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Support for Every Stage of Business Ownership

Business Prep Program
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Business Preparation Program

The difference between struggling and succeeding often comes down to what you did before you started.​​

 

Who This is For

The Business Preparation Program is a structured 6-session coaching program for professionals preparing to start their own business. It focuses on building clarity, confidence and practical foundations so you can move into business ownership in a considered, sustainable way rather than reacting under pressure.

What We’ll Focus On 

  • Clarifying how you want to lead before your business launches

  • Building confidence in early decisions and direction

  • Understanding when to outsource, collaborate, or set limits

  • Thinking ahead about who you may need around you

  • Working from your strengths while planning support for gaps

  • Recognising skill gaps without self-judgement

  • Designing a business that fits your life, not the other way around

  • Developing clear, professional communication habits early

  • Building a healthy relationship with money and cash flow from the start

  • Understanding what contributes to long-term sustainability

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Offered as a  1:1 or group program

Working with Lisa as my coach has helped me find clarity and confidence and then take action

 

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Business Ownership Essentials

Leadership Foundations

You didn't start a business to feel stuck in it.

 

Who This is For


The Business Ownership Essentials Program is a 6-session program designed for professional services business owners seeking greater clarity about their business direction, stronger confidence in their decisions, and sustainable strategies for ongoing success — delivered in a focused, time-efficient format that fits alongside the realities of running a business. 


 

What We’ll Focus On 

 

  • Clarifying how you want to lead your business

  • Strengthening confidence in decision-making

  • Knowing when to delegate and set boundaries

  • Hiring and retaining the right people

  • Working with your strengths

  • Recognising your weaknesses

  • Building a business that supports your work-life balance

  • Effective communication with your team

  • Bringing whole brain thinking into your decisions

  • Identifying self-limiting beliefs that may be holding your business back.

  • Factors influencing long-term business sustainability 

Offered as a  1:1 or group program

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Workplace
Risk& Insight
Review

Employee Insight Program

Imagine having a clear picture of your team before small issues

become expensive ones.

A workplace does not become psychologically safe simply because policies exist. Culture is shaped by leadership behaviours, communication, systems, workload expectations, team dynamics, and what is consistently accepted within the business.

Under Safe Work Australia laws, businesses have a legal responsibility to identify and manage psychosocial hazards in the workplace. Since the 2023 WHS legislative amendments, psychosocial risk management has become an increasing focus for regulators across Australia. These obligations apply to employees, contractors, and other workers engaged by the business.

Psychosocial hazards can include unclear expectations, excessive or insufficient workloads, poor communication, conflict, inadequate support, unsafe behaviours, poor change management, and environments where people do not feel safe to raise concerns.

The legislation requires businesses to identify risks, assess them, and either eliminate them where possible or reduce them as far as reasonably practicable. Responsibility sits with the business and its leadership.

Many organisations already have policies, codes of conduct, values statements, performance processes, and workplace procedures in place. The challenge is often whether these systems are clearly understood, consistently applied, and reflected in the day-to-day experience of work.

While businesses should seek appropriate legal or HR advice regarding compliance obligations and workplace policies, documented procedures alone do not necessarily reflect what employees are experiencing day to day.

 

This is where the Workplace Risk & Insight Review differs from a standard employee survey.

The process asists you to meet your WHS obligations and is informed by principles aligned with ISO 45003 guidance on psychological health and safety at work. It is designed as a proactive, ongoing workplace insight and improvement framework — combining psychosocial risk awareness, employee engagement insight, leadership reflection, and practical workplace improvement strategies.

Rather than relying on a one-off survey that only captures what may be happening, this process helps businesses explore the why behind workplace issues, identify patterns over time, and strengthen the systems, communication practices, and leadership behaviours that shape workplace culture and performance.

Areas of Support

The following services can be delivered individually or combined as part of a broader workplace support process.

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Workplace Insight Conversations

Following the baseline review, confidential discussions can be used to explore themes identified within the data in greater depth. When combined with the baseline review, this process provides a deeper and more informed psychosocial risk assessment.

Baseline Workplace Review

The first stage establishes a baseline understanding of the workplace through evidence-based surveys.

Leadership Development

Leaders play a major role in psychological safety, and awareness alone does not create organisational change. The focus is not simply identifying problems, but supporting businesses to build practical and sustainable processes and systems.

Ongoing Pulse Checks

Research supports the value of regular short check-ins (approx. 15 minutes), with ongoing conversations linked to improved accountability, reduced emotional exhaustion, and stronger workplace support. Please note: This is not performance management, coaching, or a replacement for an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). It is a structured and confidential feedback process guided by a coaching-informed approach.

Why this matters

Poorly managed psychosocial risks can affect both people and organisational performance.

Psychological injury claims are often more complex and costly than physical injury claims and may impact:

  • workers compensation costs

  • staff turnover

  • productivity

  • workplace morale

  • leadership effectiveness

  • organisational reputation

Healthy workplaces are also typically more productive workplaces. When people feel clear about expectations, supported in their roles, and safe to raise concerns appropriately, businesses often experience stronger engagement, improved collaboration, and greater operational stability.

Psychological safety is not about lowering standards or removing accountability. It is about creating clear, fair, respectful working environments where expectations, boundaries, and communication processes are understood and consistently applied.

A proactive approach helps businesses strengthen both workplace wellbeing and organisational performance before issues escalate into larger operational, cultural, or legal problems.

Benefits to You

  • Clear visibility of real work experience​

  • Early identification of workload strain and psychosocial risk​

  • Practical insight to support WHS obligations​

  • Greater role clarity and decision confidence​

  • Stronger communication across teams and leadership​

  • Safer ways to raise concerns early​

  • Evidence to improve retention and reduce staffing costs​

  • Workforce insight to inform innovation and performance​

  • Data to guide leadership decisions​

  • Conditions that support sustainable productivity​

  • Evidence of efforts to identify and manage workplace psychosocial hazards in line with WHS responsibilities

Price on Application

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Greater Business Clarity

Stronger Business Foundations

Confident Decision Making

What it costs

We all have varying needs, schedules, and communication preferences, which is why the coaching programs are offered as group or 1:1 options. They both deliver the same material, just in a format that best suits your needs.

1:1 Coaching Program - $2,080 

  • 6 x 60-minute sessions, fortnightly

  • Email and text support between sessions

  • A 30-minute check-in call at the 90-day mark 

Group Coaching Program - $1,500 

  • 6 x 120-minute sessions, weekly

  • Email and text support between sessions

  • A small cohort of no more than 12 — so there's real room to talk, not just listen

  • Learn from peers who are navigating similar challenges

Coming Back

  • Single 1:1 session to work through something specific $350

  • 6 x 60-minute 1:1 sessions to use over 6 months $1,825

  • 12 x 60-minute 1:1 sessions to use over 12 months $3,534

** All prices are AUD and include GST​​

 

Please note: The programs focus on leadership development and reflective coaching. It’s not business consulting or strategic planning; however, it forms the foundation of how you design, strategise, and lead your business moving forward. ​​

Identifying your needs starts with a conversation

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Sometimes the help that makes the biggest difference is the help you didn’t realise you needed yet. One conversation can bring unexpected clarity.

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lisa@prosperise.com.au

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