How much of your team’s brilliance is still waiting to be activated?

In a world of ambiguity and complexity, your team’s collective brilliance is your competitive edge.

We help teams think better, together.

“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings’.”

Dave Barry

Our why

Most organizations have no shortage of meetings, ideas or talented people.

But somewhere between all the talking, the silos, the never-ending waves of change, the context switching, the unspoken rules, and the elephants we skirt around - most of our collective potential remains dormant. 

Well, that’s our work. 

We activate collective brilliance through better thinking and better togetherness.

We believe that this is urgent and important work, and that our ability to think clearly, creatively and critically has never mattered more.

Your competitive advantage is your human brilliance.

Our team of highly experienced, big-hearted facilitators, trainers and coaches are united by our shared commitment to activating collective brilliance.

— Cassandra Goodman, Founder & Director, Collective Brilliance

Our approach

How your people treat each other drives how they feel, and think.

How they think drives the actions they take (or don’t take).

And those actions drive your results.

We help you improve the quality of your togetherness and the quality of your thinking - so you can deliver better results.

Our work is grounded in the Collective Brilliance System - an evidence-based framework that strengthens how people think and work, individually and together.

Our Collective Brilliance System

Our unique approach to activating collective brilliance combines two powerful, evidence-based frameworks: The Thinking Environment® and Internal Family Systems.

  • This element of our Collective Brilliance System focusses on growing the capability and capacity to stay connected to our true nature - while leading our many different ‘parts’.

  • This element of the system focusses on growing the capability and capacity to access our best thinking when it matters most. 

     

  • This element of our system focusses on building the foundations of trust and teamwork that sustain aligned performance and innovation.

  • This element of our system focusses on co-creating and sustaining the conditions that activate fresh, clear, creative and critical thinking.

Our Team

Cassandra Goodman

Founder & Director

Cassie brings over 25 years of global leadership experience to her work, combined with a deep belief in the brilliance of people and teams.

Her executive career spans senior roles including Quality Leader for Europe, Middle East and Africa at General Electric, and Global Director of Employee Experience and Wellbeing at Bupa, where she activated their purpose Longer, Healthier, Happier Lives for their 86,000 employees.

Today, Cassie works with leaders and teams to strengthen how they think and work together - drawing on her expertise as an accredited leadership coach, Thinking Environment® facilitator and trainer, and her grounding in Internal Family Systems.

Cassie also has 7 years experience as an accredited Thrive Global coach - and has supported thousands of leaders around the world to underpin their performance with wellbeing.

Her approach blends rigour with creativity, and depth with playfulness - creating the conditions where people can do their best thinking, together.

She is also the author of two books Self-Fidelity and Being True. Her books provide a guide for busy, gig-hearted leaders who choose to lead in a way that stays true their true nature.

Sarah Dalziel

Associate Director

Sarah Dalziel brings a rare combination of strategic insight, organisational transformation experience and commercial leadership. 

She has over 20 years of executive experience in global blue-chip companies such as Orica and BlueScope Steel.  Her depth of experience across diverse geographies and markets has equipped her with the skills needed to navigate cultural change, organisation restructures and workforce development in any industry. 

Sarah has broad business and deep people and culture experience, which is backed by her formal education, including an MBA from Melbourne Business School. She is also a Graduate of the Company Directors Course (GAICD).  Her approach blends strategic rigour with humanity and curiosity, creating the conditions where people think well together and deliver outcomes that matter.

Today, Sarah partners with leaders and organisations to align strategy, culture and capability - drawing on her expertise in organisational transformation, and the Thinking Environment®. She applies these ways of being and operating to promote inclusion and leverage diversity of thought. Sarah is the Founder and Director of Sage Engaging, which is a collaborative partner consultancy of Collective Brilliance. 

Candice Smith

Associate Director

Candice is a deeply experienced facilitator, coach, and Thinking Partner with over two decades guiding individuals, teams, and organisations to think more expansively, collaborate inclusively, and navigate complexity with clarity.

She is a senior Faculty member at Time To Think and known for designing and creating environments that elicit fresh thinking and courageous action. Blending facilitation mastery, leadership development, and cultural awareness, she helps individuals and teams reimagine how they connect, collaborate, and lead through uncertainty with ease.

As senior Time To Think Faculty she leads their accreditation programs and a great joy is supervising coaches, facilitators and leaders in creating Thinking Environments®.

Candice acts as a trusted thinking partner to her coaching clients, helping leaders deepen self-awareness and align leadership with values to create human-centered impact. She also thrives in equipping leaders to hone their facilitative leadership skills, embedding practices for leading inclusively and navigating ambiguity.

As a descendent of South African First Nations, she is humbled to be contributing to reconciliation in Australia as a facilitator of an award-winning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Allyship program,

A meditation practice spanning twenty years deeply sustains her and her leadership practice.

We’ll meet you where you’re at.

Some teams need a powerful reset. Some need practical capability building. Others are ready to fundamentally transform how they think and work together.

Wherever we begin, our goal is the same: to help you experience, create and sustain the conditions for collective brilliance.

We work with leaders to provide one-on-one support (Spark), build capability (Ignite) and sustain lasting change (Embed).

We’re also open to co-designing a bespoke solution with you. Just reach out to explore possibilities.

Our Services

  • Spark

    Spark one-on-one coaching sessions give you much-needed space to think creatively and critically - to generate clarity and momentum on the things that matter most.

    Learn more here

  • Ignite

    Our workshops are designed to create clarity, grow trust and build momentum. Your team will experience the breakthroughs that emerge in a Thinking Environment.

    Reach out to learn more

  • Embed

    Our programs embed the habits, practices and ways of working that make better thinking possible every day.

    Reach out to learn more
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  • "When working with Cassie, it feels seamless, like she’s a natural extension of your leadership team."

    Maryke-Stootjes-Reid,
    Diversity, Wellbeing & Inclusion Lead, SEEK

  • "Sarah intimately understands the role of organisational culture on business performance, enabling her to make insightful strategic connections.”

    Andrew, President APAC, Mining Company

  • "Candice embodies the philosophy underpinning the Thinking Environment with mastery. She doesn’t just teach the concepts—she brings them to life. Through her facilitation, participants embark on a transformative journey, one that elevates both self-awareness and collective impact. Candice is the epitome of a conscious leader, inspiring others to show up fully—present, engaged, and operating at their best.”

    Reza Behnam- Founder, Fractional First

  • “I had the privilege to have Sarah as our GM QHSE and People and I enjoyed that cooperation greatly. Sarah has a real strength in considering situations strategically and in their entirety, considering all involved parties. She adds valuable perspective and insight and builds solutions for the future. I have experienced her as an advocate for a values based workplace, including employee development and well-being."

    Claudia Nelson, People and Capability Consultant, Manufacturing company - New Zealand

  • "Cassie's connected with my team in ways that we wouldn’t have expected and opened the door to more mature and robust ways of thinking."

    Tom Cooper
    National Technical Director, WSP

  • "Cassie creates a space where my ideas can run wild, boosting my ability to lead and innovate."

    Tina Li
    Founder, Aciae

  • “I have had the amazing opportunity to attend a number of Candice’s programs and have come away each and every time not only having explored and expanded my thinking in new ways but in quickly forming deep and enduring connections. Candice’s embodiment of a true ‘thinking environment’ creates the conditions for transformative experiences, enabling thinkers to explore their thoughts with curiosity and sometimes vulnerability, often revealing unanticipated insights and understanding. If you’re a leader who wants to encourage more expansive thinking in your organisation or a facilitator/coach interested in supporting the creation of the necessary conditions for truly independent thinking."

    Bridget Blackford - Executive Coach PCC & Organisation Development Consultant GAICD

  • "Cassie’s an authentic and intuitive coach and facilitator who cares deeply for those she serves – without reservation or judgement."

    William Sheffield
    CPO, Westfund

  • " I could not rate Cassie more highly as a facilitator."

    Troy Lewis

    Global Director, People & Culture, Hardie Grant

  • "Cassie is a master at creating and holding space for her clients. This space is always free of ego, striving, hustle or judgement."

    Jasmine Malki

    Coach & former CPO

  • "Sarah's empathy and expertise enables her to effectively connect with people in all parts of the organisation, from the executive to the operator. She was instrumental in a significant improvement in employee engagement with results increasing, on average, from second quartile to top quartile."

    Peter Newton, CEO, Agricultural company

Better thinking and better togetherness.

“Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.”

Margaret J Wheatley

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  • "The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. The quality of our thinking depends on how we are being treated while we think."

    Nancy Kline, Creator of The Thinking Environment®

  • "It is a wonderous think to create islands of sanity - places of possibility and refuge where the human spirit can thrive."

    Margaret J Wheatley, Restoring Sanity

  • “In this time of whole-system transition we can no longer afford to live as half-light versions of ourselves. The complexity of our time requires a greater and wiser use of our capacities. The world can thrive only if we can grow.”

    Jean Houston

  • "AI is designed to make people not think."

    Sven Nyholm, Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

  • "At precisely the moment organisations need more critical and analytical capability, sense-making, judgement and questioning skills are at risk of erosion."

    AHRI Magazine, Protecting our Critical Thinking.

  • "Intelligence is traditionally viewed as the ability to think and learn. Yet in a turbulent world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.”

    Adam Grant, Think Again

  • "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

    Albert Einstein

“I’ve never seen my team so calm, focused, and open to listening to each other.”

Matthew Vecchio
Managing Director, Auseco (Client)