Clients Note: Carousel will only load on frontend. Client Stories Bridget is a deeply knowledgeable and experienced coach who is extremely wise. Bridget worked in collaboration with me to set targets and goals and did ask some really tough questions. In turn, this helped me to reflect on potential opportunities for growth and improvement. I feel a great deal more confident and a great deal more effective in managing my program. Bridget also assisted me to learn new tools to navigate challenges, to set goals and provided some tips on new ways for me to problem solve. Jane Turner, Philanthropic Grants Manager , | I enjoyed the coaching process with Bridget, and was so grateful to be met exactly where I was in terms of my needs, enabling me to shift my own thinking in such a powerful way. I also loved finding out more about myself and my own learning styles and my own values and gaining confidence in my own abilities and capacity to improve. The coaching gave me the courage to bank on myself and the kind of office and administration that I want to be part of. I am very happy to have achieved that in the past year since I had coaching and I know that this is the direct benefit from doing the work with Bridget. I am deeply grateful for this life learning. Tamara Smith MP, Member , | Bridget coached me through a year of huge personal change where I was leading a large team for the first time and there was both a restructure within my business and also structural change disrupting the way that we do business. Bridget was able to give me the tools to navigate through this and ensure that I was staying true to the vision and the strategy I had set out to deliver. She has helped me uncover my strengths and weaknesses as a leader and has given me a greater understanding of what I need to do to address those weaknesses and also how to make those strengths even stronger. Bridget, thank you. Katie Finney, Director of 7 Program Partnerships , | I had the great pleasure to be coached by Bridget as part of my Executive MPA programme. We had several coaching sessions and I appreciated her calm and engaging way of getting me on board the career / self-exploration trip. Bridget is a very good listener and has the great ability to ask the right questions which help you to identify your intrinsic motivation, career objectives and how to approach the next step. Bridget's coaching is utterly insightful and effective, therefore I highly recommend her as a career coach! Karolina Merai, Policy Advisor Economic Cooperation and Development , | Bridget is a very insightful coach to work with. She has an unusual ability to see and understand things that others often don't and is commercial as well as personable in her approach across a range of consulting and coaching services. I recommend her highly. Sally Talbot, HR Practice Leade , | I have known Bridget for many years and can strongly recommend her as an OD Practitioner with a great understanding of the need for practical outcomes from interventions. She is an excellent team player who contributes professionally with expert knowledge and very effective interpersonal skills. Conor Hannaway, Managing Director , | With excellent listening skills and thoughtful suggestions, Bridget helped me to discover new paths as well as understand what I enjoy about my work. This gave me the confidence to explore new opportunities and seize them when they arose. Now I have a great new job and a fulfilling voluntary outlet for my professional skills, which is due in no small part to Bridget. Steve Huthwaite, Audio and Radio Creative , | As a result of the coaching, I secured a permanent role which provides the flexibility and work-life balance I was looking for. Throughout the coaching programme, Bridget’s style and approach gave me exactly what I needed: reflection time and structured tasks that helped me to reach decisions at a pace that was right for me. The coaching process gave me confidence and provided me with practical support to understand my skill set and strengths. I would highly recommend Bridget as a coach to anyone who needs a wise sounding board to help them develop a successful career strategy Kate Jones, Deputy CEO , | Throughout my time working with Bridget she was always able to help me view events and decisions from alternate perspectives. She asked me questions that made me probe further into my thoughts and encouraged me to be open to more possibilities. Her approach is constructive and goal orientated in a way that is adjusted to suit each client. I learned a lot while working together Eadaoin Doherty, Product Manager , | Bridget coached me as part of the ‘On Purpose’ social enterprise leadership development programme. I truly appreciated Bridget’s engaging and calm approach – she was a wonderful listener and was well-equipped with tools and insightful questions. Bridget supported me throughout my 'On Purpose' year, and she helped me more clearly identify my personal motivations, challenges and career objectives going forward. I highly recommend Bridget as a coach! Sarah Bernier, Counsellor & Senior Trade Commissioner , | Firstly and most importantly, Bridget is a delightful person to be around. She is fun, extremely bright, passionate about her areas of expertise, totally committed and with a great values set. We worked together for over a year on a variety of Change and OD projects and Bridget's performance was stellar throughout. Not only does she have the nous to come up with creative solutions to difficult OD problems but she has the doggedness and tenacity to deal with detail, data, systems and difficult people. I would wholly recommend Bridget Steve Lee, Partner , | Bridget is endowed with the rare skill and art of being able to listen at a very deep level. She holds the space for you to gain insight whilst gently guiding and at times challenging your beliefs. She works in a holistic way, weaving together the many parts of life that affect your choices at both a big picture and detail level. Her highly sensitive, non-judgemental approach combined with her expert knowledge in the field of business has been invaluable. Tanya Benardout, Creative Professional , | Bridget became my mentor through the Young Entrepreneurs in the North. She was very dedicated to helping me achieve my goals, and provided fantastic insights at various stages of the program. Thanks to her feedback, I was able to clarify my thinking around pitching my brand and won the first prize at our final pitching event. I don't believe I would have achieved such a wonderful and humbling result without her help! Thanks Bridget! Rachel Lamarche, Founder , | Bridget's dedication and enthusiasm towards empowering students are valuable to any teaching organization. Bridget’s knowledge and expertise in Australian workforce, interview techniques, self-development skills, presentation skills and emotional intelligence were a huge advantage to our class as we were able to reflect on past experiences, identify areas for improvement and develop a roadmap for future professional and personal growth Madhumathi Krishnan, Graduate Software Engineer , | The coaching program with Bridget) was absolutely valuable in helping me through a challenging period. I was delighted by the timeliness of our catch ups, because it gave me clarity over various real life situations and talking through them with gave me insights to ways forward. I feel grateful for that support. What I also found useful was to have an objective and different opinion on a situation. It helped with decision making and action taking, especially during the various transition phases I was going through. The fact that you are a B Corp and you have knowledge of our work and the movement was assuring. Mindy Leow, , | Bridget has been invaluable during a year of significant organisational and professional change. Her insights and advice supported me to strengthen my skills as a leader, enabling me to see challenges through a different lens. She has provided me with a range of strategies and tools which have been really helpful in making what could have been a tough period of change, a time of growth and development instead. I would highly recommend Bridget Kellie Fitzgerald, Financial Controller , | Bridget is intuitive, engaging and very easy to speak to. I found the 360-feedback process valuable and feel that the subsequent coaching sessions have helped to refine my skills as a leader. Bridget has helped to me to get perspective and to focus on the things that I can influence and shape. I thoroughly enjoyed the coaching journey with Bridget and would highly recommend her to others Rachele Jowett, National Sales Manager , |