Sachi Wimmer

Sachi has over 25 years’ experience in the public sector, 15 years of those in the senior executive service. She concluded her career in the Australian Public Service as the Deputy CEO of an agency and brings her extensive knowledge and skills to executive coaching.
Sachi has held senior roles spanning strategy, change and transformation, governance, policy, regulation and operations in the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Home Affairs, Agriculture, Environment and Infrastructure and Transport. She has also worked in agencies such as Customs (now ABF) and AMSA. Sachi has led issues as diverse as national security, natural resource management, maritime safety and crisis response, large workforces, high profile task forces, and teams based in Australia and overseas.
Her interests and strengths are in helping people: achieve their career aspirations, including how to influence, build presence and capability; think strategically, position for the future, make time for strategy and lead and communicate, particularly when managing change, dealing with uncertainty, and resolving complex issues.
Sachi’s long experience as a senior executive means she understands the issues and challenges involved in senior roles. Through her coaching she offers a confidential and empathetic advisory opportunity for senior leaders needing to work through issues and explore options.

Helen Innes

Helen is a Senior Consultant and coach who spent 25 years in the Australian Public Service including 11 years at the Senior Executive level. Commencing her career in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and working most of her career in the Employment portfolio, she has since worked on many complex public policy issues, including social services, women’s workforce participation, homelessness, disability and migration. Helen also worked as First Assistant Secretary, People and Communications before retiring from the APS in early 2020. Helen has worked with Executive Intelligence Group undertaking recruitment management and search assignments for the past three years.

Dawn Casey

Dawn has over 21 years’ experience to Division head (Band 2 level) in the Australian Public Service (APS) across a range of portfolios. Her international aid experience includes two years working for AusAID in the Solomon Islands. Dawn has a background in implementing the government’s agenda in social policy, economic reform, marketing and strategic change management. Her strengths include delivering on strategic imperatives and achieving results through people. Dawn has undertaken the role of coach, mentor and facilitator for staff at Senior Executive and middle management levels for a number of years and she has a solid understanding of public sector culture, its context and environment. Since establishing her consulting business in 2010 Dawn has undertaken a large number of projects. She has achieved Level 3 Coaching accreditation with the Institute of Executive Coaching. Her coaching work has primarily been with Senior Executive Service (SES) staff, managers and departmental officers within the APS and has a focus on building leadership and people management capabilities, developing high performing teams and successfully managing career progression and transition. She has also coached people to resolve team conflict in the workplace and to address complex staff management issues.

Jeremy Chandler

Jeremy works primarily with APS clients between EL2 and SES Band 2. He also works with clients in other public service jurisdictions, the private sector and the not-for-profit sector.

In supporting clients, he draws on his former experience working at SES levels in the APS. He also draws on the experience and insights from the high-level management consulting work he continue to do across a range of organisations. Coaching clients frequently value that that he brings contemporary understanding of the complex business environments within which they work and the challenges they confront as leaders.

Many clients look for support in positioning themselves for promotion and for interview preparation. Others commonly seek support during stages of transition in their career or organisation. Development of leadership skills is a frequent area of focus.

Cathy Mauk

Cathy began her formal work as a trained coach in 2007, having provided support and advice to APS managers and executives as well as private sector and not-for-profit CEOs for many years through her management consulting practice. As a consultant, a facilitator and a coach she has drawn on her diverse background as a lawyer, a senior manager, a business owner, a university lecturer and tutor, a health professional and a writer. Cathy has a solid understanding of the environment and culture of the APS gained through seventeen years of providing strategy development; policy, program and structural reviews; business improvement; project management; change management; tendering and contracting; HR and team development, management and leadership development program design and facilitation in core business and corporate areas for over 25 separate public sector agencies. She has provided similar services to the state governments in Tasmania, NSW and Victoria, and internationally in Indonesia, Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Macau and the United States. Her coaching clients have included senior public servants, CEOS, academics, health care providers, lawyers, police, entrepreneurs, and individuals involved in the arts.

Mark Thomann

Mark worked in the public and community sectors for over thirty years. In that time he led high performing teams with responsibilities as diverse as the social policy expenditure of the Federal Budget, Australian Government transport infrastructure investment, Indigenous health, hospital funding, aged and community care, and community housing.

Mark has applied strong people skills to getting results throughout his successful senior executive career. His coaching practice reflects his enthusiasm and interest in coaching people to achieve their best and focuses on new and emerging leaders, career transitions and working in cross-cultural contexts. He has a Certificate in Organisational Coaching (Level 1) from the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership.

Sarah Lowe

Sarah’s coaching is defined by a commitment to accountability and real-world results, ensuring that leaders not only set goals but achieve them in meaningful ways.

Sarah has dedicated much of her career to coaching individuals and teams to reach their highest potential. Her journey includes more than a decade as a senior executive, where she managed one of Australia’s largest and most complex service contracts with a Federal Government client. With extensive experience spanning both the private and public sectors, Sarah has developed a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities faced by leaders and employees in the modern workplace.  Sarah holds a master’s degree in human resources specialising in change and organisational behaviour, along with a Diploma of Coaching. She has further honed her expertise through the Art and Practice of Leadership Development program at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She designs and delivers customised coaching and development programs that empower leaders to navigate and thrive in today’s volatile and ever-changing landscapes.

In addition, Sarah is a certified facilitator of the Hogan Personality Inventories and a member of the International Coaching Federation. She frequently uses Hogan profiles to uncover clients’ strengths, identify challenges, and highlight key motivators. All of which are crucial in driving personal and professional growth.

Don Lowe

With a focus on practical application and engaging interactions, Don deploys an unusual capacity for guiding clients through transformative change. His particular skill lies in developing highly individualised coaching approaches, which encompass the challenges, strengths and context of each client, and reveal the opportunities ‘lurking’ within each challenge. Don’s tailored approaches are grounded in trusting relationships with clients, and feature a combination of theory, imagination and experience. Don holds post-graduate qualifications in coaching and leadership, is an alumni of the Harvard Kennedy School’s ‘Art and Practice of Leadership Development’ program and is an Associate Certified Coach with the ICF. He has worked across multiple industries including state and federal public services, law enforcement, defence, commercial business, fire and emergency services, recruitment, and regulatory services.

Don is also certified facilitator of the Hogan Personality Inventories. He uses Hogan profiles to uncover clients’ strengths, identify challenges, and highlight key motivators. All of which are crucial in driving personal and professional growth.