“Helen was an excellent coach and sounding board who provided me with immense support at a time when the organisation was undergoing a significant transformation. I was constructively challenged throughout the process and feel I have become a more resilient and effective business and people leader.”
General Manager, Retail Industry.
Prior to establishing her career as an executive coach, team coach and facilitator Helen had 25 years senior management experience within multi-national matrix-based organisations and high-risk operational environments. Her roles included leading teams accountable for the delivery of strategy, finance, marketing, public relations, sales, IT, and customer service operations.
Helen has 18 years’ coaching experience working with high potential teams and leaders at all levels across a range of industry sectors. Helen draws on her business experience and professional training to understand the wide range of issues faced by senior leaders in today’s challenging environments.
She enjoys working with businesses to shape the leadership culture and enable transformational change to occur for both the organisation and individuals alike.
Helen’s experience includes coaching groups, teams and individuals to bring about enhanced personal and organisational performance resulting in improved financial outcomes for the business. Throughout Helen’s career, building high performing teams and lifting team performance has been a strength and today she enjoys partnering with clients to help improve and harness the collective capability of teams and individuals in their organisations to work at their optimum.
A number of different models inform Helen’s work especially around team and group dynamics. It includes Structural Dynamics; a dialogic process to build team effectiveness, encourage high performance, and create self-awareness which provides a lens for leaders to understand the impact of their behaviours and mindsets, as well as systems thinking to align team’s and individuals with their organisations’ strategy and business plans.
Helen’s personal style is warm, authentic, honest, and practical. She provides a safe environment where clients can explore the complexity and ambiguity of work and work/life balance. Helen enjoys playing golf, practising bikram yoga, hiking, and learning something new every day.
Selected Clients
Apparel Group, AstraZeneca, Cricket NSW, Cuscal, Foxtel, Freehills, IAG, ING Direct, Jurlique, Leighton Contractors, Macquarie Bank, News Corp, NSW Treasury, NSW Health, Rabobank, Roads & Maritime Services, Perpetual, Phocas Group, Sales Force, Stockland, Sydney Water, Transport for NSW, Unisys, Woolworths.
Qualifications, Registrations & Memberships
Masters in Coaching Psychology & Strategic Human Resources Management - University of Sydney, is a Graduate (Fellow) of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Marketing Diploma from the Australian Institute of Management (AIM).
Instrument Accreditations
Kantor Baseline Behavioural Profile, Structural Dynamics “Making Change Happen” & “Changing Behaviour in High Stakes (current), the Leadership Circle (TLC), Lifestyle Inventory (LSI), Leadership Impact (LI), Hogan Leadership Inventories, Genos EI
