Testimonials
ISD Cyber engaged Vannessa to conduct her PRISM profiling workshops and has been invaluable in helping us develop our team and individual goals. The 90-day plans have become embedded in our 1on1 sessions and helped us to support the team in their personal growth plans.
The approach has also helped me to avoid a state of ‘busy’ and to recognise how valuable ‘Brain breaks’ are.
PRISM is more than just a personality test, a real tool you can use to set your personal and professional goals!
Yvonne Sears
General Manager — ISD Cyber
My team and I did the 90-day group coaching program and we did achieved new ways of working together and increased our productivity. The book Vannessa wrote, REWIRE for SUCCESS was also a great support in our development. I highly recommend the workshop, followed by the 90-day coaching program and the book to embed the key learnings and rewire your brains to improve your self-leadership potential.
Maggie Raguenes
HSEC Management Systems — Glencore
Vannessa’s PRISM workshops and coaching enabled me to grow both professionally and personally. Supported throughout my 90-day program, I gained valuable insights and have come away with practical strategies to assist in developing my next level of growth. Her book REWIRE for SUCCESS is a helpful guide that compliments learnings and I highly recommend working with Vannessa.
Nick V
Cyber Security Professional
I have enjoyed and valued the 90-day coaching program and PRISM profile, reflecting on how to leverage my strengths, energy and time to focus on strengthening selected behaviours that add value to myself, team and organisation. Often, we are on autopilot operating at a fast pace, this program ignited a spark within myself to reset, pull back, reflect on the key learnings, connect the dots and slow down by planning the steps to go faster and reach desired outcomes. I have learnt from the valuable habit formation insights and trust the process Vannessa took me through. I would recommend it and do it again myself.
Chris Duffy
State Manager — Trotec
Partnering with Vannessa has provided valuable leadership and performance insights for me and team to drive the business forward towards our vision. The insightful brain friendly questions and PRISM profiles have allowed me time to reflect, explore, plan and make informed decisions on how to move the business and leadership team forward.
It was important to me as a leader to invest, develop and support my leadership team with brain friendly, evidence-based models, behavioural profiling and coaching to help them to achieve their behavioural goal and embed their core learnings from the workshops. I strongly recommend working with Vannessa and her book REWIRE for SUCCESS.
Craig Tucker
CIO
I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the transformative journey you guided me through with your “REWIRE for SUCCESS” book and our coaching series. Your coaching challenged me to examine my career, chart a path for its future, and identify the behaviours I needed to modify while understanding the essential role of forging new neural pathways through these behavioural changes. Your guidance has been instrumental in this process. Thank you.
Renae Lopez Buckley
Healthcare Leader
Vannessa very quickly opened my eyes to the process of developing peak performance habits through neuroplasticity.
We started with a few specific goals and gradually built towards these during a 90-day coaching program.
I am extremely impressed by Vannessa’s brain friendly bite size approach to helping me to achieve my goals, so much so that I feel that developing peak performance habits has itself become a habit.
The dopamine hits from achieving results in new ways is an amazing experience. In the past I have invested heavily in technical skills and have achieved my goal within 90-days and embedded high performing habits that I utilise daily to improve the way I engage others, manage stress and respond to conflict situations with more ease and confidence. It was a worthwhile investment and I’m proud of my ability to learn, grow and adapt even when I am flat out with work projects.
Thank you Vannessa for helping me to set up my brain for success daily.
Daniel Smith
CISO & CTO — Hearing Australia
I highly recommend REWIRE for SUCCESS book and the Increase Peak Performance & Stakeholder Engagement Program to anyone considering how to improve their own performance or that of their professional contingent. Like many remote employees, having less direct connection to my colleagues and stakeholders, I certainly found myself “adrift” in purpose and effectiveness.
The book, the program, and coaching provided me with the models and structure to make incremental and sustainable changes to get the best out of myself. As a result I have an improved mindset and grown in confidence both professionally and personally.
I am overwhelmingly grateful for the experience, especially Vannessa’s guidance and insights on this ongoing journey. Thank you Vannessa!
Matthew Meere
Senior Advisor — Air Quality & Climate Strategy at Glencore
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Vannessa over the last year. Her insights are profound, and she is generous with her time and knowledge. She has helped me articulate my unique strengths and create strategies to use them to best effect within our leadership team.
Vannessa’s approach to coaching is structured and methodical but it’s easy to connect with on a personal level.
I would recommend Vannessa for both individual and team engagements, as she is committed to finding strategies that resonate with each person she works with, and keeps us all honest with the improvements we are striving to make!
Thanks Vannessa for your diligence and care.
Elizabeth Peacock
IT Business Demand Leader — Hearing Australia
Committed, accountable and high energy are words that come to mind when thinking about Vannessa. With change occurring in our commercial leadership team I engaged Vannessa with an objective to increase collaboration, strengthen our focus and improve elements of wellbeing such as resilience.
I appreciated Vannessa’s unwavering personal accountability, providing regular coaching reports, ensuring alignment at all times and importantly, holding myself and the team accountable throughout. It has been a pleasure to see the self-discovery and improved collaboration as a result of the neuroscience-based program. The 1:1 coaching has been, and continues to be a highlight, helping our leaders be targeted with their continuous improvement and ongoing impact. Thank you Vannessa!
Prue Ashleigh
HR Leader ANZ — GE Healthcare
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Vannessa to have a think about my leadership style; where I am strong and what can make me more effective in my role.
Our leadership team started with group workshops, looking at our different leadership styles and how to get the most out of our team. The program then progressed to 1:1 coaching which was very practical and hands-on helping me make physical changes to the way I do things on a daily, weekly, monthly basis to help me be more effective in the fast paced demanding environment of the corporate world today. It was good to have someone hold me accountable to ensure change becomes an ingrained habit rather than just a once off activity. Vannessa has great energy and is a pleasure to work with.
Rachel Richards
Ultrasound Commercial Leader — GE Healthcare
Vannessa offers valuable insights into performance and brain-friendly ways to be fulfilled at work. Vannessa is very engaging and brings to her a sense of calm and wisdom, which makes change and growth, so much easier to adopt along with being super knowledgeable, focused and an awesome listener.
Using the PRISM Brain Mapping profiling, lead me to reflect and explore what truly fills my cup, and intern guided me through an exploratory time in my career, which has had a fantastic outcome. I strongly recommend working with Vannessa, and would grab her book REWIRE for SUCCESS, as an easy read for fast, simple changes you can implement for personal growth and happiness.
I am overwhelmingly grateful to Vannessa’s guidance and insights on my ongoing journey. Thank you Vannessa, best coach ever!
Michelle Retief
Commercial Capability and Performance Leader — GE HealthCare