Kathy McKenzie

Kathy has a diverse background in health, human resources, sales and management. Her varied career has given her a depth of understanding of how to develop human potential.

Her training and coaching inspires you to think about your potential and how to continually develop personally and professionally.

Coaching and Business Experience

Kathy is a specialist Communications and Leadership Trainer, Facilitator and Coach with a high awareness of how to fully engage an audience of any size with humour, and powerful, applicable messages.

Her studies and practical experience from the past 25 years give her a depth of understanding of how to develop human potential.  She is a highly experienced coach working with people across a wide range of sectors and to the highest levels.

Kathy is one of the leaders in Coach specific training in Australia and has developed the most comprehensive Certificate IV in Business and Personal Coaching currently available.

She developed the REACH coaching conversation model, a more comprehensive model than GROW, to handle the complexity of coaching in the Health environment and at senior levels.

Kathy is actively involved with the International Coach Federation including 4 years on the ICF Australasia Board and as editor for the ICF Australasia newsletter.  She has presented at ICF conferences and on-line training events.

Career History

FIRE UP Coaching - Founder, Facilitator, Coach - Melbourne - 1998 to present.
Flight Centres International - Sales, Manager, Training Manager - Melbourne, Ballarat, Vancouver - 1989 to 1996.
Registered Nurse - Melbourne, London - 1982 to 1988.

Qualifications

ICF Accredited Coach - ACC
Master of Workplace and Vocational Education and Training – Deakin University Victoria
Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment - Melbourne University
The Art and Science of Coaching, Coach Training Program – Erickson International Canada
Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming – Erickson International Canada
NLP Train the Trainer – Erickson International, Canada
Certified Trainer of Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)
Certified Trainer of Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI)
Trainer for Erickson Internationals ICF Accredited Coach Training
Successful Small Business Management, RMIT
Organisations and Management, Swinburne Institute
Graduate Nurse Program, Prince Henry’s Hospital

Member of the International Coach Federation Board of Australasia
Marketing Director 2008/2009
Advisory Committee to Board member 2010
Member of the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD)
Associate Fellow or the Australian Institute of Management

Kathy McKenzie has a professional coaching style, and it is through this style that we built a coaching alliance that is powerful and rewarding. Amazing results have been achieved, and still are being achieved as a result of this alliance.

My coaching relationship with Kathy began in November 2003, and continues to this day. Kathy is able to get me to open up and explore my map of the world and the realities I see. She does this in a supportive and encouraging environment, using structured process, which has produced effective outcomes.

Since my first meeting with Kathy, my life has changed for the better. I have achieved significant personal goals, and as a result of Kathy's continued and inspiring support I have chosen a new career path in coaching. I have also achieved a greater sense of balance and success in my life.
Natalie, formerly of Mentor Training

I hired Kathy as a coach for a number of matters over a number of weeks in 2003. The coaching relationship was from memory in August 2003 over a period of approximately 3/4 weeks. I was very satisfied with my coaching experience, ventured into new positive directions as a result. Kathy was very patient, listened, asked lots of questions and explored opportunities to move me from my position.

I left having enjoyed the Journey as well as the Destination while being clearly on a new path. I have had a very positive experience and recommend Kathy as a coach to others.
Bryan G Murphy, Holden Ltd

Ms Kathy McKenzie was employed by Qlicksmart to coach one staff member (our part-time accountant) and Smartstream to coach two staff members (one account manager and one communication manager). The coaching started in Dec 2004 and is still ongoing.

The feedback from the individual staff was excellent and based on this and the increased staff morale and productivity the coaching contract has been extended.  Ms McKenzie has also been employed to run one other staff workshop.
Dr Michael Sinnott, MBBS, FACEM, FRACP, Managing Director Qlicksmart

To contact Kathy call 1300 FIRE UP, 03 9077 8472, +613 9077 8472 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it