Our standard format is a 6-hour structured engagement over two days where you can work with both of us in diagnosing issues in your specific situation and formulating your orientation toward potential transition. We are focussed on professional settings, yet sensitive to the way personal and domestic relationships and broader political dynamics influence those settings and nothing is off the table in your engagement. Our goal is to support you in developing realistic options to find peace with your situation through both acceptance and change. The time we spend allows us to meaningfully understand the dynamics of your scenario and to assist you to formulate commitments to both consolidation and transformation. 

Susegad Consulting is not a traditional therapeutic or coaching practice in that we do not seek ongoing clients. Many coaching and support services, including “AI”-supported services, have an ultimate goal of keeping clients subscribed to their product. By contrast, we hope that after engagement with us you have additional resources to chart your own course. We offer ad hoc support and follow-up after your engagement if required, but ideally you come through our program with a fresh perspective that offers you independent agency in your future activity.

While we are certified professionals familiar with the prominent models in coaching, consulting, counselling, and psychoanalytic domains, we do not follow a single process. Based on our decades of academic and professional experience, we believe we are all working in new ways of living that are underpinned by cultural change and technological transformation, and this makes “off the shelf” or generic models less useful. The world is full of potential that doesn’t yet have simple formats that work for everyone. We believe that everyone’s experience contains tools for its own transformation and that’s what we look for in our dialogue with you. →

We aim to be authentic rather than sycophantic and our engagement is oriented to your independent future. We are respectful of your preferences, however we will provide an informed response even if uncomfortable: we do not promise an experience that matches every advance expectation, nor do we promise unconditional positive regard. 

For us, it is the input of others — particularly those who have uncomfortably challenged our assumptions or disrupted our habits of thinking — that have led to our ability to accept and engage the complexities of life. We bring that spirit of authenticity to our engagement with you. You might not agree with everything you hear from us — and occasionally, on particularly interesting issues, we don’t agree with each other!  But you will have our genuine, diverse and engaged perspectives to calibrate your own intuition. In our experience, real talk and critical disagreement delivered with respect is a rare and important resource in the search for clarity.

Our professional experience is primarily in “mission-oriented” professions including health, education and the creative arts; however we have also worked in community, corporate, governmental and intergovernmental settings and welcome engagement with anyone who is interested in our approach. We have a strong interest in how dominant therapeutic and consulting methods were developed in a 20th Century Western context that Quijano calls “coloniality/modernity”, and thus bring values specific to that mindset¹. We work with people who, like us, are seeking to depart from these legacies and who are pursuing a values-based approach to their professional environment and looking for an opportunity to think about their contributions in a new way. 

We have spent our two decades together supporting each other to maintain ethical purpose and value in professional environments that are actively forgetting how to allow people to come together with care and integrity. With the launch of Susegad Consulting, we are excited to share our collaborative conversation and support with you.