WALT Institute | Live Online Program | Begins 12 October 2026
Own the Room.
Own the Results.
Six Weeks to Transform How You Lead
You already know how to lead.
The question is: who do you choose to BE when it counts?
Under pressure, old patterns can take over before you even realise it. The meeting where you stay quiet. The conversation you avoid. The decision you second-guess. The moment you know exactly what to do, but something gets in the way.
Own the Room. Own the Results. helps you recognise those patterns, interrupt them, and consciously choose how you lead next.
Who you have been does not determine who you choose to BE next.
Most leadership programs start with what to DO.
We start with who you BE.
Because behaviour follows identity. When pressure hits, yesterday's beliefs, meanings and patterns can become today's automatic response.
This program teaches you to notice what is running, pause, and consciously choose again.
BE first. Then DO. Then create different results.
The change is not something you announce. It is something people experience in how you lead.
Who This Is For
For leaders who know there is another level available to them
This program is for experienced leaders who know they are capable of more, and are ready to change the patterns that keep getting in the way. Are you someone who…
Knows the answer, but still second-guesses themselves when the stakes are high?
Holds back in rooms they belong in and watches less qualified people take the floor?
Knows their team could perform at a higher level, but can see their own patterns are part of what is holding it back?
Has the ambition, skills, and drive, but keeps getting in their own way?
Is ready to stop defaulting to control, fixing and managing, and start leading with greater choice and influence?
Knows they need to lead through change, pressure and uncertainty without letting old patterns take over?
The pattern is not the problem.
Believing the pattern is who you are is.
You can notice it. You can interrupt it. You can choose again.
Recognition creates choice.
The NPC framework has given me space between thought and response. That space has changed how I lead, in difficult conversations, under pressure, and in the moments that matter most to the person, the team and the firm.
Jeremy
Partner, Accountant
The Program
Six weeks. Two live sessions per week.
Twelve hours of expert-led training, group coaching, and real-time application.
Each week moves you from automatic pattern to conscious choice, then into how that choice changes the way you communicate, influence and lead.
Monday Evenings 7:00 pm (AEST/AEDT)
Q&A and Group Coaching
Bring your real situations and work through them live with Elizabeth, Christine, and your cohort.
Thursday Mornings 11:00 am (AEST/AEDT)
Training Session
Expert-led, evidence-based, and immediately applicable. Every session builds on the last.
Each session runs for one hour. You leave every session with something you can use before the next one begins.
The Six-Week Arc
A purposeful progression from the inside out
The first half helps you recognise what has been running automatically and consciously choose who you BE instead. The second half turns that choice outward into how you communicate, lead conversations, respond under pressure, and build a team that performs at a higher level.
| Week | Focus | What You Walk Away With |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Know What Patterns Are Operating You | You identify the beliefs and patterns shaping your responses automatically, and stop confusing a repeated pattern with who you are. |
| 2 | Regulate Before You Respond | You create space between trigger and response, so you can choose who you BE before deciding what you DO. |
| 3 | Rebuild Your Internal Voice | You recognise the beliefs and internal language shaping how you show up, and consciously choose the identity you lead from when it matters. |
| 4 | Communicate With Impact | You communicate with greater clarity, conviction and influence because you are leading from choice, not reaction. |
| 5 | Lead Through Change and Conflict | You recognise when pressure is pulling you back into old patterns and choose how you lead through change and conflict. |
| 6 | Build a High-Performing Team | You translate Conscious Identity into the standards, conversations and behaviours your team experiences every day. |
The Results You Will Get
By the end of six weeks
The shifts show up in the moments that used to trigger your old patterns.
You back yourself in rooms where you previously stayed quiet
You have the conversations you kept avoiding and they go better than expected
You make decisions faster, with more certainty and clarity
Your team feels the difference in how you show up before you ever explain what changed
Your team stops quietly disengaging. They can feel the difference in how you lead.
You recognise the moment an old pattern takes over, and know how to choose again
You stop managing processes and start building a team that performs together
You set boundaries that align with your values and hold them with ease
Begins Monday 12 October 2026
In Their Words
What leaders say
The skills learned from you have really helped me to improve my leadership, secure a multimillion dollar grant and keep going.
Dr Haruna Suzuki-Kerr
Research Fellow, University of Auckland
Two words that summarise my experience... LIFE CHANGING. I overcame irrational fears, found my voice and now see opportunities everywhere, which I jump at.
Celeste Cleary
Former Critical Care Nurse, now Health and Wellness Coach
The Methodology
Evidence-based. Immediately applicable.
Our methodology brings together Conscious Identity, neuroscience, Authentic Leadership, positive psychology, psychological capital and behavioural science. The focus is practical: notice the pattern, pause the automatic response, and choose who you BE next. We translate evidence into practical strategies leaders can apply immediately, in the moments that matter.
Built on more than five decades of combined experience, these strategies have been used and refined with thousands of leaders across corporate, healthcare, government and academia.
The research is consistent. The leaders who build high-performing teams are not the ones who know the most. They are the ones who know themselves best.
The NPC Formula. Courageous Conversations. Psychological Capital. BE → DO → HAVE.
These are not frameworks you simply study. They are tools you use in real situations, under real pressure, with real consequences.
What Is Included
Everything you need to make the shift
12 live online sessions across six weeks — training and group coaching
Evidence-based tools grounded in Conscious Identity, neuroscience, Authentic Leadership and positive psychology
The NPC Formula, Courageous Conversations, Psychological Capital and BE → DO → HAVE applied in real time
Authentic Leadership Assessment - pre and post program to evaluate your growth
Access to an exclusive participant community for peer support and accountability
Access to the WALT Institute training library for the duration of the program
Unlimited support throughout the six weeks of Own the Room. Own the Results.
Professional development, self-funding, and organisational group enrolments welcome
Investment
AUD | All inclusive
Professional development, self-funding, and organisational group enrolments welcome
Not sure whether this is the right fit for you or someone in your team? Talk with us.
Begins Monday 12 October 2026
Your Facilitators
The people in the room with you
Dr Elizabeth Pritchard PhD
Co-Founder, WALT Institute
Leadership coach, keynote speaker, researcher, and co-founder of WALT Institute. Elizabeth works at the intersection of neuroscience, behavioural psychology, Conscious Identity and Authentic Leadership, helping leaders and organisations recognise and change the unconscious patterns shaping performance, culture and results. With over three decades of experience, Elizabeth helps clients lead with greater clarity, confidence and impact. Elizabeth is bestselling co-author of The Authentic Leadership Playbook (She Rises, 2026).
Christine Burns BAPsych
Co-Founder, WALT Institute
Former elite athlete, Gold Medalist, High Performance Mindset and Sport Psychology Coach, and co-founder of WALT Institute. Christine applies neuroscience, sport psychology and Conscious Identity to help leaders identify the beliefs and patterns quietly capping performance, and consciously choose who they BE when it matters most. With over 25 years coaching world champions, elite athletes, executives and high-performing organisations globally, her clients win world titles, break rankings and lead at levels they once thought were out of reach. Christine is bestselling co-author of The Authentic Leadership Playbook (She Rises, 2026).
Own the Room.
Own the Results.
Six weeks.
The patterns become visible.
The choices become conscious.
The way you lead changes.
Who you have been does not determine who you choose to BE next.
Begins Monday 12 October 2026 | $1,947 AUD