Hello,

I am Shane, a career and professional development coach and facilitator.

My specialty is helping professionals develop careers that are uniquely theirs and an expression of who they are.

Whether you’re an individual entrepreneur starting your own business, a graduate entering the working world for the first time, or a seasoned manager, corporate executive looking to further your career, I will guide, support and encourage you in your growth to achieve a career that is deeply meaningful for you.  

In working with me you will find the career you love, without compromise. You will identify the values that are core to you, and how to express them in your choice of work.

Together we’ll learn how to turn your unique qualities and experience into expressions of you in ways that impact the world around you, making a valuable difference to you and others.

Background

Over the course of my career, I have helped individuals and teams in organisations such as IBM, Microsoft, The Economist and Nokia achieve incredible results, exceeding initial goals.

Before becoming a coach, I was a software engineer and product development manager. I worked with many organisations, in multiple environments and across multiple industries – all of them high pressure and high stress. I came to realise that capability and effort alone are not enough for true success.

Approach

“Shane’s coaching style is both intuitive and adaptable.”

My approach is to listen and understand you and your situation. You know your business better than anyone else. I do not assume anything. I ask questions that allow you to lead us both to a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities you face. My coaching is based on hard-worn experience — the actual messy stuff of reality without the assumptions of knowing and giving you a prescribed solution.

I will partner 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, focusing on what you already have and know. 

My coaching is underpinned by my core values of curiosity, courage, clarity, creativity and commitment.

My promises to you:

  • Ask the questions for you to find your answers and insights

  • Respect your perspective. It is yours and true to you. I won’t take it from you or try to convince you otherwise

  • Guide, support and challenge at the level that works for you

  • Not to give the answers

  • Explore. This is an adventure, you will decide the path and we will walk it together

  • Find what you’re not yet seeing and discover the potential you already have.

My Why

By 2014 I had become 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. I felt I was slipping backwards, losing confidence and lack of direction. The situation was also beginning to impact my widen life. I was getting scared by it all. 

I took the decision to seek help. With the suggestion of a friend, I opted to engage with a coach. I didn’t know what to expect. I was curious enough to try it, and sceptical at first. However, through the course of the first few sessions, I began to explore, and then did find my passion again. Funnily enough, it was a passion for helping others find what they are passionate about and how to express it.

I reconnected with what makes me tick and feel alive, particularly in a professional way – working with others, creating a vision and devising a plan. I discovered what my core values are: Curiosity; Compassion; Clarity; Courage and Creativity. I learned how to work with these values and turn them into expressions of who I am. I took the jump and started my own business helping others define and develop their own careers.

Results

“Simply put, working with Shane and having him ‘on your team’ is game changing. He is kind, compassionate and authentic.”

For a truly successful career – one you can look back on and say, “I did my best”; “I did myself proud” and “What I did deeply fulfilled me.” it must be aligned to some purpose — something you believe in because it matters to you.

This is where I can help: I support by developing with you the self-awareness, confidence, skill, and capability to create thriving, values-based relationships with yourself and others, focused on using your inherent talents and skills to express the purpose within you.

My commitment is to help you create a fulfilling career in whatever is your chosen area of work.

“Shane has an exceptional gift for seeing what people don’t see in themselves and providing them with the tools to achieve their dreams.”