Testimonials

Pami Kohli, Independent Business Owner At Tactical Move Consulting

Trina is truly an insightful executive coach. She was quickly able to identify my key strengths and challenges and helped me discover breakthrough strategies to maximise my career potential. She was patient, a great listener and her results-driven approach helped me achieve enhanced people skills and leadership tactics. Her holistic, intuitive guidance not only helped deliver great results at work but also helped me achieve personal goals and significantly improved my work-life balance.

Peter Klok, National Operations Manager – Aviation at Caltex

I consider myself to be very fortunate to have had 3 consecutive years of expert coaching from Trina, her insights, challenges and intuition have been invaluable to my professional and personal development. With Trina’s guidance, I able to improve my self-awareness, to live consciously and courageously in line with my values, all of which were targeted at improving my “brand”. Trina brings substantial experience and I would without hesitation recommend Trina to professionals who are looking to and willing to benefit (career and life as a whole) from Executive Coaching.

Andrew Clark, Assistant General Manager at AFL

I have been working with Trina for the past two years and she has been integral to me making a meaningful career transition. Through Trina’s coaching, I have been able to bring some process and frameworks to difficult decisions and to gain clarity as to what should be in my future. I have found Trina is able to cut through to core issues and challenges me to think more deeply or see in a different way. I can highly recommend Trina to any professional that is serious about making the most of their future career.

Vin Lucas, HR Professional

Trina is a special person and exceptional executive coach. The time I spent with Trina helped me enormously to think clearly about the professional challenges I faced as a business leader as well as the personal challenges. Trina has a fantastic style and the ability to listen, understand, focus and redirect the head and heart for increased clarity and meaning. I would highly recommend her to others seeking a top end coach that can make a difference for you.

Chauntel Considine, Licensed Estate Agent/Auctioneer, Considine Real Estate

Trina is very experienced in her field, she is great to deal with (very personable & intuitive), a fantastic executive coach, she was strategic with her advice and thorough. Trina helped me with leadership work and creating a successful team environment, she also coached me through different cycles in my business. I would highly recommend Trina as a coach or consultant.

Simon Kelley, Renewables Manager, Group Operations at AGL Energy Ltd

Trina was an excellent coach for me during a period of significant professional growth. She is astute in identifying character strengths to leverage off and provided constructive methods to develop in areas that were previously a challenge for me. She was also very enjoyable to work with, a good mix of humour and guidance.

Matt Stone, GM Production at Oil Search Limited

Through an important phase of my career, Trina supported my personal and professional development which led, I believe, to me becoming a more mature, confident and well-rounded organisational leader. Trina’s style is very engaging, genuine and personal; a holistic approach with an exploration into all aspects of life with the ultimate aim of developing me to perform at my peak. As I transitioned from a site based operational leadership role to more of an office based strategic leadership role Trina provided practical guidance and tools that I could use now as well as continuing to develop my capabilities into the future. Trina acted as confidant, counsel, supporter and challenger who very much celebrated and shared in my successes as well as working constructively on setbacks. There is a calm and considered perspective in her conversation, indicative of someone who is really listening and understands the challenges that industry leaders currently face. The coaching was values based and infused with the challenge around my workplace behaviours and habits to enable me to become even more self-aware and ultimately more effective. It was a very enjoyable interaction, one that often left me with alternate perspectives, new ideas, thoughts and often reflection beyond our interface. I look forward to working together again in the future.

Strategic Advisor, Department of Justice

I came to professional coaching with a tremendous amount of skepticism and general reluctance, however, participated in a mandatory session with Trina as part of the course I was doing at the time.  During the conversation, which focused on my professional and personal life and future, Trina was
able to tactfully demonstrate – through her engagement and capacity to challenge – the benefits of professional coaching.  After meeting with Trina and discussing a large range of issues in the coaching environment, I left with two overwhelming insights: one; that through professional coaching I could potentially grow as an effective leader in my professional and personal life, and two; that I am, right now, in possession of many of the tools to be an effective leader – they just need to be harnessed.

I have since entered into an ongoing professional coaching arrangement with Trina and have seen a palpable change in my approach to people and situations. Through Trina’s coaching, I have developed as a professional leader and continue to receive encouraging comments from a number of people about the change they have witnessed in me over the past six months.

 Principal, Law Firm

Trina is a very insightful person. She is adept at getting to the nub of an issue, and exploring all avenues.  She always makes me feel at ease and more like talking to a good friend.

 HR Director, FMCG

Sometimes the listener, sometimes the supporter, sometimes the agent that leads me to think from new and different perspectives. Always the so well rounded and very balanced coach that can seem like a friend, business confidant and personal development support all in one. A very trusted coach that I greatly appreciate from the head and the heart.

 National Fleet Manager, Department of Defence

Sometimes the listener, sometimes the supporter, sometimes the agent that leads me to think from new and different perspectives. Always the so well rounded and very balanced coach that can seem like a friend, business confidant and personal development support all in one. A very trusted coach that I greatly appreciate from the head and the heart.

Assistant Director, Victorian Public Sector

Trina’s coaching has made a significant impact on my effectiveness at work.
Her coaching techniques have assisted me through very difficult times and have enabled me to move beyond just coping with some of the challenges, to proactively and positively make changes. I now have many more tools at my disposal to improve performance across my areas of responsibility. She is also knows how to be tough when needed!

Project Director, Stationary Energy Supply Industry

I engaged Trina at the commencement of a sharp upward curve in my career. Charged with considerable new accountabilities and leadership requirements, Trina proved to be an excellent confide and counsel to assist meet my own and my employers aspirations and expectations. Trina has an excellent ethical compass, and combined with her strong skills in organisational psychology, I found her approach to coaching and development to be ideal.

After some 7 months working together, I can easily look back and identify exactly the strengths we consolidated, and the areas where I am now far more accomplished in, especially in terms of my leadership style and engagement of stakeholders.

I would recommend Trina in circumstances where as a leader you have a wide set of relationships to manage, and need to be adaptive to diverse forums where at the end of the day, it is required that you shine through as an inspirer, a strategic principal and first-in-command problem solver

Project Director, Stationary Energy Supply Industry

I engaged Trina at the commencement of a sharp upward curve in my career. Charged with considerable new accountabilities and leadership requirements, Trina proved to be an excellent confide and counsel to assist meet my own and my employers aspirations and expectations. Trina has an excellent ethical compass, and combined with her strong skills in organisational psychology, I found her approach to coaching and development to be ideal.

After some 7 months working together, I can easily look back and identify exactly the strengths we consolidated, and the areas where I am now far more accomplished in, especially in terms of my leadership style and engagement of stakeholders.

I would recommend Trina in circumstances where as a leader you have a wide set of relationships to manage, and need to be adaptive to diverse forums where at the end of the day, it is required that you shine through as an inspirer, a strategic principal and first-in-command problem solver

MANAGER, Papuan Oil Search Limited 

‘Trina has been supporting me for a number of years. It’s a very personal relationship which explores all aspects of my life with the ultimate aim of enabling me to be the best that I can be at any point in time.

Trina provides me with practical guidance and tools that I can use today as well as continuing to develop my capabilities for more senior roles in the future. Hers is very much a holistic approach, where focus on the personal aspects of life are just as relevant and necessary as the focus on career.

Trina acts as confidant, counsel, supporter and challenger who very much celebrates and shares in my successes as well as working constructively on setbacks.

There is a calm and considered perspective in her conversation, indicative of someone who is really listening to what I am saying and considering a response appropriate to me and my situation, rather than quoting from some industry recognised text. It’s a very enjoyable interaction, one that often leaves me with different perspectives, new ideas and thoughts and often reflection well beyond our interface.