PEOPLE. PERSPECTIVE. PROGRESS.
Bringing people and perspectives together to move complex work forward.
Donna works alongside leaders and organisations navigating complexity — bringing clarity to challenges, strengthening ideas and helping move important work into action.
DONNA’S PERSPECTIVE.
Complex work rarely has a simple answer.
Donna’s approach begins with understanding what’s really happening — the people involved, the environment around them and the different perspectives at play.
She brings those pieces together to create clarity, strengthen thinking and find a practical way forward.
Listen first. Understand the whole picture. Then determine what needs to happen next.
EXPERIENCE.
More than 25 years seeing organisations from different sides.
Donna’s experience spans frontline environments, organisational change, executive leadership, strategy and governance.
Working across different levels of organisations and systems has shaped the way she approaches complex work today — understanding the people within it, seeing the wider environment around it and recognising where progress can be made.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Shaping national conversations through professional expertise and lived First Nations experience.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
Leading organisations through growth, complexity and change.
GOVERNANCE + ADVISORY
Bringing perspective and experience to important decisions.
WHERE DONNA CONTRIBUTES.
Different challenges require different kinds of contribution.
Donna works flexibly alongside leaders, teams and organisations — sometimes providing strategic perspective, sometimes facilitating an important conversation and sometimes staying close to the work as it develops.
FACILITATION + CO-DESIGN
Bringing people and perspectives together to strengthen ideas, explore possibilities and develop shared ways forward.
SPEAKING + CONVERSATIONS
Contributing to conferences, panels and conversations around leadership, systems, collaboration and change.
ADVISORY + STRATEGY
Providing clarity and perspective for leaders and organisations navigating complex decisions, strategy and change.
LEADERSHIP + GOVERNANCE
Bringing executive leadership and governance experience to boards, organisations and strategic conversations.
Some change needs more people around the table.
Intersect . the agency (Intersect) brings together people, perspectives and expertise around work that requires broader capability, collaboration and delivery.
Founded by Donna, it creates the structure for collective work — bringing the right people together around complex challenges and helping move ideas into action.
REAL CHANGE. CO-DESIGNED.
THINKING + CONVERSATIONS.
Ideas shaped by experience.
Donna writes, speaks and contributes to conversations exploring leadership, organisations, systems, collaboration and the practical work of moving complex challenges forward.
Let’s start with a conversation.
If you’re navigating a challenge, exploring an opportunity or think Donna could bring something useful to the work, we’d love to hear from you.