Coaching, Counselling, Learning and Storytelling Services
for Leadership, Work & Life
delivered by our professional team of expert practitioners
Flourish with The Demeter Institute
COACHING
Our evidence-based options include leadership and executive coaching, solutions-focussed, vertical development, career, and life coaching.
LEARNING
Learning is infused in all that The Demeter Institute offers. We offer a structured and personalised learning program which supports you to access formal and informal learning options.
STORYTELLING
You have a story to tell and a song to sing. Writing the story of you is a meaningful and creative way of really getting to know yourself. It is also an effective communication tool personally and professionally.
COUNSELLING
To support our clients meet personal challenges in work and life we offer psychotherapy and ethics counselling. For therapy we refer you to qualified and accredited professionals.
FLEXIBLE OPTION
Mix it up and work with more than one member of our team if different approaches will better support your learning and development journey.
The Demeter Institute is a place …
The Demeter Team
A brief introduction
Dr Sue Hanley
Leadership Coach, Ethics Counsellor, Adult Educator. Founder of The Demeter Institute. Extensive Board and leadership experience in complex organisations.
Judith Leeson AM
Career Development Coach and Consultant – recipient of OAM for pioneering work in establishing career coaching in Australia.
Aunty Iris Walker White
Elder, Indigenous Educator, Organisational Consultant on Indigenous Policy, Adult Educator. Pioneer in vocational education for Indigenous Australians.
Kidest Nadew
Health Care Professional, Personal Development Coaching, Health Literacy and Health Coach. Finalising doctorate in health sciences.
John Eastman
Narrative Consultant, Teacher, Actor. Facilitates personal storytelling at City Lit in London and produces Shakespearean plays for schools.
Jie Zhang
Accountant, Cultural Consultant on Asian Business and Coach for young finance professionals. Now pioneering sustainability policy for a global company.
Learn more about The Demeter Team
Make a Difference
In Leadership, In Work, In Life
The Demeter Institute will support you to build a foundation for personal empowerment. More than ever, we need to act wisely, make good decisions, build our business and personal relationships with integrity, and contribute to the long-term sustainability of people and planet.
To flourish, we need to make a good living at the same time as being good citizens of the world.
It can’t be all work. We can also be playful, delighting in the lightness and beauty of life and enjoying the company of family, friends and colleagues.
Are you ready for the challenge?
Our quiet achievement principles for flourishing will support you to:
- Know yourself and see yourself with different eyes. Build on your abilities, manage yourself effectively, work to your strengths and know your limits.
- Reason well. Thinking critically is hard work, and so is acceptance that no one person knows it all.
- Act with integrity, with courage, humility, fairness and compassion. Build respectful relationships in your wide circles of connection.
These principles flow from Aristotle’s ancient work on practical wisdom. Leading philosophers and psychologists have reviewed and revised them over the past five decades as an enduring approach to dealing with complex change in complex times.
If you would like to know more about The Demeter Institute, we would welcome your questions. We respect your autonomy and support you to make your own decisions in private.
Your privacy is assured.
Acknowledgement of Country
The Demeter Institute has been founded on the ancient ancestral lands of its indigenous owners.
The land we occupy has never been ceded.
We pay our respects to elders past and present.
Gulaga – Wallaga Lakes – Australia
Aboriginal land, always has been,
always will be