Executive COACH
Angela Bird is an experienced Executive Coach with a well-known reputation for providing truthful, confidential, supportive coaching to CEO’s, Directors, senior executives, business owners, entrepreneurs around the world as they move through their career. She is known internationally for her wisdom, insight and pragmatic approach to business, leadership and relationship building.
Introduction
Angela has a broad business background in: Business Ownership and Management for her own IT software consultancy; Reputation Management and Social Responsibility Communication; Human Resource Management (corporate and SME); Professional Mentoring, Sales and Marketing; Network Development; Small Business Start-up, Organisation Development, positioning, alliance development, sales and energy management.
Her professional experience over 33 years covers fields as diverse as aviation, banking and finance, organisational psychology, human resources, advertising, sales, marketing, real estate, and IT.
Angela is a passionate advocate for the profession of high level, high quality coaching, providing coach mentoring internationally. She works collaboratively with her clients to help them to develop and understand the roles they have chosen in their life and why.
Angela is a popular speaker and teacher. She teaches Business and Advanced coaching internationally and her most recent presentation was held in New York to an audience of coaches and psychologists on the differences between Coaching and Psychology. She is currently engaged writing a chapter on ‘Leadership Coaching’ for an academic text and building a Development Centre for Emerging Leaders on the Gold Coast.
Contact Details:
Landline: +61 07 55 930 428
Mobile: +61 0412 486 526
Email: info@cornerstonecoaching.com.au
Qualifications & assessment tools:
B. Sci. (Psych.), (Australian National University, 2001)
Cert. Professional Coach, (International Coaching Academy, 2007)
Cert. Coaching Psychology, (PD) (University of Sydney, 2002)
Cert. Clinical Hypnosis, (AIHB, 2007)
New Government Board Director, AICD (2003)
Cert. IV Assessment & Training, (MRWED, 2004)
Cert. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CCBT, 2004)
Spiral Dynamics Integral I (Don Beck CHE, 2005)
REN Coaching Model (Top Human, China, 2005)
Narrative Coaching (David Drake, Melbourne Business School, 2006)
MLQ 360 Full Range Leadership Assessments (MLQ Australia, 2004)
BAR-ON Q, Emotional Intelligence Assessment (Melbourne Business School, 2006)
HOGAN Personality Assessments (Melbourne Business School, 2006)
MBS Development/Assessment Centre Facilitator (Melbourne Business School, 2007)
SKILLSCOPE (Centre for Creative Leadership 2007)
KEYS (Centre for Creative Leadership 2007)
Executive Experience:
3 years Aircrew (Ansett Airlines & Westfield Ltd)
4 years Communications & HR (Govt. Dept.)
15 years Business Ownership (IT Consulting)
15 years Executive Coaching (Nat’l & Int’l)
8 years Business & Leadership Coaching (Nat’l & Int’l)
2 years Development Centre Coach (MBS/Defence)
Key Achievements:
Working with and coaching some of Australia’s best and well known leaders (political & business) to a new place of competency and contentment.
Teaching advanced coaching to global executives and coaches for an international coaching school.
Coaching internationally; women executives who live in 3rd world and/or Islamic cultures, to lead successfully within difficult conditions.
Past professions/areas of practice:
Financial Services, Aviation, Security, IT, Politics, Engineering, Marketing, HR, Commonwealth Government, SME, National and Multi-national, Policing and Defence.
Current profession/area of practice:
Senior Executive Coach
Teacher/Lecturer (Coaching, Leadership & Management)
University Queensland, Dept Psychology (Guest Lecturer, Psychology)
International Coaching Academy (Business, Advanced Coaching I & II)
Gold Coast Institute of Technical & Further Education (Cert IV, Life & Business Coaching)
Facilitator (Vision Development, Team Building )
Mediation (Conflict Resolution, Negotiations)
Coaching Panels:
Melbourne Business School/Mt Elisa Centre for Education
Australian Federal Police
IAG/CGU
Brisbane City Council
Recent Clients:
Australian Federal Police (Policing)
Defence Material Organisation (Dept of Defence)
Australian Air Services - BP (Aviation)
Symantec /Veritas (IT Engineering & Sales)
Harris Technology (IT & Retail)
Officeworks (Retail)
EMC (Aust) (IT)
IAG (Insurance)
Freehills (Corp. Lawyers)
Commonwealth Bank (Finance/Security)
Avanade (IT )
LAN Systems (IT)
Invest Australia (Federal Government)
UAE Engineering (Engineering)
Prometheus (Software Development)
CSL (Chemical Engineering)
Powerlink (Utility Supplier)
Elite/BP (Customer Services)
Skills Farm (Sales Training)
SDC (Business Services, Singapore)
Bechtel (Mining & Minerals)
Gold Coast Institute of TAFE (Education)
QBE (Insurance)
Other skills/aspects:
Through conversation at the one-on-one level, I am able to guide individuals to live a more conscious, focused life.
Through conversation create a space for people to work on their ‘private’ world and get clarity around what it is they are currently committed to.
Through teaching, facilitating and consulting, show a new way of seeing themselves, their organisation and their world, and how to change it.
Types of activities undertaken and areas of expertise:
Coaching Examples
Coaching a Manager of a global organisation, through to Director level, and supporting him to create a new culture after a merger.
Coaching a Managing Director on his first 90 days in a new global role.
Supporting and guiding new managers to understand their role, management style and its application.
Working with CEO to clarify vision, create mission and create change to cause alignment of business.
Working with Senior Executive to change his style from a management approach to leadership approach ie transactional to transformational.
Helping executives create a career plan and strategies to support it ie, networks, educational requirements and behaviours
Helped Executive deal with personal and public life ‘issues’.
Small Business Start-up, development, positioning, alliance development.
Showing an executive manager how his behaviour and beliefs can effect the entire business unit.
Working with a MD to create a responsible workforce.
Helping a Director to engage in having clear and outcome-focused conversations with upper management and peers and reports.
Worked with CEO to develop and implement a new culture.
Taught Manager how to coach direct reports.
Worked with CEO to stop his micro managing, and remain focused on what is required for someone in his role.
Industry organizations to which I belong:
Reputation Institute – Belgium,
Member
European Mentoring & Coaching Council – United Kingdom,
Member
Australian Psychological Society
Associate Member
National Committee Member - Coaching/Psychology SIG 2001-2006
Convenor – Coaching/Psychology SIG, Queensland 2002 - 2003
International Coaching Federation
Host/Convenor, ACT Chapter, 2001
Member, Gold Coast Chapter 2002 +
China Coach Association
Member
Australian Institute of Management – Qld
Member
Australian Institute of Human Resources – Qld
Member
University of Sydney Coaching & Mentoring Association
Member
Queensland Government, State Development
Business Mentor – “Mentoring for Growth” program
Creative Skills Training Council, Asia Pacific Region
Member