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Cass Donnelly

Founder & CEO

About us

The Inspired Leadership Academy

is a company founded by Cass Donnelly that specialises in:

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Business coaching

Start ups

​Small business $50K to $1M ​

$1m to $10m pa revenue companies 

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​Life coaching

Create a purposeful & fulfilling life

Moving through times of change / crisis​

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

  • Bond University business degree in Management & Marketing 

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  • Business Owner (20+ years experience)​

    • Creating company culture

    • Family business dynamics / succession planning 

    • Conflict resolution / Change leadership

    • Marketing / Graphic design

    • Company re-brands / Photoshoots 

    • Copywriting / PR

    • Advertising / Social Media

    • Sales management (21 on-road team members)

    • Events creator / coordinator 

    • Manufacturing​

    • Education 

    • Software development

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  • Business coach + Seminar leader 

    • Conducted one-on-one coaching & workshops with over 150+ small business throughout Australia & New Zealand;​

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  • Landmark Education

    • Landmark Forum x 2

    • Communications training 

    • training Leadership

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  • Results Coaching Systems 
    Certified coaching program

 

  • HAI – Human Awareness Institute

    • Level 1 – Love is a miracle

    • Level 2 – Loving yourself 

    • Level 3 – Living at choice

    • Assistant 

 

  • Les Dyer 6-month Leadership Training 

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  • Demartini Institute

    • Breakthrough

      • Sydney x 2 

      • New Zealand 

      • Los Angeles

    • Prophesy / Sydney 

    • Completed Demartini Method Facilitator training ​​

VARIOUS WORKSHOPS / CLASSES  

Tantra Blossoming

  • Weekend away Monthly class​

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Spirit Fire Festival,

  • New York 2001, 2003, 2015

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Earth Fire Festival, Australia

 

Burning man 2008

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Osho 

  • Dynamic meditation

  • Open weekend Amsterdam 

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Vippassana 10-day silent meditation 

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Enlightenment Intensives, Yoah Whexler

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6-week / Short courses

  • MassageAromatherapy 

  • Open eye meditation

  • Group sittings spirituality

  • Public speaking

  • Voice / movement for camera 

  • Acting courses 

  • Interviewing for radio 

6-WEEK INTENSIVE

  • Placed paper on all mirrors in my home to help dissolve the edges / perceptions of myself

  • Sat in room and meditated

  • Diarised all my thought patterns

  • After 4-weeks same thoughts arose, realised I am not these thoughts

  • Question: then who am i?

  • ChaosDeathAwakening

  • 2-weeks mystery of lifeGratitude 

  • Meeting this place within changed my life

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EXPLORING BREATH & MOVEMENT 
Please note that I am a curious student of these practices & have not completed any teacher training. I am not a certified / accredited teacher of  5Rhythms, Movement Medicine or Dancing Freedom.

  • Manifest, Sydney - Evangelos Diavolitsis (5rhythms)

  • Unfolding Heart Matters, Sydney - Alain Allard (5rhythms)

  • Evolution, Sydney - Adam Barley (5rhythms)

  • Awakening, Denmark - Alain Allard (5rhythms)

  • Medicine Dance, New York - Jonathan Horan (5rhythms)

  • Mirrors, Berlin - Jonathan Horan (5rhythms)

  • Moving Path 9-month journey, Prague - Adam Barley (5rhythms)

  • Holotropic Breathing, Vienna (2 days)

  • Mirrors, Byron Bay - Jonathan Horan (5rhythms)

  • Cycles, Sydney - Jonathan Horan (5rhythms)

  • Cycles, Poland - Jonathan Horan (5rhythms)

  • Shadows & Light, Prague - Adam Barley (5rhythms)

  • Shambhala Summer Festival, Sweden - Adam Barley (5rhythms)

  • One Dance Tribe, Kisslegg - Mixed 

  • Holotropic Breathing, Budapest (2-days)

  • RAW, Geneva - Adam Barley (5rhythms)

  • Circles of Connection, Frankfurt - David Mooney (Movement Medicine)

  • God, Sex & the Body, Cologne - Jonathan Horan (5rhythms)

  • Moving Bodies, Open Hearts, Turkey - Alexa Rani Schmid & Alex Nikiforov (5rhythms) 

  • World Wide Womb Blessing, Global :)

  • Embodied Heart, Coatia - Jonathan Horan (5rhythms)

  • Life | Rythmn | Dance, London - Christian de Sousa (Movement Medicine)

  • Soft Focus, England - London Pugowska (5rhythms)

  • Heart to Heart, Cologne - Adam Barley (5rhythms)

  • The Tao of Loving, London - Adam Barley (5rhythms)

  • The Line of Fire, Croatia - Adam Barley, Mens workshop (5rhythms)

  • Sydney, Caitlin Wood (Dancing Freedom)

  • Kate Shela (5rhythms)

  • Jo Cobbett (5rhythms)

  • Sydney since approx. year 2000 - Michelle Mayher (5rhythms)

  • First dance teacher, Sydney -Alena Whitworth (5rhythms, Blindfolded Trance Dancing++)

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