Move from prescriptive to authentic.
Coach from presence, not performance, and become the confident, impactful coach your clients truly need.
Find Your Presence. Trust Yourself. Coach Your Way
A 14-week developmental program for newly trained and early-career coaches ready to move from knowing a model to living inside the conversation with confidence and authenticity.
Are you an early-career coach wondering how to meet each client's needs when formula-based coaching is starting to feel stale?
Introducing…
You’ve completed your coach training, and you love coaching.
But when you're sitting opposite a real person, your brain can suddenly get noisy:
Am I asking the right question?
Where should I take this next?
What if I get it wrong?
Am I actually any good at this?
The Coaching Development Lab
Think of a coaching model like a treasure map…
The compass, the weather checks, the provisions, the planning…
Those stay constant.
But the terrain changes every time.
Sometimes you're bushwalking to a summit.
Sometimes you're sailing across open water.
The Coaching Development Lab is where you get out of your head and into that conversation, building the presence to use the map as a guide rather than a script, so every session can go wherever the client actually needs it to.
This highly interactive 3-month program will help you
uncover your authentic coaching style, build confidence in your own capability
& develop the practical skills to create meaningful impact,
without feeling that you need to coach like anyone else.
This is your space to:
Quiet the noise in your head and become more present
Navigate your thoughts and emotions during a coaching session
Strengthen your confidence without needing to know everything
Experiment, play and discover what works for you
Add practical tools and approaches to your coaching toolkit, and know when to use them
Practise with real people in a supportive environment
Receive thoughtful feedback that helps you grow
Trust yourself, and the coaching process, more deeply
Rather than following a formula, you'll finish with the awareness to notice, respond and partner with clients in real time, with presence at the centre of your practice.
The Coaching Development Lab journey is organised across six interconnected modules:
1
Self‑Awareness and
Coach Presence
Get out of your head and into the coach conversation
Manage the inner noise, become more present and focus fully on the person in front of you.
2
Build Courage and
Expand as a Coach
Permission to Play
Experiment, follow your curiosity and explore what gets in the way of courageous coaching.
3
Developing Awareness of Patterns
Build awareness
Recognise the inherited, subconscious patterns and behaviours that trap coaches and clients alike before they show up in the room.
4
Trusting the Coaching Process
Awareness allows trust to follow
With that awareness in place, let go of the need to fix, perform, or find the perfect question,
5
Tools with Purpose
Expanding As a Coach
Explore practical, evidence-backed tools and understand when—and when not—to use them.
6
Developing Your Coaching Signature
How awareness becomes practice
Bring everything together to identify the qualities, strengths and approaches that make your coaching uniquely yours.
Why a LAB?
The name is deliberate. This is a place to experiment in safety, test what works for you, and grow your own coaching presence, not a classroom to sit quietly in.
How the Lab Works
Across 14 weeks, you'll have:
8 x 90-minute learning labs, spaced fortnightly after the introductory session, covering new knowledge and skills, including live demonstrations
6 x reciprocal coaching sessions, facilitating time to explore, experiment and experience each module's new insights
A library of go-to resources and industry references
An online community for connection and support
That's a total of twelve hours of training and twelve hours of reciprocal coaching to experiment, apply and embody new knowledge and skills.
This program is specifically developed week by week, so learning builds and embeds over time, allowing each coach to develop their own authentic style with confidence.
Meet Your Facilitators
Nicky Rasmin
Nicky is an ICF PCC-certified coach and a leadership team member of ICF Queensland, with over twenty years of experience across consulting, corporate training, and leadership development. Nicky has enjoyed a dual career working on large-scale creative projects, from the Olympics through to corporate training conferences, whilst sharing the insights from those experiences through storytelling in the training room.
Through her career, Nicky has learned that training on its own rarely creates lasting change. Adult learning research backs this up, skills only become embodied through practice, feedback, and support after the initial training event. She is particularly drawn to supporting behaviour change and cultural shifts rather than delivering off-the-shelf content. That understanding shapes how she works alongside clients at every stage of development.
As a visual artist as well as a coach, play and creativity sit at the centre of how Nicky works. For her, that means building the psychological safety for people to think differently, experiment, and try things out loud, without needing to get it right the first time.
Nicky believes that everyone is creative in their own way, with their own strengths, and that we are all here to create impact. In the right developmental environment, people build the confidence to turn up authentically, to innovate, and to create that impact as a service to both themselves and others.
Suzie Whitfield is a performance coach, workplace trainer, and passionate explorer of human potential. For more than a decade, she has worked with people from all walks of life, from senior executives in global organisations and Olympic athletes to Netflix actors, neurodivergent thinkers, emerging leaders, and local community members, all united by one thing: a desire to discover what they are truly capable of.
Drawing on neuroscience, performance psychology, evidence-based coaching practices, and a lifetime of learning, Suzie creates environments where people feel safe enough to be challenged and inspired enough to grow. Her coaching style is energetic, practical, and deeply human. She has a unique ability to help people uncover the beliefs, strengths, and possibilities that often sit hidden beneath the noise of everyday life.
At the heart of Suzie's work is a simple but powerful belief: human potential is far greater than most of us realise. While life often presents obstacles that can cloud our view of what is possible, Suzie is passionate about helping people reconnect with their strengths, build confidence, and take meaningful action toward the future they want to create.
Known for her authenticity, warmth, and ability to spark powerful conversations, Suzie brings a mix of insight, curiosity, and fun to every room she enters. She believes that growth is rarely comfortable, but it is always exciting, and often far more rewarding than we ever imagined.
Suzie Whitfield
Client Love
The Coaching Development Lab
Program Inclusions - 14 weeks of Learning, Applying & Reflecting
✓Fortnightly 90-minute Lab Learning Group Calls, including development discussion, demonstrations and reflection
✓ Session recordings available each week to revisit moments or for when life gets busy.
✓ Regular reciprocal coaching with fellow participants to embody and practice new coaching approaches with greater presence.
✓ A library of GO-TO resources and industry references to save you time and feed your curiosity!
✓ An online community of like-minded people for connection, growth and support
Program Commencing
Tuesday 9th February 2027
Call commences at 18:30 AEST during daylight saving hours and move to 19:00 on 5th April
Enrol before 23 December to lock in the AUD$1,790 incl. GST pilot rate for the first Coaching Development Lab cohort.
Choose Your Plan
POPULAR
$1790 upfront
$625/ 3mo
$160/ week
Confidence in coaching does not come from knowing more techniques.
It emerges through lived experience, reflection, and the ability to stay present & curious when conversations move beyond the predictable.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does the program run?
The program runs for 14 weeks, with LIVE workshops every Tuesday evening and recordings of sessions released every Wednesday. Reciprocal coaching is scheduled according to participant availability.
How do I access the content and join the online community?
The LIVE Learning Labs are delivered via ZOOM. Content and community are both is available through our online platform.
When are the sessions?
The weekly live sessions are scheduled for Tuesday evenings. BONUS 1:1 Coaching Sessions are booked directly with Nicky or Suzie throughout the week. Reciprocal coaching is scheduled according to participant availability.
What if I have a specific question or challenge?
If you have a specific question or challenge, via text or email, we can address it publicly or privately. Additionally, you’re welcome to raise it during live sessions or post it in the private community group for feedback and support. Additional information will be posted in the group resource library to provide resources as required.
What happens if I go on holiday or get sick? Are sessions recorded?
Yes, sessions are recorded and shared on the program platform.
How will I know I will get the attention to meet my individual career needs?
This is group learning and mentoring, so if you have a question, someone else has the same one! Individual questions can be answered without naming the source of the query (if requested) during the group activity, so you can rest assured your questions will be answered!
What are the steps to get started?
Ready to begin? Once you confirm your investment through the links above, you'll receive a straightforward client agreement to sign and return.
How do I make a payment?
Payments can be made upfront or are automated as a monthly or weekly subscription (in advance) for the duration of your subscription. The links are above in the “Choose Your Plan” section.
How do I cancel the subscription? Is there a refund policy?
There is a 2-week cooling-off period. If you change your mind within the first two weeks of the program, we offer a full refund. After two weeks in the program, no refund is applicable.
Anything else?
We are happy to chat through any questions you have. Please call Nicky on +61 415 795 324 or Suzie on +61 488 484 099 or send a text with your name and a suggested time for a return call.