Bonnie McKenzie - Senior Associate

BA(Psych) MA(Clinical) MAPS CEAP

Bonnie McKenzie is an Organisational and Clinical Psychologist and Master Coach for Executives, with 15 years of coaching experience.Bonnie is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP) with a number of years experience as a Senior Manager and Coach for a manager support service to middle and senior level executives.

Bonnie, originally from the United States, immigrated to Australia in l982, and has worked in the private and public sector both here and overseas since 1978.

Much of her professional time has been spent coaching in ongoing confidential one to one relationships with both executives and their teams, using a solution-focused framework and a range of developmental strategies to support her clients in uncovering their untapped potential and achieving their goals. Her work has a solid theoretical basis, using empirically tested models for interventions in the workplace. She has studied coaching and mentoring with international organisations including the European Mentoring and Coaching Institute

Bonnie’s special areas of practice include:

• One to one coaching with executives and their teams for skill enhancement, high performance in work roles, and for personal and professional development
• Conducting Mentor master classes for senior executives
• Installing mentoring programs in organisations particularly for
  merged cultures, attraction and retention of valued employees
  and enhancing high potential people. Her focus is on building mentoring values including formal workplace assessments of executive needs and value systems.
• Diversity initiatives for women executives in organizations

Bonnie is highly sought after as a keynote speaker and in ongoing consultancy roles with a variety of organisations. She was invited to write a book on Executive Mentoring by Woodslane Publishing with her book, ‘Friends In High Places’ published in March 1995. Her second work was commissioned by the Australian National Training Authority and is entitled, ‘Coaching in Learning Organisations, published in l997.

Memberships:

• Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
• NSW Convenor for Coaching Psychologists (APS)
• National Committee for Coaching Psychology (APS)
• EAPA, Employee Assistance Professionals Association
• Marketing Women’s Association
• Women in Management

Contact details:

mobile: 0425 311 599