TQ Navigator™ — Melbourne, AU
Success isn’t about pushing harder.
It’s about Transactional Intelligence.
Apply Transactional Intelligence® to your real transactions — and leave with them moving.
Sound Familiar?
- — You agreed. Then resented it.
- — Everyone nodded. Nothing got done.
- — You ignored the signs. They quietly quit.
- — You know what you’re worth. You keep taking less.
- — The vision is clear to you. You can’t get buy-in.
These aren’t people problems.
They’re TQ problems.
Every result depends on a successful exchange.
What TQ Navigator Is
Every professional result — every project, partnership, opportunity, promotion, or sale — depends on a successful exchange between people.
The TQ Navigator is an in-person 2-day training event. Transactional Intelligence® (TQ) is a structured methodology for navigating the hidden layer beneath every conversation — the human exchanges that produce every outcome. TQ makes those exchanges visible, so you can move through them consciously rather than be ruled by forces you cannot see.
Two days, in person, with a deliberately limited cohort of ambitious professionals — all doing consequential work, all willing to engage fully. You don’t sit and listen. You work — on real transactions, with peers, and real stakes.
What Makes This Program Different
Most professional development focuses on skills, knowledge, or mindset.
This focuses on something deeper: how professionals actually produce results through exchange. The greatest barriers to progress are often invisible — habits of thinking and behaving, including your own transactional patterns.
When you can see the exchange clearly, you can shape it.
Ways to Attend
Format
In-Person, 2 Days
Location
Melbourne, AU
Capacity
Intentionally Limited
Prerequisite
None Required
Cohorts
Teams Welcome
Leader
John Patterson & Paul Berry
Best Value
Practitioner Pass
Four sessions · Use them when you’re ready
The content of the Navigator does not change. What you bring does — not necessarily a new transaction, but the same work at a new stage: further along, stalled differently, clearer now on where it’s stuck, or with new team members and partners who need the same grounding.
AU$6,000
Current Students or Alumni: AU$4,500
Includes everything in a Single Navigator, plus:
- Priority placement — Practitioner Pass holders reserved first
- Flexible — This may be redeemed for yourself or for others.
- Deepest value per session across the program
Practitioner Pass sessions: Sep, Dec 2026 · Mar 2027
Single Navigator
One session, 2 days
AU$1,600
Current Students or Alumni: AU$1,200
- Work your transaction. Move it forward.
- Two full days of facilitated working sessions
- Access to the full TQ Navigator peer cohort
- No prerequisite or prior attendance required
- Teams and cohorts welcome at this rate
Upcoming Sessions — Melbourne
- 18–19 September 2026
- 4–5 December 2026
- 12–13 March 2027
Use the Help Chat to contact us for Current Student or Alumni rate eligibility and codes.
The Navigator closes when it’s full.
On Returning
The Navigator is a practice environment, not a course. Skills built for use require repetition with real material — not new curriculum.
A common question: ‘If I attended last quarter, why would I come again?’ The honest answer: because your work has moved. The same transaction is at a different stage — further along, stalled in a new place, carrying new complexity, or bringing new team members and partners into the work. What the Navigator gives you is structured practice on that, as it actually stands now. Different stages reveal different aspects of your own pattern. Come back as your work moves. Repetition builds fluency.
What you will learn
01
See the real transaction
Understand what is actually being exchanged in work, business, and professional relationships.
02
Identify transaction barriers
Recognise the habits, assumptions, and behaviors that quietly block results.
03
Construct better offers
Learn how to design proposals, requests, and collaborations that others are willing to accept.
04
Produce consistent professional results
Build exchanges that keep producing — not one-off wins.
Full Program Agenda
Day 1 — Friday · 10:30am – 6:00pm
| 10:30–12:00 | The Three Lenses of TQ Reading any transaction through the Cycle, the Narratives, and Personality |
| 12:00–1:30 | Lunch (on own) |
| 1:30–3:00 | Personality and Looping Your strength, and the Low TQ expression that strength produces when it loops |
| 3:00–3:30 | Break |
| 3:30–4:20 | Finding the Friction Where the exchange is not moving, and what it is preventing |
| 4:20–4:50 | Break |
| 4:50–5:40 | The Discipline of Naming Speaking the friction aloud, witnessed by a peer, and letting it stand |
| 5:40–6:00 | The Path Forward Continuing your Navigator practice, and what to bring to Day 2 |
| 6:30–8:30 | Optional: Open Mixer Dinner (own tab) |
Day 2 — Saturday · 9:00am – 4:30pm
| 9:00–9:15 | Insight & Integration |
| 9:15–10:45 | Reading the Pattern The friction through the lenses: what it’s made of and where it lives |
| 10:45–11:15 | Break |
| 11:15–12:15 | Designing the Move From diagnosis to specific action: who, what, by when |
| 12:15–1:30 | Lunch (on own) |
| 1:30–3:00 | Invitation & Consent Rehearsing the invitation that begins the move, until it lands |
| 3:00–3:30 | Break |
| 3:30–4:00 | Navigating Transactions The full architecture of TQ, and the discipline-based mode of the credential that develops it |
| 4:00–4:15 | Completion and Commitment Public commitment to the move, witnessed by peers |
| 4:15–4:30 | Evaluation, Certification & Feedback |
| 4:30 | Final Close |
Light refreshments will be available at this event. Influential U cannot provide allergen information for items served and cannot guarantee an allergen-free environment. Participants with food allergies, sensitivities, or dietary restrictions should plan accordingly — including bringing their own food where needed. Please notify event staff of any severe medical condition requiring emergency attention.
Personality shapes every transaction.
A key part of the program explores how personality shapes professional exchange. Each person has natural strengths in how they create value in a transaction — some generate ideas and opportunities, others bring structure, build relationships, or drive results forward.
These differences influence how people make decisions, communicate value, respond to offers, negotiate agreements, and collaborate within teams.
Through the program you will recognise your own transactional patterns — and learn to work more effectively with the patterns of others.
- Adapt your approach in negotiations
- Prevent misunderstandings in collaboration
- Move work through the transaction cycle more efficiently
Ambitious professionals accountable for outcomes that depend on others.
You don’t need to be an Influential U alumnus to attend. You need to be ready to engage fully — with your actual work, your real challenges, and the equally serious people in the room with you.
You’ll find your place here if you:
- Navigate complexity, uncertainty, and competing priorities as a matter of course
- Are accountable for results that require the cooperation of others
- Seek sharper agreements and cleaner coordination — not just better relationships
- Are ready to work, not spectate
- Sense that your current approach to exchange is costing you more than you realise
No prerequisite required. The TQ Navigator is self-contained. Many participants attend alongside business partners, senior leaders, or members of the same project team. Teams and cohorts welcome.
What Participants Say
“The place to get in the water of transaction and practice swimming.”
Anthony Nicoli · Siemens
“My quality of life is directly correlated to the degree of my Transactional Intelligence.”
David Phillips · UK
“High EQ isn’t enough. Developing your TQ is what lets you evolve — at work and in life.”
Lisa Powell · Los Angeles
“I’ve used a lot of personality-based tools, but nothing reveals what TQ has — and it’s immediately useable.”
Mark Campbell · Melbourne
“Understanding my blind spots and superpowers was confronting and revolutionary — a turning point in how I show up.”
Christopher Alexander · Melbourne
A word of warning.
This program is not passive learning.
Participants are expected to examine their own professional behavior honestly. Many discover that the biggest barriers to progress are not external circumstances — but the way they currently approach professional exchange.
You’ll work on a real transaction, named in the room — and leave with it moving.
For those willing to do that work, the results are concrete and lasting.
Ready to Raise Your TQ?
Melbourne · 18–19 September 2026
The Navigator closes when it’s full.