to DISCO is to learn
Leadership capability uplift, coaching, and other immersive experiences
☆ We believe flourishing organisations start with flourishing individuals. ↓
Big Conversations, Better Outcomes Training
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This is an immersive experience designed to build capacity and confidence in giving and receiving feedback, having performance conversations, and creating a responsive culture of growth, innovation and continual improvement in all areas of the business.
Participants will learn about:
🪩 The neurobiology of human interactions and how this impacts behaviour under stress,
🪩 What feedback is (and what it isn’t) and why it is important for heathy cultures,
🪩 How and when to give and receive feedback,
🪩 Why boundaries matter,
🪩 And practical tools to equip leaders and managers to empower themselves and their people.
By the end of this workshop, participants will walk away with real skills to improve communication, build trust, and create stronger workplaces.
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This can be delivered as a full day workshop or divided into smaller, bite sized coaching circles.
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Anyone
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Transformative Coaching
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Leading isn’t a solo sport, you need a squad of highly skilled coaches who’ve got your back and are thrilled to walk the journey beside you.
At DISCO we have therapeutic coaches with significant experience in personal transformation, unlocking barriers, working with old patterns, integrating trauma and creating powerful self-agency.
Your coaching journey is an investment in yourself, your team, your family and community.
Reach out to us for a confidential assessment of how we can help you meet your needs and goals.
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Coaching comes in tranches of 5 sessions with integration time in between, immersive retreats, coaching circles and support materials.
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Humans
Trauma Responsive People Teams and Culture (self-lead training program)
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Ever wonder how trauma impacts the workplace? It’s more common—and more impactful on productivity and flourishing —than you realise. Trauma affects how we think, behave, lead, and connect. But what if your organisation could take proactive steps to build a culture that not only understands trauma but responds to it effectively?
The Trauma Responsive People, Teams, and Culture Course is a groundbreaking online and offline program designed to transform the way your organisation approaches leadership, team dynamics, and employee well-being.
The 10-module course is packed with everything you need to know, from understanding how trauma happens and its impact on our neurobiology, behaviour, and relationships, to tackling the dangers of cumulative trauma and burnout in the workplace.
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This is a video series, made up of 10 short self-paced modules
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Anyone. Particularly leaders and teams.
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DISCO Leadership Programs
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DISCO is in the business of transforming organisations through flourishing human systems. Tailoring leadership development programs that build skills, competence and clarity. Our aim is to grow both the individual and collective leadership of your organisation. That’s why we partner with you to co-create the right experience, delivered to the right people, at the right time.
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Co-design your own adventure, or deploy our DISCO 12 month program.
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Frontline leaders:
Emerging leaders
Technical experts transitioning to leadership roles
Adaptive behaviours in daily operations
Enterprise leaders:
Aligning teams with organisational strategy and culture
Change leadership and capability building across functions
Creating safe-to-fail environments for bold experimentation
Executive leaders:
Shaping and stewarding long-term organisational futures
Visionary alignment and purpose-driven culture work
Facilitating transformation through others, not just managing it
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We are a multi-skilled, adaptive team. We are futurists, learning designers, facilitators, coaches, and strategy experts. We come from wide-ranging backgrounds that enable a flexible and adaptive approach to working towards your leadership development goals.
Vicarious/Secondary Trauma Training
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This is a one-day program for people, teams, leaders and practitioners who are regularly exposed to trauma or highly stressful information, experiences or situations in the line of their work.
In the workshop participants will learn how to regulate their experiences, know the signs and mitigations of an overloaded system before it hits burnout, tools and practices to undertake peer-led meaning making sessions, and gain a deeper understanding of how vicarious/secondary trauma shows up in the body, and in behaviour.
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It can be delivered in-house to intact teams, or as part of a regular open offering – express your interest here to be notified when our next workshop is on. Participants will receive access to Trauma responsive people, teams and culture self-led video training, workbook and the one day in person workshop.
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Humans, teams, leaders and practitioners who are regularly exposed to trauma or highly stressful information
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Futures Thinking Program
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The future isn’t something we predict — it’s something we shape.
Delivered by a futurist, this dynamic program introduces participants to the tools, mindsets and practices of futures thinking — a discipline that equips individuals and organisations to anticipate change, explore emerging possibilities, and make more informed, future-ready decisions.
Outcomes include:
Gain practical foresight tools to scan for signals, map drivers of change, and identify opportunity spaces
Build confidence navigating uncertainty and complexity
Develop compelling future scenarios to inform strategic planning and innovation
Enhance collaborative, long-range thinking and systems awareness
Translate foresight insights into action and influence in your context
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MASTERCLASS: Katy Cooper will deliver a masterclass on what Futures Thinking is and what it is not. This thought provoking session is the precursor to the workshops and practical tool application.
PRACTICE: Participate in immersive workshops using real-world scenarios to apply foresight methods and frameworks.
PLAYBOOK: Gain a curated suite of tools, templates, and activities to support continued futures work beyond the program.
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INDIVIDUALS: Expand your perspective, build strategic adaptability, and strengthen your role as a forward-thinking contributor in any field.
LEADERS: If you’re responsible for guiding teams or organisations through change, futures thinking equips you to lead with foresight, not just react in hindsight..
CHANGE PRACTITIONERS: If you work in transformation, culture or innovation, this program offers powerful tools to expand your influence and deepen your strategic impact.
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Katy is an experienced Futurist, trained through The Institute for the Future, POLI-Design at Milan POLI.technic and Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies. She has also studied Disruptive Innovation with INSEAD. She holds a Graduate Diploma of Management (GradDipMgt) from Australian Institute of Business.
Leader as coach workshop
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Leaders who engage in coaching conversations with their employees unlock far more than performance improvements. They create the conditions for growth, trust, and long-term success.
Unlike directive management, coaching conversations invite employees to think critically, explore options, and take ownership of their solutions, which builds confidence and accountability.
These conversations show that leaders value their people as capable partners rather than task-doers, strengthening engagement and loyalty.
The result is a more adaptive, empowered workforce where individuals feel seen, supported, and motivated to contribute their best - not because they’re told to, but because they want to.
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1x 6-hour workshop.
Level up the experience with a series of online guided practise and accountability circles to embed the learning.
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Leaders looking to empower their people
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What others are saying…
Feedback from Polly’s NeuroLeadership and Big Conversations program participants:
“Hi Polly, I wanted to reach out and express my gratitude for the work you are doing. I have done a number of “these sort of things” and this was the most real, honest and practical approaches I have seen. I love that we were able to broach some tricky subjects and practice some skills that desperately needed."
“I found your session truly inspiring and full of valuable insights—felt lucky to attend!”
“Thank you for pouring your passion into delivering a forever memorable leadership experience. Your enthusiasm and powerful topics were incredibility engaging.”
“Thank you Polly for the incredible program. Every workshop was filled with golden treasures and learnings ☺️”
“Thank you so much for today. The session was amazing. Your words of wisdom are so insightful. Hoping I can bring my learnings into the workplace and make some positive change.”
“Thanks for a thoughtful and engaging NeuroLeadership workshop yesterday—I found it practical and relevant.”
“Thank you Polly for taking us on this journey together!”
“It was such a pleasure to be part of your workshop. I got so much out of it, lots to take back to my team and reassurance to know that I am dealing with a complex situation appropriately. The opportunities to network and learn from and with others was also a highlight. Thanks again!”
“I recently completed a self-paced module on grief (part of Trauma Responsive People Teams and Culture Program) at work by Dr Polly McGee and honestly, yaaasssss.
We don’t talk (enough) about grief in professional setting, but I promise you it shows up all the time. Any of these things: restructures, roles changing, plans falling through, that general sense of this isn’t what I thought it would be. The module confirmed my feelings about how often we just push through and tell ourselves it’s not a big deal, or we should be over it. But it doesn’t go away, it just shows up differently. It’s not always obvious, but once you start to see it, it’s everywhere.
My biggest love was that it didn’t treat grief like a problem to fix. It was more about noticing it, making space for it, and understanding how it plays out in teams and culture.
If you’re leading through change or trying to support people well, this is one of those things that’s probably already in the room, you just might not have had a name for it.
What a team these people are at DISCO. Absolutely worth the time.”
Wondering what futurist and a NeuroLeadership designer talk about when they get together?
Check out this awesome conversation between DISCO’s co-CEOs Katy Cooper and Dr Polly McGee.
