About Madeleine Shaw

Madeleine Shaw is an executive coach, speaker and facilitator with well over a decade of experience working with senior clients, supporting them to understand and operate from a strong sense of personal meaning and purpose as they move through a range of career and life transitions.

Previously, Madeleine was a corporate and commercial lawyer with top tier firms in Australia and the USA as well as a large multinational corporation.

Madeleine brings her clients a rare and invaluable combination of breadth of perspective, strong empathy and a willingness to challenge with compassion, together with an unshakeable commitment to supporting each individual client as they move through their particular process.

Madeleine’s clients include top tier legal, professional services and consulting firms, financial services organisations and a number of large listed companies and government departments and agencies.

Madeleine works with people, teams and the organisations they lead as they face transitions such as:

• Changes in their roles, teams, organisations and industries

• Aiming for or moving into more senior leadership roles

• Moving to a new organisation or industry

• Return from maternity leave or other extended breaks from the workplace

• Shifting from full-time employment into retirement/self-employment or a portfolio career.

Madeleine is accredited with the Institute of Executive Coaching & Leadership. She is a professional credentialed coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), is an accredited Mental Health First Aider and recently served as board director and secretary of the ICF’s Australasia Chapter. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Madeleine holds a Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence) and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Adelaide and has been admitted to practice law in NSW and California.