The Barefoot Coach

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Leadership & Culture.
Coaching & Facilitation.

Helping you be the best you can be.

Smarter

We’ll help you leverage your whole-brain thinking, and develop the emotional intelligence of individuals, teams and organisations.

Together

We’ll help you build a culture that harnesses the best qualities of your team; a culture founded on deep trust and purposeful collaboration.

Faster

Our focus; accelerate execution and drive peak performance.

harness-energy-unleash-potential

BALANCE FLOW PEAK PERFORMANCE

about

Live the moment. Love the journey.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play, labour and leisure, mind and body, education and recreation. One hardly knows which is which. One simply pursues their vision of excellence through whatever they are doing and leaves others to determine whether they are working or playing. To themselves they always seem to be doing both. It is enough for them that it is done well. — L.P. Jacks

client-testimonials

“It was a pleasure to work with Dugald. I found his work very interesting and I have taken some of his points into my new career as a coach.”
Harry Kewell —
Leeds, Liverpool and Socceroos legend
“Working with Dugald was really about stretching my thinking and developing on my core leadership skills to take my business from good to great. Dugald took me out of my comfort zone and into an environment through the ‘board meetings’ that would had me working at my peak performance levels.”
Jason Back — Managing Director
The Australian Lending & Investment Centre
“Dugald’s engaging approach enabled us to achieve our strict outcomes successfully. We now have a clear focus on the key elements for building a high performance team. These have been embraced by the leadership group and embedded in our team development”
Tony Hall — General Manager, Private Health Insurance
GMHBA
“Dugald has been able to bring significant performance results to our team by aligning our focus on key objectives. It has set strong foundations for continued success with a more dynamic and united team.”
Cameron Lampard, Global Wetsuits Chairman, Rip Curl
“Dugald has become a key member of our team in driving our leadership and culture development. After four years the program continues to become more interesting, exciting, relatable and responsive to our organization and our staff…”
Michael Penhey, CEO and Kelli Potts, Exec. Manager
Crowley Care Services
“Dugald’s fresh and unique approach to performance coaching has helped unify and energise our team and given us tools to improve our communication and leadership skills.”
Mick Ray, CEO, S.E. Asia, Rip Curl
“I’ve worked with Dugald for over 10 years. He’s a highly skilled, results-oriented facilitator who delivers each and every time with a uniquely engaging, authentic and personal approach.”
Robert Bell, CEO, :86400
“Dugald’s objective, measured approach, unique strategies and theories on leadership, coupled with his relaxed yet very direct manner has been a huge help for me both personally and professionally. Dugald constantly challenges my thinking and holds me to account. As a coach and a trusted advisor, I couldn’t recommend Dugald more highly.”
Matt Rose Managing Director (Partner) Zoo Group
“Dugald has a positive and engaging way of bringing people together into aligned thinking around their goals and objectives.”
John Didulica, Chief Executive, Professional Footballers Australia

our-team

Our Team

We emphatically improve the performance of individuals, teams and organizations that we partner with, by providing unique opportunities for them to unleash the potential within.

Dugald Christie-Johnston

The Barefoot Coach

Founder and Director of Seventh Wave.
Photographed here by Derek Rielly.

Kellie Christie-Johnston

Bringing Balance, Finding Flow

Founder and Director of Seventh Wave
Seen here with Tore (Norse God of Thunder) and Soleil (French Sunshine)

Yamba

Wisdom Keeper

In it from the beginning, and still keeping it real…

counting

2019

Last year

891

Waves ridden

Boardmeetings™

Roadtrips™

twitter

The Barefoot Coach x URBNSURF inaugural Boardmeeting! December 13, 50 surfers. 10 hours of waves. 5 hours surf time… https://t.co/5wBzs8VY2W
Dugald CJ about 11 days ago
@thepfa @FFA @Socceroos @TheMatildas Outstanding! Congratulations to all involved.
Dugald CJ about 34 days ago

our-clients

Peak Performance

Leadership & Culture.
Coaching & Facilitation.

Smarter

Together

Faster

BALANCE FLOW PEAK PERFORMANCE

Live the moment. Love the journey.

“It was a pleasure to work with Dugald. I found his work very interesting and I have taken some of his points into my new career as a coach.”

“Dugald’s engaging approach enabled us to achieve our strict outcomes successfully. We now have a clear focus on the key elements for building a high performance team. These have been embraced by the leadership group and embedded in our team development”

“Dugald has been able to bring significant performance results to our team by aligning our focus on key objectives. It has set strong foundations for continued success with a more dynamic and united team.”

“Dugald has become a key member of our team in driving our leadership and culture development. After four years the program continues to become more interesting, exciting, relatable and responsive to our organization and our staff…”

“Dugald’s fresh and unique approach to performance coaching has helped unify and energise our team and given us tools to improve our communication and leadership skills.”

“I’ve worked with Dugald for over 10 years. He’s a highly skilled, results-oriented facilitator who delivers each and every time with a uniquely engaging, authentic and personal approach.”

“Dugald has a positive and engaging way of bringing people together into aligned thinking around their goals and objectives.”