What if being called "weird" was the highest compliment you could receive?
In Weird Wisdom at Work, challenges everything you've been taught about fitting in, playing it safe, and keeping your head down. When author Trish Goodfield she was labelled "weird" in a meeting for asking the questions no one else would, she didn't shrink. She got curious. What she discovered changed the trajectory of her career - and can ultimately transform your workplace too.
Rooted in the original meaning of wyrd - destiny - Weird Wisdom is about reclaiming your unique way of seeing, thinking, and solving problems. It's recognising that the perspectives often dismissed as unconventional are frequently the very ones that drive innovation, inclusion, resilience, and real results.
Through powerful stories, practical insights, and five transformative principles, Trish shows how to:
- Get comfortable with uncertainty and use it as a creative advantage
- Reframe failure as feedback and fuel for growth
- Find harmony in contradiction instead of forcing false certainty
- Question outdated norms without becoming "difficult"
- Explore the unconventional within the constraints of work
Weird Wisdom at Work is a real-world approach to unlocking diversity of thought - the hidden advantage inside every team. It's time to use your "weird" as your greatest strength.
Goodfield, Trish: - "Trish Goodfield is one of Australia's leading diversity of thought experts, known for making complex ideas practical and usable in real workplaces. With more than 4 decades of experience across community services, health, disability, government, and business sectors, Trish has worked at every level of organisations, from frontline roles to executive leadership and boardrooms. That breadth shapes her calm, grounded approach to leadership, performance, and culture.Most organisations say they value different perspectives. Very few know how to turn them into clear decisions, honest conversations, and consistent results. Trish's work focuses on closing that gap. She helps leaders, teams, and organisations bring diversity of thought to the forefront, not as a slogan, but as a practical lever for better thinking, better outcomes, and less daily friction.She is the creator of Weird Wisdom(R), a framework built on the idea that what's often dismissed as unconventional, uncomfortable, or unclear is frequently the very thing organisations need to pay attention to. Through consulting, facilitation, coaching, and speaking, Trish helps people uncover blind spots, ease tension, and shift the patterns that quietly keep workplaces stuck. When Trish isn't working, she's still observing how people think, speak, and navigate contradiction - in meetings, airports, cafes, and the everyday spaces where human behaviour tells the real story. You might also find her trackside watching motor racing, drawn to the mix of precision, risk, teamwork, and split-second decision-making. Or crafting, where patience, experimentation, and imperfect outcomes are part of the process. Both worlds feed her work: one loud and fast, the other quiet and deliberate, a reminder that progress rarely comes from choosing one way of being over another, but from learning how to hold both."
