Mike has been running the MINDsense program for over 20 years now and one of the questions commonly asked is whether he runs MINDsense outside the corporate world for members of the public.
For those who have been through the program you may have friends or loved ones whom you think could benefit from the MINDsense journey and help them find their sense of 'flow' with life and escape the struggles they experience.
We are very excited to be able to offer such a program for anyone interested in stepping into a better version of themselves. This small exclusive event offers a 3 day series of workshops and 1:1 coaching held in the beautiful Byron Bay hinterland at Karinya at Wilsons Creek.
Michael Duff has built an enviable reputation as one of Australia’s leading corporate coaches of the mental side of high performance human behaviour. A co-author with tennis legend John Newcombe of The Power Within:How to Create a High Performance Mind, Michael has an inherent understanding of what it takes to be the best. He has worked for over 20 years with CEO’s and senior executives at many of Australia and New Zealand’s top companies, helping them to understand their own mindset and thought patterns and find ‘flow’ in their lives, enabling them to consistently achieve their individual and team goals while building resilience.
Michael has spent his career in the corporate world and understands the pressures and demands that executives face on a daily basis. His own corporate career saw him become the youngest ever head of an Australian professional sport when he became CEO of the PGA Tour [professional golf] at the age of 28. After 5 very successful years at the helm of the Tour he then moved to tennis and spent the next 5 years running half the world for the ATP Tour, the global men’s pro tennis circuit. It was during this time that he started to recognise the importance of mental strength as the key to a successful, balanced, achieving life.
With direct access to many of the world’s most successful people Michael initially pursued his interest to understand what creates a sustained high performing mindset. In 2000 he started MINDsense to teach his insights to Australian corporate leaders; a Zen influenced common sense approach to living a stress free life while balancing the demands of life in the 21st century.
Outside the corporate world Michael also coaches a number of world class athletes and sporting teams.
A polymath in the truest sense, seamlessly blending a myriad of deep knowledge across a broad and diverse range of disciplines, intellectual and creative pursuits, Vanessa's innate curiosity and her insatiable thirst for knowledge has led her to excel in multiple fields.
With over 30 years of corporate leadership expertise, Vanessa is a highly experienced Leadership & Development Coach, teaching others the applied science of human performance enhancement through unique, evidence based professional solutions. Her approach combines values based goal setting and alignment, mindfulness, and psycho-dynamic coaching frameworks that can help to identify and overcome limiting beliefs, behavior patterns, and interpersonal challenges. The two processes can powerfully reinforce each other and promote enhanced quality of life, work performance, and leadership capacity and are suitable for women and men at all career and life stages.
Vanessa has the genuine career and leadership based experience gained from navigating through the many challenges of balancing a corporate career, wellbeing and family life and understands very well both the external and internal (emotional and mental) challenges of the leadership space. She has a wealth of industry knowledge & experience to share, alongside the practical insights to creating better internal states that can help people step out of the stress, anxiety and noise that too often overwhelms us in our minds and impacts on both how we experience life and the success of our careers.
Vanessa's evidence based approach is backed by six university degrees, including a bachelor of Adult Education, an MBA and a Masters of Science in Coaching Psychology alongside being a professionally certified/qualified Pilates Reformer Instructor.
Vanessa is an also internationally exhibited and published interdisciplinary artist, documentary photographer and process historian. You can see her work at
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