Our Coaches

Ken Maley

Ken Maley has come to professional coaching via a twenty-five year career in the media. As a photographer with the West Australian newspaper, Ken learned the art of effective communication through daily interaction with people from all facets of society in every imaginable circumstance. He estimates that he has enabled well over 20,000 people to relax in front of the camera!

A chance encounter with Coach School director Kim Lisson, several years ago, first raised Ken’s interest in coaching. As a client he was enabled to make powerful decisions in his life, and was fascinated by the resonance of coaching with the skills that he had intuitively developed over the years in his life in photojournalism. It was a natural progression for Ken to add the rigour of academic study to his natural gift in this area.

Ken ranks his family as number one priority in life. He is married with three children, one of whom has a disability. At first he assessed his son’s condition as a crisis, but has been through a learning journey that has led him to be grateful for the unique gifts that all of his children offer.

While he finds that his wide ranging life experience equips him for successfully and empathetically coaching to people from all sectors of the community, he particularly enjoys coaching with other men who are dealing with life’s challenges.

In Ken’s view there is nothing as practical and down to earth as listening and responding to our inner voice, and he loves being with people as they open new doors.

Ken believes that it is impossible to be in a state of unhappiness while being grateful or generous, and tries to practise both. He likes to laugh, and confesses to have a somewhat wacky sense of humour!

I admire how perceptive he is and I definitely respect that he is coaching for the benefit of others.

He has an amazing ability to see something good in almost everything. I never felt judged or that my issues were not worthy. Ken made me feel very comfortable throughout the coaching sessions.

I appreciated Ken’s supportive nature and intuition. Ken regularly picked out pieces on information that I had never thought of or recognised. The ease with which he presents himself put me at ease!

Pauline Wearne

With over 10 years teaching experience in Australia and overseas, including with young offenders, Pauline has become very interested in and drawn to facilitated learning, in particular the way this process encourages focus, stimulation and engagement. More recently Pauline has worked within the financial services industry focussing on relationship management and creating training solutions for a wide variety of clients.

Pauline’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education and a Master of Education, all from Edith Cowan University. She also has a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. Pauline sees herself as an educator but more importantly, as a life long learner and believes that this perspective enhances her approach to coaching.

Pauline has been coaching clients who are working through a full spectrum of personal and professional transitions, experiences and directions. She is excited by the clarity; potential and possibility; and self-awareness that occur through coaching, and the relational aspect of working with individuals to fulfil their potential, affect change within their lives and work places, and achieve their goals.

Pauline is committed to journeying with others through the process of coaching and facilitated learning. She is fascinated by people, their lives, stories, cultures and perspectives. Pauline views coaching as a unique and dynamic process and feels honoured to have this as her vocation.

Pauline thinks of herself as having gypsy blood, the happy wanderer with a passion for travel and experiencing places, art, people and cultures. This is balanced by her enjoyment of being with her family and friends.

“Pauline is professional, calm and very supportive which I believe are essential to caoching. I also did not feel as if we were watching the clock and she also allowed me to talk and come to a solution via her guiding”.

“Pauline has the ability to stay with the client in a very focused way. To me this communicates great care”.

“I feel like Pauline hears everything – that is extremely reassuring and the focus that one is allowed in this forum feels very special”.

Tanya McAullay

Tanya has been very successful in Sales, Business Development and Account Management in both Melbourne and Perth. This path started in tourism, then media and most recently adult training and development. As part of her career she has been involved in a range of training qualifications, always thoroughly engaging in the field in which she is working, focusing on the client and their needs.

Tanya’s experience as a coach includes working with a variety of people who are particularly looking for clarity and direction in their lives. Her focus is to work from the principle that the client is the expert of their life, and to then facilitate this discovery. Tanya has coached clients in both Australia and overseas, discovering the unique skill required for telephone coaching.

Tanya has always been interested in personal growth and development and believes that each person has the capacity to achieve their own goals. Tanya acknowledges that the pace of daily life doesn’t often allow the opportunity to share or grow your own “story”. Coaching really allows each individual this opportunity. Coaching provides Tanya with the opportunity to support and encourage people to learn and move towards their own personal achievements – to live a great life!

She started her own coaching business this year, Diamond Coaching — a business name chosen to acknowledge the amount of dedication and commitment that is needed (by miners) to uncover hidden gems. Tanya believes that a similar dedication and commitment is necessary for personal development. Tanya naturally approaches her clients with warmth and enthusiasm. Her second language is Japanese and she always has a bag packed ready for a travel adventure!

‘I admire Tanya’s interpersonal skills, her positive attitude and her enthusiasm for life in general”.

“I felt safe and cared for, the coach maintained a good “presence”, attentiveness, space, silence and most importantly, did not try to “fix”.

Anne Courtney

Anne’s work choices have followed her personal passion for creating a more sustainable world and as such the last twenty years have been spent working in a variety of roles in the community sector. Anne has many years experience in providing direct care at a practical and emotional level for people needing support due to a variety of circumstances (young people in foster care, frail aged people and people with limited resources). In many roles, she saw the benefit of getting people to work together as a community to address their own challenges. She has also worked in organisations that specifically aim to educate and inspire people to become active in creating a better world by following their own passions. Having managed a non-government organisation for seven years, Anne took a turn in her career to focus on coaching people to reach their potential and thus enabling them to more powerfully contribute their gifts to others and the community.

Anne has a Bachelor of Social Work, Graduate Diploma in Arts (Religious Studies) and a Business Qualification in Leadership and Management. As an avid learner, Anne is currently exploring the world of creative conflict and non-violence. In this vein, she has recently trained as a facilitator in Open Space Technology.

Anne enjoys working with both individuals and organisations. She works with a range of individuals who seek coaching to assist them to discern and take the next step in their life journey. Anne is comfortable focusing on whatever area of a person’s life is their current learning edge. Many of her clients seek coaching to focus on self development challenges, relationships, transitions in work and life roles, work/life balance among others. She also works with leaders and various practitioners in community sector organisations to support and assist their learning as they undertake their important roles in the community.

Anne is a fellow traveler and learner who is committed to her own journey and struggles. It is from this space that she listens with compassion and hope to the story of another. In this process, she finds that there is much to be grateful for, much to take seriously and even more to laugh about.

Anne is grateful for the love of her husband, family and friends and the many blessings that have come her way in being able to do the work she loves, to have experienced many cultures and places in the world and for the many inspirational people who have lit her way. In her spare time she is serious about reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and inspired by the notion that we have the resources to “make poverty history” in the world. She finds it extremely easy to laugh at the ridiculous in all of us with friends, family and colleagues.

“Anne was always very affirming and celebrated even the tiniest of movement”

“It has been a rewarding experience. The relationship was based on trust, understanding and honesty. I felt listened to and understood. It felt like a working relationship; two people interested and engaged in making achievable goals.”

“My coaching experience has been just so helpful. I found the process hands on, direct, encouraging, forward thinking, positive and inspiring…It was also damn good fun, with useful exercises, good coffee, relaxing surroundings and lots of laughs which is what I need to work effectively.”

Janine Warden

Janine has more than 20 years experience in leadership and people management in Travel & Tourism, Government, Energy and Telecommunications. Working predominately within contact centre environments she fostered a ‘coaching approach’ to support and develop others to be the best they could be! More recently Janine has been working within the recruitment industry and actively involved in return to work programs for long term unemployed.

Janine’s qualifications include a Diploma of Professional Coaching and Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. Her journey as a professional coach began when she engaged her own coach to help clarify and plan a new future for herself. This profound desire for a ‘sea change’, prompted by two significant life events also awakened her interest in adult transitions and lifelong learning.

Director of her own coaching practice Balanced Momentum, Janine partners clients in the areas of personal development, individual achievement, career enrichment and lifestyle balance. She also specialises in 1-1 coaching for enhanced performance, authentic leadership and career/role transition within corporate settings, working with leaders and emerging leaders.

Janine brings to her coaching relationships a passion for supporting others to be the best they can be combined with the belief that everyone has the potential within to be successful and to live their dreams. She feels honoured to be a coach partnering others on their unique journeys.

Stuart Wesley

Stuart Wesley has been involved in leadership and communication for the past 20 years within church ministry both at a local and national level, youth work, high schools and small business. His vocation centres around supporting others in the pursuit of their own personal vision and contribution in the world.

Having commenced working life in the building industry, Stuart went on to complete a Bachelor of Theology degree and is now a recent graduate of Coach School’s Diploma of Professional Coaching. Coaching is something Stuart has been heavily involved in over many years, regularly finding himself supporting others in getting clear about how to move forward in their lives. Coach training has sharpened his skills in this field and added professional rigour to his intuitive coaching style.

His current coaching clients include people from many walks of life as varied as professionals in the corporate sector to young people working in the community sector.

Stuart’s sense of personal fulfilment comes from seeing the success of others. His coaching business is named Fulfilment Solutions because of a core belief that human beings can find meaning and fulfilment in their lives no matter what has happened in the past. Every person has a contribution to make on planet earth, and it is a contribution that only they can make. The fun of life is found in being and doing what you are made for.

Jo Marshall - Certificate Co-ordinator, Mentor Coach

Jo Marshall has a background in management and education. She is passionate about facilitating a work place or a “school place” that is challenging and satisfying - a place where people can make meaningful contribution and also grow and develop - considering that we spend a large proportion of our lives in these spaces.

Jo has an MBA (UWA 2000) and completed the Diploma of Professional Coaching with Coach School in 2004. Jo currently enjoys the variety of a portfolio career working at UWA, Central TAFE, her own coaching business - Intelligent Performance Leveraging, and now with Coach School.
As part of a rich and balanced life, Jo’s family is very important. She also enjoys running and fun runs, socialising with friends, arts and crafts, festival movies and gardening.

How do I know who is the best coach for me?

Like to hire a Coach, or find out more?

To find out more about hiring one of our coaches, contact Jo Marshall at jo.marshall@windingstaircase.com.au or call her on 0414 425 123.

Jo is more than happy to discuss with you your coaching needs and to make a recommendation for the coach, or coaches, that might best suit you. She can also answer your questions concerning coaching fees and coaching processes.

For corporate or team coaching, through Biz School, we can offer a panel of coaches with relevant backgrounds in executive and middle management, human resource development, organisational development and management consulting. Click here for more information.