Davina Stanley

November 2023

March 2024 - Australia, Asia and US timezones

March 2024

2023 MONTH

Test 2024

Learn to structure your thinking so your communication resonates with busy people.

August 2024

Learn to structure your thinking. Find & frame insightful messaging that resonates with busy people.

June 2024

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2024 December

2025 May Cohort

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US & ASIA - 2025 November Cohort

2025 September

October 2025, for those in Europe, Africa, and for Australians who want to learn in the evening.

Europe, Africa & Australian evening - 2025 October Cohort

2026 February

US, Australia & Asia - May 2026

When you are thinking about improving your Board Paper writing skills, you might not immediately go to improving your emails. This is, however, a wonderful place to practice some important structured thinking skills without burning lots of time. In 10 minutes, you will get useful ideas that you can apply more broadly. You will also get to know more about how I can help.

Write Better Emails

Learn to crystallize the messaging for business communication, papers and presentations with minimal rework.

McKinsey-trained | C-suite comms expert

Founder | coaches at F100 & ASX10 companies + tech PMs | ex-McKinsey

Board Paper Bootcamp: Executive Communication for Senior Leaders

Director Infrastructure and Policy

Head of Operations and Risk

Head of Enterprise Risk

SOCI - Security of Critical Infrastructure - Lead

Leader, Data & AI Products and Engagement

Enterprise Risk Lead

Head of Tribe Support (COO)

Managing Executive

Change Manager 

KPMG

Woolworths

7-Eleven Australia

Mercer

Is this familiar?&gt;&gt; Writing C-Suite presentations feels like a chore that burdens your nights and weekends.You are sitting down to review the fourth round of edits on your latest Senior Leadership Team (SLT) or Board presentation.And you urgently need leadership support for the project to proceed.But your stakeholders' continuous focus on minutiae is muddying the message you've worked toward.What's going on?Endless rounds of minor edits are blocking a project that will make a real difference to your KPI's.Why?Most likely you have provided a lot of information but not enough insight.Your nights and weekends spent drafting have delivered a polished document that doesn't address the real issue.&gt;&gt; What if you consistently got better, faster decisions from presentations written within regular working hours?Board Paper Bootcamp is an executive communication course that teaches you how to think more strategically about your messaging so you get to the heart of the matter quickly in a way that AI cannot.You too can get your recommendations approved quickly, the first time, every time.

Learn to craft executive communication that gets better, faster decisions.

A technique for discerning the strategic outcome your presentation needs

A repeatable approach for mapping and 'nailing' your messaging

A toolkit to guide your future presentations

A finished paper you can be proud of

Leaders, PMs, and experts from any area who want to set up better conversations that lead to better, faster decisions from their leaders.

Finance leaders wanting strategies to make it faster and easier to review business cases drafted by divisional teams.

Company secretaries, chiefs of staff and communication experts wanting to help their teams deliver crisper and more valuable insights.

How to get your recommendations approved faster

25 years helping leaders get complex ideas approved at the highest levels

It's not what you think. The problem isn't writing quality. It's what happens before anyone writes a word.

Why your recommendations keep coming back

Concrete changes to how you and your team work. Not writing tips. See how to slash rework and dramatically lift quality.

The three shifts that cut approval time in half

Most people have heard versions of these principles before. I lay out how to translate them into faster approvals.

Why knowing isn't enough and how to make it stick

Pyramid Principle 101

ex-McKinsey | Founder | coaches at FX 100 and tech PMs

Barbara Minto worked out that the problem with executive communication wasn't the 'writing'. It was the thinking.

Why thinking matters more than writing

Executive communication must not only be clear, but the insights must also be both useful and interesting.

How to go from information to insight

Executives rarely count the high cost of reworking drafts. Let's slash it while getting better decisions.

How using a pyramid lifts insight quality and cuts rework

How to Communicate Strategically

Founder | ex-McKinsey | Coaches at F100, tech PMs

Starting writing immediately is a wasted effort. It leads to messy messaging and endless editing. Learn a different way.

The most commonly missed step in preparing a presentation

If your audience can't find your message, they won't do what you need them to do. Learn how to bring it to the surface.

How to make your communication 'skimmable' in any format

Information isn't enough. Executive-level communication is useful, insightful, AND interesting.

What a strategic insight looks like

Learn to get to the high-level messaging and to iterate around that rather than staying stuck in the weeds.

How to avoid endlessly editing draft documents

How to Minimise Rework for Your Next Presentation

Founder | ex-McKinsey | Communication coach to leaders in complex areas

The biggest problem has nothing to do with the quality of your slides.

The root cause of rework

Clarifying your messaging inside your deck (or doc) feels fast, but it is actually slow and leads to excessive rework.

How to quickly 'nail' your messaging

I share 5 steps that will help you clarify and convey complex messaging.

A proven way to reframe the way you work

How to Use Your 'Updates' to Have Influence

Founder Clarity First | ex McKinsey | F50, ASX 10 coach

It's tempting to tick and flick your project update to explain what have done. This leaves huge value on the table.

Go beyond filling in last month's template

Rather than burying your REAL insight or need at the bottom of page 47, bring it to the surface.

Focus on the ways your leaders can help you and your project

Even when communicating complexity, your high-level messaging must be simple. Use my top 3 to nail your next update.

Learn three story frameworks that nail 90% of updates

3 Business Communication Traps and How to Avoid Them

Coaches leaders from F50 and ASX10 companies, author, ex-McKinsey

I'll explain a new way to think about communication length and offer a quick way to check your own drafts.

Why 'shorter' is the wrong way to think about 'length'

Knowing why your eyes glaze over helps you avoid doing it to others.

How your brain blocks you from communicating clearly

It is tempting to quickly jump into writing a paper or presentation. It good but is costly.

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