Yolanda Finette
Consultancy • Coaching • Facilitation • Supervision
If you’re looking for support that creates meaningful impact for people, teams, and communities, you’ve found it.
I’m Yolanda Finette, a consultant, facilitator, and life coach. I support individuals, teams, and organisations through coaching, workshops, and cultural supervision informed by Aboriginal ways of knowing and being. My work nurtures wellbeing, creates space for reflection, and strengthens healthy, values-driven workplace culture.
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How we can work and walk together
Group facilitation & workshops
From holistic wellbeing and self-care to strengthening workplace culture, I offer tailored workshops that support reflection, connection and growth. Designed for teams ready to shift with purpose.
Consultancy & project support
I partner with government and community organisations to co-create culturally strong programs and initiatives, inclusive strategies, and actions that support Aboriginal self-determination and leadership.
External & cultural supervision
Reflective supervision for practitioners navigating complexity, cultural responsibility and colonial load. A culturally safe, trauma-informed space to reflect, grow and strengthen practice with insight, confidence and care.
From holistic wellbeing and self-care to strengthening workplace culture, I offer tailored workshops that support reflection, connection and growth. Designed for teams ready to shift with purpose.
I partner with government and community organisations to co-create culturally strong programs and initiatives, inclusive strategies, and actions that support Aboriginal self-determination and leadership.
Reflective supervision for practitioners navigating complexity, cultural responsibility and colonial load. A culturally safe, trauma-informed space to reflect, grow and strengthen practice with insight, confidence and care.
Speaking & MC engagements
Heart-led speaking and facilitation that inspires change, centres lived truth, and opens space for new conversations—on stage, in the room, or online.
Life coaching
Life coaching for those ready to reconnect with purpose, identity, and inner strength — to lead with intention and create a life that feels aligned, empowered, and sovereign.
Heart-led speaking and facilitation that inspires change, centres lived truth, and opens space for new conversations—on stage, in the room, or online.
Life coaching for those ready to reconnect with purpose, identity, and inner strength — to lead with intention and create a life that feels aligned, empowered, and sovereign.
Testimonials from the circle
Yolanda’s bubbly, warm personality and engaging activities supported the group to feel safe to participate.
The whole day was engaging. The approach Yolanda took to talk with members and provide insights into how we are experiencing racism was powerful. Being able to go through the booklet throughout the day was extremely helpful.
I’ve been to two of Yolanda’s presentations—both sessions were brilliant and I always walk away inspired.
Thank you for facilitating an amazing staff conference for us, Yolanda! You’re a gun facilitator and I’ll certainly be recommending your services to my colleagues.
You’re in good company
The Sacred Leadership Pillars
Where Sovereignty, Identity, and Reconnection meet
Sacred Leadership is the heart of my work.
It’s how I hold space.
How I coach, facilitate, guide, and walk alongside others — not as the expert, but as a co-creator and fellow traveller.
This way of leading is rooted in lived experience and a deep responsibility: to honour those who came before us while nurturing those still to come.
The Sacred Leadership Pillars — Sovereignty, Identity, and Reconnection — are embodied values that guide how I lead, how I support others to lead, and how we create spaces that are safe, reflective, and transformational.
When these pillars are strong and aligned, something powerful happens.
Sovereignty
Reminds us of our agency, our voice, and our right to self-determine.
This pillar honours the right to choose, speak, and act from a place of truth, inner power, and integrity.
Identity
Anchors us in who we truly are — our culture, our story, and our ancestral wisdom.
This pillar honours the strength that comes from knowing where we come from, who we are, and the lineage we carry.
Reconnection
Brings us back to what’s sacred — stillness, truth, and clarity.
This pillar invites us to slow down, return to what matters, and listen deeply — to self, spirit, and community. It creates space for healing, clarity, and remembering.
Hi, I’m Yolanda
Weaving story, wisdom, and courage.
I am a proud Yorta Yorta, African American and Greek woman, and everything I offer is shaped by lived experience, intergenerational wisdom, and the rich cultural intersections that guide my journey.
With more than 30 years of professional experience, I have walked alongside individuals, families, and communities through times of change, resilience, and healing.
For 25 of those years, my career was in child, youth, and family services across both Australia and the United States, where I worked closely with individuals and communities navigating systemic injustice, intergenerational trauma, and social disadvantage. More than 15 of those years were dedicated to supporting First Nations communities in Australia, with a strong commitment to personal and collective sovereignty and self-determination.
I come from an activist and political family and was fortunate to grow up on the frontline of the Aboriginal movement, witnessing the creation of many of the community services we see today, a privilege I deeply honour and carry into the work I do.
But this work is not just professional, it’s personal.
I have faced seasons of hardship, including family violence, burnout, and the weight of systems not designed for us. For many years, I lived in survival mode, disconnected from my purpose.
My healing came through culture, truth-telling, and reconnection. It is from this place that I now walk alongside others.
Whether I’m facilitating wellbeing workshops, offering trauma-informed external and cultural supervision, life coaching, or supporting leadership teams, I bring grounded insight, cultural grounding and a deep commitment to honouring the people and stories in the room.
My approach is holistic, trauma-informed, and guided by co-design, deep listening, and cultural integrity. I believe that when we reclaim our stories and share our truth, we unlock not only our own potential but also create ripple effects that shift systems and strengthen community.
If you’re seeking support that centres healing, sovereignty and culturally grounded practice, I’d love to walk with you.
Stories of impact
I can’t thank big sis Yolanda enough for the energy and time she poured into me over the course of my coaching journey. When we started together I had just made a very big and exciting shift into a new industry and needed some help with creating some structure and bouncing ideas around.
Yolanda helped me to make sense of what was going on in my head and helped me prioritise what was most important and make decisions on what things I should be letting go.
Yolanda allowed me to reflect out loud in a space where I felt safe to be vulnerable and honest. She offered insights & ways of viewing my world in ways I had not considered, I was able to really start self-trusting and acknowledge that I have lots to offer in my workplace and that I am valued.
Working with Yolanda has been the catalyst to me unlocking my inner greatness and working towards creating a sustainable and enjoyable future for myself, and change for my people and my Community.
Working on myself with a person who innately understands that it is NEVER simply about yourself when you are a blakfella is just so refreshing and rewarding.
I always knew I needed life coaching from someone. I just had to wait for that person. Yolanda felt safe, non judgmental and we clicked instantly. It was always going to be Yolanda Finette as she was the key to unlocking my business block- kind of like a writer’s block.
I now have a mapped out plan of my business, clear definitive guidelines and even pricing of my workshops.
Learn How I Can Support You or Your Organisation
Ready to start your journey?
If you’re looking for someone who can hold space with compassion, offer cultural safety, and support meaningful transformation, let’s connect.
Your next step is simple. Just fill out the enquiry form and I’ll be in touch with guidance on what’s next.
Learn How I Can Support You or Your Organisation
Ready to start your journey?
If you’re looking for someone who can hold space with compassion, offer cultural safety, and support meaningful transformation, let’s connect.
Your next step is simple. Just fill out the enquiry form and I’ll be in touch with guidance on what’s next.