When everyone turns to you, who do you turn to?

Executive coach and organisational psychologist for senior leaders navigating difficult decisions, strained relationships and transitions at work.

Based in Melbourne. Working across Australia and internationally.

Dr Michelle Pizer

7,400+

1:1 sessions delivered

25+

Years advising senior leaders

50+

Months clients work with me

7

Awards for PhD research

By the time most senior leaders come to me, they have already done a great deal of thinking. They may have sought advice, weighed the options, tried to move the issue forward or delayed a decision because none of the available choices are straightforward.

What is visible on the surface is rarely the whole problem. A decision may be entangled with a difficult relationship. The relationship may be shaped by competing expectations, unclear authority or pressures elsewhere in the organisation. A transition may expose issues that have been manageable until now.

That is where executive coaching and organisational psychology come together. We look at the immediate issue in the context of the people, history and organisational realities around it.

People come with a wide range of live issues: conflict, a performance concern, a difficult stakeholder, a transition into a larger role or a decision that will be hard to reverse. Others know only that something has shifted and the old way of handling it no longer works.

Often, there is no one inside the situation they can speak to freely without affecting what happens next.

I work one-to-one with senior executives, partners, business owners and senior professionals.

Organisations also engage me to support senior leaders and leadership teams, as well as teams working through difficult people, performance or organisational issues.

My clients work across professional services, financial services, technology, health and other complex organisations.

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The first conversation is about understanding what’s happening and deciding whether working together makes sense.

It’s 30 minutes, and there’s no obligation to continue.

Work with me

Executive Coaching

When thinking harder isn’t helping.

One-to-one coaching for senior leaders.

Aligned Teams

The meeting says yes. The hallway says no.

Facilitated work when the issue belongs to the team, not one person.

Coach on Call

When your people need to talk, but not to you.

Discreet, on-demand coaching for pressure, conflict or difficult decisions.

About Dr Michelle Pizer

Organisational psychologist. Executive coach.

For over 25 years, I’ve worked closely with people inside organisations, in the decisions people hesitate over, the tensions they struggle to talk about and the trade-offs they make to keep things moving.

I help leaders see the situation more fully and decide what to do next.