Parenting, Family and Leadership

Strong family leadership grows from knowing who you are, understanding your purpose and choosing how you show up for others. Hosted by Katrina Ma'u Fatiaki and Tiani Tohi, with curriculum developed by Dr Deborah Tillman, this programme equips parents, guardians and family coaches to lead with greater intention at home and in their communities.

The curriculum moves through 5 themes: identity and purpose, releasing limiting patterns, developing emotional intelligence, protecting personal wellbeing and living intentionally. Reflective exercises and practical activities connect personal growth with the attitudes, behaviours and communication skills needed to support families and become an impactful role model.

Delivery Formats

This curriculum is designed to adapt fluidly across multiple executive and corporate delivery formats.

• Option A, 5-Week Progressive Cohort: 2-hour weekly interactive sessions
• Option B, Intensive Executive Workshop: 1 to 2 days
• Option C, Weekend Hybrid Model: blended self-paced learning and live intensive

Who This Is For

• Parents and Guardians: seeking structural strategies to lead their homes with clarity and purpose.
• Parent and Family Coaches: building premium industry competencies to serve modern family ecosystems.

Programme Curriculum

Week 1: You Are Chosen

Identity anchoring, purpose alignment, and authentic leadership blueprinting.

A. Who Are You?

Objective: Define core identity independent of professional titles or standard parental roles.
Activity: The Core Identity Inventory, mapping internal drivers, personality traits, and default stress responses.
Outcome: A grounded self-awareness blueprint that prevents personal and professional burnout.

B. Your Why Matters

Objective: Uncover the deep, intrinsic motivations fuelling the desire to coach, lead, and support families.
Activity: The 7 Levels Deep Exercise, systematically drilling down into motivations to discover the root cause of passion.
Outcome: A compelling, written personal purpose statement to guide strategic decisions.

C. Let's Be Real

Objective: Foster radical honesty regarding personal struggles, professional gaps, and leadership vulnerabilities.
Activity: The Vulnerability Wall, an anonymous sharing session focused on the unspoken anxieties faced by modern leaders.
Outcome: Deeper trust within the cohort and the elimination of the perfect leader illusion.

Week 2: Step Out of the Past into the Present

Dismantling historical baggage, overcoming mindset blocks, and situational awareness.

A. Let Go of the Weights

Objective: Identify and release past professional failures, regrets, or legacy family patterns that drain energy.
Activity: The Baggage Audit, listing current operational bottlenecks or cognitive habits that no longer serve the team.
Outcome: Immediate mental clarity and freed-up emotional capacity for new growth.

B. Refuse to Be Ruled by Fear

Objective: Recognise fear-based decision-making, such as fear of rejection or fear of conflict, and replace it with courageous action.
Activity: Fear Setting Matrix, defining worst-case scenarios clearly, designing mitigation plans, and outlining the cost of inaction.
Outcome: Bold, calculated risk-taking in coaching practices and household leadership.

C. Break Free of the Chains

Objective: Shatter limiting beliefs, imposter syndrome, and restrictive self-narratives.
Activity: The Narrative Rewrite, deconstructing a limiting belief and reconstructing it using objective, factual evidence.
Outcome: A highly resilient mindset ready to command authority in high-stakes family interventions.

Week 3: The NEW You

Deepening emotional intelligence, professional standards, and core competencies.

A. It's Your Heart That Matters

Objective: Shift focus from mechanical frameworks to deep, empathetic, heart-centred leadership.
Activity: The Active Empathy Simulation, roleplaying highly resistant or chaotic family scenarios, focusing purely on deep listening.
Outcome: Unshakeable rapport and elevated psychological safety across all relationships.

B. Elevate Your ABC's

Objective: Master the foundational building blocks of elite professional presentation: attitude, behaviour, and communication.
Activity: The ABC Peer Review, receiving structured feedback from peers on verbal delivery, presence, and non-verbal cues.
Outcome: A highly polished, authoritative, and trustworthy professional executive presence.

C. The Qualities of Parent and Family Coaches

Objective: Benchmark skills against top-tier industry competencies specific to family dynamics.
Activity: The Competency Heatmap, scoring execution across core traits of neutrality, multi-partiality, crisis calm, and systems thinking.
Outcome: A clear, personalised 90-day skill development roadmap.

Week 4: Live Your Best Life

Boundaries, sustainable energy management, and personal vitality.

A. Embrace the Off Button

Objective: Establish rigid, healthy boundaries between demanding external environments and personal peace.
Activity: The Digital Sanctuary Setup, designing explicit blackout hours and response workflows that protect personal time.
Outcome: Complete elimination of administrative fatigue and reactive working habits.

B. Value Your Time

Objective: Maximise productivity by treating time as a premium, non-renewable asset.
Activity: The Time Auditing Matrix, categorising weekly tasks into high-value leadership, low-value admin, and empty distractions.
Outcome: Strategic automation or delegation of low-leverage tasks to reclaim five or more hours per week.

C. Stay Fit

Objective: Connect physical wellness directly to cognitive endurance, focus, and leadership presence.
Activity: The Biological Blueprint, building a realistic, customised daily routine incorporating movement, nutrition, and sleep.
Outcome: Enhanced daily physical stamina and sharper mental clarity during demanding sessions.

Week 5: Be Intentional

Focus optimisation, impact scaling, and legacy formulation.

A. Eliminate Distractions

Objective: Protect your focus from the noise of shiny object syndrome, micro-tasks, and low-priority requests.
Activity: The Distraction Shield, identifying top daily interruptions and deploying immediate structural barriers to eliminate them.
Outcome: Deep, uninterrupted focus blocks dedicated to high-level strategic growth.

B. Expand Your Territory

Objective: Develop a bold growth strategy to scale influence, market share, and long-term impact.
Activity: The Scaled Impact Model, planning transitions from one-on-one interventions to leveraged group programmes or corporate contracts.
Outcome: A clear, multi-channel growth roadmap to expand your professional footprint.

C. Enrich the Lives of Others

Objective: Align daily operations with your legacy goal of leaving families and communities measurably better.
Activity: The Impact Metric System, designing qualitative feedback loops to measure long-term, multi-generational transformation.
Outcome: A heart-centred environment that naturally generates referral pipelines through proven, life-changing outcomes.