Overview

Michele Pitts is the Director of Riptide Leadership and is an advanced level Executive Coach. She has over twenty years of senior corporate experience for top multinational companies and is passionate about working with executives globally to transform their leadership.

Career Headlines

Prior to training as a Coach, Michele worked for a number of multi-national organisations, managing some of the world’s best-known consumer brands. She has a proven track record in strategy development, brand management and innovation and managing high performance teams. Michele has coached senior leaders within Australia’s top 50 companies and global organisations, as well as coaching executives across Europe & Asia.

She established her first coaching business in the UK, 15 years ago, before moving to Australia, in 2005, with her husband and son. In Australia, she has run her own business and also, worked for a global coaching business for 8 years, as a Lead Consultant and Coach in the Asia-Pacific leadership team, designing leadership programmes and coaching executives across the region.

Michele is passionate about working with leaders globally to transform their leadership, by enabling them to find their purpose or WHY, and bring it to their role as a leader, to inspire those around them. She is particularly experienced at coaching executives to lead leaders through organisational change, whilst supporting them to bring their authentic leadership to the fore.

Michele’s own experience in the corporate arena, has enabled her to better understand the issues that many senior leaders face and she brings to her coaching relationships significant insight into a range of business environments. Her belief in the importance of maximizing the positive aspects of both personal and organisational transition ensures she approaches her client work with creativity and curiosity, underpinned by a strong belief in the client’s potential to achieve sustained change. Her clients describe her coaching style as dynamic, intuitive, flexible and people-centred, but also eminently practical and action/outcome focused.

Michele works across a wide spectrum of industries in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region & Europe and can deliver coaching in person face to face or virtually via phone/Zoom/Skype.

She has coached Executive boards and senior leaders across the Asia-Pacific region & Europe, in organisations such as HSBC, Unilever, Rio Tinto, Mondelez, Mars, Energy Australia, IHG, ANZ, Diageo, Kellogg, Universal Sony, SC Johnson and Deutsche Bank as well as in sectors such as education, retail, real estate & not for profit.

Michele is accredited to deliver LSI feedback, the KornFerry Leadership Architecture tool and MBTI. She is able to debrief 360 feedback assessments and create one for businesses to administer if they do not already have one in place.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Executive Coaching (ICF accredited) – The Academy of Executive Coaching, London – this is the leading qualification of its type in Europe.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing – Kingston University Business School
• BA (Hons) in Modern languages (German & Italian) – University College, Swansea Wales
• Certificate in Gestalt coaching
• Accredited practitioner in:
  • LSI (Human Synergistics)
  • KornFerry Leadership Architecture
  • MBTI
• Experienced in debriefing 360 tools
• Over 3,500 hours of coaching experience