Meet the Team

Elisabeth Gortschacher

Developing global leaders from all walks of life

Elisabeth E. Gortschacher, a multi business owner, has a passion for leadership development - inspiring, energizing and empowering people to realize their visions and dreams. Her expertise ranges from soul-inspired leadership development and accelerated transformational change, using cutting edge results technologies, to authentic personal branding, business - organization – niche development, and guerrilla marketing.

With her vast range of expertise Elisabeth meets her clients were they are in life, connecting them with their innate compass to navigate their lives grounded in purpose and passion.

Elisabeth operates from the paradigm “Predict the future by creating it.”

She is a master in Virtual Leadership. Elisabeth inspires and engages people around the world to align with the vision and mission of World Leadership Day to bring about global transformation through releasing the innate leadership in every person.

From launching World Leadership Day on 20 March 2007, Elisabeth has created the infrastructure for the global grass-root leadership initiative and builds, coordinates and leads a fast growing global team of World Leadership Day Ambassadors.  In less than two years since its inception, World Leadership Day has a presence on every continent and is seen “as far the most professional and global leadership event.” WLD 2009 will be celebrated concurrently in 15 countries around the world. 

Elisabeth is the author of the first E-book of our ‘Integrated Business Development E-Series’ to be launched mid March 2009 in English and Spanish.

Elisabeth’s credential include MBA, BEd, ICF Master Certified Coach, Certified Master Practitioner of NLP, Hypnosis and Advance Neurological Repatterning, Performance Consultant, Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach, Certified in Personal Branding DNA™, Personal Branding DNA™ Certification, and Nichecraft.

Mike Gallasch

Turnaround Coach

Mike Gallasch is a Corporate Trainer in Leadership Development and Interpersonal and Self Development Skills. Mike is passionate about “Breathing Life into your Dreams” so that you can acquire sustained happiness and make a difference with your life.

His approach is about obtaining clarity and focus about what really excites and energises you. Through leading by inspiration drawn from his own personal experience Mike is the ideal guide to have to help you become more masterful and take charge of overcoming adversity and transforming your life. Mike is a catalyst for change and will help you overcome inertia and build momentum to allow you to make the breakthrough that you need.

Clients like that Mike can build rapport quickly as he has ‘lived the coaching process’ through his own personal life in terms of overcoming chronic illness, achieving personal sporting success as a triathlete and re-inventing himself after a prominent career as a Business Improvement Specialist and Consultant in both Manufacturing and Finance. Mike is a strong believer in setting you challenges, using proven tools and techniques that will allow you to develop the resourcefulness and self-confidence you need to achieve results.

Mike has coaching credentials through the Life Coaching Institute of Australia and is a Certified Trainer. He is passionate about increasing awareness of the value of coaching through his workshops and seminars. They are designed to be engaging, interactive and fun so as leave you with a lasting impression that you can change your life if you choose to put into practice the concepts that are taught.

Andrew Ford

Values Coach

Andrew is passionate about enabling people to make changes in their life, find fulfilment and be all that they can be.   He helps clients discover and realise their potential. His role is to listen; to hear what’s really going on and help individuals create their own solutions. This support helps motivate and inspire his clients to set goals and achieve them.  He works with individuals to help them gain a clear vision for their future and a strategy for achieving it. 

Andrew’s clients are people wanting to make significant life changes.  He has successfully coached professionals, small business owners, students and managers in areas such as time management, relationships, confidence, career development and work/life balance.     

He is an insightful coach whose positive approach puts people at ease.  Andrew is fascinated by people and his belief in their value as individuals helps draw out their potential. 

After graduating with an honours degree, Andrew went on to complete a diploma in Practical Theology.  He spent five years as a minister of a large city centre church before travelling extensively throughout South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.  On his return to the UK he worked as a project manager for the Marketing and Recruitment department of a London University before starting his own coaching practice.  He is trained and accredited by The Coaching Academy (UK) and with the Life Purpose Institute (UK).  He has recently emigrated to South Australia

Lisa Ormenyessy

Prinicpal Coach

As a professional coach, Lisa brings her clients considerable direct industry experience in the Defence Force, Entrepreneurship Markets (Specifically, SME & Start-Ups), Sales & Marketing.  She enjoys working with women who dare to dream BIG but are struggling in overwhelm, Small Business owners who can't see the "forest through the trees", and entrepreneurs of any persuasion.

Clients attest Lisa’s greatest ability as laser coaching, enabling them to quickly cut though to the ‘heart of the matter’ so the results of change are meaningful and lasting. If you want honest, succinct, ‘no frills’ coaching then Lisa is your coach of choice.

Highly aware of the ‘overwhelm factor’ Lisa’s places considerable emphasis on practical techniques that have her clients receiving tools and resources that they can apply immediately. Her style is ‘hands on’, highly interactive, and always fun.

A living example of the motto “its not how long you're down, but what you pick up while you're down there", Lisa is a uniquely talented women and an outstanding success story of the school of hard knocks. She describes herself as a creative over-comer, motivator and facilitator of change, and is passionate about being a catalyst and leader that makes a difference in other people's lives.

As a single mother of two active boys, Director of Integrabiz, and a contributing member of her community, she manages to ‘walk the talk’ and is a testimony to the power of coaching.

Testimonials can be found here.

Catherine Lochart

Busy Parent Coach

Catherine spent the first part of her working life as a Personal Development, Health and Physical Education teacher.  She has a Bachelor of Education from Sydney University and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology from Charles Sturt University. 

Catherine has always been passionate about personal development, motivation and self esteem, so after her first long awaited child Grace she decided to pursue a life long dream to become a life coach. 

Catherine has been studying with Coach U University for the last four years and is currently working towards her Masters certification in coaching.  Since becoming a coach Catherine has also brought into this world her three beautiful daughters Stella, Alice and Olivia (triplets) and her son Angus.  Having been given her five precious gifts Catherine felt that her coaching niche really needed to be busy parents.

Catherine is currently setting up a new home in Dubai, and will be available after April 08

Jenny Edis

Building Flourishing Business Professionals

Jenny Edis has been coaching managers, leaders and business owners in the USA, China and Australia for the last 8 years. Her 17 years of corporate, industry and management experience as well as her qualifications as a Chartered Accountant has given Jenny a passion for business and a desire to see people in business flourish.

Jenny has coached her clients to create successful businesses, lead with strength, build high-performance teams, balance their lives, create rich relationships, increase sales, connect powerfully with customers, manage difficult situations and transition comfortably to other careers or locations. 

On a personal coaching level, Jenny believes each individual has a unique genius and enjoys revealing what that is with her clients and seeing how their lives are enhanced through unleashing their own genius.

Jenny's client list is currently full

John Southwell

Busy Professionals and Senior Staff

Supporting and encouraging busy professionals and senior staff in their quest to live the life they really want is what drives Professional and Personal Coach, John Southwell.

Clients attest to having more time to do the things they want, having more fun, achieving increased business profitability, experiencing less stress, improved staff selection and staff retention, enjoying better health and having a more fulfilling personal life come as a result of working with John as their coach.

Friends, clients and associates experience John as a compassionate person who is an excellent listener with a robust sense of humour and someone who is great to work with in discerning the real life issues.

John is a Certified Coach Graduate who has a Bachelor of Theology and a Master of Arts from Boston College. He has extensive experience in executive level management, marketing, counselling coaching and spirituality.