Tim is an Executive, Leadership, Career and Cultural Capability Coach dedicated to helping clients realise their personal and professional potential.
Tim will work with you in a thought-provoking and creative process to enhance your leadership and management skills, set goals, improve performance and develop any aspect of your career and personal life. Our clients comment that coaching with Tim has unlocked previously untapped sources of imagination, innovation, productivity and leadership.
Tim is a Director, Board Member and the President of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Australasia Charter Chapter.
Tim is the Executive Director of our company and has been a leader, coach, supervisor and mentor for many years. With 32 years of senior leadership experience in national security and defence across Australia and New Zealand, including 16 years in the Australian Government's Senior Executive Service, Tim has a proven track record in leading diverse teams, managing complex policy and business operations and driving transformation, culture and change-management programs.
Tim maintains, developed and shares his knowledge through the provision of consultancy services to Australian and international companies who deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world.
A full-time team and leader coach since 2013, Kylie has worked with over 500 leaders and teams at all levels of organisations around the globe - challenging and supporting them to shift their mindset, manage energy and crystalise their leadership identity. Before that Kylie spent 25 years working as internal HR consultant providing HR advice and support to a client base of 70 public sector SES and EL leaders and managers.
In coaching, Kylie’s particular strength is in coaching for purpose and meaning. She helps teams and leaders build skill and confidence to engage with challenging situations and have difficult conversations, to develop new ways of thinking about issues and to take action to improve their work and career performance. Kylie is particularly skilled at shifting behaviour and attitudes, helping her clients to develop an understanding of their triggers, build resilience and to improve workplace relationships. A mediator and conflict coach, she helps managers resolve complex people issues and develops effective strategies to maximise individual and organisational performance.
Kylie is a confident accredited trainer and facilitator, comfortable with delivering short courses and workshops on a range of topics. Kylie is able to design and tailor development and mentoring programs.
Lisa Gaines is an Executive Leader and Team Coach and Facilitator with 15 years’ experience developing thousands of high performing leaders and team members across APAC, EMEA and the US.
As a Coach Lisa employs a supportive, results driven approach to help her clients achieve clarity and momentum. Her clients value her non-judgemental, empathetic style and her expertise in applying neuroscience to build emotional intelligence to improve communication and psychological safety in organisations. As a Team Coach, Lisa’s dedication to fostering psychological safety within teams enables team members to build awareness and develop skills that create environments where trust, open communication, and collaboration thrive. This results in higher levels of team engagement, high performance, and success in organisations.
Lisa’s clients range from entrepreneurs to executives in Fortune 500 organisations, leaders in healthcare, and executives in most government departments at local and federal levels. Lisa is a passionate advocate of the ‘Leader as Coach’ approach, enabling her clients to become masterful communicators and inspiring, motivational leaders.
Peter is an organisational coach who assists clients to define their own beliefs, identifying opportunities and crafting their vision so they will flourish in the workplace environment.
Peter has experience in both group and individual coaching with a focus on learning and testing leadership behaviours, becoming more self-aware and emotionally intelligent, embedding strategic thinking at the individual and the organisational level, framing and understanding the complex nature of an organisation’s culture, developing a ubiquitous change management mindset, business model innovation, and career-based coaching.
Peter’s passion for coaching and mentoring comes from over two decades of diverse work in demanding investment management companies, in both the private and Victorian government sector. He has a keen interest in what shapes organisational culture and has mentored people across multiple organisations at all levels, including CEOs and executives. His experience in investments analysis and portfolio management allows him to craft appropriate cultural and performance questions for senior executives. He couples this with a rich understanding of organisational structures with high levels of empathy and reflection.
With an extensive history as a senior leader and higher education professional alongside leadership, coaching and training qualifications, Tania is known for building high performing, positive and productive work cultures and supporting career development and advancement.
Tania has a passion for professional and leadership development and cultural change and her greatest satisfaction comes from training and coaching leaders and teams to clarify their strengths, purpose, values and goals so they can unlock their full potential, develop confidence and gain the courage to lead their way. The result is a more confident, approachable and influential leader who creates real change.
Tania is an experienced facilitator and certified leadership coach (ACC) and has trained and coached hundreds of individuals and teams across a diverse range of organisations within the private and public sector. Her specialisations include leadership and management skills, productivity, communication, team building and conflict resolution, employee engagement, emotional intelligence, strengths-based leadership and creation of positive and high performing teams.
Suzanne is a qualified executive coach and learning specialist, with extensive senior executive experience in delivering integrated human resource strategies to support individual and organisational development.
Drawing on private and public sector experience, she works with managers, teams and individuals navigating complex and challenging landscapes, to achieve high performance and maintain life balance.
Suzanne creates a safe and confidential coaching environment that moves coachees from their ‘comfort’ zone to their creative ‘learning’ zone to solve complex problems, shift stubborn mindsets and sustain lifelong learning.
Her career spans roles in vocational education, strategic human resource management, corporate strategy, and leadership development. As an experienced leadership program designer and facilitator, she tailors programs that drive and sustain business improvement. She is known for her ability to develop high performing teams and build strong coaching and mentoring organisational cultures.
Cecilia is a professional coach and accredited conflict coach. Cecilia is an adept trainer and facilitator of many years practice. As a highly qualified and credentialed consultant, with extensive and broad organisational and leadership skills and expertise, Cecilia provides a unique breadth of perspectives and insights, bringing an unparalleled quality to her consultancy and coaching practice.
Cecilia has expert knowledge in People Strategy, Policy, and Systems, Strategic and Operational Workforce Planning, Quantitative and Qualitative Workforce Analysis, Career Pathways and Employee Value Proposition (EVP), Diversity and Inclusion Plan and Cultural Audits, Change Management and Workforce Transformation, Flexible Work Strategy, Human Resources Transformations, Workplace Investigations and Organisational and Conflict Coaching, Facilitation and Training