“What determines our success over time is the quality of the relationships we create and maintain.”

Hello,

I’m Shane. I’m a professional development coach and facilitator. I specialise in individual and organisational performance, leadership capability and relationship success aligned to value.

I help individuals, teams and organisations such as IBM, Microsoft, The Economist, Nokia and multiple SMEs achieve incredible results, exceeding initial goals.

What brought me to be a coach?

I was stuck. I had reached a point in my career where I wasn’t progressing. I was losing interest in work and feeling disengaged professionally. Peers and colleagues were passing me by and I felt I was slipping backwards. I was in a rut of loss of confidence and lack of direction. This was beginning to impact the quality of my personal life also. It was getting scary. 

I took the decision to seek help. I engaged a professional coach not really knowing what to expect, but curious enough to at least to give it a try. Through the course of a few sessions, I began to find my passion again. A passion for working with others that was based on the values I had forgotten. 

With my coach we got to the core of what makes me tick and feel alive, particularly in a professional context. I rediscovered what my values are: Respect for myself and others; honesty; courage; humour; gratefulness and kindness. I learned how to work with them and to stay true to them — or at least to know when I wasn’t! I discovered the blind-spots that were holding me back and how to turn these into strengths, strengths of intuition, resilience and enthusiasm. 

Things started to change. I discovered that I love being an entrepreneur and working with people. I realised I wanted to dedicate my career to helping people, teams and organisations reach their own potential and fulfil their visions.

So I became a coach and set up my own business coaching and facilitating others.

Today, through my work I bring a wealth of insights and experience to my coaching and facilitation services. I help develop the self-awareness, skills and capability for others to create thriving, values-based relationships for themselves, their teams and organisations.

I'm a professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) certified with the International Coaching Federation, an Arbinger Institute certified facilitator and a certified ICAgile Enterprise Coach and Trainer.

Why partner with me?

  • Over the course of 20 years, I’ve lived and worked through numerous business and digital transformations and change initiatives. I’ve learned that common to all is the desire for people to grow and improve. My approach is to listen and understand the reasons behind this desire for change — to get to the values themselves. From here we apply the right solutions aligned to those value.

  • I understand what change means — a breaking away from the status quo towards something better. But also that change means risk, both accepting risk and managing it. I understand how to embrace risk — for the potential and the opportunities made possible when managed correctly.

  • I offer facilitation and coaching based on hard-worn experience — the actual messy stuff of reality without the assumptions of knowing and giving a prescribed solution.

    I will work with you to understand the unique contexts and challenges of your situation. Together we will form approaches and solutions where nothing is taken for granted, most especially what you already have and know. 

  • My approach is always that you know your business better than anyone. My value to you is through the listening I provide and from this the questions I ask, leading us both to a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities ahead.

  • As a former software engineer, I have an appreciation for the beauty and complexity of creating valued solutions. I have come to know that technical skills and competence alone are not enough. With the growing capability of AI what matters more and more is our ability as individuals, teams and leaders to create and maintain effective professional relationships aligned to valued business results.

    This is available to you through partnering with me.