Elaine Green
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COACHING EXPERIENCE

Coaching has been a priority for Elaine throughout her career. Her diverse industry experience includes government, finance, education, professional services, retail, utilities, telco, mining, communication, and health. Elaine has a strong commitment to continuous learning and development, to enhance her evidence-based practice and add value for counterparts. She is currently an ICF MCC (Master Certified Coach) applicant in progress, with 2500+ hours coaching experience, across 500+ leaders in various roles, industries, and countries, and has collaborated with 100+ teams. Elaine is an Accredited Coach Supervisor, Mentor Coach and IECL Faculty member.

COACHING STYLE AND APPROACH

Elaine believes that people are an organisation’s most important resource. Organisations can develop and grow through respecting each person’s individuality and difference whilst harnessing the value they bring. By building connection and trust, she partners with her counterparts, creating a safe space, supporting, and respectfully challenging them into creative and courageous exploration whilst inviting self- awareness, perspective taking and identifying new insights. This builds momentum towards new opportunities, achieving outcomes, aspirations, or
sustainable change, overcoming challenges and learning. Elaine uses a holistic approach, enabling counterparts to create strategies to support them in all aspects of their life and thrives on helping people feel energised, valued, and connected to their purpose. She is often described by the people she has coached as ‘warm, calm and intuitive’. Elaine invites counterparts to identify their unique strengths and characteristics, empowering them to develop ways to reach their potential and purpose. As a result, many have shared that their coaching engagements have provided them with confidence, clarity, purpose, courage, energy, new perspectives, and a clear path forward.


BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Elaine has over 30 years of global leadership and coaching experience. Her previous roles include Head of Learning and Organisational Development, General Manager, Retail and Business Operations, and National Sales Executive, with responsibilities including people capability, change leadership, communication, continuous improvement, group performance and strategy. Elaine has a proven ability to recruit, motivate, develop, and lead high ‘value delivering’ teams. This includes large multi- site/national, cross-functional teams, with revenue targets exceeding $25 million and she has supported people development across teams of over 3000 FTE.


AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Navigating complexity and ambiguity to achieve strategic aspirations and
    overcome challenges.

  • Personal branding and career coaching. Exploring purpose, style, strengths, skills, and energisers. Creating clarity for a future career path.

  • Role modelling life balance, prioritising wellbeing, and self-care. Overcoming or mitigating stress and burnout.

  • Cultural transformation, including developing a coaching culture where everyone
    will thrive.

  • Embracing difference and creating inclusive environments.

  • Creating a collective, collaborative team built on a foundation of trust and shared purpose. Learning to learn together for stakeholder value.

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS

  • CEO, Not for Profit - developing a coaching culture, building team capability and value, empowering leaders nationally.

  • CEO, Professional Services - cultural transformation.

  • Global Head of Productivity, Mining – career development.

  • Global GM, Transformation (and team), Energy – navigating a global transformation program.

  • Executive Director, Education – overcoming burnout and finding purpose.

  • Vice President, Global Sales & Service - transitioning to a new global role. Developing both personal brand and people strategy.

  • Executive Director, Communications/Media - navigating dynamic, complex challenges and developing a collective leadership approach.

  • CEO, Financial Services – expanding national footprint, leveraging global workforce, increasing leadership team competence, and life balance.