
  • Improved organisational performance, health and resilience
  • Fewer psychological injuries and claims
  • Fewer physical injuries
  • Reduced sick leave and unexplained absences
  • Faster sustainable recovery and return to work
Recognised Nationally

Three time national award-winners in performance, coaching & mental health.

Organisations we have worked with
  • Queensland Government
  • NSW Health
  • NSW Education
  • NSW Police Force
  • icare NSW
  • Corrective Services NSW
  • Central Coast Council
  • Metropolitan Memorial Parks
  • Inland Rail
  • Queensland Hydro
  • SA Power Networks
  • Essential Energy
  • Queensland Health
  • Ampol
  • Suncorp
  • Allianz
  • GSK
  • Sydney Airport
  • Chamberlain
  • Ashurst Perkins Coie
  • North Australian Contracting
  • Strata Community Insurance
  • Multispares
  • EventsAIR
  • Professional Conference Organisers Association
  • Touchpoint Meetings & Events
  • Cornerstone Events
  • QBE Insurance

Recognise the pressure?

Do any of these sound familiar?

You may be seeing one of these challenges – or several at once. Select what resonates with your organisation. No figures to gather, worksheet to complete or email required to explore.

Select the challenges your organisation is facing

If these challenges resonate, you’re in the right place. Below, see how prevention and recovery work together to support your people and improve performance.

Two areas of focus

Stronger workplaces. Faster recovery.Success that lasts.

We bring multi-award-winning expertise across workplace performance, prevention and recovery. By working in both areas, we help you address the underlying causes of the challenges your organisation faces – not just the symptoms. Each program is tailored to your people, with implementation support focused on lasting change and stronger performance.

Across your organisation

Perform and prevent

One coordinated approach across your leaders and workforce, with shared priorities, language and measures (typically delivered over a five-to-six-month development season). We tailor delivery to your team and align with existing coaches and programs where useful. Further seasons can build on the progress.

  1. 01

    Executive coaching

    One-on-one coaching for senior leaders, focused on agreed priorities, day-to-day decisions and the practices they model with their teams.

  2. 02

    Leadership development

    Facilitated group sessions that turn those same priorities into shared leadership practices, clear expectations and consistent team conversations.

  3. 03

    Workforce wellbeing and performance

    Practical sessions for your wider workforce, ideally face-to-face, applying the same approach to wellbeing, communication and everyday performance. Implementation support connects the sessions to changes at work.

For people recovering from injury

Recover and return

Injured workers attend our recovery program as part of their workers’ compensation recovery process, alongside their insurer and treating team.

  1. 01

    Two days face-to-face

    A Recovery Experience focused on the behavioural foundations of health, capacity and recovery.

  2. 02

    Online resources

    Practical tools and learning participants can return to throughout their recovery.

  3. 03

    One-on-one recovery support

    Individual implementation support to put the program into practice and sustain the changes.

Individual suitability is assessed with insurer and treating-team involvement.

The outcomes we work towards

Sustainable long-term success

Perform and prevent

  • Elevated leadership, culture and engagement
  • Stronger organisational performance
  • Better health and resilience
  • Fewer psychological and physical injuries and claims
  • Less sick leave and unexplained absence

Recover and return

  • Stronger behavioural foundations for recovery
  • Improved health, confidence and capacity
  • Accelerated recovery from injury
  • A sustainable return to work and employment
  • Lower claim costs and shorter claim duration
Built for implementation

Lasting change takes more than a 90-minute session.

A focused training session can introduce useful ideas. But addressing the underlying conditions behind culture, performance and recovery challenges takes more than a presentation and a handover.

This is one coordinated program, not separate initiatives for your team to manage. We agree shared priorities and measures, then align executive coaching, leadership development, workforce sessions and recovery support around them. Delivery is tailored to your organisation through a structured season (typically five to six months), focused on implementing new practices that lift performance and become part of everyday work.

We align our performance methodology with how your business operates, then support implementation and review the results with you. Together, we measure leadership performance, culture, engagement, productivity and capacity alongside absence, claims costs and duration, and workers’ compensation premium trends. This gives you a clear view of improvement and return on investment, including opportunities to reduce claims costs and improve premium outcomes.

Getting started

From your priorities to a plan you can put into action.

High performance starts with understanding your organisation – not prescribing the same program for every team. We explore the underlying factors behind your challenges, then adapt our framework to your needs, complexities and operational rhythm. Together, we build the business case and define how value will be measured. From design through implementation, we work with your people to make change practical, address issues at their foundations and sustain progress.

  1. 01

    Strategy conversation

    Understand why you are reaching out, the pressures you face and the outcomes that matter most.

  2. 02

    Understand your team

    Explore what is happening beneath the symptoms: your people’s experiences, existing support and the underlying factors affecting performance and recovery.

  3. 03

    Build the business case

    Develop a tailored proposal around your priorities, complexities and investment. Agree baseline measures, intended outcomes and how return on investment will be assessed.

  4. 04

    Approve, tailor and commence

    With your approval, finalise the program design, cadence and responsibilities for your team. Begin delivery with hands-on implementation support, clear accountability and ongoing review.

The team behind your program

Imagine what your team could achieve with these people on your side.

These are the people who bring our programs to life. We draw on our team’s experience in high-performance sport and corporate environments, bringing together the right specialists to work alongside your leaders and people.

  • Susan Pearse

    Behavioural Change

    Susan Pearse

    Mentor to Senior Leaders

  • Matt Elliott

    Culture by Design

    Matt Elliott

    Founder, Leadership & Culture Coach

  • Dr Ali Walker

    Human Connection Science

    Dr Ali Walker

    Social Scientist

  • Anthony Minichiello

    Sustainable Energy

    Anthony Minichiello

    Elite Athlete

  • Nam Baldwin

    State Regulation

    Nam Baldwin

    High-Performance Coach

  • Jeff Hardy

    Resilience & Identity

    Jeff Hardy

    Indigenous Mentor & Athlete

  • Anjani Amriit

    Conscious Leadership

    Anjani Amriit

    Conscious Leadership Expert

  • Rowdy McLean

    Keynote & Catalyst

    Rowdy McLean

    Master Leadership Mentor

  • John Daley

    Strategic Engagement

    John Daley

    Chief Engagement Officer

  • Dr Juliette Tobias-Webb

    Decision Architecture

    Dr Juliette Tobias-Webb

    Behavioural Scientist

  • Mark Hughes

    Purpose Through Adversity

    Mark Hughes

    Premiership Winner & Advocate

  • Brett Robinson

    Elite Athletic Performance

    Brett Robinson

    Performance & Olympic Coach

Tailored to your team

Let's talk about your team's priorities.

  • We understand your team and context.
  • We identify the priorities.
  • We agree whether a tailored plan or business case would be useful.

No worksheet or detailed figures needed. Tell us what is happening in your organisation, and we will help you identify the right starting point.

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Common questions

Questions leaders ask first.

  • Our programs are delivered by a world-class team of presenters and coaches drawn from high-performance sport and corporate performance environments. Our team includes multi-award-winning authors, athletes and coaches, bringing a sustained track record of improving performance across sporting and corporate settings over the past three decades. We bring the right mix of expertise to your organisation, combining lived experience with practical support to help your people implement lasting change.