Sharon Pearson, CEO The Coaching Institute

Sharon Pearson established TCI 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, TCI has gone on to train over 220 students, as well deliver Coaching for Managers training throughout the world for organisations.

In just three years TCI has become the leading provider of coach training in Australia, offering the only
Diploma of Life Coaching that is nationally accredited. TCI was selected as the winner of the 2006 Telstra business awards, winning the Victorian Micro-business category. As the resident life coach on Channel 10, Sharon appeared regularly on the national show, 9am with David & Kim throughout 2006 offering insights and tips for its viewers.

A specialist speaker in the area of individual and organisational motivation and leadership, Sharon has
helped many of Australia's companies take another step towards peak performance. Sharon has a
reputation for delivering with passion, fun and energy and is a Master Coach and speaker who designs her presentation with the client and message in mind.

As well as challenging the participants to rethink their capability to achieve their dreams and goals, Sharon has the ability to move her listeners to challenge what they believe is possible, regardless of the
circumstances. Everyone leaves with clear and simple how-to’s that they can apply immediately to their
lives and their businesses.

She includes leading edge ideas for improving individual and team performance and has assisted
thousands of people. As well as writing and presenting the “M-POWER” program, which offers its
participants the Ten Secrets of an Extraordinary Life, she also runs “M-POWER” workshops and seminars
to individuals and companies throughout the world.

The topics Sharon speaks on include:

How to Get the Edge in Your Business – Going to Market

Every business wants to achieve the edge in their market. How do you do this if your competitors want it too? This is an outstanding introduction to the philosophies and focus that Sharon and her team have
adopted to become the most recognised coach training brand in Australia. Delivering the steps TCI has
taken to become an award-winning business, the participants leave with key pointers they can apply
immediately when marketing their business.

Excellence – How to Achieve Extraordinary in Your Business – Inside Your Business

This is a journey into the mindset of a winning team. How to think, focus, lead and communicate so that your team is committed to excellence. There are only three things any business can focus on – the business model, the systems and the people. Any one of these, if not fully developed and adhered to, will cause a weakness in how you run your business. Find out how to strengthen each of these three elements in a talk that is full of examples and stories to help illustrate what it takes to run a champion team.

M-Power – the ten steps to an extraordinary life – Personal Development

Every leader wants to improve how effectively they manage their team or their business. Leadership greatness is the ability to first lead ourselves. This chat is modified from the MPOWER ten CD and workbook personal development program. Discover the ten steps to an extraordinary life as designed by internationally recognised coach, author and speaker, Sharon Pearson.

Sharon also offers a keynote speech on how TCI won the Telstra Business Awards after only three years of operation – a must for all small business owners. In this talk Sharon speaks passionately about how her team moved them from good to great in such a short period of time. She gives away all of their secrets : ) and offers easy to apply, valuable tips of business excellence.

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Sharon:

• Established & ran her own direct marketing business at 23, employing & training over fifty employees & generating over $1 million in sales in the first year
• Coached over 2,000 hours of coaching
• Founder and CEO of the most successful coach training institute in Australia – The Coaching Institute
• Sharon is resident Life Coach for Channel 10, appearing regularly on 9am with David and Kim

The Coaching Institute: 2005 TCI Finalists Port Phillip Business Awards 2006 TCI Winner of the Port Phillip Business Awards 2006 TCI Winner of the Telstra Business Awards

PERSONAL COACHING

As a professional coach with well over fifteen hundred hours of experience, Sharon Pearson has the skills and qualifications to provide coaching excellence at every level. The clients Sharon is working with at the moment are from all walks of life and business, and include stay-at-home mums, women looking to start up their own home-based businesses, General Managers of multi-national companies, national business leaders and even the CEO of one of Australia’s fastest-growing retailers.

FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE COACHING INSTITUTE

As the founder and Director of The Coaching Institute, Sharon is constantly working at training and
supporting coaches on a national basis. The Coaching Institute is a Registered Training Organisation,
offering the Certificate IV in Life Coaching and the only Diploma of Life Coaching available in Australia. She and her team advise senior management teams on best practice coaching solutions.

Sharon has a team of over thirty coaches Australia-wide, delivering professional coaching to anyone who needs it. There’s a huge and growing demand, simply because professional coaching gets results. It’s an accountable process, with feedback and evaluation forms to follow-through with all training programs. And because life is all about constant change, The Coaching Institute provides client liaison for coaches, plus support services and ongoing training.

The TCI team work with some of the big success stories in Australian business and is sole provider of
Success Coaching Teams to Flight Centre Limited.

QUALIFICATIONS

As well as years of experience, Sharon’s skills are built on and backed with an extensive specialist education. She is a Bachelor of Commerce, Majoring in Personnel and Human Resource Management. She’s a qualified NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, and also a Master in Ericksonian Hypnosis – a claim not just anyone can make. On top of these Sharon has qualifications as a Master Coach, a Certificate IV in Life Coaching, a Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training and a Diploma in Freelance Journalism.