Empowering Your Unique Essence, During Times of Change
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Overcoming Leadership Fatigue
Feeling Stuck Amid
Constant Change
Leaders often face unrelenting demands, which can lead to a sense of stagnation. The pressures of adapting to change can sap energy and focus.
The Weight
of Exhaustion
As exhaustion sets in, deeper challenges—those unspoken, personal struggles—become more pronounced, leaving leaders feeling isolated and overwhelmed.
Finding Clarity
and Connection
Hi, I'm Vee!
Leadership coach and founder of Heartful Leadership, a name inspired by the profound gift of being fully present – mind, heart, and spirit – in every human moment. I believe that when we are deeply connected within ourselves, our unique essence naturally flows, empowering us to co-create meaningful connections with those around us. It’s this alignment of inner truth and outward connection that not only transforms individuals, it also elevates entire teams, workplaces… And our world.
Discover How We Can Transform Change Together With the Heartful Leadership team, my mission is to co-create a corporate paradigm where we share our unique gifts for an abundant world for all.
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Are you looking for:
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Leadership coaching for you?
Reconnect with your authentic essence and align with what truly matters. Deepen your connection to yourself and your purpose, leading with inspiration and inner knowing.
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Help to lead and empower your team during change?
Co-create a space where your team feels empowered to navigate uncertainty and embrace shared purpose. When individuals willingly contribute their unique talents, teams achieve inspiring results!
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Purpose-led Strategy Development?
Align your goals with your higher purpose. Co-create strategies that bring meaningful results for your team, stakeholders, and the world.
Bringing Expertise and Experience to the
Heart of Change
Certified Mindfulness-Based Stillness Meditation Foundation Teacher
Graduate Diploma of Innovation and Service Management, RMIT University
Bachelor of Business (Marketing), RMIT University
Deputy Chair, TransformersUnite (formerly The Australian Transformation and Turnaround Association)
Completed the Positive Intelligence Coaching Grant
20+ years of experience guiding over 40 teams and organizational leaders through transformation with coaching, collaboration, trust-building, and innovative solutions.
10+ years of coaching individuals during times of personal change
This blend of qualifications and experience allows me to address both the technical
and human sides of change with a uniquely holistic approach.
From a spark of inspiration
When we pay attention with curiosity and non-judgment, we uncover invaluable clues to transformation.
This belief was reinforced during a performance review when I was told:
“I don’t know how you do it, but you get people to willingly contribute without them realizing it.”
~ Linda Sorrell, Former CEO, Melbourne Health & ANZCA
This insight shaped the foundation of Heartful Leadership and drives everything we do.
Over the past 2 decades,
I’ve had the good fortune of working with medium and large organisations and helping them manage process changes and executive change projects, as well as coaching individuals who want to feel more empowered, calm and clear in times of uncertainty (at work and in life).
What I have learned throughout this time is that by enhancing meaningful communication and sharing our unique perspectives, we can truly achieve more together to create workplaces where everyone can thrive. By deepening our sense of inner connection, we can find more joy, hope and inspiration in all aspects of our lives.
I call it communicating the heart of the matter.
Coaching Can Be Inspiring and Liberating
People often think coaching is all about solving problems or deep challenges – and yes, sometimes it is.
But it’s also empowering. Heartful. Inspiring. 🙂
For me, coaching is a privilege – an honour to walk alongside you as we uncover your authentic essence and the possibilities that await. It’s a space where insights emerge, intuition leads, and your natural gifts shine.
I believe there’s a beautiful connection between our felt experiences and the clarity they bring. When we integrate this with your cognitive strengths, magical things happen – in your work, in your life, and within yourself.
As Featured In With a Grateful Heart…
These recognitions reflect the meaningful partnerships and collective achievements I’ve been privileged to be part of:
My Coaching Approach
I created Heartful Leadership to bring humanness into our corporate paradigm – to honour the unique gifts we each hold and harness greater potential within ourselves and with one another. With the pace of change accelerating around us, this work is more essential than ever.
Over two decades, I’ve been inspired by the magic that can happen when leaders connect to their inner truth. Clarity, inspiration, and connection is felt and shared – not just within themselves, but also in their teams and the lives they touch.
My clients often tell me they feel truly seen, heard, and safe in our sessions. By creating this space of non-judgment and curiosity, we explore the depths of who they are and continue to reveal the unique gifts they bring to our world. This isn’t about fixing or striving; it’s about rediscovering and embracing what’s already within.
A blessing to share the path with some beautiful clients:
Veronica's insightful, authentic, and graceful style gained the trust and respect of the most change-resistant individuals to successfully take them on the journey and bring about sustainable change
"In my capacity as General Manager Human Resources, I had the great pleasure of working with Veronica at the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists for 7 years. Veronica's role at ANZCA involved working across a broad range of stakeholder groups to implement major change initiatives. She worked with large multi-disciplined groups as well as small teams to effect cultural, procedural, technological, and structural change. As a facilitator, Veronica adopted an innovative and creative approach, coupled with a caring, warm, and inclusive interpersonal style to bring people together. Her unique and masterful approach worked effortlessly to engage participants, gain buy-in, and importantly, bring to the surface underlying issues that would otherwise remain hidden and unresolved. Veronica's insightful, authentic, and graceful style gained the trust and respect of the most change-resistant individuals to successfully take them on the journey and bring about sustainable change."
She created a space for me to be safely heard, to acknowledge the pain, and find a way forward.
"Veronica's gentle manner and unique insight provided me with an alternative view of how to manage the changing situation at work. I could have easily succumbed to feelings of anger, resentment, and despair but instead, by utilising the tools of meditation, mindfulness, vision board, and affirmations, she created a space for me to be safely heard, to acknowledge the pain, and find a way forward. I am so grateful that I was fortunate enough to have someone to guide me through a difficult time in such a positive manner. Veronica is an inspiration and although an unconventional resource in a corporate environment, her insight and skills allowed me to emotionally let go of my fear and move forward and I am truly grateful for the skills I take away with me from this time with her."
I learned different strategies to encourage sharing and how to further reflect, expand, and clarify. "The way our team has changed as a result of the workshop
"The way our team has changed as a result of the workshop is people were comfortable to share and open up. Through this, we found lots of common ground (e.g. our own feelings and insecurities). I learned different strategies to encourage sharing and how to further reflect, expand, and clarify. Something I am going to do now is work hard to involve the team in all aspects of the journey. Thank you for a beautiful workshop."
The trust and support that Veronica conveyed through the process was central to helping us develop positive change.
"Veronica's openness, honesty, and raw display of vulnerability through her program were exactly what our team needed to help bring out the best in our individual and collective selves. Being collegiate takes courage, and Veronica's trust and support through the process were central to helping us develop positive change. Highly recommended."
Empowerment Activities and Resources for Employees, Teams, and Managers
I want to share everything that I’ve learned during my time working in a corporate environment, along with the array of knowledge I’ve gained working with experts in their fields.
This journey of continuous growth has given me the confidence to truly be who I am, and help countless organisations over the last two decades with things like coaching for employee empowerment, strategies for team empowerment, and empowerment of team leaders for better performance (I’ve even been lucky enough to train managers in their own ability to use powerful coaching questions to help support their own team success).
Aside from corporate and professional empowerment applications, it’s always important to remember that empowerment starts within. Personal empowerment is vital for empowerment of any other kind.
If you’re not sure where to start on the journey of personal empowerment, and if your goal is to unleash your authentic self, then feel free to check out this list of effective empowerment activities that I’ve written.
“During times of change, peak performance can only be achieved when managers and teams communicate about the heart of the matter. Aligning with your inner essence can help you guide and inspire those around you to fulfil their potential.”
“Veronica’s insightful, authentic, and graceful style gained the trust and respect of the most change-resistant individuals to successfully take them on the journey and bring about sustainable change.”
-Jenny Lethbridge, Former General Manager, ANZCA
