LEADERSHIP AND CULTURE COACHING
Creating clarity, capability and coherence for
wholehearted high performance.
until it's clear, and cleared.
-Tonia
CONFIDENCE THAT DRIVES HIGH PERFORMANCE
Leadership that creates clarity, confidence, capability and coherence within, and across, teams - so your business moves with purpose and performs.
This isn’t just feel-good coaching. It’s commercially grounded, evidence-based leadership development, shaped by decades of real-world experience and designed to deliver meaningful results.
Experience that understands the reality you navigate every day
You’re carrying real responsibility, often under pressure, with decisions that matter. You need clarity and someone you can trust who understands your world as well as support that gets to the heart of what matters, quickly.
Tonia brings experience across the full leadership spectrum - Board Chair, Founder, Consultant, Executive, Director, Manager, Coach. She understands the pressures of leadership because she’s lived them and studied them, allowing her to step into your context, speak your language, and focus on what matters most for you.
HIGH PERFORMANCE
Tonia's work has placed her alongside some of the world’s top performers, including double Olympic gold medalists Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell, international rugby icon Jonah Lomu, Olympian and international eventing champion Jock Paget, as well as with Rowing New Zealand, Equestrian Sports NZ and within Chiefs Rugby Club governance.
High performance is not theory, it’s lived experience. You will benefit from Tonia's grounded leadership and strategic expertise, developed through decades of experience contributing to high-performance environments where results truly matter.
PRACTICAL AND ACTIONABLE
Earnest leaders want high performance. Everything you will experience with Tonia is grounded in lived experience, informed by applied practice, and proven in real-world environments.
This means you will gain practical, actionable pathways forward - supported by experience, backed by results, and focused on what will actually perform in your context.
HOW WE CAN
WORK TOGETHER
leadership PERFORMANCE coaching 1 : 1
For founders, CEOs, GMs, and leaders ready to lead with greater clarity, confidence, and impact.
Leadership is complex. It requires clear thinking, sound decision-making and the ability to navigate uncertainty while aligning people around a shared direction.
1 : 1 Coaching provides a confidential, experienced, expert sounding board for leaders navigating the realities of teams, culture, governance, strategy, performance, and the human dynamics at the centre of leadership.
Together, we will clarify priorities, align roles and expectations, strengthen decision-making and execution, and create the conditions for meaningful progress that compounds over time.
By helping you see what you cannot yet see, then mapping a clear way forward, Tonia works with you to get to the heart of the matter and stay there until it is clear and cleared - creating clarity, removing what is in the way, and enabling deep and lasting transformation.
Coaching packages are tailored to the needs of the individual and/or organisation, with six-month, twelve-month, and ongoing engagement options available.
For founders, CEOs, GMs, and leaders ready to lead with greater clarity, confidence, and impact.
Key Outcomes:
- Clarity, capability and confident decision-making
- Internal coherence - calm leadership presence and influence
- Forward movement and sustained performance
“I finally stopped reacting and started leading.”
CULTURE and values fACILITATION
Clarity of purpose, clarity of values, alignment across your team and culture.
Tonia's culture facilitation work identifies and distils the essence of your organisation at its natural best - translating that into clear values, behaviours, and ways of operating that can be consistently embedded and lived across the organisation.
As organisations grow and evolve, clarity often diffuses. This misalignment, slows decision-making, breeds interpersonal tension impacting engagement, productivity and therefore performance.
Clarity of purpose and values restores coherence and accountability, ensuring your team embody the vision, own their role, and perform together effectively.
Delivered in collaboration with Kim Silcock, Narrative Strategist, our approach brings together deep diagnostic insight and practical application. The depth enables meaningful and lasting transformation across leadership, culture, communication, and the way the organisation operates as a whole.
Key outcomes:
- Clearly identified, distilled and articulated principles, values and behaviours that guide decision-making
- A cohesive culture that attracts and retains A-players - without perks or pressure
- Coherence within and across teams, increasing productivity
- Practical frameworks and rhythms that increase engagement and embed culture into daily operations
“Staff turnover dropped. Culture lifted. Recruitment got easier.”
LEADERSHIP & TEAM
ALIGNMENT workshops
For leaders and teams ready to reset, refocus, and elevate performance. These workshops are designed to address real-world challenges with clarity and immediacy, creating insight and translating it into practical, actionable change. Workshops are regularly delivered across regions and can also be tailored to your organisation's specific context.
Team Alignment Workshops
Strong teams are built through trust, clarity, accountability, communication, and a shared purpose and commitment to success. This workshop helps teams strengthen the foundations of alignment and performance by identifying what is working, addressing what is getting in the way, and creating practical strategies that improve clarity, courage, collaboration and results. Participants leave with a deeper understanding of themselves, each other, and the conditions required for sustained team success.
Leadership Fundamentals
Whether developing emerging leaders or refreshing senior leadership capability, this workshop focuses on the fundamental skills and mindsets that enable leaders to lead with clarity, confidence and impact. Participants explore key leadership principles including inside-out leadership, communication that influences and empowers, accountability, fertilising feedback and mastering the fundamentals of coherence. The result is practical leadership capability and shared accountability embedded across your team - enabling strong, sustainable performance without relying on you to carry the weight of holding everything together.
"Now I can step back without things falling apart.”
clear leadership puts the wind in
THE sails of performance.
testimonials OF TransformatioN
“I started working with Tonia when I had taken a big step up at work, and, not for the first time, I felt out of my depth. I wanted to make the most of the opportunity to create positive change in the world and not "shrink" the way I had previously. Through Tonia’s grounded, insightful, coaching, I learned to let go of limiting beliefs I had carried around for too long.
This was a huge thing for me, and very skilfully done, with heart and lightness. I have learned so much from Tonia and much has stayed with me. In particular, recognising and getting curious about thought patterns, how to attune my strategic radar and get the most out of strategic conversations.
Most of all, as someone who lives their values wholeheartedly, Tonia has inspired me to do the same! It truly is a privilege and a pleasure having the chance to work with her. It is very freeing becoming someone who can be authentically themselves in their leadership and I would recommend the experience of working with Tonia to anyone!”
“Tonia has been a critical part of my journey as a CEO for close to five years. She combines accountability with strategic perspective in a way that sharpens both leadership thinking and business performance. Her work with our team was transformational.
It created shared language, deeper understanding, and a breakthrough exercise that still shapes our daily conversations. Her influence has extended beyond coaching into tangible organisational impact. I would recommend her without hesitation to any CEO committed to serious growth.””
"Tonia’s Inside-Out Leadership workshop and follow on coaching transformed my approach to leadership - I saw how my instinct to save and shield my team from discomfort was creating a culture of dependency rather than growth.
Listening to Tonia’s upfront and honest approach made me realise that by accepting that level of practice, I was actually holding my team, myself and the origination and ultimately the people we are here to serve back.
Now, with the insights, direct reflection and tools gained from working with Tonia, I am being brave, engaging in planned open conversations backed by clear evidence, leading with accountability focused on growth, challenge my team to step up, and foster a space for real development - resulting in stronger, responsible, more confident, and solution-focused individuals, better performance and happy workplace.
The leadership workshop and coaching calls were a game-changer, and I urge any leader, whatever their stage, to work with Tonia to elevate their impact for the good of ourselves and our communities."
“Working with Tonia was exactly the catalyst I needed. After years in leadership, I was ready to step into a new phase, but I wasn’t sure what that looked like or how to begin.
Tonia’s ability to ask the right questions, challenge our thinking, and create space for deep insight was incredibly powerful. Watching her coach others was just as impactful as being coached myself, it was like witnessing mastery in action. Her openness about her own journey made everything feel grounded, relatable, and real.
She truly walks the talk. Since the workshop and coaching, I’ve noticed a real shift, not just in my confidence and clarity, but in how I support and lead others.
The tools Tonia shared have stayed with me and become part of how I operate, whether I’m giving or receiving feedback, navigating tough conversations, or setting meaningful goals. I’ve even been able to pass those tools on to others.
If you’re considering this workshop, go for it. It’s a powerful space to reflect, be challenged, and grow alongside other aspiring leaders. The insights and practical strategies you walk away with will serve you long after the day is done.”
“Tonia’s willingness to be vulnerable was a breath of fresh air. I’ve been in sessions where vulnerability was expected from us but never modelled by the facilitator.
Tonia flipped that. I also appreciated her frankness. One comment really hit me - initially it was a shock, but it believe it landed because it was exactly what I needed to hear. I was also incredibly nervous about the water activity but ended up enjoying it the most.
The pre-work helped me work through those nerves in advance and no-talking immediately beforehand was such an interesting experience and was very powerful. The group size felt perfect, and the overall communication throughout the programme was very thorough, and really helpful.”
WHO IS TONIA
Tonia understands what breaks down when leadership becomes unclear, and what it takes to restore alignment, confidence, and direction.
Her work is not about theory or surface-level frameworks. It is about seeing what’s really there, naming it clearly, and creating a practical path forward.
Over three decades, Tonia has worked alongside some of the world’s highest-performing individuals and teams, contributing to environments where performance, clarity and accountability matter. That same thinking now supports leaders and organisations to build capability, strengthen culture and deliver meaningful results.
This is leadership grounded in experience, shaped by real environments and focused on one outcome: wholehearted high performance.
Strategist, facilitator and trusted coach, Tonia brings clarity to what matters most and the discipline to act on it. She has worked across governance, business ownership, leadership, high-performance sport, philanthropy, strategy, culture and leadership coaching - supporting individuals and teams to navigate complexity, elevate performance, and lead with clarity to get results.
Tonia is a Chartered Independent Director, trained leadership coach and SmartLeaderTM Psychometrics accredited practioner with academic foundations of double degrees in Physical Education and Commerce with a Marketing Major.
Not just a coach... a catalyst.
COURAGE // STRENGTH TO SAY WHAT MATTERS
I name what needs to be said with clarity and calm authority. I stay with you as you act on it, helping you get clear and cleared, and moving forward with momentum.
I identify patterns you may miss, personally, commercially and culturally. Whether reading the room or the numbers, I cut through the noise to what matters most, and call it.
RESOLVE // decisive leadership
I bring the level of clarity and emotional awareness many leaders don't realise they're missing.
Together, we start with what’s there, we define the path forward, we resolve what’s in the way, and we build the clarity and confidence needed to lead decisively.
GRACE // CLARITY WITH PRECISION AND ELEGANCE
I challenge directly, with respect and clarity, creating space for honest reflection and decisive action.
The work is focused, supported, graceful and emobided. It can be humbling. It will build clarity with precision and it ensures meaningful, even transformational, progress.
ABILITY // DEPTH THAT DELIVERS
Grounded in experience and evidence, I support you to evolve your leadership without unnecessary pressure or noise - building coherence, capability, confidence, and performance that lasts.
This work is about meaningful change.
lead with clarity.
perform with purpose.
If you're feeling the weight of unclear leadership, watching your team drift, or just know that there is more within you, this is your moment to change it. Let's have a no pressure conversation about where things are at, what's getting in the way, and what's possible from here.
