Jess Peoples

Lived Experience:

• Jess has a lifelong love of learning and brings the latest research and practical tools into her work. Her approach is personal, evidence-based, and focused on lasting change.
• She has worked across global professional services and ASX-listed companies, gaining first-hand insight into the pressures leaders and teams face. Her blend of lived and professional experience brings both empathy and practicality to her coaching.
• Jess supports leaders and teams navigating change, stepping into bigger roles, or balancing technical expertise with people leadership.

Success factors:

• Success, for Jess, is defined by what matters most to the client and being able to create the space for their own answers to emerge.
• It shows up when clients expand their self-awareness and adaptability, catching patterns, regulating emotions, and responding with greater choice. 
• It’s when clients are able to turn insights into real action in the moments that matter.

Core values:

• Growth: Seeing life as a continuous process of learning, development, and unfolding potential. 
• Congruence: Living authentically and aligning words, actions, and intentions.
• Respect: Deeply valuing the quality of human connection and the dignity of others.

Career highlights:

• With more than 20 years of experience across numerous sectors and industries, Jess has designed and delivered large-scale leadership programs, co-created and rolled out an organisation-wide capability framework, and achieved academic excellence during her Master’s. Throughout her career, Jess has also mentored and coached colleagues and clients, supporting them to unlock their potential and achieve their goals.

Best advice received:

• Great Leaders lead from behind and create the space so that others can step forward.
  

Formal Education

• Master of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, University of Sydney
• Bachelor of Arts - Psychology & Criminology, Victoria University
• Design Thinking: From Insights to Viability, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
• Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honour Society Member 
  

Coaching Accreditations

• EMCC Accredited Coach at practitioner level
• EMCC Accredited Individual Team Coach
• Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL Level 1&2)
• Association for Coaching, Member

Certifications

• Certified TRACOM Social Styles Facilitator by Educate 360
• Certified Mindful Leader Team Coach by Awakened Mind
• Certified Brain-Friendly Leadership Coach by About My Brain

Favourite business model:

William Isaacs’ Dialogue Model

Book recommendation:

Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters: The Science Behind Employee Happiness and Organizational Performance by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward.

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