Our business is a people business
Meet the Team
The current team have over 80 years of experience in business leadership and executive coaching to our credit.
Angela Neighbours
Founder
Following 20 years successfully leading high-performing teams in global corporate roles, Angela stepped into the world of Adult Development. Her goal is to develop people to achieve more than they believed possible. She has since coached over 3,000 leaders across NZ, Australia and the UK. She has worked extensively with Chief Executives at some of NZ’s leading organisations. Angela considers it an enormous privilege to see her clients spread their wings, take control of their lives and achieve new heights every day.
Tim Ryan
Partner
Tim Ryan is one of the most experienced and respected coaches in Australia. With a career spanning over 10 years in the industry, he has become widely recognised as “the vision and strategy guy”. With his open and honest style of coaching, Tim works effectively with all organisations – from small start-ups right through to ASX 100 clients – to help them navigate successful pathways to conquer mountains that were thought unachievable. His successful approach has encouraged business leaders to help shift their mindsets and embrace new challenges.
Emma Bartlett
Certified ICC Coach
Emma has a track record of enabling organisation-wide and personal transformation, most recently as Director – Organisational Development for PwC New Zealand. She has spent many years working alongside senior leaders empowering them with the tools, knowledge and courage to bring their leadership visions to life and to make meaningful change happen within their teams. She has a particular passion and talent for helping people to identify what brings them joy and energy, and to leverage that insight to achieve their potential.
Dave Bowler
Certified ICC Coach MBTI certified practitioner
After completing a B.Sc with Honours in Psychology at Hull University in England, Dave decided that clinical psychology was not his preferred route, and opted instead to join industry.
His career has been multi-faceted and he has in depth experience in manufacturing, exporting, global marketing, sales, and most importantly leadership.
Brenda Milbank
Certified ICC Coach
My career spans a variety of disciplines, achieving senior roles in sales, marketing and human resources. Working for global organisations such as DB Breweries (Heineken), Mars Incorporated and Procter & Gamble, I have experienced world class practices and gained extensive knowledge across the Asia Pacific region. This coupled with my Executive MBA, gives me a deep understanding of the challenges and complexity that executives face in business today and the agility to coach leaders across different disciplines.
Holly Neighbours
Certified ICC Coach
Holly has a passion for people, helping them develop and transform, and thrives on building strong relationships with her team and clients.
She has 12 years working experience in London and Auckland in finance, property and business management. Her coaching passion and skills were developed during this time as her teams required new skills and attributes to bring both personal and commercial success to fruition.
Natasha Osmond-Dreyer
Certified ICC Coach
Natasha is a breath of fresh air, an authentic voice and a powerful advocate for having good strategies for people to thrive in a time-poor, complex and challenging world. Working in corporate leadership and strategic roles for over 17 years in Australia, the UK and Europe Natasha has worked in a range of businesses; from small to complex, in global organisations and large revenue producing divisions of commercial banks. Natasha holds a bachelor’s degree in French and Italian, is a member of the International Coaching Community and is currently studying a Master of Business Administration specialising in Innovation and Leadership.
Andy Wotton
Certified ICC Coach
Andy has a long history of focusing on both people and teams to encourage strong performance and produce great results. During his 19 years as a partner at PwC he helped set up new practices and design and implement new services. He worked extensively with senior management teams and Boards in the tertiary education sector, electricity industry, health sector and the broader public sector. Andy also provided guidance and governance advice to large commercial entities. He is currently working with chief executives and senior management team members from listed companies, public sector entities and privately owned companies.
Happy Clients
MINDSET28 is a developmental tool not a "putting you in a box" tool, so the difference is that for the first time it gives people a pathway for continuous improvement rather than just telling a person who they are and how they will be forever.
Mark Averill CEO and Senior Partner, PwC NZ
ilume has a refreshing approach to executive development coaching which leads to transformational change in business performance. Working in partnership with ilume has helped our people firm wide with their professional career and person
al aspirations. ilume really believes in what it teaches and how best to empower our people.
Whether you aspire to be a CEO or you simply want to be the best you can be, I believe ilume can be a guiding hand for you.
It all starts with a conversation. A powerful conversation.
We only serve leaders and organisations we know we can help. Our time, like yours is valuable. We invite you to lock in a call with one of our principle coaches to see how we can bridge the gap from where you are to where you want to go.
Frequently asked questions
How is ilume changing the way coaching is done?
Coaching in business has been around since the early 90s, but surprisingly, it hasn’t evolved a lot since then. ilume is changing the way coaching is done via its unique approach which takes into consideration more dimensions of an individual. Coaching is well known as a behavioural tool, but at ilume we are no longer satisfied with the notion that this will provide all the answers to leaders of business in today’s more complex and ambiguous world.
Most coaching in the past and even today is based on behavioural change and coaching to change certain behaviours of a leader, but at ilume we think that is too one dimensional. Our leaders are made up of much more than just their behaviours! Our leaders are facing into greater uncertainty and can often feel as thought they are in over their heads and are facing a developmental challenging of growing a bigger mind.
Consequently, ilume decided to take a different approach, and in 2010, developed a robust, evidence-based coaching methodology that examines a person’s hidden dimensions that brings with it lasting developmental change and a recognition of a person’s true potential capacity for further growth. We call this approach MINDSET28.
We have been delivering this work in Australasia for over seven years and have established a new paradigm in executive development that high-performing organisations are talking about. Those who have worked with us tell us they have become smarter, more agile and ultimately have competitive advantage.
What should leaders expect when they work with ilume?
Prepare to be challenged – ilume provides a developmental tool that weaves together all the dimensions necessary for excellence in executive leadership and anyone coming on the journey is going to find out where they are placed right now in regards to how well placed they are to do the job.
All leaders must be prepared to commit to high-performing change – it’s part of what you sign up to in accepting the role. The work with ilume develops the leader quantitatively and qualitatively, so commitment over a period of time is essential. This is not a quick fix strategy to developing the best leaders.
Ultimately, particularly in the residential team leadership program, they will see increased drive, greater self awareness, clearer strategic thinking and a path to long-term life balance. Instead of life balance and high performance business competing against one another, it starts to work in harmony. Clients who work with us say it’s simple – they call it awesome transformational change.
What is the ilume MINDSET28 Developement Assessment?
MINDSET28 takes a powerful and holistic view of the individual by balancing qualitative multi-dimensional frames through using three dimensions: cognitive, social emotional and behavioural, rather than the traditional one-dimensional approach (behaviour only). Our promise is to show the executive the potential of growing a bigger mind and a pathway to achieve that.
So what can MINDSET28 do for CEOs of major organisations?
We think this question can be best answered by the CEO of one of ilume’s foundation clients, PwC New Zealand. CEO and Managing Partner Mark Averill attributes their high performance culture to taking the majority of their partners through the MINDSET28 leadership development program.
A big strategic move for PwC as the program asks for the partners, who are the leaders and rainmakers of the business, to come away from the day-to-day delivery of client work and develop their leadership on a six-day residential program.
That said, Mark acknowledges that it has definitely given them sustainable competitive market advantage and the program had a hand in him eventually becoming the CEO of the organisation.
The empowerment that we saw when we spoke to some very technical partners at PWC really gave us the reassurance that this is the approach we should be using with more CEOs and senior leaders.
There are many development tools available to businesses today but nearly all are competency or behavioural-based assessments and for an organisation that relies entirely on talent and high performance culture, which PWC are, the MINDSET28 approach has proven to be the most effective.
Of the various personality profiling tools MINDSET28 is the only one that doesn’t put you in a box forever and we think that is really important. We have personally been through many of these assessments and they always leave you in a specific category for life, but that’s just not realistic.
Actually, it’s a worrying message that leaders are unable to develop any further. MINDSET28 is a developmental tool, not a “putting you in a box” tool, so the difference is that for the first time it gives people a pathway for continuous improvement rather than just telling a person who they are and how they will be forever.