The PhD may finish.
Your momentum doesn’t have to.
After submission, many researchers find themselves asking:
What now?
What does career growth look like from here?
How do I stay connected, inspired, and moving?
Who do I become beyond the thesis?
CTS Momentum was created for this season.
A grounded, thoughtful space for researchers who want continued conversation, mentoring, and community beyond the PhD.
Not more noise.
Not more pressure.
But a place to stay in motion — with depth, direction, and the support of the right people around you.
What’s Inside?
Monthly Mastermind
A live space to bring real questions, explore ideas, and think through what’s next with others who get it.
Monthly Live Mentoring Sessions
Join our CTS mentors for live sessions on academia, industry, leadership, entrepreneurship, AI, success, money, wellbeing, and more.
A Library of Resources and Modules
Catch the recordings, revisit key ideas, or move through the content at a pace that suits you.
Dedicated Community Channels
Stay connected through themed chat spaces designed for ongoing conversation, support, and shared thinking.
Access to CTS Mentors
Learn from trust mentors inside the space, with the options to book private 1:1 support where helpful.
The Power of Proximity
There is something powerful about being in the right room.
The right conversations stretch you.
The right people expand what feels possible.
The right proximity changes how you think, what you expect, and what you create next.
After the PhD, many researchers lose that closeness to thoughtful peers, mentors, and bigger conversations.
CTS Momentum is designed to bring that back.
Because momentum is not created in isolation.
It is often created through proximity — to people, thinking, and opportunities that lift your vision of what comes next.
Learn from Trusted CTS Mentors
Inside Momentum, you’ll also have access to trusted CTS mentors through live sessions, community visibility, and optional private support.
Professor David Penn
(Academic success)
Meet the top 1% of academia.
Prof. David Penn, PhD is a Research Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, Director of Psychological Services at Early Psychosis Interventions in North Carolina, and one of the most distinguished research mentors in psychological science today.
With decades at the forefront of clinical research — spanning CBT for psychosis, mindfulness-based interventions, and social cognition — David doesn't just know the academic world. He's helped shape it.
Now, he's bringing that lifetime of expertise to you. Whether you're navigating research design, building your academic career, or stepping into life post-PhD, David's mentorship is the unfair advantage you didn't know you needed.
Katherine Anderson
(Health, wellbeing & leadership) ~ Ease Wellness
Meet the mentor who turns burnout into breakthrough.
Katherine Anderson is a mindset coach and wellness mentor with 15 years in the creative agency world — so she knows firsthand what it feels like to be brilliant, burnt out, and running on empty.
Blending neuroscience-backed strategies with holistic wellness and mindset coaching, Katherine helps ambitious individuals reclaim their energy, clarity, and creativity without giving up on success or fulfilment.
From unlocking flow states to silencing self-doubt, her approach is practical, personal, and genuinely life-changing. Because your best work shouldn't cost you everything.
Dr. Izelle Labuschagne
(Neuroscience strategies, success, goals, career) - Founder of CTS
Meet the one who's done it all — and came back to show you how.
Dr. Izelle Labuschagne is a neuroscientist, researcher, and the Founder of Complete Thesis Support — and she is the real deal.
With 20+ years of experience, publications in Nature and Lancet, multi-million dollar research projects, and PhD students who passed without corrections, Izelle sits firmly in a league of her own. She's an international PhD examiner, keynote speaker, and has taken her research across the world.
Her mission is simple: to help you finish your thesis with ease, confidence, and a career you're genuinely excited about.
Associate Professor Alexandra Gorelik
(Research methodology, analysis, publications)
Meet the person who makes data make sense.
A/Prof. Alexandra Gorelik is a research methodologist and analyst with 21 years of experience — and a reputation that speaks for itself. With publications in The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, and national awards for clinical trials, Alex is the kind of expert most researchers only read about.
Her background spans statistics, data science, quality assurance, and business intelligence — but what she's most known for is making complex research methods accessible, practical, and genuinely exciting for students.
If data has ever felt like your weak spot — it won't after working with Alex.
Danee Ilic & Ali Plunkett
(Money, business, wealth consciousness) ~ She Evolve Collective
Meet the duo redefining what women in business look like
Danee is a prosperity business coach, multiple business owner, and self-made woman who has built her life around one mission — helping people across the globe step into true entrepreneurship and create lasting wealth for themselves and their families.
Ali is the connector. A bubbly, no-nonsense business mentor with a contagious energy.Through her thriving networking programs, she's helped countless business owners grow through the power of personal branding, authentic connection, and a strategic approach to networking — on and offline.
Together, they bring wealth strategy and the human connection.
Louise Syphers
(Financial freedom) ~ Abundance & Beyond
Meet the woman who's been opening doors — literally — since 2001.
Louise Syphers is the Director of Abundance & Beyond and a mortgage advisor with 20+ years of experience helping women take control of their finances and step confidently into property ownership.
But Louise is so much more than a mortgage advisor. She brings a uniquely personal approach to what can feel like an overwhelming process — offering real guidance, real clarity, and a clear roadmap to long-term financial independence.
From refinancing and debt consolidation to securing home, business, and trust loans, Louise handles the complexity so you don't have to.
Dr Juliana Peloche
(Education specialist, AI in research & teaching) - Women in AI Australia Ltd
Meet the bridge between AI and education.
Dr. Juliana Peloche is a Senior Learning Adviser at Edith Cowan University and one of the leading voices on AI literacy in higher education — with a doctorate from the University of Wollongong and over 20 years of teaching experience to back it up.
Juliana specialises in what most institutions are still figuring out: how to help faculty, staff, and students not just understand AI, but actually use it meaningfully in educational settings.
Her doctoral research into stakeholder perceptions of AI in education gives her a rare, ground-level understanding of where the resistance is, where the opportunity lies, and how to move people forward.
Professor Simon Moss
(Leadership, Humility, and Navigating complexity) - Radical Humility
Meet a former Dean of Research and Director of Radical Humility.
Professor Simon Moss brings a unique perspective shaped by years of academic leadership, research, and working closely with individuals navigating complex, high-pressure environments. His work centres on an often-overlooked but powerful concept — humility — not as something passive, but as a practical and transformative approach to how we think, communicate, lead, and make decisions. For any professionals, this becomes especially relevant when navigating heavy and often competing workloads, challenging conversations and conflict, working with more experienced colleagues, making decisions in uncertain environments, and maintaining confidence without losing authenticity.
His sessions offer a grounded and practical way to move through these challenges with greater clarity, confidence, and effectiveness.t
This is for you if...
CTS Momentum is for those who:
âś” have submitted their PhD or thesis
âś” are navigating academia, industry, entrepreneurship, or broader career possibilities
âś” want thoughtful conversation and ongoing growth
✔ value ambition, reflection, and meaningful work
âś” do not want the next chapter to be done alone
Upcoming Live Mentoring Sessions
Get a glimpse of upcoming events happening inside.
From Researcher to Financially Empowered: A New Way to Think About Money
May 1, 12pm AEST
A grounded, honest conversation about money, without pressure, without overwhelm, and without assumptions.
Moving Through Procrastination & Perfectionism
May 13, 12:15pm AEST
A thoughtful session exploring the patterns behind procrastination and perfectionism — and how to move forward with more ease, clarity, and self-trust.
What Makes a Successful Graduate Student? Observations from 30+ Years in Academia
June 4, 9am AEST
A rare opportunity to hear what experienced academics have consistently observed over decades — what helps researchers thrive, and what often gets in the way.
Why Join Momentum?
Because the biggest questions often come after the thesis.
Momentum offers a place to keep growing through:
✔ intellectual community
✔ professional expansion
✔ mentoring and perspective
✔ conversations that support the whole person
This is not just about your next role.
It is about your next level of growth.
