Virginia Mansell is the Owner and Managing Director of the Stephenson Mansell Group. As a business owner, Virginia has practical experience of the complex issues facing CEO’s, and has developed a hands on style to both her business and clients that is particularly relevant in today’s tough business climate. Virginia is a highly experienced and a passionate leadership and organizational consultant, Executive coach and Coach Facilitator, drawing on 25 years of experience and qualifications to support and assist clients navigate their challenging change agendas in their increasing complex work environments. She works with CEOs, EGMs and senior executives from leading Australian companies.
With a BA in Psychology and Statistics and a Postgraduate Degree in Counselling Psychology (high distinction), Virginia believes that corporate experience backed by a clinical skill-base are important credentials for executive coaching. Virginia has been a registered psychologist for 18 years, previously boasting a significant background in Human Resource Management and counselling psychology. Virginia has also worked as a psychotherapist and senior corporate clinical consultant for the Cairnmillar Institute in Victoria where she designed and delivered a range of individual and group based development programs.
Virginia develops and oversees SMG’s IP and published her first book, “The Focused Executive: Leadership & Management Skills in Challenging Times”, in 2009. She oversees and delivers all the training and professional development for her delivery teams. She leads the business development strategic agenda and is a leading commentator in the executive coaching industry. A member of the APS, AICD and WCEI, Virginia also sits on the Standards Australia Coaching Guideline Committee, as well as the UWS Doctor of Business Administration External Advisory Committee.
Virginia has extensive experience in coaching for a wide range of outcomes including leadership development, executive performance, and senior career transition and developing emerging leaders in organisations. Her coaching approach is holistic, drawing upon her own “Real CEO” experience, building team collaboration, setting a restructure and turnaround strategy over the past 18 months and leading the business at the client face to achieve some of the highest quality executive development work in Australian corporations. This pragmatic approach is underpinned by her strong interest in developing leaders from within and her continued passion for helping people to know themselves to realise their potential.
Amongst her most recent projects, Virginia has led and delivered a major executive development executive team and coaching program for one of Australia’s largest conglomerates. Currently she leads and delivers a number of key client relationships, both assisting in identifying the essential development needs to ensure strategic alignment overseeing the delivery and case management of the projects.
· Master Coach with over 10,000 hours of coaching and coach supervision
· Professional psychology training under the direction of Francis Macnab, founder and CEO of The Cairnmillar Institute
· Fellowship with Australian Institute of Socio Analysis (AISA) (1999)
· Organisational Consultancy workshop with AISA (1999)
· Professional Coaching Workshop with Dr Anthony Grant, Coaching Psychology Unit, The University of Sydney (2001)
· Leadership and Authority in Organisations residential at the Tavistock Institute, London (2004)
· INSEAD Leadership for Creativity programme (2007 – 1 week residential) with Manfred Kets de Vries
· Leading practitioner of the LEA 360 feedback tool, as well
as being accredited in CCL’s Benchmarks® Assessment
Programme.
· Participates regularly in RIGPA Leadership Retreat.
One Recent Participant Wrote:
‘I have been with SMG and worked with Virginia for over two years and I would definitely recommend SMG’s services to other leaders in business. Virginia provides a great balance of coaching, personal insight, and tools to help me develop a high performing team. What distinguishes SMG is their ability to really get to the root cause of people issues and provide easy to use strategies and techniques that work in the business environment without constant prompting and reinforcement. I always felt that I would be stretched and challenged to go further in my development. In the end it comes down to trust’.
