Experience

Alex’s coaching expertise is complemented by his extensive experience in leadership roles as an executive director, general manager and marketing manager in a large, multinational insurance company. This hands-on experience provides his coaching clients with the assurance that he can relate to and empathise with their challenges as well as share relevant stories, techniques and perspectives to support, guide and assist them.

Alex’s leadership journey included being a member of a high-level team responsible for developing and implementing strategies for growth, customer retention and service excellence on the one hand, while also identifying and developing talent management and succession planning strategies. This holistic experience has helped shape Alex’s underlying belief in the importance of combining the science of management with the art of leadership.

Alex is experienced in delivering executive coaching, facilitated workshops and team interventions in areas including leadership development, culture and change management, team building, team effectiveness, vision building and strategy planning and implementation.

His focus is on increasing the capability and performance of leaders and their teams.

He uses a supportive and encouraging coaching style to assist his clients in dealing with change, coping with uncertainty and ambiguity, influencing people (staff and stakeholders), setting and implementing objectives and plans, communicating effectively and with confidence, becoming a more visionary and inspirational leader, leading through restructures, managing mergers and acquisitions, building stronger teams and coping with stress and achieving work/life balance.

Alex has worked with a diverse range of clients across various industry sectors, in Australia and internationally, including insurance, finance, banking, law, mining, health, retail, hospitality, and government.

 

Coaching qualifications

• Advanced Coaching Skills Certificate, University of Sydney, 2005
• Accredited facilitator, The Pacific Institute’s “Investment in Excellence” program

Business qualifications and business experience (selected)

• Higher Diploma in Tax Law, University of Witwatersrand, 1983
• Bachelor of Commerce, University of Witwatersrand, 1979
• Bachelor of Laws, University of Witwatersrand, 1981
• Executive Director, Auto and General Insurance & Hotline Administrative Services
• Regional Manager, Auto and General Insurance
• General Manager, Hotline Administrative Services
• Tax Consultant, Price Waterhouse

Selected client organisations

Clients include: BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Western Power, Cape Plc, Murdoch University, Allens Arthur Robinson, South Australia Health, The Department for Community Development WA, Modern Terminals (Hong Kong), HACTL (Hong Kong), Mundipharma (Singapore), The Paramount Group of Hotels (UK), Westpac, Bank West, MLC, St George Bank, WorkCover Queensland.

Registrations, Memberships and Affiliations

• Project Director and accredited facilitator, The Pacific Institute

Instrument Accreditations

Conflict Dynamic Profile (CDP 360), Denison Culture and Leadership instruments, Hogan Leadership Inventories, Life Styles Inventory (LSI), Group Style Inventory (GSI), Organisational Cultural Inventory (OCI), Organisational Effectiveness Inventory (OEI), Leadership Impact 360 degree survey (LI), Management Impact 360 degree survey (MI)