Daniel Owen is an experienced senior workplace/executive coach and facilitator, focussed on enabling people to achieve success in the workplace.
Drawing on nearly twenty years experience as a senior executive in the Commonwealth Public Service, including in regional network roles, Daniel has a deep understanding of workplace culture, settings and context.
Daniel has a strong record of achievement including senior leadership roles in education and training, asset sales and corporatisation, employment, Indigenous policy and programmes, youth affairs, regional economic policy and transport.
Daniel has coached senior executives and executives within the Australian Public Service, as well as many private, education sector and not-for-profit employed clients. His focus has been on:
career sustainability, progression and transition
improved personal and organisational capability
improving interpersonal skills and managing internal and stakeholder relationships
enhanced performance
improved self-awareness and confidence
achieving results through others by delegating effectively
dealing effectively with sustained organisational change
managing stress and work life balance, and
building highly performing teams.
He has also coached people to deal with complex staff management issues and resolving team conflict.
For Daniel, coaching is a collaboration which focusses on assisting people to identify and fulfil their potential at work.
Having worked at a senior leadership level in a large, devolved regional network, Daniel has a good understanding of the particular challenges of regional roles. He specialises in remote or distance coaching and can provide this service to both individuals and teams. Wherever you are, whatever time zone you’re in, Daniel can coach you or your staff over the phone.
Daniel has designed and facilitated strategic planning workshops, business planning sessions, learning circles, team building workshops and stakeholder consultations across a number of Commonwealth Government agencies. He has a positive, conversational style and a good track record of creating the opportunity for genuine dialogue.
Areas of Expertise:
Developing leadership, building capacity and enhancing resilience in people, teams and organisations
Career planning including transition and management
Team building and people management strategies
Relationship and stakeholder management strategies
Dealing effectively with sustained organisational change
Communication and delivering high quality presentations with confidence
Strategies for having difficult conversations and dealing with under-performing staff
Managing stress and work life balance, including meaningful and effective part-time work
Qualifications
Certified Organisational Coach, Level One, Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership
Member, International Coach Federation
Graduate Diploma in Applied Economics
Bachelor of Arts (Education and Communication)
