Sharon Pearson

Sharon Pearson’s first business, The Coaching Institute, was established as a way to assist future coaches to receive the level of training they need to be successful in a competitive marketplace. Since a first student intake of just 9 students, The Coaching Institute has gone on to train over 2,100 students, as well as delivering NLP training throughout Australia.

In just eight years The Coaching Institute has become the first choice for coach training in Australia, offering the only Diploma of Life Coaching to include ‘NLP Practitioner Certification’ and ‘How to Run a Successful Workshop’. The majority of Australia’s most successful coaches are graduates of this highly regarded program.

Click to read more on Sharon Pearson

Leonie Barnes

As you may have realised now, Leonie has joined us from the Sudan, where she has been with the United Nations managing the landmine clearance project in the Darfur region.

She hails from Darwin, daddy was a crocodile hunter (serious); she loves music and plays a mean BBQ guitar – specialising in the top ten drunk songs.... (“Can you play Hotel California.... can you play Smoke on the Water?”) etc, and she has studied Aikido ( a fairly obscure Japanese martial art) for the last 40 years).

She thinks Melbourne is cold and is waiting for summer... (and Godot)...

Joe Pane

Joe is the coaches' coach. He has trained in excess of 2000 coaches working in the field today.

His range of clients includes Jones Lange LaSalle, NAB, ANZ, Ray White, Hocking Stuart, The Coaching Institute, OAMPS Insurance, Coles Group. Joe is a Master Trainer in Extended DISC – an internationally accredited leading behavioural profiling tool. He is one of only 10 master trainers in Australia. Joe is degree qualified in Psychology.

Joe married his wife Silvana in 1996 and both are blessed with twin boys Oliver and Nicolas, born in 2008. Joe and his family live in Melbourne Australia.

Click here to email Joe

Alice Haemmerle

Alice is a certified Trainer of NLP, TCI Deep State Repatterning® and is a Master Success and Peak Performance Coach. She brings with her a wealth of experience and is a Founding Member of the Australian Board of NLP and the Creator and Director of the Instant Insight Communication Systems, for Business/Executive, Relationships, Sports and Sex Coaching.

Alice's clients have included Mercedes Benz, Roche Pharmaceutical, OzForex, Eventful Management, Lenovo, Winnebago as well as small businesses and hundreds of couples and individuals. She has also coached Olympians for the Summer and Winter Games in Sydney, Athens, Beijing and the Vancouver Games. Alice is a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald and other publications as their resident "Relationship & Sex Expert".

Alice is available on alice@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

Clare Cope

Clare is the creator of the "Values Pendulum", a dynamic, cross-contextual 'thinking-style' model which identifies the causes of unrealised individual performance and business growth.

The Values Pendulum harnesses personal preferences with environmental factors to create workable models for change. It is used by psychologists, coaches, consultants, trainers and leaders, giving them a real-time indicator and predictor of behaviour and outcomes. It is considered the first step measure of individual, team and organisational performance.

Clare is a specialist in the area of organisational psychology and works with organisations and business leaders assisting them to traverse business growth in rapid change environments.

Fiona Mangano

Fiona (aka Superwoman) is our Senior Course Consultant and Team Leader. Since starting with The Coaching Institute as a student over three years ago, Fiona has participated in almost every training The Coaching Institute has to offer and runs a successful training and coaching business. Fiona has now done around 1000 hours of coaching and training with Multi National Corporate, groups, small businesses and individuals and so she can help you get an insight into whether coaching might be for you!

Fiona is available on (03) 9608 7937 or email personalsuccess@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

Bridgette Reid

Bridgette (aka Storm) is a Senior Course Consultant. Bridgette began her journey as a student and coach in her own business five years ago. She has since had over 1200 hours experience of coaching individuals and groups both in Australia and Internationally. Bridgette is passionate about getting results and helping others make their dreams come true. In Bridgette's words, "Anything is possible!".

Bridgette is available on (03) 9608 7918 or email coachsuccess@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

Ananda Sleeman

Ananda is our Training and Development Manager. She has moved to Australia from Johannesburg, South Africa. She has an honors degree in Psychology & Criminology (Cum Laude) and absolutely loves fire dancing, singing, music, reading and being part of The Coaching Institute. We are incredibly proud to have Ananda on the A-Team, she is standing by to assist you towards greater success.

Ananda is available on (03) 9608 7923 or email eventsmanager@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

If you want to book in for any of our wonderful events, like Advanced Skills, How To Run A Successful Workshop or NLP Practitioner for example, email Ananda today!

Matt Smith

Matt is our Events Administrator. He recently graduated from Bachelor in Sport and Recreation Management in May. During his studies Matt spent a year in Germany where he learned to speak German and was exposed to international sports management. He is passionate about leading a healthy and active lifestyle and putting 100% into all of life’s missions.

Katie Blewitt

Katie is a Coach, a Facilitator, a Mentor, Crew Leader and WOW! Team Member! She’s pretty much everything! Katie started with The Coaching Institute in October 2010 as a Diploma student and has spent many days WOW-ing the TCI community as part of our WOW! Team. She has also started her own coaching and mentoring business. Katie believes that change should be embraced as something wonderful and exciting, and it’s important to keep pushing the boundaries of your thinking and your world.

Katie is available on (03) 9608 7928 or email mentor@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

Janet Leung

Janet is a Facilitator, a Mentor and WOW! Team Member. She is also a Professional Life and Relationship Coach, NLP and Timeline Therapy Practitioner and Public Speaker committed to assisting her clients to achieve their maximum potential in their personal lives. Janet has a Bachelor degree majoring in Public Relations and Management. She believes that life is truly what you make of it and applies this philosophy in her current life to experience joy, passion and fulfilment on a daily basis.

Janet is available on email wow@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

Sarah Callister

Sarah is our new WOW Team administrator. Sarah recently relocated to Melbourne from Sydney where she worked in childcare and retail. She was draw to the positive team environment of The Coaching Institute and loves waking up and coming into work each day. Aside from her love for TCI Sarah is also a huge All Blacks fan!

Sam Wallis

Sam is our Course Administrator. She comes from an extensive background in Administration, with previous roles including print management and wholesale diamond wedding rings. She loves to watch movies, read books and hang out with friends in her spare time.

Sam is available on (03) 9608 7900 or email admin@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

Matt Lavars

Matt is a WOW team warrior! He is a professional coach and public speaker with a background in sales and personal training.

Matt believes that learning and growing is essential to create stability and happiness in life. He loves being a part of the TCI community and being able to serve, give back and share with the students on a massive scale. 

Matt is available on email wow@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

Angelina Molluso

Ange is another WOW! Team Rockstar. She has beautiful hair and an even more beautiful spirit.

She is always looking to find out what’ll take her beyond 100% WOW because she is all about our students. She is always there to help the team and energises us all!

She is also Queen of the Weekly WOW! (our newsletter) – email her at wow@thecoachinginstitute.com.au  if you have an idea on how to make it rock even more!