Ricky Nowak CSP, CEOI, CAHRI

Ricky is a highly versatile and intuitive leader, speaker and executive coach specialising in working with high-performance individuals, teams and organisations through APAC and EMEA regions. She is a true champion of leaders helping them dramatically increase their influence, build their internal and external networks and personal brand. Ricky is committed to helping clients enhance their reputation, improve their short- and long-term career objectives while maintaining their focus on wellbeing.

She is an Executive Coach for the AICD, is a Certified Human Resource Professional, Presenter for Brave Feminine Leadership Group, Advisory and Mentoring (Singapore) The CEO Institute and Hargraves Institute of Innovation. She is one of only 98 Australian women to obtain the global Certified Speaking Professional Accreditation and is certified by the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Coaching Group. Ricky has thousands of hours of practical experience working with managers and leaders in professional services and 30 years of experience in education and leadership development. She has authored four leadership books and is a well-known Media resource and commentator.

Focus Areas

• Helping managers and leaders build their personal and professional brand and network
• Enabling people to better manage and understand the impact of their behaviour and habits to ensure improved relationships
• To help drive better and more effective conversations more simply and easily making communication clearer.

Suzanne Mercier

Suzanne is a performance catalyst working with business leaders to help them recognise and develop their potential. She is considered Australia’s expert on identifying and moving beyond limiting mindsets including the Imposter Syndrome, a key barrier to performance. Her focus on setting clear outcomes and pathways forward including dismantling barriers have led to significant shifts in self-leadership, transformational leadership, employee engagement, client service, culture, performance and bottom line. As the first woman on the Board of George Patterson Advertising, she understands the journey up the career ladder and working at the highest levels.

Focus Areas

• Explore how your current mindset at work supports your success or stands in its way, and tools to shift to a more effective growth mindset
• Developing career vision and task mastery goals to create solid steps towards achievement
• Enhancing influence to effectively handle challenging situations, engage others in achieving common goals, maximise connection and high performance

Teresa Curman

Teresa’s 20+ years’ experience in senior national, regional and global business development roles, in the professional services sector, gives her a deep understanding of the systemic goal attainment enablers and constraints faced by her coaching clients. Complementing her lived experience is her toolbox of coaching psychology frameworks, analytics, and models that she draws upon to co-create bespoke coaching engagements. Teresa’s clients can look forward to a coaching space that is supportive yet energising, delivers insights, and builds the self-efficacy required for goal attainment and well-being in the workplace and beyond.

Teresa has a MSc in Coaching Psychology (University of Sydney) and is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC). She has an MBA (AGSM) and is accredited in The Leadership Circle and Strengths Profile.

Focus Areas

• Sustainable peak performance (existing role, promotion, or new position). Set the right goals, engage with values and purpose, cultivate a helpful mindset, and leverage internal and external resources to build self-belief, mental toughness, grit and resilience. Positive psychology interventions replenish energy levels to protect against burnout.
• Interpersonal skills (leadership and teamwork). Discover and practice leadership behaviours deemed most effective in research. Understand the interplay of task and relational factors in teams, and how to harness diversity and build trust and psychological safety.

Sheila Vijeyarasa

Sheila Vijeyarasa is a High-Performance Coach, helping business leaders to step into the full potential. She works with emerging leaders and senior managers, to clear their limiting beliefs and address common blocks including burnout, perfectionism and imposter syndrome. After decades of leading and leadership training, she has an enormous tool kit of high performance habits, confidence hacks and communication tips to deal with challenging staff and difficult conversations.

Sheila Vijeyarasa has walked in your leadership path. She believes that with the right visionary mentor, your success is evitable. She holds an MBA (with Distinction) and has held multiple positions as a Finance and Commercial Director. She has trained with The Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership and is a qualified NLP practitioner, Inner Child Therapist and is a Trauma Informed Facilitator. Sheila’s internationally bestselling book, Brave: Courageously Live Your Truth has been described as a ‘comprehensive spiritual guide book’ for the conscious corporate leader.

Focus Areas

• Overcoming burnout, imposter syndrome and the need to be perfect. Accelerating your time management skills and energy levels.
• Developing your career vision, creating an action-oriented master plan and putting into practice energetic tools to ensure success.
• Building your influence at work to becoming magnetic and an effective and inspirational leader.
• Developing resilience to handle challenging situations, conversations. Thriving in your career when a company is going through a challenging time.