COACHING EXPERIENCE

Teresa is a highly experienced leadership coach who understands the reality of modern business and the complexities that leaders face. She has successfully coached individuals and teams at executive and operational levels in public, private, and not-for-profit environments, and a wide spectrum of industries, from financial and professional services to health and government services, higher education, and technology/software development. Her coaching style is positive, systemic, and results-oriented and helps leaders at all levels to realise sustained positive change, and improve personal, team and organisational effectiveness.

COACHING STYLE AND APPROACH

Teresa uses a strength-based approach, which draws on cross-disciplinary, evidence-based methods to help her counterparts improve their performance, enhance their careers, and achieve personal and organisational goals. Teresa’s positive and down-to-earth style enables her to build trusting relationships quickly and work with her counterparts in a respectful and challenging way to create learnings and enable growth.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Teresa previously pursued an international career in the German Diplomatic Service holding a variety of diplomatic positions across the world. In her role as Consulting Director at Australia’s leading specialist provider of consulting services for enterprise transformation, Teresa successfully delivered over 60 small to large-scale assignments with budget and people leadership responsibilities. Teresa’s broad experience includes working in banking and finance, insurance and superannuation, professional services, government services, aviation and transportation, health and aged care, technology/software development, higher education, food processing/manufacturing, retail operations, telecommunications, disability services and charities. This enables Teresa to leverage years of experience and learnings across industries to provide meaningful reference points and insights.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Developmental coaching for amplified leadership impact and increased confidence

• Operational and strategic leadership development

• Change leadership

• Coaching skills for leaders

• Team performance and development

• Career and role transitions - executive and operational levels

• Work-life design and balance

• Personal and professional effectiveness

• Multi-lingual – coaching in English and Germany

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS

• Executive Managers, Insurance – developmental coaching to amplify leadership
  impact and move beyond delivering outcomes towards shaping key areas of the
  organisation, influence a cultural shift, lead positive and sustainable change, and
  improve overall confidence in operating at senior executive levels.

• Clinical Director, Health (Intensive Care) – focus on strategic thinking and change
  leadership, enabling the leader to grow more influential lateral relationships, improve
  crisis management and conflict resolution skills, and develop a cohesive leadership
  team in a complex and challenging environment.

• Executive Director, State Government – leadership coaching improved emotional
  agility and wellbeing, freed up capacity to enable a more proactive focus and
  promoted strategic leadership.

• Senior Director of Engineering, Multinational Software Company – leadership
  coaching resulted in increased awareness of individual and team strengths and
  improved versatility and situational leadership. Coaching highlighted development
  opportunities to step up into senior executive role.

• First Time Leaders, Financial Services – supported talented women in one of the
  world’s largest financial services groups to develop and grow as leaders whilst
  balancing professional and personal priorities in a very complex and demanding
  environment. Coaching resulted in improved leadership impact, clear career
  development perspectives and better wellbeing.