Coaching and Educating Professionals in Organizations
Dr Maree Matthews
Leader/Trainer/Coach
Empowering You
GCAC, PhD, MEd, BEd, Dip Ed
Dr. Maree Matthews is an esteemed specialist coach catering to professionals across varied industries. She has led and coached in numerous portfolios, including education, training, health, business, marketing and human resources. As a keen learner herself, she posses a PhD in Philosophy from RMIT University and both Graduate and Undergraduate studies at University of Melbourne. With Leadership residencies from the prestigious Harvard Business School and Graduate School of Education; she also boasts qualified membership with the International Coaching Federation.
Throughout her extensive career, Dr. Matthews has assumed pivotal roles in leading teams, working in governance with a zest for getting it right in the Boardroom to lead positive culture. Driven by an unwavering passion for empowering individuals and teams, she is fervently dedicated to facilitating the achievement of goals and aspirations. In her unique approach as a trained and certified coach, Dr. Matthews is also aware if human capital are less stressed and anxious, they are more likely to achieve what is expected.
Having led and coached across cultures, her extensive leadership has admirably prepared her to support you and your wider team. Empowering organizations is the key to getting it right!
Explore what Dr Matthews can offer and how she can best support you and your team.
Areas of expertise
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Governance coaching strengthens relationships crucial for success. Boards must grasp their role in fostering positive relationships with stakeholders.
Sound governance involves reviewing practices via surveys and interviews. Independent coaching ensures authenticity and community success.
Coaching helps identify areas for improvement within a strengths-based approach, ensuring alignment and meeting statutory obligations. Positive psychology enriches governance culture.
Coaching supports ongoing governance improvement, clarifying roles and responsibilities within the organisational context and Executive team dynamics.
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Acquire DISC Flow including emotion intelligence Profiling Assessment from an executive expert with experience. A trained coach, can provide the necessary clarity for your organisation's future success. Being able to articulate your organisation's mission with clear goals in sync with strategy, is a significant step for any business.
Build trust and understanding within your team through individual, pair, or team profiling. Foster a positive culture that promotes learning and belonging at all levels of your organisation.
Enhance performance and productivity by improving relationships and aligning goals. Leadership profiling facilitates authentic decision-making and joint planning supported by strengths-based coaching.
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Embrace Positive Psychology to boost staff well-being and resilience in your organisation. Nurturing strengths fosters a supportive learning environment and drives personal growth, facilitated by strengths-based coaching.
Effective leadership requires emotional intelligence and adaptability to navigate challenges and unexpected changes.
Once established, assess why goals aren't met—is it due to strategic misunderstandings, frustrations, or emotional barriers? Cultivating a growth mindset enhances engagement and motivation.
Is your organisation ready for change management with a Positive Psychology approach? Leading Impact offers evidence-based research to drive best practice.
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Providing timely and relevant resources is crucial for effective work. Equitable distribution of success keys and shared professional development opportunities nourishes learning leaders. Staff members are encouraged to identify development opportunities while considering the big picture.
Leading Impact aligns professional development plans with individual profiles, creating dynamic plans through engaging coaching sessions. Monitoring goal progress improves outcomes, fostering a sense of ownership and collaboration.
Let Leading Impact support your organisation with Transformational Leadership.
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Leading Impact provides an Employer Assistance Program that specialises in confidentially coaching staff for both personal and professional work-related challenges. E.g. Finding solutions to challenges in the workplace, care of self, conflict, balancing work, and home, feeling unsafe, setting goals, career planning and much more. This program has been specifically designed with the needs of all staff in mind. This program is structured to help employees thrive, based on positive psychology where goals are leading impact! This program contributes to a positive and supportive work environment where you and your human capital's needs are paramount.
Services
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SWOT Analysis is about truly understanding your business and its human capital. This can be achieved by identifying Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT).
Through a Positive Psychology lens, relationships can be consolidated to enable this important work through leading impact!
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Governance Coaching
Executive Coaching
Strategic Planning Implementation
Alignment of Team Priorities
Conflict Management & Mediation
Professional Discflow Profiling
Leadership Training & Professional Development
Change Management
Data Driven Practice
Curriculum or Business Content Revisited
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Coaching (Transformational Leadership)
Personal Goal Setting
Positive Psychology
Personal Growth
Health & Wellbeing
Resume Reviews
Career Pathways
Job Search Strategies
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Coaching
Longer Term Team Welfare
Talent Management
Dynamics & Culture Strategy
Strategic Organisational & Operational Planning
Business priorities
Innovation Workshops
Curriculum or business content
Tailored to the context
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Health and Wellbeing
Customised Culture Shift Programs
Disc Flow and Emotional Intelligence Profiling Across Teams
Toxic Culture 180
Making decisions
Working through conflict
Independent Breakthrough Coaching
Dealing with the Complexity
Adaptable and Impactful Leadership
Celebrating the Learning
Testimonials
“Leading and coaching a team to achieve excellence in executive leadership was most impressive. I commend Maree”.
Robin Burnage (Vice Chair)
Maree helped me refine my goals and aspirations where they become clear, compelling and achievable”.
Patrick Fitzgerald (Teacher)
“Maree is a very inclusive coach. She was welcoming and took the time to assist me in clarifying my business goals. This led to my next career steps”.
Polly Wu (Finance Manager & Taxation Specialist)
“As a coach, Maree was my lifeline. She listened intently and gave me a voice to navigate my options. I was able to achieve my career aspirations”.
Lucy Beadle (Teacher)
“As a family business, sometimes its tricky to see the wood from the trees. Maree helped us to navigate exciting new pathways. We couldn’t have done it without her”.
Sharyn Lowe (Business Director)
“Maree has exemplary led professionals working in Early Childhood to Adolescence. Her expertise in learning culture makes her a perfect coach”.
Claire Cubis-Edwards (Human Resources Director)
Unlock your potential.
Melbourne Office
Global Coaching Available
maree@leadingimpact.com.au
0467 676 091