Make people leadership work for you.

Mid-level people managers are the most undervalued and burnt out leaders in organisations.

Make your workplace, and career, work for you.

The Strategy Execution Series:

Turn strategy and ideas into action and influence

The Art of Managing Up Webinar The Art of Managing Up Webinar
The Art of Managing Up Webinar
$150.00

Managing up is often mislabelled as ‘sucking up’, or doing your boss’s job. But knowing how to influence others in leadership is a critical career skill that every manager in every organisation needs.

Join us for a 90 minute workshop, 10am Wednesday 19 November (AEST), to learn how to increase your influence across, and up, within your organisation. You’ll get an understanding of how we can use social psychological concepts to better meet the needs of our leaders, along with practical strategies to increase your influence.

Strengthen your strategic impact, position yourself as a future senior leader, build better relationships and unlock opportunities in your organisation to deliver better.

Feedback on the program:

“Davina is such a natural presenter. I felt confident that I was getting real, practical, proven information delivered by someone with personal experience.”

“Clear, explicit, practical strategies and understandings that can be applied immediately.”

ALIGN Model Critical Question Cards
ALIGN Model Critical Question Cards
$5.00

Elevate your influence with the ALIGN Model Critical Question Cards. Designed for mid-level people leaders, these 65+ digital cards are an essential part of your managing up toolkit. They provide powerful, evidence-based questions to strengthen alignment with your leader, clarify expectations, improve communication, and lead strategically from the middle.

These cards can be used:

  • to prepare for high-impact conversations with your leader

  • to create clarity in your 1:1s

  • to develop your own strategic leadership thinking

  • to facilitate meaningful dialogue with your team, or

  • a variety of other ways!

These cards work alongside our ALIGN Conversation Framework for effectively managing up, and will turn your 1:1s and other meetings into structured, strategic, and productive events.

Our services

Build you and your team’s capability and capacity through professional development workshops, individual and team coaching.

Davina Jones with Client for Individual Coaching

Our mission is to make management fun! Our tailored coaching sessions are designed to ease the overwhelm, cultivate curiosity, build confidence, and help managers be more strategic by getting out of their head, connecting with their people and strategy, and enjoying the challenge of their role.

A woman with curly brown hair, wearing a light blue blazer, white top, and jeans, standing next to a white easel with an illustrated whiteboard. The whiteboard has a diagram with three steps labeled 'Have fun,' 'Learn something,' and 'Try it out,' with cartoon drawings accompanying each step, against a dark background.

Empower your people and engage them as change agents to build a better business, with tailored workshop experiences. Our process sees teams take ownership over their roles, build trust and create momentum - and lead themselves.

Introducing our founder, Davina Jones

With over a decade of experience in leadership, Davina Jones is a strategic organisational development specialist, leadership coach, facilitator, educator and change-maker. Her approach is grounded in research, systems thinking, and human-centred design - and driven by a core belief that the people working within a system are best placed to improve it.

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Founder of Life and Career Coaching, Davina Jones

What people are saying

  • "The Art of Managing Up" webinar feedback

    “Davina is such a natural presenter. I felt confident that I was getting real, practical, proven information delivered by someone with personal experience.”

    “I loved the interactive nature and questioning techniques.”

    “Clear, explicit, practical strategies and understandings that can be applied immediately.”

    “Lots of thought provoking perspectives!”

    “Davina did an excellent job and communicated clearly. She was very passionate and knowledgeable.”

    “I look forward to attending more of Davina’s sessions.” (October 2025)

  • M.B. (Communications Consultant)

    “For a comms person I sometimes (probably more often than not) find it hard to articulate what I want my work life to be. I’ve known for a while that I needed a change but didn’t know what to do, where to go, how to start. Enter Davina with her calm focus, experience, humour, real life examples and most importantly questions! Not big overwhelming questions, the little ones, the right ones. The questions that quietly guide you to your answer.

    From the beginning she took the time to understand what I needed and structured each coaching session to match. We talked, we worked through some exercises, I did some homework, we talked some more. It was personalised - there were no hard lines, no right or wrong, just the right kind of support. I’ve ended the sessions with a clarity that was missing before and recommend Davina to anyone looking for a guide to see them through any or all of life’s little adventures.” (October 2025)

  • S.G. (Deputy Principal)

    “Davina’s warmth and professionalism puts you immediately at ease. What truly sets her apart is her remarkable ability to build trust so quickly. Davina creates a space where you feel safe to be vulnerable and free to be completely honest, knowing you are supported unconditionally. That sense of psychological safety fosters authenticity. Davina listens actively and deeply, helping you unearth unconscious beliefs and rediscover core values. What follows is clarity as Davina has an uncanny ability to identify and articulate the heart of your challenges, cutting through the fog to illuminate what really matters. Her blend of strategic insight and emotional intelligence makes each session feel both grounded and transformative. Davina’s coaching isn’t about mere survival - it’s about thriving.” (September 2025)

  • C.S. (Senior Engineer)

    “I cannot express how grateful I am for the opportunity to know you as my coach. You created a safe space for an open discussion and made it so easy for me to share my needs in sessions. You followed that up so well with the guidance and introduction of new concepts tailored to my needs. I always looked forward to our catch ups so I could share my experience using the newly gained knowledge in my daily life.

    Honestly, it’s only been four short months of working with you to improve my leadership skills and yet, not only have I learned so many new concepts and techniques but also, was able to implement them in my daily life.” (March 2025)

  • F.L. (Professional Musician)

    “My session with Davina shone light on some unconscious beliefs that have been holding me back in a number of areas. She helped me rediscover my core values at this point in my life, and where I was in and out of alignment with these in both work and relationships. I am so grateful for her relaxed and efficient manner, and am excited to continue to work with her.”  (July 2025)

  • L.M. (Director)

    “Thank you Davina. Really appreciate how you facilitated the day to elicit useful insights from the team and structure the workshop using the right business frameworks in a prioritised way, so we have useful collective insight to improve our business.

    I also appreciate the suggestions around experience maps as that’s our top priority activity for the team. I was also pleasantly surprised with the level of positive engagement from the team! I look forward to seeing you in the not-too-distant future.” (April 2025)

  • V.D. (General Manager)

    “Davina has helped bring structure and discipline to my stray thinking and random plans, and she has been absolutely instrumental in supporting the development of what is now a very high functioning leadership team, as well as building a strong culture within our leaders’ network. Without Davina’s support I can honestly say we would not be in the strong position we are in.” (April 2025)

  • A.B. (Director)

    “Davina you’re a rock star facilitator and it was great you were able to run our session today. I appreciated your availability noting the timing and we really benefitted from your breadth of skills and experience. We’re all richer for the experience, thank you!” (March 2025)

Contact Us

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