Gordon is a registered psychologist (NSW), an accredited exercise scientist, senior lecturer, researcher, and private practitioner. He is a past Academic Program Director of the Master of Business Coaching, Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, and past Head of Students at UOW Sydney campus. 

Alongside his teaching and research activities, Gordon has maintained a coaching practice for 20 years, through which he provides a range of executive/workplace coaching and coach training services across a wide variety of industries and sectors. Gordon is extremely pragmatic and strongly focused on helping clients understand key areas of development and enact plans that can produce tangible and sustainable results. 

Gordon holds a PhD in coaching psychology from the Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Sydney and has vast experience teaching the psychology of peak performance, responsible leadership, employee engagement, workplace wellbeing, and evidence-based coaching practice. He also writes exclusively on many of these topics, was co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Coaching (2017) and past joint editor-in-chief of Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal. 

Due to his keen interest in all aspects of human performance, Gordon recently completed a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science, whilst also writing two books on the importance of physical activity to healthy ageing. Within this area he is working on innovations that bridge the intention-behaviour gap, especially for adults struggling to reconnect to physical activity in mid-life. 

Tatiana is a Chartered Occupational psychologist with particular expertise in coaching psychology and supervision. Being a Professor at Oxford Brookes University, she also co-lead the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies.

Tatiana's subject area is human development and in particular - all aspects of developmental coaching, coaching supervision and qualitative research. She is also an active researcher and supervises many doctoral students.

Other engagements include serving on the editorial boards of five academic journals, speaking at national and international conferences and events and advising on coaching research and policies.

In addition to a large number of articles in academic and professional journals, Tatiana's publications include the following books:

-Developmental Coaching: Working with the Self, now in 2nd edition

-The SAGE Handbook of Coaching

-Coaching and Mentoring Supervision: Theory and Practice, now in 2nd edition

-The Complete Handbook of Coaching, now in 4th edition

Dr Sean O’Connor is a globally recognised pracademic within the fields of Coaching, Positive Psychology, Organisational and Leadership Development Sean’s research focuses on systemic approaches to leadership coaching and change and the influence of leadership coaching on the well-being of others within organisational networks and complex systems. As a practitioner Sean works globally as both an executive coach and organisational consultant working with individuals, groups, team and through organisational level interventions across a broad range of sectors.

As an Academic, Sean is the Director of the world-renowned Coaching Psychology Unit at the University of Sydney, where he lectures, researchers and develops new Coaches as part of the Masters of Coaching Psychology program. Sean has published numerous book chapters, peer reviewed journals, and regularly speaks at international conferences winning numerous awards and prizes for his groundbreaking research on the coaching ripple effect, the first ever research in coaching to measure the influence of coaching beyond the individual coaches. Now moving into areas of more systemic influence, Sean has been working on the positive psychology of place and space and the influence of leadership interaction on wellbeing more broadly while supporting his team to provide world class coaching education through Sydney University to a broader and more global audience. 

Dr Siobhain O'Riordan PhD CPsychol CSci FISCPAccred AFBPsS

Siobhain is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, a Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology (FISCPAccred), a Certified Principal Business Psychologist of the Association for Business Psychology, a Fellow of the International Stress Management AssociationUK, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a member of the Association for Coaching and an honorary member of the Institute of Health Promotion & Education. She is also an accredited coaching psychology supervisor.

With an academic background, Siobhain is an experienced trainer, examiner, and supervisor across training and postgraduate coaching and coaching psychology programmes. She is a course co-director/trainer on the coaching and coaching psychology programmes at the Centre for Coaching and Centre for Stress Management (UK). Siobhain is also the Director of Professional Development at the National Academy of Coaching Psychology and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Wales Academy for Professional Practice and Applied Research (WAPPAR) at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. 

She is a past editor of the publications The Coaching Psychologist and the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. She is currently an editor of the Coaching Psychology International and the International Journal of Coaching Psychology. Siobhain is a co-editor of the European Journal of Applied Positive Psychology and the International Journal of Stress Prevention and Wellbeing.

In 2010 she received the Distinguished Contribution to Coaching Psychology Award (British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology). In 2021, Siobhain was awarded a lifetime achievement award for contributions to coaching psychology by Coaching at Work.

Siobhain is Co-Editor of the book an Introduction to Coaching Psychology (alongside Prof Stephen Palmer), published by Routledge in 2021. She has also written articles and chapters relating to coaching psychology, coaching and positive psychology over the years and talks at national and international events.

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Prof. Christian van Nieuwerburgh (PhD) is Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology at the Centre for Positive Psychology and Health at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Global Director for Growth Coaching International and Principal Fellow of the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the University of Melbourne. He is an academic, researcher, executive coach and consultant interested in the integration of coaching and positive psychology in educational and health settings. He has published widely in the field, regularly speaks at global conferences and has given presentations and delivered training in Europe, the US, South America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.

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Professor Rebecca J Jones PhD CPsychol is a Professor in Coaching and Behavioural Change at Henley Business School, a Chartered Psychologist and Co-Founder of Inclusive Leadership Company. Her research interests lie in examining the factors that influence coaching effectiveness and her consultancy practice focuses on working with organisations to create diverse and inclusive workplaces using coaching and psychological theory and research to achieve sustained behaviour change. Rebecca is the author of the book ‘Coaching with Research in Mind’, host of ‘Coaching@Henley’ and ‘The Coaching Academic’ podcasts and has published her research in globally renowned journals.

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