Closing the leadership gap for technical experts.
Geophysicist. Leader. Translator between worlds.
I help scientists and engineers become as exceptional at leading teams as they are at their discipline.
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Coaching & Mentoring
An experienced mentor and certified Executive & Organisational Coach.
I have mentored and coached emerging and senior leaders across the globe for 15 years, and have more than two decades experience navigating my own technical career, and leading technical experts, cross-discipline teams and both in-person and remote teams.
Through our time working together, I can help you get clarity about who you are as a leader, strengthen your leadership capabilities, make a bigger impact, or progress to your next career challenge.
Workshops & Programs
Corporate in-house workshops and programs
Available in person or online, I can run half-day to full-day workshops - standalone or part of a program, designed to support your technical people to build and strengthen their leadership capability.
Each workshop is customised to your business needs. They contain practical leadership strategies and insights that will support your technical experts to feel confident and empowered as team leaders.
Speaking
Keynote talks and conference presentations
I am passionate about motivating and inspiring technical audiences on the power of leadership, particularly when navigating uncertainty, ambiguity and constant change. I have spoken at national and international conferences on leadership, the human elements of digital transformation, and building AI-ready teams.
Hi, I'm Dr Natasha Hendrick
I'm on a mission to support and inspire technical experts and managers of technical teams to lean into leadership and enrich their leader toolkit to amplify impact in a complex, ambiguous world.
I'm a scientist who has worked in the natural resource industry for more than two decades, with a somewhat unconventional career resulting from a parallel work path in outdoor adventure-based learning, leadership development and training, organisational capacity building, strategy and governance.
My extensive leadership and management experience in my technical field, together with the work I've delivered in not-for-profit and community organisations, bring a unique perspective on leadership, systems design and strategy building. These are proving ever more relevant as the great generational changeout occurs in the workplace and the world rapidly adapts to the expansion of AI technology.
I am passionate about translating leadership, systems and strategy insights into a language that leaders of technical teams can relate to and practically implement.
I have co-designed global leadership models and delivered leadership trainings around the world; mentored and coached emerging and senior technical leaders; and delivered keynote talks at national and international technical conferences on leadership, the human elements of digital transformation, and building AI-ready teams.
I'm looking forward to working with you!
Leading between
Most technical experts become leaders the same way - they're exceptional at what they do, so someone hands them a team. What nobody tells them is that the skills that made them outstanding in their discipline aren't the same skills that will make them outstanding leaders of people.
This isn't a personal failing; but closing this leadership gap matters more now than it ever has. AI is augmenting human cognition, and leaders carry load-bearing roles right now to amplify psychological safety and support technical specialists as they navigate fundamental identity shifts. The world itself has become harder to navigate and leaders need to build teams that are genuinely adaptive rather than merely resilient. And a generation of technical leaders is retiring while the next won't simply accept the command-and-control playbook.
Leading between is how leaders will make an impact today. Between people. Between disciplines. Between being a technical expert and the business leader your organisation expects. Between humans and technology.
Leading between isn't about authority that comes with a title or holding more power; it's about releasing more capability in others.
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