The Long Game
Career Coaching Melbourne
Saturday sessions · $200 per session · Melbourne-based, available online
This is for you if you have a highly resonant body for power dynamics.
You notice, feel, and absorb more from your work environment than most people — especially when power, tension, or unspoken dynamics are present.
And now you’re ready to play the long game towards your own peace and wellbeing. To live with vitality, creativity, and even freedom!
Someone who finally sees the whole picture — not just the emotions, but the machinations, the subtle power dynamics, the significant ramifications of playing politics at a high level.
Find a place to return — to clarity, steadiness, and self-trust — inside your career.
You are mid-to-senior level and you are good at what you do. But you are in an environment where the goalposts shift, where sophisticated players are eroding your confidence, and where the pressure is making you question your own reality.
You don’t need someone to help you “find your passion.” You need someone who has seen the machinery, understands the power dynamics, and can help you find solid ground while you still need to show up to work.
You are professionally accomplished and privately unravelling. The gap between how you present and how you feel is widening.
You are navigating a workplace where the power dynamics are sophisticated, the players are skilled, and the rules are not what they appear to be.
You don’t just need someone to listen, but someone who knows the terrain to avoid pitfalls.
You need to find a way to stay with your feet underneath you — and play the long game.
How career coaching works
A free 15-minute conversation
We start with a short, no-pressure conversation. You tell me what’s happening. I tell you whether I think I can help. No sales process. Just an honest exchange.
Monthly Saturday sessions
One hour per month, on a Saturday. Long enough to go deep. Regular enough to track the shifting ground beneath you. Available enough to fit around a demanding career.
Mind and Body
Informed by Narrative Therapy, powered by mindfulness, and grounded in corporate reality, we work with your highly resonant body.
Melbourne-based career coach with 15 years in People & Culture
I’m Sarah, a reflective practitioner, career coach and People & Culture leader with over 15 years working deeply inside organisational complexities — the politics, the emotional load, the cultural undercurrents no one names.
My strengths are in sharing curiosity with people to:
– Make sense of power dynamics
– Find clarity about interactions that feel ‘off’
– Release unrealistic expectations
– Recognise the systems surrounding us
– Apply imagery and metaphors to experiences
– Sit in the discomfort of holding competing truths
My work blends structure and soul; analysis and care; professionalism and artistry – plus a whole lot of pragmatism, because the bills still have to be paid! In summary, there’s no ‘4 hour work week’ fantasy here, nor a hustle mindset to do more. Following the wisdom of Narrative Therapy: you are not the problem, the problem is the problem. I would be honoured to explore whatever challenge is showing up in your work-life with you.
The kinds of things I hear after people talk with me
“You’re like having private access to HR that’s willing to call a spade a spade. Getting help to decipher the corpspeak and understand what is going on has helped me find a way forwards.”
“No-one else in my life knows what it’s like to be sitting in front of a Board while having a colleague undermine you. It’s so good to have someone that gets it and can problem-solve with me.”
Ready to find
solid ground?
A free 15-minute conversation. No sales process. You tell me what’s happening — I’ll tell you honestly whether I think I can help.
Saturday sessions · $200 per session · Melbourne-based, available online
Love Letters to the Highly Resonant Body
“…these kind of complex problems are actually not problems that we solve,
but paradoxes that we manage…”
From Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel: The Permission to Be and Not Just the Pressure to Do