What Clients Say

Clients We've Worked With

I have had a fantastic experience working with Rita through a Coaching relationship. Rita's approach and style is genuine and was able to create a focussed yet relaxed setting which prompted deep and thoughtful discussion. Rita was able to uncover a range of insights and provided direction towards solutions and information that were helpful in my development. I would highly recommend Rita as a Coach.

Tom Slack

Director, HR Partners and Analytics

Rita has assisted me as a trusted executive coach and facilitator focusing on leadership, team values and change. With her contemporary knowledge and vast experience she is an excellent ‘people person’. Strategic, authentic, positive, practical, engaging, a great listener and always 100% committed to achieving successful outcomes.

Adrian Tinetti

Lawyer at Ballarat & Grampians Community Legal Service

It was a privilege to have Rita present in the Deakin MBA Program. Rita’s energy is infectious – and she brings a high level of expertise and professionalism. Her presentation style is warm, engaging, and inclusive. And she has an ability to connect with audience in a genuine, collaborative way. I would highly recommend Rita, and look forward to the opportunity to have her present again!

Kirsten Forgione

Psychologist | Lecturer | Advisor | Consultant

Rita was a brilliant fit for my small business helping me navigate some development blockages and being a genuine support as I navigated a new direction. I will definitely continue to use Rita in the future as her authentic style ensured immediate trust & confidence.

Manuela Marasco

Director at Ceschino

Rita is a very insightful executive coach who was immediately able to assist me with developing a clear perspective on life, both professionally and personally, particularly on setting a vision and setting strategies to achieve it.

Lina Pepe

Manager, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne

Rita is an amazing Executive Coach. Patient, knowledgeable and with her finger on the pulse as far as People & Culture and what is happening in the market.

Lisa Calderone

Senior Human Resources Professional | Supporting people and businesses to thrive

Rita delivered an online International Women's Day webinar for all our employees at the City of Ballarat. It was extremely timely as our organization was just starting to return to the workplace in a hybrid mode. Rita themed the webinar as - Back to Work - Work Well Live Well - 'Ways of working that increase our fulfilment'. The webinar had something for everybody and covered the areas of:

Flexibility at work pre and post COVID-19
How the way work has changed and will continue to change
How can we be more fulfilled as we better integrate work into life and life into work?

Thank you Rita

Jennifer Brophy

Innovation & Workforce Planning Analyst at City of Ballarat

I had the good fortune of engaging Rita as an executive coach and found her to be not only a terrific sounding board for working through various issues, challenges and opportunities but she had a knack of providing relevant, situation specific tools and insight to assist me in my decision making process. I actually chose Rita because, of those I spoke with, she was the least like me, and this different perspective definitely helped unlock broader thinking on my part.

Michael da Costa-Alves

I cannot thank Rita enough for the work she did with myself as a leader and with my team. Rita is an outstanding facilitator and coach. Her authentic approach and ability to bring insightful, personal experiences quickly established trust and credibility with the team. She also brought a carefully selected and tailored range of tools which she guided us through professionally and adeptly. I'd highly recommend Rita as a coach to enhance team and personal effectiveness.

Claire Shaw

Business Process Improvement | Change Leadership | Financial Management | Risk & Governance | Service Excellence

The biggest thing I took away that has really resonated with me and impacted the way I interact with people was learning about the difference between introverts, extroverts, and the existence of ambiverts.

After getting a chance to openly discuss perspectives, thoughts and differences between these three groups of people in the room, it instilled a much greater understanding of each other, how we interact with each other and how people interact in a group or meeting format.

It has empowered me as an extrovert to ensure that I allow enough opportunity for introverts to participate in discussions and even sometimes prompt and promote involvement by more introverted people when I perhaps see that those opportunities are not presented or provided for during discussions. This approach is to ensure a more thoughtful, fairer and even representation of opinions and input in group discussions.

This is something that instantly stuck with me, it was like a lightbulb moment, and I am sure it will continue to stick with me going forward.

Michael Rayner

Member Engagement and CSC Team Leader

Rita was my coach and mentor when I was working at Swinburne.

She is incredible to have in your corner!

Rita has a unique talent when it comes to getting the best out of people, helping them to grow into themselves; through her deep empathy and ability to listen and ask great questions and give poignant advice based upon her wealth of experience and deep knowledge.

Rita also brings an incredible energy and positivity into every encounter; such that I always left our interactions feeling pumped up and that I could smash any career challenge presented to me.

I highly recommend you work with Rita; and I'm grateful for all she's done to help me grow professionally and personally over the years.

Elle Hassett

Senior Product Manager at REA Group

Rita is the quintessential HR and culture leader, coach and expert. I'm fortunate to have worked with Rita as executive colleagues and later, as a client. Her thoughtful, practical and knowledgable coaching and design-thinking puts her a clear step ahead of most consultants I've ever worked with. Her deep academic knowledge, combined with her 'real world' business experience, in areas like Diversity and Inclusion, Learning and Development, Business Partnering and the Future of Work means she delivers enormous problem-solving, critical thinking and impactful coaching, mentoring and programs in helping clients and organisations tackle some of the biggest, most complex issues facing business today. Her authentic engagement, facilitation and mentoring means she is able to get to the 'heart of the issue' quickly and help clients take the necessary steps towards sustained, impactful change. Rita is someone that I consistently speak very highly of and in my experience working with her, she brings a depth of HR insight, experience and thought-leadership that is unparalleled. No doubt, she is an outstanding individual and is exceptional at what she does and the value she delivers to clients.

Sarah McCartney

Executive Leadership | Corporate Affairs | Strategy