Jay Hedley
Managing Partner at The Coaching Room®
Coaching high-performance executives, leaders, athletes, sports coaches and their teams to unleash their full potential is my passion. These people engage me to enable them to help them identify the difference that makes the difference; to see with clarity, the blind spots in their professional and personal life, that are limiting them and their potential. If you work with me you will learn how to get the very best out of yourself; to identify the strength needed to challenge the very structures that are maintaining the status quo and take action on what is needed for you to be different, which isn’t easy, but very rewarding.
Currently working with CEOs and their executive teams of organisations that include: Fiji Rugby 7s, Fiji Airways, University of Technology Sydney: UTS College, RedBull Racing – Formula 1, KPMG Australia, Waratahs-NSW Rugby, Rugby Australia, Beiersdorf Australia, Alcon, Amadeus, Ipsos, Goldfields Mining, Optus Department of Defence Australia and many more.
The way I communicate with myself and others as well as how I make sense of the world around me has never been more effective and authentic. Whilst I know I have so much further growth in my journey; what I have learnt so far has released incredible joy. I've grown into a better human, experienced extraordinary levels of professional progression and life just seems more amazing every single day.
Following NLP Practitioner course with the Enneagram Course has been like frosting on the cake. I feel like I see myself and the world through a more compassionate, present and joyful lens, with a deeper appreciation for the beautiful intricacies of human personality and character. I have grown significantly in the way I engage with others and navigate different types of situations, relationships and above all things, the tough stuff.
For a more tangible testimony I have received two executive promotions within three months of completing the Enneagram Course with humbling feedback about my unique and powerful perspective and the way I see people. I don’t believe it’s unique and powerful. I believe it’s a direct result of the ‘magic’ that is taught by The Coaching Room.
Jay, Joseph and their team are inspiring, challenging, fun, effective presenters and absolute masters of their craft.
Forever indebted for the day I met Jay and the team.”
"I have used Executive Coaches a number of times during my career typically when faced with new work related challenges. Jay and the team at The Coaching Room® offer a new higher level of Executive Coaching. Their approach based in neuro semantics and integral coaching philosophies was able to take me as a person and a boss way beyond what I had previously experienced.
I have engaged with Jay on several occasions over the past seven years. Being challenged by a ruthlessly compassionate coach can be quite confronting, however the rewards in personal growth are incredible. And if you really want the ultimate challenge I can highly recommend their shadow coaching experience. This will blow away all the layers of self perception that are getting in the way of being really true to yourself.
As managers and executives we are promoted based on our technical skills and abilities and rarely on our people management skills and yet, as team leaders our ability to interact with people is the real secret to success. The outcomes from my Coaching Room experience gave me significant insights as to who I am and how I operate, it made me a much more in tune leader, colleague, team member, husband and father and that in turn facilitated amazing outcomes from the people around me.
It has changed me for the better forever. Are you up for the challenge…"
“As a sports coach and leader, I am exposed to the numerous, differing and diverse issues which can affect performance.
Through the work I have accomplished with Jay, I feel that I am beginning to have a greater understanding of these issues as well as those strategies which are required to enable an individual and team to rationalise and overcome such problems. The focus of this work has very much surrounded my own coaching process and specifically my own inbuilt belief system.
Through challenging this process and mindset, I am recognising how my own personality and characteristics play a pivotal role in my coaching and particularly my relationships with my players.
I believe that anyone in a similar position and having someone in your Management Group with Jay's quality skills and vision is fundamental in enabling both oneself and the team to unlock their potential.”
"I wasn’t systemic in my approach. So I’m changing the way I work. I have a terrible habit of living in the worst-case scenario. That can be extremely unhealthy, because I’m walking around in a world where it’s raining every day and there are probably vampires. So, one of the things I had to do was stop thinking about the worst that could happen. Jay calls it looking at things through frames: you have a perception that’s largely opinion, not fact, and so you enter a conversation or a situation looking through that frame.
What I like about what Jay does is he unpacks that perception and identifies the bits that are based on fact. What’s really nice is Jay is now teaching my leadership group how they can help teach others. It’s about getting them to account for their behaviour and then help those below them.
Working with Jay has made an inordinate amount of difference to my personal life, too, particularly in my relationship with my oldest son."
"Their tagline is 'A Partner For Life'. 2021 marks ten years since I have been with Jay and Joseph at The Coaching Room.
Learning from them through multiple dynamics has seen the fast tracked evolution of my personal life as well as my professional life and spiritual life. It has been my joy to watch The Coaching Room's community grow and flourish over this decade, and deservedly so.
Thank you Jay for your care, your humour, your generosity and the wisdom of your coaching that you have imparted on me and my network of Entrepreneurs.
It is my joy to leave this 5 star review. My Gratitude is deep."