OUR INSPIRING EDUCATION TEAM

Rashid Mubashir is the Director of Education at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. He works alongside faculty, trainers, and mentors to shape how coaching is taught across the school, supporting clear standards for safe, practical, and effective coaching, and helping students build the skills and confidence to work with real people in the real world.

Rashid’s journey into coaching didn’t begin with confidence, clarity, or a business background. At 18 years old, he arrived in Australia with just $1,000 in his pocket, no safety net, and no clear direction. He struggled with self-doubt, emotional pain, and a deep sense of being lost. Coaching didn’t magically fix his life, but it gave him understanding, structure, and a way to rebuild himself step by step. His story stands as proof that you don’t need to have your life figured out to begin, you just need to be willing to start.

Students experience Rashid through flagship trainings, advanced programs, and key teaching moments that are often described as honest, grounding, and deeply human. He creates spaces where people feel safe to be real, supported to grow, and encouraged to take steps forward even when they don’t feel ready yet. Many students say his teaching helps them realise that their story, their struggles, and their uncertainty don’t disqualify them, they actually matter.

In his role, Rashid supports curriculum development, learning standards, and assessment processes across programs. He collaborates closely with faculty and mentors to ensure students are not only learning how to coach, but also how to build a coaching practice that is ethical, realistic, and aligned with their life, not based on pressure, hype, or pretending to be someone they’re not.

With no formal business background when he began, Rashid went on to build a successful coaching practice from the ground up. He now regularly teaches students how to do the same, breaking business down into simple, human steps, how to find clients, have real conversations, price with integrity, and grow confidence through action rather than overwhelm. His work helps students see that business success is learnable, not reserved for “sales people” or extroverts.

Rashid brings over 7,000 hours of coaching and training experience and has been active in the coaching and personal development industry for more than a decade. He is an award-winning international coach, has supported thousands of students, and has been featured in international finance and lifestyle media, including appearances on Apple TV and Roku. He is a graduate in Entrepreneurship and holds postgraduate qualifications in Psychological Sciences, grounding his work in both lived experience and a strong understanding of human behaviour.

Warm, fun-loving, and emotionally open, Rashid believes great coaches aren’t perfect, they’re present. His teaching style is real, supportive, and practical, helping students build confidence by doing the work, not pretending to have it all together, and to create coaching practices that are both meaningful and sustainable.

Remi Pearson is the Founder and Director at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works alongside trainers, mentors, and faculty to guide how coaching is taught across the school, supporting students in developing the skills, confidence, and real-world readiness to work with people and create meaningful impact.

Remi’s journey into coaching didn’t begin from a place of certainty, it began from challenge, self-doubt, and a desire for something more meaningful. She experienced firsthand what it felt like to feel stuck, to question her direction, and to search for deeper purpose.
Through that journey, she discovered the power of coaching, not just as a tool, but as a way of being. It became a pathway for growth, self-belief, and transformation. What shaped her most was the realisation that change doesn’t come from having everything figured out, but from being willing to step forward, even when things feel uncertain.
This is what drives her work today: helping others realise that they don’t need to be perfect to begin, they just need to be willing.

Students experience Remi through live training, advanced programs, and mentoring spaces. In these environments, she is known for being deeply present, honest, and empowering.
She creates spaces where students feel safe to explore, yet challenged to grow. Her approach helps students develop confidence, clarity, and self-trust while also building the practical skills needed to coach real people in real-life situations.

In her role, Remi supports curriculum direction, faculty collaboration, and the overall student learning experience. She works closely with trainers and mentors to ensure that the way coaching is delivered remains practical, human, and grounded in real-life application.
Her leadership focuses on maintaining a standard where learning is not about pressure or performance, but about genuine growth, integration, and impact.

Remi has built The Coaching Institute into one of the leading coaching education organisations globally. She understands what it takes to grow a coaching practice from the ground up, especially without a traditional business background.
She supports students not just in learning how to coach, but in building sustainable, ethical, and human-centered coaching businesses, helping them turn their skills into meaningful work that creates real results for others.

• Founder of The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute
• Over 20 years of experience in coaching, training, and personal development
• Trained and mentored thousands of students globally
• Recognised as a leader in the coaching and personal development industry
• Extensive experience in delivering live trainings, mentoring programs, and certification pathways

Remi brings a grounded, warm, and deeply human presence to her work. She combines honesty with compassion, creating an environment where people feel both supported and empowered to step into their potential.
Students often leave her sessions feeling clearer, more confident, and more connected to themselves, ready to take meaningful action in their lives and in their work.

International Coach of the Year (2022)

Kath Ireland is a Master Trainer and recipient of the International Coach of the Year Award (2022) at The Coaching Institute and the International Coaching Institute.
In this role, she delivers live trainings across multiple areas of the coaching curriculum, including FOCSE, webinars and elective programs. Through these trainings, Kath supports students to develop a strong coaching presence, practical coaching skills and the ability to create meaningful and transformational change with their clients.
Kath also supports students to expand their speaking and communication skills, dive deeper into advanced transformational inner work, strengthen their business acumen, and develop the self-leadership required to build a successful coaching practice.
As part of her role within the faculty ecosystem, Kath also assesses students who are applying for certification, guiding them through the assessment process and supporting them to demonstrate the competencies required to achieve their coaching credentials.
Through her facilitation, mentoring and assessment work, Kath contributes to maintaining the high professional standards, quality and integrity of coaching education within the institute.

Kath’s journey into coaching began through her lifelong passion for human development and leadership. With a Bachelor of Education and a background in 26 years in education and leadership development, she spent many years observing how people grow, overcome challenges, lead and step into greater levels of personal responsibility and influence.
Through her own journey of growth and professional development, Kath discovered that real transformation occurs when people are supported to explore their thinking, expand their perspective and reconnect with their inner capacity to lead themselves and lead others.
This experience inspired her commitment to learning at the highest level of coaching and training, supporting individuals to move beyond limitation, develop self-leadership and create meaningful impact in their work, relationships and communities.
Kath’s leads herself and others through her highest values of inspiring, unconditional love and creativity. Her mission is to support people to make the greatest impact by building their leadership capabilities and capacity.

Students experience Kath through live trainings, webinars, advanced elective programs and coaching demonstrations across multiple levels of the coaching curriculum.
Kath has facilitated across many areas of the institute’s programs, supporting students in the development of coaching presence, transformational conversations, speaking confidence and leadership capability. Her sessions often include live coaching demonstrations, allowing students to observe advanced coaching in practice and deepen their understanding of how coaching principles are applied in real conversations.
For many years, Kath has facilitated FOCSE and has also contributed to the delivery of more advanced training programs within the institute.
In addition to facilitation, Kath supports students through assessment processes, helping them integrate their learning and successfully demonstrate the competencies required to achieve their coaching credentials.
In these spaces, she is known for helping students move beyond theory into real confidence in their coaching ability, supporting them to integrate both the practical and human elements of coaching.
Students often describe gaining:

• greater confidence in coaching conversations
• deeper understanding of transformational coaching processes
• expanded communication and speaking skills
• stronger self-trust as developing coaches and leaders

Kath’s approach supports students to develop both professional coaching capability and personal leadership growth.

Within the faculty ecosystem, Kath supports the delivery of coaching education, student development and collaborative learning experiences.
She works alongside fellow trainers and faculty members to ensure the learning environment remains supportive, ethical and grounded in practical application.
Kath contributes to:

• Facilitating live training sessions
• Supporting student learning and development
• Helping students integrate coaching methodologies
• Encouraging professional standards and ethical coaching practice
• Contributing to the collaborative culture of the faculty team

Her approach emphasises that coaching is both a professional skill and a personal development journey.

Alongside her faculty role, Kath has built a successful leadership coaching and training business working with individuals, leaders and organisations across Australia and internationally.
Within the first 18 months of building her coaching business, Kath developed a six-figure practice, despite beginning with no formal business background outside of the advanced programs she completed through The Coaching Institute. This experience allows her to share practical insight with students about how to build a coaching practice with integrity, professionalism and service.
Kath has facilitated hundreds of group programs, workshops and trainings for a wide range of audiences including women’s leadership groups, small business owners and corporate teams. Her work focuses particularly on leadership development, communication skills, mindset and personal growth.
She also runs her own leadership programs including Leadership Masterminds and Leaders Lunch & Learn sessions, where leaders come together to develop their thinking, leadership presence and team influence.
Beyond her coaching work, Kath has played an active role in the business community. She served as President of one of the largest Business Networking groups in Australia.
Through both her business and leadership experience, Kath understands the realities of growing a practice, leading people and supporting meaningful transformation in others.

• Winner – International Coach of the Year (2022)
• Finalist – Business Coach of the Year (2021)
• Finalist – Life Coach of the Year (2021)
• Professional Coach
• Meta Dynamics Level I, II, III & IV Trained
• Quantum Coach – Advanced Coaching Methodology
• Bachelor of Education
• Over 1,200 hours of coaching and leadership development experience

Kath brings an extremely professional yet deeply human presence to her work. She is known for creating environments where people feel safe, respected and supported to explore their thinking and grow.
Her approach combines warmth, emotional safety and high standards, allowing students to engage in meaningful learning while also developing the courage to step into deeper levels of personal transformation.
Alongside this depth, Kath brings a lightness, curiosity and genuine passion for human potential. She encourages students to explore ideas openly, question assumptions and develop confidence in their own coaching voice.
Students often describe feeling inspired in Kath’s presence and supported to think more deeply, trust themselves more fully and grow into the coach and leader they are becoming.

Vicki Abraham is a facilitator of training webinars and coaching practicums at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works in the faculty to support how coaching is taught across the school, helping students build the skills, confidence, and readiness to work with real people in the real world.

Vicki’s journey into coaching began from lived experience rather than a perfect starting point. When an important family relationship broke down, it completely rocked her world. She turned to a coach for help, and the swift, lasting change she experienced was nothing short of transformative. It reminded her too of a deep knowing that she wanted to create this kind of impact for others too.
What made it even more meaningful? Vicki had actually certified as a coach a decade earlier but hadn’t pursued it as a career at the time. This experience was her wake-up call, reminding her of what she already knew was within her. It reinforced a belief she’d held for years: that we create our own reality based on the perspective we choose to hold. That simple and powerful truth became the foundation of her coaching practice. Today, Vicki supports women leaders, founders and entrepreneurs on their path to success, helping them shift perspective and step into the reality they want to create.

Students experience Vicki through live trainings, one-to-one mentoring sessions, and coaching practicums. In these spaces, Vicki is known for her kind, warm heart and her gentle way of stretching students just beyond their comfort zone – because that’s where real growth happens. She shows up remembering what it was like when she first started, and as a lifelong learner herself, she genuinely relishes learning from her students too. Vicki loves sharing her experience and wisdom, and even more, she loves championing students as they grow rapidly through mentoring. She creates an environment where students feel safe to explore, grow, and discover their own coaching presence.

In her role, Vicki supports training delivery, mentoring, and student development. She delivers webinars and practicums, facilitating knowledge sharing and helping students deepen their understanding of how to apply what they’re learning in their actual coaching practice. Through one-to-one Triad mentoring, she witnesses coaching sessions and offers thoughtful feedback that supports coaches as they develop their skills. Vicki works closely with other facilitators in a collaborative learning approach, modelling the leadership team’s standards and teaching methods. She’s committed to ensuring learning stays practical, supportive, and focused on real-life application, not pressure or performance.

Vicki transitioned from running a marketing and communications agency to coaching full-time – building a thriving practice that includes one-to-one clients, group coaching programs for women leaders at various stages of their career, business and life, and mentoring in several community groups locally. She’s experienced the overwhelm, the uncertainty, and the growth required to build something meaningful, and she is the calm guide through it all.
When Vicki talks about business with students, it’s relatable and cuts through the noise, the same way she supports her entrepreneurial clients. She believes our business shows us so much about ourselves – it’s a personal growth journey, and when we embrace that growth, anything truly becomes possible. Vicki takes clients (and students) from dreaming about having a coaching practice, to actually building their dream practice, one grounded step at a time.

Vicki has delivered over 500 coaching and mentoring hours. She was named 2025 Mentor of the Year by SheMentors and has been recognised with the Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow Award and inclusion on the Queen’s Honours List in 2017.
She holds a Masters of Business Administration and is a certified MetaDynamics Level III Facilitator, Dru Yoga Instructor, and Holotropic Breathwork facilitator. Vicki also hosts the Resilient Entrepreneurs podcast, published weekly on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple for the past three years.

Vicki’s presence is supportive and kind, the kind of energy that makes people feel genuinely seen and heard. Students often say they learn so much from her feedback and insights – she doesn’t tell them what to do, she helps them think deeper and discover what’s already within them. There’s a gentleness to the way she teaches and she’s deeply committed to skill development and helping students integrate what they’re learning into practical application.
In Vicki’s presence, students say they feel less overwhelmed and more confident. They begin to see possibilities in themselves they hadn’t noticed before. Through her thoughtful assessment and genuine support, she helps coaches develop not just their skills, but the self-belief to use them and create the impact they desire in the world.

Tania Serfontein is a Coach, Mentor and Facilitator at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works alongside faculty and trainers to support the practical application of coaching and business skill development across the school. Her role focuses on helping students translate theory into embodied coaching skill, build confidence in live practice, and feel ready to work with real clients in real-world settings.

Tania’s journey into coaching began through lived experience rather than a perfect starting point. She navigated seasons of change, uncertainty, and the process of rebuilding self-trust, learning what it meant to feel capable externally while doing deeper inner work behind the scenes.
A significant turning point in her life was immigrating to a new country, an experience that required adaptability, resilience, and presence as she supported her young family through transition. During this time, she discovered the power of slowing down, listening inwardly, and allowing growth to unfold with compassion rather than pressure.
These experiences shaped her belief that meaningful change happens when people feel safe enough to explore what is real for them, rather than trying to fix or force themselves. Presence, honesty, compassion, and practical action now sit at the heart of how she supports students and clients.

Students experience Tania across one-to-one mentoring, group trainings, weekly WOW Mentoring Hours, webinars, and both coaching and speaking practicums. In these spaces, she supports students to build emotional regulation, clarity around next steps, and confidence in their coaching and communication skills.
She is known for her grounded, supportive style and her ability to create environments where students can practise real conversations, ask meaningful questions, and develop both mindset and practical capability. Many students find that their confidence, competence, and self-trust grow as they move from theory into lived coaching experience under her guidance.

In her role, Tania supports student development through mentoring, facilitation, assessment, and collaborative delivery across the school. She works closely with faculty and trainers to integrate coaching skills, communication development, and business-building education into the broader curriculum.
Her focus is ensuring that learning remains practical, supportive, and grounded in real-life application, rather than driven by pressure or performance.

Alongside her faculty work, Tania has been building and practising as a coach since 2017. She understands firsthand the journey of growing confidence, developing skill, and learning how to build a coaching practice in a sustainable and ethical way.
She supports students to approach business development realistically, helping them strengthen communication, build consistency, and take aligned action toward securing their first paying clients and beyond.

Tania brings over 1,000 hours of coaching, mentoring, and facilitation experience with students and clients. She has been active in coaching practice and training since 2017 and has spent more than two years facilitating trainings, practicums, webinars, and mentoring spaces within ICI.
She serves as a facilitator for the 90-Day First Paying Client Challenge and weekly WOW Mentoring Hours.
Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Teaching Diploma. She holds coaching qualifications as an InnerLifeSkills Master Coach, Time to Think Coach, Psychosomatic Practitioner, and ICI MetaDynamics Professional Coach, grounding her work in both structured learning and practical application.

Calm, steady, and relational, Tania brings a grounded presence to every space she facilitates. Her teaching style is warm and supportive, creating safety for students to be real, ask honest questions, and practise without needing to perform.
Students often leave her sessions feeling more resourced, confident, and capable of taking their next step with greater self-trust, clarity, and emotional steadiness.

Fiona Damon is a Facilitator and Professional Coach Mentor at the International Coaching Institute. She works alongside faculty and students to support how coaching is taught across the school, helping students build the skill, confidence, and presence to work with real people in the real world.

Fiona’s journey into coaching began after a 15-year corporate career across mining, Defence, and aviation. Starting as an accountant, she rose to executive leadership roles managing multi-billion-dollar projects and leading multidisciplinary teams across geographically dispersed locations.
On the outside, she was successful. On the inside, she was exhausted and disconnected.
Burnout became the wake-up call. It challenged her definition of success and forced her to confront who she was beyond achievement. Through her own rebuilding process, Fiona discovered that real transformation does not come from doing more, but from becoming more aligned. That lived experience now shapes how she teaches coaching, grounded in self-awareness, courage, and personal responsibility.

Students experience Fiona through live trainings and mentoring sessions.
In these spaces, she is known for being grounded, honest, and deeply supportive. She challenges students to move beyond “doing coaching” and into being the coach. Her focus is on helping them develop confidence, presence, self-trust, and the practical skill required to hold powerful space for transformation.
Students often leave her sessions feeling clearer in their voice and more certain in their ability.

In her role, Fiona supports delivery, mentoring, and student development. She collaborates closely with faculty to ensure learning is practical, ethical, and aligned with real-life application rather than pressure or performance.
Her approach is focused on embodiment and integration. She believes coaching is not about memorising frameworks but about learning to think, listen, and lead from a grounded place.

Fiona brings strong commercial acumen into her mentoring. Before transitioning fully into coaching, she operated at executive level, including CFO roles, and understands the realities of leadership, performance, and business growth.
She has mentored coaches, executives, and entrepreneurs across Australia and globally, helping them build confidence in both their craft and their business. Her guidance blends strategic thinking with authentic self-leadership, showing students how to build a coaching practice in a realistic and ethical way.

• 5+ years corporate leadership experience across mining, Defence, aviation, and education
• Managed multi-billion-dollar projects and multidisciplinary teams
• Certified Master Coach, International Coaching Institute; since 2017 with 1,000 + coaching hours
• Facilitator and Mentor within the ICI community
• Fellow Certified Practicing Accountant (FCPA)
• Degrees in Accounting and Logistics plus multiple Masters degrees in Leadership, Finance, and Business
• Internationally published author in The British Accounting Review (2008)

Fiona brings steadiness, emotional depth, and grounded strength into every space she facilitates. She blends warmth with clarity and holds high standards while remaining deeply human.
Students often feel both supported and stretched in her presence. They leave not just more skilled, but more self-assured and aligned with who they are becoming.

Marejka “Rakes” Knigge is a (unsure of title) at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works alongside students and faculty to support the delivery of practical, human-centred coaching education, helping students build confidence, skill, and trust in their ability to coach real people in real-life situations.

Marejka’s journey into coaching began through lived experience rather than a linear or polished path. After spending over 20 years working in leadership, training, and support roles, she reached a point where success on paper no longer matched how she felt internally. Burnout, over-responsibility, and a deep sense of misalignment became the catalyst for change.
Through her own healing, nervous system work, and identity rebuilding, Marejka discovered that sustainable growth comes not from pushing harder, but from learning how to feel safe enough to change. This understanding now sits at the heart of her work. She believes transformation happens when people are met with compassion, clarity, and the space to reconnect with their own inner authority.

Students experience Marejka through live trainings, facilitation, and group learning spaces. She is known for creating environments that feel warm, grounded, and emotionally safe, while still being honest, clear, and gently challenging when growth is required.
In her sessions, Marejka supports students to build self-trust, presence, and practical coaching confidence. She has a natural ability to translate complex concepts into relatable, real-world examples, helping students move from theory into embodied understanding.

In her role, Marejka supports teaching delivery and student development, working collaboratively with faculty to ensure learning remains practical, supportive, and aligned with real-life coaching application. She brings a strong focus on regulation, integration, and ethical practice, helping students learn without pressure, performance, or perfectionism.

Alongside her role at the Institute, Marejka has built a successful coaching practice supporting women through mindset work, identity shifts, and nervous-system-informed change. Beginning without a traditional business background, she understands the realities of starting, growing, and sustaining a values-led practice.
She supports students to approach business in a realistic, ethical, and human way, emphasising consistency, self-trust, and aligned action over hustle or burnout.

• Over 20 years’ experience in leadership, training, and facilitation.
• Thousands of hours supporting individuals and groups through transformation
• Advanced training in mindset, manifestation, neuroscience-informed practices, and trauma-aware coaching
• Founder of Empower Rise Coaching, working with clients locally and internationally

Marejka brings a calm, grounded, and deeply human presence to her work. Her style blends warmth, humour, emotional honesty, and steadiness. Students often describe feeling seen, supported, and more confident in themselves after being in her space, leaving with both clarity and a stronger sense of self-trust.

Matthew Wickens is a WOW Mentor at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. He works closely with students across the community to support their growth as coaches, helping them build confidence, develop practical skills, and step into real conversations with real people. Through mentoring, presence, and support inside the learning environment, Matt helps students bridge the gap between learning coaching and actually living it.

Matt’s journey into coaching began after losing his mother to cancer at the age of 19. During that time, he found himself searching for support and healing, which led him to men’s groups and traditional therapy spaces. Over time, he noticed a deep desire to give back to the same communities that had supported him through some of his darkest moments. His journey has taken him from feeling lost, depressed, and suicidal to living a life grounded in purpose, passion, and service. Today, Matt is committed to supporting others who are ready to create meaningful change in their lives and relationships.

Students often experience Matt as someone who is deeply present within the community. When he joined ICI in July 2024, his approach to growth was simple: immerse himself fully. He showed up consistently across trainings, webinars, and live sessions, becoming an active and supportive presence inside the student community. Matt brings genuine care, encouragement, and passion to the spaces he steps into, helping students build confidence and take the next steps toward creating the life and work they truly want.
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In his role, Matt supports student development, mentoring, and community engagement. He works alongside faculty, trainers, and mentors to ensure students feel supported as they practice coaching skills and navigate their personal and professional growth. His focus is on helping students move forward with clarity and confidence, encouraging learning that is practical, human, and grounded in real-life application.

Matt has built a six-figure group coaching business supporting men in discovering purpose, strengthening relationships, and improving their emotional wellbeing. He is also the founder of MAW Coaching, a relationship coaching practice that supports couples in transforming conflict into deeper connection and understanding. Through his own business journey, Matt helps guide students toward their next steps in building meaningful coaching practices, one practical step at a time.

Matt has been active in the coaching industry for over three years as a professional coach and has completed more than 350 hours of coaching with clients. He is a graduate of Meta 3 and Meta 4 and was among the early pioneers of Quantum Coaching when it was introduced by ICI in 2025. His work reflects a strong commitment to personal growth, professional development, and supporting others in creating lasting change.

Matt brings grounded warmth, authenticity, and genuine care to every space he enters. He has a natural ability to help people feel seen, heard, and deeply understood. Students often leave conversations with him feeling lighter, clearer, and more empowered, with practical next steps and a deeper awareness of the patterns shaping their lives.

Gamze Cassandra Evren is a Mentor and Facilitator at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works alongside faculty, trainers, mentors, and students to support how coaching is taught across the school, helping students build the skills, confidence, and readiness to work with real people in the real world. Through mentoring, facilitation, and assessments, Gamze contributes to creating a learning environment that is practical, supportive, and grounded in real-life application.

Gamze’s journey into coaching began through lived experience rather than a perfect starting point. Early experiences of disconnection, conditional love, and not feeling seen or heard led to deep emotional pain and a strong drive to understand herself and the human mind. As a teenager, this struggle reached a breaking point and resulted in a suicide attempt. That moment marked the beginning of a lifelong search for healing, meaning, and deeper understanding of human behaviour.
Over the years that followed, Gamze immersed herself in learning and exploring a wide range of therapeutic and personal development approaches. Her focus during that time was understanding emotions, patterns, and what truly supports lasting change and recovery.
A defining turning point came several years ago when she was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer. Rather than approaching the situation only from a medical perspective, Gamze chose to work deeply with the inner dimensions of healing. While consciously using radiation treatment as a tool, she combined it with intensive inner work including Timeline work, Parts work, and somatic practices. During this process she experienced a profound shift into self-love and self-trust, and within two and a half months her health recovered. This experience strengthened her belief in the power of self-leadership and the deep connection between mind, body, and personal responsibility.
Her commitment to self-leadership as a lived skill continued to deepen through her studies and training at the International Coaching Institute, including programs such as MDPT, Ultimate You Quantum, and Meta Dynamics Interventions. These frameworks provided language and structure for the principles she had been living and exploring for decades, shaping the way she now mentors and facilitates students to develop self-leadership in their lives, relationships, and work.
Joining the International Coaching Institute was a values-aligned step that allowed Gamze to integrate her lived experience with structured coaching methodologies, bringing both depth and practicality to the way she supports students today.

Students experience Gamze through live trainings, facilitation spaces, mentoring sessions, assessments, group work, and advanced programs. In these environments, she is known for being grounded, compassionate, and gently challenging when needed.
She supports students in developing self-trust, emotional regulation, clarity, and practical coaching skills. Her approach helps students move from hesitation into confidence, from self-doubt into self-leadership, and from emotional reactivity into conscious responsiveness. Many students share that working with Gamze helps them translate theory into real conversations, allowing them to apply what they have learned with ownership and confidence. As a result, they often leave her sessions feeling calmer, clearer, and more capable both personally and professionally.

In her role, Gamze supports mentoring, facilitation, assessments, student development, and collaboration with faculty. She works closely with trainers and mentors across the school to ensure that learning remains supportive, ethical, and grounded in real-world coaching practice rather than pressure or performance.

Gamze views business as an extension of personal growth, where inner development and external success evolve together. Over the years, she has built and supported professional practices while working with individuals, organisations, educational institutions, and business owners across areas of mental health, wellbeing, leadership, communication, and marketing. She has owned four successful businesses and understands firsthand the realities of building and sustaining a practice as a solo entrepreneur.
Living in a neurodiverse household and personally navigating ADD, Gamze brings deep empathy and practicality to the way she supports students beginning their coaching journey. She helps them approach business in a realistic and sustainable way, building confidence, structure, and momentum while maintaining wellbeing and avoiding burnout.

Gamze brings extensive experience across coaching, facilitation, and therapeutic work.
She has:

• 4 years of professional coaching experience
• 9 years as a Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist
• 13 years as a Systemic Family Constellations Master Practitioner
• Over two decades supporting individuals in mental health and wellbeing through multiple modalities
• More than 1,500 hours of coaching, facilitation, mentoring, and training

She is accredited in MDPT Profiling and Extended DISC Level 1, and has trained extensively across Meta Dynamics methodologies including MD Level 1 Certified Practitioner, MD Speaking Success Level 2 Practitioner, MD Facilitation Skills Level 3 Practitioner, MD Quantum Coaching, MD Certified Emotion Integration Technique Practitioner, Attachment Theory, Business Breakthrough, Ultimate You, MD Interventions, and multiple business and marketing programs.
Gamze is also the creator of her own modality, HYPNOLAUGH, and a co-author of The Anxiety Relief Handbook. Throughout her career she has facilitated workshops, delivered trainings, and presented at numerous events, supporting both clients and industry professionals.

Gamze’s style is warm, compassionate, and deeply grounding. As a trauma-informed practitioner, she creates environments where students feel safe, seen, and respected. Her presence encourages authenticity, self-trust, and personal responsibility.
Students often describe feeling supported, championed, and capable of taking meaningful steps forward after working with her. They leave sessions with greater clarity, renewed confidence, and a stronger belief in their ability to lead themselves and create positive change in their lives.

Rochelle von Berger is a facilitator at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works alongside faculty to support how coaching is taught across the school, helping students build the confidence and practical coaching skills needed to create real impact with real people.

Rochelle’s introduction to coaching came through her own lived experience. Working with a coach helped her see something she hadn’t realised was possible — that she could quieten her busy mind, and that the exhaustion from being pulled in every direction as a leader, a wife, and a mother could be reversed.
That experience sparked a deeper curiosity she had already been exploring through her professional work. As a Work Health and Safety specialist, Rochelle has long been fascinated by the drivers of human behaviour, particularly in workplaces and leadership environments.
Through coaching and her work with leaders, she has learned that meaningful change begins when people reconnect with their own internal clarity and sense of power.
Her work is guided by the values of family, impact, growth, and by a simple belief: every person deserves to find where they belong, to be seen, heard, and feel valued — and that all of these things begin from within.

Students experience Rochelle primarily through group sessions. In these spaces, Rochelle is known for being warm, supportive, grounded, and gently challenging when it matters.
She helps students rediscover their self-trust, confidence and clarity in themselves and their future. Rochelle creates spaces where students feel safe to explore new ways of thinking, leading, and supporting others so they too can hold space for their families, clients and communities to expand their capacity for life, growth and impact.

In her role, Rochelle supports student development, facilitation, and applied learning, working closely with other faculty members to create an environment where people feel supported to grow, experiment, and develop their own authentic coaching style.
She is passionate about helping students move beyond theory and into practice — discovering how coaching becomes powerful through everyday conversations that build trust, clarity, and meaningful change.
Her focus is always on helping students translate coaching principles into real conversations, real leadership, and real impact in the lives and workplaces of the people they support.

Alongside her work with ICI and TCI, Rochelle has spent many years advising, coaching and facilitating conversations with senior leaders who genuinely care about their people, empowering them to build cultures where their people feel valued and their contribution matters when delivering the outcomes they need.

Rochelle brings a combination of professional, leadership, and coaching experience over many years including:

• More than 20 years working as a human behaviour expert and coach in workplaces, with leaders and regulators.
• Australia Day Achievement Award from the Vice Chief of the Defence Force for thought leadership in understanding, measuring and taking action to address psychosocial risks in the workplace.
• Secretary’s Award for co-founding the gender equality network in the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.
• Presenter at the Comcare Conference, Sea Power and the Australian Regulatory Conference.

Qualifications and professional memberships include:
Bachelor of Laws and Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Bachelor of Arts, Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety, Mental Health First Aid certified, ICI Pro Coach, member of the Australian Institute of Health and Safety, and member of the International Coaching Guild.

Rochelle brings warmth, passion, and generosity to her teaching, creating spaces where people feel safe to learn, practise, and grow. She has a natural ability to turn complex ideas into clear, practical skills that students can immediately apply in real coaching conversations.
Students often describe feeling inspired, supported, and clearer about themselves after participating in her sessions, which empowers student confidence, capacity and capability.

Paul Rogers is the Professional Coach Business Mentor at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute.
In this role, he works alongside faculty, trainers, mentors, and students to support how coaching is applied in real life, particularly when it comes to helping people build sustainable businesses and meaningful careers as coaches.
Paul helps students bridge the gap between learning coaching skills and using those skills in the real world. He supports students to develop the confidence, structure, and practical thinking needed to work with real clients, build trust, and create coaching practices that genuinely support people.

Paul’s journey into coaching began from lived experience rather than a perfect starting point. Briefly share the challenge, transition, or turning point that led them into this work, and what they learned about growth, change, or self-belief along the way. Keep this human, honest, and relatable.

Students experience Paul through mentoring sessions and practical business discussions.
In these spaces, Paul is known for being calm, practical, and encouraging while also asking the questions that help people think differently about their next step.
He has a natural ability to simplify complex ideas and help students translate theory into action. Rather than overwhelming students with business jargon or rigid formulas, Paul helps them build confidence in their own thinking and approach.
Students often leave conversations with Paul feeling clearer about what matters most and more confident about taking the next step in their coaching journey.

In his role at TCI and ICI, Paul supports student development through mentoring, coaching, and collaborative work with other faculty members.
He contributes to conversations around practical coaching application, professional practice, and how students can integrate their learning into meaningful work with clients.
Paul works closely with the broader faculty team to ensure that students experience learning as supportive, grounded, and connected to real-life situations rather than feeling like a purely academic process.
His focus is always on helping students move from learning about coaching to feeling capable of being a coach.

Alongside his role within TCI and ICI, Paul has built and grown multiple businesses across different industries.
From working in the trades, to managing international projects, to leading a family business and later becoming a business coach, Paul has firsthand experience navigating growth, leadership, uncertainty, and change.
Because of this, he brings a practical understanding of business into his mentoring with students.
Rather than presenting business as complicated or intimidating, Paul helps students understand how to build their coaching practices in a way that feels ethical, sustainable, and aligned with their values.
His focus is on helping people build something meaningful not just something impressive.

• Over 30 years of business and leadership experience as well as 9 years running his own coaching business
• Over 7,000 coaching hours
• ICG Business Coach of the Year in 2021, 2024 The Alternative Board Peer Board Excellence Award, 2024 BNI Best Director Consultant for South Australia
• Published Author of Get Off The Tools: The Tradies Guide to More Profit, More Time and Less Stress, Profit in Your Pocket: The Tradies Guide to Pricing, Margins and Cash in the Bank, The Kings Path: Light the Path to Your Kingdom and Lead With Clarity, Confidence and Courage, The Kings Vision, The Kings Quest and The Kings Discipline.
• Media articles for Bunnings Magazines and Online and The Adelaide Advertiser
• Masters Degree in Marketing

Paul brings a grounded, thoughtful energy to the spaces he works in.
He has a natural ability to listen deeply, ask practical questions, and help people see possibilities they may not have noticed before. His style blends warmth, calm leadership, and a quiet sense of humour that helps people relax and think more clearly.
Students often describe feeling supported, understood, and encouraged in Paul’s presence while also leaving with greater clarity about what they want to create next.

Toni Moloney is a Triad Mentor and Webinar Facilitator at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works closely with students as they transition from learning theory to coaching real people in real situations, supporting them to build confidence, self-trust, and practical coaching capability within a safe and structured environment.

Toni’s journey into coaching began during a season of deep personal reflection. Coming from the geographic isolation of the rural industry and navigating health challenges and significant life transitions, she reached a point where she knew she wanted something more meaningful and purposeful.
It was through ICI that she found both community and direction. Along the way, Toni discovered that growth does not come from having everything perfectly mapped out. It comes from learning to believe in yourself, taking responsibility for your choices, trusting proven systems, and continuing to show up, especially when it feels uncomfortable. These lived experiences shape how she mentors today. She believes people grow best when they feel safe, supported, and empowered to honour their own unique journey.

Students experience Toni through individualised triad mentoring sessions and live webinars that create an engaging and supportive group learning space. She is known for her warmth, grounded presence, and ability to encourage students to enjoy the process while still stretching beyond their comfort zones.
Toni gently challenges students to think differently, back themselves, and coach from presence rather than trying to “get it right.” Her work helps students build clarity, confidence, and self-awareness as they develop their coaching identity.

In her role, Toni supports students to develop practical coaching skills through structured triad mentoring and facilitated webinars that integrate module learning with real-time application. She collaborates closely with the school’s faculty and leadership team to ensure the learning experience remains practical, supportive, and aligned with the values and standards of the ICI community.

Alongside her faculty role, Toni has built a values-led coaching and facilitation business, working with individuals, groups, and rural family businesses. Her real-world experience allows her to bridge the gap between coaching theory and everyday application, helping students see how coaching skills translate into meaningful impact in both personal and professional settings.

Toni is a Professional Coach and Facilitator and an active faculty member at TCI and ICI. She brings nearly 1,000 hours of experience working with individuals, groups, and business leaders, grounding her mentoring in both practical experience and lived understanding.

Safe, honest, and grounded, Toni brings openness, humour, and real conversation to her work. Students often describe feeling seen, supported, and more confident to trust themselves after working with her. She believes that great coaching is not about perfection, but about presence, courage, and the willingness to grow alongside those you serve.

Samantha Di Lena is a Triad Mentor and Group Facilitator at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. They work alongside mentors and trainers to support how coaching is taught across the school, helping students build the skills, confidence, and readiness to work with real people in the real world.

Samantha’s journey into coaching began from lived experience rather than a perfect starting point.
She began her career in a technical role and later stepped into leadership, where she quickly noticed a gap. She was expected to lead people, navigate emotions, and support growth, yet there was no formal leadership training to guide her.
Looking for answers, Samantha found the International Coaching Institute. What started as a way to become a better leader became a turning point. Through her studies, she realised her deepest interest wasn’t in managing people, but in coaching them. She was drawn to understanding human behaviour, creating space for reflection, and supporting others to find clarity and direction for themselves.
Along the way, she learned that meaningful change doesn’t come from having all the answers, but from asking thoughtful questions, staying curious, and being willing to grow alongside others. This belief now underpins her work with students as they take their first steps into coaching, often for the very first time.

Students experience Samantha through triad mentoring and group webinar sessions. In these spaces, Samantha is known for bringing energy, being warm, supportive and playful and for helping students develop confidence, self-trust and questioning skills.

In their role, Samantha supports mentoring and student development. They work closely with others in the school to ensure learning is practical, supportive, and aligned with real-life application rather than pressure or performance.

Samantha has built her coaching and facilitation practice from the ground up, without a traditional business background.
Her work has grown through relationships, word of mouth, and a commitment to doing the work with integrity rather than rushing to scale or follow rigid business formulas.
She brings a realistic and human approach to business, encouraging students to see practice-building as an extension of who they are, not something separate from their values. Samantha supports students to think practically about clarity, boundaries, communication, and sustainable growth, while staying aligned with ethics, self-trust, and genuine connection.
In her work with students, she normalises uncertainty, experimentation, and learning as part of the process, helping new coaches move forward without needing to have everything figured out from the start.

• 3 years
• ~240 coaching hours
• Mentor at Curtin Industry Mentoring Program
• Certified Keynote Speaker at WYN Conferences
• Grad Cert (HRM), Credentialed Practitioner of Coaching

Samantha’s style is warm, engaging, and energising.
She brings openness, curiosity, and a lightness that helps students relax and participate fully, even when exploring unfamiliar ideas. Her honest and encouraging approach creates space for meaningful discussion, fresh perspectives, and learning that feels alive rather than theoretical.

Students often leave feeling more confident, clearer in their thinking, and energised about their growth as coaches.

Tegan Rein is a Business Mentor and WOW Team Mentor at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works closely with faculty and trainers to support high standards of ethical practice, evolving best practice frameworks, and practical business education across the school.
Through Business Mentoring and Personal Success Planning Sessions (PSPS), Tegan helps students gain clarity on where they are, where they want to be, and what becomes possible when intention meets aligned action. Her role centres on supporting students to expand their comfort zones, build sustainable revenue streams, and develop the confidence to move forward even when outcomes are not yet guaranteed.

Tegan’s approach to mentoring is shaped by her own lived experience of navigating growth, leadership, and commercial responsibility. Having travelled the path of building capability while managing uncertainty, she understands that confidence is rarely present at the beginning — it is built through action.
She believes that transformation often begins not with having all the answers, but with being willing to sit with the right questions. Her work is grounded in the understanding that as capability grows, belief tends to follow. She supports students to recognise their own inner resourcefulness and to trust that clarity can emerge through courageous, consistent steps forward.

Students experience Tegan as warm, grounded, and structured. She is known for listening deeply and asking questions that continue to create reflection long after a session has ended.
Her strength in pattern recognition allows her to gently highlight blind spots or recurring themes, helping students access their own insights rather than being handed solutions. Many students find that as they strengthen their coaching and business skills, they also begin developing something deeper — their identity as leaders, their self-trust, and their sense of what is possible.

In her role, Tegan supports business curriculum integration, mentoring delivery, and student progression across accreditation levels. She collaborates closely with faculty and trainers to ensure students are not only developing coaching capability, but also learning how to build ethical, sustainable, and commercially sound practices.
Her focus is on maintaining high standards while fostering an environment where students feel supported to explore their potential without pressure or performance-driven expectations.

With over 20 years of experience in promotion, marketing, advertising, sales, leadership, and mentoring, Tegan brings strong commercial acumen and practical insight. She understands both the strategic and human elements of building a business.
She supports students to align business strategy with personal values, knowing that when congruence and clarity are present, momentum follows more naturally. Her mentoring emphasises operational confidence, ethical decision-making, and strategic action — empowering students to grow practices that are purposeful and financially sustainable.

Tegan brings more than two decades of experience across commercial leadership and mentoring environments. She has supported numerous students through business development pathways within ICI, guiding them through Personal Success Planning Sessions and ongoing WOW Team Mentoring.
Her work integrates real-world commercial experience with structured mentoring frameworks, grounding her support in both lived business experience and practical coaching application.

Grounded, empathetic, and practical, Tegan brings a calm steadiness to her mentoring spaces. She offers guidance that is honest and compassionate, balancing reflection with forward momentum.
Students often leave her sessions feeling clearer than when they arrived — sometimes surprised by how much insight was already within them once given the space to access it.
When asked what she hopes to be remembered for, Tegan shares: “To remind others to celebrate life — in this moment, right now, with the people around you.” And it is often in those intentional pauses — where awareness replaces urgency — that meaningful transformation begins.

Samaneh Sharifi is a Coach–Mentor at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works closely with faculty, trainers, and mentors to support how coaching is taught, integrated, and consistently modelled across the school. Her role focuses on helping students stay aligned with the Institute’s coaching culture, standards, and expectations while developing clarity, confidence, and capability in their coaching practice.

Samaneh’s journey into coaching began through her background in Social Sciences and a genuine curiosity about human behaviour, meaning-making, and personal growth. Rather than a single defining moment, her path into coaching developed gradually through study, reflection, and a growing interest in understanding how people change and evolve.
Over time, she found herself drawn to coaching as a practical way to support people in developing deeper self-awareness and clarity in their lives. Her approach reflects a belief that growth happens through reflection, consistent learning, and real conversations that allow people to better understand themselves and the choices they make.

Students often experience Samaneh as calm, grounded, and quietly supportive. She creates a non-judgemental environment where students feel safe to reflect, ask questions, and grow at their own pace.
Through her presence and guidance, students develop confidence, clarity, and self-trust while learning how to integrate coaching skills with intention and care. Many students share that working with Samaneh helps them feel more confident in their voice as a coach and clearer about how to show up in conversations with clients.

In her role, Samaneh supports students through regular check-ins, reflective conversations, and mentoring spaces that help them track their progress and understand how their coaching journey is unfolding. She helps students recognise what is developing well, clarify their next steps, and stay engaged with the learning process.
Samaneh places strong emphasis on acknowledgement and validation, recognising the effort, consistency, and growth that students demonstrate throughout their training. She encourages students to remain aligned with the Institute’s coaching culture and values while building confidence in following the coaching system with integrity.
Alongside her work with students, Samaneh collaborates with faculty and mentors to ensure the learning environment remains supportive, aligned, and reflective of best practice across the school.

While supporting students within the Institute, Samaneh is also continuing to develop her professional coaching practice. She works with individuals in life and relationship contexts, applying coaching principles to support personal clarity, communication, and growth.
Her focus is on building a coaching practice step by step, demonstrating the same steady learning and application that she encourages in students.

Samaneh brings a background in Social Sciences along with over 200 hours of coaching experience. Since joining the Institute in 2024, she has been actively supporting students while continuing to deepen her own coaching practice and professional development.
Her work reflects a commitment to reflective learning, ethical coaching practice, and the consistent application of coaching skills in real conversations.

Samaneh’s style is calm, thoughtful, and grounded. She creates spaces where students feel safe to explore their learning, reflect on their experiences, and develop their coaching voice without pressure or judgement.
Students often describe her presence as steady and reassuring, helping them slow down, think clearly, and build confidence in their own abilities as they continue growing into their role as coaches.

Sarah Cremona is a Pro Coach Mentor at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works closely with students as they transition from learning coaching frameworks into applying their skills with real clients in the real world.
Drawing on her experience as an intuitive business mentor, somatic and energy practitioner, and emotionally intelligent coach, Sarah helps students bridge the gap between theory and lived practice. Her mentoring supports emerging coaches to develop confidence in their own voice, trust their intuition, and apply coaching skills in ways that are practical, ethical, and aligned with who they are.

Sarah’s journey into coaching and mentoring began during a period of deep personal transformation.
After years in a corporate career pursuing traditional markers of success, the birth of her child and the experience of a traumatic birth shifted her perspective completely. While life appeared stable on the outside, internally she felt exhausted, disconnected, and questioning what truly mattered.
That experience became a turning point. Rather than returning to the same path, Sarah began exploring approaches that addressed what she felt was missing from conventional systems of care, a way of working that honours not only the mind, but also the body, intuition, and deeper sense of self.
Through this process, she discovered that meaningful work and sustainable business growth come from self-trust and alignment rather than following someone else’s blueprint. By integrating strategy with intuition, she built a practice that reflects her values, strengths, and purpose.
Today she supports others on a similar path, helping them build businesses and lives that feel aligned, grounded, and deeply meaningful.

Students experience Sarah through Pro Coach mentoring spaces where learning becomes practical and immediately applicable.
She is known for being grounded, direct, and practical while also encouraging students to trust their intuition and personal insight. Her sessions often help students translate ideas into clear next steps, giving them the confidence to begin working with clients and building their coaching practice in real and achievable ways.
Students frequently leave her mentoring feeling supported, clearer about their path, and more confident in their ability to take action.

Sarah supports student development through mentoring, practical guidance, and collaborative learning environments.
She works closely with other faculty members and mentors within the school to ensure that coaching education remains supportive, ethical, and grounded in real-world application. Her focus is helping students integrate both personal growth and practical skill development as they step into coaching professionally.

Sarah has built her own coaching and healing practice from the ground up, combining intuitive work with practical business strategy.
Starting without a traditional business background, she understands the challenges many new coaches face when turning their passion into a sustainable practice. Through her mentoring, she supports students to build businesses that are realistic, values-aligned, and designed for long-term impact rather than short-term pressure.
Her approach encourages students to integrate practical business skills with self-trust and authenticity, helping them develop practices that reflect who they truly are while serving others in meaningful ways.

Sarah brings over five years of industry experience as a coach, mentor, and healing practitioner.
Her work and business have received recognition through multiple awards, including:

• Highly Commended Best New Business, Illawarra
• Two AusMumPreneur International Online Business Awards for Community and Wellness
• Best-Selling Author recognition
• ABC News interview discussing healing from birth trauma

Her work has also been featured on the front page of the Milton Ulladulla Times, in The Fold Illawarra, and through advocacy partnerships with AusMumPreneur.
Sarah has travelled internationally as a panel speaker and advocate for women’s wellbeing and empowerment.
She is trained as a Professional Coach and holds certifications in Reiki Healing, Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology, and Meta 3 Facilitation.

Sarah’s style is grounded, intuitive, and calm.
She brings warmth, openness, and practical clarity to every mentoring space, helping students see both where they are and what their next step can be. Her presence often creates an environment where students feel safe to explore their own voice, trust their instincts, and move forward with greater confidence.
Students frequently describe leaving her sessions feeling supported, seen, and empowered, with a clearer connection to their purpose and the work they are here to do.

Sidqie Djunaedi is the WOW Business Mentor at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. They work alongside students to support how coaching is taught across the school, helping students build the skills, confidence, and readiness to work with real people in the real world.

Sidqie’s journey into coaching was not originally planned. After more than a decade working in global corporate environments, he had achieved many traditional measures of success — a strong salary, leadership responsibilities, and management of multi-million-dollar procurement portfolios across international organisations.
Yet despite the outward success, he sensed something deeper was missing. During this period of reflection, he experienced the loss of a former colleague to suicide — someone who had once made him feel genuinely welcomed when he first arrived in Australia as a migrant from Jakarta. The experience left a profound impression on him. His colleague had appeared capable, respected, and successful, yet had been silently struggling beneath the surface.
This moment became a turning point. It redirected Sidqie toward coaching and personal development, beginning his journey with ICI in 2020. Looking back on the teams he had worked within, he recognised that the environments where people truly thrived were those where high performance and genuine human care coexisted — where colleagues respected one another, supported each other, and created space for connection and growth.
That philosophy now underpins the work he does today. Alongside his role within ICI, Sidqie works as a Leadership and Business Coach supporting migrant leaders and culturally diverse communities to reconnect with their purpose and build the mindset, systems, and habits that allow them to pursue their aspirations.

Students experience Sidqie primarily through mentoring sessions where he supports them to develop confidence, clarity, and practical business capability. He is known for creating a supportive yet challenging environment where students are encouraged to expand their thinking and explore new possibilities for their coaching practice.
Through structured guidance and reflective conversations, Sidqie helps students strengthen their entrepreneurial mindset while building systems and structures that support sustainable business growth. His approach encourages students to combine personal insight with practical action.

In his role, Sidqie supports student development through mentoring and collaborative engagement with faculty and trainers. He contributes to creating a learning environment where students feel supported to grow while being encouraged to apply their learning in real-world contexts.
His work helps ensure that coaching education within the school remains practical, human-centred, and aligned with ethical and sustainable practice rather than pressure-driven performance.

Before transitioning into coaching, Sidqie spent 18 years working in Tier 1 global corporations across industries including IT and telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas, and mining. His corporate experience involved managing complex procurement systems, large-scale portfolios, and cross-cultural professional environments.
This background informs how he mentors students today, helping them bridge the gap between personal development and practical business implementation. He supports emerging coaches to build structured systems, develop entrepreneurial thinking, and approach business growth with both clarity and integrity.

• 18 years in Tier 1 Global Corporation in Australia – IT & Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, and Mining.
• 7 Years in Coaching – Leadership & Business. Currently focusing on serving the Culturally & Linguistically Diverse (C.A.L.D) Leaders & Communities in Australia.
• 300+ hours 1:1 Coaching Hours and 200+ hours Group Facilitation, including Key Note Speaker.
• Bachelor of Commerce Management with University of Melbourne
• Master of Business Systems with Victoria University of Technology

Sidqie brings a rare combination to the room – warmth and welcoming, challenge without judgment, and a calm that makes people feel safe enough to go deeper in their journey.
He delivers ideas & learning with clarity – making complex behavioural, psychological and business concepts feel immediately practical and personal.
But what sets him apart isn’t just the content. It’s the container he creates with his students. His sessions feel spacious. People say things they haven’t said out loud before.
He brings his own story, his own humanity, and an openness that invites students to do the same.
Students often leave with more than insight. They leave with a deeper sense of themselves – and the confidence to act from that place.

Ashlie Stevenson is the WOW Mentor at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. They work alongside faculty, trainers, mentors and students to support how coaching is taught across the school, helping students build the skills, confidence, and readiness to work with real people in the real world.

Ashlie’s journey into coaching began from lived experience rather than a perfect starting point. Living through depression, chronic illness while raising a family and trying to keep her marriage alive, she hit an all-time low, not only within her physical body and its limitations but in her internal world. Having to leave her role as an Early Childhood educator due to illness, Ashlie started searching for answers that were more than what the doctors could diagnose, While searching for the next chapter she dug deep and evaluated what she loved most about and how she wanted to give back to the world. This lead into finding life coaching as an option. From a chat online with one of the ICI team she truly understood that coaching and coaching for herself in her own business was the next step. Signing up and starting with the school she began realising the work that comes with learning how to coach and build a business was so much about taking the journey for herself first. She learnt how to self advocate better, how to start trusting her own judgement and take responsibility and accountability for her decisions. On this journey she has powered through the difficult times with compassion and lover for herself that she had never had before, she learned, grew, expanded her awareness, started to notice and regulate her nervous system and reactions better than she had witnessed anyone in her world do before, this is when she new she was in the right place and that she HAD to bring this to as many humans as she could. And now, to give back to the school and students that are coming after her, just as the students before her did when she started and continue to do for her.

Students experience Ashlie through live trainings, mentoring, group sessions, and advanced programs. In these spaces, Ashlie is known for being a warm, supportive energy, while challenging and helping to ground others, and for helping students develop specific capacities such as confidence, clarity, self-trust, or practical skill.

In their role, Ashlie supports curriculum / delivery / mentoring / assessment / student development / faculty collaboration. They work closely with others in the school to ensure learning is practical, supportive, and aligned with real-life application rather than pressure or performance.

Ashlie has built and grown, a coaching practice from what she has learned from the school. With no professional background in business, (only management) the trainings and mentoring she leant into has guided her to a flexible business that is continuing to grow in her market area of musicians, allowing her to utilise something that has been a strong passion for her entire life, driving her forward and making a difference in a world she never could have even imagined being a part of before joining ICI. She now shares her experience, encourages students to do the same in a way that suits their unique way. When mentoring students, she keeps it real and direct while showing compassion and genuinely being excited for each student on their journey of success.

• 2.5 Years in the industry
• 500 hours of coaching and mentoring over 250 hours of trainings attended
• META III, META Interventions, META Quantum, Speaking success, Business Success principles, Business Mastery, Sales, Coaching Success, FOCSE and more
• Foundations, Diploma Early childhood Education and care

Ashlie’s personal style and energy warm, open, humorous, while being excited and energised, direct and honest. Students often feel seen, taken care of, energised and leave with clarity on their new awareness’ of themselves and their next steps for both business and their emotional journey.

Svetla Petkova is a Triad Mentor at The Coaching Institute and International Coaching Institute. She works alongside students, mentors, and faculty to support how coaching is practiced and developed across the school, helping students strengthen the skills, confidence, and presence required to work with real people in the real world.
Through triad mentoring spaces, she helps students refine their coaching language, deepen their listening, and build confidence in applying coaching frameworks in practical situations.

Svetla’s journey into coaching developed naturally over time.
For more than two decades in senior leadership roles, mentoring and supporting others had already been part of her professional life. In 2020, she joined The Coaching Institute initially for personal growth. Through that experience, she saw firsthand the profound impact coaching could have on people’s lives and chose to pursue it more deeply as a professional coach.
One of the defining moments in her journey was experiencing a TCI staff member holding space for her during a coaching session. That experience left a lasting impression and inspired her to offer the same level of presence and support to others.
Today, she continues to combine her professional background with coaching to help individuals experience the clarity, growth, and empowerment that coaching can create.

Students experience Svetla through triad mentoring sessions and learning environments designed to support practical skill development.
She is known for being supportive, grounded, and constructively challenging in ways that help students grow. In her mentoring spaces, students often strengthen their confidence, refine their coaching language, and develop practical skills required to run effective and meaningful coaching conversations.
Many students appreciate her ability to offer thoughtful guidance while creating a safe environment where learning and experimentation are encouraged.

In her role as a Triad Mentor, Svetla supports student development through mentoring, observation, and practical feedback.
She collaborates closely with faculty and mentors to ensure that students are supported as they practice coaching in real time. Her focus is on helping students translate what they learn in training into practical application.
Svetla is also an active contributor within the TCI community, regularly supporting virtual training spaces and mentoring environments where she continues to give back to the coaching ecosystem.

Alongside her professional career, Svetla has built a coaching practice that operates as a complementary part of her work and life.
With postgraduate degrees in Engineering and Law shaping her professional career, she brings both analytical thinking and emotional awareness into her coaching approach. Her experience demonstrates that coaching can successfully coexist with a full-time career and family responsibilities.
She often shares that building a coaching practice does not need to follow a single model. For many people, it becomes a dynamic part of their life and work that evolves over time alongside other commitments.

Svetla brings more than 20 years of leadership and mentoring experience in professional environments.
Her background includes postgraduate qualifications in Engineering and Law, which have informed her structured yet thoughtful approach to coaching and mentoring.
Since joining The Coaching Institute in 2020, she has continued developing her coaching practice while supporting students through mentoring and practical coaching development spaces.

Svetla’s style is calm, thoughtful, and supportive.
She brings a steady and grounded presence to mentoring sessions, encouraging students to explore their capabilities while offering practical guidance that helps them grow as coaches. Her balanced approach combines clarity, care, and constructive challenge.
Students often leave her mentoring spaces feeling more confident in their coaching ability, supported in their learning journey, and encouraged to continue developing their own unique coaching style.