Careers coaching panel
Meet our coaches
We have partnered with the coaches on our panel to provide reputable, expert coaching services for leadership and talent development, redeployment and outplacement, and workshop facilitation.
Betty Xiang
Betty Xiang is an MBA Career Development Specialist with over 10 years of experience providing career management support to MBA and other Management students and alumni. She regularly advises and coaches MBA students and alumni in developing their individual career plans and strategies in conjunction with the MBA study to achieve their career goals .
Barbara Mackie
Barb Mackie has over twenty years working in career education in the university sector, most recently specialising in coaching MBA students. Each MBA student has a compelling story, and the opportunity to reimagine their careers through design thinking. Using a strengths-based approach to career development, Barb coaches MBA students to clarify their purpose, explore options, leverage from past experience and create a future. Barb has a track record in guiding students to articulate their personal profile and presence (in person and online) to develop and expand strategic networks and relationships to bring career goals to reality, gaining confidence and managing uncertainty.
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Eva McArdle
Eva is an accredited executive coach with a Master's degree in Organisational Psychology and extensive business experience across multiple countries and industries, including Fortune 500 companies. Her diverse background and unique perspective greatly inform her coaching approach. Eva is dedicated to helping business leaders reach higher levels of performance quickly and effectively. She firmly believes in the power of coaching to accelerate professional growth, and her clients attest to the valuable insights and perspectives gained through their work with her. This, in turn, has led to unlocking new opportunities and achieving their goals.
Jenny Kahn
Jenny Kahn holds an MBA (Macquarie Business School), Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), and is a qualified coach (IECL), mediator (Resolution Institute) and an accredited facilitator. She has extensive experience as an executive and career coach and has coached MBA and Master of Management students at Macquarie Business School. She is accredited in Hogan and FourSight. Jenny has worked in the private, public and not-for profit sectors in Australia and internationally for a wide range of organizations including Price Waterhouse, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank, HCF, St Vincent’s Hospital, ANSTO, The ABC, Transport for NSW. Jenny’s experience includes Organizational Change Management, Learning and Development and Career Transition Management.
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Kaushik Sridhar
Dr. Kaushik Sridhar (FGIA, GAICD) brings a unique blend of expertise as a sustainability leader and a seasoned career coach with a background in mentoring over 500 professionals at various career stages. In his coaching sessions, Kaushik helps individuals uncover career pathways that align with their values, strengths, and aspirations, offering tailored guidance on resume enhancement, interview preparation, leadership development, and networking strategies. He is committed to empowering coachees to build confidence, articulate their value, and navigate complex career transitions.
Kaushik also specialises in coaching professionals seeking to enter or advance in sustainability and ESG fields, guiding them on the nuances of the industry and essential skills to stand out. His extensive experience working with CEOs, senior executives, and startups worldwide allows him to provide practical insights into career growth, strategic decision-making, and impactful leadership.
Through Orka Advisory, he has not only helped shape the careers of individuals globally but also advises on personal branding and positioning for senior roles. Kaushik’s coaching approach emphasises actionable feedback, personal empowerment, and measurable progress, enabling coachees to make informed, purpose-driven career moves.
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Lisa Tracy
Lisa connects her clients to their intelligence and creativity. She is warm, expressive and supportive in setting meaningful goals. An expert in the sustainability sector, she optimises strategies for achievement of SDGs. Leaders coached by Lisa have launched impact startups. Lisa adopts a strengths-based coaching approach. She has delivered programs across all levels of business and industry sectors. For over a decade she has been advocating for professionals to bring their values to work. Her clients contribute to a fairer economy and a more humane and greener world.
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Lisl Pietersz
My coaching passion is to prepare individuals to pivot and adapt to change in their career or life circumstance. I offer a supportive, real-world and evidence-based coaching approach, backed by more than 10 years’ experience coaching managers and senior executives from start-ups to global technology organisations. My coaching specialties span personal branding, self-marketing and communicating your story with presence across a range of channels.
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Paul Sansom
Paul is a globally experienced CEO with a diverse background in large multinational organisations across Europe, Africa, and Australia. With a proven track record of sustainable transformation in complex businesses, Paul has expertise in leading culture and performance change.
He has a passion for people development and succession planning and has represented various boards and worked directly with the government on industry policy and international trade.
Paul has a strong reputation as a global leader, attracting top talent and building diverse leadership teams. He has a rare combination of a transformational and servant leadership style, with a clear "people first" approach.
Paul has led a $3.5 billion revenue business in Australia, across six sites and 600 people, with a distribution model of 180 group retail sites employing over 18,000 people under a franchise agreement. He has also worked in businesses in Europe and Africa with various Volkswagen Group brands, Jaguar Cars, and the Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWest leasing division.
Paul volunteers as the honorary CEO of Our Big Kitchen in Sydney, providing over 5,000 hot meals per week for those in need. Paul has a certificate in business sustainability from Cambridge University and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
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Shehana Sicinski
Shehana is a seasoned Leadership and Career Development Coach with nearly a decade of experience empowering executives and senior leaders to achieve their career aspirations. Her mission is to help you uncover your driving forces and leverage your MBA program to attain the career success you desire.
With a keen insight into human behavior, Shehana has guided numerous clients in breaking through self-imposed barriers such as resistance to change and imposter syndrome. Her ability to push boundaries and expand comfort zones empowers you to set audacious goals and unleash your full potential.
Drawing on her background in marketing and recruitment, Shehana offers expert guidance in crafting compelling resumes and mastering the art of storytelling in interviews. She integrates mindfulness and well-being practices to elevate the performance, presence, and mindset of high-achieving professionals like you through coaching.
Shehana is committed to supporting you on your journey to career fulfilment, providing the tools, strategies, and mindset shifts necessary for your success.
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Tess Everingham
Tess is a highly sought-after career coach, leadership consultant and facilitator, and has built an impressive reputation in career transition, strategic career management, leadership development, professional reinvention and personal transformation.
A Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, Tess has decades of experience working with C-suite executives, leaders and teams from top-tier organisations including Westpac, Uber, Optus, CommBank, NSW Transport, KPMG, Fairfax Media, Qantas, Nestle, Nine Entertainment and CSIRO.
Highly professional, inspiring and authentic, Tess’ approach to client transformation starts with building strong relationships, trust and self-belief. Combined with unique insights, actionable takeaways and warm wisdom, Tess is a master at empowering, inspiring and motivating her clients to realise their true potential and take action to achieve their work and life aspirations.
Areas of speciality include:
- Career transition
- Leadership development
- Career management
- Personal brand and executive presence
Tim Hicks
Tim has specialist capability and experience in developing leadership capability with impact in people managers. His coaching is underpinned by a MSc.(Coaching Psychology), MMktg (MGSM), a BSc.(HMS) along with a background in senior leadership roles in multinational and ASX listed companies across multiple sectors. He will help you tap into your potential – and successfully make pivotal career transitions whether that be a promotion, a functional move, or a career change
Yvonne Coburn
Yvonne is an experienced human resources professional and executive coach currently working mainly in the services sector, including in financial services, legal services, health, education, travel and entertainment, and in the government sector. In the past she has also worked in manufacturing and FMCG. She developed many of her best coaching skills working with clients across those diverse areas. She is highly approachable and has a warmth, energy and enthusiasm for engagement with others, as well as a deep desire to assist individuals to advance their performance and their careers.
Aishwarya Sharma (Ash)
Ash is an ex-McKinsey management consultant with over 12 years of experience in career and leadership coaching, business strategy and corporate communications. Having completed her own MBA from Sydney several years ago, she is well placed to help our full-time and executive MBA students get the most out of their MBAs. She is brilliant at supporting students in cracking the ‘what next’ and ‘how’ of their professional journeys, on any front and especially on consulting.
As a fast-progressor who has worked closely for senior executives including CEOs, Country Chairs, Presidents, Ash leverages her own experience of pivoting, upskilling and progressing to support students’ career decisions and journeys. No matter how lost (or clear) you are about your next steps, she ensures that you get a very practical and solutions-oriented support vs a theoretical or superficial guidance.
In addition, she is also great at partnering with international students or immigrant professionals, to help them best translate their overseas experience for a flourishing Australian career. So, whether you are looking to pivot, grow or diversify in your existing career, or take your very first step towards consulting or something completely new, Ash would be a great thought partner and coach on that special journey.
Bruno de Sousa
Bruno has over nine years of experience in consulting across multiple geographies. His career started with Kearney, specializing in turnaround strategies in the wake of the GFC. After an INSEAD MBA, he moved to Australia to join the Strategy team at Woolworths. As a Senior Strategy Manager, Bruno is responsible for strategy development and delivering initiatives. This experience will help you explore your career options and put your interview skills to the test.
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Jelle Stoop
Jelle will help you leverage your MBA and, in particular, prepare for interviews with consulting firms. He is a Consultant at Bain & Company, passionate about untangling the toughest problems to help organizations reach their full potential. Before joining Bain, he obtained an MBA at the University of Sydney while transitioning from academia to consulting. He therefore understands what will be most actionable and critical for you when re-thinking your career and embracing a new skill set.