Our team
Is a high performing team. We are very good at what we do!
And modest you might say.
But it’s not about ego for us – we are highly trained professionals who love what we do
We have experience in what you are experiencing
You need to work with a team of people who just “get it” and we understand the needs of executives, senior managers and their teams. We work with HR professionals and L&D professionals on a daily basis and have experienced what you have experienced in our past careers and through our clients every day.
We invest in our learning and development
We invest in our learning and development and professional growth and just like we encourage you to do. We have created a workplace that people love; where we achieve great things together; we give each other feedback in the spirit of continuous improvement; and we have fun along the way.
Of course we are highly accredited coaches, all holding the coaching qualifications and ICF credentials with business degrees and business experience across a range of industries, government and private sectors.
Highly accredited coaches
Across the team we have coaches who are accredited to deliver most of the key tools and profiles used by organisations including:
• DISC
• MBTI
• LSI
• Strengthscope
• The Leadership Circle (TLC)
There are plenty of letters after our names, but nothing is more important than the rapport, trust and confidence and partnerships that we create with our clients and that enables them to achieve the amazing results that they do.
CEO
Natalie Ashdown is one of Australia’s most senior and experienced coaches and a recognised speaker and author. Her passion, vision, creativity and commitment assists and supports individuals, teams and companies to create lasting cultural change using coaching skills. Natalie is one of just 18 coaches in Australia to hold the International Coach Federation Master Certified Coach credential.
Often working with HR, L&D professionals and executive teams to implement strategic initiatives and designing leadership programs that target organisational change; and she is sought after for her expert facilitation skills particularly in coaching managers to coach their teams and is regarded as a mentor by many. She has worked extensively across all government levels and the private sector and has exposure and experience in international coaching including international work as a key-note speaker.
She is a qualified Surf Life Saver, runs a surf education program for 180 children in the summer holidays and Community CPR program and has achieved her black belt in Taekwondo.
General Manager
Nick is a passionate and experienced workplace coach and facilitator. With over seventeen years’ experience in learning and development, Nick has a breadth of experience in the leadership of diverse teams and building high performing teams using coaching skills as the under-pinning methodology.
Nick is an Accredited DISC Advanced Consultant and Facilitator, qualified workplace and business coach and he holds International Coach Federation credentials (ACC). He is also an accredited Mental Health First Aid trainer and accredited in the Strengthscope suite of tools.
In his spare time Nick enjoys the arts and gets out and about with his dog Saffy.
Learning and Development Manager
Brigitte is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), with quite possibly, the widest exposure of any practitioner in Australia to the needs of managers and leaders in developing coaching and mentoring skills and leadership competency as she oversees the development and assessments of internal and external coaches across approximately 100 different companies per annum.
For the past 15 years, Brigitte has been supporting organisations in the implementation of coaching and mentoring programs in her role as lead facilitator and assessor of the Diploma of Organisational Coaching (10835NAT) and Certificate IV in Workplace and Business Coaching (10834NAT). This role provides her with unique insights into the minds of learners including their goals, aspirations, challenges and level of coaching and leadership competency.
Brigitte applies her creative spirit and methodical approach to house renovating in her spare time.
Administrative Team
Sonya Sherman and Andrew Ashdown are know as the A Team. As “Team Admin” they are the glue behind the scenes that enable us to achieve excellence in everything that we do.
The team apply their customer service and administration expertise to every program, every course and every customer interaction. They are the reason that we deliver such great results to clients, because they enable team members like Natalie to focus on what she does best and they ‘look after the rest’.
Feedback from our programs often features Sonya and Andrew with clients sending their thanks.
Yo will never work with a team who is more dedicated to looking after you as a client.
