Leadership Strategy
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Leadership Strategy
Problem
Pain point
Cost of inaction
Who is this for?
For small business owners who want to lead with impact, not ego. I provide leadership development grounded in empathy, authenticity, and real-world connection. Top-down management no longer works. I help you evolve from managing the day-to-day to inspiring meaningful growth—within yourself, your team, and your business.
I help small business owners become the kind of leaders today's world needs—emotionally intelligent, purpose-driven, and people-first.
I guide entrepreneurs away from outdated leadership models and toward a more connected, confident, and sustainable way of leading.
Founders looking to take the next step in their business and keeping relationships at the heart of everything they do. Being a values lead business owner focused on making a positive impact on your community and beyond can be daunting. Sometimes you need a chance to stop and take stock about why you started this business and where to from here.
Know your differentiators (focus on outcome and impact):
Evidence it works (testimonials about transformation):
The Problem
Leaders spend most of their time focused on the people in your business. With so many moving parts knowing what and how to effectively manage people is essential to any leader. But the skill set needed does not come with the title. These skills need to be learned in the right environment, taught by the right people and then practiced by the leader.
You may have experienced leaders in your business who can act as mentors. But this will only take your up and coming leaders so far. Mentors are great for sharing what they did, how they did it and what the outcomes was for them. But this can be a limiting learning opportunity. Every leader has their own unique way of leading. So, unless you want to create a company of cookie cutter leaders all making the same mistakes, this isn’t a sustainable learning and development strategy.
Learning leadership skills on the run in the workplace is great in theory. But the reality is there are always competing demands that get in the way of having those important leadership development conversations.
The Solution
One day.
1:1.
One focus.
When founders start with strong foundations, their impact is seen beyond their team.
With the right tools, leaders can make a big impact from the early stages of their career.
The Founder’s Foundations is a one day customised workshop where you can focus on all aspects of your business in relation to leadership and management.
I think about leadership as the left hand, management as the right.
Leadership is all the people focused aspects - creating psychological safety, providing developmental feedback, etc etc
Management is all the tasks - recruitment practices, resource allocation, marketing, who does what and when.
Founders need to the time and space to think critically about how they are growing their business.
Participants learn critical leadership skills that form the essential foundations of being an impactful leader. The workshop is a one-day program designed to provide these tools for early career leaders:
build essential leadership skills that prevent costly management mistakes
tools for effective team leadership, goal setting and decision making
confidence to handle challenges and inspire team members
opportunities to network with peers and mentors, building a strong foundation for career growth
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Founder’s Foundations
Perfect for founder’s who want to spend a whole day immersed in the business to get clear about:
why the business exists
how healthy the business is today
where the business is headed and how it fits in with all other parts of your life
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“My time with you was such an investment and really cleared my head alot. As a result of (my) cleared head I delved into a different model for my business and put together a pitch deck and sent it off to the big players everywhere!
I’m absolutely stoked and don’t believe I would have had the capacity to think and create this model if I hadn’t have engaged you first.”
— Client of one-day intensive, Founder of small business, Health/agriculture intersection
Case Studies
All names are changed for confidentiality.
Agriculture Sector
The Farmer Family were transitioning their farming business through a succession planning process. But there were some bumps along the way and relationships became strained by conflict and frustration.
We worked together through a custom designed workshop delivered over a 2-day program. The program created a framework to examine the critical aspects of the business operations, understand how people worked together and what needed to look different.
Six months after we worked together, here is what the family said:
"A valuable workshop designed to allow all team individuals to express their feeling regarding the team environment they’re working with in. There were boundaries set in place at the commencement of the workshop to allow all individuals to feel safe to discuss any issues they may have had in the aim to move forward to a more harmonious environment."
Impact: “Throughout the duration of the workshop, we learnt appropriate ways to conduct ourselves in difficult, emotional conversations to ensure everyone remained respectful. We have continued to implement these techniques on a day to day basis."
"The most valuable part of the workshop for our family was the one on one or smaller group sessions. This allowed these individuals to open up and deal with some of the core friction that was occurring within the relationships. Everyone felt safe to be vulnerable in these emotional conversations with Belinda facilitating the conversation respectfully."
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Meet Your Facilitator
Dr Belinda Mawhinney
I work with leaders at all stages of their career - from the very start of their journey to working with leaders with decades of experience.
I created Leadership Foundations to teach early career leaders the essentials skills and knowledge they need in their toolbelt to be a successful leader.
I draw on my experiences of being a Social Worker, manager, strategic leader, and researcher (that’s the Dr bit) and roll this up into my consultancy practice. This means I have an extensive range of skills and knowledge based on a combination of experience and formal qualifications.
The workshop has been designed by me and is only ever delivered by me. I adapt each workshop to meet the unique needs of each group of participants to ensure they get everything they need.
After the workshop, participants are able to engage my services to work 1:1, with their leadership team or to work with their whole organisations to improve leadership capabilities and workplace culture.