Coaching & people advisory
Rise & Lead
Rise & Lead is run by Fabrice Chatain, an HR practitioner with 13+ years building teams, developing leaders and advising businesses on the people decisions that make or break growth.
Choose your path
Two ways I can help
For individualsGet promotion-ready. Lead with confidence. Practical career and leadership coaching from someone who has sat on the employer's side of the table and knows how these decisions actually get made.Coaching for you →For businessesGrowing a business is a people problem in disguise. Get the people side of growth right, from role design to first-time managers to keeping your best people as you scale.Advisory for your business →
Why Rise & Lead
Most coaches have theories. I have thirteen years of Mondays.
I've sat in the rooms where promotions get decided, where restructures get planned, and where managers make or break their teams. I've seen exactly why some careers accelerate and others stall, and why some growing businesses keep their best people while others quietly bleed them.Rise & Lead exists to bring that insider knowledge to the people who usually never see it: professionals who want to grow faster, and business owners building a team for the first time.Real-world, not textbook. Every strategy comes from what actually works inside organisations, not a certification manual.Both sides of the table. I know what hiring managers, executives and HR teams are really looking for, because I've been all three.Measurable and practical. You leave every session with something to do, not just something to think about.
Ready to rise?
1. Book a free 30-minute consult. No pitch, no obligation. We talk about where you are and where you want to get to.2. Get a plan. You'll leave with a clear picture of the gap and how we'd close it, whether we work together or not.3. Do the work. Focused sessions, honest feedback, real accountability.
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For individuals
Get promotion-ready. Lead with confidence.
Whether you're chasing your next role, stepping into leadership for the first time, or navigating a workplace change that's landed on your desk, you'll get practical strategy and honest coaching grounded in how organisations really make decisions.Who I work withThe ready-to-rise professional. You're good at your job, but the promotions are going to people who aren't better than you, just more visible. We work on positioning, sponsorship, interview performance and the unwritten rules nobody tells you.The first-time leader. You were promoted because you were great at the work. Nobody taught you how to lead the people doing it. We build your confidence and capability in the conversations that matter: feedback, delegation, performance, conflict.The professional in transition. Your role is changing, your organisation is restructuring, or you've decided it's time to move. We turn uncertainty into a plan: your story, your target, your approach.What we work on- Career strategy and positioning
- Interview and promotion preparation — how selection decisions actually get made
- Leadership foundations — feedback, difficult conversations, delegating
- Personal brand and visibility, including LinkedIn positioning
- Navigating change — restructures, new bosses, new teams, career pivots
- Confidence and mindset, grounded in actionHow coaching worksSessions run via video, Australia-wide, or in person (Melbourne or Geelong).Sprint — a short engagement (2 to 4 sessions) for a specific event.
Program — a 3-month engagement (6 sessions) for a bigger shift.Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute consult.FAQAre you a certified coach or an HR person? Both perspectives in one. My coaching is grounded in 13+ years of HR, so you get real insight into how organisations actually work.Is this confidential? Completely.Do you coach people from your workplace? No. To keep things clean, I don't take clients from organisations where I have a current professional role.
For businesses
Growing a business is a people problem in disguise.
The hardest part of scaling isn't finding customers, it's building the team underneath. I help businesses get the people side of growth right: designing roles as the team expands, turning great technical people into capable first-time managers, and building the engagement and leadership foundations that keep your best people as you grow.The pattern I see everywhereA business grows past a certain point and things that used to be easy start breaking. Hiring becomes guesswork. Your best doer becomes a struggling manager. Good people leave and you're not sure why. None of it is anyone's fault; the business has simply outgrown its people foundations. You don't need a full-time HR hire to fix this. You need senior expertise, applied at the right moments.How I helpPeople foundations for scaling teams. Role design, hiring frameworks and the structure that lets a growing team stay clear on who does what.Manager capability. Turning great technical people into confident first-time managers who can lead, give feedback and hold their teams.Engagement and retention. Understanding why people stay or leave, and building the culture and leadership that keeps your best people.On-call people advisory. Senior HR thinking available when you need it, without the cost of a full-time hire.How an engagement works1. Free discovery call. We talk through where the business is and where the friction is.
2. Scoped proposal. A clear plan focused on the highest-leverage people work.
3. Delivery. Hands-on support, done with you, not handed over in a report.
About
I'm Fabrice.
By day, I'm a senior HR practitioner who has spent 13+ years partnering with leaders across multiple industries: building teams, developing managers, running engagement programs and advising on the people decisions that shape organisations.I started Rise & Lead because the knowledge that determines who gets promoted, which managers succeed and why teams thrive rarely leaves the HR office. I wanted to bring it to the people it can help most: professionals ready to grow, and business owners building teams for the first time.I'm based in Melbourne and Geelong and work with clients Australia-wide via video.Let's talkEmail: [email protected]
Book directly: calendly.com/riseandlead
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/monsieurf