Gwen Pinnington
Director - Consulting & Change
Gwen is passionate about making a positive difference in the world and sees change as an opportunity for authentic excellence and growth. An innovative results-oriented leader, facilitator and coach, she is motivated to inspire others for transformative change through compassion, courage, trust, awareness and accountability.
“I stand for Compassion Based Leadership, that is in service to ourselves and others. My personal commitment is to facilitate individual and collective effectiveness in others that is sustainable and based in a higher-level consciousness so that people and communities can thrive.”
Gwen has a global reputation for highly-effective coaching, leadership and transformational change using a simple equation "People + Process + Compassion = Excellent Outcomes". Gwen builds strong relationships and adds value and authenticity through her work, whilst delivering positive outcomes. She loves helping leaders to expand their skills, awareness, confidence and conscious effectiveness. She walks alongside her clients to partner their success and deliver results in organisational design and development, HR advisory, high-performance team development, leadership and effectiveness coaching, process improvement and whole-system change. Gwen’s most rewarding work is facilitating the personalised Individual Transformation Programs with people who want to live with purpose, meaning and ease and be the best leaders they can be.
She started her career as a business analyst with a global consulting firm and evolved into strategic & enterprise analysis, coaching, change management, business improvement and leadership roles across a variety of industries and clients around the world. She has led cross-functional teams accountable for Human Resources, IT, Business Improvement, Change Management and Communications. She has held Executive positions and not-for-profit Director roles, and served as IIBA Regional Director – Asia Pacific from 2010 to 2014.
One of the highlights of Gwen’s career was in 2014 when she was 1 of only 200 global leaders invited to attend the Spirit of Humanity Forum in Iceland. For 3 days, she shared in dialogue, change and enquiry with Nobel peace prize winners, Royal advisors, global politicians and business executives. Gwen was invited back and attended the 2019 Forum as well.
“This experience was humbling and eye-opening and helped me to deeply understand the impact that even a few individuals can have on our global effectiveness as a community.”
Qualifications
Bachelor Degree: Business, Communication & Psychology, University of Minnesota, USA
1 of 200 leaders invited to the Spirit of Humanity Global Leadership Forum (Reykjavík, Iceland) – 2014 & 2019
National Board Member – Charter for Compassion Austraila
Accredited Facilitator/Coach and Affiliate Partner - Patrick Lencioni's Working Genius
Certified Effectiveness Coach – Emerson Suite
Accredited Facilitator/Coach – The Leadership Circle
Accredited Facilitator/Coach – The Richards Trauma Process
Accredited Facilitator – Compassionate Integrity Training
Accredited Facilitator – Executive Leadership Development & Personal Transformation Programs
University of Tasmania – Applied Coaching Skills
Harvard Business School – ‘Management Essentials’ & ‘Stepping Up to Management’
Impact Solutions International – Master Consultants Training Program
Masters Forum – Executing Strategy using the Balanced Scorecard (by Dr. David Norton)
Leading Effective Teams, Certificate Series
Immunity-to-Change Training, with Lisa Lahey of Minds at Work
The Essence of Compassion, Charter Institute
Business Process Analysis, Innovation and Design Training
PMBOK Project Management Training
HR, Financials & Supply Chain Certified Consultant
Keynote speaker
IIBA Regional Director – Asia Pacific (2010 to 2014)
Nominated for Deloitte Businesswoman of the Year
National Values Award Winner – Deloitte Award
First recipient of “Living the Values - Employee Recognition Award” (Manpower Group)