Coaching Engaging Leaders

We’ve been helping leaders tap into their potency and create engaging leadership styles that are real, and reflect who they are as a person and a leader of others. Our style is eclectic and person-centred, ensuring that the results are sustainable.

Our team is able to support face to face or remote coaching around the globe, and have experience coaching in over 20 countries around the world.

Our Approach

Our coaching is confidential and personalised. Coaching sessions are held regularly; fortnightly to monthly and usually for two hours per session. Most sessions are held remotely as our coachees are spread around the globe. Our coaching assignments are generally between 3 and six months in duration.

Each assignment is different. We tailored the development to the individual, and the focus may be on one or more of the following areas:

Leadership effectiveness & engagement
Enhanced performance
Interpersonal communication
Work/life balance
Building confidence and resilience
Career and 'next step' coaching

Our Coaches

Our coaches are experienced leaders and bring depth to the coaching relationship and the coaching conversation. We coach locally in person and remotely, having a coaching client base spread around the world. Our core coaching team includes:

David Morley

Sydney Based

David is an experienced leadership and executive coach, and has conducted hundreds of coaching assignments for some of the worlds largest firms over the last twenty years.

David has worked with organisations across a wide variety of industries in the areas of M&A cultural alignment, culture change, engagement, multi-national collaboration, business transformation and leadership development. He has also led Learning and Development and Organisational Development functions for global organisations such as the Avis Budget Group and Thales.

David brings a spotlight in the coaching relationship to help the coachee develop an engaging leadership style in large, complex and multi-national leadership settings. He specialises in expat/global leadership, culture and change leadership, group/team coaching and overall leadership potency and performance development.

Irrespective of the country or countries involved, or the assignment, David is known for his ability to develop engagement in a way that allows people and organisations to tap into their natural potency and achieve results.

Marie Beaupre

Coaching Languages: French and English
Coaches in Paris (f2f) and globally (virtual)

Marie is an executive coach with an HR background with 15 years experience in management committees as a HR Director. She has had the privilege to work with great and visionary leaders like Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) or Antoine Riboud (founder of the Danone Group). Marie has learned early in her career how to become a business partner for these leaders and how to translate a global strategy or vision into concrete and sustainable actions.

Her skills drove her career into companies that had to face the following specific challenges:

Huge development stakes (Microsoft)
Launch and industrialisation phases (Amazon.com)
Transition management from a French traditional company to a competitive international group, growing internally and externally

Solving every single one of these challenges has led her to work with management teams from all over Europe, the United States, North Africa and Asia.

Through these experiences, Marie has developed a real passion for individual and team coaching. As a Neuro-Change Solutions certified consultant, Marie has developed interest in neurosciences and uses it to increase people’s vision and resilience.

Daria Williamson

Auckland Based
Daria is the New Zealand partner of Ponte Valle and experienced leadership, business and organisational culture consultant and coach.

Daria has worked in a wide variety of industries across customer service management, process improvement, leadership development, business assurance, change management, and organisational and personal capability development.

She brings to the coaching relationship an analytic mindset with a strong customer orientation, helping her coachees gain insights on how to transform their culture and processes to deliver a better customer experience.

Her keen sense of adventure has taken her to live in Brazil and Italy, giving her firsthand experience of the challenges and joys of navigating different cultures and languages. She uses this experience to support her clients to understand themselves and those around them, develop effective strategies to foster teamwork and communication, and deliver results.

Daria is known for her positive and engaging approach, inspiring individuals and teams to embrace change and make the most of every opportunity. She is passionate about partnering with clients to build leadership and interpersonal capability and transform organisational culture and processes to deliver sustainable improvements and measurable results.

Elena Kingston-Bedford

Brisbane-based

Elena has spent the last 20 years coaching and mentoring supporting dedicated and passionate leaders and their teams to help progress the tough “people stuff”. She has a keen eye for potential and an almost insatiable appetite for cultivating and transforming something strong into something superb.

Before transitioning into full time coaching and consulting, Elena held senior people and culture leadership roles and previously sat on the board for a not-for-profit. She has led multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a range of leading strategies to improve performance and build constructive workplace cultures. She regularly works with executives and leadership teams to ignite new thinking, improve adaptability and facilitate deeper interpersonal connections and organisational alignment.

Her clients and prior teams value the energy and enthusiasm she brings to each engagement. They recognise her use of realistic optimism and coaching as effective tools for delivering the right result at the right time. She promotes the importance of leaders feeling inspired, connected, and empowered so they create an environment where their teams thrive, and their customers rave about them.

Elena is committed to her own growth and development. She has a Bachelor of Arts, with majors in Sociology and Professional Communications, a Graduate Diploma in Management and a significant number of certifications and qualifications that enhance her expertise including Advanced DISC, Team Management Systems (TMS), Human Synergistics (LSI, GSI, LI), Genesys Psychometric Tool Accreditation, Visual Friends Facilitation, Organisational Coaching (IECL) and Neuroscience based Advanced Coach Training.

Ross Nicol

Newcastle/Sydney Based

Ross has over 20 years experiencing coaching leaders at all levels of an organisation, developing and coaching 100s of leaders and seeing many attain more senior positions.

As a leadership and executive coach, Ross brings a commitment to hold space and supports personal reflection and insight based in ‘on-the-job’ understanding of personal change and leadership action. Ross has debriefed over 500 people in Human Synergistics, Life Style Inventory. He has worked with leaders from diverse backgrounds including with indigenous leaders on the KARI Leadership Program and as part of the Community Leadership Program run by Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies. He is in his fourth year as a volunteer coach for Homeward Bound, a year long development program for up to 100 women leaders from around the world working in STEMM areas.
Ross is accredited in a range of instruments and undertaken further development in leadership and coaching:

Life Style Inventory – Human Synergistics
Leadership Coaching – David Rock and NeuroLeadership Institute
Team Management Profile – Team Management Systems
Myer-Briggs Type Indicator – CPP Asia Pacific
DISC profiling tool - Human Synergistics

Ross holds both a Master of Adult Education (UTS) and a Master of Sociology (UNSW).

Speak with us today to learn more about the ways we can help you, or the leaders in your business, enhance the way they lead for engagement.