Testimonials
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
I engaged Vannessa with a request to keynote and facilitate a webinar for my existing and target audience of C-suite, HR and Business Leaders. From that point, she felt like an extension of the team! She was a fantastic partner and advocate throughout the planning process; going above and beyond to understand and help shape the session objectives, ensuring valuable outcomes for both the participants and my organisation.
Her specialisation in field of neuroscience provided a unique differentiator for the event’s leadership content, and directly assisted in high attendance acquisition. During the session, her expert knowledge and charismatic presentation style drove high levels of participant interaction; with 98% attending for the full one-hour duration, further enabling us to overachieve our benchmark KPIs for post event feedback and follow up brand engagements. I definitely recommend Vannessa to any organisation seeking a keynote speaker, facilitator or leadership consultant to deliver an impactful experience for your internal or external business audiences.
Hannah Hale
Global Marketing Leader — Rizing
It was a pleasure working with Vannessa on the Sophos APJ Sales Kick Off. She delivered an engaging, interesting and humorous keynote speech to a 300pax Asia Pacific & Japan Sales Kick Off audience with positive feedback received. As an Events Manager of an international large-scale event, I appreciated Vannessa’s organised and reliable qualities. It would be fantastic to work with her again – I highly recommend!
Lauren Jansen
Event Manager — Sophos Asia Pacific & Japan
An amazing presentation by Vannessa McCamley as she shared key insights on Neuroscience for effective leadership to our CIO Executive Council members at IDG Communications. Vannessa was joined by Mike Brett, CIO, Hearing Australia, and discussed how high performing teams can benefit from a Neuroscience approach including improved decision making, performance, resilience, innovative problem solving, and adapting to changing environments. Invaluable lessons were shared in what was a robust and active conversation with our Council members.
Joyce Long
Client Events — IDG Communications
Vannessa is an extremely professional, knowledgeable and positive corporate educator to work with. When engaging with the Association of Corporate Counsel Australia, she went over and above expectations in ensuring she had adequate information about the nuances of our membership to make sure her presentations were on target to the audience. Working in the virtual environment holds challenges, and Vannessa worked with our team and volunteer “audience participators” to create an engaging, practical and realistic framework for her presentation. I’m happy to recommend Vannessa as subject matter expert in neuroscience, resilience and emotional intelligence.
Karina Joyce
Heads of Programs — Association of Corporate Counsel Australia
A great presentation at our senior leader’s conference – thought provoking, entertaining and engaging. Thanks Vannessa!
Mark Bosomworth
General Manager — George Weston Foods
I had the pleasure of attending Vannessa’s keynote on the neuroscience of leadership and the importance of connection and community, and I was thoroughly impressed. Her expertise in the field is clear, and she delivered the content with a lot of passion.
One of the key takeaways from her talk was the encouragement to “be curious, lean in.” Vannessa emphasised the significance of curiosity in unlocking new possibilities and how leaning into challenges can lead to personal and professional growth. I wholeheartedly recommend her as a speaker who can inspire and educate any audience!
Heidi Schmit
EA & Operations Manager — NIBA
Great experience collaborating with Vannessa! In consecutive 3 days delivered 5 keynote sessions to 130 managers from different business groups with highly positive interaction and achieved great results for each session. Vannessa, You Rock!
Cathy Xie
Learning and Development Program Manager — Microsoft
Vannessa conducted a team building program for our marketing team to help us understand what is involved in rewiring our brains for success. Easy to digest model to help us connect effectively with others in the team whilst leveraging their strengths and capabilities. Vannessa’s approach is engaging, interactive, informative, consultative and fun, I would highly recommend leveraging Vannessa’s knowledge and approach for taking team performance to the next level.
Colleen Baguley
Head of Enterprise Marketing — Adobe
Vannessa was so easy to work with for our offsite staff event. From the initial scoping exercise through to post conference support, she exuded so much knowledge and expertise it provided the team and I with the confidence to not only achieve our purpose and objectives but exceed our expectations.
Amy Singh
National Human Resources Manager — Douglas Partners