Coach Oliver Christen
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Location: New South Wales, Australia
Specialisation:
Business Coaching
Executive Coaching
Leadership Coaching
Performance Coaching
Sales Coaching
Qualifications:
MBA St.Gallen (Switzerland)
NLP Trainer
Shirlaws Certified Coach
CPD Accredited
Experience:
Oliver Christen is a consistent top performer and highly experienced Shirlaws Business Coach, Executive Coach and a Director of Shirlaws, a BRW Fast 100, award winning, international coaching organisation.
Oliver has over 20 years of business experience from Switzerland, UK, Japan and Australia combined with 8 years and over 5000 hours of practical Business Coaching, Executive Coaching and Team Coaching experience. His previous experience ranges from event management, executive search and consulting to the large corporations of Dow Chemical, IBM, Gillette, and the Swiss Bank Corporation, to rapid successes in his own enterprises in Japan and the U.K. He has been part of the management and strategy team and is a senior leader within the Shirlaws Australia leadership team and continues to train, coach and mentor other coaches in the business.
Oliver works best with passionate, innovative and proactive business leaders who want to keep raising the bar for themselves and their teams. Oliver loves to assist his clients cut through the issues, become aware of their choices, have a clear focus and make aligned business and personal decisions to transform their business and change their life for the better. Oliver and his team help clients realise a 200-500% ROI on their investment in coaching.
His team’s services range from business coaching and project coaching, to facilitation, executive coaching and leadership coaching for CEOs, senior managers and management teams.
Oliver is experienced in: Managing Redundancies and Minimising Fallout, Staff Attraction and Retention Strategy, Succession and Business Continuity, Functional Restructures to Maximise Profitability, Positioning Strategy and Implementation, Sales Training and Coaching, Channel Development and Business Relationship Management, Client Service Strategy.
He particularly enjoys Management Retreats, Vision and Strategy Alignment, Leadership Development Programs, Cultural Due Diligence, Change and Integration. Effective Communication; Team Building; Developing Talent; Confidence and Management Capability; Personal Efficiency and Balance; Business Performance.
He has played National League European Handball, been an Officer in the Swiss Army and performed on stage at the Edinburgh Festival. Oliver now lives a stones throw from Bondi Beach with his family and enjoys a game of water polo, a good rumble with the kids and loves the surf and the snow.
Memberships:
Australian Institute of Directors
Industry Background: Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
Client Quotes:
Oliver gave us the tools to propel our business to new levels, create opportunities and open doors to business ventures that would otherwise not have presented
Managing Director, Medium Size, Financial Control, Business Coaching
Oliver uses a very structured approach to ensure that the actions I take are consistent and in line with the goals I'm trying to achieve. Thoroughly recommend Oliver to any business executive looking to get results
Director, Mid Tier, Marketing, Executive Coaching
Thank you for you support in facilitating the strategy day. The feedback from my peers was terrific and everyone was extremely pleased with the achievements and the fruitful discussions we have had during the day. No doubt, credit has to be given to you, a skilful facilitator! Actions have already been implemented in some areas and we are actively reshaping our board. We hope that there are many more successes to celebrate with Shirlaws.
CFO, Corporate, Insurance
Oliver has already in a short time delivered confidence and experience to focus our business with vision and direction
Managing Director, Small, Events, Business Coaching
What attracted us to Shirlaws was their great methodology which is simple to understand and implement. Oliver interviewed our team and thoroughly analysed our business processes and made lasting recommendations that have significantly improved our business. Oliver also focussed on the "soft" culture side of our business and helped us see the importance of our Team and how we could empower them to be more engaged and productive. I can highly recommend Oliver to any business wanting to systemise their operations, understand their capacity constraints, motivate their workforce and free up their time so that their business doesn't own them. Thanks Oliver
Managing Director, Small Size, IT, Business Coaching
Oliver has a gift in building relationships that matter. He has an open, direct and highly intuitive style of communication that will ignite perspective, possibilities and action within his clients.
Manager, Corporate, Training and Coaching, Executive Coaching
I look to Oliver to provide me with objective perspective and inspiration. I can get far too wrapped up in the day-to-day to fully seize the opportunities and tackle the problems. What he says isn't always what I want to hear though it is what I need to hear. The Shirlaws processes that Oliver coaches us through address all the components of my business that make a tangible difference. There's no impractical waffle or irrelevance. Shirlaws' work. Oliver is the archetypal Swiss - unflappable, business-like and precise. He also has a strong Australian sense of making business a pleasure. I couldn't recommend Oliver more highly as a business coach
Partner, Medium Size, Advertising Agency, Business Coaching
Much to my delight, the business and some of our team have really taken some giant leaps forward. I am really excited about our direction. The gains and shifts made by the partners and by those of the team have been enormous. The level of communication and understanding that now exists between the partners is absolutely wonderful. You have contributed significantly to these feelings and the shifts that have occurred in the business and to us personally. I thank you for your patience, tolerance, understanding and love.
Managing Partner, Mid Tier, Legal, Business Coaching
Here I am at work, whizzing through my tasks at an alarming rate. I am already categorizing thoughts and actions differently. I have tackled niggling issues on a couple of jobs and taken control. I have new focus and am less distracted. I have had an idea for a new contact and discussed it with Catherine this morning and she was enthusiastic. She suggested I talk with you about a strategy. In short, I feel conviction brewing and it feels great.
and guess what it’s catching, so I thank you!
Partner, Mid Tier Architects, Executive Coaching
Personally, you have helped me grow and thus obtain a new awareness about myself. I have never felt so comfortable about myself and what I am doing. I guess the passion I have for what I am doing and what we are going to do, speaks volumes for the way I feel.
You have been a fabulous coach and more importantly, a great friend.
Managing Partner, Mid Tier, Legal, Executive Coaching
I have been extremely happy with what I have been achieving within the business. I can see increases in revenue month to month. It has produced more energy into the business. Staff are happier, more open, honest and supportive. To start with it can appear daunting and a lot of hard work, but rewarding at the same time. I am more motivated and the business definitely has better direction. As a business owner I now feel better equipped to make decisions and operate the business effectively. The advancement I have achieved within the business is something I could never have achieved on my own, without the support and guidance of Oliver our business coach.
Managing Partner, Mid Tier, Wellbeing, Business Coaching
Well, all I can say is I went, I presented AND I conquered. If you thought I was on cloud 9 last week - I've passed through to the next stratosphere by now. Out of 10 in the room, 9 embraced what I had to present and the one I thought would be 'anti' the program, was but when he came up at the end and asked to spend another half an hour with me - not in front of his colleagues - for a bit more coaching, I knew I'd managed OK. He admitted to me he's struggling to understand the whole concept and didn't want to loose face in the group. He thought I would talk to his boss and reduce his ability to achieve the bonus by identifying his lack of understanding in the program, hence his 'supposed' disinterest. Isn't it amazing when context varies. Thanks again.
Manager, Corporate, Energy, Executive Coaching
