Kylie Holyland has over 30 years’ experience helping individuals, managers and leaders to shift their thinking and behaviour, so they thrive together at work. As a full-time executive coach, Kylie has worked with over 250 clients at all levels of organisations, challenging and supporting them to transform their work and lives. Prior to 2013, Kylie spent 25 years working as internal HR consultant providing HR advice and support to a client base of SES and EL managers in the public sector. In that role she helped to resolve complex people issues and develop effective strategies to maximise individual and organisational performance.
In coaching, Kylie’s particular strength is in growing the confidence and capability of individuals, managers and teams to deal with difficult situations and to further their competency, develop new ways of thinking and to take action to improve their work and career performance. Kylie is particularly skilled at shifting behaviour and attitudes, helping her clients to develop an understanding of their triggers, build resilience and to improve workplace relationships.
Kylie is a confident accredited trainer and facilitator, comfortable with delivering short courses and workshops on a range of topics. Kylie is able to design and tailor training to meet specific client needs. In addition, Kylie is a highly experienced workforce strategist, able to analyse, develop and implement effective workforce interventions.
Kylie has expert knowledge in the areas of:
- emerging managers and leaders
- women in leadership
- team dynamics and conflict
- change, resilience and workplace wellbeing
- employee motivation, engagement and performance
- career management, coaching and mentoring
- mobility and succession planning
- work life blend
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, Resolution Institute, and the Institute of Managers and Leaders.
Coaching approaches:
Kylie is able to draw 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:
- organisational coaching, including goal-based and emergent coaching methodologies
- skills-based coaching
- CINERGY™ conflict coaching
- IECL narrative coaching
- team coaching