Christine Welsh

Locations (local) where you are happy to work Sydney – all areas, regional NSW.
5 key words/short phrases to describe your coaching style – what can a client expect from you?
  1. Supportive
  2. Provides respectful and realistic feedback
  3. Intelligent questioning
  4. Creates a safe space in which the client can imagine, plan and achieve
  5. Sensitive and intuitive
5 key words/short phrases to describe you as a person, your personality
  1. Warm-hearted and nurturing
  2. Astute,a good judge of character and down-to-earth
  3. Respectful
  4. A strategic and creative thinker
  5. A great sense of humour and fun
Key Professional experience, strengths, & achievements you bring to coaching I have had a successful career in business, government and not-for-profit organisations. An accredited mediator, credentialed coach and trained conflict coach, I specialise in all facets of people management, training, personal and business coaching, mediation, investigations, policy review, development and implementation.

I facilitate businesses and individuals to develop clarity and purpose, cultivating resilience and the ability to constructively manage, learn and grow from conflict and change.

I use my life and work experience, education and tools from appreciative enquiry, positive psychology and other schools of thought to provide my client with a practical, supportive and effective experience.
What are your coaching strength areas?
  1. Facilitating hope and optimism
  2. Supporting behavioural change
  3. Knowing when to listen and when to speak
  4. Intuitive and powerful questioning
  5. Respecting my client’s skills and experience
Industry experience Education, Legal, Environmental, Community, Transport, Insurance, Public Sector and not-for-profit
Describe your personal style I’m a person who puts others at their ease. I quickly see the big picture, the practicalities, the possibilities. I work closely with my clients, finding out what works best for them, supporting and gently pushing them to their goals.
Qualifications (coaching, training, other professional & relevant qualifications) I’m a life-long learner, an avid participant in study, courses and conferences, grabbing any opportunity to learn. I commenced tertiary studies in my thirties, studying law, chemistry, business and dispute resolution.

I am an International Coach Federation credentialled coach; a LEADR accredited mediator; a trained conflict coach; completing a Masters in Dispute Resolution at UTS; Certificate IV in Workplace Training & Assessment; trained at Harvard Law School completing the Program on Negotiation.

To ensure my continuing professional development and standards, I am a member of a number of organisations including the International Coach Federation; LEADR Association of Dispute Resolvers; International Positive Psychology Association; American Bar Association; Australian Human Resources Institute.
What makes you a good coach?
  1. My ethical behaviour and honesty with myself and my client
  2. Sense of humour
  3. Common sense
  4. Compassion
  5. Being an excellent listener
  6. Broad life experience
  7. My professionalism and knowing my limits
What sort of people do you work best with? I work well with anyone who wishes to make a change in their life, regardless of their professional level.
Key Personal experience/strengths/achievements you bring to coaching I spent my teenage and young adult years in the far west of NSW, where I married and had one child – a son, who now has two boys of his own

My first job was as a governess on a sheep station near Cobar NSW – I was 15 and in charge of three children aged 9, 11 and 13. I loved that experience, where I learned not only how to teach, but how to build fences, shear sheep and ride motorbikes.

In my thirties I moved to Sydney where I started a new career in the public sector, working in a human rights organisation as a mediator/conciliator, achieving very high rates of dispute resolution.

Since then I’ve changed career a number of times, moving up to management level but always following my heart and my interest.
Hobbies / Interests outside of work Music, singing; swimming; meditation; reading; motorbike racing