COACHING EXPERIENCE

Nicola is an experienced coach in a variety of areas: leadership, transition, wellbeing, developmental, career change and feedback. Coaching takes place face-to-face or virtually. Nicola has worked across multiple industries and sectors; private, public, education and not-for-profit with industries including, financial services, media, software, construction, legal, defence, electronics, mining, transport, marketing, and wealth management.

COACHING STYLE AND APPROACH

Nicola has an empowering, strengths-based, transformational style with a focus on engaging individuals to take control of their own development, enabling a reconnection with core beliefs, values, and underlying motivations. Her approach consistently results in significant shifts in attitude and behaviour, leading to sustainable, high-performance results both personally and professionally.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Nicola worked for global multinationals across Europe and Australia for 12 years. She began her career in sales, moving into trade marketing and then leadership development roles. In 2002, Nicola was relocated from Europe to Australia with a remit to transform leadership development and coaching across ANZ and the design, facilitation, and implementation of key leadership programs across the USA, Europe, Asia, and Russia. 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Transition coaching for those entering more senior leadership positions  

• Coaching high talent and high potentials  

• Coaching for performance, resilience, and wellbeing  

• Coaching for emotional intelligence 

• Developmental coaching for leaders facing complex challenges and/or change  

• Strengths-based coaching

• Coaching as part of leadership development programs  

• Debrief and feedback coaching 

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS

• GM, Financial Services – coaching with focus on interpersonal and communication skills to heighten trust and build an effective, high talent team of professionals.

• GM, Transport – coaching through a complex, nation-wide change, and reform program. 

• GM, Media – coaching with focus on effective leadership strategies to enable exponential growth and keep up with the speed of change globally. 

• Director, Construction – coaching with a focus on building resilience, delivering superior results, whilst creating life balance.

• C.E.O, Software – coaching with a focus on behavioural flexibility, succession, and empowerment strategies.

• GM, Defence – coaching with a focus on self-awareness, values, confidence, and executive presence.