Kapacity.org director Natasha Cica is an experienced facilitator who mediates conflict – and manages miscommunication – effectively and with respect.
She is expert at negotiating ‘wicked’ challenges related to gender, cultural background and wider diversity.
An accomplished writer, speaker and broadcaster, Natasha has a reputation for producing engagement initiatives that inspire participants.
Natasha has facilitated workshops and delivered keynote presentations for the British Council, the Goethe-Institut, the Alvar Aalto Academy in Finland, Brand New World in Zurich, Belgrade Design Week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, Adelaide Writers’ Week, the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the government sector, the higher education sector, the health care sector and a range of private clients, professional and industry bodies, and leadership fora.
Natasha established ‘online outlier’ portal NewMatilda.com in 2006, as its founding editor. She has written features and commentary for Fairfax Media, News Ltd, The Guardian and more.
In 2014, she anchored a conversation with former Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, at the home town launch of her memoir – featuring a lively Q&A.
Natasha also designed and developed the innovative engagement space THINKtent, which is available to selected clients.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS:
The specific issue that needed to be addressed was anxiety (and some resistance) in my team related to a proposed strategic change … the facilitation was professional, highly effective and ideally suited to the specific needs of our organisation and my team – many of whom have worked with the organisation for some considerable time, others are newer employees with different assumptions and expectations.
Natasha facilitated an excellent workshop bringing together a diverse group of senior managers. She worked extremely well in advance of the meeting to understand the brief, the context and the strategic direction and decisions to be taken through the workshop … She has excellent interpersonal skills and clearly showed an ability to work in a nuanced and effective way across differences related to cultural background, gender, professional background and personality.
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It was not always an easy workshop due to the subject area and Natasha reflected a clear ability to negotiate through conflict and resistance to a change agenda, found common purpose for all participants and identified practical steps forward.
Natasha showed a great understanding of context, culture and importance of quickly developing an understanding of the needs of each individual and the group but did it in such a way that the group felt empowered to come up with decisions which would have been difficult to reach without her facilitation. She used a variety of techniques and was good at both keeping the pace and changing the pace when required.
Natasha has facilitated workshops and delivered keynote presentations for the British Council, the Goethe-Institut, the Alvar Aalto Academy in Finland, Brand New World in Zurich, Belgrade Design Week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, Adelaide Writers’ Week, the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the government sector, the higher education sector, the health care sector and a range of private clients, professional and industry bodies, and leadership fora.
