meet the team.
byron rienstra.
founder & managing director.
Byron has worked in leadership advisory, talent and change management for over 25 years. An award-winning post-graduate of the London School of Economics renowned Institute of Social Psychology, he possesses extensive experience driving positive change with organisations and individuals across the globe including London, Sydney, Singapore and Seoul. A profoundly engaged coach, facilitator and provocateur who has worked with multiple founders and C-suite clients, Byron loves people who want the impactful change that genuine honesty affords.
Byron loves nothing more than a bike ride with his family along the Brisbane River, followed by a cheeky flat white and some smashed Avo. He has also been known to find profound insights reading Dr Seuss and Julia Donaldson...
simon fernyhough.
founder & managing director.
Simon has been Singapore-based for 16 years, and has held the role of Chief Operating Officer for 25 years in various guises. Spanning four different global firms, across nine different businesses, as partner and trusted advisor to twelve different CEOs. Simon has a proven ability to devise and execute strategies that build efficient and profitable enterprises. Simon has a reputation for integrity, authenticity, and combines a structured and rigorous mind with a keen interest in what makes people tick. He has a long standing interest in spirituality, and a keen advocate of meditation. Simon loves nothing more than working with people who, like him, enjoy exploring what it means to be human, and achieving individual and collective potential in a thoughtful and practical way.
joanna morris.
research lead.
Jo has a passion for supporting, encouraging and engaging individuals throughout her career as a qualified educator, sports coach and enthusiast. With many years experience teaching in the UK and Singapore, she now calls Brisbane home, where she lives with her husband and three very active boys. Joanna recently completed a Masters in Education from the Queensland University of Technology, which has ignited a newfound interest in research within the potential and performance space. Joanna enjoys triathlons, family time but also escaping from it all with a good book!
dr kellie pritchard-peschek.
leader wellness facilitator.
Dr Kellie has worked for over a decade with elite athletes across the globe, supporting them to reach medal-winning and record-breaking performances at Olympic and Commonwealth Games. A graduate of The University of Queensland’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, Kellie also has leadership experience working in a social enterprise driving change. Kellie is passionate about empowering people with the knowledge and practical strategies to live as their best (healthiest) selves. She brings her diverse experience and skillset from elite sport into the world of business, to enhance the health and wellbeing of senior leaders enabling them to perform optimally in work and in life.
When she’s not out running, cycling, or swimming, Kellie loves indulging her passion for good coffee, discovering new restaurants, and travelling all corners of the globe.
toby ouvry.
leadership coach.
Toby is mindfulness coach and trainer, and the author of the book ‘Engaged Mindfulness – What mindfulness is and how we can apply it to our daily lives’. His passion is empowering people and organizations to greater levels of capability, effectiveness, creativity and wellbeing through the applied practice of mindfulness and meditation.
He has been practicing and teaching meditation and mindfulness since 1993. As the founder of Integral Meditation Asia he delivers mindfulness programs to both the public and corporate sectors. He currently facilitate the mindfulness program for the MBA, staff and faculty at the INSEAD School of Business, Singapore campus. He is a committed mindfulness writer, and the author and creator of over twenty practical workshops and courses on the subject.
His original training was as an artist and creative. After graduating he spent ten years doing his basic training in meditation and mindfulness, specializing in the Tibetan Tradition which included five years as an ordained Buddhist monk.
His coaching combines practical mindfulness and meditation techniques from three sources:
- The world’s great wisdom traditions
- Cutting edge practices that are currently emerging from contemporary psychology and neuropsychology
- His own ongoing practical and creative experience as a mindfulness practitioner, business owner and entrepreneur.
stephen sidebottom.
leadership coach.
Stephen is an experienced business leader with an international reputation. He acts as a coach and consultant to boards and C-Suite leaders, with a particular focus on start-up, creative, and high-growth businesses. Stephen is also an experienced Non-Executive Director and Board Chair, with Remuneration, Nomination, Finance, and Risk Committee responsibilities. He is Chair of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) the leading global professional body for Enterprise Risk Management, and Chair of Kent Savers, a regional UK credit union.
Stephen has over 30 years’ international experience of Human Resources and Organisation Development practice and leadership, primarily in global financial services and in both private and public sectors. He started his professional career as a banker before doing an MBA at London Business School and transitioning into HR.
toby jenkins.
leadership coach.
Toby Jenkins is a leadership coach, Olympian and award winning entrepreneur and author. His purpose is to help people bring all of who they are to everything they do. He’s worked with Olympic medalists, investors, founders, CEOs and leaders – individually and as teams. From leadership to wellbeing, Toby loves helping leaders and their teams work with the pressure that inevitably comes with important decisions, difficult conversations and ambitious opportunities. He helps them work towards their greatest impact and to be the person they want to be in the process. Toby has spoken to thousands of people in live and broadcast audiences around the world at organisations such as Ernst & Young and the Australian Institute of Sport. He’s married to Lucy and father to Beatrix, Heidi and Zoe.
tamara singh.
leadership coach.
Tamara returned to Singapore after a decade building businesses across Eurasia. A multi-disciplinary Business Manager, her experience spans energy, financial services and fund management, covering trading floors in London, New York and Asia. She coaches clients including social enterprises and corporate decision makers for scale. She is an advisor to the Official Monetary & Financial Institutions Forum, a London-based think tank, and CarbonBlue Innovations, a Blockchain venture builder. Tamara is involved with organisations and causes that are focused on equality and education, including sitting on the Board of Conjunct Consulting, South East Asia’s first social change consultancy, and is a member of the UNDP’s Private Sector Advisory Group and UNESCAP’s Infrastructure Financing and Public-Private Partnership Network of Asia and the Pacific.
sarah grigsby.
leadership coach.
Driven with a passion of unleashing human potential, Sarah is Enterprise Agile Coach turned Executive Leadership Coach who is on a mission to empower leaders to become inspirational role models they aspire to be for themselves, their teams and their organisation. By leveraging the mind-body connection, Sarah helps leaders and their team build their mental muscle to shift from reactions into conscious intentional actions. She helps translate mindset into practice for a pragmatic, impactful and lasting change. Sarah uses proven techniques supported by neuroscience, renowned Agile and systemic practices to capitalise on the untapped resource of collective intelligence. With over 15 years of experience working across North America, Europe & Asia in large MNC’s, from financial services to aerospace and shipping. She has transformed over 150 teams worldwide resulting in an increase in time to market for their product development, employee retention and more. In that time, she has accumulated more than 500hrs senior leadership coaching and over 2,000hrs of team training, coaching and facilitation. Sarah is a qualified Integral Coach (PCC), ICF (PCC,ACC), Somatic Practitioner, and has completed her Masters in Program Management. Sarah’s curiosity and passion for life has led her to becoming an avid mediation practitioner, Reiki healer and vegan chef. She also loves to travel, immerse herself in new cultures and speaks 4 languages.
aurelien marando.
leadership and enterprise agile coach.
Aurelien has been developing leaders and organisations toward better performance and stronger personal, professional and collective successes since 2012. He works closely with leadership and operational teams to design hands on pragmatic, clever solutions to problems and the adoption of innovative ways of working.
His extensive experience comes from his certified practice of integral coaching and having supported CxOs, senior leaders and entrepreneurs on multiple large scale organisational transformations, pivotal business or product strategies, and developing cultural synergy.
As an early adopter and passionate practitioner of Agility himself for over 15 years, Aurelien brings expertise across multiple Agile Delivery approaches and Agile Enterprise solutions. His broad knowledge of the industry gives him an acute ability to understand and diagnose systems, and co-create pragmatic solutions to deliver on your objectives.
sophie kellett.
brand advisor.
Sophie, based in Brisbane, majored in Public Relations & Communication at the University of Queensland. Sophie is a driven communications professional with in-depth knowledge navigating the new-age economy, and digital platforms that inspire greater employee engagement. Bringing with her the proven ability to engage teams and build stakeholder engagement through digital platforms, and creative concepts. Apart from madly loving dogs, fiction novels and her obsession 'to experience it all' , Sophie loves to build lasting organisational communities of 'brand lovers'. She does this through dynamic and omni-channel initiatives that connect leadership, employee engagement, and organisational passion.
b.partners board.
ashley busse.
anton zelcer.
phil pemberton.
Phil co-founded Pemberton Stewart in 2007 and has continued to build the Regional Fixed
Income business at the firm. Phil has completed senior mandates throughout the region across sales, trading, structuring and research and has completed several Regional Head roles for his clients. In addition he also leads Asian searches across all financial sectors.
Prior to commencing his career in executive search Phil worked within the Structured Finance
Division of Deutsche Bank in London.
gene moyle.
Gene is a dedicated Senior Executive, Senior Performance Psychologist and Academic with proven results in the areas of performance enhancement, health and wellbeing, leadership, operational management, organisational development, product and business innovation, and cultural change.
Gene's broad experience base has been cultivated within established and start up small-through-large public and private organisations operating across the globe. Positions within these companies have included Senior Executive, external consulting, and internal roles across a multitude of industries.