Alex Murphy
Former Managing Director, UTS College

“Over the two and half year period of executive coaching with Jay, my whole approach to being me in the workplace and elsewhere has transformed and I have been able to see a positive impact on my workplace and other people around me.

Rather than launching into the workplace as the focus of discussion, Jay worked with me and my personality, challenging my frames of reference, long-held unquestioned beliefs and ingrained habits.  Through sometimes gentle and sometimes not so gentle questions, he helped me uncover habituated ways of thinking and reacting to situations which were getting in the way of my performance at work, my ability to facilitate the development of others around me and my ability to reach greater potential in day-to-day life.

A key learning for me has been to reintegrate perceived boundaries among “work”, “leisure”, “health” and “home life”.  Initially, this habituated thinking had me feeling guilty discussing “non-work” matters in executive coaching funded by my work.  But over time, I began to see that showing up as the whole me in the workplace brings full potential to my performance at work, in turn positively influencing the performance of others around me as I invite them to do the same.

During my time with Jay, I also took some of the courses offered by The Coaching Room, which have really helped with further integration of new approaches to working with people and facilitating groups in the role of Managing Director.

I have now moved on to a new phase of development with Jay’s partner in The Coaching Room and will continue to access other programs offered by them – and I stay in touch with Jay.”