The past year has caused unexpected and constant turmoil within the workforce. With businesses needing to downsize, many have had a derailment in their career progression. Many, however, have found themselves unemployed due to the business they have dedicated themselves to being forced to close their doors. It can be hard to know where to go from there. The second hardest is accepting you may need a helping hand to help you get back on track. Consequently, many never take this step, and continue to suffer needlessly, or wait much longer than they wanted to dive in, letting opportunities to thrive pass them by.
One of the best things you can do when looking for a promotion, career change, or getting back into the workforce is to hire a career coach. Although it can seem counterintuitive to spend money at the precise time you need to be saving it, the alternative may be worse – pushing forward with the hope that everything will work itself out and getting frustrated and drained if they don’t.
While working with a coach may not be for everyone or for every job search, it is worth considering all the same. If you’re struggling with making this decision or finding the right professional to help you with this transition, then look no further. Below we outline the 10 Australian Career Coaches to watch out for in 2021.
Katie-Jeyn Romeyn (@katiejeyn_)
Katie-Jeyn Romeyn is an award-winning executive, best-selling author, speaker, and career coach. She is Australia’s leading Career Acceleration Expert, and she works with CEOs, executives, and ambitious leaders to help them fast track their career and create the success they want. Katie-Jeyn has created a positive reputation for herself, she’s known as a “disruptor”; an innovator who is not afraid of shaking things up so her clients can advance quickly and effectively.
She rose through the corporate ladder, but she came from humble beginnings, so she knows exactly what it’s like to be challenged and to go face to face with adversity. During Katie-Jeyn’s 15-year operational and corporate career, she worked for Rio Tinto, WMC Resources, St. Barbara, and BHP Billiton. She soared through the ranks because she implemented her own Career Success FormulaTM.
Katie-Jeyn now shares her effective formula with her operational and corporate clients to help them secure their dream roles and salary. Her signature training program called “How to Accelerate Your Career in 12 Months or Less”, is where to start. The results of her formula are undeniable! She is also the founder and host of the Ambitious Leaders Network, a special event where professionals inspire, celebrate each other’s success, and share their secrets to career and business advancement.
Brooke Taylor (@brookevtaylor)
Brooke Taylor is a speaker and a Transformational Career Coach who works with ambitious corporate women. She’s on a mission to help corporate women align their ambitions with their definition of success so they can have the impact they desire. Essentially, Brooke takes dissatisfied overachievers and helps them reach their goals.
She is the founder of Brooke Taylor Coaching & Consulting, through which she provides one-on-one coaching, group coaching, cultural change management consulting, and workshops for companies such as Google, BBC Studios, McKinsey, and others. She has worked with over 500 corporate women across APAC, the US, and the UK.
After spending the first part of her career at Google, she decided to leave the company and bring the impact of career coaching to a wider audience. Brooke created a custom methodology that addresses the root cause of the ailments she experienced while working at Google, and that her clients face such as burnout and a lack of meaning, motivation, and direction.
Now, she shares her methodology through workshops, which she has taught at Google, and coaching services that help other corporate women resolve these common issues. Her method is highly effective and Brooke is known for providing results such as 100% of clients seeking a promotion receiving one, and 95% of clients seeking a new job have been successful.
New Mind Consulting (@newmindconsulting)
Founded in 2020, New Mind Consulting is an online platform with a clear mission: to make professional coaching affordable and convenient to anyone who struggles with life’s challenges. Juliana Owen, the founder, is a Certified Life and Career Coach who is passionate about helping people expand their consciousness through self-knowledge.
The approach behind the coaching services New Mind Consulting provides is enthusiastic, focused, and supportive. One of the things that sets this consulting apart is that clear and structured communication is one of their highest values, which is why they’re able to provide such helpful and powerful services.
New Mind Consulting is dedicated to caring for its clients’ emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical health. They help people develop their strengths while minimizing their weaknesses so they can optimize their opportunities and find the success they seek.
What New Mind Consulting provides is not a quick solution. Instead, they provide coaching services that will help clients through their personal and professional development and provide tools that will last for a lifetime. The coaching sessions are focused on bringing awareness to the thoughts and behaviors that are keeping people from achieving their goals so they can be dismantled and their inner power can be set free.
Michael Boyd (Career Crossroads International)
Specializing in providing career assistance, Career Crossroads International is on a mission to help people achieve professional fulfilment and achieve excellence. Their team includes Psychologists, Image Consultants, Copywriters, Recruiters, Human Resource professionals and Social Media specialists.
This breadth of expertise allows Career Crossroads International to provide a wide range of services to help you every step of the way. From building your personal brand and social media strategy to everything in between. They are proud to offer a complete one-stop service for individuals who want to go to market.
The approach at Career Crossroads International is focused on finding the right fit. They work with clients individually to identify their career, motivational and cultural fit and then help them identify the roles and organisations that align with their personal fits. Finding at least two of these three ‘fits’ enhances the likelihood of career success.
With this knowledge and experience in mind, Career Crossroads International developed a proprietary psychometric assessment, designed to identify an individual’s soft skills. If you’re looking for your next role or trying to get ahead in your current role understanding your soft skills and your career, motivational and cultural fit is the first step. The team at Career Crossroads International have helped many professionals make their next move with confidence and clarity.
The Elite Collective
Founded by Adriana Modersitzki, The Elite Collective is a long-standing, boutique career consultancy with a small but dedicated team spread across the country. Jobseekers who want to make powerful career moves and dramatically improve their work lives find highly effective coaching and top-notch application documents at The Elite Collective.
But this consultancy is not only aimed at jobseekers; they also work with businesses to present their teams and contractors more professionally when they bid for work with federal government departments. The Elite Collective is exclusive and they work with limited clients because they like to dig deep.
They provide a highly personalised approach where they get to know each client and tailor their resume and documents so they can have a better chance at the opportunities they’re chasing. As a boutique consultancy, they pride themselves on tailoring your experience to YOU, and being easy to talk to and approachable.
The team at The Elite Collective have hands-on recruiting experience, and formal HR or writing qualifications. They have insight into what recruiters and hiring managers look for in candidates, and have worked with a wide variety of professionals across all industries. This means they have the expertise to provide effective coaching and career development that makes a difference for you.
Proudly Accented (@mayetojeda)
Proudly Accented is a career coaching service that believes your diverse background can take you far in any market and language. They provide the services you need to unearth the best version of your professional self so you can get any organisation to engage and work with you.
Whether you’re changing careers, industries, looking for a promotion, change of scenery, looking for your first job after migration, or that breakthrough role that will change your career forever, at Proudly Accented you’ll be coached to unleash the full potential of your hireable power.
At Proudly Accented, you’ll find a wide range of inspirational and practical content, products, and services that will provide the support you need to succeed. They will help you regain your confidence and they will teach you how to declare your relevance within your field of work.
Founder Mayet Ojeda, a migrant herself, understands this journey, and is on a mission to make it easier for others through Proudly Accented. With a deep understanding of the ins and outs of what’s required of migrants and a passion for human potential, she has created a service that will help you achieve your career goals.
Offering specialized services for executives, Be Better Coaching has become the go-to coaching consultancy for those who want to build a personal brand, improve their performance & leadership capabilities, drive career change and fulfillment, and grow their confidence after a career break.
Be Better Coaching exists to support individuals who want to perform better and own their careers (actually enjoy work). By engaging with this team of professionals, you’ll gain more clarity than ever about your strengths. This will help you feel truly empowered and have a clear idea of what your options are.
You will walk away with an actionable plan that will get you closer to your goals and allow you to feel confident about the future. At Be Better Coaching, they understand that work is a huge part of one’s life & identity. We spend an average of 80,000 hours at work, so it’s important to make sure we are at the right organization and in a role we truly enjoy.
Caroline Donohue is the founder of Be Better Coaching and she has climbed the corporate management ladder, and driven personal career change. She knows better than anyone what is involved. And, along the way she has met so many people who are not reaching their potential or enjoying their work. That’s why she is so passionate about helping people gain control of their careers and grow beyond what they think is possible for them. “We have the tools and the expertise you need to get what you want”.
All companies want to employ top talent, but finding it can be more difficult than it seems. That’s where Michelle Joseph Consulting comes in, an agency that specialises in headhunting talent for clients. They understand that candidates want three core things; a better boss, a brighter future, and a bigger vision.
At Michelle Joseph Consulting they call this the 3 Bs. What this means is that instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts of the position description they focus on the ‘Vision’ of a business which is the tipping point for talent with solid skills.
Now with the impact of Covid, candidates want to join businesses with a big vision around issues which matter to them like remote working and doing work they find rewarding from a social consciousness perspective as well as personally and professionally. Candidates want to be shown why joining a company is good for their career and they also want to know how it will allow them to make a difference that goes beyond that.
As an agency they recognise this and it allows them to attract the very best candidates and sets them apart from other consulting agencies.
For clients who want top talent for the job and not the best available candidate, using a consultancy with this focus is a strategy which pays dividends.
Career for Years (@lydia.careerforyears)
Offering outstanding career coaching, Career for Years provides a unique approach to people who need guidance to find their true passion. It was founded by Lydia MacDonell, a woman with a passion to help people align their potential with their possibilities. She holds a master’s degree in Industrial Relations and is a Certified Career Practitioner who has worked as a Career Coach, and HR professional for the last 10 years.
Career for Years has a simple mission: to inform, empower, teach, advocate for, and inspire people. Lydia offers a unique approach that begins with getting to know each client personally and uncovering their values. According to her, “[a] career that doesn’t match your personal calling and values will become a source of stress and frustration”.
That’s why the coaching services offered at Career for Years are focused on who you are as a person and what you want to accomplish in life to bring you the most fulfillment. With their help, you’ll be able to create a ‘career manifesto’ that will guide your career for years and get to where you want to go.
At Career for Years, Lydia strives to understand your values, identify the kind of environment where you’ll thrive, identify your strengths and determine what kind of impact you want to have. This information is used to craft a career path that is 100% tailored and will lead to a happier professional life.
Identity Empowerment Coaching (@identityempowermentcoaching)
Identity Empowerment Coaching was founded by Helen Froling, an ICF Professional Career Counsellor, Life Purpose/Transition Coach, and Strengths Profile Practitioner. The project was born out of a desire to help women find their professional identity once again. Often, working women find their identity becomes tied to their career and they lose themselves in it.
One day, they wake up and realise they don’t really know who they are. That’s where Identity Empowerment Coaching comes in and it will help them find meaning and authenticity in their lives so they can become unstuck and realize their full potential. If you seek more happiness and freedom, these coaching services will help you do that and make a bigger impact in your life and career.
Identity Empowerment Coaching is focused on introverted women who have felt stuck or unfulfilled for a long time and are ready to take action. Women who have not found their way and are searching for it, women who need guidance and nurturing, and women who want to learn to empower themselves will all find what they’re looking for with these coaching services.
The mission that fuels Identity Empowerment Coaching is simple: to empower as many women as possible and help them soar to reach their full potential, both in their professional and personal lives. These coaching services focus on career counselling and personal development to overcome self-awareness struggles and learn to recognise your strengths.
Make sure to follow each of these incredible career coaches by clicking their websites and Instagram profiles that have been directly linked in their bio’s. Keep up to date with their latest work as they continue to make their mark on the world and help others find and achieve the career of their dreams. .
