90-Day Implementation Lab · 1:1 or small group
For frontline leaders in trauma-exposed services who are tired of running on fumes. Ninety days of one-to-one or small-group work to stabilise your week, reconnect to purpose, and help your team carry more of its own thinking.
You don't need to care less. You need a rhythm strong enough to protect the care.
Leanne, a frontline service leader, nearly halved her reported capacity leaks in one 1:1 Lab. Self-reported; individual results vary. Read her story
For leaders inChild protectionResidential careYouth justiceMental healthFamily servicesEducationCommunity services
The problem
You're exhausted because your leadership capacity is being drained faster than you can rebuild it.
The inbox starts early. Urgent issues interrupt everything. Supervision gets bumped. A young person escalates, a family is distressed, a decision can't wait. Someone drops something on you late in the day and says it'll only take five minutes. It never does.
Then you take the pressure home. Not always in your laptop. Sometimes in your shoulders, your tone, or how present you are with your own family. That's what survival rhythm does. It slowly trains good leaders to become reactive, scattered and tired.
The answer isn't to care less or become harder. It's to build a rhythm strong enough to protect the care.
In 90 days
You won't fix every problem in your system or make complex work easy. You will build a rhythm that helps you lead inside complexity without being swallowed by it.
When rhythm improves
Rhythm isn't just about your calendar. It affects decisions, confidence, team steadiness, and whether people can stay connected to the mission under pressure.
Friday afternoons had become a pressure cooker of last-minute calls and late finishes. A protected wind-down to reset, name wins and plan what carried forward gave the team more buffer, more connection and far less spillover.
Debriefs had turned into complaint loops and hopelessness was spreading. Clear roles and a structure for hearing people properly moved the team from emotional spillover to shared action. There was less splitting, and the leader felt more contained.
Behaviour was escalating and the pressure to exclude was building. Clear meeting and escalation protocols, structured debriefs and shared roles kept the adults aligned. The young person stayed, and went on to graduate.
The diagnosis
Most leaders don't have one leak. They have three or four, sometimes all seven. That's why generic advice fails: it treats symptoms without finding where capacity is actually disappearing.
Find your leaks with the free ScorecardThe plan
The Lab is where the Trauma Transforming Leadership framework starts in practice: stabilising your leadership capacity first, then empowering a team that can carry more of the work with you, in a rhythm that lasts.
You complete the Leadership Capacity Scorecard and the Rapid Stability Audit, a map of your actual week. We review both in your onboarding session, so we start from your real context, not generic advice.
Tactical and immediate. The team takes its cues from your rhythm, so we start with yours.
The mission didn't disappear. It got buried under incidents, rosters and compliance. We bring it back into view and make it practical.
We make the rhythm visible to your team, so new boundaries read as structure, not withdrawal.
What you get
These aren't lectures. They're working sessions where we apply the framework to your actual week, then test, review and refine until the rhythm survives contact with real work.
Is this for you?
Your coach
Registered psychologist and clinical supervisor with more than twenty years in child protection, youth justice, residential care and mental health. Barry started as a frontline Child Safety Officer, and built this program from inside the work, not from outside it.
Author of Trauma Transforming Leadership, the field guide the Lab is built on.
Investment
Same framework, same tools, same 90 days. Choose fully tailored one-to-one support, or work through it alongside a small group of other frontline leaders.
5 active places at a time, deliberately. Waitlist when full.
The founding cohort opens once five leaders have registered, and is capped at 20. Registering doesn't commit you to anything.
What would it be worth to finish more Fridays with a plan instead of a pile-up? To have your team bring you options instead of every problem? To be more present with the people waiting for you at home?
Questions
Yes. The Lab can be self-funded or sponsored by your organisation. Mention it in your application and we'll sort out the paperwork your organisation needs.
Both follow the same 90-day plan and use the same tools. In the 1:1 Lab every session is built around your situation, and places are limited to five at a time. The Group Lab costs less, and you learn alongside up to 20 other frontline leaders facing the same pressures. The founding cohort starts once five leaders have registered.
Yes. All sessions, 1:1 and group, run live by video, so you can take part from anywhere. Group sessions are recorded, so you can revisit a session or catch up if work gets in the way.
One implementation session a week, plus time to apply the tools in your real week between sessions. The work happens inside your job, not on top of it.
No. The Lab is results coaching focused on your leadership rhythm and team. It isn't psychological assessment or treatment.
You can join the waitlist and you'll be offered the next available opening.
Yes. Leadership diagnostics, private cohorts, workshops and implementation consulting are available through Organisational Programs.
How to apply
The application isn't a test. It helps Barry understand your context, your team, and which format fits the season you're in. Choose the 1:1 or group Lab in the form. If your organisation is sponsoring you, mention it in the last question.
You don't need another reminder to practise self-care, or another framework that collapses when the week gets messy. You need a rhythm strong enough to help you lead inside complexity.