Corporate Coaches & Psychologists

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Insight Initiatives Pty Ltd

ACN 089 087 623

Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

Call (+61) (0)2 9918 4639

 

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Executive Coaching services are available in Sydney on your own premises, or on ours in Neutral Bay, Mona Vale or Avalon.  To book a session or discuss programs, call:

0421 580 177
or
(02) 9918 4639

 

Stephanie Thompson - Director

Corporate Psychologist and Executive Coach

Specialisms:

  • Occupational psychometrics

  • Executive coaching and adult development

  • Removal of stress, mood and behavioural problems

  • Health and illness

BA dbl Hons (Psych & Business), C.Adult Ed.(RSA), C.Hyp.(AAH), C.Occ.Testing (numerous), C.TV Presentation

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Coaching specialties

Executive fast-tracking & development

  • Assisting intellectually capable executives with leadership and interpersonal skills, business problem-solving and career development.

Problem-solving

  • Alleviation of stress associated with the work environment, burnout, anxiety, over-diligence, cultural differences, etc.

  • Remedying disruptive behaviour, such as inappropriate anger, peer sabotage, etc.

Traversing career crossroads

  • Confidential programs to guide and support executives in taking a new career direction.

  • Outplacement counselling delivered in a respectful 'career coaching' style.

Clients

Senior executives and professionals from a variety of industries, including:

  • Banking, Insurance & Finance - Vice-president and Board level

  • Telecommunications - Director level

  • Healthcare / Medicine

  • Retail - Director level

  • Legal & professional services

  • Government - local and federal

  • Manufacturing & Engineering

  • Television, film, theatre & music

  • Not-for-Profit (NFP)
 

Business experience

Stephanie has been a Director of Insight Matters since 1999, prior to which she was Technical Director of McKenzie Consulting Group (including the pre-2000 McKenzie Carrick).  Before that she served as Saville & Holdsworth's 2IC in Singapore and SE Asia while still in her mid-twenties, thus developing her pragmatic understanding of business realities from an early age. 

She has consulted as a Corporate Psychologist and Coach for 18 years, assisting business leaders at vice-president, partnership and country-head levels with maximising their own and their staff's performance. 

Qualifications

Stephanie's tertiary education is in both Psychology and Business, from the UK.  She has also been schooled in Executive Coaching by the best in the field - the British ex-Olympic gold-medallists group who originated the concept of business coaching in the 1980s.

She has further undertaken - and herself taught - numerous occupational assessment courses, as a highly regarded psychometric specialist.  As a respected pre-employment profiler she has a reputation for an unusual depth of technical skill and objectivity when working with human characteristics in an occupational setting. 

Stephanie uses some of the very best profiling and 360°-feedback technologies to assist leaders with their professional development, career change, succession planning and team processes.   

Style

Stephanie employs a unique mix of psychological understanding and coaching methodology, which creates both quick and easily sustained change.  Hers is a sophisticated, efficient, yet deeply 'human' approach to the pursuit of business and personal outcomes.

Her style is objective, open and supportive, and makes full and respectful use of the often considerable intellects of her executive clients.  She places a great deal of emphasis on  incremental building of self- and other-awareness, assisting executives to develop an astute understanding of what makes their colleagues and staff tick, and to align their personal aspirations with the business.

Stephanie also has a great deal of experience with cross-cultural and expatriate issues, having herself worked extensively in the UK, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand, and with many US executives.

She has a particular passion for quickly alleviating stress and mood concerns in senior people, who often feel under inordinate pressure to appear unaffected by what are in fact ubiquitous human experiences. 

Achievements

  • Coached 'Big Six' executives, vice-president level for MasterCard and board level for a leading Australian bank.

  • Designed and lead the delivery of AMP's Leadership Development Centre, rated by every participant (70+) as "..better than any leadership development program AMP has ever run."

  • Headed up R&D for the elite profiling suite Qualia, subsequently rated in Pacific Consulting's research as "..the best tool available for getting behavioural change.." .

  • Trained assessors and facilitated HSBC's Management Development Centres in Australia - the first person outside of Hong Kong ever selected to do so.

Speaking & media highlights

  • Featured speaker at the Australian Screen Directors Association (ASDA) 2004 conference, 'Psychology of Performance'.

  • Invited speaker for the Business Women's Breakfast Series, 'What Makes People Tick'.

  • Author of the Instant WiZdom series, featured by the 2Day FM Morning Crew.

  • Featured expert on stress for radio 2UE.

  • Adviser to journalists, e.g. Sydney Morning Herald (AU), Mail on Sunday (UK), Spotlight Magazine (Germany).


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