Meet the Team

Managing Consultant

Ross measures and shapes organisation culture to create greater effectiveness and performance. In designing organisations to really work, Ross works closely with his clients to understand the latent processes that drive behaviour.

Ross’ reputation for reading people, situations and human systems stems from his broad professional and organizational background. After completing a Masters at Oxford University, Ross moved on to a broad variety of roles in the commercial world: from constructing offshore oil rigs to working as a global futures trader and project manager of large system implementations.

He brings this commercial savvy, his love of developing people, and a deep knowledge of Organisation Dynamics to LTA.

As an L&D and OD consultant, Ross has worked with an impressive list of clients including ANZ, Arrium, Australia Post, BHP Billiton, Crowe Horwath, Coles, KPMG, NAB, St Vincents Health Australia, TAC and Transurban. A key project involved designing, developing, piloting and training the trainers at a global Team Leader development program for one of Australia’s largest financial institutions, which has since rolled out globally across more than 20 countries and won global awards.

Of his role at LTA, Ross says: “I am passionate about making real and sustained change – whether it be with individuals or organisations. After 17 years of executive coaching, I still get a buzz helping senior leaders significantly change how they approach their work. Seeing the whole-of-life impact for them, their families, and the people they lead, is fantastic.”

Ross is accredited in: Life Styles Inventory (LSI); The Leadership Circle (TLC); Leadership Culture Survey (LCS); CCL Benchmarks 360 Assessment Suite; SHL Personality, Motivation and Ability Assessment Suite; Myers Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI Step I and II); Team Management Profile (TMP); and is a BIOSS Practitioner.

• BEng (Hons), MSc (Oxford)
• Grad Dip Organisation Dynamics

Principal Consultant and Coach

Peta Searle is a very experienced Consultant and Coach. She has over thirty years of leadership experience in the fields of education, sports and organisations. Peta collaborates with leaders to improve their capacity to comprehend themselves, their influence on others, and the interconnectedness of these factors in achieving organisational objectives. Her dedication to leadership and coaching is firmly grounded in her vast history of sports coaching, through which she has developed the ability to assist individuals in overcoming obstacles and achieving their utmost potential.
Peta is a recipient of the Order of Australia Medal (OAM), in recognition of her contribution to the sports and leadership arena by boldly confronting traditional gender roles. As the pioneering female coach in the Australian Football League (AFL), Peta defied expectations and transformed perceptions of leadership. Recognised for her coaching excellence, she was enshrined in the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2017.

Peta employs a coaching and facilitation approach that effectively combines challenge and empathy, with a strong focus on respecting the values, beliefs, and strengths of her clients. Through building trust and providing support, she guides clients towards self-discovery and authenticity, resulting in positive shifts in attitudes and behaviours for sustained personal development and enhanced performance. Peta customises her sessions to address the unique needs of each individual, team and organisations aiming for outcomes that are not only goal-focused but also deeply transformative.

Peta has collaborated with Level 3 coaches within the Australian Football League (AFL), concentrating on enhancing their communication, decision-making, and conflict resolution capabilities. During her tenure at Essendon Football Club, she spearheaded the progression of AFLW coaches in strategic ideation, performance oversight and personal growth. Serving as the BHP Academy Coach, Peta mentored female individuals on effectively navigating gender dynamics, fostering assertiveness and developing empowerment strategies to bolster their ability to lead with confidence and authenticity. In addition, Peta has engaged with Victoria Police, overseeing cultural transformation initiatives and leadership development programs throughout the entire organisation, while also offering personalised coaching sessions.

Peta is also a seasoned and engaging Keynote Speaker. She shares valuable insights on leadership, coaching and mentoring reflecting her passion for inspiring excellence in leadership journeys. Peta advocates for gender diversity in leadership, utilising her expertise in coaching and leadership to effect cultural transformation by challenging established norms.

• Bachelor of Education
• Certificate IV Teaching and Assessment
• Institute of Executive Coaching certified
• Women in Leadership “Executive Ready Program” certificate
• Level 3 AFL Coach

Principal Consultant and Executive Coach

Sabine has over 25 years direct commercial experience working in the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. She is deeply committed to creating a legacy of supporting people and organisations to become sustainable, enabling them to thrive in a rapidly evolving world.

Grounded and calm, Sabine creates a psychologically safe space to have difficult and vulnerable conversations that lead to profound inner transformation, enabling her clients to view challenges from entirely new perspectives. She helps people and teams become unstuck; empowering them to learn critical, adaptive skills and transform their business and bottom-line results.

Sabine is a trusted advisor who brings wisdom, understanding and authenticity to her client interactions. She encourages her clients to bring their ‘whole person’ to the business challenges they face, find meaning in their experiences and supports them to make bold, courageous changes.

Her clients include c-suite executives and senior leaders of ASX listed and global companies in the engineering, energy, resources, aged care, professional services, insurance, banking & finance, FMCG sectors as well as state and federal government departments.

She is accredited in a wide range of assessment tools including: The Leadership Circle Profile, Leadership Culture Assessment & Leadership System; Team Management Profile; HeartStyles; Lifestyles Index and Values Orientation.

Sabine is also fluent in English and German.

• Institute of Executive Coaching & Leadership - Executive
  Coaching levels 1, 2 & 3 and Group/Team Coaching
• Integral Coach
• Systems Dynamics & Organisational Constellations

Principal Consultant and Executive Coach

Peter Webb is a Director of Human Capital Consulting, senior leadership coach, and organisational psychologist with 18 years’ experience designing and delivering organisation development and culture change initiatives for medium to large enterprises and government agencies across the Asia Pacific region. He is internationally recognised for his research and practice in helping leaders make wise decisions under conditions of disruption and complexity.

Peter is passionate about helping individuals, teams and organisations find new forms of thinking, being and acting in the era of digital disruption. Now, more than ever he believes leaders and their teams need wisdom to navigate the new world of work.

Over the past 3 years as Director, Research and Curriculum for the International Centre for Leadership in Finance based in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia he designed, managed and delivered executive education programs for senior executives and top teams across South East Asia in Shipping, Infrastructure Engineering, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, and Energy.

Peter has acknowledged facilitation skills with top teams in the areas of strategic thinking and planning, team dynamics, and decision making. He demonstrates an ability to interpret a wide range of organisational behaviour frameworks and methodologies and put them into practice.

Since 2001 Peter has been engaged by high profile private and public sector clients for executive coaching and facilitation assignments in Australia, in the professional and financial services industries, state and local governments and in many of Australia’s largest corporations.

Peter’s early career was in human resources management roles in the mining and energy sectors in Western Australia and Queensland. He subsequently gained qualifications in naturopathic clinical medicine and conducted several successful practices in South East Queensland, later taking up training and management roles in the natural pharmaceuticals industry in Australia and North America.

He is accredited in a wide range of assessment tools including: SHL suite, ACER suite, Hogan suite, MLQ, TMP, LSI, TLC, and Extraordinary Leader 360.

• M.Appl.Sci. (Coaching Psych.) U.Syd.
• B.Econ Hons (Org. Psych.) U.Qld.
• B.Naturopathy ACNT
• Certified Member Aust Psych Society College of Org Psychologist
• Founding Member European Mentoring & Coaching Council Asia Pacific Region
• Founding Member International Society of Coaching Psychologists
• Founding Member U.Syd. Coaching & Mentoring Assoc

Senior Consultant

As a facilitator, coach and designer, Margo works to connect with people in a meaningful and genuine way. Whether working across customer service, leadership and management, negotiation skills, group dynamics, and coaching and communication skills, Margo brings to LTA her excellent balance of energy, thoughtful reflection, and disciplined action.

Her sound reputation for developing trust and rapport developed from years of experience in leadership development and program design, implementation and presentation in organisations such as Carlisle Homes, National Australia Bank, Suncorp, VicRoads, Red Cross, BHP Billiton, and Lonely Planet.

Margo also chaired the Ethics Committee at The Body Shop, served as director on the boards of peak environmental groups, and led leadership programs for The Wilderness Society and the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Full of curiosity and passion for her own learning, Margo loves to support others in their learning to bring about positive work and life changes.  She says: “At LTA I am interested in real change which impacts ourselves, others, our workplaces, and the world in positive ways. I am always interested in well-designed work which takes participants on an interesting and fulfilling journey.”

• BA, Dip Ed, Grad Cert Organisation Dynamics
• Grad Dip Counselling, Associate Member AIM

Margo is accredited in: the Myer Briggs Type Indicator Accreditation (MBTI Step I and II), the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), GENOS Emotional Intelligence Testing, Team Management Profile Accreditation (TMP), The Leadership Circle-Individual 360 and Team Culture Profile, Life Skills Inventory (LSI)- Human Synergistics, and certification in the 360-tools Benchmarks®, SKILLSCOPE®, 360 BY DESIGN®, Executive Dimensions®, and Prospector®. Margo is currently completing her Masters in Leadership, Management and Organisation Dynamics.

Principal Consultant

Frank tailors and facilitates workshops to make learning relevant for every participant. He works to respond and adapt to the needs of every group while delivering significant and challenging content.

With a professional background in engineering, IT, project management, Frank brings a fresh perspective to his work as a coach, content designer and workshop facilitator at LTA. For over 25 years he had a successful career with Deutsche Bank, was Managing Director of a management consultancy firm in Ireland, and founder of a business coaching company in London for leaders at all levels.

His first introduction to L&D came at Swinburne University’s School of Business, where he designed and ran leadership workshops, as well as re-launched Swinburne’s successful Diploma courses in Management and HR Management. He brings this breadth and depth of business experience to LTA, where working with clients as diverse as Coles and Carlisle Homes requires a flexible thinking, language and presentation style, and allows him to relate to a very wide audience and communicate in an empathetic way.

Frank loves to see people put learning into practice, in small ways that make a real and positive difference. “After academia, LTA was a breath of fresh air: small, nimble, forward-thinking, challenging, stimulating. Hearing from people who have tried things and got results is a great feeling.” 

• BEng, Dip Accounting & Finance, Dip Project Management, Grad Cert Applied Business
• Cert IV Training & Assessment

Frank is certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hay Group’s Emotional Competence Inventory, Prince 2 project management methodology, and is a member of the Australian Institute of Project Managers (MAIPM).

Senior Consultant

JJacqui is a transformational change specialist. Her experience spans culture change, organisational development, change management, Agile ways of working, human-centred design and facilitation. She has worked across a variety of sectors including local government, financial services, consumer health and professional services. Jacqui delivers maximum value in complex environments where her commercial acumen, interpersonal skills, agility and positive energy combine for quality outcomes.

Jacqui gained change implementation experience with major digital, regulatory and organisational changes over her years with Westpac and the Bank of Melbourne. This experience included change portfolio management (reporting, governance, integrated communications) and a strong focus on embedding and sustaining change to realise benefits. Her project management experience and ProSci qualification in change management mean she is disciplined in execution; with a natural style that is iterative, transparent and collaborative.

Jacqui’s work at Bupa and the City of Boroondara was focused on organisational cultural change, to enable innovation and organisational transformation. She is experienced in developing culture and capability initiatives to support organisations to achieve their strategic goals. These include leadership development, coaching, employee feedback (surveys as well as qualitative listening methods), Agile ways of working, strategic storytelling and tools for sense-making in complexity.

Jacqui is an engaging facilitator, savvy with digital tools for hybrid facilitation and skilled at eliciting different perspectives in diverse groups. Jacqui’s early career in market research and customer experience fostered an enduring focus on customers, front-line staff members and end-users. She has a track record in building rapport & credibility quickly, with everyone from C-suite executives to customer-facing team members in the field; and being able to do so face-to-face or virtually.

She demonstrates influence and effective stakeholder engagement in complex and ambiguous environments, and is experienced leading teams directly or virtually to deliver with excellence.

Passionate about coaching and empowering others to cultivate organisational agility, Jacqui is a pragmatist who perseveres, adapts and continually engages to help people and organisations thrive..

• Bachelor of Business Management and Bachelor of Arts, University of Queensland
• Certificate of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Stanford University
• Certified ProSci Change Management Process practitioner
• Endorsed Adaptive Cultures practitioner
• Certified Organisational Coach (Level 2) with the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership

Principal Consultant

With over 25 years’ experience, Cameron is an organisational development and learning specialist who has held senior consulting roles with Melbourne Business School and management roles in multinational companies in Australia, Asia and the Middle East. His passion is working at the intersection of the individual and the group and creating spaces for people to discover their potential for learning and growth.

Cameron’s practice is informed by systems-psychodynamics, adult development, and reflexive learning. He believes people are not problems to be fixed and the key to sustainable change is helping them find solutions to their own life questions. He has helped hundreds of leaders to step into the leaders they want to become, thus enabling them to transform their teams and their organisations.

His experience includes executive and group coaching, design and facilitation of multi-level leadership programs and consulting in talent and capability development. Cameron is a lifelong learner combining eclectic interests in physical endurance such as climbing El Capitan in the US and completing the Australian Alpine Classic 350km cycling event, alongside his interests in meditation, painting and volunteering in his local community of Carnegie.

Cameron is accredited in the use of a range of assessments including Leadership Circle Profile, Hogan 360, Workplace Big 5, MBTI, FIROB, Team Management Systems, Prosci Change Management, Talent Q personality & ability assessments, Mental Toughness.

• Master of Leadership & Management - Group Dynamics, (NIODA) - recipient of the John Newton Award for academic excellence
• MBA, Organisational Behaviour and HR Major (University of New England)
• Bachelor of Forest Science (University of Melbourne)

Senior Consultant

Julie Edwards is an executive and leadership coach who uses breakthrough strategies and high- impact solutions to assist top-of-their-game individuals, teams and organisations to leverage their talent and achieve lasting behavioural change.

With a strong academic and theoretical background, she is able to fluidly turn complex models into simple applications.

Agility is her strength. While drawing on a powerful combination of skills in leadership, organisational change and business development, Julie’s ultimate success is fuelled by her genuine belief in people’s talents – and their potential for dynamic professional growth.

Widely regarded for her personal style and warm, direct approach, Julie is not afraid to challenge her clients to achieve immediate, yet sustainable results.

A quick thinker, she combines logic with intuition to solve problems. She is particularly renowned for her ability to quickly grasp a client’s values, goals and learning style in order to place them on the fast track to success.

Over the past 20 years Julie has worked with a diversity of Australian clients including corporates such as BHP Billiton, Virgin Australia, Telstra and Suncorp, government organisations including the Defence Materiel Organisation, QIC and Melbourne Water, and family-owned companies such as BMD Construction and De Bortoli Winery.

Julie is accredited in: Myer Briggs Type Indicator Accreditation (MBTI Step I and II), BAR-On Emotional Intelligence, Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Engagement Coaching, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Hogan Leadership Development Suite, DISC, Centre for Creative Leadership Suite - Benchmarks®, SKILLSCOPE®, 360 BY DESIGN®, Executive Dimensions®, Master Practitioner in NLP and Prospector®.

Julie has a Masters in Education from the University of WA and a Certificate in Entrepreneurism and Innovation (Masters Level) from Swinburne University.

Julie is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) and an Associate with Melbourne Business School. She is a Director of RMT – Teamwork in Action, a Non Executive Director Of Varsity Lakes Financial Services Limited and the Vice Gastronomique - Gold Coast, of La Chaine de Rotissuers. 

Senior Consultant

As an experienced consultant and coach, Bridget is passionate about working with values-driven organisations and leaders to build capability, develop resiliency and maintain high performance in the face of ever-changing and increasingly complex business challenges. 

She has international experience in designing and delivering strategic change, performance management, cultural change and leadership development programmes for clients in various industries including professional services, financial services, health, economic development, social policy and media.

Her clients value her systemic perspective, her creative yet practical solutions, and her ability to facilitate meaningful processes for individuals, teams and organisations to explore and understand the critical elements of cultural and behavioural change.

Bridget is accredited in Myers Briggs Type Indicator Accreditation (MBTI Step I and II); The Leadership Circle – Individual 360 and Team Culture Profile; Hogan Assessment Systems (HPI, HDS, MVPI, Judgement & 360); EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360; Wave Professional Styles Assessment; NEO PI-R Personality Inventory; Resilience at Work; Hay Job Evaluation; Prince 2 and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).

Bridget holds a Diploma in Executive Coaching (AoEC, UK) and a Certificate in Executive Coaching (Roffey Park).  She also holds a Certificate IV Training and Assessment (Inspire Education), and memberships with UN Women and the International Coaching Federation.

• BA (Hons) Journalism (Curtin University)
• MSc Global Politics (London School of Economics)
• Diploma in Organisation Development (Roffey Park)

OD Analyst

Bethany is an experienced application developer and data analyst and has worked with a wide range of organisations and individuals to help bring insights and solutions through data.  In 2010, after an initial career working for specialist providers of information technology systems, she commenced focusing on bringing her unique skillset to the area of Organisational Development and Consulting work, in particular working to build customised assessments and reports for her clients.

Bethany provides analytical support to a range of Organisational Development projects for our clients in the areas of leadership development, talent identification, culture diagnostics and capability assessment.  Her experience and skillset enable her to bring insight derived through rigorous quantitative analysis to support People and Culture decision making.

Bethany is passionate about applying her knowledge and expertise, from both her Bachelor in Mathematics and Computer Science and her industry experience, to assist organisations and individuals reach their full potential.  In particular, her skills in data analysis and reporting can be applied to a wide range of consulting and coaching activities to support the understanding of individual and organisational areas of need and finding the optimal solutions to address those needs.

• Bachelor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Visual Design and Systems Support

Judith draws on the valuable experience she acquired whilst supporting CEO’s and senior management for many years in Australia and in the UK. She has worked across a wide range of industries including leadership development, insurance, hospitality, publishing, and local and national government agencies.

She is organised, approachable and responsive, with advanced Microsoft Office skills, enabling her to support LTA in program coordination including client liaison, logistics and materials production.

Judith supports the LTA Team in all things digital – from managing our website and virtual file sharing systems to the development of high quality, professional presentations and impactful course materials. Judith has a can-do attitude and always delivers ahead of schedule and above expectations.