What Our Clients Say
“…The phenomenal results of the last 12 months are absolutely attributable to the guidance, facilitation of planning and assistance in execution of Brave Coaching & Consulting on multiple levels within our organisation. Within a few weeks of Brave coaching one of our senior executives we saw tangible positive results and a movement towards long term change in the right direction.”Managing Director – Big Gig Event Company.
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Magali - Team Leader, Paris
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Niels Bendixsen, Creative Director - Three Squared Visual Communications
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“Masha made some very insightful comments indeed after she got to know me - I was very impressed and surprised at how she seemed to get a read on my inner goings on.”
Tom - Manager and Business Owner, Taiwan.
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Ros Doyac, Marketing Manager - Sydney
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K. Sams - Brand Manager, Fosters Australia
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Anastasia Barlas - Head of Marketing Adult and Feminine Care - Kimberly Clark
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C.Gibson, IMG - London
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N.McDougall - Business Analyst
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C. Morrizzi - Secondary School Teacher
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Dianne, Marketing Manager - Coca-Cola
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Angelina Hasouros, Founder and Director, Client Service - BiG GiG Event Co
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Katt Benge - Senior graphic designer, Finished Art Workshop.
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Chris - Customer Relations Manager
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“ Brave Coaching & Consulting knows our business very well, for some years Belinda was a client to BiG GiG and Brave now serves our organisation in 3 very important ways.
Belinda has an innate skill in harnessing the creative energy of our organisation into tangible, practical and ultimately achievable plans, goals and outcomes that actually happen. My expectation of the outcomes of our weekly meetings is consistently exceeded (blown away), week on week on week. When Belinda facilitates our senior team into a creatively strategic thought pattern – absolute magic happens. There is no other way of describing it.
Belinda has become so integral in the growth of our organisation we are seriously considering offering her a position on our Board.
Having Belinda is like having an extra Board member. The phenomenal results of the last 12 months are absolutely attributable to the guidance, facilitation of planning and assistance in execution of Brave Coaching & Consulting on multiple levels within our organisation. Within a few weeks of Brave coaching one of our senior executives we saw tangible positive results and a movement towards long term change in the right direction. We have now renewed the coaching program for a second term/year.
The coaching program for one of our senior executives has provided an invaluable insight and window into what our star players require to be happy, fulfilled and ultimately stay and grow with our organisation. Coaching the founder and creative force behind BiG GiG is a task that only a highly perceptive, intelligent and somewhat tough skinned individual can do. A task that Belinda performs exceptionally well to the direct benefit of Angelina, her business partner, employees and ultimately the P&L.";
Paul Sifis, Managing Director – Big Gig
The coaching program for one of our senior executives has provided an invaluiness partner, employees and ultimately the P&L."
“…I was incredibly impressed with your capacity to listen, to discern and to assimilate, not only do I feel you pay attention when I am speaking but during future sessions the true extent you pay attention comes to light when you impressively make allusion to things I have verbalised during previous sessions and then ask relevant questions…”“…I truly want you to be aware of the positive influence your coaching sessions have had in my life. Furthermore, thanks to our coaching sessions I’ve learnt to “auto-coach” myself systematically which is proving to be very useful. I already envy your future clients!.”
Magali - Team Leader, Paris
“I always made plans. After coaching I'm living them. So for me coaching was the bridge between planning and doing. What I didn't expect was that building the bridge with expert guidance, encouragement and facilitation by Belinda from Brave was to be so much fun.”Niels Bendixsen, Creative Director - Three Squared Visual Communications
“I'm the Director of Client Service with a dynamic Sydney based event-marketing agency. We service BiG brand clients such as Microsoft and Coca-Cola so ones days are super busy and distractive. Sticking to anything outside of work is challenging, coupled with being a new mum of a 17month old baby, striving for the balance between career, mum and wife was just an idea I used to talk about inside my own head.Making the decision to take on a coach was something I didn't take lightly. I was already too busy, too tired and too over trying to achieve goals that somehow sat in the ether for years. And quite frankly, I wasn't sure how the whole thing would work.it all sounded a little too fluffy for me.
I cannot even begin to tell you how my life has changed.
I didn't realise how strategic the whole process was. Thru Belinda at brave, I learnt thru simple planning, I'm actually finding more hours in the day. Even as I write this, it doesn't seem quite possible, but it is and it's happening right now.
The one-on-one coaching has taught me how to successfully climb above the tree tops to see the entire picture and working with Belinda on a regular basis has also helped me define what were the critical changes I needed to make in my life. The picture wasn't as bad as I thought.
Mind mapping options is another thing I do regularly (thanks to brave) & thru diligent planning, I've actually made a difference to the way I operate with my clients and staff. It's been a noticeable change not to mention the massive changes personally that I have made and continue to make.
For me, coaching is something that needs to occur almost every week. As I now exercise my body, my mind also requires this kind of regime in order to function successfully and joyfully every day.
Belinda is an unbelievable inspiration and I will always remember this statement she made to me. "Successful people Angie, do the things that unsuccessful people are not willing to do".
As human beings, sometimes we all need a little help with our will to change. Belinda was the voice I needed and those goals now sit successfully in my hands.”
Angelina Hasouros, Director, Client Service - BiG GiG event co.
“Masha is a standout individual… She is an enthusiastic and warm person and this atmosphere is also a factor in her persona as a coach. We worked together online, via skype, and her warmth came through even via this distance method. Masha made some very insightful comments indeed after she got to know me - I was very impressed and surprised at how she seemed to get a read on my inner goings on. Also she was a very humane rather than disembodied persona, which worked well for my particular personality type. Results!!! Results came quickly, and this gave me a lot of confidence in the work we were attempting. I rapidly made the transition from wanting to believe in coaching to actually believing deeply in the process very quickly.”Tom - Manager and Business Owner, Taiwan.
“Like many would-be entrepreneurs, I've long wanted to blaze my own trail and set up my own business. The dream of "working for myself" and "being answerable to nobody (except the bank of course)" had burned an imprint in my mind.I'm an organised and self-motivated person in most things, but I just couldn't seem to find the time I needed to invest into making radical changes to my life (or so I thought). Also, I'd never really questioned what I wanted out of my own business or why I thought it might suit me.
My coaching program with Belinda helped me in so many areas. Even after the first session, I was seeing more clearly the values and things that are important to me in life. The program helped me to systematically explore three very different business ideas and eliminate those that were not congruent with what my "end game" looked like. I found the process of being able to talk through my goals so helpful, and regular progress measurement also kept me honest. I can project manage efficiently at work reporting to a manager, so with hindsight, it's logical that this would be a beneficial process to use in my own personal life projects.
It has set me on a path towards my own consulting business, and it is a future that I am passionate and excited about. The energy and support, as well as useful business advice, which I received from Belinda, were invaluable in keeping this momentum up and keeping the results boxes ticked each and every week. I would have to say that my new career is on track, and I'm already setting up the next big BRAVE goal..."”
Ros Doyac, Marketing Manager - Sydney
“Belinda is a competent and experienced marketer. Her marketing skills are well developed particularly in the area of product development, advertising, research and strategic brand development. Having worked with her for over 5 years I would recommend her in any organisation based on her marketing and leadership skills."”Anastasia Barlas - Head of Marketing Adult and Feminine Care
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N. McDougall - Business Analyst
“Belinda’s energy and enthusiasm is so contagious that you can’t help but believe that with her help you can live the life you have imagined. Belinda has the ability to continually inspire and teach new things in such a creative and clever way that even the hardest of challenges become the best opportunities to learn and grow under her guidance.”K. Sams - Brand Manager, Fosters Australia
“I made the choice to get Bel's help and guidance when I was at a really low point in my career and felt instead of going forward I had not only reached a plateau, but was going backwards. Over the past couple of years I had lost real direction in where I wanted to be heading professionally. I was lacking confidence and motivation. I wanted to move on but just didn't know how and wanted someone to give me all the right answers.I had always thought having a life coach was not for people like me. I am pretty out-going and appear to ooze confidence and happiness.
So when I had my first call with Bell she really challenged me on where I was, what I was doing and where I wanted to go. She made me take a pretty hard look at myself. Some of what came out of these sessions made me realise what I didn't like about myself and my attitude. It wasn't until about half way into my coaching I realised that I was the only one who could control where I wanted to go.
I have now learnt that I am the only one that can change my career direction; Bell helped direct me in making me far more aware of what I am capable of. In fact, my career, role and confidence have grown more in the past three months than in the past two years. I have direction, I know what I want and I know I am getting there.
More importantly I now have the confidence to approach situations and put myself forward for projects which I would have never had before. I always thought it was out of my hands or "not up to me". I was waiting for outside forces to change rather than making it happen for myself.
Each week she gave me actions, firstly each action really made me look at where I was and where I wanted to get to. Some of these activities I was apprehensive about doing - it put me totally outside out of my comfort zone. But gradually it became more normal and in time these actions became part of my everyday life. My attitude changed - and this new direction my career was taking was having a flow on effect in my social, personal and financial life. I am training to maintain far healthier lifestyle that is conducive to my work habits, just little things that are making all the difference. Every morning I now get up and go for a walk - some days it is only twenty minutes others it is much longer. Financially I am back on track and putting money into long term savings. A first for me. I have received a pay rise, and I got to travel to Russia and work on the most highly technical and big budget shoots my department has produced. I was getting up in the morning without dread and apathy but instead with excitement and pride.
At first it was Bell who challenged me to do and approach situations that I never would have before, but now I am doing that myself. She has given me a huge boost of confidence which I was really lacking.
It's hard not to sound like an infomercial but at first she was my coach and now she is my friend. I value and respect her advice more than any other person I know. ”
C.Gibson, IMG - London
“Belinda, I would like to thankyou immensely for helping me improve my life. Your constant encouragement, and guidance allowed me to achieve my goals. You were very thorough with your advice, and you were challenging. You allowed me to talk and you listened. You asked a lot of questions which was excellent as it opened my mind to options I hadn't thought of. You allowed me to create my own goals; this made me feel that I had control. But, most importantly you encouraged me to have the confidence in myself and my life. Thank you very much.”C. Morrizzi - Secondary School Teacher
“I've had the great pleasure of getting to know Belinda in a professional capacity and am impressed with her ability to translate these skills into the brave-wide world of coaching! Her skills as a senior marketer in some highly reputable organisations such as Foster's have equipped her with numerous organisational, strategic planning and people development skills. My experience has been that Belinda is able to identify core issues and work with individuals to create workable solutions with relative ease. She does this with a level of passion and creativity that is most definitely her trademark”Dianne, Marketing Manager - Coca-Cola
“Brave is a vibrant and dynamic place to be – a place where things really happen. Before I started the Brave Coaching process, I knew there was potential areas that I wanted to develop professionally in terms of my leadership and management skills but I didn’t know where to begin or how to get there – it all seemed like a big unknown. My coach Masha took a very holistic approach, and we looked into all areas of my life to see what obstacles and fears were getting in the way of achieving my dreams. Although these sessions were challenging and at times confronting, they were also exciting as it felt like we were unraveling what it was that was making me tick. We looked at colleague and client feedback which helped me see where my strengths lay and the areas that needed further development – I found this process very meaningful and useful . Masha was totally unfaltering in her support and is an extremely creative thinker, each week throwing out new challenges which were tangible and within my reach. We also had quite a lot of fun and shared some great laughs along the way such as writing on the blackboard wall and chilling out on beanbags which really helped me in the creative process. It is unbelievable when I look back as to how far I have come – the sessions with Brave have given me strength, confidence and new skills in the workplace which have helped me to take my career to new heights. Masha, thank you once again – you are truly special lady.”Katt Benge - Senior graphic designer, Finished Art Workshop.
“In working with Belinda, I have learnt new skills and techniques to bring out the best in me – In all areas I wanted to work on. Belinda helped me to clarify what I wanted to achieve and helped me to reach my full potential. I have nothing but praise for Belinda and wish to say thanks for the great experience.”Chris – Customer Relations Manager