The Change Room

The Change Room We believe performing at your best — as a leader, an athlete, or someone rebuilding after injury — takes more than talent alone.

It takes the right people beside you.

Strategy and skill will only get your team so far.You can hire the brightest minds and design the most flawless operatio...
14/08/2026

Strategy and skill will only get your team so far.

You can hire the brightest minds and design the most flawless operational frameworks. But without two foundational elements, even the best strategies stall.

High performance doesn't run on pressure. It runs on confidence and connection.

When teams lack confidence, decision-making slows down, risk aversion takes over, and innovation stops. When they lack connection, communication breaks, and trust evaporates.

At The Change Room Performance, we don't look at performance as a surface-level metric. We look at the behavioural science behind how people actually work together.

If you are ready to shift your team from operating in survival mode to unlocking their genuine potential, it’s time to look at a new framework.

From high-performance leadership summits to tailored team development programs and executive coaching, we have a suite of programs designed to shift culture and drive measurable behavioral change.

Reach out to us at [email protected] to start a conversation today.

Mary Gourley spent a decade inside Google watching what AI actually does to the way people work. Not the hype. The reali...
12/08/2026

Mary Gourley spent a decade inside Google watching what AI actually does to the way people work. Not the hype. The reality. What changes, what doesn't, and what the best leaders do with the time AI gives them back.

This Wednesday she sits down with Matt Elliott and Susan Pearse to answer the question every leader is quietly asking right now - and show you exactly what to do with the answer.

One hour. Complimentary. Wednesday 26 August · 12:30pm Sydney.

If this is the conversation someone in your world needs right now - share it with them.

Reserve your seat: https://dub.sh/1507KAo

10/08/2026

Information is everywhere.
Implementation is rare.

The leaders who perform at the highest level aren't the ones with the most knowledge. They're the ones with the best systems for turning what they learn into what they actually do - day after day, one small shift at a time.

That's the 1% principle. Not a complete overhaul of how you lead. Not a retreat. Not a workshop that feels great and fades by Thursday.

Just one question, asked deliberately, every single day:

What is the one thing I can do today to implement the knowledge I now have - for myself, for my team, for the performance we're capable of?

Because here's what we know after three decades working inside elite sport and with some of Australia's most senior organisations: knowledge without implementation doesn't move anything. It sits there. It feels productive. It changes nothing.

Implementation - even 1% at a time - is how performance actually compounds. For individuals. For teams. For organisations.

If you'd like to build that momentum for yourself or your team, we'd love to explore what working together looks like.

👉 thechangeroom.info/performance/engagements

Share this with a leader in your world who needs to hear it today.

What if the thing standing between you and your best isn't your workload - it's your thinking...Fifteen seasons at the e...
21/07/2026

What if the thing standing between you and your best isn't your workload - it's your thinking...

Fifteen seasons at the elite level of professional sport teaches you things no coaching manual covers. Anthony Minichiello shared the internal foundations that made the teams he played in extraordinary - and why the same principles apply to every leader navigating pressure right now.

It's not the preparation. It's not the talent. It's what's happening in your head - and whether you've trained it.

Watch the full session with Elliott, Pearse and Minichiello - link in the comments below.

Speed. Consequence. No perfect information.Welcome to modern leadership.Matt Elliott. Anthony Minichiello. Susan Pearse....
14/07/2026

Speed. Consequence. No perfect information.
Welcome to modern leadership.

Matt Elliott. Anthony Minichiello. Susan Pearse.
Tomorrow. 12:30pm.

Elite athletes have been making high-consequence decisions in seconds for their entire careers.
Tomorrow they show you how that translates to yours.

One hour on how to think clearly under pressure, anchor your team when conditions keep shifting, and lead with the kind of clarity that only comes from having a system behind you.

This is not theory. This is what winning environments actually do.

Wednesday 15 July · 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Complimentary. Online.

Registration link in the first comment below. ↓

Matt Elliott. Anthony Minichiello.One coached State of Origin champions. The other played in 11 of them — and was named ...
07/07/2026

Matt Elliott. Anthony Minichiello.

One coached State of Origin champions. The other played in 11 of them — and was named the best player in the world in 2005.

State of Origin is 80 minutes of the most pressure-loaded decision-making on the planet. Every play. Every call. Every moment — made in real time, with no room to second-guess.

Here's what they both know that most leadership programs never teach:

The game doesn't wait for you to be ready. Neither does business.

On Wednesday 15 July, Matt and Anthony sit down with conscious leadership expert Susan Pearse to unpack the real-time leadership skills that elite sport has proven - and show you exactly how to apply them when the pressure is on in your organisation.

Real-Time Leadership. One hour. Complimentary.

📅 Wednesday 15 July · 12:30–1:30pm Sydney time · Online

Can't make it live? Register anyway — everyone who signs up receives the full post-session toolkit with the frameworks and actions to use with your team straight away.

Know someone who needs this? Share it with them.

You're not stuck.You're saturated. Here's what nobody tells you about leadership at the level you're operating. Every de...
02/07/2026

You're not stuck.
You're saturated.

Here's what nobody tells you about leadership at the level you're operating.

Every decision you delay doesn't disappear. It sits there — quietly accumulating, pulling on your attention, draining the energy you need for the decisions that actually matter. We call it Decision Debt. And right now, most leaders are carrying more of it than they've ever carried before.

More information. More complexity. More noise. The pace of business isn't slowing down — and neither is the expectation on you to cut through it, make the call, and move forward without second-guessing yourself into paralysis.

The leaders who are performing right now — genuinely performing, not just surviving — aren't making more decisions. They've learned to make fewer, better ones. Faster. And then move on.

That's what this session is about.

On Wednesday 15 July, I'm sitting down with Susan Pearse and Anthony Minichiello for one hour on Real-Time Leadership — the decision-making frameworks that clear the debt, cut through the noise and let you lead with the kind of clarity that your team can feel.

This is the conversation I wish someone had given me thirty years ago.

📅 Wednesday 15 July · 12:30–1:30pm Sydney time
💻 Online · Complimentary
👉 Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ad87af29-e11d-4287-b0ec-45662e825963@16757583-c7a2-4fe4-8728-af1733370e60

Can't join live? Register anyway — everyone who signs up receives the full post-session toolkit with the frameworks and actions to use with your team straight away.

If someone in your world is carrying this weight right now — share this with them.

26/06/2026

The one inside their head.

After thirty years coaching at the highest level of professional sport, Matt Elliott knows that the difference between the leaders who thrive under pressure and the ones who don't almost never comes down to skill, strategy or experience.

It comes down to the voice.

In this TED talk, Matt introduces you to your Inner Mentor — the coach that's been with you your entire career, waiting to be heard.

Watch above. Then share this with the leaders in your world who need to hear it.

If you'd like Matt to bring this into your next leadership event, conference or team day — the link to our keynote speaking page is in the comments below.

17/06/2026

A specialist looked at Anthony Minichiello's scans and told him his career was over.

He was 24.

What happened next isn't a story about sport.

It's a story about what the human body is capable of when you stop waiting for someone else to fix it — and start building the conditions for it to repair itself.

Anthony didn't just recover.

He went on to play five more seasons of elite professional rugby league. Zero injuries. And a follow-up scan that showed the supposedly irreversible had reversed.

The tools he found in that process — the sleep, the nutrition, the nervous system work, the mindset shifts that nobody puts in the medical plan — are the same tools he now shares with the people who come through The Change Room Recovery Program.

And they're working.

If you're in a recovery that has stalled — or you know someone who is — watch this. Then visit the link below. What Anthony found might be exactly what's been missing.

👉 https://dub.sh/AEaO7q1

Most leaders we work with aren't failing. They're exhausted from succeeding in a way that isn't sustainable.Susan Pearse...
10/06/2026

Most leaders we work with aren't failing. They're exhausted from succeeding in a way that isn't sustainable.

Susan Pearse said something in our Performance Blueprint series that stopped the room:

"When you say yes to overextending yourself, what are you actually saying no to?"
That question is worth sitting with today.

At The Change Room, we work with leaders and their teams to close the gap between how hard they're working and how much it's actually working — through real, rigorous coaching that shifts performance at every level.

If this resonates, we'd love to connect.

Send us a message and let's have an honest conversation about what's possible for you and your team. 👇

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