I’m Dr Samantha Rush,

Decisions you can stand behind.

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I partner with executive teams and boards to design decision environments that support clear, defensible judgement in complex, high-pressure contexts.

Today’s decisions are made under greater scrutiny, tighter timeframes, and higher consequence than ever before. What once felt straightforward now involves more variables, more stakeholders, and greater expectations of transparency and accountability.

When decisions are made collectively across leadership teams, boards, or organisations, the complexity multiplies. Without the right conditions in place, even highly capable leaders experience slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and execution drift.

My work focuses on the decision environment itself. I help organisations align relationships, thinking, and processes so judgement improves, decisions move with confidence, and outcomes translate into action.

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FOR BOARDS

Samantha works with boards to help them make robust, transparent and defensible decisions.

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FOR Executive Teams

Samantha works with Executive Teams to enhance interactions with the board, and to ensure their decisions are successfully implemented throughout their organisation.

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FOR Leaders

Samantha works with Leaders who are looking to level up their personal effectiveness.

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FOR Teams

Samantha works with Teams to increase their collective effectiveness in making, implementing and embedding decisions.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Samantha is unafraid to tackle big issues and has a talent for ‘cutting through the noise’ creating a structured ways forward for even large or complex issues. Sam also builds strong interpersonal relationships. This provides her with credibility and allows her to guide the people around her through new ways of doing things, or challenging times and periods of large or rapid change.”

Naomi Feast, CRO, Medical Indemnity Protection Society

“The storyboarding sessions Sam delivers for us are unique, powerful and impactful. This is a skill set that every business leader should be exposed to.”

Dr Nicole Hartley, Director MBA and Executive Education, UQ Business School

“We recently had the pleasure of working with Samantha for a Board Strategic Planning Workshop, and I cannot emphasize enough how highly I recommend her. Samantha skillfully guided our Board through a series of activities that served as crucial steps towards making difficult decisions. Her expertise equipped us with the necessary tools not only for that day but also for our future endeavors.”

Paje Battilana, Brisbane Arts Theatre

“Sam is a very engaging speaker who is able to deliver content that is balanced to suit the audience and aligns with what we wanted to achieve with our conference extremely well.”

Darren Schwedes, Lumus Imaging

“Samantha has a knack of breaking complex down into components and transferring ambiguity into clarity.”

Tony Schreiber, GM Orrcon Steel

WHITE PAPERS

Samantha researches and writes White Papers on topics related to human decision making.

You can download all of the White Papers for free from the ‘Resources’ page of this website, or click the button below.

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WANT DECISIONS YOU CAN STAND BEHIND?

Samantha sends out a semi-regular newsletter featuring musings, ideas, tools, and tips for easier, more robust decision making. Whether you’re the decision maker, you want to influence other people’s decisions, or if you have to work nicely with others to make good decisions, the newsletter has something for you.

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