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Chris Chittenden

Director & Coach


Jacqui Chaplin
Director & Coach

Graeme Schache
Associate & Coach

Talking About Pty Ltd delivers its range of services through a number of high calibre advisory and coaching teams. 

Our people have one responsibility - to help you achieve your corporate and personal objectives through the development and implementation of a disciplined and focussed strategy.

The TA team will review and monitor your plan and work with you in partnership to attain the desired result. Our principles, practices and recommendations are underpinned by extensive study, research, analysis and hands-on experience.

We are proud to present our team:
 

Chris Chittenden - Director & Coach


Chris is a Director of Talking About Pty Ltd and has been actively involved in the world of coaching since 1994.  He began his coaching work with Gaia Consulting Group where he worked for six years before establishing Talking About with Jacqui Chaplin in 2004.

 

Chris has over 4000 hours of coaching experience with both individuals and groups, including providing executive coaching to clients overseas in countries such as the US, UK, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He specialises in executive and leadership coaching, and in developing new coaches. He has created and written Talking About’s program for training new coaches and is currently the course director. He has written and theorised on the subjects of leadership, coaching and the human condition since 1994 and continues to research and develop new ideas in these fields.

 

Chris is a graduate of Newfield Australia's Diploma of Ontological Coaching, holds an Executive Diploma of Business Leadership Coaching and is a member of the International Coach Federation. He is also qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and has been trained in the use of MBTI Step II. He is accredited and actively uses a number of Human Synergistics profiling tools including Life Styles Inventory (LSI),  Leadership Impact (L/I), Group Styles Inventory (GSI) and  Coach. Chris also holds a Diploma in Training and Assessment Systems (Certificate 4).

 

Chris works mainly in the corporate sector and has worked in a wide variety of industries. Chris' clients have included SP-Ausnet, Salmat, CSL, Country Fire Authority, Metropolitan Fire & Emergency Services Board, Blake Dawson Waldron, ExxonMobil, ANZ, Westpac, Ansvar Insurance, City of Greater Dandenong, Edelman, Olex Holdings, Securency, Sensis, Standard and Poors, and Vicroads. 

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Jacqui Chaplin - Director & Coach

 

Jacqui is a director of Talking About Pty Ltd and has been involved in the coaching field since 1998.

She previously worked with Gaia Consulting Group for over four years before forming Talking About with Chris Chittenden in 2004. She has over 1000 hours of coaching experience with both individuals and groups, including providing executive coaching to multi-national clients.

Jacqui specialises in executive and leadership coaching, and is involved in coach training in internal business settings. She also supervises students in TA’s program for training coaches.
She is a graduate of Newfield Australia's Diploma of Ontological Coaching, holds an Executive Diploma of Business Leadership Coaching and is a member of the International Coach Federation. She has completed a Master of Business Administration and is also qualified to administer the Human Synergistics’ Organisational Culture and Effectiveness Inventories, the Lifestyles Inventory, Groups Styles Inventory, CoACH tool, and the Leadership/Impact program. She also holds a Diploma in Training and Assessment Systems (Cert IV).

Her clients include ExxonMobil, CSL Limited, Cochlear, Westpac, Country Fire Authority, Sensis, TXU Australia, RMIT University and the Royal District Nursing Service.

She is available for professional speaking engagements in the areas of leadership, well being and networking. In 2004 she co-authored and self-published her first book, Infomaniac, which is available on CD-ROM through Talking About.

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Graeme Schache - Associate Coach

 

Graeme worked with Chris and Jacqui at Gaia Consulting Group and now continues his work as a Coach through his own business, Graeme J. Schache & Associates and as an Associate at Talking About.

 

His special interests in the business and coaching domains include: coaching in, and designing and conducting workshops on, topics such as – leadership, building relationships, team members, mood management, performance management, conflict resolution and mediation, embracing diversity, and process consulting. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and its implications for individuals is also a special interest for Graeme. 

 

Graeme became a Certified Ontological Coach following studies in the USA in 1994 and is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). He is a member of the International Coach Federation.

 

In his ongoing role of coaching consultant, Graeme has worked with large chemical and petrochemical companies, emergency services organisations and other government organisations. He has also worked in the insurance, transport, retail, and advertising industries. 

 

Prior to commencing work in his first consultancy venture in 1990, Graeme was a senior manager in a large government organisation working in such areas as engineering, finance, management and supervisory training, change management, policy development and implementation, organisation effectiveness review, organisation restructuring and Human Resource Management.

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