Welcome to PunkPD
We specialise in humans - human emotion, behaviour and cognition.
WELCOME TO
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If you are visiting us, you are an exceptionally awesome human being seeking something different.
Welcome to the PunkPD Experience.
You’ve found your people.
Incepted in 2008, PunkPD works in partnership with individuals, teams and organisations to design and deliver bespoke & dynamic personal and professional development.
Our services include excellence in Professional Development Strategies, Coaching, Facilitation, Public Speaking and Cultural Uplift.
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Using our unique methodology, we create intelligent learning experiences for the rebel thinker that challenge, excite, disrupt and engage.
Our core values are energy, excellence & tenacity. Our purpose is to make life easier for people through facilitating their transformation from potential into capability.
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The PunkPD Experience is for the individual, team or organisation ready for something different.
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As proud winners of multiple awards in our industry, including the 2020 National Change Maker Award, get ready for the unexpected
our story
Serving as a trusted partner to our clients, PunkPD is what Martin Seligman (colloquially known as the ‘Father’ of Positive Psychology) would call a Positive Business.
This means that we contribute to commerce through the goal of helping humans flourish. This is in vast contrast from other businesses whose commercial goal is profit.
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Abby leads a diverse and skilled team of consultants who have provided high-quality services with PunkPD for over a decade.
We are pleased to have some of Canberra’s most awesome professionals in our flexible workforce.
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Acknowledging our other accolades, we are most chuffed in being the recipient of the highly coveted ‘Change Maker’ 2020 Altitude Award.
PunkPD was recognised for our disruption and industry leadership in carving out a new genre in personal and professional development.
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To be recognised for the positive impact we make to the lives of the people we serve and the positive disruption we've made in our industry through this award was just so humbling and deeply affirming all at once.
“Winning the Change Maker Award means so much to me!
I've spent my life dedicated to what I call 'the ministry of change.
You might say that I’m intentionally in a constant state of evolution, both professionally and personally.
As an ‘education junkie’ at the core, I am always learning, implementing, growing, changing, theorising, testing, tweaking….”
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- ABBY REES, DIRECTOR
Our deeply lived values, partnership approach, unique and creative designs, and the extensive training and experience of PunkPD's Director and Team ensure we are unparalleled in our field.
OUR SERVICES
our NAME
PunkPD’s Director, Abby, was always enthralled by the socio-cultural revolution characterised by the holism of the Punk movement -the identity structure, the clothes, the music, the advocacy, the rebellion.
And, as an avid Young Ones Fan (yes, she can still quote entire scenes to this day), she always adored (and related to) Vyvyan’s ‘rip, shit and bust,’ straight-forward approach to communication and life.
Our name is a ‘nod’ to these renegade influences on Abby’s life.
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PunkPD is also an acronym that encapsulates the framing beliefs and critical elements of success that-crafted with precision-are alive within our work.
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PARTNERSHIPS Collaboration with our clients
POSSIBILITIES
Exploring innovative solutions for evolved thinking
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UNDERSTANDING
We listen deeply to the needs of our clients.
UNITING
We create the right mix of multimodal elements for ideal outcomes
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NICHE
PunkPD specialise in all things human- emotion, behaviour and cognition.
NEUROSCIENCE & NEURO-SEMANTICS
Making complex human mechanics visible
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KNOWLEDGE
We draw on contemporary and cutting-edge research
KNOW-HOW
We foster functional intelligence
PD
PROFESSIONAL/
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Intelligent conversations for continuous learning and conscious development
OUR TEAM MOTTO
For an effervescent life, keep your thoughts fearless, your emotions constructive and your actions venturesome. And this is how we live.
OUR PURPOSE
PunkPD’s purpose is to ‘transform potential into capability’. What does this mean for us? We get out of bed with excitement every day simply to make life easier for people!
OUR VISION
To facilitate the conscious and positive evolution of people, families, workplaces and communities.
OUR 'HOW'
We make the invisible experience of being human visible, so people can make conscious and deliberate changes to their emotion, behaviour and cognition to positively impact their lives.
Understanding and translating the machinations of the human brain and providing a blend of contemporary theory and practice are core to our approach.
OUR VALUES
PunkPD’s approach and philosophy are built on three central values that we embody in all that we do: Energy, Excellence and Tenacity.
Our values infuse our how, when and why.
ENERGY
Embodying verve and vitality for sustained cognitive rigour, connection and inspirational leadership/influence
EXCELLENCE
The quality of being outstanding and surpassing expectations and standards
TENACITY
The quality of grit, stamina, perseverance and determination
Exploring Leadership and Change, 2021
I loved how it was people driven, through conversation rather than death by powerpoint. The real examples were brilliant. Abby not making anyone feel silly saying things. I really loved how Abby knew our names. Her humour made you feel instantly comfortable.
Stepping Up and Becoming a Manager, 2021
Today made my unconscious thinking conscious, and broadened my ways of thinking and reacting.
Understanding Unconscious Bias, 2021
Strong engagement and extremely well managed as a very dynamic conversation in context of an online environment