Building Resilience in Leadership

With over 600 global speaking engagements, 2 decades coaching CEOs and senior leaders, and clients including Google, Amazon, NAB, Allianz, Socceroos and Special Forces, Dr Jodie is a Harvard trained clinical and performance psychologist, 2x bestselling author, award winning keynote and TEDx speaker, and international authority on anxiety, mindset, resilience, and peak performance. She is passionate about helping women to step into their power and thrive.

Dr Jodie’s expertise is highly differentiated combining:

– three decades of specialised work in the financial services industry first as a business strategist and management consultant at PwC and Macquarie Group prior to founding Mind Strength Peak Performance Consultancy; with

– 7 years of university training in clinical psychology, performance psychology and neuroscience (University Medal), doctoral research and specialised practice in anxiety and 10 years as Founder/CEO of The Anxiety Clinic.

As an Executive Coach, Dr Jodie works with CEOs, founders and leadership teams of high growth startups, ASX 200, Global 2000, SMEs, and government organisations equipping clients with the mindset and skills for resilient high performance.

She is the creator of The Mind Strength Method™, a neuroscience based methodology which has helped hundreds of thousands of adults, children and adolescents to curb anxiety, conquer worry and build resilience. The Mind Strength Method™ was recently named by The Australian as one of the ’50 Australian Inventions Changing the World’.

Dr Jodie is frequently engaged as a chapter author and media authority, featuring regularly on Today, Sunrise, Harper’s Bazaar and many more. She is on the advisory board of not for profit Gotcha4Life and shares the stage with leading speakers globally.

Natalie has a proven track record in building and managing successful businesses. She began her career as banking and finance lawyer in Auckland, New Zealand before moving into investment banking in London. Natalie joined JP Morgan in the late 1990s after relocating to Australia and held progressively senior roles, including 14 years as Head of Debt Capital Markets. Under Natalie’s leadership, the DCM platform outperformed its peers in the Australian market for more than a decade. After 23 years at JP Morgan, Natalie was appointed Chief Operating Officer, Markets at National Australia Bank before joining RBC in 2021.

Natalie is passionate about diversity and inclusion and has provided support and mentoring to women throughout her three-decade career in financial services. She championed D&I at JP Morgan as a long-term member of the bank’s Women’s Interactive Network and driver of D&I initiatives including mentoring and career development. At RBC, Natalie continues to be strong advocate for D&I. She is a member of RBC’s Australia Diversity Leadership Council, Executive Sponsor of RBC’s Australian Pride Employee Resource Group and is actively involved in mentorship programs within the bank and in the community.

Natalie is a member of the Australian Financial Markets Association and sits on the Markets Governance Committee. She has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (History) from the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Natalie lives in Sydney with her family.