Antonia Wise

Partner
Coach | Facilitator

Antonia holds a Diploma of Professional Coaching and extensive experience in customer service, business development and entrepreneurship. Antonia enjoys the challenges and growth experienced by stepping outside your comfort zone. She's learned to fly, completed the Avon Descent, and climbed Mt Kilimanjaro.

Background

Antonia has been a qualified professional coach since 2011 and is now a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. She has a background in customer service, sales and marketing and small business having worked previously for Cathay Pacific within the Swire Group in Hong Kong, Spotless Linen Services and various family businesses including The Tap Doctor and Wise Wine. She is a mother to 3 adult children.

Antonia holds a Masters of Arts from Cambridge University and a Diploma in Professional Coaching from the International Coaching Federation (ICF)-accredited Coach School. She is an ICF Professional Certified Coach with over 850 hours of one-on-one coaching experience. Antonia also holds a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and is accredited in Mental Health First Aid.

Antonia has worked with senior leaders and managers in the private sector including those at Woodside, Wesfarmers, Multiplex, Alinta, Perth Airport, ABN, AHG and Moodle. She has also worked with senior and frontline managers in government organisations including WAPOL, Austrade, the Office of the WA Auditor General, CAHS, DMIRS, PTA and in not-for-profit organisations including Yorganop, Baptistcare, Mission Australia, Wanslea and Parkerville.

My Why 

I am passionate about connecting with others and helping them find clarity about their purpose and aspirations, determining how they will get there and how they will overcome any challenges they face. My cup is overflowing when I witness individuals or groups have profound insights about themselves and how they operate and from that, realise for themselves what they are capable of and what they need to do to move forward and overcome any obstacles along the way. There is no better reward than seeing clients leave a session with new insights, a sense of purpose and self- confidence and an air of calm and well-being.

How I work

I coach leaders and managers at all levels from executive to frontline. I facilitate executive and frontline workshops that have been designed to meet clients’ specific needs in terms of experience and outcomes.  The nature of these workshops includes strategic planning, community engagement, employee team building and stakeholder engagement.  I also deliver topic-based training in leadership and management around work prioritisation, communication, coaching, difficult conversations and presentation skills.

What I do

I coach leaders and managers at all levels from executive to frontline. I facilitate executive and frontline workshops that have been designed to meet clients’ specific needs in terms of experience and outcomes.  The nature of these workshops includes strategic planning, community engagement, employee team building and stakeholder engagement.  I also deliver topic-based training in leadership and management around work prioritisation, communication, coaching, difficult conversations and presentation skills.

What I love

I love walking my dog; swimming in the ocean every day regardless of the weather; keeping fit and healthy through tennis, cycling and when possible, skiing; reading a good book and most of all, doing anything with my family.

Testimonials

“Working with Antonia over the past six months on my leadership and management skills has been an incredible experience.  Antonia’s uplifting, positive and friendly personality make her easy to open up to and wonderful to work with.  She has not only been an amazing coach but genuinely cares about the outcomes I have been able to achieve using the strategies and lessons she has been able to provide.  I leave every conversation feeling motivated empowered and inspired to be better than I was yesterday.  Antonia made me realise that the challenges I have been facing were simply an opportunity to develop and with her coaching I feel I have grown as a leader and manager. I would not hesitate to recommend Antonia as a coach and sincerely hope I get to work with her again in the future.” - Sarahjayne

“If you are fortunate enough to have Antonia Wise as your coach be prepared to be prodded and challenged, and appropriately rewarded with expert snippets along the way…for “passionate and “professional” is most definitely what you get from Antonia.  You’ll most likely end up with a sense of personal satisfaction that you survived having had your mind stretched and blown, a bit like glass being forged in a hot kiln into an item of utility, maybe even beauty, but the heat and call to accountability is well worth it, and can help produce a very satisfying result for all” - Alan

“Working with Antonia was a pleasure. It was also my first experience of working with a coach and I found the process of discussion, prompting, reflection, and sometimes challenge extremely valuable. As someone who has moved into a position of leadership without formal training, the opportunity to dig into subject matter with someone as experienced, capable, and insightful as Antonia was very welcome and helped me unknot lines of my own thinking I hadn’t even realised were tangled.” – Griffin

“When I first met Antonia and had my ‘get to know you’ session, my concerns were immediately put to rest. Antonia’s immense knowledge and experience, calm demeanour and honest observations was exactly what I was after from a coach.

She made me feel comfortable, which meant I really put myself out there and because of that I really feel I got so much more out of the course that what I would have had I not fully opened up.

The way Antonia approached my personal journey and homed in on my development areas, always having the right balance between supporting me through identifying what I could work on, whilst ensuring I also took on the positives, was invaluable. My personal development has been noticeable, with a lot of colleagues voicing they have noticed a change, which has been a direct result of my increased confidence from Antonia’s coaching.”

I could not be thankful enough to Antonia, who I feel has helped me find my feet as a new manager, giving me great learning tools that I will continue to grow, and which my direct reports will also benefit from.” - Shannon