| Locations (local) where you are happy to work |
Sydney (Northern Beaches, CBD, Eastern Suburbs) |
| 5 key words/short phrases to describe your coaching style – what can a client expect from you? |
- Personable
- Down to earth, rationale and logical
- Honest – No non-sense
- Caring and accepting
- Professional
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| 5 key words/short phrases to describe you as a coach |
- Determined
- Well balanced
- Attention to details
- Committed
- Fit and healthy
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| Key Professional experience, strengths, & achievements you bring to coaching |
- Started as a Management Consultant for Booz Allen in New York. Involved on a broad range of strategic, operational and organisational projects for a variety of clients from small businesses to Fortune 500 Companies as well as US Government Agencies.
- Created detailed financial models to assess the five-year after-launch profitability for a new product for a large US food company.
- Developed a growth strategy for a small custom premiums/promotions company.
- Managed 25-person team that designed the Internal Revenue Service (US Tax agency) Communications division as part of a major IRS modernisation project.
- Participated in several customer service improvement programs, in particular led a “bottom-up” process and facilitated over 25 focus-groups to assess improvement opportunities for a leading French magazine publisher that helped revealed ~$10M potential savings.
- Explored new business development opportunities for a Direct Marketing company and evaluated different potential partnerships.
- Designed and implemented accounting procedures and financial controls for Onyx NZ Ltd a waste management subsidiary of Vivendi Environment, a global French Conglomerate.
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| What are your coaching strength areas? |
- Business strategies and development
- Business process and procedures
- People development
- Project management – Implementation
- Life coaching
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| Industry experience |
Management Consulting, Direct Marketing, Consumer Products, Publishing, Financial Services, Small Business |
| Describe your personal coaching style |
- People person
- Structured and rational
- Detail orientated
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| Qualifications (coaching, training, other professional & relevant qualifications) |
- Certified Coach, Results Coaching System, Sydney.
- MBA, Entrepreneurial Major, HEC Paris (Leading French Business School. Ranked 1st European Business School by the Financial Times for the third year in a row).
- BA in Economics and Finance, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.
- Business Law Degree, University La Sorbonne, Paris.
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| What makes you a good coach? |
I’m very personable and can build rapport with people from the first encounter. I’m great at challenging existing assumptions and stretching people’s minds to help them find new approaches to existing issues. My consulting years have taught me that any issues can have a solution provided you break it down in baby steps and that you have a plan to approach it in a systematic way. I’m very down to earth and logical and am good at spotting “grey areas”. I’m encouraging but will always say things as they really are. |
| What sort of people do you work best with? |
- Anybody that is really committed to finding solutions to their challenges whether business or personal!
- Small to mid -size businesses owners or managers looking at firming up their structure, organization or direction.
- People that need help bringing focus and structure in their business or life.
- People looking for balance and harmony in their everyday lives and/or looking to go back to work.
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| Key Personal experience/strengths/achievements you bring to coaching |
- Married with 2 little children.
- Raised, lived and worked in 5 different countries.
- Moved 7 times in 6 years, including one cross continent move.
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| Are you happy to coach over the phone? |
Yes |
| Hobbies / Interests outside of work |
- Swimming and beach training
- Running – ran the Sydney Half-Marathon in 2008
- Travelling
- Photography
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