I believe my role is to help the individual and the teams in which they operate become their best individual and collective selves – delivering exceptional value to the organisation and to the clients they service.

About Merle

Merle has 25 years of experience in senior leadership roles in the technology sector across multi-disciplines and 10 years as a leadership development entrepreneur. Her expertise and insight span corporate marketing, leadership development, culture & reputation, culture change and transformation, corporate social responsibility and global environmental sustainability. She holds a BA Honours and Masters in Psychology as well as being a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Merle is accredited in Myers Briggs Type Inventory, Hogan Assessment Inventories and Barrett’s Cultural Transformation Tools and is also a qualified yoga instructor.

She runs her own business where her mantra is “Interrupt the Usual” which she does by bringing to her work a unique blend of corporate knowledge and experience combined with a passion about people, culture and potential and the stories which colour us. Merle is endlessly curious about the human spirit and determined to facilitate brilliant and innovative leadership with every individual she engages.

Merle recently led a 3-year mixed method Research Project through Deakin University’s Business School with the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator® exploring how a volatile world is changing the leadership narratives for seasoned female professionals and early-career female and male millennials in corporate Australia and America. In this research, she was a funded researcher with the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), and also participated in a study on the revisions of the current PMAI® instrument.

Where needed, I partner with a handful of wonderfully talented people who share common values and bring different and unique skills, capabilities and thinking to a collaborative offering for clients.

Merle is endlessly curious about the human spirit and determined to facilitate brilliant and innovative leadership with every individual she engages.

About Curve of the World (CotW)

What’s in a name

Broken Hill is a small mining town in the Australian outback. One perfectly still evening, I was mesmerised as the sun set and a beautiful full moon rose over the Living Desert. I looked out to the western horizon and in that moment I saw the magnificent curve of the world and it stirred in me a profound sense of the possibility of human potential. The business was born – as a celebration of what is possible in our lives. The key foundations of the business are passion, curiosity and a genuine belief in supporting people and organizations to flourish. My philosophy is simple – provide the space for the individual to experience a deep understanding of who they are as a leader, for the team to craft a collective journey to unlock their potential and ultimately for the organization to flourish and achieve their vision and mission.