At ThriveWise, we partner with leaders and their teams to build workplaces where people genuinely enjoy working together and do great work. In high-pressure environments, it is easy to get stuck on autopilot. As demands pile up, communication gets messy, simple tasks feel heavier, and team burnout becomes a real risk.
Real cohesion does not come from rigid policies or superficial team-building exercises. It happens when people understand how they are uniquely wired — what motivates them, what trips them up under stress, and how they naturally communicate.
Our work builds the self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and trust that teams need to navigate everyday challenges together. By focusing on how people actually relate to one another, we help schools and organisations ease friction, keep great people, and create cultures where everyone can truly thrive.
Our work brings together psychological insight with practical, everyday workplace outcomes, grounded in two globally recognised frameworks:
The iEQ9 Integrative Enneagram: An advanced psychometric assessment trusted globally by organisations including McKinsey, NASA, Nike, and Google. It provides a shared, non-judgemental language to understand habits, unhook from stress triggers, and smooth out everyday friction.
The IECL Organisational Coaching Framework: An evidence-based methodology that keeps conversations focused, practical, and tied directly to how you lead and make decisions day to day.
We offer two distinct pathways designed to strengthen leadership capability, build relational trust, and help diverse teams work together with clarity.
Leading a team is both rewarding and demanding. When daily pressures force you into reactive mode, blind spots can inadvertently lead to communication breakdowns or team fatigue.
This program provides a trusted, confidential space to unpack your leadership challenges, expand your emotional intelligence, and leave each session with clear, actionable strategies to lead your team with clarity and composure.
Session 1: The Foundation of Self-Awareness: A confidential, non-judgmental debrief of your comprehensive 42-page iEQ9 Professional Report. Together, we explore how you naturally carry responsibility, communicate under pressure, and navigate stress — mapping out clear, practical pathways for personal and professional growth.
Sessions 2–6: Navigating the Work: Using the structured IECL coaching approach, we focus on your real workplace reality. You will set clear goals and build the everyday habits needed to guide your team with calm confidence, clarity, and genuine trust.
Format: 6 × 60-minute 1-on-1 Coaching Sessions (spanning 3–6 months)
Approach: iEQ9 Professional Report + IECL Organisational Coaching Framework
Delivery: In-person across Melbourne (at your workplace or an offsite location) or virtually (available nationally and internationally)
Great teams do not happen by chance. They happen when diverse individuals understand each other's different lenses and how to work to each other’s strengths. Effective collaboration relies on recognising that a colleague wired for precision approaches complex challenges differently than someone wired for fast action or relational connection.
This program takes a practical, relational approach to team development. By helping everyone grow in self-awareness and emotional intelligence, we help your team understand different working styles, strengthen trust, and align individual strengths with your strategic goals.
Stage 1: Individual Insights & Confidential Debriefs: Every team member completes the iEQ9 assessment, followed by a private 1-on-1 debrief of their individual iEQ9 Professional Report. This gives each person a safe, confidential space to understand their own personality patterns, habits, motivators, and stress triggers before coming together as a group.
Stage 2: Team Dynamics Mapping & Alignment Workshop: Drawing on your aggregate iEQ9 Team Report, we facilitate an interactive, practical workshop tailored to your team's context and strategic goals. Together, we map your collective personality type or ‘Team Style’ — looking at how your group handles pressure, where communication flows easily, where misunderstandings tend to happen, and how to work more effectively as a team.
Format: Individual Questionnaires + Private 1-on-1 Debriefs + Facilitated Team Workshop
Approach: iEQ9 Individual & Team Reports + Context-Driven Facilitation
Delivery: In-person across Melbourne (on-site or offsite) or live virtually
"Jen is an exceptional practitioner with a world of experience. Her methods and processes are adaptable and provide great insights. She has helped so many people within our organisation from a wellbeing perspective as well as understanding how they best work."
"Jen introduced us to the Enneagram, a tool that proved invaluable. Through her expert facilitation, we gained a deeper understanding of our individual strengths, challenges, and personality types, and in turn, insights into how we could work together more efficiently. Jen's approach was both thoughtful and engaging, creating a space for trust, open reflection, and meaningful discussions."
"Jen facilitated an exceptional Enneagram-based program that stood out from other personality assessments/workshops I've experienced. Her unique approach wove together individual introspection, team dynamics, and organisational positioning in a way which was engaging and felt connected to the team's goals and purpose. Her ability to balance exploration with practical outcomes made this a truly valuable experience."
"Jen has such a warm and grounded presence that made it easy to open up and explore both strengths and challenges. She really listened and helped me find language for patterns I hadn't been able to articulate before. I came away with a clearer understanding of how my traits show up in work and life. Her insight and communication style made the whole experience feel supportive and empowering."
Founder & Principal Consultant, ThriveWise
With over a decade of experience across professional capability development, organisational consulting, workshop facilitation, and applied psychology research, my work focuses on translating behavioural science and psychometric insights into practical skills and sustainable workplace change.
Leadership & Executive Coaching: Experienced in guiding corporate executives, CEOs, people and culture leaders, and school leadership teams to build self-awareness, navigate complex team dynamics, and make values-aligned decisions under pressure.
Global Facilitation & Capability Development: Managed over 50 training programs and delivered evidence-based professional learning to more than 6,000 educators worldwide during eight years at the Institute of Positive Education (Geelong Grammar School).
Large-Scale Framework Design: Lead author of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Education’s national wellbeing framework across 600+ government schools, subsequently re-engaged to design qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools.
Research & Assessment Background: Coordinated clinical trials at Monash University’s School of Psychological Sciences and co-developed research-backed assessment tools used across dozens of client organisations.
Qualifications & Accreditations
Master’s by Research in Human Development, Learning & Culture — University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Psychology — Roosevelt University
Accredited Level 1 & 2 iEQ9 Practitioner (Individual & Team Dynamics) — Integrative Enneagram
Accredited Level 1 Organisational Coach — Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL)
Accredited Strengths Profile Coach — Cappfinity
Certified Facilitator for Tuning in to Kids®, Teens™, and Students™ (Emotional Intelligence Programs) — University of Melbourne
Let's discuss the unique context of your organisation, your team's current priorities, and how we can work together to support their growth and achieve your strategic outcomes.