I’m Joanne Ostler, a trauma-informed PCC coach in NZ. Read more about me here.

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I work with capable, thoughtful people who recognise they need support navigating life, career, leadership, or transitions. Sometimes challenges feel too big to face alone, or it simply helps to have a trusted sounding board: someone who can offer fresh perspectives, observations, signposts, and practical tools.

Since the mid-2000s, I’ve supported hundreds of professionals across industries, ages, and levels through leadership and career development, performance dilemmas, and major life transitions.

I create safe, supportive spaces where you can pause, reflect, and find clarity. Together, we’ll explore new perspectives, build confidence, and identify practical steps forward. My work helps clients expand their self-awareness, mindset, and worldview which are all essential for leadership, relational, and career success.

I particularly enjoy working with thoughtful professionals who are navigating change, stress, or conflict, and who want to move forward with greater clarity and ease. My approach is whole-person and trauma-informed, drawing on evidence-based frameworks such as vertical development, strengths-based leadership, personality science, and embodied approaches, all while honouring your unique story and pace.

Clients Often Comment:

• They feel calmer, more grounded, and more empowered.

• They gain courage and a renewed sense of agency.

• They develop greater self-awareness, embodied insight, and clarity about their patterns, blind spots, strengths, and systemic relationships.

• They discover new options and pathways, creating hope and momentum.

• They build a practical toolbox for success now and in the future.

• They shift from reacting to responding more easily.

• They gain clarity in transitions and decision-making.

• They experience stronger presence, confidence, and resilience in life and work.

Key Focus Areas:

✔ Navigating Major Life & Career Challenges and Transitions – Career shifts, job insecurity, work politics and positioning, restructurings, starting a family or empty nesting, health challenges, menopause, relationship changes, relocations, grief, or any disruption that rattles your sense of identity.

✔ Leadership & Mindset Development – Strengthen leadership presence, adaptability, decision-making, and emotional intelligence. Expand mindset and worldview to respond rather than react in complex, high-pressure environments.

✔ Self-Awareness & Profiling – Explore your strengths, values, personality, worldview, and mindset. Integrate somatic and embodied practices to help you notice patterns, blind spots, and what drives you.

✔ Stress, Anxiety & Burnout: Recognise, understand, and manage stress and change, improve emotional regulation, build resilience

✔ Career Development – Navigate dilemmas, turning points, and advancement opportunities with clarity and confidence.

✔ Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) & HSP Leadership Coaching – Support for highly sensitive people and leaders to thrive in environments that can feel overwhelming. Develop self-awareness, resilience, and leadership approaches that honour your sensitivity while enabling authenticity and influence.