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Wendy Colaço

Wendy brings over 20 years of global corporate experience as a C-suite Executive, Consultant & Executive Coach. Wendy’s corporate experience spans the insurance, superannuation, financial and professional services sectors.

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C-Level executive

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Experience and background

Wendy brings over 20 years of global corporate experience as a C-suite Executive, Consultant & Executive Coach. Wendy’s corporate experience spans the insurance, superannuation, financial and professional services sectors. She has consulted with over 300 clients, in over 50 cities and led teams in 15 countries, embracing the nuances of diversity, culture, collaboration and managing global and disparate teams whilst driving to a common vision and strategy.

Wendy has worked and partnered with ASX listed & Fortune 500 organisations, multinationals and local Australian firms such as American Express (Asia Pac & USA), Delta Lloyd (Netherlands), RBC (Canada), Mutual of Omaha (USA), ACC (New Zealand), TAL, FINEOS (Ireland), ING/One Path, Monash University, TAC and Amicus Australia.

Wendy has led large scale organisational transformations from culture change programs, leading businesses to valuation and implementing enterprise wide technology programs.

Wendy is a leadership development facilitator and executive coach, and leverages her global leadership experience to develop high potential and high performance individuals and teams.

Wendy's approach

Wendy is a lifelong learner and has a passion for developing individuals and teams to their highest potential. She seeks to understand the many facets that impacts and motivates each individual and uses both a behavioural and evidence-based approach to coaching. Wendy is a strengths practitioner and seeks to uncover personal behavioural motivators and ignite key strengths to elevate an individual’s mindset and approach to personal development and professional goals.

Wendy values authenticity, integrity, building strong cohesive teams & relationships, innovation and execution with commercial outcomes; all of which is key to building a collaborative high performance culture in the workplace.

Qualifications and memberships

  • Bachelor of Economics in Economics and Law (U Newcastle)
  • Executive Leadership Post graduate studies (Melbourne Business School)
  • Strengths Practitioner (Langley Group)
  • Diploma of Psychology (Langley Group)

Personal insights

Wendy has a passion for the outdoors and has completed two marathons. She is a keen body surfer, loves to run, swim and do Pilates.

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