Therese Toohey
Therese Toohey is a seasoned facilitator and executive coach specialising in high-level career and leadership services. With a comprehensive understanding of the intricacies of human dynamics and professional environments, Therese offers solution-focused and pragmatic approaches to address your strategic career and leadership challenges.
Recognising the inherent difficulties in career progression and leadership development, Therese acknowledges the importance of being in the right place, with the right role, and engaged in meaningful work. Her unique coaching process intertwines career success with extraordinary leadership, dispelling the notion that these two concepts should be treated separately.
By striving to be the best version of yourself for your career, your leadership skills naturally expand and flourish. Therese believes that when you are recognised as a great leader, career opportunities effortlessly present themselves.
The synergy between leadership and career is paramount for achieving success in both aspects, and Therese incorporates this philosophy into her coaching methodology.
Backed by robust academic and professional credentials, Therese has a proven track record in individual, team, and organisational career and leadership development. With 30 years of extensive experience in teaching, facilitating, and coaching across various sectors, including schools, universities, and public services, she has also contributed to individual and leadership development projects in the private and not-for-profit sectors.
Areas of Expertise
Delivery of over 2,000 hours of professional coaching, including team and group coaching
Design, development and delivery of Senior Executive and Emerging Leadership Programs incorporating Positive Psychology, Emotional Intelligence & Mindfulness
Design, development and delivery of Executive Leadership Team Programs
Design, development and delivery of Leadership Coaching Skills Programs
Delivery of Career Transition Coaching individually and collectively
Design and delivery of strategy, planning, and change programs
"I just love Therese’s ability to connect with you and to make you feel you’re the most important person in the world. Therese is so down to earth and grounded, and compassionate, and understands where you’re coming from. She’s amazing. I would definitely work with her again. Professionally, I feel so much more confident in myself. I have more self-compassion, I understand myself, I know my strengths, my weaknesses, and how I can leverage my both. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, but Therese taught me how to be kind to myself.”
"Therese has taught me to see more of my future rather than everyone else’s. I have had more time to work on my own career and growth. What Therese has done is to help me rationalise my resources and energy levels to keep me going. Therese has enabled me to take the stress out of managing people so I can keep growing. Through my growth the whole team benefits as it demonstrates that I am motivated. It sets the example. The result? Team prosperity with exponential results! Under performers have really improved with measurable increases in productivity and I am no longer afraid of staff leaving."
"I’m an experienced manager and a busy working mum! I also lead a team working on policy and regulatory issues within a federal government department. I reached out to Therese because I was struggling with work-life balance issues. I sought assistance to clarify my own expectations of myself, and to find some tools to help me know if I was making choices that were the best for me. Therese taught me to be kinder to myself, how to be deliberate and considerate in my interactions with others. I’m both more strategic and more authentic with my leadership. I found Therese highly empathetic and very good at helping me reframe things, see new perspectives and help me to be self-compassionate.”
“From our first meeting, I felt comfortable with Therese, she was open and honest and her willingness to show her own vulnerability with me made me feel safe. The greatest benefits and outcomes I achieved through working with Therese as an executive coach was insight into entrenched behaviours and beliefs that were stifling my professional and personal growth, Once I understood how my perfectionism had impeded my natural creativity and spontaneity, and how ‘Imposter Syndrome’ had made me feel phony despite my successes, I was able to change my approach to people and life. Positive responses and small behavioural changes have markedly increased my self-confidence and improved my resilience.”
-Testimonials from coaching clients