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coherence

The power of being whole

Individual Coherence anchors decision-making, communication, and purpose to leadership.

Team Coherence brings alignment, drives collaboration and achievement of shared goals.  

Individual and team Coherence can be cultivated and strengthened.

COHERENCE - Definition and Case Studies

We are surrounded by stories of leadership success and failure.  Look behind the headlines to recognise how people rose to the challenge.  

COHERENCE - Research Articles

The effect of cultivating coherence – in individuals and teams – has been researched and there is reliable evidence supporting the prioritisation of strengthening a coherence mindset and culture.

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Sense of Coherence, Self-Compassion, and Mental Well-being of Senior High School Students: An Explanatory-Sequential Inquiry. Authors This study examines how a sense of coherence and self-compassion contribute to mental well-being, highlighting the role of viewing difficulties as solutions, which helps in developing resilience and self-mastery.
The incremental validity of narrative identity in predicting well-being: A review of the field and recommendations for the future. Authors: JM Adler, J Lodi-Smith, FL Philippe The paper reviews how narrative identity contributes to well-being by providing coherence to identity and fostering self-mastery and control.
Collaborative Crisis Management and Leadership in the Public Sector Authors: N Kapucu, Y Ustun This paper investigates how coherent communication among public leaders impacts crisis management and fosters collaboration.

We are

Over 20 years in professional people development with major Australian and international companies;
an award-winning, utterly unique, boutique professional development firm
founded by Annie and David McCubbin.

Annie McCubbin

Founder, Actor, Director, Author

Annie is committed to elevating the quality of critical thinking in business and life, focusing on helping women avoid being conned by new-age nonsense and self-help platitudes. After appearing in major theatre productions and Australian TV dramas, Annie founded COUP with David.
Having trained and coached thousands of women leaders, it became blindingly apparent to Annie that understanding cognitive flaws and unconscious biases can protect our lives from unwelcome drama and ruin. She became deeply irritated that the benefits of critical thinking are overlooked while New-Age nonsense and pseudoscientific health offerings are widely consumed. She wrote 'Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions" in 2020 and has just followed this up with "Why Smart Women Buy the Lies.'

David in action

David McCubbin

Founder, actor, Managing Director

As Founder and Managing Director, David has pioneered the adoption of skills and disciplines from dramatic art as effective learning and development mechanisms in dozens of blue-chip corporations across banking, professional services, retail, pharma, telecoms, tertiary education, social housing and government. He has designed and delivered countless development programs for senior leaders and provided executive coaching to C-suite execs, CEO's and senior academics. He founded COUP with Annie in 2001. Since then they have delivered programs across Australasia and abroad.

HS accredited-practitioner

ARTIFICIAL INTEGRITY - The Talk

Context

Today, perhaps more than ever, the difference between genuine integrity and its artificial counterpart is often blurred.  

Aim

The talk aims to  expose the manipulative use of Artificial Integrity in power dynamics across politics, business, and personal relations, offering new perspectives to combat these abuses effectively.”  

Key Ideas

The Mechanisms of Manipulation: How manipulative tactics are subtly woven into our daily communications and their impact on personal and professional relationships.

The Psychology Behind Artificial Integrity: Understanding why and how individuals use these strategies to gain power and control.

Strategies for Recognition and Resistance: Practical advice on how to recognise signs of manipulation and protect oneself and others from falling victim to it.

The Link

Please use this link to view the talk on the TEDx Youtube platform and please, share it with people who will benefit.

https://youtu.be/hr6IVlIcxDU?si=Qjz0f4uI4P7VOSbw

What we can do for you

Our main development modalities

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We train

Building your power and ability across the competencies described below; skills that bring career and personal satisfaction. We deliver face-to-face and via online video and utilise a 10:20:70 approach.

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We Coach

Helping you get your thoughts straight; clarity about your business context and goals; your purpose, your personal strategies and tactics, and encouragement to back yourself.

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We Conference

We offer Keynotes, Team-building and Large Group Facilitation and Skills Transfer; Session design and agile media production.

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Media Production

We offer cost-effective production services.

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Acceptance Commitment Therapy

For people needing more focused personal, professional development.

The Core Competencies

The powers and abilities that underpin effective leadership and help you win at work

Composure

The power and ability to be calm and connected when things get challenging

Communication

The power and ability to create awareness, understanding and belief

Collaboration

The power and ability to build and lead high performing, high-achieving teams

Cognition

The power and ability to see clearly, apply critical thinking and make good decisions

Book a meeting

If you want to increase your impact and influence book us for a complimentary consultation.  We’ll help you:-

  1. Clarify your personal and professional goals
  2. Gain expert insight and guidance on what it takes to achieve them
  3. Learn about your development options and opportunities.

Our experience

Over the last two decades, we've worked with many great companies

What experienced leaders Say

"Watching Annie and David work is a joy. Illustrating behaviour, with superb acting skill, ensures the leadership insights and wisdom come to life and truly land with participants - often with humour, always with impact."
Kathleen Bailey-Lord FAICD
Independent Non-Executive Director
"Their approach is innovative, creative and tailored to the specific needs of the organisations they work with. It has proven to be highly successful with participants who take away practical strategies they can use immediately to be more effective leaders. David and Annie’s experience training leadership teams in Australia and Asia allows them to work effectively and productively across all sectors and industries."
Dagmar Schmidmaeir AM
Educator, Mentor & Book Adviser to Business Leaders
"I worked with David and Annie from COUP for 4 years from 2017 to 2020 delivering the CEW Leaders Program. Their programs are competency based and their delivery style is creative, thought provoking, fun and most importantly different to other leadership programs. I can’t recommend David and Annie highly enough."
Amanda Mostyn
HR Advisor, Non Executive Director, CEW Member, Former Group Executive Human Resources, ASX.

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