The Boardroom Isn’t Won with Credentials.
It’s Earned Through Strategic Elevation.
Ready to be seen, selected, and seated?
We elevate senior leaders into the kind of director boards can’t ignore.
The Real Boardroom Edge Isn’t Knowledge — It’s Positioning.
You don’t need another governance course.
You need a seat at the boardroom table.
For high-performing executives, the pivot from operational leader to board director is not about education. It’s about elevation. And it requires more than credentials or connections — it demands a strategic repositioning that makes you irresistible to decision-makers.
That’s where we come in.
You’ve built an exceptional career. You deliver outcomes, lead with integrity, and have the credentials to prove it.
But when it comes to paid board roles, the old advice falls flat:
Do the governance course. Volunteer for a not-for-profit. Network harder.
You’ve done all of that — and still, the boardroom feels out of reach.
Not because you’re not qualified.
But because you haven’t been positioned.
Board appointments don’t reward the most experienced.
They reward the most visible, credible, and strategically aligned.
And that shift — from operator to influencer, from capable to compelling — is exactly what we specialise in.
We don’t help you tick boxes.
We help you command attention.
This isn’t about learning how boards work.
It’s about transforming how boards see you.
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Average Performance for Top 100 ASX Directors in Australia
Directors TOP 100 ASX
Trillion Value
Av. Per Director
Av. Per Meeting
Source: Apollo Communications, ASX Board of Directors Report as quoted in Australian Financial Review
Trusted by senior executives across Australia and globally — and recognised with Gold and Silver Stevie Awards for 'Thought Leadership' and 'Social Change Maker' for disrupting the board landscape. Because what we do works!
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L&D Professional of the Year 2024
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Unleash Your Board Potential: Critique your Board Résumé
Here’s the truth:
Boards aren’t just looking for experience. They’re scanning for clarity, alignment, and a very specific kind of presence.
And most résumés — even from highly qualified candidates — fail that test.
This session isn’t about giving you the template. It’s about walking you through your personal résumé and showing you, with brutal clarity, where your current résumé is quietly failing to position you.
Because rookie mistakes don’t look like typos.
They look like missed positioning, muddled messaging, and language that sounds more like a GM than a Governor.
Our strategies have helped senior executives from the following companies to achieve board success...
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The program gives you the tools to make a transition from an executive role to the board role.
Her course and her style of delivery is 10 stars."
Patricia Lady
Chief Financial Officer
San Diego County, California, USA
"This is the best place you could start"
"Highly recommend this course...
This is the way to get yourself started, and get yourself prepared to have success at the board level.
One of the highly-valued additions is being able to meet so many amazing and talented executives with huge experience"
Michael Power
Board Adviser & Executive Consultant
Brisbane, Queensland
Our strategies have helped senior executives from the following companies to elevate their profiles...
"You shouldn't leave this to Chance"
Michael Magee
Global VP Growth Acceleration, Mars Inc
"Gives you confidence to pitch for the roles because you really learn what makes you different, unique, special and compelling for boards".
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"Sally is a natural community builder and the network that Sally builds and curates is an invaluable resource to draw on".
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"Completing the Mastermind I have been able to reflect on my skills and knowledge at board level. It has enabled me to be proud of what I do and has exhilarated me into doing more.
Sally's coaching and mentoring style is supportive and encouraging and I am very grateful for her persistence through the course"
Michelle Schupelius | CEO Aged Care
"Far exceeded my expectations"
"Thank you for the opportunity to be in the program. It helped me complete writing a Board CV and better understand myself as a person, an executive and what I have to offer as a NED.
I am amazed at the networking opportunity and post-Program coaching that were made available to us - these far exceeded my expectation of what I would get out of the Program!."
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Our strategies have helped senior executives from the following companies win seats at board tables
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