Career & Leadership Coach
Finding your career path in Sydney and indeed Australia can be a double-edged sword. Because with all the opportunities, perks, and recognition, we can lose sight of our purpose and feel that internal battle for something more. If you’re ready for breakthrough change, a new career direction - or career change - with success on your terms - our career coaching services can help.
Getting to know you, your career goals, and readiness for change
Uncover and understand your strengths, energy drivers, and weaknesses
Guidance and accountability based on science, experience, and intuition
Career coaching is about getting support, guidance, and career counselling, to help you achieve your career goals. As your career coach, I bring a valuable outside perspective with a blend of science, experience, and intuition. I’ll ask the hard questions, uncover your strengths, find what energises you - and help overcome whatever is holding you back.
Six months after starting to work with Sharon, I started a new role that delivered the meaning and purpose that was missing previously, and feel empowered by Sharon to have been able to recognise it when it came along. I can’t thank her enough!EW
As an organisation, we were going through a major restructure and needed to revamp our values framework. Not only has Sharon provided great advice and insights, she has empowered many members of the team to initiate positive changes and provide valuable suggestions to the organisation’s values framework. LJ (CEO)
We asked Sharon to help us with refining our organisational values and assist us to develop the Team Charters for all the teams in our organisation. What we got was so much more. I would highly recommend Sharon for the change she can effect and the value she can bring to an organisation.LB (HR Manager)
Sharon is amazing at what she does and has a knack for being able to authentically connect and reframe things in a way that makes you hang off her every word. Thank you Sharon, what I learnt that day still resonates with me.Keara Byrne
Sharon’s ability to work with a number of different clients in varied senior positions is a credit to her professional approach and commitment to focus on specific individual needs. Sharon brings a unique blend of wisdom and real life experience combined with a true passion for coaching which has been instrumental in the growth of our leaders.Betti Paris - Learning & Development Consultant NSW/ACT
Sharon is a clear leader in helping individuals reach their true potential, and a true partner in helping individuals transition into their next role. In what can sometimes be a difficult time, Sharon has the style, experience and expertise to guide clients into new and fulfilling roles.Paul Guerra - Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Optum Health International
My recommendation for Sharon is also with a thanks. When determining you want to explore your next career move it can bring on a mix of emotions of both excitement and trepidation. Sharon was able to help me navigate through the decisions and importantly for me, to keep me on track - to be my conscience.Jodie Waddingham - Sales Leadership and Program Management
Sometimes all it takes an insightful person to look at your life or career and say “have you thought of this?” And Sharon does exactly that. She helps you to think outside the box but inside your heart.Ariane Falkenberg - HR Project Manager at Fuji Xerox Australia
During a difficult time of redundancy Sharon provided me with valuable counselling and support to help me regain confidence. She was instrumental to me remaining focused and positive during this unsettling period. I am pleased to say I went on to gain a higher position in a more progressive company.LP
My staff and I spent a very enlightening morning with Sharon doing the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. As well as being a great team building exercise, Sharon was able to analyse the results and give us some worthwhile strategies in not only communicating effectively with each other but also with our clients.CGP - Business Owner
Sharon gave me the confidence and ability to go after the career I really wanted and helped me see the bigger picture. I now work in a job I love and I can honestly say that without Sharon's coaching, business experience and professional insight, I would not be where I am today.EM
Sharon helped me to identify and understand my strengths and transferable skills, giving me the confidence to chase my dream career. Without Sharon's counselling I have no doubt I would still be trying to determine where I should head and how I could get there.AJ
Working with Sharon was a very personable and motivating experience. The entire process was very professional and I found the sessions invaluable. It was great to finally have some direction in my career and I feel I have so many more options open to me and can't wait to explore them.LV
Sharon was able to open up my awareness to my blocks, gave me tools to help me move forward and ignited a fire that burns bright to this day! Her line of questioning was insightful and impeccable, allowing me to come to the realisation that the answers were already within me!Josephine Opie
Sharon gave me the confidence to leave the industry by helping me to realise that I had multiple transferrable skills and my age was an advantage and not a disadvantage.Julie Z
I offer personalised coaching programs with a career change, leadership, and personal development focus. In my experience, these areas are different parts of who you are as a person and need to be considered holistically. I find when clients work on one area, others may also naturally develop and improve.
I work with clients who are looking for a more satisfying future career, who are looking for different career options, career planning, career advice, or even a career change.
The career coaching programs follow a three-step process. While everyone works through each step, your career coaching is personalised to suit your situation.
The first step is a discovery call where we talk about what is happening for you and what you’d like to change in your career direction. If you know you want to change but aren’t sure what needs changing, this process can also help you gain some clarity. This step is a chance for us both to see if we are a good fit, are comfortable working together, whether I’m the right career coach for you, and to determine how ready you are to do the work.
Once you decide to go ahead, I’ll start with career recommendations based on our discovery call. You’ll then complete a Strengths Profile Assessment which will help uncover your realised and unrealised strengths, learned behaviours, and weaknesses.
Using this information, we’ll then commence the career coaching element of the program which is agreed on before we start. During this process, I’ll draw on emotional intelligence frameworks and positive psychology tools to help you create genuine change. With in-built accountability, consistency, and guidance, you can evaluate your career options and make the career changes you’ve been struggling to make.
Over the years, I’ve provided career counselling across many industries with a diverse group of stakeholders. My past clients have ranged from scientists to accountants to CEOs through to technical people, sales, marketing, admin, and everything in between. I’ve found that the principles of making positive change and improving wellbeing that drive my career counselling services are the same across industries as they start with you, the individual.
As your career coach, I bring a blend of experience and education to give you access to a range of practical tools, strategies, and support that get results regardless of your career direction. As well as over eight years of career coaching with clients, I bring an understanding that comes with lived experience. I know what it feels like to want to make changes in your career path but not know where to start or what to do to make them happen. I’ve also successfully made personal changes and navigated career changes several times. This means I know what it takes and what is possible, and I want to empower other people to do the same.
If it’s identified as a key area for improvement–particularly for those looking for a career change–I can provide coaching for job interviews and how to access the hidden job market. I can also provide coaching on your cover letter and resume, though I don’t offer resume writing services as a stand alone service.
Depending on COVID restrictions and your requirements, I can offer online career coaching, face-to-face coaching, or a combination of both. Although I am Sydney-based, I work with clients around the country.
We begin the program by setting goals and measuring where you sit currently with each goal. Each week or session we measure if there has been any improvement (and why) and if not, what else is needed to progress.
The costs can vary depending on the type of career counselling program I recommend and whether it’s for an individual or a team.
All of my programs cover a period of time, and I don’t offer one-off sessions. This is because the best results happen when a person makes not just a monetary commitment, but a time commitment. I provide on-call access during the period of the career coaching program to guide you in making behavioural change.
If you’re not happy with the coaching program, I offer a money-back guarantee. I fully back the efficacy of my career counselling approach and programs. In almost a decade as a career counsellor, I’ve only refunded one client.
Yes, I can give you details of previous career coaching clients to speak with.
I love working with people making a difference in the world. I provide career counselling services to both executives and teams within Not for profits across several areas, including organisational culture change, leadership coaching, team strengths building, and performance coaching. By digging deeper into the values and working on strengths, NFPs can be equipped to drive a positive culture.
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