We are experts in:
Resilience and Stress Management
Conflict Transformation
Finding your Authentic Voice
Career Management
Previously known as Ignite Coaching Australia PTY LTD, we have been in business since 2007 and we exist to support you and your teams to claim personal territory through self- knowledge, responsibility and education in an atmosphere of deep enquiry, curiosity and participation in human evolution.
Meet Our Team
We have had decades of experience in helping organisations to transform their leaders and their workforce.
We do this by building and strengthening the culture and the capabilities of the organisation to accelerate overall organisational performance.
As an NMAS mediator and conflict coach, Mary is skilled at finding pathways through difficulty, emotional triggers, and complex and challenging situations. Her work with the Enneagram (specifically with the iEQ9 diagnostic tool) has been a transformational self-awareness experience for many of her clients, as an insightful and relevant way of getting to the heart of behaviour, motivation and fears. Mary has been using the Enneagram to chart her own development for more than 15 years and works with many teachers including her supervisor Belinda Gore PhD., to deepen her coaching capability through the framework of object relations and the enneagram.
What sets Mary apart from many executive coaches is that mid-career Mary took a break from corporate life to explore sustainable living and deepen her understanding of meditation and spirituality. This included living in the mountains in Canada and the adventures of sailing the east coast of Australia with her partner and young daughter. Her professional life is nourished by a multiple decade’s long meditation practice and study of Buddhist philosophy. In her youth she was a competitive equestrian and down-hill skier, and she continues to nurture these previous skills with an Iyengar yoga practice, a love of dance and singing. Mary recently completed her second solo outback mindfulness and meditation retreat because of the strength and inspiration drawn from her connection with nature.
When challenge is at the forefront; and difficulty, change and uncertainty are what you are experiencing, Mary has the wisdom, skill, and experience to help you to reach your professional goals, to find inner peace and calm and to flourish.
As master voice coach and consultant, Richard has worked with all levels of legal professionals, executive level managers, C.E.O.’s and board directors. As a theatre director and performing arts lecturer, Richard has worked with the Sydney Theatre Company, N.I.D.A., Sydney and Monash Universities.
Richard has worked with thousands of individuals internationally, over his 30-year career. He is a specialist in body language and voice work, which has assisted him in devising the “stand and deliver” method, a way of fast tracking clients in uncovering and re-arranging belief systems.
As an accredited executive leadership coach and facilitator, Richard has enhanced the leadership and communication skills of many clients including: NSW Crown Solicitors Dept., NSW and Vic. Bar Association, Victorian Legal Aid, Lander & Rogers, Maddocks, K & L Gates, Bristol Myers Squibb, Jemena, Telstra’s Leadership Programme, Australia Post and Boston Consulting Group .
He taught Voice at post-graduate level at Monash University, where he won the Vice-Chancellor’s award for excellence in teaching. He runs several community and corporate choirs, and his commitment to uplifting people’s voices, lead him to take on Chairing the board of Community Music Victoria and more recently, to volunteering at the Eating Disorder Unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Richard’s book Raise Your Voice was published in 2017 by Harper Collins.
Specific areas often targeted by her clients include: Staff Performance Management, Influencing, Internal Relationships, Team Building, Emotional Intelligence, Presence and Presentations, Communication, Work/life balance, Effective Networking and Personal Impact.
Where appropriate, Amanda works with individuals to develop and execute a well-articulated career plan based on authentic strengths and personal career drivers.
Catherine is a Wellbeing and Mindfulness Coach, Meditation Facilitator, iEQ9 Enneagram Coach and Inner Child Journey practitioner. She established her private practice in 2015 and her passion lies in coaching all levels within organisations to be their true, authentic, empowered selves at work and helping to create cultures of psychological safety to maximise wellbeing.
Catherine’s approach has been heavily influenced by the work of Dr Rick Hanson, Ph.D whom she has studied with and been mentored by for many years and is an accredited teacher and group facilitator of his Positive Neuroplasticty training course – focusing on building a robust psychological toolbox and actively using neuroplastic methods to develop lasting inner strengths.
In addition, she has over five years’ experience co-facilitating Family Constellation Workshops and Wilderness Retreats through her work with Essential Wholeness Psychology and has been mentored by its founder Eric Lyleson in deepening her understanding of meditation practices and conflict resolution methods. Catherine is also a published writer and presented her research into the impact of a gratitude practice on mental health and wellbeing at the 2019 Science and Non-Duality Conference.
