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

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

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.

Suzanne Wall

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

Suzanne is an Executive Coach and Human Resources leader with a diverse background in science and industry and a passion for people development, business transformation and positive personal change.

Suzanne has lived and worked in Australia, New Zealand, France and the United States where she has partnered with organisations across a wide variety of industries including ICT, engineering and professional services.

Suzanne brings a depth of experience in individual and team capability development, change management, cultural awareness, culture change and organisational transformation. She has a track record of success in leading the global Human Resources and Organisational Development functions for both small and large multinational organisations.

Suzanne is known for her ability to develop and deliver solutions that drive sustainable personal and business results.

Daria Williamson

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

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.

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.

Chika Miyamori

Coaching Languages: Japanese, English, French, Spanish
Coaches in Chicago or Tokyo (f2f) and globally (virtual)

Chika is a senior facilitator, coach and consultant of Ponte Valle and the founder of Hofstede Insights Japan.

With more than 25 years of experiences as a leader of corporate communications and public affairs at HP and GE in Japan, Chika led various multi-cultural/cross functional projects. She worked with people from 50 + nationalities. Being aware of the impacts of cultures on people and organisations, she brings a depth of experiences and provides consulting, facilitation and coaching for multinational institutions and global professionals in countries like Japan, the United States, the UK, Spain, France, Germany, Slovakia , Singapore and Thailand. Chika’s style is to known to help individuals and teams to collaborate effectively in diverse national and organisational cultural contexts.

Qualifications
•Master facilitator of Hofstede models for National and Organizational Culture
•Cultural Intelligence (CQ) / Unconscious Bias certified facilitator
•Organizational Relationship and System (ORSC) trained coach
•Gallup Certified Strength coach
•Total Leadership Circle certified practitioner
•Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC) certified practitioner

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.