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“We’ve made strong progress as a Lead Team in the 12 months we’ve worked with Mandy, it’s been a really good investment of our time and effort. What I liked about Mandy’s approach was that she sought to understand our challenge deeply before developing a customised programme that met our needs, and that flexibility shone through in our group sessions where she was able to seamlessly adapt content depending on what was happening in the room. Her approach and facilitation style meant we were able to build trust within the group quickly.”
David Ross
CEO, Kotahi
“Mandy is authentic, empathetic, fun, thought provoking and yet challenging, it is these traits that set her apart from other coaches. Mandy has been a fantastic coach to me over the last couple of years. She has provided strategic and thought provoking guidance and advice. Allowing me to develop a creative focus on my goals beyond just a logical linear approach. This allows me freedom to think outside of the box, challenges my normal thinking on any given matter and provides a level of excitement about undertaking actionable steps towards each goal. She has a humble, non-judgemental and approachable style, which means that it’s easy to open up and share things with her that maybe you wouldn’t in other scenarios.”
Wendy D Colaço
Director, Head of Consulting,
American Express
“Mandy is a gifted leader of people, a sound strategic thinker and a someone who creates an environment of achievement. I’ve seen Mandy take the ordinary and make an extraordinary difference. Keeping abreast of market trends, understanding business and commercial imperatives, and turning design into best-fit implementation, is what Mandy does very well.”
Chris Hutton
Director of HR
“Mandy has been a fantastic coach to me over the last couple of years, She has provided strategic and thought provoking guidance and advice. She has made the process of coaching fun and relaxed as well, allowing me to develop a creative focus on my goals beyond just a logical linear approach. This allows me freedom to think outside of the box, challenges my normal thinking on any given matter and provides a level of excitement about undertaking actionable steps towards each goal. She has a humble, non-judgemental and approachable style, which means that it’s easy to open up and share things with her that maybe you wouldn’t in other scenarios. Mandy is authentic, empathetic, fun, thought provoking and yet challenging, it is these traits that set her apart from other coaches.”
Wendy D Colaço
Director, Head of Consulting
JAPA AMEX
“I often reflect back on the beginning of my amazing journey and it all started with my coaching with Mandy Davies. Mandy was my first coach and this was just the beginning of an amazing coaching experience which saw me achieving my goals and changing the way I live my life. I had many wonderful insights through being coached that really changed my life.
I still call my goals the same things as they still truly motivate me, I just keep changing up the goals within each to keep challenging myself further. People often comment on how much I have changed my lifestyle for the better over the past few years and I am so much happier for it. My new philosophy is “it’s only too difficult if you don’t try”. Thanks Mandy for helping me to see what is possible.”
Genessa Tabak
Claims Operations Manager
Direct Insurance, IAG
“Mandy is a commercially astute practitioner of business as well as all matters HR. I especially valued Mandy’s agile approach combined with an attitude that managed any demand of her. She became a trusted adviser to many of the Executive Leadership Team and I would welcome working with her again – anytime.”
Vena Crawley
Strategy and Marketing Executive
“I used Mandy’s coaching skills to help me develop some personal and work goals and action plans for success. Mandy has a very effective coaching style, which includes excellent listening and questioning skills. Mandy also knows when and how to focus in on key issues, and challenges the coachee to think in different ways and try new things. Mandy is also very results focused, and uses a number of creative techniques for building passion, excitement and commitment towards the goals.
I got a great deal out of my coaching sessions with Mandy, including an increased sense of self-awareness; clarification of my goals and what’s important to me; and tools, techniques and actions required to achieve these goals and make sustainable changes.”
Finance Manager
IAG
“Geyser was fortunate enough to work for Mandy and her team on several employment branding projects in both New Zealand and Australia. Her vision, leadership, creativity and passion made the experience throughly rewarding and I would recommend working with Mandy in a heartbeat.”
Kath Knight
Geyser Creative Group
“I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with Mandy. She provided significant leadership on some innovative and challenging initiatives that were delivered into the business. She managed to balance a focus on the strategic HR desired outcomes whilst also meeting the needs of a number of different customers. She actively championed both the initiatives and the team with stakeholders throughout the organisation ensuring that we had the support to deliver successfully. Mandy was able to balance the big picture, strategic approach with the requirements of day to day activity to ensure the team was clear and able to work independently to deliver highly successful, award winning organisational change programmes. Mandy is incredibly achievement focused and will always look for the ‘value add’ outcome for whatever initiative she is working on.”
Jake Harding
HR Manager
Telecom
“Having worked for Mandy and seen her coach over a number of years, I have had personal experience of her coaching style and the impact she has had on my career and achievements.”
“Mandy was always able to bring a high level of business acumen to coaching discussions, yet balanced that with insightful questioning and prompting focused on what was needed. She always had a great way of asking the right questions to help me articulate my thoughts, feel confident in my decision making and get clarity on the actions I needed to take. She is incredibly personable and I always felt she had a genuine interest in me. Mandy’s credibility and confidence in coaching means she successfully coaches at Exec and senior manager level with ease.”
Mike Kensington
Human Resource Manager
Pumpkin Patch
“Mandy is incredibly skilled at asking the right questions that help you see things from different perspectives. She is not only challenging and insightful, but also patient with remarkable instincts and knowledge. She maintains the right balance of encouraging, listening, and understanding. I came away from every coaching session with a clearer understanding of how I could improve my skills. She has a clear passion for coaching and was always sought after for her unique perspectives. She has been instrumental in my growth and I look forward to learning more from her in the future”
Amy Macy
OD Consultant
IAG
“Mandy is an exceptional OD practitioner who brings a strategic focus to her work, combined with an ability to achieve executive stakeholder buy-in to this vision, while building a high capability team around her. It is a pleasure to partner with Mandy as she is a consummate professional, as we work towards building transformational career aspirational interviews for critical talent.”
Anne Fulton
Director
Career Engagement Group
“I’ve worked with Mandy for almost four years, both as a colleague and also for a short period when Mandy was acting as the Head of HR in New Zealand for IAG. Mandy is a talented Organisational Development leader and Human Resources professional. I’ve seen Mandy take the ordinary and make an extraordinary difference. Keeping abreast of market trends, understanding business and commercial imperatives, and turning design into best-fit implementation, is what Mandy does very well. Mandy is a gifted leader of people, a sound strategic thinker and a someone who creates an environment of achievement.”
Chris Hutton
Director of HR & Talent
McDonald’s Restaurants (New Zealand) Ltd
“Mandy is an inclusive leader with strong OD skills and experience. She has been instrumental in driving change and innovation in the talent management and leadership development practices across IAG. One of the keys to her success is her ability to foster collaboration across IAG divisions and her willingness to have the difficult conversations.”
Jenny Simonovska
Director, Advisory Practice
The 100% Project
“Mandy is a rare OD professional who has the skill of recognising where development will create the most positive change to truly support business strategy. Not only that, she is an open, communicative and honest person who is always a real pleasure to work with.”
Matt Williams
Principal Consultant
Melbourne Business School
“Mandy is an exceptional OD practitioner who brings a strategic focus to her work, combined with an ability to achieve executive stakeholder buy-in to this vision, while building a high capability team around her.”
Anne Fulton
CEO, Fuel50