Meet the PeopleTalking Tribe
PeopleTalking is powered by people who genuinely care about how others experience work and life.
We come from a variety of backgrounds, sectors and areas of specialisation, working across Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific region, partnering with organisations navigating complexity, change and growth.
Select a location below to explore our team in each region.
Australia
Kieran White
Founder & Chief Vision Officer | NSW
Kieran’s primary interest lies in how organisations can unlock the untapped resources within individuals, teams and groups, enabling organisational systems to change more purposefully over time. Kieran draws on 20 years’ experience in team and group dynamics, prior to which he held senior leadership roles in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
David Metherell
Director | QLD
David works collaboratively with individuals, teams and organisations to build capability and support purposeful change, and to improve business momentum through closer strategic and cultural alignment. He draws on more than 20 years’ experience as a senior corporate leader, and as a coach and consultant since 2004.
Edna McKelvey
PeopleTalking Modern Day Elder | NSW
Edna is an executive coach, accredited supervisor for coaches, and also facilitates learning programs for groups and teams. She brings to her work more than 30 years’ international corporate experience in management, sales, marketing and consulting, working for multinationals in Australia, UK and North America.
Amanda Rogers
Business Support Manager | NSW
Amanda Rogers is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience working with training and consulting organisations in Australia, UK and Europe in project coordination, project management, and business support. Amanda leads our back-office support and finance teams, ensuring smooth operations and efficient financial management. Known for her strategic approach and dedication, Amanda plays a key role in optimising the smooth running of our growing business, and always with our clients at heart.
Amy Miszalski
Executive Coach & Consultant | NSW
Amy is a coach, facilitator and OD and change consultant. Her organisational experience spans 25 years, with leadership roles in HR/OD, change and program management across utilities, construction, not-for-profit and public sector. She has worked in both Australia and the UK.
Andrea Ibbott
Executive Coach & Consultant | VIC
Andrea is a professional organisational coach, consultant, facilitator and instructional designer. She thrives on working with leaders and teams to help them uncover the insights needed to improve their communication, collaboration and ultimately, their wellbeing at work and at home. Andrea is a skilled instructional designer and has decades of experience in designing and developing face-to-face, virtual and online leadership and team programs and resources.
Anthea Garbert
Learning & Development Program Coordinator | NSW
Anthea has extensive experience in customer service, project and leadership roles, as well as client and vendor relationship management in major Australian and New Zealand financial institutions. More recently, Anthea has been working with global companies in business support and project coordination roles on leadership and culture transformation projects. Anthea has a keen interest in how technology can support processes and efficiency as well as enabling accessibility for learning and development, and brings this to the table as the Program Coordinator of our evolving Learning Management System, the PeopleTalking Academy.
Bronwen Downie
Executive Coach & Consultant | NSW
As an Olympian and dual World Champion (Rowing), Bronwen brings an acute understanding of how psychological safety and the quality of dialogue impact sustainable high performance. Bronwen’s facilitation and intervention experience spans corporate team and executive coaching, tertiary education, and elite sport. Enabling leaders and teams to build self-insight and sustainable high-performance leadership models through experiential learning is a core part of Bronwen’s approach.
Chantäl Patruno
Executive Coach & Consultant | NSW
Chantäl is an executive coach, counsellor, change practitioner and group facilitator for senior leaders and their teams. She brings 25+ years’ experience in complex transformation programs across sectors and industries and remains insatiably curious about human systems, what really changes behaviour and makes sustainable change happen.
Jo Fisher
Executive Coach & Consultant | NSW
Jo works with individuals and organisations in supporting systemic people solutions. Jo has interests in diversity, leadership development and cross-cultural coaching. Jo loves working across organisations at teams to influence change across the system. Jo especially loves working with individuals and teams in conflict or high stakes. Jo is an experienced coach and coaching supervisor and works across all levels of employees, executives and groups.
Louise Dudley
Executive Coach & Consultant | QLD
Louise has decades of leadership experience in C-Suite and non-executive director roles. Louise is passionate about culture, leadership and innovation, and deeply committed to sustainability. Louise is particularly proud of her leadership roles in transforming organisations, creating purpose and value, and establishing psychologically safe workplaces to create a culture where people are deeply engaged and change and performance is embraced.
Marisa Dantanarayana
Executive Coach & Consultant | VIC
Marisa has been an executive coach and facilitator since 2002, has coached hundreds of Executives and has international business and not-for-profit board experience. She is one of only approx. 30 coaches Australia wide to hold the ICF’s MCC credential, the highest international coach qualification.
Mary Shakeri
Project & Data Analyst | NSW
Mary Shakeri is a professional with over 10 years of experience across various applications. At PeopleTalking, she supports projects, manages documentation, and handles data analysis and reporting. Mary creates insightful visualisations that drive data-driven decisions. Her expertise in data storytelling and strategic decision-making ensures valuable insights are derived from data, leading to enhanced business outcomes. Additionally, with her experience in process mapping and enhancement, she contributes to optimising workflows.
Natarsha Hearn
Executive Coach & Consultant | NSW
Natarsha Hearn is a deeply experienced executive coach and team system specialist. She has delivered thousands of coaching hours, taking pleasure in working with emerging to C-level executives and teams around the world, always in a partnership of equals. Natarsha’s own business context was formed in investment banking and consulting in both people and business leadership roles.
Riddhika Khoosal
Executive Coach & Consultant | VIC
With over 15 years of experience spanning global corporate leadership and systemic consulting, Riddhika Khoosal operates from the belief that human sustainability is a fundamental driver of business success. An ICF PCC and ORSC specialist, she partners with world-leading organisations to ensure their “human architecture” is intentionally designed to meet their commercial ambition. Riddhika is known for her ability to decode underlying systemic patterns, bridging the gap between high-level strategy and the collective team climate required to deliver it.
Tim Roberts-Ferguson
Executive Coach & Consultant | VIC
Tim brings three decades of experience delivering leadership, sales and business transformation initiatives across a range of complex industries
and business sizes. He is curious about navigating the dynamics of strategy, change, power and human relations in organisations. An experienced executive
and team coach, he is an accomplished and widely recognised facilitator and presenter.
Tim Rossi
Executive Coach & Consultant | NSW
Tim Rossi has been supporting teams with leadership training, coaching and facilitation services for over 25 years. Through his insight and experience he supports and empowers teams through dialogue and reflection, including facilitation support in strategic planning through to executional phases.
New Zealand
Patrice Feary
Director, Executive Coach & Consultant
Patrice is an experienced practitioner, coach and facilitator, as well as an accomplished commercial advisor with a diverse governance portfolio. Her interest and success focuses on working alongside individuals and teams to help them better understand the impact their behaviours have – how behaviours influence performance, culture and outcomes, not only for those individuals and their teams, but for their organisations and their wider communities.
Alex Smith
Executive Coach & Consultant
Alex is a highly experienced executive educator, coach and facilitator with over 30 years of experience working in people and organisational development. He focuses on the development of system intelligent leadership in individuals and teams. Alex has a particular interest in raising awareness of how unseen systemic forces and patterns in organisational life can get in the way of effective leadership.
Sarah Tocker
Executive Coach & Consultant
Sarah is focused on supporting leaders and governance groups to create lasting improvements, personally and organisationally. She works with both public and private sector clients, providing pragmatic support to those leading in complex and challenging situations.
Belinda Wilson
Business Support Manager
Belinda brings over 30 years’ experience in administrative and business management roles across government, corporate and small business environments. For the past decade she has supported training and consulting organisations in New Zealand in Business Support and Practice Manager roles. Her work spans program coordinator, event management, client liaison, marketing support, website creation/management and design/development of marketing collateral. At PeopleTalking, Belinda supports the New Zealand team, ensuring seamless operations behind the scenes so our consultants can deliver outstanding results and our clients feel well supported at every step.
International
Marcelo Agolti
Executive Coach & Consultant | Argentina
Marcelo is passionate about learning, and is deeply committed to supporting people and organisations in that pursuit. He has more than 20 years of experience as a coach, leader and professor. His model of coaching, based on an ontological approach, has four axes: Systems-Thinking, Dialogue, Structural Dynamics and Vertical Leadership Development.This model is based on supporting the conditions for individuals and organisations to continually learn and build their capacity to think together.
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