For leaders and managers

You're the one everyone comes to. Who do you go to?

The performance conversation you’ve rescheduled twice. The person who’s gone quiet. The decision that’s still awake at midnight with you. Worksparks helps you work out what to say before you have to say it.

14 days free · Cancel anytime · A$29 a month after that, GST included

The bit nobody warns you about

You stepped into this because you care. That's exactly what makes it hard.

Most of the time you do this well. Then there are the other moments.

Someone’s performance is slipping and you don’t know how to raise it without damaging the relationship. A peer keeps undermining you in meetings. Every option in front of you costs something. You hold a team meeting together and fall apart in the car park afterwards.

Nobody prepares you for those. The people who look calm and decisive in the room have all been there — the difference isn’t that they don’t struggle. The difference is somebody helped them think it through before they walked in.

That’s the job Worksparks does.

What people bring

The moments that actually test you.

Not a chatbot with a prompt on top. A structured coaching method, built over 35 years of being in the room with people at work.

The conversation you've rescheduled twice

You know it needs to happen. You keep finding reasons it doesn’t have to happen today, and every week it gets harder to open.

Someone's gone quiet

A person who used to bring energy has stopped. You don’t know what shifted, and you’re worried about making it worse by asking badly.

Two people who can't work together

Ongoing tension, one team, and you need to move without taking a side or losing the trust of either of them.

Feedback for someone above you

It’s true, it needs saying, and it’s your director. One of the hardest things a leader does and nobody teaches it.

Restructure, redundancy, change

You’re carrying more than you’re allowed to say, to people who deserve honesty. Working out what you can say is its own job.

The day you're not okay

Leadership is heavy sometimes. Somewhere private to put it down for ten minutes, without it going anywhere or costing you anything.

How it works

Five minutes to clarity.

It doesn’t tell you what to do. It helps you work out what you think — with structure, and with the frameworks a good coach would walk you through.

01 / Say it badly

Think out loud

Describe what you’re facing without editing yourself. Sixty seconds of talking, or type it if you’d rather. The messier the truth, the more useful this gets.

02 / Sort it

Separate emotion from strategy

Zoom out from the heat of it. See the situation from angles you hadn’t considered, and work out which part you can actually act on.

03 / Walk in ready

Leave with the words

The opening line, the evidence to bring, and the question that gives the other person somewhere to go. Not a generic script.

What makes it different

This isn't a chatbot with a leadership prompt.

Worksparks runs on a coaching method developed and refined over 35 years by Sonia McDonald, CEO of LeadershipHQ — built out of the real conversations she’s had with thousands of leaders across every industry and level.

It’s not going to tell you to “communicate openly and build trust.”

It’s going to help you work out exactly what to say to Alex on Thursday afternoon. And why you’ve been avoiding it. And what’s really going on underneath the performance issue. And how to walk in there feeling ready.

That’s the difference.

Confidentiality

What happens in Worksparks stays in Worksparks.

You can’t get real support in a space you don’t feel safe being honest in. So this part isn’t negotiable.

No-one can read what you write — not your manager, not HR, not us

Conversations are encrypted in transit and at rest

Your data is never sold, and never used to train AI models

If your organisation paid for your seat, they've bought your access — not visibility of what you discuss

Built to the Australian Privacy Act and GDPR

You can delete everything, any time you like

From people using it

"I said what I meant. It actually went well."

“I used to rehearse hard conversations alone at midnight. Worksparks gave me the structure I needed before I walked into the room.”

Senior Manager · Financial Services

“I didn’t realise how much I was carrying until I had somewhere to put it. It’s not therapy and it’s not coaching. It’s something in between I didn’t know I needed.”

Director · Technology

“The thing I love most is that nobody knows I’m using it. It’s just mine.”

Team Leader · Healthcare

Pricing

Less than one hour with a coach. For a year.

A$29 a month

or A$290 a year — two months free. GST included. Team and Organisation plans available.

The next hard moment is coming. Be ready for it.

You already know which conversation this is about.

14 days free · Cancel anytime · A$29 a month after that, GST included