The team

Sharon Longridge, Director

Speciality areas: Executive presence and stamina, high impact presentations, workforce resilience & productivity, executive job interview preparation and elevating women in leadership.

Formerly an award-winning broadcaster with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sharon has coached thousands of leaders and their teams to communicate powerfully, elevate their impact and embed positive behaviours.

Sharon designs and delivers dynamic blended programs spanning executive presence, high impact communications, resilience at work and women in leadership. She integrates techniques from neuroscience and mindfulness in her face-to-face and digital programs. Her training is firmly anchored in the evidence, and she regularly interviews world-class experts for the popular Leadium podcasts.

An affiliate at the Monash Business School at Monash University, Sharon co-directs (with Dr Anne Lytle) their flagship program, Your Leadership Voice: Women in focus She also directs the sought-after program ‘Executive Presence for Senior Leaders’.

In addition to a BA Communications degree and studies in Business Strategy and Corporate Wellness, Sharon holds the nationally recognised and accredited Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training. She is also a comprehensively trained yoga teacher.

Over the last 18 years she has worked with diverse private, public and non-profit organisations including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Pfizer, Qantas, Ebay, American Express, Royal Flying Doctors Service and Salesforce.

A captivating MC, facilitator and keynote speaker, Sharon knows how to energise an audience. From harnessing the power of storytelling to designing comprehensive health and productivity programs, Sharon’s unique approach delivers lasting change for individuals and organisations.

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Dr Anne Lytle, Associate

Speciality areas: Negotiation and conflict management, managing for high performance, emotional intelligence at work and elevating women in leadership

Dr Anne Lytle holds a BSc from Cornell University in Neuroscience and her MS and PhD in Organisational Behaviour from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. 

She served as Director of Leadership at Monash Business School. For 20 years, she has been the Director of Lytle and Associates, providing consulting to public, private and non-profit organisations across negotiation, conflict management, emotional intelligence, leadership and managing people for high performance.

She has delivered some of the highest-rated programs at business schools including the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, AGSM, the Melbourne Business School and the Monash Business School.

Anne has published in top academic journals, is an active member of the Academy of Management and is a board member and Past-President of the International Association for Conflict Management.

Kristina Revenda, Senior Consultant

Speciality areas: Executive coaching, strengthening team dynamics, professional branding and optimising workplace resilience.

Kristina Revenda is an executive leadership coach, training facilitator and professional brand strategist. A communication specialist with global experience, she holds a BA Hons in Design and Media Management and is an Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership certified organisational coach. 

For over a decade Kristina partnered with international advertising agencies including JWT and M&C Saatchi to elevate the visibility of leading brands including Microsoft, Vodafone and Telstra. Now she supports diverse professionals and their teams to elevate their professional brand and performance for heightened impact and influence.

An accredited DISC Profile practitioner, Kristina thrives on mobilising both individuals and teams through smarter, more attuned ways of working. In a climate characterised by complexity and overwhelm, she supports her clients in managing both their inner and outer world for greater ease and improved outcomes. 

Kristina is known for her strategic nous and ability to distil the complex into the simple. Her warmth, buoyance and candid style complement her practical, no-nonsense approach.

An affiliate of Leadium and the Monash Business School, Kristina's has skilfully coached hundreds of program participants in the popular program ‘Executive Presence for Senior Leaders’ ensuring they follow through on their goals and elevate their leadership impact.

Sharyn Coughlan, Associate

Speciality areas: Strategic and operational capacity, talent development and leadership capability, strengths-based teamwork, personal vitality, resilience and sustainable performance. 

Sharyn is an accomplished executive manager and coaching professional with more than 30 years’ experience driving strategy, managing change and delivering results. She has a strong reputation for innovation and performance.

She has managed significant program reforms across the human services sector for commonwealth, state and local governments and not-for-profit organisations, structural reform being a major focus of change in public administration throughout her career.

In her consulting practice, Sharyn designs and evaluates programs, facilitates planning for operational change and workforce development, and builds team and management capacity through coaching, training, and facilitated decision making.

She is Chair of Cicada International Ltd, producers of The Australian Women in Music Awards, and is a board member of Family Planning NSW.

Sharyn’s qualifications, Grad. Dip. Social Ecology (WSU) and M. Public Policy (Sydney), are complemented by studies in Corporate Wellness and Consulting & Coaching Psychology. She holds nationally recognised qualifications in Training & Assessment and Corporate & Workplace Coaching, and is accredited with the International Coach Federation.

Jennifer Lalor, Associate

Speciality areas: Managing mental health at work; healing burnout; Somatics and embodied Leadership; mindfulness in action; empowering women in leadership

Working at the intersection of executive leadership development, organisational culture, and mental health, Jennifer champions being human at work as a means to cultivating psychological safety, a primary ingredient for positive engagement and exemplary performance. She understands that balancing the doing and being of leadership is critical in today’s organizational environment especially in the escalating context of occupational burnout.

A dual US/Australian citizen, Jennifer has facilitated, coached, counselled, trained and supported clients around the globe for the past 25 years. In addition to her organizational work she has a private psychotherapy practice in northern NSW and is a Senior Therapist at The Bay, a personalized, private rehab and mental health treatment centre in Byron Bay.

Whether working with her clients on developing leadership capacities or providing evidence-based counselling for work related stress, anxiety and burnout, Jennifer’s clients benefit from her dual skill sets in executive leadership development and psychotherapy.

Jennifer holds an MA in Mental Health/Psychotherapy through the University of Queensland’s Faculty of Medicine and a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Leadership through Curtin University’s Graduate School of Business. She’s been a guest presenter on Somatic therapies at The University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco. In addition, Jennifer is a certified Everything DiSC specialist, a certified Master Somatic Coach through the Strozzi Institute, USA and a Registered Psychotherapist with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation Australia.

Melissa MacGowan, Associate

Speciality areas: Developing and supporting leaders to build high-performance teams and cultures, creating focused talent strategies to maximise inclusion, pipeline health, engagement and results. 

Over the past 15 years, Melissa has held numerous senior leadership roles in diverse and complex multi-national companies. With a focus on enabling development, performance and growth, she most recently led significant transformation across Asia-Pacific for the US-based manufacturer ITW.

Melissa is an energetic, authentic and commercially astute Human Resources executive. Having lived and worked in UK, America and Australia, she brings a global perspective. She also has an unwavering commitment to supporting and challenging leaders to find the clarity and confidence they need to grow their teams and businesses.

A seasoned leader, Melissa is empathetic and in-tune with the very real challenges and opportunities of leading teams and organisations. Combining her commercial experience as a female leader and her commitment to results through the 80:20 principle, Melissa has accrued a vast people and culture toolkit. This powerfully equips her to recognise a leader's potential and accelerated their development.

Over the last decade, she has worked primarily in the consumer products and the industrial sector, earning herself a well-deserved reputation for delivering results in highly competitive settings.

Melissa has a Graduate Certificate in Business and Human Resources and a Bachelor of Science and Physical Education, complemented by personal and work experience within health and fitness. Melissa is a qualified EFT Tapping Practitioner (Level 1 & 2), an evidence-based therapeutic intervention for conditions including overwhelm, burnout, anxiety and depression. Melissa has four children and practices an integrated approach in business and life which she discusses on her thought provoking podcast 'Go To Grow'.