ABOUT ME
EMPOWERING LEADERS TO HAVE REMARKABLE IMPACT WITH RENEWED ENERGY, CLARITY, COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE
MY WORK
Executive Coach | Team Coaching |
Leadership Development | Counselling |
Org Transformation
I am an executive coach and consultant, facilitator and educator in change and leadership development. I remain insatiably curious about neuroplasticity and our capacity for change and for over 25 years have supported organisations to successfully deliver complex business change. I have also supported leaders in navigating their own personal transitions and transformations.
As a coach I supports leaders to be conscious and authentic in our turbulent and complex times. I encourage thinking about how they work, live and lead and then take personal responsibility and courageous action to thrive with renewed clarity and confidence.
As a counsellor and psychotherapist I support people to explore their internal world, deepen self-awareness and self-understanding and then re-design the life they want, need and deserve.
As a change expert I am privileged to work shoulder-to-shoulder with leaders, helping them shape collaborative cultures, co-design practical change strategies and successfully implement them. While benefitting from personal growth themselves, these leaders then contribute positively to the systems they’re in – their organisations, teams, families and communities.
As a start-up co-founder and accelerator of a boutique change consulting business, I’ve understood the pressures of competitive commercial landscapes and steadfastly holding both the employee and customer experience at the centre.
My work has spanned countries, sectors and industries and includes change to leadership behaviours, organisational culture, team dynamics, capability uplift, internal change management practices, new and enhanced organisational operating models, new products, locations and customer interactions.
As a leader, and a follower, I remain obsessed with understanding what really makes successful change happen for individuals and teams – in any context. My passion is weaving together approaches and modalities that are entirely fit for purpose.
People describe me as:
both strategic and pragmatic
masterful at meeting Leaders where they are at
having natural grace, wisdom, deep care and joy in my work
offering hands-on expertise with all type of leaders and all types of change contexts
applying a systems approach coupled with an insatiable hunger for positive change
a straight shooting coach, facilitator and trainer that cares personally and challenges directly
I have professional qualifications and experience in executive coaching, organisational transformation and behavioural change.
I have worked with leaders from diverse backgrounds, served a wide range of stakeholder groups, and work with clients to make sense of their own culture, context and use this as part of design principles to solve together with a strengths-based perspective.
I partner with leaders and teams who are ready to change, but not quite sure how.
Expertise
Leadership development & performance coaching
Career Transition coaching
Group and Team dynamics coaching
Team engagement and building
Organisational change and transformation
Counselling & Psychotherapy (Masters underway)
I help clients by simultaneously holding their hands and kicking their backsides - balancing big, forward thinking ideas with realistic and practical approaches for getting things done.
Professional Qualifications:
Post-Graduate Diploma Counselling & Psychotherapy, University of Canberra and Australian College of Psychology (Australia)
Post-Graduate Diploma in Transpersonal Coaching, Nature Care College (Australia)
Post-Graduate Certificate in Coaching Fundamentals, Coach-U (USA)
Post-Graduate Certificate in Change Management, AGSM (Australia)
Prosci Certified Change Manager & Panel member (Australia)
Degree in Education, College of Education, UCT (South Africa)
Certified Practitioner:
Brene Brown’s Dare To Lead Practitioner
David Kantor’s Structural Dynamics and Behavioural Profiles – Level II
Amy Edmondson’s Fearless Organisation Scan, Certification Program Facilitator, APAC region
The Leadership Circle 360 Profile
Hogan 360 leader profile
About my Brain Institute’s i4 Neuroleader Profile
Judith Glaser Conversational Intelligence
Richard Barrett Corporate Transformation Tools
Team Management System
Associate Partner as an Executive Coach and Consultant with:
Work Happy
People Talking
Public Service Commission Leadership Academy, for Senior Executives and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders
Nous Group
Audrey Page and Associates
People Measures
Pro Bono:
I support several charities and regularly offer ProBono services.
NFP sector - United Way Australia and Cure Brain Cancer
Early Learning & Education sector – Shree Kurlung Baraha Primary School (Nepal), Prince of Wales Place, St Agnes Primary
Southern Highlands Wingecarribee community
Accreditations:
Hogan 360 Ledership profile
Human Synergistics LSI and OCI
Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i 2.0)
Bungay-Stanier Method for Coaching
Daryl Conner’s Raising Your Game
Otto Scharmer’s Systems Thinking & Theory U
Lewis method of deep democracy and co-resolve
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Professional Associations
Member, International Coach Federation (ICF Global)
Member, Australian Counselling Association (ACA)
Member, Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
Thought Leadership Ambassador for the Change Management Institute (CMI Global)
“I love the experience of being with people in a space of created trust, commitment, and vision. It constantly amazes me what we can generate when people sit together, speak, and listen with authenticity, wisdom and candour.”
WHO AM I?
My pathways have taken me across continents and careers, none by design. My story is repeatedly one of jumping into the deep end and coming up with some kind of synchronised swimming. Throughout my life I’ve known that you can do anything you put your mind to, and with honest, hard work you can engage with the world in meaningful ways and achieve big results.
Today, I work to awaken the best in people and organisations.
I help people to help themselves by advising, mentoring and coaching them to make change happen exceptionally well, and make it stick.
I’ve been in the change and transformation game my whole working career, supporting leaders, teams and organisations to accelerate change mindsets, approaches and outcomes.
Nothing makes me happier than empowering people to become the owners and architects of their own transformations. Helping them see the brilliance they have, even when they can’t see it themselves. Each one of us has infinite resources available to us, within us, waiting to be accessed so we can be truly remarkable.
I’m constantly changing and growing myself. Some of my own challenges include and an overactive and relentless work ethic ingrained in me since childhood and an action bias as part of my DNA – both tough patterns to eliminate, so I keep trying!
What I really love is:
Being in nature, travelling and exploring new places and cultures
Little luxuries like my Ugg boots, electric blankets, coffee with the girls, time to read
Thriving as part of an awesome team
The deep wisdom that children and elderly offer
Generosity, integrity, humility
I’m driven daily by my values of truth, care, communication and I love to relax by being with the ocean and with the trees. When I manage to combine these gifts with family time and my Tai Chi practice I have the perfect ingredients for the best time ever!
