About collabbWAY

When people feel seen, supported and safe to show up as themselves, they don’t just comply, they contribute.

Born from lived experience and shaped by more than two decades of work within complex systems, collabbWAY exists to bring clarity, connection and courageous action to the real, often messy, work of leadership and organisational change. This is leadership that pays attention to how people actually experience work.
With a focus on leadership development, team building, workplace training, and facilitation across Geelong and the Barwon South West, to national work in organisational design and change management, the heart of the work stays the same: people first.

Our approach

collabbWAY works at the intersection of leadership development, facilitation, organisational design and change. We partner with leaders and organisations who know that sustainable performance is shaped by trust, behaviour, systems and everyday conversations, not just strategy or structure alone.

Our work blends bold thinking with grounded, practical tools. No jargon. No heavy frameworks for the sake of it. Just behaviour-led leadership and organisational design that holds up under pressure and works in real time.

What we believe about leadership

We believe leadership is a behaviour, not a job title.
That performance is shaped by trust, connection and conversation.
That pressure doesn’t create better leaders, clarity, connection and capability do.

Leaders don’t need more theory. They need safe enough spaces to practise leading people, especially when emotions are high, confidence shifts, or conversations get tough. They need practical micro-skills they can use in the moment, not just ideas to reflect on later.

Where we focus

A core part of collabbWAY’s work is supporting leaders early, particularly those stepping into management roles carrying significant relational load. Too often, leaders are given targets, KPIs and responsibility without the human skills that actually shape behaviour and culture.

Alongside leadership development, collabbWAY works with organisations on organisational and system design, how roles are structured, how decisions are made, how accountability is shared, and how work flows across teams. Because leadership behaviour is always shaped by the systems people are working within.

We help organisations design environments where people can think clearly, lead well, and work together in ways that are steady, purposeful and sustainable.

That’s why collabbWAY works closely with middle managers and frontline leaders, the cultural drivers and connectors in every organisation. Through relational leadership practices, behaviour-focused tools and real conversations, we help leaders show up in ways others want to follow.

When teams need steadier leadership, clearer conversations and collaboration that holds under pressure, they choose the collabbWAY.

collabbWAY is built on a simple belief: when leadership is human, relational and grounded in real practice, culture and performance follow.

Brooke Baxter, Founder of collabbWAY