Catherine Palin-Brinkworth

Catherine Palin-Brinkworth

M.AppSci(Social Ecology) CSP GSF

QLD, AUSTRALIA
As a behavioral scientist and business strategist, Catherine is booked for her knowledge, her experience, and her engagement with your people. Her ideas, insights and inspiration are pure gold.

As a behavioural scientist and business strategist, Catherine is booked for the depth of her knowledge, her global and local business experience and her engagement with your people.

She is genuine, open and authentic. Her ideas, insights and inspiration are pure gold.
Catherine is as comfortable in front of a camera as on a platform, so virtual presentations are confident, powerful and engaging. She recently received 4.9/5.0 feedback for an 8 hour Leadership Development online seminar. She will go out of her way to make your programming easy, enticing and effective.


With an early career background in accountancy, sales and marketing, Catherine knows business challenges! Her professional journey has provided a Masters Degree in Applied Science (Social Ecology), Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, and 3x Master Practitioner Certification in NLP. She has lived her messages of Transformational Leadership. Her powerfully inspirational life story has included personal challenges such as single parenting and cancer survival.


With her focus on Transformative Thinking, her clients have called her The SHIFTworker.

Her topics include:
• Navigating Chaos
• LeaderSHIFT For a New World
• Resilience Release and Renewal
• Bottling Team Spirit


Catherine will always theme her content for your particular outcomes.

As a behavioural scientist and business strategist, Catherine is booked for the depth of her knowledge, her global and local business experience and her engagement with your people.

She is genuine, open and authentic. Her ideas, insights and inspiration are pure gold.
Catherine is as comfortable in front of a camera as on a platform, so virtual presentations are confident, powerful and engaging. She recently received 4.9/5.0 feedback for an 8 hour Leadership Development online seminar. She will go out of her way to make your programming easy, enticing and effective.


With an early career background in accountancy, sales and marketing, Catherine knows business challenges! Her professional journey has provided a Masters Degree in Applied Science (Social Ecology), Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, and 3x Master Practitioner Certification in NLP. She has lived her messages of Transformational Leadership. Her powerfully inspirational life story has included personal challenges such as single parenting and cancer survival.


With her focus on Transformative Thinking, her clients have called her The SHIFTworker.

Her topics include:
• Navigating Chaos
• LeaderSHIFT For a New World
• Resilience Release and Renewal
• Bottling Team Spirit


Catherine will always theme her content for your particular outcomes.

Navigating Chaos

Every organisation - multinational, corporate, professional practice or family unit - is right now undergoing continual and dramatic change. For a few, it could be easy and comfortable. For most, it definitely is not. And unless it is handled well and responded to positively, it can quickly become dysfunctional and very destructive.
Our challenge is not just to manage the chaos, but to work with it to learn and maintain some stability at quantum speed! 
Chaos is...
InspirationalAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny

LeaderSHIFT - New thinking for a New World

Good leadership has always meant

1)    a strong clear vision

2)    great communication and

3)    powerful personal qualities that inspire followership. 

Right now, in the days of Covid19, that seems almost impossible.  Our vision - the primary requirement of every leader - is blurred.  We can hardly see the next few days, let alone the year ahead. 

So we simply have to do the best we can...

LeadershipAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Bottling Team Spirit


Have you ever had that amazing experience of working with a group of people, where everything went so well you wished you could bottle it?  Even in a totally remote working environment, top team spirit shows.

In every successful team, whether in business, sport or community, there is always a special 'something' that makes it work. Catherine's research has identified the components of that 'something' - specific attitudes, values, deliberate diversity,...
LeadershipAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Resilience, Release and Renewal

RESILIENCE, RELEASE AND RENEWAL

No matter how smart, how savvy or how successful we are - no matter how high our life peaks - every single one of us also goes through the valleys.

It's been said that the measure of any master is their ability to climb out of the down times, as proficiently as they scale the heights. Catherine knows. Not only through her depth and breadth of expertise, building and leading significantly successful teams in her business life, but through the growth...

ChangeAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing