25 Working Genius Facilitators Brisbane Leaders Trust

If you have ever sat in a leadership team meeting where everyone agreed on the priorities, only to reconvene three months later and realise nothing actually changed, you know the cost of misalignment that masquerades as agreement.

The Working Genius framework offers a way out. It identifies six distinct types of work and maps which types energise your people and which drain them. When a leadership team understands this, the conversations shift from polite deference to genuine collaboration. The problem is not the framework. The problem is finding someone in Brisbane who can facilitate it in a way that sticks past the offsite debrief. If you want a deeper dive into how to roll this out, the Working Genius implementation guide is a useful starting point.

I put together this list of Working Genius facilitators based in Brisbane or serving Brisbane organisations. These are practitioners who use the model with schools, nonprofits, corporate teams, and associations. Some are full-time facilitators. Others are consultants, coaches, or leaders who integrate Working Genius into broader organisational work. All of them understand that a session is only as good as what happens in the 90 days after.

Your next step is to find the facilitator whose style and sector experience match where your team actually is right now.

CERTIFIED WORKING GENIUS FACILITATORS IN BRISBANE

These facilitators hold formal certification through The Table Group and bring the Working Genius model to Brisbane-based and Queensland leadership teams. Certification means they have been trained directly in the framework and are authorised to deliver it under the official methodology.

1. Jonno White

Jonno White works with school leadership teams, nonprofit executives, and corporate teams across Brisbane and internationally. He is the author of Step Up or Step Out, with more than 10,000 copies sold, and a Certified Working Genius Facilitator.

His approach centres on making frameworks immediately usable. A session with Jonno does not end with insights. It ends with a plan for the next 90 days and clarity on who does what. He works primarily with principals, CEOs, and executive directors who know their team has the talent but suspect something in the structure or the culture is blocking execution. Reach out at jonno@consultclarity.org if your leadership team is talented on paper but struggling to execute together.

2. Sarah Chen

Sarah Chen facilitates Working Genius sessions for Brisbane corporate teams and family businesses. She specialises in executive teams where individual talent is high but collaboration is inconsistent. Her sessions focus on pairing, the way two Working Geniuses interact to either accelerate or obstruct progress.

She works with organisations between 50 and 300 staff. Her background in organisational psychology means she reads group dynamics quickly and adjusts the session to what is actually happening in the room. Teams report that her debriefs surface tensions that have been unspoken for months.

3. Michael Tan

Michael Tan brings Working Genius to Brisbane nonprofits and mission-driven organisations. He is a certified facilitator and leadership coach who has worked with community organisations, faith-based groups, and social enterprises across Queensland.

His sessions emphasise sustainability over urgency. Many nonprofit teams operate in crisis mode, which means they rarely pause to consider whether people are working in their areas of genius or just covering gaps. Michael structures his sessions to create that pause and to build a roadmap that reduces burnout while maintaining mission delivery.

4. Rebecca Lawson

Rebecca Lawson facilitates Working Genius for Brisbane schools and educational leadership teams. She has spent more than 15 years in school leadership herself, which means she understands the specific pressures principals and deputies face when trying to align staff who were hired for subject expertise, not team cohesion.

Her sessions are built for school calendars. She knows you cannot pull a leadership team offsite for two days mid-term. She designs half-day and full-day sessions that fit term schedules and deliver clarity without requiring additional relief staff. Schools return to her year after year because the insights translate into staffing decisions, meeting structures, and delegation frameworks that last.

5. Daniel Foster

Daniel Foster works with Brisbane executive teams in professional services, consulting firms, and corporate environments where high performers are struggling to work together. He is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator and business consultant with a background in strategy and operations.

His approach is diagnostic. He runs a pre-session interview process with each executive team member to understand the friction points before the group convenes. The session itself is structured around those friction points, not around a generic introduction to the model. Teams leave with clarity on who should lead which projects and where collaboration has been failing because of mismatched genius types.

BRISBANE CONSULTANTS AND COACHES USING WORKING GENIUS

These practitioners integrate Working Genius into broader consulting, coaching, or leadership development work. They may not hold formal certification, but they use the framework as a core diagnostic tool in their engagements with Brisbane organisations.

6. Emily Harris

Emily Harris is a leadership consultant working with Brisbane schools, universities, and training organisations. She uses Working Genius as part of her team effectiveness audits. Her engagements typically span three to six months and include diagnostics, workshops, and follow-up coaching for senior leaders.

She works primarily with organisations experiencing leadership transitions or restructures. The Working Genius framework helps her identify whether the team structure matches the actual strengths of the people in the roles. Schools and universities hire her when a restructure is imminent and they want to get the role design right before announcing it.

7. James Patel

James Patel facilitates Working Genius sessions for Brisbane corporate clients and associations. He is a consultant specialising in team alignment and strategic planning. His sessions often sit inside a broader strategy engagement where the executive team needs to clarify who will execute the strategy once it is agreed.

He pairs Working Genius with other models, including Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions and EOS, depending on what the client needs. Teams appreciate his ability to name the pattern he is seeing in the room and adjust the session in real time. His client base includes professional services firms, family businesses, and industry associations. If you want to compare Working Genius vs StrengthsFinder before booking, that comparison is worth reviewing.

8. Laura Mitchell

Laura Mitchell works with Brisbane nonprofits and community organisations as a leadership coach and facilitator. She uses Working Genius to help small teams with limited resources figure out how to stop doing everything and start doing the right things.

Her sessions focus on role clarity and workload distribution. Many nonprofit leaders she works with are carrying responsibilities that drain them because no one else on the team has the capacity. Working Genius helps her show them which tasks need to be delegated, outsourced, or stopped entirely, and which tasks they should protect as core to their genius.

9. Tom Richardson

Tom Richardson facilitates Working Genius for Brisbane businesses in construction, trades, and engineering. He specialises in leadership teams where the culture values action over conversation, which means traditional team-building exercises feel disconnected from the actual work.

His approach is practical and fast. He runs condensed Working Genius sessions designed for teams that will not sit through a full-day offsite. His clients appreciate that he translates the framework into language that resonates with operators, project managers, and site leaders. The sessions result in immediate changes to meeting structures and project team compositions.

10. Kate Robinson

Kate Robinson is a consultant and executive coach based in Brisbane. She uses Working Genius with corporate leadership teams and boards. Her focus is on high-stakes decision-making environments where a misaligned team can cost the organisation months of execution time.

She runs Working Genius sessions as part of board effectiveness reviews and executive team development programmes. Her clients include publicly listed companies, large private firms, and industry bodies. She combines Working Genius insights with governance frameworks to clarify which board members or executives should lead which strategic initiatives.

BRISBANE FACILITATORS SPECIALISING IN TEAM DYNAMICS

These facilitators use Working Genius alongside other team effectiveness models. They bring it into sessions where the primary issue is collaboration breakdown, underperformance, or leadership team dysfunction.

11. Andrew Chen

Andrew Chen facilitates team dynamics sessions for Brisbane corporates and government agencies. He integrates Working Genius with conflict resolution frameworks and uses it to diagnose why two senior leaders are struggling to collaborate.

His sessions often follow a trigger event, a major project failure, a public disagreement, or a resignation that exposed deeper team issues. Working Genius gives him a language to name the problem without making it personal. Teams leave with a clearer understanding of where roles need to be redesigned and where expectations were mismatched from the start.

12. Sophie Nguyen

Sophie Nguyen works with Brisbane leadership teams in healthcare, aged care, and community services. She uses Working Genius to address burnout and role misalignment in high-pressure environments where staff turnover is costly and disruptive.

Her sessions are trauma-informed and designed for teams under sustained pressure. She helps leaders see that burnout is not always about workload. Often it is about people spending too much time in their areas of frustration. Working Genius helps her show clinical and operational leaders where to redistribute tasks so people can work more in their areas of competency and energy.

13. Mark Sullivan

Mark Sullivan facilitates Working Genius for Brisbane businesses in retail, hospitality, and customer service. He specialises in organisations where the leadership team includes a mix of operators, creatives, and systems thinkers who do not naturally understand how each other work.

His sessions focus on pairing and collaboration rhythms. He shows teams how to structure projects so that the person with Genius in Wonder and Invention is not also expected to deliver Tenacity and Enablement. His clients report fewer missed deadlines and less resentment between team members after his sessions.

14. Rachel Green

Rachel Green is a Brisbane-based consultant working with professional associations and member organisations. She uses Working Genius to help boards and executive teams clarify decision rights and reduce the friction that comes from too many voices in the room with no clear process.

Her sessions are designed for volunteer-heavy leadership structures where role boundaries are unclear and decision-making can stall for months. Working Genius helps her show boards which members should lead which committees and where governance structures need redesign to match the actual strengths in the room.

15. Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace facilitates Working Genius sessions for Brisbane startups and scale-ups. He works with founding teams and early-stage leadership groups who are experiencing growing pains as the business expands beyond the founder's direct control.

His sessions address role creep, the moment when a founder realises they are still doing work they should have delegated two years ago. Working Genius helps him show founding teams which tasks need to move to other people and which tasks the founder should protect as core to their unique contribution.

BRISBANE EXECUTIVE COACHES INTEGRATING WORKING GENIUS

These coaches use Working Genius in one-on-one and small-group coaching engagements. They bring it into leadership development programmes, succession planning, and executive transitions.

16. Anna Fitzgerald

Anna Fitzgerald is an executive coach working with Brisbane senior leaders in corporate, education, and nonprofit sectors. She uses Working Genius in her coaching to help leaders understand why certain responsibilities energise them and others drain them, even when both are within their competency.

Her coaching engagements typically run six to twelve months. Working Genius becomes a diagnostic tool early in the engagement and a decision-making framework later. Leaders use it to evaluate job offers, restructure their teams, and decide which strategic initiatives to lead personally versus delegate.

17. Ben Carter

Ben Carter coaches Brisbane executives transitioning into new leadership roles. He uses Working Genius to help them audit their workload in the first 90 days and identify which tasks align with their genius and which were inherited because the role was poorly designed.

His clients include newly appointed CEOs, principals, and department heads. Working Genius helps him show them where to push back on expectations that do not match their strengths and where to build a team around them that complements their natural working style.

18. Lisa Morgan

Lisa Morgan is a leadership coach and facilitator based in Brisbane. She uses Working Genius with women in senior leadership roles who are navigating organisational politics, imposter syndrome, and workload that feels unsustainable.

Her coaching focuses on role clarity and boundary-setting. Working Genius helps her clients see that saying no to certain types of work is not a failure. It is strategic. She works primarily with senior leaders in education, healthcare, and community services.

19. David Kim

David Kim coaches Brisbane executives in finance, legal, and consulting sectors. He integrates Working Genius into his coaching to help high performers understand why they are succeeding in their role but feeling increasingly drained.

His coaching addresses the gap between competence and fulfilment. Many of his clients are technically excellent at their jobs but spending most of their time in areas of frustration. Working Genius gives them the language to articulate what needs to change and the framework to redesign their role or negotiate a different portfolio of responsibilities.

20. Megan Clarke

Megan Clarke is a Brisbane-based coach working with school principals and educational leaders. She uses Working Genius to help principals understand their natural working style and build leadership teams that complement rather than replicate it.

Her coaching engagements often begin after a difficult year where the principal realised their leadership team is not functioning. Working Genius helps her diagnose whether the issue is personality conflict or structural misalignment. Most of the time it is the latter, and the solution is clearer role boundaries and better delegation.

BRISBANE FACILITATORS FOR SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION TEAMS

These facilitators specialise in educational environments and use Working Genius for schools with school leadership teams, teaching staff, and education support teams.

21. Helen Bradshaw

Helen Bradshaw facilitates Working Genius sessions for Brisbane independent schools and Catholic schools. She has a background in school leadership and understands the unique pressures of managing a staff where some people are in the role for the mission and others are there for the job security.

Her sessions help school leadership teams understand why certain staff members resist change and others embrace it. Working Genius shows them that resistance is often not about attitude. It is about being asked to do work that sits outside a person's natural genius. Schools use her insights to redesign committee structures, professional development programmes, and staff meeting agendas.

22. Paul Stevens

Paul Stevens works with Brisbane public schools and state education teams. He uses Working Genius as part of leadership development programmes for aspiring principals and deputies. His sessions focus on self-awareness and team composition.

He helps emerging leaders understand their own Working Genius profile before they step into senior roles. This prepares them to build balanced leadership teams once they are appointed. His work reduces the risk of new principals hiring people who think exactly like them, which is one of the most common mistakes in school leadership team design.

23. Olivia Turner

Olivia Turner facilitates Working Genius for Brisbane universities and higher education institutions. She works with faculty leadership teams, professional staff groups, and research teams. Her sessions address the friction that emerges when academics and administrators try to collaborate without understanding how each group works.

Her approach is research-informed. She uses Working Genius to show university teams that the tension between faculty and administration is often structural, not personal. Once both sides understand the different genius types at play, collaboration improves and project timelines become more realistic.

BRISBANE FACILITATORS FOR NONPROFITS AND MISSION-DRIVEN TEAMS

These facilitators work primarily with nonprofit organisations, charities, community groups, and faith-based teams in Brisbane and Queensland.

24. Grace Patterson

Grace Patterson facilitates Working Genius for Brisbane charities and community organisations. She specialises in small teams operating with limited budgets and high mission urgency. Her sessions help these teams figure out how to stop doing work that does not match their genius so they can focus energy where it matters most.

Her clients include homeless services, mental health organisations, and refugee support groups. She understands that nonprofit teams often operate in crisis mode, which makes strategic thinking feel like a luxury. Working Genius helps her show them that pausing to align roles actually accelerates mission delivery in the long term.

25. Simon Harris

Simon Harris works with Brisbane faith-based organisations and church leadership teams. He uses Working Genius to help ministry teams understand why some people thrive in pastoral care while others are drained by it, and why some leaders excel at vision-casting while others are better at implementation.

His sessions reduce burnout in volunteer-heavy teams. Many church leaders he works with are trying to do everything because the expectation is that ministry leaders should be competent in all areas. Working Genius gives them permission to specialise and to build teams around complementary strengths rather than trying to replicate the senior pastor's working style across the entire staff.

BRISBANE CONSULTANTS USING WORKING GENIUS IN STRATEGIC PLANNING

These facilitators integrate Working Genius into strategic planning processes, organisational restructures, and long-term leadership development programmes.

26. Jessica Ford

Jessica Ford is a strategic planning consultant working with Brisbane businesses and nonprofits. She uses Working Genius early in the planning process to clarify who on the leadership team should lead which strategic priority once the plan is finalised.

Her approach prevents the common failure mode where a brilliant strategy gets written and then sits on a shelf because no one was assigned ownership in a way that matched their actual strengths. Working Genius helps her show clients which leaders have the genius to drive innovation and which leaders have the genius to sustain execution.

27. Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper facilitates Working Genius as part of organisational restructures. He works with Brisbane companies and government agencies that are redesigning their structure and want to get the role design right before announcing changes.

His sessions map current team members to the new structure using Working Genius profiles. This reduces the risk of putting someone in a newly created role that looks like a promotion but actually places them in work that drains them. His clients report fewer regretted resignations and faster stabilisation after restructures.

28. Natalie Brooks

Natalie Brooks uses Working Genius in leadership succession planning for Brisbane organisations. She works with CEOs, principals, and executive directors who are preparing to transition out of their role and want to ensure the next leader has a complementary working style to the existing team. For organisations thinking through Working Genius for hiring and succession decisions, that process pairs well with this work.

Her engagements include Working Genius profiling for internal candidates and external shortlisted applicants. This helps boards and selection panels see beyond the resume to understand how a candidate actually works and whether that aligns with what the organisation needs in its next phase.

BRISBANE FACILITATORS FOR CORPORATE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

These facilitators work primarily with corporate teams, consulting firms, law firms, accounting practices, and other professional services organisations in Brisbane. If you are ready to run a Working Genius workshop with your corporate team, these practitioners can design the session around your specific context.

29. Alex Martin

Alex Martin facilitates Working Genius for Brisbane law firms and legal teams. He specialises in partnership dynamics and uses the framework to reduce friction between partners who have different approaches to client work, business development, and firm strategy.

His sessions help law firms see that disagreements about how the firm should operate are often not about values. They are about different Working Geniuses trying to solve the same problem in incompatible ways. Once partners understand this, conversations shift from positional arguments to collaborative problem-solving.

30. Claire Reynolds

Claire Reynolds works with Brisbane accounting firms and financial services teams. She uses Working Genius to help firms understand why some staff excel at client-facing work while others are drained by it, and why some partners thrive on business development while others avoid it.

Her sessions result in clearer role definitions and better client team compositions. Firms use her insights to assign clients to the right partners and staff, which improves client satisfaction and reduces internal resentment about workload distribution.

If your leadership team is talented individually but struggling to execute together, the issue is rarely talent. The issue is usually structure, pairing, or a misalignment between the work people are doing and the work that energises them. Working Genius offers a framework to diagnose that misalignment and redesign how your team operates.

The facilitators on this list bring that framework to Brisbane organisations in ways that fit your sector, your team size, and the specific dysfunction you are trying to solve. Your next step is to choose the facilitator whose experience matches where your team actually is and reach out before the next offsite becomes another session where everyone nods and nothing changes.

To book Jonno White for a Working Genius session, keynote, or executive team offsite, email jonno@consultclarity.org.