Our Team...
Experenced CoachesGaelene Adams Wood
Founding Director of Making Magic
Happen, Executive Coach, Workshop Facilitator, Professional SpeakerGaelene Adams Wood is a focused businesswoman committed to the task of helping others to achieve their dreams. Compassionate, inspiring, innovative, with a fresh approach to business, Gaelene is a dynamic presenter and executive coach who provides practical solutions to put into play in the workplace and in life.
With 20+ years experience in business, event management, property development, fundraising and administration, Gaelene has a wealth of experience to draw on.
Gaelene's role on the team is to make the initial contact with you and to assess what program will best help you reach your goals faster, with more fun.
Area of Speciality – Helping people find out who they really are and their true value to the world.
Fiona Miller, PCC, BSc Hons, Dip Tchg, MNZAC
Making Magic Happen Program Co-ordinator and Coach
In 2002 Fiona became the first coach in New Zealand and one of the first 8 in Australasia to attain the International Coach Federation (ICF) PCC credential. This internationally recognised credential is renewed every 3 years by ICF as long as specific requirements are met. Since 2002 Fiona has undertaken advanced professional development in coaching to increase her effectiveness as an internationally certified coach.
Fiona believes that each one of us is a star - you are already a star in your life even though you may not yet have recognized it. As a coach her role is to help you to deliberately create the life you deserve. A life where you achieve your potential and shine even more brilliantly.
In the Making Magic Happen team, Fiona's role is to work with you to identify your greatest strengths so that you know you are heading in the right direction.
Fiona has spent more than half her life in New Zealand although her Scottish accent quickly tells you where she was born. She loves to travel and in the past few months has completed training in the US, explored Guatemala and trekked in Nepal.
Dave Gaynor “The Howman”
Managing Director and Principal Consultant, FR Development
Dave
Gaynor
“The Howman” is a business coach and consultant
with 30 years experience assisting over 600 businesses.Dave says “If you know where you’re going, then my job is to work out how to get you there.”
He is a Mechanic Wealth Profile and brings his meticulous, creative “how to” mindset, not to mention his dry sense of humour to every coaching session, seeking constant and never ending improvement. He was a successful scientist and pioneer of the commercialisation of science for DSIR.
Dave works with small to medium enterprises to lift them to another level of success. He takes a very practical, pragmatic, down to earth approach that is very easy for business owners to follow and implement. Indeed Dave expects things to start happening immediately from the first coaching session by getting owners to work on their business and not in it.
“Every business is at a different stage and the secret to growth is knowing what to change first to create the biggest leap forward.”
The Howman, Dave Gaynor helps practical business people work out how to achieve lasting success.
Jasmina Kovacev
International Personal Performance Coach and Speaker/Trainer
Jamina
Kovacev works with people to shift limiting beliefs and emotional
issues that are blocking them from achieving peak performance. This
cutting edge area allows much faster and better results than any other
approach in clearing blockages to personal performance. She uses well
reknowned and researched techniques and the results are astounding.
Jasmina's work is a core essential of the Making Magic Happen program.Jasmina's role on the Making Magic Happen team is to assist you to "clear the rocks off your highway so you can reach your goals faster."
Jasmina has an international client base and will be running workshops in Mexico for the first time in 2009. She will also be returning to Bosnia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bulgaria where she ran a number of highly successful workshops earlier this year.
Sue Hill
The Administrator
Sue
Hill brings a total of 23 years customer service and administration
experience to business people. Her roles have varied from Telesales
Clerk and Supervisor, Marketing Analyst to Publicity Executive for
businesses based in the UK. Since moving to New Zealand she has been an
Office Manager for two local companies in Dunedin, one a national
company with multiple depots, the other a medium sized business working
throughout Otago.Sue’s aim is “Keeping Business Simple.” She and her team provide clients with administration support for all types of office environments. Each client is partnered with an experienced account manager who works hands on with each client in their offices to enhance business systems, improve profit margins and increase business growth. Working together they agree on projects and tasks that need to be completed and a timeframe for this to happen.
Call or email to sample your FREE introductory coaching session to find out how the Making Magic Happen program can help you reach your goals faster, with more fun.