YOU’VE CLIMBED THE LADDER. YOU’VE HELD IT ALL TOGETHER.

So why does money still feel like a house of cards?

(Like it could literally all fall apart with one wrong step.)

Financial coaching for women who feel behind —

even after doing everything “right.”

BRING ME INTO THE ROOM

The right session changes what your people can say to each other.

The wrong one fills a slot.

You already know which one you've booked before.

Good speaker. Warm applause. Box ticked.

By August, the numbers are drumming out the same tune they were playing last year.

(Nobody's fault. Nothing was named.)

I work on the pressure your people carry in with them — what it does to how they lead, decide and perform, and why it so often stays invisible in the surveys, support programs and performance data already sitting in front of you.

On a main stage. In a workshop room. Or built into the way your organisation works.

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BEFORE YOU GO ANY FURTHER

Everything your committee will ask for.

No form, no email address.

Bio in three lengths. Speaker kit. MC introduction. AV rider. Four headshots at print resolution.

All of it sitting on one page, all of it one click.

If you're comparing speakers right now, take everything you need.

Event Resources →

Ungated, because making you fill in a form to find out my AV requirements would be ridiculous.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE ROOM

Let's start in the third row from the back, about eleven minutes in.

She hasn't moved. She's stopped looking at her phone. Something she's been carrying alone for two years has just been described accurately, out loud, in front of four hundred colleagues — and nobody has flinched.

Then she looks sideways.

Because private pressure has a trick: everybody assumes they're the only one carrying it.

The moment it's named properly, four hundred people find out at once that they aren't.

You can see it move across a room. Heads turn. The relief is almost physical.

That's not the session working. That's the session starting.

Because now they have language.

Language for the corridor at morning tea.
Language for the truck back to the depot.
Language for the one-on-one three weeks later when a manager finally asks a question they didn't know how to ask before.

Your people are not lacking resilience. They are lacking language.

And until the conversation feels safe enough to have at work, the pressure stays

underground.

Which means a few things suddenly become clear ...

If you've read every engagement survey and still can't find the thing actually moving your numbers - this is the layer underneath the one you've been reading.

If your leaders can see somebody struggling and have no idea what to say - they'll leave knowing the question to ask, and what not to say.

If you've funded good support that nobody uses - the barrier may not be awareness. It may be that what your people are carrying doesn't feel like something you'd take to a hotline.

WHERE TO START ?

Three formats. The right one depends on what you need to be different afterwards.

KEYNOTES

Name the pattern

Everybody in the room finds out at the same moment that they're not the only one.

They leave with language for it — something they can use in the corridor, in a one-on-one, and in the meeting where somebody finally says the real reason.

This is for you if you need one session to shift the room, not simply occupy it.

A single session, 45 minutes.

Plus 15 minutes of Q&A where the program allows for it - recommended, and worth the slot.

WORKSHOPS & BREAKOUTS

Build the capability.

Thirty leaders. Sleeves up. Working the framework against the real conversations they're avoiding or getting wrong.

They leave knowing the question to ask, what not to say, and how to use language that won't make Thursday worse.

This is for you if you have if the awareness exists, but the capability doesn't.

Half day or full day. 90-minute breakout format for conference programs.

CONSULTING & PROGRAMS

Change the system.

Insight fades at roughly the speed of the person who championed it moving roles.

This is the work that survives them — built into policy, manager capability and the way risk is identified and acted on.

This is for you if the same pattern keeps returning and you're done treating it one session at a time.

Multi-month engagement, scoped to your organisation.

138+

Sessions, workshops and coaching conversations built around this work

9

Sectors, from mine sites to council chambers to conference main stages

2008

The year the pattern detection

stopped being a hobby.

0

Budgeting lectures, product pitches or stock tips. Ever.

she holds the room

"She had control of the entire room from start to finish - and that includes everyone who was dialled in remotely."

David Furse,

City of Las Vegas

"A profound message everyone - and every employee - needs to hear."

Ian Stephens CSP

2025 Keynote Speaker of the Year

"Far more than a 'finance' keynote. A complete perspective shift."

Andrea Gullick,

wellbeing practitioner

"Months later, I'm still thinking about it. That says everything."

Kassandra Behrendt

inclusivity advocate

and something shifts after

"The most impactful HR-driven initiative we've implemented in living memory."

HR Manager,

Local Government NSW

"Our organisation is changed from having worked with her."

Michael Lockie,

HR Manager, Walcha Council

"Already sparked meaningful conversations across the business."

Glen Phillips,

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance

"Practical tools, without glossing over the deeper challenges many of us face with money."

Darryl Armstrong,

Unity Water

AND THE LOGISTICS

You can judge the content from a showreel.

You can't judge whether I'll be a problem.

“The most brilliant content can die in the grips of those not so easy to work with. In the lead-in to our event, Tara was incredibly, unexpectedly ill. Right up until 24 hours before she took the stage she was really not fit for stage. She promised she could do it - and she did. A safe pair of hands."

Jacqueline Brooker CSP, event organiser

"Everything was seamless. We would happily work with Tara again."

Danielle Lambert, Business in Mudgee

OR DON'T CHOOSE

Working out which format fits is my job, not yours.

Send me the date, the audience and the thing you need to be different afterwards. I'll come back with what I'd recommend and why — including if that's a smaller piece of work than you were expecting.

Twelve minutes, because I value your time too much to ask you to gamble half an hour on a fit-check.