Meet Your Coaches

 

Pascal Fernandez

Pascal Fernandez is a certified executive and leadership coach and business executive with over 30 years of experience driving transformative change across organisations. His approach emphasises an abundance mindset, collaborating with clients to unlock their potential and achieve sustainable growth.

Pascal has completed extensive training in adult development, leadership, organisational culture, and systems thinking and has successfully coached a diverse range of individuals, from new graduates to C-suite executives. His professional journey includes significant leadership roles at Altria, Philip Morris USA, and Apple, where he honed his expertise in brand management, innovation, and consumer insights.

Beyond his professional achievements, Pascal is actively involved in community service and serves on the boards of organisations such as Communities In Schools and the Girl Scouts of America. His dedication to positive change extends into personal pursuits, where he engages in sports, community initiatives, and lifelong learning.

Bilingual in English and French, he is passionate about reading, art, tennis, and hiking in the mountains.

Coach Style: Curious, Creative, Humble

Coaching qualifications:

  • Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation)

  • Co-Active Certified Coach (Co-Active Training Institute)

  • Senior Practitioner (EIA) (EMCC Global)

  • Applied Positive Psychology Certificate (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Growth Edge Coaching Qualified (Growth Edge Coaching)

  • Advanced Practitioner (Global Leadership Associates)

  • Certified Values Coach (Just Values DNA)

  • Leadership Circle Certified Coach (The Leadership Circle)

  • Polarity Management (Georgetown University Institute of Transformational Leadership)

  • Polarity Management Certified Practitioner (AndIron)

  • Qualified Immunity to Change Facilitator (Minds at Work)

  • Human System Dynamics Professional (Human System Dynamics Institute)

Avalyn Lim

Avalyn Lim (PCC) is a professionally certified coach who works with individuals on career identity, increasing self-awareness, resilience, adaptability, and personal growth.

She also works with teams on cross-functional communication and collaboration and is an executive and learning coach with global business school, INSEAD.

Starting her career as a lawyer, Avalyn has over 20 years of experience working in business development & sales, branding & marketing, and project management. She combines her professional experience with the Thinking Environment®, Enneagram, positive psychology, and somatic coaching, to partner with clients on their development journey.

A travel buff, Avalyn is also a personal development enthusiast, meditator and, more recently, an avid gardener living in the wilds of the Waitākere ranges.

Coach Style: Humorous, Nurturing, Illuminating

Coaching qualifications:

  • Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation)

  • Holistic Life, Career & Executive Coach (Goal Imagery® Institute)

  • Coaching with the Enneagram (The Enneagram in Business)

  • Conscious Business Coaching (BetterUp/Fred Kofman)

  • Dynamic Trio – EMDR, Positive Psychology & Somatic Coaching

    (Mindfulness Coaching School)

  • Body Electric – Somatic Coaching (Mindfulness Coaching School –

    in progress)

  • Vertical Development Practices for Coaches and Leaders (Vertical Development Institute)

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Joanne Ostler

Joanne Ostler (PCC) is a professionally credentialed coach passionate about helping leaders grow and make a positive impact on our world. With 14 years of professional coaching experience, Joanne has amassed a considerable portfolio of tools and approaches including those based on vertical development, strengths, personality profiling, positive psychology, neuroscience, emotional agility, stress, wellbeing and interpersonal neurobiology.

Joanne loves working with thoughtful smart professionals and leaders facing change, complexity, stress and challenges in their careers and lives. Her talent lies in creating a safe supportive space, taking a whole-person approach and helping clients to take a reflective step back to create insight, options and better results.

As part of Joanne's interest in all things planet and wildlife-related, she loves getting out in nature, supports a number of causes and is currently creating a bird and bee garden at home.

Coach Style: Warm, Whole-person, Empowering

Coaching qualifications:

  • Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation)

  • Results Associate Certified Coach (NeuroLeadership Group)

  • Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate in Career Development (Auckland University of Technology)

  • Enneagram Practitioner (The Narrative Enneagram)

  • Conversations at the Growing Edge (Growth Edge Coaching)

  • Qualified Action Inquiry & Global Leadership Profile Coach (Global Leadership Associates)