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Barbara Anderson
Master Certified Coach (ICF)
Certified Trainer (Cert.1V)
Barbara is an executive coach, business coach, personal coach, and professional trainer & facilitator, and keynote speaker.
Barbara has an extensive background in Corporate, Business, Information Technology, Management, and Training and Development. Over the past 15 years Barbara has worked with a range of corporate and small business clients as a Trainer, Consultant, Facilitator and Coach for their Business and Personal Development.
As a trainer and consultant Barbara’s specialised areas include Coaching Skills for Managers and new coaches, Leadership Skills, Team Building, Workplace Trainer, Workplace Assessor, (Certificate 1V); Presentation Skills (Public Speaking), Goal Setting, Time Management and Communication Skills.
Barbara has a very personal, interactive and practical approach. She has a great sense of lightness and humour, while simultaneously being extremely professional, confident and competent. She has a real skill of covering the material in a program while also meeting the needs of each individual in the group. Barbara always receives excellent feedback from courses she conducts. One example is "I rate Barbara as one of the best corporate trainers I have experienced in my 15 years senior management experience with Telstra, NAB and BHP. She has a reputation within the coaching industry as one of the best corporate trainers in Australia." DR. (email Aug ’04)
As a coach, the coaching methodology used follows a Solution Focused, Cognitive Behavioural model. I see clients as creative, resourceful and whole, and do not assume that clients need “fixing”. I endeavour to further the client’s agenda and build towards their desired outcomes. My vision is to foster attitudes and behaviours where people flourish and are happy, produce outstanding results, and are eager to learn and enthusiastically affect everyone they come in contact with.
Barbara has a passion for Coaching and has trained many hundreds of new coaches, and managers in coaching skills. She contributes to the Coaching profession by being on the International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Standards Team as the Australasian Coach Credential Leader and as an ICF Assessor, and she has mentored hundreds of coaches to improve their coaching skills. In December 2008 Barbara was awarded “Australasian Coach of the Year 2008” by the International Coach Federation.
As well as training and coaching, Barbara is a skilled facilitator and companies are using her skills to facilitate Strategic Planning sessions, Board and Management meetings, and more; and over the past 3-4 years Barbara has also been delivering Keynote presentations to small and large groups on a variety of topics, to meet participant requirements. Presentations are always engaging and practical providing a WOW factor to any event. Barbara really connects with her audience and their issues and leaves the audience with inspiration to do something different when they leave.
Barbara is also an active volunteer with Sailability (facilitating sailing for people with disabilities), and World Youth International (developing Australian youth working on overseas projects in third world nations), and a generous donator several other organizations.
Qualifications include:
- Graduate Certificate HRM & Coaching, University of Sydney 2005
- Bachelor of Business in Human Resources and Psychology, 1999
- Certificate 1V Training and Assessment.
- Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF)
- Accredited Life Coach; Business Coach; Executive Coach, & Team Coach.(Results Coaching Systems)
- Certified practitioner in the Genos Emotional Intelligence toolset
Previous Clients include Telstra, Optus, IBM, Prudential, Legal and General, Colonial, Commonwealth Bank, NRMA, RAMS, GIO, Martin Ridge and Associates, Caltex, Scott's Refrigerated Freightways, Environmental Protection Authority, Wentworth Hotel, MBF, Department of Health (Post Medical Council); Royal and Sunalliance, Results Coaching Systems, Sapiens UK, Air New Zealand, National Australia Bank, MLC, Centrelink Victoria & NSW, School Principals and Executives, Asteron Holdings Limited, QBE, NSW Health, Rabobank, Idexx Laboratories, Avenade, Copyright Ltd; Sydney University Centre for Continuing Education, Alphapharm Pty Ltd, Franklin Covey, India; Kamataka Neeravan Nigram Ltd (KNNL), Bangalore, India, Honeywell, India; Asian Paints, India, ING.