Supporting APS leaders to make clearer decisions|navigate complexity|perform effectively|plan their career|develop their teams|have difficult conversations|build confidence|create clarity
When expectations, priorities, and influence are often ambiguous.
Most APS professionals are working in environments shaped by shifting priorities, stakeholder complexity, layered approvals, and constant delivery pressure. The challenge is rarely effort. It is clarity, prioritisation, and effective decision making inside that complexity.
Choose the focus that matches your current work context.
I work with professionals across the Australian Public Service who are navigating complex roles, competing priorities, and high expectations for performance and delivery.
My background spans leadership development, coaching supervision, facilitation, and direct work with individuals and teams across public sector environments. Much of the work focuses on how people operate inside complexity rather than trying to simplify the environment itself.
Across this work, I am interested in how clarity, attention, and decision making shape performance in real workplace conditions.
Coaching in this context is practical and grounded. It focuses on live work, current challenges, and the patterns that influence how people think, act, and respond under pressure.
I am a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, reflecting my commitment to coaching capability grounded in rigorous practice, ethical standards, and ongoing professional development. I have coached someone physically located on every continent, including Antarctica, which has given me a broad perspective on how career, leadership, and performance challenges show up across different cultures and professional environments.
The APS Recruitment Game
A significant part of my work has also focused on understanding how people experience recruitment, selection, and progression within the APS.
The APS Recruitment Game provides practical frameworks for understanding recruitment processes and improving performance in applications and interviews. It helps professionals move beyond guesswork and approach opportunities with clearer strategy, stronger communication, and greater confidence.
The ideas in the book sit alongside the coaching work, particularly around clarity of expectations, decision making under ambiguity, and understanding how systems shape behaviour.
Le Lievre translates from French to English as the Hare and inspired the Hare Consulting name, and informs my approach to work of helping hares perform like tortoises. While the hare relies on speed, the tortoise succeeds through consistency, focus and perseverance. In today’s fast-paced workplaces, especially in government and professional services, that lesson matters more than ever.
Work with me
Hare Consulting provides structured support for professionals navigating career decisions, recruitment processes, and leadership transitions both in Canberra, Australia and virtually around the world.
Workshops, Facilitation and Capability Development
Supporting APS and public sector teams through workshops, facilitation, and capability development focused on leadership, communication, collaboration, and team effectiveness in complex organisational environments
Brendon runs the Coach Conversations Podcast where he has conversations with coaches about all things coaching. You can find more information, transcripts and latest episodes here – http://coachconversations.com.au/
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