When Teams Step Outside, They Step Up

As the year draws to a close, most organisations are planning their end-of-year staff sessions - often a mix of presentations, catered lunches, and a last push for alignment before everyone exhales for the holidays.

Here’s a question worth asking:

When was the last time your team walked away from a planning day genuinely changed?

Not just informed.
Not temporarily motivated.
But grounded. Clear. Connected.
Better individually, and better together.

That’s the experience we created withBoardroom in the Bush.

Nature Is the Most Underused Leadership Tool We Have

When teams step out of traditional meeting rooms and onto Country, something profound happens.

The nervous system resets.
Ego softens.
Conversations deepen.
Ideas emerge from a wiser place, not performance mode.

People stop holding it all together and finally let themselves simply be.

This is where real leadership begins: presence before strategy, humanity before hierarchy.

Your End-of-Year Staff Retreat in the Valley of Joy

Our end-of-year experiences are designed for organisations who want more than a day “offsite.”

They want a day thatrealigns.

Your team will:

• Unplug from screens and the pace of commercial life

• Walk mindfully through bushland on Wonnarua and Darkinjung Country

• Build connection around a fire, not a whiteboard

• Explore Steward Eldership - leading through values, wisdom, and courage

• Shift into clarity for the year ahead

• Remember what truly matters through Indigenous-informed leadership

Every team also plants a tree in the valley - a living commitment to walking into the future the right way.

Teams leave:

• Calmer

• Clearer

• More grounded

• Better connected

• More aligned with their values

• Inspired to lead from purpose, not pressure

And those shifts don’t disappear a week later - they ripple across culture, communication, performance, and wellbeing.

Let’s Reimagine Your End-of-Year Gathering

If you’re curious about bringing your team to Boardroom in the bush for a restorative, meaningful end-of-year session, we’d love to explore it with you.

Email:[email protected]
Phone:0415 843 654

This year, don’t end with exhaustion.
End with presence.
End with clarity.
End with what’s real.

Boardroom in the Bush
Where leadership comes home.

IMPACT Culture -

How One Law Firm Transformed Culture, Performance & Profit

In this episode of The 10 Degree Shift, I sit down with Julie Morley, Partner at the Law Office of Conrad Curry, to explore her extraordinary 40-year career spanning government, outdoor children’s education, and now senior leadership in the legal sector.

Julie shares the golden thread that has guided her journey: a deep valuing of people, genuine connection, and a remarkable ability to see patterns others miss-patterns that lead to better systems, smarter decisions, and commercial growth.

But the heart of this conversation goes deeper.

Julie and her leadership team had always prided themselves on being inclusive, people-focused, and growth-minded. Then came 2022 - when 10 staff resigned, all in a single year. It was a wake-up call.

Instead of doubling down on old systems, they reimagined everything.

Over the past three years, their cultural reset has generated extraordinary outcomes:

• Employee retention rose from 52% to 87%

• Income doubled

• Profit increased three-fold

The secret? They scrapped performance reviews altogether.

In their place, they created year-long coaching conversations centered around each team member’s IMPACT measures:

I – Innovation

M – Motivation

P – Professionalism

A – Accountability

C – Communication

T – Teamwork

The philosophy is simple and deeply effective:

Take care of your people, your people will take care of your clients, and your clients will take care of your profit.

This episode is a masterclass for leaders wanting to build a conscious, high-performing, human-centred workplace - without the burnout, bureaucracy, or outdated reviews.

Tune in to hear Julie’s wisdom, courage, and the powerful cultural transformation that is reshaping what leadership in law can look like.