Welcome WiBF’s Newest Team Member

Ricky is a highly versatile and intuitive leader, speaker and executive coach specialising in working with high-performance individuals, teams and organisations through APAC and EMEA regions. She is a true champion of leaders helping them dramatically increase their influence, build their internal and external networks and personal brand. Ricky is committed to helping clients enhance their reputation, improve their short- and long-term career objectives while maintaining their focus on wellbeing.

She is an Executive Coach for the AICD, is a Certified Human Resource Professional, Presenter for Brave Feminine Leadership Group, Advisory and Mentoring (Singapore) The CEO Institute and Hargraves Institute of Innovation. She is one of only 98 Australian women to obtain the global Certified Speaking Professional Accreditation and is certified by the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Coaching Group. Ricky has thousands of hours of practical experience working with managers and leaders in professional services and 30 years of experience in education and leadership development. She has authored four leadership books and is a well-known Media resource and commentator.

Suzanne is a performance catalyst working with business leaders to help them recognise and develop their potential. She is considered Australia’s expert on identifying and moving beyond limiting mindsets including the Imposter Syndrome, a key barrier to performance. Her focus on setting clear outcomes and pathways forward including dismantling barriers have led to significant shifts in self-leadership, transformational leadership, employee engagement, client service, culture, performance and bottom line. As the first woman on the Board of George Patterson Advertising, she understands the journey up the career ladder and working at the highest levels.

Sheila Vijeyarasa is a High-Performance Coach, helping business leaders to step into the full potential. She works with emerging leaders and senior managers, to clear their limiting beliefs and address common blocks including burnout, perfectionism and imposter syndrome. After decades of leading and leadership training, she has an enormous tool kit of high performance habits, confidence hacks and communication tips to deal with challenging staff and difficult conversations.

Sheila Vijeyarasa has walked in your leadership path. She believes that with the right visionary mentor, your success is evitable. She holds an MBA (with Distinction) and has held multiple positions as a Finance and Commercial Director. She has trained with The Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership and is a qualified NLP practitioner, Inner Child Therapist and is a Trauma Informed Facilitator. Sheila’s internationally bestselling book, Brave: Courageously Live Your Truth has been described as a ‘comprehensive spiritual guide book’ for the conscious corporate leader.

MSc (Coach Psych), MBA, ACC

Teresa has been a WiBF Peak Performance coach since 2022. Examples of the challenges WiBF members have addressed with her during coaching include positioning for career progression; setting up for success in a new role / restructure; addressing challenging 360 feedback; building effective leadership behaviours; strategies to avoid burnout; rekindling a sense of purpose; and harnessing strengths and other positive psychology interventions to protect well-being.

Her evidence-based approach is informed by her Master of Science in Coaching Psychology (University of Sydney) and her contextual understanding of the workplace comes from decades of experience in senior national, regional and global business development roles and an MBA (AGSM). She has ICF accreditation, Strengths Profile certification, is an approved Leadership Circle Practitioner, is ACT qualified, and is a Mental Health First Aider.

Her mantra is improving the workplace, one coaching conversation at a time.