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Wendy Lenton

Coaching leaders and their teams to realise their potential.

Wendy is an executive coach who partners with CEOs, senior leaders and executive teams to grow their leadership, navigate change and realise their collective potential.

With more than thirty years as a senior HR and business leader in organisations including Commonwealth Bank, AMP, Vodafone, George Weston Foods and nib, Wendy understands the complexity and pressure leaders face every day. Her experience in organisational change and human behaviour informs her work across executive coaching, leadership development, team effectiveness and career transition.

Wendy’s approach is relational and curiosity led. Rather than offering ready answers, she creates space for leaders to think deeply, gain fresh insight and find their own way forward. She draws on a range of coaching methodologies and, where required, accredited assessment tools.

She believes in the potential and power of people. When organisations harness the individuality, creativity and collective ambition of their people, they create lasting impact and extraordinary value.

Within your unique context, Wendy offers honest challenge alongside genuine support, helping you shape the next chapter of your success story.

Executive Coaching

Helping you gain insight, take action and create positive change on your chosen path.

Executives and senior leaders often work in complex environments, accountable for transformation, performance and results. My coaching is systemic and aspirational, looking at the whole system you lead within and starting from the leader you want to become. Change anchored in purpose is change that lasts.

I coach the whole person, not just the leader, because performance at work can’t be separated from wellbeing in life. Drawing on a range of coaching methodologies and, where needed, accredited assessment tools, I offer honest challenge alongside genuine support to help you achieve the outcomes that matter most to you and your organisation.

Team Coaching

Helping executive teams realise their collective potential and ambition.

High-performing teams are more than a group of strong individuals. I work with you and your team as a whole system, looking at how you work together, the relationships between you and the stakeholders you serve. Through open dialogue, courageous conversations and fresh insight, we build the trust and shared purpose that allow a team to lead with greater impact.

I create an appreciative and constructive environment where each person can contribute their best, and where the team can stretch beyond what it has achieved so far.

Leader Transition

Helping you move through change with clarity, confidence and purpose.

Whether you’re stepping into a new role, navigating restructure or redundancy, or rethinking what’s next in your career, the impact of change can stay with leaders long after the event. I work with you to release what’s holding you back, reframe your narrative and turn change to your advantage. Together we focus on your strengths as a leader, make considered choices and identify the ideal next role for you and where you are in your career and life. For leaders newly stepping into a role, we focus on making a strong start, building credibility, key relationships and early momentum.

Why Team Coaching?

The team environment shapes both individual and business performance. Team coaching is a powerful way for leaders and their teams to grow together and work through business opportunities and challenges as one. Working in partnership, with an approach tailored to your team, I help you build trust, open communication and collaboration, along with simple practices and habits that sustain success.

Testimonials

Chief Executive Officer – FMCG

“Wendy’s ability to “go to the heart of the matter” coupled with real business experience has enabled me to create better relationships and better business outcomes at the same time as increasing my comfort and enjoyment in role. She is one of the most genuine, caring, and honest people I have worked with, yet always manages to bring significant challenge and “edge” to discussions which has led to some quite profound changes.

Across two very different assignments I have found Wendy’s powerful and often tough questions, unique insights and ability to hold me to account extremely valuable. She has helped me to navigate through some difficult team and stakeholder issues, helped me to reframe my agenda for the future and ultimately to remain as fresh and enthusiastic about my role as did on the first day.

CIO, Financial Services

What a stand out Executive Coach ! I had the privilege of being a client of Wendy over a twelve month period, her keen insights, tailored strategies and unwavering support allowed me to overcome professional blockers. Through her guidance, I developed a more profound self-awareness, honed my Executive presence and got to hang out with a pretty cool woman.

If you were considering a coach talk to Wendy.

Director, Small Business

“Drawing on her experience in executive roles, Wendy brings a deep understanding of organisational life and human behaviour to her leadership coaching practice. Her ‘solutions focused’ approach builds self-awareness, confidence and insights at every session.

She invests time in getting clear about outcomes and then uncovering underlying issues, framing them in ways that support executives make immediate progress and lift their leadership impact. Wendy is a true ‘change agent’, seeing the opportunity for growth that’s possible when we have courage to leverage our strengths.”