Executive
Coaching

When do you recommend someone opt for executive coaching?

All managers can benefit from executive coaching at any point in their career. 

Develop in Your Current Role.  Executive Coaching is aimed at developing leaders and managers in their current role. As your executive coach, I am a professional partner, ally and trusted advisor who works to enhance your performance and who can develop capability and purpose in any leader or manager.

Executive Leadership Coaching. Talent doesn’t always equate to good leadership.  However, leadership can be developed through focussed and personalised leadership coaching.  Coaching helps leaders come to understand who they are, how they operate, what unconscious values and biases drive their behaviour for success, and what gets in the way.

Transition Coaching.  Sometimes talent gets recognised with a promotion or the offer of a new role.  Suddenly you’ve gone from managing 30 to 200 people.  After the initial confidence boost, managers are often left to rely on their talent and just do the job.  As a result, they often fail.

  • Do you know what support you need and if you have the right resources in place?
  • Do you know how to prioritise and get some early runs on the board?
  • You know how to manage but do you know how to lead that many people?
  • Do you know how to make the right decisions?

I work with leaders in transition to ensure their success.  I support them to on-board into the role, get focussed, understand how to communicate, network, and define the metrics of success.

Career transition coaching supports organisations to capitalise on promotions and realise a return on investment by providing support for managers to hit the ground running and ensure their success in the role.

Benefits of Leadership Coaching:

  •  Discover where you have impact
  •  Learn to manage complexity
  •  Become more focussed
  •  Lead with purpose
  • Grow in self-belief
  •  Relate better to your colleagues
  •  Make better decisions
  •  Develop skills
  •  Achieve your targets
  •  Get promoted

Engage Geraldene as your coach:

  • Partner over 6-12 months
  • Tailor development to real-time issues
  • Make changes on the job
  • Achieve lasting and positive change
  • Experience cost-effective development
  • Experience meaningful results

What do people use coaching for?

Executives come to coaching to build confidence in their ability to do the job and to think about their future.

People usually seek Executive Coaching when they are new to a leadership role; want to think through strategy and team development issues; get clear their leadership value-add and define what kind of leader they are, and how that plays out at work and in  life.

They come when they want to find some ‘balance’ and feel overwhelmed by their day-to-day workload and want to find ways to integrate those aspects of life and work that are important to achieve their personal aspirations.

They come when they are navigating difficult working relationships, or want to understand how to network, or develop better stakeholder management skills and relationship management skills.

What do people say and like about Geraldene’s coaching?

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).

Nicole Gower, Vice President People & Services, Macquarie University, Non-Executive Director UniSuper

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.

Catharine Lumby, Journalist and Professor of Media & Communications

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.

Paul Bolinowsky, currently MD Institutional UBS

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.

Davina Lomas, General Manager Operations, Mission Australia Housing

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.

Professor Amanda Barnier, Pro Vice Chancellor Research Performance, Professor of Cognitive Science

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.

Julian Manche, Head of Finance, RSPCA NSW

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.

Dean, University of NSW

What is one thing you want prospective clients to know about your work?

My coaching is motivating and subtly life changing (pardon the cliché) through it’s directional and supportive process.  I’ve seen many clients experience transformations beyond their imaginings, and stretch to achieve results outside their comfort zone.