SPARK Capability Labs runs high-quality, engaging and practical capability building for professionals across Australia.
For Managers to build self-awareness, and develop their capacity to lead down, up and across with confidence. Focus areas include trust, time management, prioritisation, difficult conversations, coaching, delegation, influencing and communicating with presence.
For people leaders navigating organisational change to build capability in leading themselves, their teams, and stakeholders. Focus areas include decision-making in ambiguity, influencing stakeholders, courageous conversations, and supporting change adoption.
For professionals with 1yr+ people leadership experience to maximise your team's leverage by shifting from doing the work to effectively leading through others.
Creating special peer-learning experiences for senior leaders to strengthen leading self, leading others, and making decisions in complex, changing environments.

Mike is a people leadership and transformation expert who has led globally distributed, cross-functional teams of 100+ through large-scale change ($500m–$1bn) across financial services, retail, healthcare, aviation and heavy industry. He combines hands-on leadership experience with strong commercial and finance expertise, and now focuses on helping people leaders build the skills and confidence to lead through change.
Formerly with McKinsey & Company, Virgin Australia and J.P. Morgan Corporate and Investment Bank.

Sarah is an ICF Accredited, ex-McKinsey Coach who is passionate about helping leaders develop, whether it be through capability building or coaching.
Since establishing her coaching and capability building practice in 2021, she has run capability and coaching programs across a range of organisations, including Urbis, ARENA, AGL, Xero, Uniting Care, Velocity Trucks, Collar Group, Jacobs, Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec, Elita Genetics, Asahi, Ashfords Accounting & Advisory, MacGregor Advisory Group.
We have delivered programs to thousands of professionals in organisational settings as well as open cohorts. Here is a selection of feedback from past participants.
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