Testimonials

I am thrilled and daunted all at once! Thank you for your on-going support - I don't think you realise how much I have appreciated your belief in me and what I do.  Senior Leader 

Thank you for the important role you played in helping me develop the business I had only really started imagining just over a year ago.  Entrepreneur

 Comments from participants about Amanda’s effectiveness as the facilitator of a two-day forum:

• Very helpful, especially when we were ‘stuck’!
• Very professional.
• Very well done. Great comments from others too. I especially rated the preparedness to face conflict and to make sure that issues were dealt with.
• Great job Amanda!
• I thought, quite honestly, that Amanda did a very good job in difficult circumstances.
• Allowed for discussion and reflection.
• Very friendly and pleasant.
• Amanda is an excellent facilitator who has great powers of concentration and enormous patience. She accepted all points of view and was able to give an excellent precis of all different opinions at all times.
• Particularly good in the handling of 'explosive reaction.'
• I thought it was well balanced and not intrusive.
• We are a difficult group to ‘facilitate’ - Amanda saved it!

Just a note to say a huge THANK YOU for all of your professional and personal support over the past few months. The meetings I had with you provided me with some insights and thoughts that have helped me to look at things in a more positive way. The strategies and skills you provided me with have helped me through a very busy and stressful time. These are skills I will always have to help when it all gets a bit much. Thank you for your professionalism and warmth – I will never forget this.  Senior Leader

 I find Amanda’s personal, yet professional approach to coaching enables me to regenerate, invigorate and question my own immediate and long-term goals. One of the aspects I appreciate most when working with Amanda is her ability to encourage me to summarise my action plan into manageable parts. The choices I have made as a result of Amanda’s coaching have taken me places I never dreamed of.  Senior Leader

Thank you Amanda.  You bring life to processes which can otherwise be quite tedious.  Senior Leader

 Your continued confidence in my capacity helps me enormously. Senior Leader

Hello Amanda

Just thought I’d make your day ... I love your amazing ability to ask questions to lead people to think things through to self discovery ... I was chatting with one of my staff trying to work towards meeting deadlines and i thought I’d have a crack at the Amanda style of getting the person to work through to solutions themselves ... 

Guess what - it is harder than it looks !!!!!!!!...  :)  so your job is safe. 

However I am not going to give up ... so not only are you helping me grow personally, you are modelling fantastic interpersonal communication skills.  Thank you.  School Principal 

Thanks again for all your thoughts, ideas and input. Our practice and document are, and will be, so much the better because of your contribution.  Thank you. Senior Executive 

The team that developed and presented this module did an exceptional job in catering to the needs of the NT group. The material was exceptional in its relevance and wider application.  I would like to commend the team for leading one of the best professional learning sessions I have ever attended. Whilst what was presented was challenging; it has clearly supported the development of my understanding and what is happening in my school. 

Feedback for university based team (including Amanda) delivering professional development to Principals in Darwin

Thanks for your dedication, commitment and perseverance!!   Committee Chair

Once again thank you for re-energizing and inspiring us.  Your knowledge and presentation skills are exceptional.

Staff Group

The best planning day I've attended!  

 HR professional; government agency

Last year I found myself at a professional crossroads and was lucky enough to be able to work with Amanda to build myself a way forward.  I am still in awe at how quickly Amanda helped me clarify some issues, explore potential solutions and re-wire outdated bad habits of thinking.  I count myself very lucky to have met Amanda when I did, she is a game-changer.

Chief Finance Officer

Amanda, a variety of teachers at the College have commented warmly upon your assistance with this project. They have found your contribution to be clear, informed, practical and systematic and your professional style to be supportive, challenging, affirming and respectful of their needs, skills and qualities. I am delighted with the success of your work with the College and sincerely thank you for the manner with which it was conducted.

College Principal

Amanda, your gentle, yet decisive leadership over this time has been a gift to us.  Your ability to allow each one to feel unthreatened is a miracle.

Team member after conflict coaching

What a gift you have been to our organization during 2011 - thank you.

CEO