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Careers coaching panel

Personal and professional development with expert coaches
The MBA Careers Coaching Panel aims to advance your career through premier personal and professional development provided by experienced coaches.

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 .

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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.

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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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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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Shehana Sicinski

Shehana Sicinski is an experienced Leadership and Career Coach with a passion for guiding MBA students through the process of articulating their value, identifying their strengths, and discovering career opportunities that align with their goals and aspirations. Her approach is supportive and results-oriented, focusing on helping students build confidence in their abilities and develop a clear sense of direction for their post-MBA careers. With a background in recruitment, Shehana specialises in coaching executives in resume development, interview preparation, and career planning. Shehana incorporates mindfulness and well-being practices to support high-performing processionals to unlock their full potential and achieve sustainable success.

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Tess Everingham

Tess will help you to focus on what’s next. She will encourage you to take action and grow in confidence, as you proactively manage your career. Tess provides honest feedback across all levels of the career management cycle. With her relaxed, honest and authentic style, Tess is easy to speak with. She has a positive energy and believes in her clients.

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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

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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.

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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.

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