Hello, I’m Kellie

I am a Coach, wife,  mum to two beautiful teenage boys, oil painter, cancer survivor, garden aficionado and a crazy obsessive reader.

Prior to taking the dive into coaching and deep study into adult development, integrated sexuality, love and relationships, I had a career in the corporate sector as a leadership and organisational development expert.

I love learning and am a really curious person.  I’ve been working in the field of human development and change for 30 years.  I have been a coach for the last 14 years.  When I left university I worked in the corporate sector, in environments where there were constant change.  Large scale change tends to produce a boiling pot of human behaviour. I found myself having to coach a lot of the leaders I was working with, before I even knew what being a coach was.

I have always been fascinated as to why some people keep learning and others become stuck in old habits and patterns they just cannot seem to break out of. I see friends struggling in relationships, for example, when one person is really growing and changing and their partner is not.  I have worked with so many high achieving men and women who really struggle to be their authentic selves in the very masculine world of work because they can’t step into their feminine leadership.  People get only a glimpse of parts of the person, not their full multi-dimensional self. They know something is missing in how they live their life but they can’t quite put their finger on it.  They feel stifled and stuck often. Sound familiar?

 I was one of those women myself and my own body stopped me and told me to slow down when I experienced a random mystery illness in my early thirties. It stopped me in my tracks; I pursued body based approaches to try and heal my body.  I learned that our body has so much intelligence, if we just to listen to her. In responding to this illness and with my perspective on human behaviour, I have read voraciously, researched and taken study. I have distilled some key learnings, experimented with different approaches and kept an open mind as to what works.

I am a certified Developmental Coach and VITA™ Sexuality, Love and Relationship Coach, majoring in Women’s Empowerment and Tantric Sexuality. I have post-graduate qualifications in Complex Change and Adult Development. I have been an Executive Coach for 14 years now, working with executives in the private and public sectors and I have had a private practice as a Relationships and Life Transitions coach for 5 years. I am a somatic experiencing practitioner in training and am trauma informed in my work. I offer 1-1 coaching and online training programs where I coach and teach individuals going through these transitions. I have worked with people from all walks of life who work in a wide variety of industries. I am able to work with all my skills and knowledge learned in my trainings and implement them in a very pragmatic way that supports your well-being, growth and development. This means I’m highly credentialed to work with all aspects of you – mind, body and spirit.

 I believe humans are multi-faceted and capable of expressing the widest range of emotions through different aspects of themselves. Our conditioning has forced us to hide and disown aspects of ourselves and we adapt so we can fit into the social systems we interact within. Whether it be a family system, friendship group, work culture we shrink ourselves to fit. Ultimately my coaching and somatic work is all about lighting you up and opening you up to all the aspects of yourself, stripping off those masks you are wearing and giving you all the tools to shine in the world.

I’m focused on how you think, what you feel and what you do, really giving you a strong ability to be aware of your thoughts and feelings and the expression of those within your body.  I love seeing people thrive and become really comfortable in themselves and proudly shout out to the world who they are. I love seeing them learn to embrace their weirdness and truly understand that it is their strength and to let their weird fly.

If you are curious to explore coaching, please book a free clarity call with me by clicking on the link below. In the clarity call we can talk about what you would like to explore in coaching and get a feel for each other and see if we are a good match to work together.

Kellie

My qualifications and experience

I have a Bachelor of Business (HR and Industrial Relations) from RMIT University and a Master of Applied Commerce (Organisational Change) from the University of Melbourne.

I have 30 years of work experience in the corporate sector in both boutique and global consulting firms and corporates working in organisational development, leadership and executive development, and merger and acquisitions.  I have both worked in and consulted in start-up, mid-sized and mature large global companies across a range of industries including Financial Services, Oil and Gas, FMCG, Retail, Manufacturing, Public Health, and Public sector (government departments and statutory authorities).

I have had my private practice for 6 years focusing on relationship and life transitions coaching and more recently somatic work to help people resolve trauma in their bodies. My special interest in trauma work is in women’s health.

My coaching qualifications cover Development Coaching, Systemic Coaching (Lectica/Professor Theo Dawson 2014-2015 and Otto Laske 2011-2013)  and Sexuality, Love and Relationships (VITA™ Layla Martin 2018-2019).  I have completed further training in the use of many psychometric tools (Hogan, SHL, The Leadership Circle) and pursued further training in Systems thinking (2012),  Breathwork (BBTRS 2019), Creating Safer Space (Shelby Leigh 2018), Narrative therapy (2013), Grief and holding collective grief with Francis Weller (2022).  I am currently an advanced student in the Somatic Experiencing practitioner professional training. I participate in ongoing coaching supervision for my coaching work.