TALEA - Key Persons
Janice is a qualified executive coach. Previous clients include Telstra, Queensland Health, Essential Energy, Ergon Energy, Stanwell Corporation, Port of Brisbane, The Salvation Army and the Department of Defence.
Karen provides value to clients as a leadership coach, trusted adviser and skilled facilitator. She has designed leadership training programs which have been rolled out across multiple sites internationally and has assisted many clients with strategic planning, organisation review and change management, some of which has been transformative.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Psychologist
Lisa is a registered Psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia (through AHPRA) and a member of the Australian Psychological Association and Australian Counselling Association.
In her clinical work, delivering counselling services across both the corporate and private landscape, Lisa provides a unique perspective when counselling individuals to enhance their wellbeing. Her focus is to support people, particularly busy professionals, and executives, to better manage and enhance their mental health and relationships.
Lisa brings a dynamic mix of experiences from working across both organisational and clinical settings. This mix, along with her own personal experience juggling the corporate world and a busy home life, has allowed Lisa to develop a genuine understanding of the many varied life impacts on mental health. Lisa works predominantly with late adolescents and adults, helping them to cope with the stressors and ups and downs of everyday life. This includes helping clients to understand and manage depression, stress, anxiety, loss, fears, career or work problems, emotional distress, or relationship difficulties.
Lisa also has a particular interest in helping people to overcome social anxiety and make career decisions. Her background and current work within the corporate arena also enable Lisa to support people who may be having work-related issues, including low confidence and ‘imposter syndrome', conflict at work and communication issues.
Lisa takes a warm and engaging approach to focus on supporting people to manage a range of issues that are impacting their overall sense of well-being or are holding them back in their life or career. Lisa embraces a range of evidence-based psychological therapies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Lisa has a BA (Psychology), Grad Diploma in Psychology, Masters in Organisational Psychology and has lectured in the Master of Psychology at the University of Queensland.
Lisa Butler founded The Talea Group in 2012, following 10 years as co-founder of acclaimed boutique training consultancy Paragon Associates. The success of The Talea Group is grounded in delivering high-quality learning programs ourselves and through our dynamic and exceptional associates.
Lisa is a registered psychologist who helps both individuals and organisations to improve communication capability and wellbeing through:
bespoke learning solutions, incorporating in-person and virtual training programs and coaching, and
targeted counselling and psychological instruments.
Lisa is well-known for her philosophy of genuinely customising her approach to suit the business, team and individual. This approach is very efficient and maximises results.
With her corporate clients, Lisa focuses on enhancing skills and confidence in business writing, networking, presenting, leading and enhancing relationships, business development, business planning and general communication. Lisa also facilitates conferences and strategy development workshops.
In her clinical work, delivering counselling services across both the corporate and private landscape, Lisa provides a unique perspective when counselling individuals to enhance their wellbeing. Her focus is to support people, particularly busy professionals and executives, to better manage and enhance their mental health and relationships.
As the author of best-selling book "Networking Exposed - Discover the secrets of business networking", Lisa is also a frequent keynote speaker at large conferences and events.
Lisa is a qualified and registered Psychologist with AHPRA. Lisa's qualifications and memberships include a BA, Dip Psych (Org), and Masters in Organisational Psychology from the University of Queensland, and memberships in the Australian Psychological Society and Australian Counselling Association. These qualifications, together with her experience as a University Lecturer for both MBA and Masters in Organisational Psychology, adds a strong theoretical base to her diverse practical experience.
Nicole Davidson is an expert in all things negotiation. Nicole brings her expertise in negotiation, commercial skills and understanding of adult learning to assist others in negotiating better business outcomes. Her work with clients is based on theoretically proven, practical methods.
Tony Wilson, MBA, BSc., has a passion for Human Performance. He has spent his entire working life helping organisations, teams and individuals perform at their best. View Full Profile