For founders, CEOs and leadership teams
Teams that hold together when it gets hard.
Twenty years leading ordinary people through real challenge, and the science that explains it. Outdoors, in real situations, and measured.
Founder, Take Shape Adventures and Impact Adventures. Master of Applied Positive Psychology, University of Melbourne.
12 of 12
leaders said it was worthwhile
7 of 11
leaders' stress fell
The leaders who walked in least confident gained the most.
Is this you?
You've built a capable team. But when it gets hard, it still comes back to you. Decisions wait until you're back. The plan gets played when you're in the room and drifts when you're not.
That isn't a people problem. It's capacity, and it can be built.
Why me
For twelve years I've led thousands of people into places they weren't sure they could handle. Not athletes. Ordinary people: tired, scared, out of their depth, sometimes resentful about being there at all. I've watched what happens to a group when the plan changes, when someone can't keep up, when it rains on day two. Who steps up, who goes quiet, who takes over, who finally asks for help. And I've learned how to turn that into a group that looks after each other and gets to the end.
Before that I spent a decade changing people's behaviour for a living, which taught me that knowing what to do and doing it under pressure are two different problems. Then I went back to university and did a master's in applied positive psychology to understand why what I was seeing on the trail worked.
That's what I bring into a workplace. Not a theory about leadership. Twenty years of watching people under real pressure, the science that explains it, and a way of putting a team in front of the real thing so they can see themselves.
One story, three parts
Everything I do comes from the same place: real groups, real challenge, and finding out what actually works.
The field
Take Shape Adventures
Twelve years and thousands of ordinary people led through real challenge. A seven-figure business built on the trail.
The programs
Impact Adventures
Leadership programs for teams, built on what the field taught me and measured before and after.
The evidence
Positive Outdoor Institute
Where what we see in the field becomes research, so the work keeps getting sharper.
Two ways to work with me
For you
Executive coaching
One to one for founders and CEOs. We walk and we talk, because people think more clearly outdoors than across a desk. We work on how you lead when it gets hard: what you hold onto, what you hand over, and how your team keeps moving when you're not in the room.
Map. Where you actually are, not where you say you are.
Build. Real decisions, worked through as they happen, walking where we can.
Hold. What lasts after we stop, tested against where you started.
Six to twelve months. I take a small number of coaching clients at a time.
Talk to me about coachingFor your team
Leading Through Challenge
For a leader and their team. Your team works on real situations from your own business, practises leading through them, and takes it straight back to work.
Measured before, after and four weeks later, so you see what changed.
Not ready for that yet? Start with a team day outdoors.
Talk to me about your teamHow I work
Real situations, not role plays
We work on what's in front of your team now.
Outdoors, on purpose
The body learns under pressure what a slide can't teach.
Measured
Before, after and four weeks later, so you see what changed instead of guessing.
Measured work with a 12-person leadership team
12 of 12
said it was worthwhile
8.2/10
program rating
9.0/10
commitment to act on what they decided
7 of 11
leaders' stress fell
The leaders who walked in least confident gained the most.
“I have sat beside Tracey in the room with executive teams, and what she does is genuinely rare. She reads a senior group under pressure faster than anyone I have worked with, and she holds leaders to a standard most facilitators are too polite to ask for, with enough warmth that they thank her for it afterwards. The combination of real business experience, serious evidence, and the outdoors as her working medium does not exist anywhere else I have seen.”
Strategy Facilitator
“Working with Tracey and Adrian was a genuinely great experience for our team. Getting out of our everyday environment meant connecting on a deeper level, and it created space to shift perspectives on how we build capacity to thrive through challenges. The focus moved from me to we, and that shifted how we solve problems. The team loved being outdoors and having fun whilst learning. I'd recommend Tracey and the team to anyone who wants to build capacity and wellbeing with their team.”
Chief Risk Officer & Chief Revenue Officer, EnergyAustralia
“Those connections have continued to sustain us throughout the year.”
Principal, MLC Junior School
Speaking, research and conversations
I speak to leadership teams, conferences and industry groups about what twenty years in the field has taught me about people under pressure.
Talks
Teams that hold together when it gets hard
Stress is inevitable. Growing through it is a skill.
The person at the back of the group: what leading ordinary people taught me about leadership
I'm also open to
Podcasts and panels on leadership, pressure and how people grow through challenge.
Research partnerships with universities studying what happens to people in real challenge, through the Positive Outdoor Institute.
Working with coaches, HR consultants and facilitators who want to bring this work to their own clients.
Work with me
I'm taking five leadership teams into a half-day pilot at $3,500 plus GST. The usual rate from mid 2027 is $6,500.
I keep set times each week for calls with leaders. Pick one that suits you.
Book a time with TraceyWhen you book, I'll ask you one question: what is the thing you keep carrying alone?