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JENN BEDLINGTON
Interactions and Thinking and Strategy Expert

Join the hundreds of Jenn’s coaching clients who have achieved more of their potential, becoming more successful leaders and managers, more confident to address challenges and to make changes.

APPROACH

Jenn will use a respectful approach to help you to see challenges in a new light and to uncover new opportunities, while encouraging you to courageously self-reflect and commit to change. She’ll flexibly respond to your emerging needs, and generously share the wisdom built from decades of work and life.

EXPERTISE

Jenn has particular expertise in supporting people become better at:

• leading and managing
• thinking and acting strategically
• interacting with others in ways which build strong and sustainable relationships
• influencing and collaborating
• managing conflict.
  

ACCREDITATIONS

Jenn is an accredited and widely experienced leadership and personal development coach, with a

stable of profiles she can use to aid in your self-knowledge.

These profiles include:

• Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument [HBDI]
• Six Seconds emotional intelligence profile and Brain Profile
• Six Seconds Vital Signs
• Trust Styles Inventory
• ResilienceUP
• Motivational Map
• Emotions and Behaviours at Work
• Inventory for Work Attitude and Motivation[iWAM]
• Conflict Dynamics Profile
• Profile of Influencing Styles

Jenn is a member of the International Coach Federation, and abides by its Code of Ethics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jenn's professional experience includes –

• twenty years of providing extensive leadership and competency coaching and learning development services in areas including emotional intelligence, thinking, influential communication, collaboration, conflict management, strategic planning, policy development, and program management
• twenty years as a highly respected leader in Government, working with professional, administrative and technical people on a wide range of issues
• twenty years as Director of companies engaged in diverse industries, including retail, manufacturing and professional services.

JENINE BOROWIK
Leadership, IT and Collaboration Expert

Jenine has helped many people to advance their careers, becoming successful leaders, managers, or specialists, both within organizations and with demanding customers.

APPROACH

Jenine will work with you to understand your challenges, explore new ways to operate and assist you to achieve more successful and rewarding work and life.

EXPERTISE

Jenine has particular expertise in

• helping people in technical and IT areas to work effectively with each other and with clients and stakeholders
• working with diverse groups of people from different cultures and countries to achieve common aims
• strategic leadership
• creative problem solving
  
  

ACCREDITATIONS

Jenine can draw on her three decades of diverse experience in IT and leadership and management roles, spanning from application development to client relations and technical program leadership to senior executive leadership. She is ready to share her knowledge and skills in assisting clients, IT professionals, and other technical specialists to achieve remarkable outcomes through working effectively together.

Jenine abides by the Code of Ethics of the International Coach Federation.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jenine’s professional experience includes –

• leading a wide range of successful projects and programs for official statistics
• over 30 years of experience in Information Communications Technology, ranging from technical roles to 5 years as Chief Information Officer for a major government agency,
• leading the data collection and information and client services functions for a national statistics institution
• leading and coordinating international projects involving multiple countries and experts from diverse subject, statistical and ICT fields.
• Volunteer community work, including coaching seniors in the use of technology and mentoring young women to live confidently.
  
  

SALLY DOOLEY
Leadership, Mindset and Communication Expert

Sally is passionate about excellent leadership and helping shape cultures that facilitate high performance and wellbeing for sustainable growth. She works alongside clients to support them as they navigate changing contexts and the demands of leadership.

Approach

Sally is a highly skilled and effective leadership coach who combines best practice with holistic and creative processes to help clients accelerate their effectiveness as leaders and across all facets of their lives. Her experience working with clients in a range of contexts, combined with her academic and personal research, uniquely positions her to help clients achieve the outcomes they want. 

Sally is also a TEDx speaker coach who works with individuals to craft and communicate strategic narratives. 

Expertise

Sally has particular expertise in supporting people to become better at:

• leading, coaching and managing others
• career planning and development
• building resilience and growing through adversity and failure
• leading people through change
• building high performing teams, including creating positive cultures and having effective feedback conversations

Accreditations

Sally is a well-qualified leadership and personal development coach with a range of profiles to enhance self-awareness. These profiles include:

• Masters Training and Development 
• Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument [HBDI]
• Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Profile 
• DiSC and DiSC Work of Leaders
• Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile
• Motivational Maps
• Team Management System
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator [MBTI]
• Full Circle 360
• Hogan 360

Sally has attended International Coaching Federation accredited courses and abides by its Code of Ethics.

Professional experience

Sally’s professional experience includes – 

• 15 years of coaching leaders in government, private and not-for-profit sectors, including senior executive leaders. 
• Over 25 years of designing and leading facilitation processes, including leadership, change management, strategic planning and stakeholder engagement, building high-performing teams, emotionally intelligent communication, resilience and wellbeing.
• Over 15 years leading teams in government and not-for-profit sectors, development, and program management

ROBYN BICKET
Strategic Thinking, Well-being and Collaboration Expert

Join Robyn’s coaching clients achieving more, becoming more successful leaders and managers,

more confident to address challenges and to make changes through self-awareness and positive

psychology.

Approach

Robyn’s coaching approach is based on positive psychology principles and strengths-based analysis

to encourage self-knowledge and to build clients ability to thrive not just survive. Robyn has a

particular interest and experience in the psychology and wellbeing of lawyers and helping women in

career development and transitions.

Expertise

Robyn has particular expertise in supporting people become better at

• Ethical leadership
• thinking and acting strategically
• interacting with others in ways which build strong and sustainable relationships
• influencing and collaborating
• career and life transitions.

Accreditations

Robyn is a certified positive psychology and positive psychology coaching practitioner from the

Whole Being Institute (USA) and an experienced leadership and personal development coach.

Robyn is an accredited Herman Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) practitioner, member of the

Positive Psychology.com community and the VIA Institute on Character.

Robyn is a lawyer admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the Australian Capital Territory. She holds a

BA (Hons) (Political Science) and an LLB from the Australian National University.

Robyn is an alumnus of the Cranlana Programme and a participant in the Australian National Library

Trailblazing Women in the Law oral history project.

Professional experience

Robyn’s professional experience includes –

• ten years of providing leadership and coaching learning and development services in areas including emotional intelligence, thinking, influential communication, collaboration, , strategic planning, policy development, program management and transition to executive roles.
• twenty years as a highly respected leader in Government, working with professional, administrative and technical people on a wide range of issues including leadership of two large in-house legal teams (chief counsel) and representation of Australian government internationally.
• eight years’ experience providing consulting services on public sector legal policy issues including health regulation, justice system reform, privacy and information management and social policy.
  
  

IAN HIGGINBOTTOM
Leadership, Management and Collaboration Expert

Ian is committed to positively perturbing the thinking of managers and senior executives, empowering them to cultivate highly effective working relationships, foster high-performing teams, and nurture cultures of well-being where people thrive.

Approach

Ian employs a respectful and permission-based approach to help you elevate your self-awareness, get fresh perspectives on challenges, generate new possibilities, and drive action that yields new results. He specialises in helping you develop the conversational competencies essential for effective collaboration, management, and leadership. He will draw from his extensive experience as a business leader, executive, and community developer, as well as his fourteen years of coaching experience to serve your learning and growth.

Expertise

Ian's areas of expertise include helping people to:

• Build leadership, management, and collaboration skills.
• Develop an effective leadership presence.
• Get work delivered without surprises by making and managing commitments.
• Build high-quality working relationships and have ‘difficult’ conversations.
• Cultivate self-confidence and manage self-doubt.
  
  

Accreditations

Ian is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. He has a Graduate Diploma in Ontological coaching and certifications from the Institute for Generative Leadership in Coaching Excellence in Organisations. He is also a trained conflict coach.

Professional experience

Ian’s diverse professional experience includes –

• Fourteen years of coaching executives and managers in government departments and corporations in leadership, collaboration, influential communication nd conflict resolution. He has delivered leadership and collaboration training workshops to executive teams, and productivity and efficiency training to senior executives.
• Ian embarked on his career as an introverted scientist before founding a cooperative housing development and a successful software start-up that is now a global leader in a scientific niche. Under Ian's leadership, the company evolved from a three-associate team to a venture capital partnership with a staff of sixty.
• Ian has a background in science and worked for fifteen years as a scientist with the Australian Antarctic Division and CSIRO.