🎙️ Toward Solutions Podcast | Episode 10: Progress in Complex Environments with Annette Gray

In this practical and engaging episode, we connect with Annette Gray to explore what it really takes to create meaningful change in people, teams, and systems.

Annette is a leadership development consultant and leadership coach. 

In our conversation Annette reflects on how her thinking has evolved — from seeing Solution Focus as something that sits alongside coaching, to recognising it as the coaching approach. A way of working that centres on asking more and telling less.

Drawing on her experience across global organisations, leadership programs, and high-pressure environments, Annette shares how Solution Focus cuts through complexity, helping people quickly identify what’s wanted and take steps toward it. She highlights how leaders often grasp the approach immediately and are able to apply it in their everyday conversations.

Together, we explore how small shifts in language and attention can build ownership, strengthen relationships, and support more collaborative ways of working — not just in one-to-one conversations, but across whole systems.

Here’s what we explore:

•  Why Solution Focus works well in complex and fast-paced environments 
•  How leaders can apply the approach immediately in their day-to-day work
•  Moving from telling to asking in leadership conversations  
•  The role of co-creation and curiosity in creating sustainable change 
•  Working with people, rather than trying to fix them 

This episode offers a clear and practical look at Solution Focus as a way of working — with accessible and immediately usable insights are.

You can find out more and get in touch with Annette at https://www.annettegray.com.au/ 

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