FOR BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP
Lead with Clarity.
Act with Integrity
Make a Meaningful Impact.
When the pressure, responsibility or complexity of leadership increases, the way you relate to yourself and others becomes part of the business.
I work with founders, business owners, executives and leaders to understand what is happening beneath the surface, work through the patterns that get in the way, and lead with greater clarity, confidence, presence and integrity.
Online across Australia. One-to-one leadership development, structured 13-week programs, team facilitation and bespoke organisational support.
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20+ years mindfulness & personal development · 10,000+ hours facilitation · PACFA Registered Clinical Therapist · Online Australia-wide
SELF-LEADERSHIP · COMMUNICATION · EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE · DECISION-MAKING · CONFLICT · ACCOUNTABILITY · TEAM DYNAMICS · PERFORMANCE
From Pressure, Reactivity & Overload
To Clear, Grounded & Effective Leadership
Leadership is not only what you know. It is how you respond when the pressure rises, the stakes are high and people need something from you.
The work is to understand what drives your reactions, strengthen your capacity to stay present, and turn insight into clearer conversations, better decisions and consistent action.
How leaders get stuck
Pressure & Reactivity
Leading from stress rather than clarity
Overthinking, irritability, urgency, indecision, overwork, difficulty switching off and decisions driven by pressure rather than purpose.
People & Communication
Getting caught in the relational dynamics
Conflict avoidance, defensiveness, unclear expectations, weak boundaries, people pleasing, micromanagement and difficult conversations left too long.
Avoidance & Drift
Knowing what needs to happen but not doing it
Procrastination, lack of focus, inconsistent follow-through, avoiding accountability, staying with familiar patterns and losing connection with the larger direction.
What we build instead
Self-Leadership
Clarity and composure under pressure
Greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, confidence and discernment, with the capacity to choose your response rather than simply react.
Relational Leadership
Trust, communication and healthy influence
Emotional intelligence, clear expectations, courageous conversations, healthy boundaries, feedback, empathy and stronger working relationships.
Purposeful Action
Clear decisions and consistent execution
Priorities, accountability, assertiveness, courage, delegation and follow-through aligned with the values and direction of the business.
Choose How You Want To Work
Different leaders & organisations need different levels of structure, support and involvement.
Choose the way of working that best fits the challenges, responsibilities and outcomes that need your attention.
13-WEEK LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CYCLE
Structured Development + Personal Support
For founders, business owners, executives and leaders ready to work consistently on how they lead themselves, their people and the challenges in front of them.
The 13-Week Leadership Development Cycle combines structured learning with personalised one-to-one support to strengthen self-leadership, communication, emotional intelligence, decision-making and purposeful action.
Purpose
Clear direction and values-led leadership
Develop greater self-awareness, clarity and confidence around who you are as a leader, what you stand for and the direction you want to create.
Transcendence
Clear seeing beyond reactive patterns
Develop emotional intelligence, psychological flexibility and resilience, with greater capacity to recognise patterns, regulate under pressure and respond rather than react.
Action
Doing what needs to be done
Strengthen decision-making, communication, accountability, courageous conversations, healthy boundaries and consistent follow-through.
Whats Included
13 Weeks of Structured Development
A clear pathway for understanding, practising and integrating the work.
Weekly 1:1 Leadership Sessions
Personalised support to work through current challenges, uncover patterns and identify the most useful next step.
Leadership & Pattern Mapping
Understand how you operate under pressure, where you tend to get stuck and what more effective leadership requires from you.
Accountability Structure
Stay focused on priorities, follow through on commitments and translate insight into behaviour.
Between-Session Support
A space for questions, reflections and real-world leadership challenges as they arise.
Practical Resources
Selected frameworks, exercises, mindfulness practices and communication tools relevant to your development.
ONE-OFF
Focused Support for What’s Happening Now
Bring a specific leadership challenge, difficult conversation, team dynamic, decision, conflict, role transition or business pressure you want to work through.
A focused one-hour session to help you see the situation more clearly, understand what may be driving it and determine the most useful next step.
Best for: one clear issue, decision or immediate leadership challenge.
TEAMS
Leadership Development, Facilitation & Workshops
Bespoke development for teams and organisations focused on communication, emotional intelligence, conflict, psychological safety, accountability, team dynamics and effective leadership.
Programs can be designed around a specific challenge or developed as an ongoing leadership initiative.
Best for: leadership teams, organisations and groups wanting practical development shaped around their context.
BESPOKE
Ongoing Support Built Around You
Flexible one-to-one support shaped around your role, responsibilities, leadership challenges and professional goals.
Rather than following a fixed program, we create an arrangement that allows us to work with what needs your attention as it unfolds.
Best for: founders, executives and senior leaders carrying ongoing complexity and responsibility.
NOT SURE WHAT YOU NEED?
If you’re not yet sure which level of support is right for you, book a free 30-minute conversation.
We can talk about what is happening, what kind of support would be most helpful, and whether a one-off session, bespoke arrangement or the 13-Week Leadership Development Cycle is the right fit.
What People are Saying
Deepen Understanding
See more clearly what is happening beneath your decisions, communication and leadership under pressure. Understanding the patterns underneath our behaviour creates the awareness needed for meaningful change.
Process
Turn towards the reactions, assumptions, emotions and relational patterns that are usually operating outside awareness. What was unconscious becomes something you can consciously work with.
Practice
Develop the capacities that support effective leadership through mindfulness, emotional regulation, self-inquiry, communication, boundaries, feedback and intentional action.
Experiment
Take the work into meetings, conversations, decisions and real leadership moments. Try new ways of responding, notice what happens, refine your approach and bring what is happening in here to what is happening out there.
About Mike
For more than a decade, Mike has worked with individuals, groups, leaders and organisations across the Byron Shire and beyond.
His work brings together more than 20 years of study and practice in mindfulness, counselling, human development, facilitation and leadership, with thousands of hours supporting people through meaningful personal, relational and professional change.
Mike has also worked and studied alongside Robin Miles of InspireMe Consulting, contributing to high-performance leadership coaching and training with executive leaders. This experience deepened his understanding of how self-awareness, emotional regulation, communication, ethical influence and embodied presence shape leadership, culture and performance.
His approach is practical and human. The aim is not simply to perform leadership better, but to become more capable of meeting pressure, people and responsibility with clarity, integrity and choice.
Michael Vaccaro, BCouns, GradCertAppMind, CertMedHolCouns
PACFA Registered Clinical Therapist | Leadership Development Facilitator
Michael Vaccaro, BCouns, GradCertAppMind, CertMedHolCouns
PACFA Registered Clinical Therapist | Creator of the Conscious Couples Program
Frequently Asked Questions
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I work with founders, business owners, executives, senior leaders, emerging leaders and organisations wanting to strengthen the human side of leadership.
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The work overlaps with executive coaching, leadership coaching and leadership development, but the focus is not generic business advice or telling you how to run your company. We work with the person doing the leading: self-awareness, emotional regulation, communication, decision-making, relationships, accountability and action.
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Common areas include leadership under pressure, difficult conversations, conflict, communication, emotional intelligence, confidence, boundaries, delegation, decision-making, team relationships, role transitions, accountability and follow-through.
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Yes. Workshops, facilitation and leadership development can be designed around the needs of a particular team, organisation or leadership group.
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We offer flexible pricing based on project type and complexity. After an initial conversation, we’ll provide a transparent quote with no hidden costs.
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Yes. One-to-one work is available online Australia-wide, with organisational and group work arranged according to the needs of the engagement.