FACILITATORS
Our Professional Courses are designed to forge a new generation of leaders with the resilience, adaptability, confidence, and self-awareness that the business world now needs. To do this, we bring along an expert facilitator to help you maximise the impact of your course learnings and assist you in embedding these skills back in your workplace.
A FEW OF OUR EXPERTS
Tania Gough
Leadership Development, HR Strategy, Change Management
Tania brings deep experience in strategic HR consultancy, employment relations and change management, alongside team development and individual coaching. She's especially skilled at facilitating goal setting, problem solving and team building, and is passionate about helping different generations in the workplace value each other and work well together.
Kathy Tracey
Executive Coach and Leadership Trainer, 25+ Years Experience
Kathy owned and ran a successful leadership consultancy in the Channel Islands for 17 years before returning to New Zealand to join our facilitation team in 2016. Participants describe her as insightful, knowledgeable and great fun. As an ocean rower, she knows first-hand how physical endurance and resilience can change the way you think.
Adam Cooper
Certified Professional Coach; Masters in Entrepreneurship, University of Otago
Adam specialises in uncovering human potential and building the capability of people and groups. As a coach, facilitator and programme designer, he creates learning experiences that grow resilience, awareness and clarity. He is also a certified public engagement practitioner. Adam's strength is his ability to shape learning experiences for individuals and groups that broaden their thinking and perspectives.
Sarah Tocker
Leadership Coach and Facilitator
Sarah is a well-respected, all-around leadership specialist. She has coached and facilitated for over a decade, with a background in leadership development, systems leadership, and culture and change. She works with people wanting to influence or lead in complex or challenging situations, and helps organisations adapt and thrive. She's known as a straight-talker, and for her ability to see the core issues quickly, enabling groups/individuals work through them in a safe, meaningful way.
Jon Lasenby
Leadership and Teamwork Consultant
Jon spent nine years instructing and managing at Anakiwa, so he knows the Outward Bound process inside out. He now consults on leadership and teamwork for private and public sector clients across Aotearoa and overseas. His core beliefs about this mahi are:
1. Leadership is learned through action and reflection.
2. Personal development is professional development (we take ourselves to work).
3. Great learning draws on mental, physical, emotional and spiritual resources.
Dallis Parker
Leadership Coach and Facilitator Across Australasia; Former Outward Bound Instructor
Dallis combines an insider's understanding of the Outward Bound experience with a strong focus on behavioural change and leadership development. Lively and engaging, she builds rapport quickly with diverse groups and creates a psychologically safe environment where people feel motivated to challenge themselves to do more and be more.
WHY TURN TO THE EXPERTS?
Activities on the Professional courses are simply the vehicle for learning, not the overall focus of the programme. In fact, one of the most important elements of your programme is a series of facilitated review sessions. Participants take time to reflect on their performance and process the days events, guided by their facilitator. With this, and the use of peer feedback, participants are able to assimilate their learning and behaviours back to the workplace.
Producing results like this!
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