Christine McDougall
Bach. Applied Science, Master Certified Coach
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High Integrity High Performance Leaders--Coaching Expert
Christine McDougall Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Coaching High Integrity High Performance Leaders Towards Next Generation Businesses
- Best Sellers
- Dare to Care-Radical Truth with Compassion
- Career Focus
- Coach, Speaker, Author
- Affiliation
- International Coach Federation, Spiral Dynamics, Integral Institute, Syzergy
Christine McDougall’s expertise is in facilitating the navigation of high integrity, high performance leaders, politicians and people of influence,through the treacherous waters of political and corporate life, vigilantly supporting the maintenance of the very integrity and passion that inspired them to the leadership journey.
Christine believes that leaders who operate from a place of personal principle and integrity are desperately needed in all domains of life,and yet have to daily battle the existing systems that either say one thing anddo the other, or operate from sneaky politics, sly back stabbing and an ~us orthem~ mentality, or are simply not geared to operate within a high ethics, highflex, rapidly changing and increasingly transparent world.
Christine works with men and women to support them instaying in their own truth, finding alte ative ways to live and work withtheir principles intact, within traditional organizationalstructures.
Christine is a Master Certified Coach, the highest international commendation awarded tocoaches by the International Coach Federation. She is one of the leaders incoaching in Australia and New Zealand, with eleven years full time experience.She was the first coach in Australia and New Zealand to receive the qualification of Master Certified Coach.
Her work is leading edge, combining a systemic perspective with daring and compassion, using models such as Wilber’s integral theory, Buckminster Fuller’s systems theory, developmental models including spiral dynamics, and her own models supporting unconditional responsibility, cultures of commitment,appreciative inquiry processes and the ability to speak the truth with compassion.
Recently,Christine developed the Dare to Care programme which has been delivered to hundreds of people in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Dare to Care transforms the way leaders communicate at all levels, from junior to the most senior executives. The programme teaches people to become aware of how they are perceived by others in communication and to become more conscious of the impact and consequences of their communications.
Dareto Care also supports individuals and groups to implement changes in order tocommunicate more effectively with clarity, integrity and “heart”. Ultimately, the new ways of communicating lead to better relationships, more effective problem solving,enhanced negotiation skills, an open and trusting workplace and greater skill in dealing with difficult workplace situations and conflict. All of which can positively impact a companies bottom line.
Christine would describe herself as a permanent student, working on her own lifelong PhD.She is currently exploring the fields of economics and alte ate currencies,world politics, archetypal and mythological studies, including Jung, Cambelland Myss, emergent models of business, systemic cultural change, natural design, geometry, history and perennial philosophy.
Prior to executive coaching and training, Christine has been a business owner and entrepreneur since she was 24 years old, with experience in professional services and manufacturing, both locally and internationally.
Christine holds a Bachelor’s Degree as a Doctor of Chiropractic from Royal Melbou e Institute of Technology, 1983. She is a certified Level Two Spiral Dynamics practitioner and teaches a Spiral Dynamics experiential workshop. She is also certified in DISC, PIAV and Reiss Values Profile.
Her corporate clients include Australia and New Zealand based mulitnationals in banking, finance and realestate and include: A.N.Z. Bank, NAB, St George Bank, Remax and Australia Post. She has lectured to MBA students at both Bond University and Queensland Institute of Technology. Her individual clients are located around the world.Christine has conducted over ten thousand hours of coaching with senior executives both face to face and via the telephone. Business leaders seek Christine out because of her extraordinary ability to inspire people to speak and act with truth,responsibility, integrity, courage and love. Christine’s ideas combine practical application with philosophical and spiritual depth.
Christine has been a Board member of the International Coach Federation (USA) for five years, in her last year in theposition of Vice President. She was the inaugural President of the International Coach Federation Australasia. These roles gave her experience inworking within a not for profit organization, working virtually with groups around the world, and working with the natural design of a global start upbusiness. Christine is on the editorial board of the International journal forCoaching in Organizations, the first professional coaching journal to be published and distributed worldwide. Once a year, Christine joins 60 executive coaches from around the world for the Executive Coaching Summit, an invitation only event comprised of a diverse global network of senior executive development experts researching and integrating best practices in the field.Christine is also a founding member of the International Consortium for Coaches in Organizations. She has been a keynote speaker at many coaching events around the world, as well as other industry bodies, including Institutes of Managementand Human Resources.
She has travelled extensively, particularlywithi North America, making the trip across the Pacific over 45 times.
Christine lives on the Gold Coast in Queensland,Australia, with her 17-year-old daughter Natalie. Beyond her work, Christine enjoys travelling, and outdoor activities, which include running, swimming and snowboarding. She has completed over 16 marathons and four ultra-marathons and an Ironman Triathlon. Without a doubt, her endurance sport has contributed to her value as a coach, in the spiritual, physical, emotional and mental domains.
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Why Syzergy Dares to Care:
We only have to turn on the TV to see that we have some significant problems. We are killing ourselves because few people are willing to take a stand for the true, the good and the beautiful. For leaders who speak the truth (now there is a radical thought!), for leaders who have a calling that at its heart transcends race, religion, politics, and next weeks election, and for the care of all that is beautiful on our planet, our children, our animals, the environment, people…We know at core that killing anything for revenge, power, money or righteousness is wrong. We know this, and yet, after thousands of years, we still do it. Yet we are also afraid to discuss the ethics of killing for survival, protection, and because of attack. We have become so green we fear saying anything that could be interpreted as politically incorrect. We are polarized by fear of speaking up and getting it wrong. And anyone who does try, we shoot down in flames.
Daring to care is about taking a huge, deep breath and speaking from the heart. Speaking from what matters most. To do this we need to transcend all that we are afraid of. Being seen as the fool, the problem, the innocent. Not being liked. Not getting it right. Not being right. And sometimes we will get it wrong. It is a complex issue, and becoming ever increasingly complex.
Daring to care requires the very best you have to offer. It requires you playing in the largest game available at any given time. The game of truth. At core it requires you to have your inner thoughts and promises be expressed with truth in your exte al world. For you to do and act all that you say, and all that you are. Syzergy is about caring enough to support your voice, and the voice of your company. And for you to ask the same of others.
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Please visit www.syzergy.biz or call 61 7 55275155
Also check out our new web site, www.positive-deviant.com
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Jiminy Cricket Coaching. We are the Positive Deviants Jiminy Cricket (the fictional character from Pinocchio-a small cricket who sat on Pinocchio’s shoulder and acted as his conscience) -keeping them in the highest levels of integrity when the environment they are in can be poisonous and a political mine field. Such environments can be very subtly seductive, leading to a very slow demise of Integrity. This happens frequently even with the very best of intentions to avoid this down spiral. Little transgressions, “little atrocities”, pave the way for ever increasingly higher atrocities, and before we know it, our Positive Deviant has lost most deviant characteristics, or even erred on the side of the negative. This play is very common in senior executive areas, and of course is rife in all political positions. The wise person entering either of these arena’s or any position within the public domain would choose a Jiminy Cricket coach at the outset.
Benefits of Jiminy Cricket Coaching
Maintaining your highest level of integrity against competing odds
Working with a trusted confidant who is NOT involved in your business affairs at a commercial level and therefore has no hidden agenda
Provides alte
ate perspective when your ability to step back is hampered by time or other constraints
Creates a place where you get to reflect, pause, dialogue, sort ideas and thoughts and reach higher levels of clarity
Provides a place for learning, new thought, utilitarian tools, skills enhancement
Challenges your assumptions and keeps you at the forefront of action and implementation
Will not stand for small play behaviour - holds you to your biggest game
Will tell you the truth, even if it is painful, AND will walk with you on your chosen path, creating a third party perspective that is free of personal motivations
Because you are working with a Positive Deviant who happens to be a coach, you will be working with someone who relates to your experience and worldview
Are you suited to Jiminy Cricket Coaching?
You will usually be a very busy senior executive or politician or a successful entrepreneur, working in a fast paced, highly stressful environment with a significant amount of covert politics, one-up-man ship, bullying, back stabbing, power grabbing, collusion and other assorted issues. You often feel like a fish out of water. There may be only one or two people within your organisation you really relate to. Loneliness, isolation and marginalisation can be issues. You know you offer great value to your organisation, and this is usually recognised but with some caution, as peers and superiors are often threatened by you.
This is a one on one relationship, with minimum monthly meetings and may include the coach spending a day or more in an observer role. The minimum cost is $1000 per month.
This fee includes workbooks, audio material and other supplementary material relevant to your work, and a copy of the coaching sessions recorded for future reference (optional).
To Learn more about Jiminy Cricket Coaching visit http://www.positive-deviant.com/integrity-coaching.html
Amchara Coaching. We work as an Amchara Coach (pronounced Amcara)- a Celtic word meaning the guide of ones best self, trusted intimate of ones true self, and supporter of the full expression of the comprehensively integrous self into the world of work and play. This role goes far beyond basic coaching, and deals with the very core of our being and its full reflection in the world. It is a very honoured and privileged role, based on truth, trust and integrity. The relationship is long term, empowering, and deeply respectful. Amchara Coaching is a very holistic form of coaching and includes dialogue around meaning, significance, purpose, alignment, values, physical expression and relationships.
Benefits of Amchara Coaching
*Development of your unique skills and experience to a place of congruence and full alignment with your values interiorly and exteriorly
*Uncovering strengths and skills you have marginalised, been blind to, or discounted
*Supporting the creation of self disciplines that give your life the space to go to a much higher level of personal expression and congruent action
*Enriching your spirit/soul expression in what ever form sits well with you
*Building a very solid self esteem and self awareness, that includes emotional intelligence, social intelligence, and spiritual intelligence
*Working on a daily basis on the practical side of this deep soul work. What you do, how you do it, why you do it and with whom? Always evaluating, refining, building, developing, stretching and learning as you apply yourself to business and life but with a deeper aligned reference point than you have experienced before
*Working with a coach who inhabits the Positive Deviant world, and understands your unique challenges
Are you suited to Amchara Coaching?
You will be going through a mid life crisis of sorts (even if you are 25), or aware that you are questioning your motivations - “why you do what you do and for what purpose?” You have a sense that something is missing, not right, upside down.
Your exterior superficial life may look fabulous, but you can feel the cracks forming.
This is a time for deep reflection, asking the biggest questions you are able to, and finding a place within you that is seeking expression and recognition. At the same time, Amchara coaching is highly practical. Together we create action in the real world, so at times our coaching is about day to day activities. At the least, you want to be in a regular dialogue with a trusted confidant who has only your highest interests as the agenda.
This is by its very nature, a one on one relationship, and requires a minimum monthly meeting. We often start with an extended meeting in a retreat setting, utilising the natural environment to question, explore, discover and uncover. The minimum monthly cost is $1000.
Coaching includes a work book, additional support materials, email and brief phone calls between scheduled sessions and all session recorded for review.
To read more about Amchara Coaching, please visit http://www.positive-deviant.com/soul-coaching.html
Massive Action Now. If you are like many people today, you are feeling the earth shifting under your feet, unsure about your next step and whether it will land on solid ground. Having a sense of security is becoming an elusive memory. Uncertainty rules the day. Even if you are in a very secure situation, you cannot but help feel the whisper of the winds of big change. It will touch us all, in some way.
This present time is offering a new experience that makes most of us feel uncomfortable, or excited. What will tomorrow bring is a question that is on the lips of many.
If you work for a company, you need to be working on your brand and your value.
If you are in small business, you need to be re-evaluating your offerings and service, and making changes if necessary.
If you are part of the leadership team, you need to be reading the winds of change with accuracy, and implementing new strategies with urgency.
If you are the HR leader asking what is the very best ROI of your training dollar right now, then certainly training people to be flexible, innovative, able to see around the corner of the future and handle change, able to take massive action, and increase the value proposition; are all essential and critical skills.
No matter where you are placed, now is the time for re-evaluation. To ignore re-evaluation is to put your head in the sand and pretend that it will all return to the previous place where you felt safe and certain.
No matter who you are, and what company you work for it is time for Massive Action.
There are incredible opportunities, whole new industries about to be birthed, new tools and technology to be created, implemented and supported. ?How engaged are you in the conversation of the future? Are you even looking? And if so, is your view clean and clear? Do you constantly look at the future and your current value offering and ask if one needs the other? How much time do you send with friends and colleagues discussing future scenario’s?
What opportunities are you not seeing?
Marrying your highest value offering with the needs of the future will ensure you have a vital future!
“Nothing happens until something moves- quoted Albert Einstein.”
Massive Action Now begins with pre-work assessment, followed by an initial 2-6 hour meeting to presence current reality, look at the future and build a plan. Ongoing coaching and support is available on a bespoke basis, as required, and can be anywhere from daily fast track sessions for 10 to 15 minutes, to weekly implementation sessions. The minimum cost for the initial session is $1000.
If you are a small business owner or entrepreneur and would like more information on taking Massive Action Now please visit http://www.positive-deviant.com/massive-action-now-sme.html
For individuals working in a corporate environment, please visit http://www.positive-deviant.com/massive-action-now-corporate.html
For teams looking to take Massive Action Now, please visit http://www.positive-deviant.com/massive-action-now-teams.html
Board/Team/Group Facilitation. We work with teams and groups to support them operating at the highest level of Integrity, giving them models to support their dynamic Positive Deviant process. The facilitation is rigorous and highly organic.
Benefits of Team Facilitation and Group Coaching
*Creation of a high performing team
*Clean communication
*More rapid decision making
*Greater alignment
*Common language
*Highly effective processes
*No elephants in the room
*Safe environment for people to speak up in
*No collusion
*More enjoyment within the team/group
*Strong boundaries and high mutual respect
*Simply a better working team
Is Team or Group Coaching for your team?
If your team, group or board is suffering from any form of dysfunction, infighting, back fighting, blaming, collusion, broken communication, lost purpose etc, then get help and quickly. Or, if you want your team to move to a higher level of function and performance. If your team has an issue that is creating divisions, or needs to create a new road map.
The cost for this level of work depends on the time frame and complexity of the situation, and its ongoing nature. Please ask us for more information.
Speaking at Live events. We are able to speak at events covering a range of topics that are targeted to an audience who have Positive Deviant attributes or would like to integrate Positive Deviant attributes. Our talks are interactive, very dynamic, experiential, organic, educational and entertaining. We meet the audience at the level of relevance and value for them on the day. We guarantee the audience will leave with value and enjoy the experience.
The cost for speaking depends on duration, location and requirements for preparation.