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Geraldene is an exceptional executive coach and has coached me personally over the past 8 years, as well as coaching many other senior leaders in universities across Australia. She is seasoned in all aspects of leadership, culture and organisational dynamics and has helped me to navigate a whole myriad of opportunities and challenges throughout my career. Her supportive, insightful and level-headed style has brought out the best in me, and the many other leaders she works with. For our organisation, Geraldene is one of our “go-to” senior coaches and has proven to be a great match for a diverse range of leaders (both academic and professional).

Geraldine has really helped me to build my confidence as a leader and to gain a greater understanding of my strengths and how to use them. Her insights, coaching and support has been fantastic both professionally and personally. She is a supportive, engaging, knowledgeable and empathetic coach.

Geraldene has been of great help to me over my career, providing insight and wisdom on navigating the relationships and politics of business. I highly recommend her as a business coach.

She is a refreshingly skilful practitioner.  Her energy is focused on professional needs, rather than a clinical paradigm and her approach to coaching is directional, firm, candid, focused on positive behavioural outcomes, yet compassionate.

Geraldene is a brilliant executive and leadership coach. I have been her client over a number of years and she has helped me to navigate a number of extremely complex professional situations, to identify and grow my strengths, to understand my own motivations and responses as well as those of others, and to set and follow a senior leadership path. She is highly intelligent and empathic but also wise and firm. Geraldene challenges and walks with you as you develop in skill, insight and self-belief. It's been a pleasure and a privilege to work with her within my University setting and I know that many other colleagues across my institution and beyond reap the same benefits of working with Geraldene.

My career and life before meeting Geraldene was great, but not the best it could be. She pushed me through boundaries I had put on myself that I was not even aware of, and gave me the confidence to pursue excellence. I am far better for having met Geraldene and would recommend her to anyone interested in being the best they can be.

Geraldene was a highly effective executive coach and mentor. Her experience and insight on leadership and management was incredibly beneficial, and she assisted me analyse and diagnose the roadblocks to my career path and satisfaction. Ultimately I made a career choice and secured a highly sought after and competitive position.

I’ve been lucky enough to have been able to work with Geraldene on and off over the years. Geraldene has always been a beacon of light, an enabler of insight and clarity and someone who has balanced the art of having a difficult conversation while creating a safe environment. Her coaching over the years has been incredibly important to the decisions I have made, my professionalism and career trajectory. Geraldene is a real asset in the coaching space.

Geraldene Callanan is a superb executive coach. She is empathic, insightful and brings a wealth of professional experience to her role. I have recommended her to other valued colleagues on many occasions.

Geraldene Callanan is a terrific coach.  She is clear-sighted, frank and brutally practical, but also highly sensitive to the human and performative dimensions of management.  It was through this combination of skills that she helped to turn what could have been a damaging and morale-sapping process of major workplace change into an exercise that left our Faculty more coherent, more confident and more collegial.