Career

Michael is an experienced and accomplished professional consultant, coach and facilitator who has worked and researched in the area of human and organisational potential for over 20 years. A former CEO, he works closely with corporate leaders and executives as a trusted confidante and thought partner to facilitate and support them in further developing the personal and organisational capacities and resilience that underpin professional achievement and business performance.

He has a deep passion for working with individuals and teams who are focused on developing their capacities, understanding and effectiveness along with organisations wishing to improve the value and quality of their human capital and culture. Michael helps bring to life, powerfully and sustainably, the creative best within leaders and teams in ways that are empowering, results driven and transformative.

Michael particularly enjoys partnering with clients during the coaching engagement to enable, grow and integrate multiple leadership literacies and meta-cognitive capacities in areas such as relational and emotional intelligence, authenticity, self-awareness, systems awareness, personal effectiveness and “executive wisdom”.

He suggests our “mind” determines the quality of ones being and functionality at the level of an individual organism by its ability (or not) to regulate and manage the flow of information and energy within and in its relationship to the external environment. This process results in the introduction (more often unconsciously) into the organism; neural, energetic and somatic structures that reflect an “embodied” mindset. In much the same way business leaders and executives may be considered the “corporate mind” of an organisation.

Michael essentially works with the neuroplasticity of the “corporate mind” to assist organisations improve professional and business performance across multiple levels. Working with leaders in this context engages their ability to consciously develop themselves and their capacity to better create, manage and influence the organisational conditions that enable the systemic embodiment of positive collective values, beliefs and attitudes (culture) and the accompanying internal structures, processes and systems that underpin superior business performance and the creative use of resources and capabilities.

By adopting a systemic business lens to focus on the key drivers that fuel results in both business and human contexts, Michael aims to support the ability of leaders and teams to meet the challenges of post-modern complexity, uncertainty and change in order to remain engaged, resilient and responsive in pursuit of sustainable performance, mission and profitability

Sector Experience

• Energy
• Resources
• Construction
• Financial Services
• Professional Services
• Hospitality
• Property
• Professional Sport

Recent Client Experience

• Leadership Development: Design and delivery of a Senior Leadership Development Program for a Professional Services organisation. It included facilitation of residential workshops for over forty participants and one on one leadership coaching over a 12-month period. The results helped develop the required leadership capacities to grow from a national, to one that now operates from a global platform in multiple offshore locations.
• Executive Coaching: Coaching at CEO and board level within the hospitality industry. Emerging from the process was the strategic design and implementation of a major cultural change program. It included redefining the organisational vision, mission and values and cascading this down through one on one leadership coaching and team building workshops. The program helped transform the organisation and resulted in significantly higher levels of employee retention, customer satisfaction and experience, and improved business profitability.
  Other areas of expertise include:
  • Vision, mission and meaning (engagement and alignment)
  • Change Management
  • Group facilitation and teamwork

Qualifications and Accreditations

• Master of Business Administration (MBA-Distinction, UOW)
• Master of Business Coaching (MBC-Distinction, UOW)
• Accredited Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher (UOM)
• Graduate Certificate of Adult Education- Training (UTS)
• Certificate of Somatic Psychotherapy
• Accredited Leadership Circle Practitioner
  

Interests

• Team Sports
• Neuroscience and Psychology
• Human Dynamics
• Politics
• Nature and Health
• Spirituality
• Family and Community

Recent Social Initiatives

• Director and Board member of a local regional Community and Sporting organisation of over 20,000 members.
• Creation and ongoing development of a national “shared value” social initiative.
• One on one mentoring and “internal” coaching of an elite professional sportsman (NRL), which resulted in improved, and consistent performance, an extended contract and a “grand final” winners ring.
• Research into global consciousness and leadership development
• Team Leader for the National Pathways Foundation- (Leadership and Rite of passage programs for adolescents transitioning into adulthood)