Revolution Coaching

Resume

Summary

Sixteen years in community leadership. Played key roles in planning, leading and team building for youth programs including discos, youth groups, national conventions and one-one mentoring. Change management, with broad experience in organizational and cultural visioning and design, team development, personal coaching and counselling, public speaking and education.

Children and Youth

Develop high rapport with children and youth in contexts ranging from church Sunday Schools to youth discos and school events. Work with young leaders to develop and deliver projects from dream stage to completion. Trained by Teen Challenge in suicide prevention and have worked in a number of situations with individual youths at risk. Run formal life and faith development programs utilising multimedia and popular culture as a means of raising questions and seeking answers that are relevant and useful.

Organizational Leader and Team Player

Implemented visioning and values clarification processes for community of 100+ people. Provided key leadership for large leadership team of 20+ and transitioned that team into a competent and more agile team of eight leaders. Provided oversight for a community as it restructured from a highly program based profile with high dependence on paid staff to a more flexible, internally motivated and healthy community that responds to local needs with passion and purpose with a clear sense of boundaries. Ongoing interest in strategic future planning. Current board member of Council for Christian Education in Schools during major structural change and re-visioning. Worked successfully in a number of small staff teams. From January 2008 will be Mission and Education consultant to over 90 Uniting Church congregations, schools and agencies throughout the south-east region of Melbourne.

Coaching and Couselling

Worked with individuals of a variety of ages (children to seniors) helping them cope with daily life issues and crises, to working on their own sense of purpose and direction in life. Includes conflict resolution and values clarification, enhancing listening skills, and use of the “Equilibration technique” to move past resentments and other blockages. Training with Results Coaching Systems is nearing completion and is already being successfully adapted into other areas of my work. Assisted people making decisions about career changes that have led them out of unfulfilling employment paths into more satisfying and sustainable directions. A number of close friends and current work colleagues are in senior management and advanced technical fields. Technical background and listening skills enables rapid development of rapport with executives and researchers.

Public Speaking and Education

Prepare and deliver material several times a week that requires study, reflection on real life integration, different modes of teaching/learning and responsiveness to questions in the course of delivery. Style is confident, informal, interactive and motivational. Training in Public Relations enable clarification and presentation of new ideas and concepts, and use of a range of communications media. Use of available technology and prefer visual aids such as data projectors and the use of movies as a narrative or illustrative tool. Encourages active involvement of listeners through a range of strategies.

Employment History

• Date: 1995-2008Company: Uniting Church in Australia (East Bentleigh, suburban Melbourne, VIC)
  Title: Minister
  Duties: Responsible for key leadership and oversight, facilitation of direction setting and implementation processes, liaison with external bodies, councils and general public, and directly responsible for managing several programmed activities with particular emphasis on children and youth.

• Date: 1992-1995
  Company: Uniting Church in Australia (Mathoura, rural NSW)
  Title: Minister
  Duties: Responsible for key leadership, addressing underlying cultural hindrances in order for the organisation to move forward, pastoral care during rural crisis.

• Date: 1978-1985
  Company: Royal Australia Air Force
  Title: Radio Technician (Ground)
  Duties: Technical fault-finding, installation and maintenance of communications & radar equipment. General defence duties. Included assignments in Melbourne, Malaysia and classified installations.

Education

• Melbourne College of Divinity, Bachelor of Theology, 1992
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Arts (Major: Public Relations), 1989
• Royal Australian Air Force, Trade in Radio Technology (Ground), 1980

Professional Development

• Results Coaching Systems – Level 1 certified coach
• Results Coaching Systems – Team Coaching module
• KidsHope Mentor Training 2005
• Cert 4 (Workplace assessment & training) Study commenced 2002
• Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). Peter MacCallum1990
• Pastoral Supervision Course 2003
• Leadership Development Day 2003
• Communities in Control Conference 2006
• Letting It Go (Quantum physics & relationships) Seminar 2006
• Student Teacher Prophet Workshop 2007
• Thriving Church Pt 1 Tom Bandy 2004
• Thriving Church Pt 2 Tom Bandy 2006
• Church Growth (Callahan – Small strong/Large regional) 2005
• Church Planting: Stuart Robinson 2006

Professional Roles and Associations

• Board member/Governance Committee – Council for Christian & Education in Schools (CCES), 2005-Current
• Board member – Christian Television Association, 2001-2005
• Board member – Awakening 2000, 1997-2001
• Management Team – Nat. Christian Youth Convention – Pastoral Care, 2006-2007
• Chaplain – Nat. Christian Youth Convention ‘99, ‘05 ‘07
• Informal chaplain at Coatesville Primary School,1996-2008
• Founding member & convenor – Echuca Suicide Watch & Prevention Group, 1993
• Conference Planning team – Thriving Church Tom Bandy, 2005
• Management team -Loddon/Campaspe Resource Worker, 1993-1994
• International guest speaker United Methodist Church USA 1998
• Team Leader/CRE teacher, 1992-2008
• Sound Manager – UCA State Conference,& 1993-Current
• Standing Committee – Nepean Presbytery, 1997-Current
• Committee – VFCR/Church Renewal Aust, 1996-Current

Referees

Available on request.

Interests

• Kite surfing & flying
• Flag-marshalling for V8’s
• Motor racing
• Movies
• Technology
• Inspiring people