Utilise my expertise to
Facilitate meaningful change in your organisation
Organisational Change Facilitation is about more than managing a meeting — it’s about guiding people safely through uncertainty toward shared understanding and commitment.
I bring decades of experience helping organisations navigate complexity and transform how they think, work and lead. Others often describe me as a master facilitator who creates the space for honest dialogue, courageous reflection and practical progress.
Whether your goal is to realign your team, reset culture, or explore new strategic directions, I design each facilitation to suit your unique context and desired outcomes.
My approach helps individuals, teams and communities surface and rethink the unconscious assumptions that limit progress — seeding new ways of seeing, thinking and doing that lead to genuine, lasting change.
The organisational change facilitation process typically includes:
An initial meeting to clarify your context and desired outcomes
A tailored facilitation design and process plan
A review meeting to confirm the design and make adjustments
Facilitation delivery — online or in-person
A debrief session to reflect and capture learnings
Let me take the load off your shoulders and manage the sometimes difficult emotions that arise in complex or sensitive discussions. You can then participate fully in your leadership role — confident that the process is being skilfully held.
• Previous Facilitations •
Explore examples of tailored facilitation engagements — each designed to help leaders and teams navigate complexity, resolve challenges and create lasting organisational change.
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Menzies Institute for Medical Research
This facilitated workshop utilised Open Space Technology, bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders to brainstorm and build ideas together
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Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
Facilitation design for a series of 7 roundtable meetings across Australia (a program designed by Dr Josie McLean to be delivered by AILA leaders). A national roundtable will be facilitated by Josie to synthesis the information generated through the round table process.
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College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Partnering for Success
A half-day facilitation of a large group of stakeholders working towards a common vision of partnering. This program utilised Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space Technology.
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Robinson Research Institute
This facilitated workshop utilised Open Space Technology and supported the catalyst of new ideas from researchers, for major projects within the Robinson Institute over the coming strategic planning period.
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Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage
An exciting end of Centre Event facilitated over 2 days.
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Governor's Leadership Foundation Program
For more than a decade, Dr Josie McLean has been a lead facilitator for this program both developing leadership within participants and guiding processes such as the two-day 'Leadership for the Furture: Environment and Society' element of the program.
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Information and Digital Services (IDS)
Facilitating Leadership Team Development
Facilitating Leadership Team Development during regular sessions throughout the year. This work is entering its 4th year and supports the team, their leadership and divisional culture.
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Benevolent Society
Facilitating Leadership Team Development
Facilitating Leadership Team Development with off-site workshops to take stock and plan next steps, during a substantial organisational change process.
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University of South Australia
A facilitated event, “Leadership: enabling everyone to thrive”, featuring a World Cafe and Appreciative Inquiry process.
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Local Government Association South Australia
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City of Charles Sturt
Facilitating an adaptive conversation about designing infrastructure for an unknown future.
“Josie and her team at the Partnership are professional, friendly and easy to work with. They certainly know their stuff, and as a research community, we were impressed by their methodological approach. The communication leading up to our strategy day was clear and we were able to tailor make a solution to meet our needs. We have received only positive affirmation from our staff, collaborators and members of the community who were present on the day. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience of being able to control the “emergent agenda” and have the conversations they most care about. We now have myriad of new ideas and concepts to explore as we embark on our shared research vision together. I highly recommend Josie and her team and look forward to working with them again.”
“Josie and Fiona’s friendly and structured approach really engaged all the participants in our End-of-Centre workshop. Underpinned by tried and tested methods, they brought out the best in all of us, encouraging thoughtful reflections on our collective and individual journeys over the past seven years, our past accomplishments and our aspirations for the future. In addition to these valuable insights, the workshop was fun and energising, truly a memorable experience for all of us! I can thoroughly recommend Josie and her team as empathetic facilitators for any group keen to explore the paths they’ve travelled and their future goals.”
“I wanted to send a personal thank you for your sessions last week with the AILA team. We really valued your leadership and guidance as we discussed how we would like to work together. I feel like it will help enormously, and I hope we can continue to work with you over the coming months. I loved the activities you did with us and the support you offered our group to examine how we make decisions and work together.”
Ways to access my expertise to facilitate organisational change.
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Energising Change one day workshop
Imagine your team united and energised on the key challenge!
This one-day workshop is designed to help you bring your team together in a way that delivers tangible outputs and significant outcomes. The day will enable you to place the challenge you are seeing on the table with a professional facilitator so that you can still participate. There is no need to worry about how your team will respond, the feedback from this workshop is always positive.
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Thinking Partner for Systemic Change
Are you leading a complex project (e.g. cultural or digital transformation, climate or sustainability initiatives)? It can be confusing, politically sensitive, and all-consuming when on your own.
My Thinking Partner for Systemic Change program is a highly-leveraged personal development program tailored to the specific needs of each individual with whom I partner.