Shifting Forward - The Event

You've Felt It. The World Doesn't Work the Way It Used To.

The cost of living is squeezing everyone. Mental health challenges are at record highs. The career ladder you were told to climb? It's been pulled out from under you.

But here's the thing, the people who are thriving right now aren't the ones with the most willpower. They're the ones who stopped trying to figure it out alone.

Shifting Forward Live is a one-morning, in-person event that brings together four experts who've each navigated the shift and came out the other side with a system, a story, and a way through.

Here's who's in the room:

🎙 Michael McDade, Founder, MJM Performance Plus & Commercial Director, i2i Australia
The Language That Shapes Leadership, exploring how the language leaders choose shapes the thinking, behaviours and performance of the people around them, with practical tools to create better conversations, stronger relationships and higher performance.

🎙 Jackie Van Baren, Founder, Umbrella Systems
Systems and automation specialist. A decade helping coaches, course creators, solopreneurs, and small business owners stop being the single point of failure in their own business. Jackie's message: if your business only runs because you remember things, chase people up, and do the same tasks over and over, it's not a business, it's a job you can never leave. Jackie will show you exactly where those cracks are and how to close them, so your business can finally depend on more than just you.

🎙 Megan Elliott, Founder, Onda Consulting

Every business has one. The manager who got promoted for being brilliant at the job, and never once taught how to lead the peers who now report to them. Every business owner knows the flip side too: you built the thing, you employ the people, and somewhere along the way you became a people leader as well, with no HR team behind you and no manual for the conversation that's just landed on your desk. Both wing it, right up until the day it publicly doesn't, and the bill lands as turnover, disengagement, and the conversations that mattered but never happened.

Megan Elliott has spent 25 years in the room when that bill comes due: the Fair Work matters, the exit interviews, the culture reviews nobody wanted to run. In this session she names the real cost of winging it, then leads the room through a live, guided experience of what leading differently actually feels like. What attendees notice in that moment becomes the practical, four-step framework they leave with, ready to use in the next conversation that matters. The session closes with a live offer for attendees ready to build leadership capability properly, with real support behind them.

🎙 Mitch Bruger, Founder, Shifting Forward (MC)
Nearly 30 years in business. Author, musician, mindset strategist. Creator of the MAVEN Method™ a five-step framework (Meditation, Affirmation, Visualisation, Education, Navigation) that rewires the subconscious patterns keeping you stuck. Mitch hosts the morning and closes it out: the world has shifted, and waiting for things to "go back to normal" is a losing strategy. It's time to find the Next You.

What You Walk Away With:
✅ Practical tools you can immediately implement to lead with greater confidence, communicate more effectively and create lasting behavioural change
✅ A clear-eyed look at what in your business only happens because you personally do it  and how to fix that
✅ A practical four-step framework for leading people properly, without an HR team behind you
✅ A mindset framework you can apply the same day
✅ Access to the Shifting Forward coaching network and community
✅ Connection with a room full of people on the same journey

Ready to find your Next Self? Join us!

The Details
📅 18th September
🕘 9:00am – 12:30pm (doors at 8:50am)
📍 Sports House Varsity Lakes
🎟 Free to attend — seats are limited, this is an intimate event, not a stadium sell