About

Mind Your Way helps brilliant minds shine in Australian higher education and research.

Since 2011, we’ve partnered with individuals and teams at 30 Australian universities to deliver personalised, evidence-informed support that’s driven by an intimate understanding of clients’ needs.

We get it: Academic life has its ups and downs! That’s why we work holistically with people, ideas, and texts through our grant support, coaching, academic promotion, and workshop offerings.

Our goal? To see clients confidently pitch their projects, solutions, and achievements to funders and selection panels while thriving as authentic leaders at work and in life.

Dr Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt

MA (Philosophy/English Philology), PhD (History), Dip Life Coaching, Cert IV Business

Lisa is the Founder and Director of Mind Your Way. Since 2011, she has led teams that unite professional editors, philosophers, scientists, literary scholars, journalists, and coaches who have honed their skills in delivering on our mission: to capture the best stories that define our clients’ lives and careers.

Lisa is valued by clients for her storytelling methods, which have substantially lifted their success at winning competitive research funding, awards, and promotions. In addition to her one-on-one engagements, she is a sought-after workshop facilitator, delivering grant writing and promotion application training across Australia.

Lisa is also a seasoned leadership and performance development coach accredited with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and has completed well over 2,000 hours of professional coaching to date. She brings deep expertise in coaching for gender equity in the higher education and research sector and has coached on flagship diversity, equity and inclusion programs at major Australian universities such as Monash University and Adelaide University.

Her entrepreneurial background and experience as a company director have seen Lisa deliver complex contracts for university institutions. For example, between 2013–2018, Lisa led and developed the Monash University Prizes & Awards Strategy for the Office of the Vice-Provost of Research. She trained and mentored a team responsible for identifying and promoting award opportunities across the university and oversaw the development of prize and award bids for individuals and teams. She delivered an average annual Return on Investment (ROI) of 732% for Monash University across all years of the Strategy. She has since replicated the insights and learnings from this engagement with other institutions.

Alongside this work, she has remained research active and continues to engage in academic scholarship. Her recent monograph, “Chasing Tourette’s: Time, Freedom, and the Missing Self”, was published in Springer’s Philosophy and Medicine series.

Our clients

To date, we’ve supported researchers across 30+ Australian universities and institutes, working in fields such as medicine, engineering, IT, science, and numerous humanities topics.

In 2025-2026, we have so far worked with clients located at the following universities and research institutes:

  • Academic coaching; academic promotion

  • Academic coaching

  • NHMRC Ideas Grants; ARC Discovery Projects

  • NHMRC Ideas Grants and Investigator Grants

  • NHMRC Ideas Grants

  • Grant writing training

  • Grant writing training

  • Academic promotion

  • ARC Discovery and Linkage Projects; academic coaching

  • NHMRC Investigator Grants

  • MRFF grants

  • NHMRC Ideas Grants and Investigator Grants; grant writing training; prizes and awards

  • NHMRC Ideas Grants; academic coaching

  • NHMRC Investigator Grants; ARC Future Fellowships and Discovery Grants; academic promotion; coaching; prizes and awards; grant writing training

  • NHMRC Ideas Grants

  • MRFF grants; NHMRC Targeted Calls for Research

  • ARC Discovery Projects; grant writing training

  • NHMRC Investigator Grants

  • NHMRC Ideas Grants, Investigator Grants and Partnerships Projects; prizes and awards

  • NHMRC Investigator Grants; academic promotion

  • NHMRC Ideas Grants and Investigator Grants; academic promotion

  • NHMRC Investigator Grants

  • ARC DECRA

  • Academic coaching

  • NHMRC Investigator Grants; ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship; prizes and awards; grant writing training

Other universities and institutes we worked with prior to 2025 included the University of Queensland, the University of Tasmania, and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (Snow Fellowship application).