Bridget Blackford

Partner
Coach | Facilitator

With warmth and positivity, coupled with endless curiosity, Bridget is valued for her systemic perspective, her creative yet practical solutions, and her ability to call out the real conversation.

Background

Bridget is an Executive Coach and Organisation Development Consultant who has significant international experience in supporting leaders across a range of industries including professional services, government, telecommunications, media, arts management, social enterprise, NFP and financial services.

Drawing on broad-based experience and expertise in human and organisational development, she enjoys partnering with clients to work systemically, building agility and resilience to maintain high performance and drive positive transformative change in the face of increasingly complex career, business and global challenges.

She blends traditional leadership development with embodied practices to support leaders to deepen self-awareness and develop their ability to navigate in complex and challenging environments. Her approach is informed by her research in the global political economy, organisational dynamics, adult development, leadership theory, somatic intelligence and neuro-psychobiology.

Bridget holds a Masters in Global Politics, a Bachelor (Hons) in English, Diplomas in Organisation Development, Executive Coaching and Leadership Development, a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and is an accredited APMG Change Management Practitioner.

My Why

I’m passionate about catalysing new ways of seeing and enabling transformational capacity at an individual and organisational scale. I particularly enjoy supporting leaders to thrive in an increasingly complex world, lead with an open heart and mind, and play an active role in creating a sustainable and equitable global future. 

How I work

Curiosity, mindfulness and generative solutions are at the heart of my work.

"Bridget has been invaluable during a year of significant organisational and professional change. Her insights and advice supported me to strengthen my skills as a leader, enabling me to see challenges through a different lens. She has provided me with a range of strategies and tools which have been really helpful in making what could have been a tough period of change, a time of growth and development instead”.

“Bridget is intuitive, engaging and very easy to speak to. I found the 360-feedback process valuable and feel that the subsequent coaching sessions have helped to refine my skills as a leader. Bridget has helped to me to get perspective and to focus on the things that I can influence and shape. I thoroughly enjoyed the coaching journey with Bridget”.

“Bridget is a deeply knowledgeable and experienced coach who is extremely wise. Bridget worked in collaboration with me to set targets and goals and did ask some really tough questions. In turn, this helped me to reflect on potential opportunities for growth and improvement. I feel a great deal more confident and a great deal more effective in managing my program. Bridget also assisted me to learn new tools to navigate challenges, to set goals and provided some tips on new ways for me to problem solve”.

What I love

I love being in nature (ideally walking/hiking), reading, live music and am a longtime yoga enthusiast.