Decades of leading, facilitating, and designing in the terrain that matters.

I built Impact Adventures because I kept watching the same thing happen on trail. People who spent their working lives performing their role would, somewhere around day two, stop. And in that space, something more honest and more useful would begin.

I have a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Nutrition, and I’m currently completing my PhD. Alongside that I have spent more than a decade running Take Shape Adventures, designing and leading experiences for people in terrain that demands presence. I know what it looks like when a person finally stops managing their image and starts doing the actual work.

“I didn’t build this to run nice days outdoors. I built it because I’ve seen what happens when the right conditions meet the right facilitation and I know how rarely that happens in a boardroom.”

I have sat in the rooms you are trying to navigate. As former Deputy Secretary of Victoria Police and former CEO of HealthShare Victoria, I understand the weight of leading large, complex organisations through change, pressure, and moments that don’t have easy answers.

I work with the strategic layer on programs, when the conversation moves from team dynamics to organisational direction and what leadership needs to look like to get there. I am a CPA-qualified executive coach, which means I bring financial and commercial literacy to leadership conversations that most facilitators simply don’t have.

“The leaders I respect most are the ones who are willing to be wrong in the room. That willingness, more than any skill or framework, is what makes a team safe enough to do real work together.”

I spent three decades in corporate life. Mechanical Engineering. International Business Development. Boardrooms and factories around the world. I was good at it. I also watched what corporate environments do to people. Senior leaders performing exhaustion. Teams who had worked together for years but couldn’t have a real conversation. Strategy offsites in hotel conference rooms that everyone forgot by the following Tuesday.

I wanted to build something different. At Impact Adventures, I design and lead outdoor leadership programs for senior teams. I own how the day is built. Activity design. Risk management. The sequencing of challenge and recovery. Where the discomfort is engineered to land, and when to push a group versus when to pull back.

“The moment a senior leader stops performing and starts being honest. That moment is the work.”

I have guided groups through kayaking expeditions, multi-day walks, and challenge events across Victoria and beyond. I am always asking the same question before any program: what does this group need to experience, and what setting will create those conditions most honestly.

On program I design and lead the physical elements from the ground up. Venues, routes, challenge formats, water safety. I know when an environment stops being scenery and starts being a teacher, and I try to put groups in that moment as often as possible.

“People surprise themselves out here. That’s the part I never get tired of watching.”