Ross is the Managing Director and principal consultant of Pacific Consulting. He has an Honours degree in Commerce from the University of NSW and is an accredited executive coach with the Australian Institute of Executive Coaching, a chartered member of the Institute of Management Consultants, an accredited Human Synergistics Consultant and Global Performance and Reward Professional. Ross is also accredited in the Hogan's Leadership Profile, Bar-On Emotional Intelligence and Belbin Team Styles Profiles assessment instruments for selection, executive development and coaching and has over 1000 hours face to face executive coaching hours experience.
His consulting assignments over many years have been in both the public and private sectors in Australia, New Zealand and the US with a focus on organisation and personal improvement strategies. Ross places a particular emphasis on the development of leadership practices and capability, people management practices and performance development strategies.
As an experienced executive and staff coach, Ross has undertaken numerous coaching assignments over recent years. These encompass both group and one-on-one executive coaching aimed at assisting senior executives to obtain greater results in their organisations, through their management teams, and personally for them to become more effective as a leader.
Ross has developed a highly effective coaching framework and program using leadership style assessment tools, and combined with practical skills development methods, this helps executives fast track their results and get better results and improved behaviour from their staff.
Some of his coaching assignments have been with MasterCard International, Australian Government Department of Education, Science & Training (DEST), State Forests, Steven Salgo (Sales) Pty Ltd, NSW Health, Parramatta City Council and CASA.
What clients say about Ross:
"The coaching support provided by Ross was productive in assisting me leverage the individual strengths and development areas of the team"
David Smith, Head of HBOS, Treasury Services
“With Ross’s coaching we now have clarity and agreement on:
“Pacific Consulting helped me greatly in developing our new structure, and Ross’s coaching assisted the executives to build their effectiveness and performance contribution to the Council”
· Where we want the company to be in the future
· A clear plan on how we’re going to get there
· How we will measure our success.”
Christine Scott, Chief Executive, Steven Salgo (Sales) Pty Ltd
Rod Oxley, former CEO, Wollongong Council
"I can't even begin to tell you how empowered I am now after our coaching. I'm spending two-thirds of my week building relationships. Listening, rewarding, testing, delivering and I'm getting what I want, that's what the Division needs. It's very strategic".
Professor Jeanette Ward, former Area Director, NSW Health
“I am very pleased with the quality and results from the coaching of our executives by Pacific Consulting”.
Connie Corrigan, Director, Human Resources, MasterCard International