The LIFT Collective
#UnitedDiversity
In business and life, LIFT Performance Solutions is built on the belief that when we share a common "reason for being," and when we better understand and value our diversity, our courage, connection and agility increases.
LIFT's success has proven this to be true since 2009, utilising the strengths and talents of a purposefully small, focused, skilled and experienced team of high performers we call The LIFT Collective.
Each member has joined LIFT because of their unique background, skillset and sense of service. Complementing each other and directly contributing to LIFT’s success, balance and innovation. And their own.
We “walk our talk” by supporting each other in The LIFT Collective (as we do with our clients) to live and lead their bravest life.
We work on building trust that maximises diversity, equity, inclusivity and belonging.
Operations Team
Adam Hiscox
COO / CFO
Team Contribution:
Reflective Thinker
Practical Planner
Reforming Perfectionist
Adam has supported Cherelle and LIFT since its creation, working on systems and process improvement.
He formally joined the business as COO / CFO in 2021 and has a dual role as Leadership Coach and Profiling Expert. For more about Adam's coaching and profiling, see his profile in the following section.
April Salva
LIFT Administration Support
Team Contribution:
Shaper of Priorities
Implementer of multiple spinning plates
Creator of the frozen screen dance!
April is originally from the city of Tanjay, located in the picturesque province of Negros Oriental, Philippines.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and over six year's experience in customer service in a variety of positions as well as representing Australian companies as virtual assistant. Her dedication to providing outstanding service has earned the trust and respect of clients and colleagues.
Beyond the professional, April treasures the bonds of family, enjoying quality time with loved ones including husband, Ariel, and supporting her extended family of seven nieces and nephews, with their homework and life learning. Her warm, caring, approach and passion for learning and teaching are always in demand!
April's life philosophy is reflected by Brené Brown's statement: "The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows." These words inspire her to find strength in adversity, make courageous decisions, enjoy laughter, fun and cherish the light that guides her path.
April brings a natural love of being organised and getting things done to our LIFT Collective. She supports our creative-minded Collective with diary management, client program scheduling, regular follow-ups, email and ‘To Do’ list taming!
Sam Howkins
Communications and Content Creationist
Team Contribution:
Driver of agile practical focus
Identifier of opportunities
Creator of flow
Sam’s spent over 20 years in the not-for-profit sector in a range of roles in community and health related organisations. After years of freelancing on the side, she launched her own studio in 2018 to help businesses master their online marketing and communications systems in practical ways that work.
Using her experience and unique combo of copywriting, branding, graphic and web design directly aligned to purpose and service, Sam guides our brand voice and our marketing and communication strategy, continuously tweaking our website and editorial to keep it relevant and topical… and pivots our business services regularly while keeping Cherelle’s 101+ ideas focused!
Profiling / Coaching / Facilitation Team
Adam Hiscox
Leadership Learning, Coaching & Profiling Expert
Team Contribution:
Reflective Thinker
Practical Planner
Reforming Perfectionist
In coaching, Adam is passionate about not being caught up in “busy or procrastination” or “analysis paralysis,” supporting leaders to return to their inner wisdom, connect their language, emotions and body, to respond rather than react.
Adam’s style is intuitive, empathic and accountable with a good dose of humour to provide insightful conversation that is both practical and compassionate.
Adam founded a national business in the mining/oil and gas sector and understands the pressures and competing demands in executive and senior leadership roles as well as what it takes to make the shift from being a technical specialist to becoming a manager or leader.
Adam shares his Ontological experience (ie our “way of being” in the world and how our language, body and emotions shape our reality) in leadership coaching and his workshop facilitation to create diverse discussion and practical takeaways that lift every leaders self-awareness and capability to self-manage in any challenging situation work or life presents!
Deb Wild
Leadership Wellbeing and Coaching Expert
Team Contribution:
Connector of calm
Natural intuitive
Planning prioritiser
Deb is an accredited ICF (International Coaching Federation) coach with diverse experience in lifting leaders to grow and sustain their best performance in healthcare, finance, planning and tertiary education.
Her coaching specialises in the human behaviours that support wellbeing and leading (living) our best life. This includes the story or self-perceptions that may block being at our best and the practical self-development tools that may assist, such as assertiveness, boundaries and focused planning.
Deb has been designing and facilitating learning for leaders and teams in both public and private sectors for over two decades. Her style is interactive and fun-loving with a strong intuition that brings out the best in leaders or team members in any workshop.
Deb also brings her yoga knowledge, inner calm and natural intuition to our Collective, providing light and warmth to us whenever we need it most.
Di Murray
Leadership Learning, Wellbeing and Coaching Expert
Team Contribution:
Client problem solver
Agile program designer
Space maker
Di has been designing and delivering insightful programs for leaders and the people they serve, since 2012. Her style is experiential, creative and inspiring whilst grounded in robust evidence-based practices.
A highly creative facilitator, insightful coach, and qualified profiler, Di helps leaders and teams to communicate with curiosity compassion and courage, rather than reactivity and fear.
She also brings to our team her diverse leadership experience; as director of a multi-award winning global company, her credentials in psychology and her extensive work in the mental health areas of resilience and ‘psychologically safe’ workplaces.
Di's coaching supports leaders and teams to strengthen their existing leadership skills and identify ways to lift their adaptability in an ever-changing environment that often includes competing demands and the need to prioritise wellbeing.
Geordie Thompson
Leadership Coaching Expert
Geordie has over 25 years in senior management in Local Government, and 35+ years in coaching and facilitation of large and small groups.
He has extensive experience in facilitation for local and State government projects and an understanding of the challenges faced by leaders at all levels to lead change and deliver key outcomes.
Geordie’s coaching style is relaxed and supportive, with a good measure of humour that makes coaching fun and effective. His coaching develops useful patterns of thinking and behaviour that work naturally and authentically for each leader.
Geordie helps leaders understand how their behaviours were first developed and then how these impact on others in their relationships at work, at home, in the community and with themselves.
Geordie also brings his clinical hypnotherapy skills to support leaders to explore elements of internal conflict resolution that can limit us from being at our best.
Fiona Beermier
Leadership Coaching Expert
An accomplished and experienced CEO / Non-Executive Director with 25+ years senior executive experience in high profile community-based organisations, Fiona has led significant structural and cultural change across large complex organisations, in collaboration with internal workforce, external stakeholders and political influences at local and state level. She understands the challenges of being a values-based leader, balancing commercial strategic outcomes and building empowering relationships to support people to perform at their best.
A graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors, her qualifications include an MBA, postgraduate Critical Care Nursing, Registered Nurse and Adv.Dip Ministry.
Fiona won Professional Achievement Award (Faculty of Business and Law) at Curtin
University’s 2023 Alumni Awards.
Fiona brings her extensive C-Suite and other experience along with her ability to coordinate competing demands and diverse views to our Collective.
Kathryn Clews
Leadership Learning and Profiling Expert
PRINT® and Belbin® Accredited Profiler
Team Contribution:
Research Wrangler
Laughter Maker
Daydream Believer
Kathryn has worked as an Executive Leader across a number of private and public organisations.
With over a decade of practical experience developing leaders who are values-led to serve their teams, Kathryn is passionate about Servant Leadership.
Her career success is based on serving others and learning how people work and why they do things they do!
Her qualifications from nursing, to teaching, to counselling, and her current PhD work on leadership, strengthen her diverse practical support to LIFT clients as both a mentor and facilitator.
She is an engaging communicator that combines sense of humour with sense of self to create safe, practical and fun learning experiences.
Kathryn’s profiling supports leaders and teams to develop their full potential and explore new ways of being in their “best self”.
Tresna MacLean
Leadership Learning and Profiling Expert
Belbin® Accredited Profiler
Team Contribution:
Implementer of Ideas
Quality Controller of Programs & Outcomes
Wise One
Tresna’s like a Swiss-army knife with a wide range of qualifications working synergistically to inform her practice. She is a CELTA qualified English language teacher with a Certificate IV in Training & Assessment, Bachelor of Agribusiness, and a Diploma of Applied Science (Nursing).
Clients notice her excellent interpersonal skills fine-tuned through her time in education, health and hospitality sectors (local and international). More than 15 years in adult learning — including five specifically in leadership development across both private and public sectors — means she’s an extremely accomplished professional facilitator.
Tresna brings her incredibly genuine interest in people and language, and her passion for lifelong learning (fostered through extensive travel and experience!) to The LIFT Collective. We really appreciate her strong belief in community and team through respect, compassion and education.
Tracey Hirst
In house Researcher measuring trust and program outcomes
Team Contribution:
Passionate Researcher
Infographic Wiz
Balancer of Facts & Fun
When contemplating how trust is built and maintained within organisations as part of her work in the organisational development field, Tracey realised that she possessed more queries than academia provided answers. So, she did what any rational person would do 😉 embarking on a four year PhD research project which culminated in her research presentation at an academic conference in Switzerland.
Tracey becomes super-excited when quality, rigorous research has real world application. Her research interests are the issues that affect contemporary organisations and their stakeholders, and her current focus is in the areas of leadership, well-being and inter-organisational trust.