Acknowledgement of Country
Daniel Wright
Founder & Business Mentor
Illuminator & Connector
Dan is an internationally accredited business mentor and coach with over 30 years of industry experience. Throughout this time, Dan has completed studies in general management, business and law and has worked in leadership roles at a range of multinational firms around the world.
With a passion for knowledge and supporting others on their learning journeys, Dan’s primary goal for his clients is to see their businesses thryve and to help them experience greater enjoyment from working in their business.
He does this by really listening to his clients and working with them to get a clear, structured and achievable business vision. Once the vision is clear, he coaches them and their teams to bring in new skills as well as focus and accountability to achieve their version of success – whatever that may be.
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Alana McEwen
Employee Engagment
People Activator
Alana has over 25 years’ experience leading, shaping and supporting global capability and leadership projects. She has a background in Learning & Development, Project Management, Events and Customer & Employee Experience.
We call her the activator, as she is exceptional at quickly turning thoughts into actions that creates a real energy, ensuring everyone she collaborates with stays focused and motivated.
Outside of work Alana enjoys spending time with her family and taking their schnoodle (dog) for long beach walks and swims. Alana is community minded and volunteers for several local not for profit organisations on the Sunshine Coast.
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Trish Coleman
Heart-Centred executive coach
resilience & purpose navigator
Trish has over ten years of coaching experience across a diverse range of organisations in Australia. She brings more than 20 years of public and corporate experience, including roles in the government sector in Ireland, SMEs, Macquarie Bank, and an Australian funds management company.
Trish holds a Master of Science in Coaching Psychology with distinction from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with distinction from Macquarie University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Charles Sturt University. She is also a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Trish is passionate about co-creating personal, goal-oriented journeys supported by systematic thinking practices that enable progress and build natural momentum. Her approach empowers clients to grow in alignment with their purpose and values, reignite their passion for life, and maximise their professional performance.
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Martina Rios
Leadership & Performance
Systemic & EQ Coaching
Martina is committed to developing transformative leaders and high-performing teams; coaching people and businesses to lead with purpose, compassion, curiosity, and courage.
As a resourceful leadership and performance coach, Martina possesses human behaviour, transformative leadership, and systemic perspective coaching expertise.
Her firm belief in the power of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) has led her to champion the ‘Leading for performance culture with the superpower of EQ’ framework approach, enabling teams to flourish and leaders to amplify their impact.
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Bianca Taylor-Andrews
Creative Communication
Brand, Design & EXPERIENCE
Bianca is a Brand Designer, Illustrator and Developer with over 10 years experience in the commercial creative industries.
As a core collaborator within Thryve (and through her solo practice Brightside) Bianca partners with business owners, teams and innovators to craft endearing and enduring relationships between services, stories, ideas, and people.
With an interest in regenerative leadership, systems science, social science and world-building, Bianca combines her technical design skillset with a co-creative approach, a soft spot for storytelling, and a generous dose of "what if" questioning that empowers her clients to lean in to the powerful possibility of brand building, engaging digital experiences and mindful expressions of self and business.
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Craig Logan
Creating healthy rhythms
find & maintain coherence
Craig is a father, a husband and a student of spiritual science.
His personal journey has helped him to appreciate that in order to make healthy changes, he first had to take personal responsibility for where he was and accept the truth. This meant accepting his life as it was, not how he wanted it to be.
Combining over 20 years working in large institutions and as an educator Craig now continues to work with individuals and businesses to provide practical guidance to shift to healthier thoughts, emotions and behaviours, bringing into harmony what the brain thinks, with what the heart knows.
When we can bring alignment to what we think and what we feel, we are are not just healthier and happier, we are also composed, focused, energised and performing at our best.
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Cathryn Lloyd
Creativity & innoVation
Coach / facilitator
Dr Cathryn Lloyd is an experienced facilitator, accredited systems thinking coach, and Australia’s first certified creativity coach. The Founder and Director of creative human development consultancy, Maverick Minds, Cathryn works with individuals, teams, leaders and organisations to help transform their thinking, gain fresh perspectives, and drive positive change.
With extensive experience spanning corporate, government, and academic sectors, Cathryn delivers bespoke leadership programs, innovation programs, team development workshops, and coaching sessions aimed at unlocking her clients' full potential. Believing creativity unlocks our capability and confidence, she loves evoking curiosity for learning, connection and creativity, implementing her unique Artful Inquiry approach and adaptive style.
Cathryn’s background in visual arts and design enriches her innovative approach to creative and systemic coaching. Integrating experiential, arts-based, and action-oriented techniques, Cathryn creates tailors meaningful and immersive learning experiences specific to the needs of each client. Her holistic approach encourages exploration and innovation in leadership, wellbeing, culture, and team dynamics.
At the core of Cathryn's facilitation and coaching philosophy is collaboration, creativity, relationship-building, and responsiveness to client need. She places great importance on deep listening, mutual trust, and co-creating a clear sense of purpose with her clients as fundamental to her approach. Cathryn adapts her facilitation and coaching methods to suit each unique context and client, ensuring her coaching is relevant, applicable, and creates engagement.
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Scott Thomson
executive Coach
leadership & growth
Scott is a Senior Business and Leadership Coach who works with Executive, Developing and Emerging Leaders across various businesses to provide the best leadership and growth coaching utilising various frameworks. Scott manages his own Executive Coaching Business where he provides business coaching services and leadership coaching to Senior Executives and Business Owners.
Scott has 30 years’ successful leadership experience across a range of FMCG businesses. He has extensive business and financial experience leading sales, marketing, supply chain and operations teams and understands what it takes to deliver results. Scott has balanced a successful career while ensuring work life balance was a priority to enjoy importance of family time.
Scottis passionate about helping people become the best version of themselves andachieve to their full potential. His coaching will enable you to share yourexperiences, values and beliefs without judgement.
Leveraging on his extensive experience, Scott takes accountability and is focused and passionate about helping you achieve the results you need. He will challenge you to explore thought provoking ideas so you can continue to grow, whilst knowing he is there to support your journey. As a coach he can show you how to unlock the real potential of your business and within yourself.
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Developing Confident Leaders and Collaborative Teams in Local Government & Council
We work with organisations, leaders, and teams to help them achieve intentional, sustainable, and abundant growth. Local councils, government organisations, and private businesses partner with us to:
Find Clarity and Develop a strong vision for the future
Develop current and emerging leaders, and their teams
accelerate momentum in their people and project initiatives
learning and Development
consulting services
Best suited for local councils & government organisations
Executive coaching
Develop senior, mid-level, and emerging leadership capability through personalised coaching.
Our executive coaching focuses on strengthening leadership mindsets, decision-making, and emotional intelligence. With a values-led and performance-focused approach, we support leaders to grow their self-awareness, lead with clarity, and drive meaningful outcomes in complex environments.
individual & group coaching
Practical coaching to build leadership pathways and core management capabilities.
Coaching designed to build confidence, communication skills, and strategic thinking. Whether developing emerging leaders or supporting experienced managers, our coaching helps embed positive leadership behaviours and boost professional development across government and council teams.
Team Coaching
Support teams to grow collaboration, cohesion, and collective leadership.
Our team coaching strengthens relationships, clarifies shared goals, and improves communication. From project teams to leadership cohorts, we help teams align around purpose, work through challenges, and increase their capacity to lead together.
Workshop Facilitation
Interactive, outcomes-focused workshops to support strategy, engagement, and innovation.
We facilitate custom workshops that get people thinking, collaborating, and acting with intent. Whether you're planning strategically, solving problems, or designing new ways of working—our workshops create space for creativity, alignment, and practical progress.
We also offer short or bespoke programs for professional development and non-accredited training in areas such as:
Leadership
Soft Skills
Communication Skills
People & Wellbeing
Resilience & Mental Health
Business
Teams
Psychometric Analysis
Creative Industries & Innovation
Transition
About Us.
We are a Queensland-based collective of internationally accredited coaches and facilitators.
At Thryve, we do things differently. We take a creative, collaborative approach, co-designing programs that meet the unique needs of your organisation, your leaders, and your people.
Our purpose is to catalyse intentional, sustainable, and abundant growth so your organisation can truly thrive.
Our practice unfolds in two steps:
First, we seek to understand your organisation’s context—its dymanics, challenges, and the people who bring it to life.
Then, we apply our coaching, mentoring, and facilitation expertise to unlock growth, build capability, and move you forward with purpose.
Meet Our Practitioners
Get to know our network of core practitioners who come together to support our clients.
Dan Wright
Founder & Business Mentor
Illuminator & Connector
Alana McEwen
Employee Engagement
People Activator
Trish Coleman
Executive CoaCh
Positive Intelligence
Martina Rios
leadership & Performance
Systemic & EQ Coaching
Bianca Taylor-Andrews
creative Communication
CULTURE & Design
Craig Logan
CREATING HEALTHY RHYTHMS
Find & Maintain Coherence
Cathryn Lloyd
Creativity & Innovation
coach / facilitator
Scott Thomson
Executive Coach
leadership & growth
Outcomes we Create
A leadership program that sounded like us, looked like us, and helped us grow into who we’re becoming.
"We wanted to create a program that would not only support the development of our current and emerging leaders, but would also feel uniquely 'us'. Dan combined our goals and input with his knowledge and expertise to create and deliver a bespoke and successful leadership development program which we will continue to build on to support our people."
managing director, Inertia engineering
Dan listened first, challenged our thinking second, and shaped something that truly fit our team's needs.
“Dan’s approach is not ‘cookie cutter’ – his real strength is his genuine care to take time to listen to and understand his clients and then he shapes a program to meet the needs of the team. I regularly used him as a valued sounding board and welcomed his willingness to challenge my thinking.”
Group Manager, Southern Queensland Council
ready To co-create the future of your organisation?
Reach out to book a call with dan, founder of thryve
Get In TouchIt is with great respect we acknowledge the First Nation Peoples of Australia as the traditional custodians and storytellers of this land. We pay respect to Indigenous Elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.
