Our Team

We come from different backgrounds and from different places, but in many ways we are the same. We are passionate. We are ‘all in’ with our clients and each other, through the joy and the struggle. We believe in what we can awaken in others. We believe in the power of shared leadership and a diverse team.

Gwen Pinnington Consulting & Coaching is a team of highly skilled professional consultants, change agents, facilitators and coaches and we are here to partner with you through every transition. Our team has global experience facilitating sustainable achievement, wiser and higher performance and effective outcomes delivered through compassion and courage.

With over 30 years of experience, our team works in the private and public sectors across a variety of industries, both locally and internationally. We have successfully led long-term culture change and strategic effectiveness programs. We have enabled successful client outcomes through challenge and complexity, and developed numerous leaders and teams for wise effective leadership.

Our Shared Objectives

We each commit to:

  1. creating strong client partnerships that deliver high-quality outcomes,

  2. working with effectiveness and continuous conscious growth,

  3. building and applying the Compassionship™ model to enable it to evolve.

Gwen Pinnington

Gwen has a global reputation for highly-effective coaching, leadership and transformational change. She is the presence behind ‘Compassionship - Compassion Based Leadership™’ and excels at helping individuals and teams to expand their capability, influence, awareness, confidence and conscious effectiveness. View profile

Sona Lewincamp

Sona is a strategic, visionary thinker and has a passion for inspiring people at all levels to optimise their potential. Sona is a leadership consultant, executive coach, facilitator and change specialist. Her great skill is in accessing the current reality of organisations and individuals and moving them through the action needed to build a viable future. View profile

Catherine “Cit” Burridge

Cit brings a wealth of knowledge to her coaching, consulting and personal empowerment work, and is known in the community for her ability to engage and build rapport, trust, and credibility quickly across all levels of an organisation. With a passion for people and building strong relationships, Cit excels at supporting individuals and organisations as they navigate change with care and ease. View profile

Jake Snepvangers

Jake Snepvangers is a performance coach, consultant, and facilitator of developmental experiences.Using his extensive experiences working across the hospitality, tourism, education, business and health industries, he supports organisations to generate greater efficiency, leadership and impact. View profile

Bob McGannon

Bob is a leadership consultant and coach and is a passionate advocate for engaging in ‘intelligent disobedience’. This involves understanding when processes and business standards will not produce the desired outcomes, and bending, breaking or deriving new rules, when possible to maximise results. View profile

Karen Rees

Karen identifies the gold in others and supports individuals for greater self-awareness and growth. She brings deep experience of personal transformation to her clients and assists others in exploring their own personal and business transformation. One of Karen’s unique leadership perspectives is that of ‘leading from the middle’, bringing leadership from any position in an organisation. View profile

Susanne Schantz

Susanne is a coach and consultant with a focus on cultural and team transformation.  She loves to work with individuals or teams that need to understand themselves or each other in a deeper, more human way and has spent 25 years helping organisations and teams change the way they manage and adapt to the incredible pace of change. View profile