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Kelly Hutchison: Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant

Core Competencies: High Performance Coaching, Leadership, Reflective Practice, Organization Development

Kelly is an executive coach and leadership consultant with 25+ years of experience helping people to adapt and lead with greater impact in complex international settings. She focuses on personal leadership as both a practice and performance, a perspective gained through her early years performing internationally as a musician. Over her long career in Human Resources and Organization Development, she has worked with talented people at all levels to achieve success on the corporate ‘stage’. She is experienced in multiple industries, including financial services, retail, consumer goods, media/publishing, and technology, and has led divisional, regional, and global teams.

Kelly leverages her executive coaching skills and counselling qualifications to help her clients address a range of challenges, including transitioning into leadership roles, handling difficult workplace relationships, and managing anxiety and stress to develop resilience and increase overall impact. She also helps new and emerging leaders develop their own authentic leadership style and ‘voice’ to accelerate their personal and professional practice.

Kelly helps her clients understand and manage themselves more effectively, enabling them to influence positive change around them. Warm, engaging, and unconventional, Kelly works collaboratively with her clients to set big goals, tackle major challenges, seize opportunities, and reflect on their personal impact. She uses a strengths-based approach to help her clients discover what makes them uniquely brilliant, and then identify habits and patterns which might be keeping them from achieving their goals. She is experienced with a range of feedback instruments and psychometric tools, including the Hogan Leadership Forecast Series and DiSC.

Qualifications:

Master of Counselling, Monash University (Australia)

Master of Applied Science (Innovation & Org Dynamics/Leadership), RMIT University (Australia)

Bachelor of Arts (Liberal Arts/Music), Florida State University (USA);

Level Two Coach, Institute of Executive Coaching & Leadership (Australia).

Memberships:

Hong Kong Society of Counselling & Psychology

Australian Counselling Association

Hong Kong Professional Counselling Association

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