Is it time for you to stop leading by default & start leading by design?
Transform how you lead, decide, and deliver with Russ Murphy
Know you're capable of more - but need a push?
The Meta-Performance Masterclass is for you
Learn scientifically-backed techniques to enhance focus and productivity.
Overcome intuitive barriers holding you back.
Access exclusive tools and resources tailored for high achievers.
Join a supportive community of like-minded performers.
Change your atmosphere
Lightning + Thunder are natural phenomena that occur in the atmosphere under the right conditions
Executive Coaching & Consulting can create the right conditions to unlock talent and drive transformation
If you’ve outgrown old playbooks, you know clarity doesn’t come from doing more - clarity appears like a lightning bolt when you design better
From our clients
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Ready to Level Up Your Communication Game?
Master the Art of Communication: A Free 1-Hour Masterclass for Leaders
Learn the storytelling secrets of Disney animators, practical tips to captivate any audience, and strategies to elevate your communication game.
Our offerings
Lightning + Thunder provide Executive Coaching & Consulting for leaders, entrepreneurs & trailblazers who want to make the path by walking it
Executive Coaching
Start with a 90 day intensive designed to recalibrate how you align success with purpose, with 3 core components for personal mastery:
Discovery - Uncover your unique leadership DNA using well researched & credible tools
Design - Shape your vision, align with values, and explore how your decision architecture can support your growth
Deploy - Create sustained transformation with regular coaching sessions, personalised tools + continuous support via WhatsApp
End to End Consulting
Lightning + Thunder provide expert guidance, artefacts and custom outputs to move the needle for your organisation in the following areas:
Customer Experience - to reshape how your end to end customer journey operates
Employee Experience - create the listening posts & ceremonies to drive alignment & productivity across teams
Program Management - end to end oversight of complex delivery to ensure change is managed for maximum business impact
Digital Transformation - move past the hype cycles and strengthen your organisation with cohesion + actual benefit realisation
Business Operations - strategic & people centred interventions for legacy-focused leaders, in steady state, transition or scale
Executive Reset
Leaders today are running fast through an ever-changing maze
Clarity is fleeting, change is relentless & expectations have never been higher
We created the executive reset to be a restorative, immersive experience at Misty Mountain Manor in Uki, NSW—a purpose built location for your renewal & recharging. Running over 3 days and covering a holistic assessment, with innovative therapies and interventions to help you reset your health + well being
Our team of specialists led by Dr Zac Turner, will unpack your goals with fully qualified professionals and tailored programs for each individual
Launching in September 2025, the program includes:
All assessments conducted by fully qualified and registered professionals
Delicious meals created with your nutritional profile in mind
Optional yoga, facial, massage, physiotherapy & breathe work sessions
Transfers from Gold Coast or Ballina-Byron Airport
Need to reset your leadership, health, mindset or nurtrition?
Our Executive Reset is a custom built program you'll love
Leaders today are sprinting through an ever-changing maze. Clarity is fleeting, change is relentless & expectations have never been higher.
Join our Executive Reset for a restorative, immersive experience at Misty Mountain Manor in Uki, NSW.
It's a science-backed, research informed experience to help you make the shifts you to make to hit the next level of life & leadership
Resources
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Russell Murphy | Executive Advisor
You’ve probably already done what others called impossible. I work with leaders at that point—where success starts to feel heavy, not meaningful.
Over the past decade, I’ve led large-scale transformation across the NSW Government, impacting millions of citizens through technology, service design, and operational innovation. I’ve built, scaled, and reimagined public platforms at a system level. Now I help elite leaders do the same—with their lives, legacies, and leadership.
I’m a strategist for alignment. Let’s recalibrate how you lead, think, and matter.
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