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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Chris Dudgeon
Executive Coaching & Workshop Presenter
Become a greater leader by living the best version of yourself.
Are you entering a new phase in your career where you are looking to take your leadership and performance to new, all-around levels of achievement?
Are there aspects of your ways of thinking and performing that you feel are holding you back from making this happen?
After 20 years in executive and leadership roles in global law and accountancy firms, I retrained as a psychotherapist. This enables me to work with my clients to help them understand themselves first, identify what they need to change, and successfully implement this in all parts of their lives.
My approach to coaching goes deeper than cognitive reframing. I support my clients through rigorous self-appraisal and follow this with sustainable, long-term strategies. This also involves skills training and support around empathetic leadership, focused on your ability to have a motivating impact on those around you.
If you are interested in bringing about a fundamental change in your leadership and performance, get in touch with me, Chris Dudgeon, to schedule an introductory session.
Qualifications
MBA, Henley Business School
CPA (Australia) and Chartered Management Accountant (UK)
Master of Counselling, Monash University and Master of Narrative Therapy, University of Melbourne (ongoing)
Registered Psychotherapist in Hong Kong (HKPCA, PSHK), Australia (ACA, PACFA) and UK (NCS)
Contact Mae-lee Gibson HERE for a free online 20-minute introduction appointment.
Identity, Belonging & Life Transitions Counsellor
My specialist area is supporting adults and adolescents navigating identity, belonging, and life transitions — times when the life you have built no longer feels fully aligned with who you are becoming.
I work with people facing a range of identity crossroads, including adoption and donor-conceived identity exploration, cross-cultural identity and the third culture experience, career change and burnout, menopause and perimenopause, and the broader question of who you are and where you belong.
My approach is person-centred, integrative, and grounded in thoughtful listening. I create space to explore what feels important, uncertain, or difficult without rushing toward immediate answers, in a practice that is safe and affirming for every client. Depending on each client’s needs, our work may draw on somatic awareness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based practices, and reflective enquiry.
As an adult third culture kid (ATCK) myself, this work is personal as well as professional. Before counselling, I spent over 15 years teaching in international schools across Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, and China, so I understand the international-school and expat family world from the inside too. This background in education and coaching-informed counselling practice shapes how I understand identity’s role in learning, growth, and change across the lifespan. I recognise that questioning who you are, where you belong, or what no longer fits can require immense courage. In our work together, we make room for both the grief of what is being released and the possibility of what is beginning to emerge.
My aim is to support clients in developing greater clarity, steadiness, and self-understanding, so they can relate to themselves and others with more honesty, compassion, and alignment.
Areas of Focus:
Identity, belonging, and life transitions
Cross-cultural identity, TCKs/ATCKs, and expat life
Adoption and donor-conceived identity exploration
Career change and burnout
Menopause and perimenopause
Qualifications:
Master of Counselling, Monash University
Master of Teaching, Melbourne University
Newfield Coaching Certificate, Newfield Asia
Professional Memberships:
PACFA (Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia)
ACA (Australian Counselling Association)
Mae-lee practices online and in our office in English.
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