About Me - My Biography

Pollyanna is an experienced facilitator, certified coach and a certified Practitioner of NLP. She began her coaching career in London before returning to Melbourne in 2003. Pollyanna brings extensive business experience to her coaching practice. She trained with the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in London, one of the few organisations accredited by the International Coaching Federation. To obtain her coaching certification Pollyanna completed a rigorous and challenging program with CTI that surpasses the minimum requirements of the ICF for coaching competency and training. She has also completed the I.O.D. (Institute of Directors – London) Director Development program and the Co-Active Space (USA) Leadership program. Prior to her career in coaching, Pollyanna co-founded a specialist IT Recruitment Consultancy in London in 1990. In November 2000, Pollyanna sold her 50% share holding and resigned as a Director having taken the company from a sole-employee entity to staff of 18, with an annual turnover in excess of £11m ($AUS27 million). Since establishing her coaching practice in 2002, Pollyanna has provided coaching, facilitation, delivered workshops and keynote talks in London, San Francisco, Melbourne and Sydney to numerous executives and blue chip companies including: Accenture (London); IBM Australia; Horwath; The Royal Women's Hospital (Melbourne); The Royal Children's Hospital (Melbourne); Homestyle Aged Care; Shannon's Way Marketing and Mortgage National. In addition to her corporate work, Pollyanna is committed to community projects and networking groups that help people move forward both personally and professionally. She volunteers as a mentor in the Marketing Women's mentoring program in Melbourne and was involved in two mentoring projects in London – the Du Paul Trust, a UK based charity that works with people who are homeless and Women in Banking and Finance, a networking group for women working in the financial services industry. She is a member of the 2005 /2006 leadership team of the ICFV (International Coaching Federation Victorian Chapter). Pollyanna is dedicated to working with people who want the very best from their life and work and who have the drive and commitment to achieve it.