Michelle McCartan - Unleash your full potential

Exploring The Leadership Landscape

Building resourceful, relational and responsive leaders and organisations.

Leadership carries real influence

Leadership shapes outcomes. It shapes culture, possibility and potential. It shapes the conditions in which people live and work.

When leadership is strong, people and organisations can grow and adapt. When it’s under strain, that strain is felt across the whole system.

Yet for many leaders today, leadership feels like something to endure rather than a privilege to hold. The pace is relentless and the expectations ever expanding. In these conditions, the real difference is not simply skill or experience. It is the capacity leaders and teams have to meet what is happening around them - the inner ground they stand on, how they relate with one another, and how they respond to complexity as it unfolds.

My work helps leaders, teams and organisations strengthen this capacity, becoming more resourced, relational and responsive in the environments they lead.

About Michelle mccartan

For more than 25 years I have worked alongside leaders navigating responsibility, growth and complexity across sectors and around the world.

My career has included senior HR leadership roles with organisations such as Ford Motor Company and Deloitte, a Director role within a global leadership consultancy working across the Asia-Pacific region with organisations including GSK and Sony and founding multiple businesses.

Today I partner with leaders, teams and organisations to strengthen the capacity required to lead well in complex environments. This work helps leaders see more clearly the relational and systemic dynamics shaping their leadership, and find steadier ground from which to lead.

Testimonials

I began working with Michelle when our business had hit a type of crisis point and I personally had hit a low point in seeing a way forward. Michelle helped me to see outside of myself and my pre-conceived ideas of how things 'should' be. Our conversations became an oasis during a challenging time and gave me the confidence to come at issues with an increased awareness of how I was behaving and what 'stories' I was bringing to my business that were not serving me. The work with Michelle gave me permission to feel a sense of freedom again - which as a business owner who had had 'the dragon breathing down my neck' for sometime, was an incredible gift of insight that I refer back to daily.

Kerryn Moscicki, Founder and Brand Director Radical Yes

Michelle possess an insight into business and people that means she is able to offer sound and incredibly useful advice; she has undoubtedly been instrumental in the reshaping of the business and helping the team to improve as a unit.

Jason Sharman, Managing Director at Atlas Packaging

Michelle is an exceptional coach who is able to guide individuals on their journey and help them unlock their full potential. During my time at Aegis Michelle coached both my team and I with measurable outcomes that contributed to the success of the team and the business.

Andrea Gannon, Head of HR Mattel Australia and New Zealand

I met Michelle in May 2017 when I was having a 'life break' with no idea where my career and life was headed next and the rest, as they say, is history. Michelle has been a key person in my personal and professional journey since that day and continues to be. Working with me on my leadership journey Michelle has pointed me to the endless possibilities available to me to change the world for the better. Understanding the human mind has enabled me to operate from a place of whole heartedness in everything I do. Michelle shares a unique perspective which creates an ever flowing abundance of career and wellbeing insights that makes me a better person in work and life.

Belinda Murray, Managing Director BWM Dentsu Melbourne

Since beginning coaching with you I have realised that my potential is unlimited, my insights valid and I have as much to give to the world as it gives to me. Your energy is infectious and positivity endless, thank you so much for allowing me to find that within myself and to have the opportunity to pay it forward with others around me.

Ben Stafford, Digital Designer

Meeting Michelle is one of luckiest and best things I have ever done. Michelle has an incredible talent for coaching and makes the complex seem so simple. She provides perspective when all seems lost. Thank you for helping me get out of my own way and becoming the real me.

Niamh Hughes, Operations Manager

Leadership carries real influence

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