Dr. Tjanara Goreng Goreng
TRANSFORMATIONAL leadership COACH, Indigenous Mentor, EducatoR & CONSULTANT
CANBERRA, SYDNEY & ONLINE
Tjanara is a Wakka Wakka Wulli Wulli traditional owner. She was born in 1958 in the outback at Longreach in central western Queensland and has had a fascinating, at times challenging, life plus a diverse and accomplished career.
Her professional background includes being: an author; academic researcher; teacher; psychotherapist; artist; community development worker; senior policy director at the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet and corporate transformational leadership consultant.
Through her business OneINMA Global, Tjanara applies western and Indigenous knowledge systems to provide transformational leadership programs and mentoring, assisting leaders to increase their consciousness and raise their levels of thinking, being and doing.
Services include
Sacred Leadership Development: Consulting, coaching, mentoring, systems design, workshops and events designed to share Indigenous wisdom and support the practice of ‘sacred leadership’ in individuals, organisations and communities.
Coaching & Mentoring: Tjanara works with Indigenous professionals to develop your mindset, skillset, and toolsets to become a more effective leader whilst navigating some of the challenges Indigenous professionals can face in the workplace.
Indigenous Leadership Masterclass: In partnership with The Leadership Institute, this 2-day masterclass for Indigenous professionals, is being delivered throughout Australia during July and August 2021, find out more here.
Women’s Business: Workshops and retreats for all women to share and learn about Aboriginal Women’s Business … taking care of Law, Country, relationships, family, children, story, history and the Tjukurpa (dreaming).
What is sacred leadership?
Sacred leadership has nothing to do with power, money or ego and everything to do with humility and emotional intelligence as she explains in her TEDxCanberra talk, What if our leaders were humble?
Although the term was coined by Harvard Professor Robert Kegan, Tjanara found in her PhD research that the practice of sacred leadership wasn't new. She recognised that we have models who exercise this particular form of leadership in our Indigenous communities.
Tjanara is interested in creating a generation of 'sacred leaders' in all the systems - business, environment, home and personal spaces - in order to sustain and create harmony in the self, our relationships and our environment.
Listen to her radio interview with ABC’s Daniel Browning to learn more.
qualifications & influences
Tjanara is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra and has attained her PhD, MSA. PDM. Grad.Cert.Soc.Sc. Her influences include western leadership scholars Robert Kegan and Erik Erickson and Indigenous Elders including Uncle Bob Randall. In 2018 Tjanara completed her Doctorate entitled ‘The road to Eldership: How Aboriginal culture creates sacred leaders’.
Tjanara’s memoir, A Long Way From No Go, is a story of resilience, courage and remarkable capacity to overcome unending barriers. It can be purchased here.