Kia ora, I’m Tracey. I love change. To me, change means development, improvement, and progression – it’s the way to make ourselves, our communities and our world better.
In 2017 I made a big life change and sold my business, and stopped doing the kind of work I had made my career up to that point. A big reason for that change was because I wanted to broaden my horizons – experience new things, learn new things, meet people with different life experiences. And just as importantly, I wanted to find ways to do more good in the world.
Since then my work has fallen into three main buckets: governance; coaching, mentoring and facilitation; and adult literacy support.
I help people make good change at work, by providing mentoring, professional development support and coaching. I help organisations with strategy, values and leadership challenges, by planning and facilitating strategy workshops, writing organisational strategies and leading governance reviews. I contribute to training programmes in the areas of communications, strategy and governance.
I help public sector and non-Government organisations make good social change, through good social marketing and behaviour change practice, strong strategy and rock solid story telling, and by serving on governance boards.
And I do what I can to contribute to good change in the world, through a social enterprise, The Good Registry, and through mentoring and voluntary work with lots of good groups and people (including Anjum Rahman’s Inclusive Aotearoa Collective, WELLfed Charitable Trust, and Homeground). I’m a volunteer education support tutor at Arohata Women’s Prison.
If you think I can help you with any of these things you can find me through LinkedIn.
This blog site is a collection of some things I’ve written about good change. If you’d like to contribute your thoughts on any of these topics, please do comment, or share a story of your own.
If you’re wondering, by the way, about the significance of “Portchester”, it’s where I was born. As Kierkegard said, life can only be understood backwards (although it must be lived forwards).
Ngā mihi ki a koe
Tracey Bridges
Creating Good Change 