About
Liane McGrath

Executive coach, facilitator and communications expert, Liane is an accomplished leader with an extensive career in marketing. Her experience spans a wide range of industries including media, professional services, consumer products and automotive.

Since 2004, Liane has been engaging with organisations, stakeholders and individuals from board level and senior executives through to first line managers. Her coaching and facilitation skills are highly regarded as innovative yet pragmatic, engaging yet challenging, fun yet results-focused. With a consultative and collaborative style, she ensures all stakeholders’ expectations are met and exceeded, creating strong client relationships and long term associations.

Liane specialises in future focussed leadership, strategy, and communication. Her practice is centred around the intersection of mindset and leadership and its impact on creativity and innovation. She is passionate about challenging individuals and organisations to stop and think, in order to achieve effective outcomes and exciting futures. She believes success is amplified by effective and meaningful interactions, and how people connect. 

Liane’s consulting experience has great depth, spanning the design and development of face-to-face and blended learning programs, through to facilitation, coaching and evaluation. By keeping leadership and communication at the core of everything she does, Liane supports organisations and individuals to create environments in which they can achieve their greatest success. She facilitates practical solutions to bring out the best in people and deliver results for the organisation.

The organisations Liane has worked with include: KPMG, Deloitte, PWC, NAB, CBA, Macquarie, JP Morgan, American Express, Hausmann Communications, Boral, Austral Bricks, CSR PGH, Transfield Services, GHD, QBE, Aon, Asteron, Pfizer, Ciba Vision, Sanofi, Mercer, Inmarsat, Carlton United Breweries, Woolworths, Tanzanian Government, Australian Diabetes Council, Greenpeace, Australian Centre for Design, Macquarie University, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Living Museums, NSW Treasury, Fiji Airways, Solomon Water, SBS, NBN Co, Telstra. 

Liane holds a mass communication degree from Macquarie University, an MBA from MGSM, and coaching accreditation from the Institute of Executive Coaching & Leadership - Level 3. She is also accredited in various assessment and profiling tools such as Human Synergistics L/I and LSI, MBTI, Hogan, HBDI, DISC, MSCEIT, VIA Strengths, Realise 2.

She is besotted with her long awaited twins, Mathilde and Angus, as well as her very patient, if slightly naughty, fur baby. She spends her time in both Sydney, and her home town of Berry on the South Coast of NSW.