Direction.
Capability.
Identity.
Built with people who've lived it.
Shayne Hood has spent fifteen years building strengths-based practice frameworks for leaders, teams, and practitioners working in complex environments. His frameworks were developed inside the justice system and some of the most demanding spaces in human services, through 16 Yards and Wounds and Wisdom, and are now used by organisations across Australia and internationally.
Practical frameworks for people doing the hard work.
Shayne's sessions are booked by organisations across justice, education, corporate, and government sectors. Each session is built around a named framework and leaves people with specific, usable tools.
He has trained more than 10,000 practitioners and leaders nationally and internationally, from frontline caseworkers to executive teams.
"In fifteen years working in the hardest environments in this country, I have never met a person without depth. What I have found is that most of us, in any environment, have never been taught where to look for it. I built my entire practice on one question: not what has adversity cost this person, but what has it built in them. That question changes how you lead, how you build teams, and how you see the people sitting across the table from you."
MEET SHAYNE…
Shayne Hood is co-CEO of 16 Yards, Victoria's largest lived experience mentoring organisation in the justice system, and director of Wounds and Wisdom, a workforce training and consulting practice that delivers evidence-informed coaching and resilience frameworks to organisations across Australia.
He has trained more than 10,000 practitioners nationally and internationally in justice, education, housing, mental health, and corporate settings. He is a 2026 Westpac Social Change Fellow and his work reaches more than 20,000 people through LinkedIn. He has worked with organisations including the Department of Justice, Department of Education & Training, Department of Families, Fairness & Housing, Berry Street, Anglicare, Melbourne University, Melbourne Water and Asuria.
His background in family violence, street life, addiction, and recovery is not the reason he speaks. It is the origin of the methodology. The frameworks he has built were tested in conditions where they had to work. That is what makes them transferable.
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