Professional summary
Teresa is a highly experienced leadership, career growth and team coach with over 25 years of international experience in leadership development, management consulting and senior diplomatic roles in Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia, and South America. Understanding the reality of modern business and the complexities that leaders face, she has successfully coached individuals and teams at executive and operational levels in public, private, and not-for-profit environments, and a wide spectrum of industries, from financial and professional services to health and government services, higher education, and technology/software development. Her coaching style is positive, systemic, and results-oriented and helps leaders at all levels to deliver positive sustained change, and improve personal, team and organisational effectiveness.
Areas of coaching expertise include:
· Developmental coaching for amplified leadership impact and increased confidence – including operational, strategic and change leadership (executive and operational levels)
· Coaching skills for leaders
· Team design, development and performance (leadership, operational and project teams)
· Personal and professional effectiveness
· Career growth coaching – including career decisions and transitions, career planning and development (executive and operational levels)
· Work-life design and balance/integration
Education and certifications
• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• Accredited Organisational Coach (Levels 1, 2 and 3), Institute for Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL)
• Certified Coaching Supervisor, Institute for Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL)
• Certified Team Coach, Institute for Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL)
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Melbourne – Melbourne Business School
• Bachelor of Public Administration, Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences – Diplomatic School (Germany)
• Accredited Standard Mental Health First Aider, Mental Health First Aid Australia
• Comprehensive ICF PCC Marker Assessor Training, ICF
• Facet5 Accredited Practitioner, Facet5 Global (Personality Profiling, TeamScape and Strategic Leadership Review 360)
Experience
Teresa previously pursued an international career in the German Diplomatic Service holding a variety of diplomatic positions across the world. In her role as Consulting Director at Australia’s leading specialist provider of consulting services for enterprise transformation, Teresa successfully delivered over 60 small to large-scale assignments with budget and people leadership responsibilities. Teresa’s broad experience includes working in health/hospitals (clinical and non-clinical), aged care, higher education and research, banking and finance, insurance and superannuation, professional services, government services, construction, aviation and transportation, technology/software development, food manufacturing, retail operations, telecommunications, disability services and charities. This enables Teresa to leverage years of experience and learnings across industries to provide meaningful reference points and insights.
Coaching Approach
Teresa’s coaching style is positive, systemic, and results-oriented and helps leaders at all levels to deliver positive change, and improve personal, team and organisational effectiveness and wellbeing. Teresa uses an integrated, strength-based approach, which draws on cross-disciplinary, evidence- based methods to help her clients improve their performance, enhance their careers, and achieve personal and organisational goals. Teresa’s thoughtful and down-to-earth style enables her to build trusting relationships quickly and work with her clients in a respectful and challenging way to create learnings, enable growth and realise positive sustained change.