Experience

Marisa has been an executive coach and facilitator since 2002, and has international business and not-for-profit board experience.

Prior to executive coaching, Marisa had a highly successful career as an executive in the corporate world working for Fujitsu and NCR Australia. She has worked for leading global companies and has a track record for growing businesses across multiple industries. She consistently achieved aggressive revenue targets on an annual basis and developed and managed new business opportunities worth up to $25m. For her success she was granted several new business development awards. As an IT sales executive she worked across banking & finance, telecommunications, utilities, retail, government and transport & logistics.

Marisa is known for her ability to ask the hard questions and for her solid business acumen, seeking alignment of behaviour with business objectives and personal values.
Marisa was a Regional Board Member of the International Coach Federation Australasia (ICFA) between 2004 & 2005 and was President for the International Coach Federation (ICF) Victorian Chapter between 2005 & 2006.

In her family life, she is a wife and mother and has two young children. She is a working mum and appreciates the challenges of juggling career and family. She has a passion for basketball, fitness, music, food, friends and wine.

Coaching & behavioural science qualifications

• International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited - PCC
  
• Narrative Coaching, Mt Eliza, 2006
  
• Team & Group Coaching, Alexander Caillet & Ginger Cockerham at ICF, 2006
  
• Executive Coaching in Organisations, Mt Eliza, 2005
  
• Intensive Coach Training, Executive Coach Training, Coaches Toolkit & Coaches Masterclass, Theoretical Foundations of Coaching, Results Coaching Systems, 2002-07
  

Business qualifications and business experience (selected)

• Postgraduate Diploma in Business Marketing (part-time), Melbourne Business School, 1997
  
• Bachelor of Planning and Design (Planning), University of Melbourne, 1994
  
• Certificate in Computing and IT (part-time), Northern Metropolitan College of TAFE, 1994
  
• Board Member, International Coach Federation, Australasia
  
• President/Chairman, International Coach Federation, Victoria
  
• Business Development Manager, Fujitsu Australia
  
• Business Development Manager, NCR Australia
  

Selected client organisations

Clients include: AGL, Ansell, ANZ, Asialink, Australian Taxation Office, BHP Billiton, BUPA, Cardno, Department of Human Services, Department of Primary Industries, General Motors, Hi Fert (an AWB / Elders company), Holden, Masterfoods, MS Society, Merck, Members Equity Bank, NAB, Oakton, Origin Energy, QBE, RMIT University, Sustainability Victoria, SMS, Telstra, Parliament of Victoria, Victorian Leadership Development Centre, Women in Finance

Registrations, Memberships and Affiliations

• Member, International Coach Federation (ICF)
  
• Associate Member, Australian Institute of Management (AIM)

Instrument Accreditations

BarOn EQ-i, Full Circle Feedback, Hogan Leadership Inventories, index360®, Keys, MAPP, Skillscope