Leadership & Administration

David Morley
Managing Director

David is the Managing Director of Ponte Valle and Hofstede Insights Australasia.  Ponte Valle is a consultancy that focuses on global collaboration, leadership engagement and matrix optimization. In partnership with Hofstede Insights, he leads culture-related consulting and coaching assignments for some of the worlds largest firms.
 
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.
 
He also brings a depth of experience and success in leading international teaming and collaboration projects in many countries including Germany, France, England, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, the United States, South Africa, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia and Romania.

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Nancy Morley
Director 

Nancy is the co-founder of Ponte Valle, and a director of Hofstede Insights Australasia, sharing responsibility for the strategic direction of both organisations, along with ensuring the business has the structures and systems in place to support our global client base. 

​Nancy brings to the business a diverse range of experience with a background spanning education administration, safety culture consulting, Registered Training Organisation management, finance and accounting management.  Part of Nancy’s drive in setting up Ponte Valle is her belief in continuous individual development and the drive to help people reach their potential at work and at home; and this is evident throughout the overall way in which Ponte Valle interacts with partners, contractors, clients and suppliers alike.  

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See our Partners in Delivery below.

Melanie Drew
Finance and Project Administrator
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Melanie is the Finance & Project Administrator for Ponte Valle and Hofstede Insights Australasia, overseeing the full range of accounts functions.  In addition to this, Melanie provides a wide range of project support including the administration of online assessment tools, coordinating and arranging workshops and providing client support for the global Ponte Valle client base.  Prior to this role, Melanie held a range of roles in the hospitality sector ranging from shift supervisor, financial management, function/event management.  Outside of work, Melanie enjoys travel and spending quality time with her family.  Melanie holds a Bachelor of Business (Human Resources Development) and Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Newcastle.

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Partners in Delivery

Elena Kingston-Bedford
​Australian Partner Executive Coach, Consultant and Facilitator
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Elena has spent the last 20 years advising, coaching, mentoring and working alongside 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. 
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 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. 

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Ross Nicol
​Australian Partner Executive Coach, Consultant and Facilitator
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Ross is an organisational development and learning professional with over 20 years of experience in public, private and NGO organisations.  He has delivered frontline to senior leadership programs across Australia and in Asia/Pacific, developing and coaching 100s of leaders and seeing many attain more senior positions. Ross has designed many senior leadership programs for global and local organisations, and delivered NSW Health’s Clinical Leadership Program for four years, and brings strong expertise in culture change and people engagement having developed culture and people                                                                              engagement plans in multiple organisations.

As a leadership and executive coach with 20 years of experience, 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 

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

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Jane Sayabath
​Australian Partner Coach, Consultant and Facilitator
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Jane is a commercially focused Change Manager and Coach with over 15 years of experience in strategic HR roles across heavy industries, engineering and construction. She believes the key to successful leadership is leading with authenticity and works with executive leaders to improve performance by defining and leveraging their individual strengths and drivers.   With a genuine passion for people, Jane adds value not just in the area of coaching, but also in employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, and developing senior leadership capabilities to create high-performing teams. 

As a Change Manager, Jane harnesses this strategic yet people-first approach to deliver results. She leveraged these skills in her previous role as a client-facing Strategic Business Partner and Coach, with her key project in gaining global recognition from the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) for innovation in contract and commercial management.
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Jane has experience in greenfield and brownfield operations across the UK, Asia, West Africa, Australia and New Zealand markets. Her areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, organisational and cultural change, integration of teams, leadership and organisational development, capability building, and continuous improvement.
Jane holds a Bachelor of Communication (Public Relations and Communication and Culture) and is also a qualified Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner and Change Manager.

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Marie Beaupré
​European Partner
Executive Coach, Consultant & Facilitator


​Marie has 20 years of management committee experience as a HR Director, and has had the privilege of working with visionary leaders such as Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) and Antoine Riboud (founder of the Danone Group). In each of these situations she translated global vision into concrete, sustainable actions and to anticipate the individual and systemic effects of change.
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Her skills  drove her career into companies that had to face the following specific challenges:

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

Through these experiences, Marie has developed a real passion for team leadership and people development and had the chance to work with management teams from all over Europe, the United States, North Africa and  Asia (Thailand).

Ten years ago, Marie created her own company and delivers coaching and training for management teams, targeting both collective and individual accomplishments, in order to unleash collective intelligence. The NCS program based on neurosciences, executive coaching and mindfulness practice is one of her main methods to coach transformation and develop leadership skills like awareness, decision making, vision and anticipation, communication, and metacognition.
 
Marie brings a strong Humanist Foundation and the conviction that people can grow, change and enrich their skills and achievements. This includes an “ecologic approach“ of the human being, that respects specificities, strengths, weaknesses, identity and values of each person.

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​Carmen Lam
Hong Kong Partner​
Performance Coach and Organisational Development Consultant

Carmen leverages her branding, marketing and customer experience management background to help organisations attain and sustain competitive advantage and maximise business opportunities in the digital era. She has led the regional and functional teams of some of the most global luxury hospitality and real estate companies in the world including the Shangri-La Group, the InterContinental Hotels Group, the Accor Group and Ananda Development in Thailand to brand dominance and digital transformation. She is based in Hong Kong and has lived and worked in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand as well as North America.

​Carmen believes the future of work requires everyone to be equipped with multidisciplinary skillsets and a growth mindset. She is certified as an Exponential Organisations Coach, a Hofstede Insights Inter-cultural Management Consultant, a Hofstede Insights Organisational Culture Consultant, a Matrix Management Consultant, and is well-versed with design thinking and agile methods. She holds an MBA from Western University Ivey School of Business and a Doctorate from the School of Hotel and Tourism Management of the HK Polytechnic University.

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​Daria Williamson
​New Zealand Partner
​Strengths Coach, Leadership and Organisational Culture Consultant

Daria is an experienced leader, manager, and consultant, based in Auckland, New Zealand. She has over 15 years of experience in leadership and management roles across a variety of industries. Her areas of practice include leadership and organisational development, capability building, and continuous improvement.
 
She has a keen ability to identify the critical connections between business processes, outputs and people, and listens closely to her clients in order to tailor an approach that supports individuals, teams, and organisations in achieving and exceeding their goals.
 
Daria’s style is positive, engaging, and inspirational. She believes in taking a “fully human” approach to her work, engaging hearts and minds in the transformation effort. She holds a Master of Management in Human Resources Management (with Distinction) from Massey University.

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