Want growth? Set your intention.
“Janelle is an experienced, knowledgeable, professional, and inclusive facilitator and mentor. She welcomes language teachers at all stages of their careers to share their challenges, offering clear theoretical frameworks to help them navigate solutions.
She celebrates teachers’ successes, encourages networking, and inspires others with her passion for developing students’ intercultural capabilities. Her guidance motivates me to continually reflect on the purpose of language teaching and learning. Highly recommend her program. It is absolutely the best professional learning I have ever done!!!!”
2025 Pilot Language Teacher Participant
“Janelle from Growth Intentions has been great in supporting our language team to shape our thinking around the inquiry based approach to senior secondary language assessments.
She is approachable, knowledgeable and supportive. She challenged our thinking and worked efficiently with our team to analyse our approach to inquiry based assessment and helped us strategise solutions. Her enthusiasm for languages is unrivalled and she is a powerful agent for change.”
Mali (AITSL Certified Highly Accomplished Teacher) on behalf of the Modern Languages and EALD staff at UC Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra
“Janelle is an inspiring and visionary leader of languages education and a highly-regarded Japanese language teacher, who established and leads the North Canberra Professional Learning Community for Japanese teachers, of which I have been a member for the past seven years. Janelle established the PLC with a vision of creating a trusting community, which collaborates to improve our individual and collective practice as language teachers. From her deep, research-informed understanding of the many layers of language learning and teaching, Janelle has led many inspiring sessions, where each teacher’s experiences and difficulties as language teachers have been validated and creatively problem-solved in a collaborative and respectful manner. Working with Janelle has been a transformative experience for me and I cannot recommend her highly enough to you.”
Dr Nicolette Bramley, Languages Educator
Growth Intentions partners with individuals and teams to develop intentionality in how we ‘show up’ personally and professionally. Our work is focused on holding space for individuals and organisations to clarify intentions for growth, and identify and build sustainable habits for energy management. With fierce intention comes habit shattering clarity and unstoppable traction towards improved performance, productive relationships and greater awareness of self.
Janelle Horsington
Principal - Growth Intentions
Janelle is an IECL Certified Coach with 20+ years of experience as an educational leader in the secondary sector. She currently teaches at the University of Canberra, and enjoys delivering bespoke professional learning to educators across the region. She works in the educational space as a Senior Facilitator for Women & Leadership Australia, and enjoys growth coaching and private consulting, especially in support of modern language teachers.
Janelle is a PhD Candidate (University of Canberra) and holds a Master of Education in Languages Education (University of South Australia), a Postgraduate Certificate in Intercultural Language Pedagogy (Macquarie University), a Graduate Diploma in Education (University of Canberra), a Bachelor of Arts, and a Bachelor of Asian Studies in Japanese (Australian National University).
Growth Intentions works closely with clients to build trust and take deep dives into holistic reflection around the nature and impact of what stands in the way of potential. Mutual investment in the growth of our clients ensures a supportive, but challenging relationship, which examines how the interplay between our internal and external landscape impacts our ability to achieve success personally and professionally.
Growth Intentions offers executive coaching for teams and individuals broadly in all sectors of business, both in Canberra and beyond. Our services can be accessed flexibly with a combination of face to face and digitally supported sessions.
Growth Intentions also offers a consulting service in Education, partnering with new educators, new leaders, and uniquely Modern Languages Teachers. Engagement in the consulting arm of the business is available via bespoke professional learning opportunities including a suite of tailored workshops, one on one professional mentoring, and online learning programs. All of our products and services have a personalised and sustainable approach where long term engagement is encouraged for maximum growth.
Our mission is to support individuals and teams to better understand how they can thrive personally and professionally by leveraging their intentionality of energy focus. Our vision is to promote the value of pause in our busy professional lives to rediscover our ‘why,’ expand our thinking, and improve the way we ‘show up.’
