Professional Summary
Kylie Holyland has over 30 years’ experience helping individuals, managers, and leaders to shift their thinking and behavior, so they thrive together at work. A full-time team and leader coach since 2013, Kylie has worked with more than 500 leaders and teams at all levels of organisations around the globe – challenging and supporting them to shift their mindset, manage energy and crystalise their leadership identity. Before that Kylie spent 25 years working in HR as an internal HR consultant providing HR advice and leadership support to hundreds of public sector SES and EL leaders and managers. In coaching, Kylie’s particular strength is in coaching for purpose and meaning. She helps teams and leaders build skills and confidence to engage in challenging situations and have difficult conversations, to develop new ways of thinking about issues and to take action to improve their work and career performance. Kylie is particularly skilled at shifting behavior and attitudes, helping her clients to develop an understanding of their triggers, build resilience and to improve workplace relationships. A mediator and conflict coach, she helps managers resolve complex people issues and develops effective strategies to maximise individual and organisational performance.
Education and Certifications
- Senior Practitioner, Team and Individual Coaching, European Mentoring and Coaching Council ( EMCC) 2022
- Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation (ICF) 2016
- Team Coach, IECL / David Clutterbuck
- Action Logics and GLP Practitioner /Torbert & Barker 2019
- Growth Edge Coaching / J Garvey-Berger 2019
- Accreditation in Organisational Coaching, Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL) 2015
- NLP Certified Practitioner and Coach 2018
- Certificate in the Foundations of Neuroscience, 2018
- The Essential Facilitator, Sage Thinking
- Rank and Power Dynamics, CLE Consulting
- Mediator, nationally accredited 2014-2016, Resolution Institute
- CINERGY Conflict Coach
- Certificate IV Training and Assessment (Mantra Training) 2014/2019 update
- Foundations in HR, Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI)
- Certified HR Professional, Australian HR Institute (CAHRI)
- Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), ANU
- Past President, ACT Branch, International Coach Federation (ICF)
- Associate Fellow, Australian Institute of Managers and Leaders (IML)
- Practitioner Member, Resolution Institute
Experience
Kylie is a confident accredited trainer and facilitator, comfortable with delivering short courses and workshops on a range of topics. Kylie is currently the Program Coach of the APS-wide mentoring program WILES – Women in Law Enforcement and Strategy for AIM Public Sector and is the lead facilitator of the APS Academy SES Band 1 Orientation Program on behalf of Beasley Intercultural. Kylie has expert knowledge in the areas of:
- Finding your growth edge and leadership identity
- Developing emerging leaders and critical career transitions
- Amplifying women in leadership
- Coaching team dynamics and conflict
- Leading change, resilience and workplace wellbeing
- Building employee motivation, engagement and performance
- Developing and leading mentoring programs
- Mobility and succession planning
- Integrating work, life and energy
- CV coaching and interview preparation
Kylie believes it is important to be professionally skilled, ethical, and expert in her work. She holds international and Australian coaching credentials and is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, (ICF). Kylie has studied neuroscience, HR, NLP, mediation and conflict resolution, and psychology. Kylie is a past-president of the ACT Branch of the International Coach Federation, and is a current member of a range of Australian professional organisations including ICF, AHRI, IPAA, IAF, AITD, and the Resolution Institute.
Coaching Approach
Kylie draws on her training and experience in a range of coaching approaches, tools and methodologies to help leaders to create meaningful change in their professional lives. Kylie uses individual and executive coaching, including goal-based and emergent coaching methodologies, team coaching and Prosocial group coaching, growth edge and action-logic coaching techniques, skills-based coaching, CINERGY™ conflict coaching and IECL narrative coaching.
Kylie is accredited in Global Leadership Profile (GLP), LifeStyles Index (LSI1 & 2), Group Styles Index (GSI), Manager/Impact, Leader/Impact (Human Synergistics), HBDI (Herrmann Brain Dominance Index) – Associate Trainer, Team Management Systems (TMS), Public sector Executive and Team Leadership assessments (SLP, ELP, TLP), Emotional and Social Intelligence (ESIP) and Everything DiSC and Conflict Assessment Tool (Integro).