Who We Are

Praesta Australia works with the boards and CEO’s of some of Australia’s largest and most respected corporations, associations, and organisations.

Our expert mentoring coaches are high-level professionals with significant senior level business experience, who are well versed in bringing the best out of the key people you have, and optimising and assimilating new senior executives that you introduce into your organisation. One on one, team by team, or organisation-wide.

The Problems We Solve

Praesta’s mission is to solve problems, break down barriers, and help senior executives and the organisations they serve achieve greater success.

Some of the challenging scenarios that we encounter include the following:

Leadership / cultural change / entrepreneurial partnership
Example: A CEO of a high profile sporting organisation on the brink of bankruptcy needed to work with two new owners with experience in the industry.

Cross functional transition
Example: The IT Director of a large pharma company was internally transferred to the position of Sales Director and had to be transitioned into the role.

Cultural awareness inclusion
Example: A Managing Director who transferred from India via the US, needed to be coached and readied to handle the cultural differences between India and Australia.

Past strengths / present derailers
Example: A GM of a service business with a global reach had to undertake coaching and attitude-shift mentoring as a result of poor 360 degree feedback.

Interpersonal skills / relationship building
Example: A law firm partner was in line for equity partnership but was seen to not build up internal relationships well enough, putting his potential equity in jeopardy.

Why Choose Praesta?

What makes Praesta Australia different from other coaching organisations is that we concentrate on making a real and lasting difference at the very senior level, with flow on benefits downwards and throughout.

Some of the advantages of our senior executive coaching and mentoring include:

• We speak the same language. All of our coaches are ex-corporates ourselves - some have run start-up businesses and others have managed large departmental teams successfully.
• You get to choose the coach with the best fit for your requirement. Select from a number of alternatives and align with the one that is best suited to your corporate operating environment.
• We know your industry. Our team of coaches and sector-specific specialists consult from a base of sound knowledge across all industry categories.
• We’ve done our homework. Every senior Praesta executive coach is highly credentialed with a Masters of Coaching Psychology course from Sydney Uni.
• We practise what we preach. All coaches are supervised monthly and coached internally 1-on-1 by Praesta trainers to maintain quality assurance and increase our own high performance.
• The very latest knowledge management techniques are incorporated. All of our teams across the world attend the annual three-day intensive Praesta International coaching conference and share best practices – on both an academic level and a practical hands-on basis.