Experience

As a qualified medical practitioner with more than 20 years’ clinical experience, Lynn has developed a deep understanding of human behaviour and motivation, which underpins her coaching practice. Over the last 10 years she has honed her coaching skills with executive and workplace coaching assignments at CEO and director level to middle management, with both individuals and teams across the government, not-for-profit and private sectors. She finds her ongoing work in general practice and her coaching practice complement and grow her skills in both areas.

Her coaching focuses on the development of competencies which enable her clients to improve effectiveness in their workplaces. These include improved self-awareness, relational and communication skills.

Her clients often find that the new perspectives and insights gained from their coaching result not only in a greater effectiveness and satisfaction at work, but also beyond the workplace. Her clinical background places her in a unique position to assist clients to increase their resilience and achieve an effective balance between work and other areas. The added insights gained from working in an Executive Health Assessment Centre have given her perspective on those issues relating to physical and emotional health that impact on executives’ lives and performance every day. She is a regular keynote speaker on resilience, balance and stress management.

Her continued work in General Practice keeps her grounded and up-todate with the issues that affect us all, as do her two adolescent children. In her spare time she enjoys her garden and creating new taste experiences from her kitchen.

Her coaching approach is eclectic, drawing on the many skills she has developed over the years from her clinical and coaching practices. Prominent in these are skills gained from her NLP (neurolinguistic programming) training, CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) and behavioural coaching. Her approach is action oriented.

 

Coaching & behavioural science qualifications

• Executive Diploma Business Coaching, National Business Institute of Australia (NBIA), 2003
  
• Trainer, NLP

Business qualifications and business experience (selected)

• Diploma in Obstetrics, Royal Australia College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1988
  
• Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery, University of Melbourne, 1985
  
• Lecturer in Community Medicine, Monash University
  
• Examiner, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Selected client organisations

Clients include: Minter Ellison, Optus, CSIRO, Sensis, Defence Materiel Organisation, South Australia Health, VicRoads, Australian Taxation Office, Melbourne Water, Dandenong Division of General Practice, Tipping Foundation, Council for Christian Education in Schools, Australian Unity, Baptcare, Mars

Registrations, Memberships and Affiliations

• Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP)
  
• Member, Editorial Panel for Australian Family Physician (General Practice)

Instrument Accreditations

BarOn EQ-i & EQ-i360, Benchmarks, California Personality Inventory (CPI), Change Style Indicator (CSI), FIRO-B, FourSight, Index for Emotional Intelligence (IEI), Life Styles Inventory (LSI), Group Style Inventory (GSI), MBTI, Skillscope, The Attentional and Interpersonal Style Inventory (TAIS)