See yourself clearly. Lead from there.

You’ve built the teams, shipped the products, navigated the complexity, and your leadership gets results. But lately, the challenges feel more nuanced, the relationships more complex, and your way of leading feels like it’s not creating change at the level you want. Oh, and there’s the whole AI thing coming right at us.

I help people in Australia, NZ, Japan, UK and Europe lead with approaches that fit them, and let go of borrowed templates that are costing them. Through reflective conversations together, we work on things like navigating complexity and ambiguity, advocating for your excellent self, and leading change in ways that feel more wholesome.

Areas I help with:

One: Leaders wrestling with change, complexity and scale

Perhaps you’re asking yourself:

• How do I find clarity when there aren’t clear answers?
• How can I integrate seemingly opposite perspectives?
• Why do I feel stuck with my team, or with my own leaders?
• Everything moves so fast. What do I keep up with, what do I let go of?
• How do I make good decisions when I’m getting different information from every direction?
• AI is changing, maybe threatening, everything about our craft. How will I meet this moment?

We’ll work on getting the shit off your windscreen, so you can make your journey with more clarity. Overcoming hurdles, letting go of the instinct to jump in and fix things, and finding the way through that works for you. Maybe we’ll have some time to gaze at the cosmos too.

Two: Leaders whose perspective doesn’t match the norm

You think you could (or already do) do a great job as a leader, but you’re not sure whether you fit the mould, or how to make the next leap. Maybe the leadership you’ve seen doesn’t look like you, or doesn’t match how you’d want to lead. Maybe you’re already leading — team-building, strategic pondering, empowering people, holding things together — but you want to be more recognised for it.

I work particularly with neurodivergent leaders, women and non-binary folks, and people from marginalised groups, exploring things like:

• Letting your authentic self blossom in a challenging neurotypical world.
• Finding leadership approaches that fit your distinctive strengths
• Navigating transitions (including into situations where the rules feel different)
• Making vague things into clear things
• Growing the leaders around you
• Letting go of what feels like “too much”, so you can use more of your capacity
• Communicating across boundaries and perspectives

What is coaching, actually?

My aim with coaching is to help you find your own clarity. People come with questions, problems, or goals, and we think together—reflecting, uncovering ideas and creating inspiration and action.

This is in contrast to mentoring, which tends to be experience- and advice-based, or therapy, which tends to be oriented towards healing and processing the past.

My style is warm, curious, and accepting, with enough good questions and gentle challenge to help you see familiar situations through completely new lenses.

My background

Born in UK, currently based in Naarm/Melbourne. 19 years leading and scaling design and engineering teams as Engineering Lead, CTO and CEO. Experience with consultancies, government orgs and large enterprises.

AuDHD (the combo deal) but you may not notice it. I didn’t, for 40 years.

Trained in transformative coaching: a Doctorate in Creativity and Cognition, plus deep training through the Generating Transformative Change programme. I know the territory of tech leadership, neurodivergent experience, and the intersection where the two get incredibly interesting.

People I tend to work well with

People who’ve established themselves as leaders or are well on the path, enjoy a warm challenge, like a laugh about a silly metaphor, want to think differently about people and systems, and are willing to reflect and practice intentionally between sessions.

Do you only coach software engineers?

Mostly not, actually! My background means I understand the realm, speak the lingo and have met the archetypes, which means less time explaining things. What we end up talking about tends to be ideas that matter in any discipline—purpose, relationships, transformations and crossroads.

How long is a session? What’s the fee? In person? Online?

Sessions are normally 50 mins long, for which my fee is AU$225+GST.

Usually online is easiest to arrange, from places where we can speak freely without distraction. In-person is a delight, and can happen whenever we notice the opportunity.

Is it confidential?

Absolutely. I don’t share what we talk about outside of my own professional supervision sessions, which are similarly confidential. I make notes during session, but without names, and the notes are destroyed at the end of the notebook.

The limit to confidentiality is if I become aware that you or someone else are at imminent risk of harm. If this happens, I will raise it with you if I can, and talk about our best approach forward.

Is swearing OK?

(this comes up surprisingly often)

I live in Australia, so fuckin’ oath, swearing’s OK! Whatever words and feelings come to mind are welcome.

How to start

Drop me a paragraph or two about who you are, where you are and what you’re hoping to discover: greg@gregturner.com. Whether it’s a fit or not, I’ll respond with my thoughts and appreciation.