Our Coaches

Jane Lowder Founder of Max Coaching and Career Coach

The founder of Max Coaching, Jane has over 20 years experience across both in the private and public sectors including the education, telecommunications, IT, sporting and not–for–profit industries.

Jane’s wealth of ‘real world’ experience, coupled with her career coaching expertise, has enabled her to successfully assist over a thousand individuals to identify and engage with the career path that’s right for them.

Jane’s specialties include; career change coaching, outplacement coaching, employee retention strategies, and career fit and career development within organisations. In addition Jane provides career consulting services to the University of Sydney Career Centre, the NRL and Cricket NSW.

Jane’s expertise and results have earned her a solid reputation not only in Sydney but around Australia and overseas. Invited to present at career workshops, forums and seminars, Jane receives consistently positive feedback about her professional, informative and engaging manner.

Jane has a long history of training and coaching, having started her career as a teacher then an adult trainer, Jane is comfortable and experienced at presenting to groups from 5 to 500.

Jane is currently completing her Masters of Organisational Coaching at the University of Sydney, is a Professional Member and former NSW committee member of the Career Development Association of Australia, a certified Career and Executive Coach, an accredited MBTI® Administrator, a qualified teacher and a member of the University of Sydney Coaching and Mentoring Association.

Dr Alicia Karwat Career and Executive Coach

Those who know Alicia invariably use four words to describe her: Energetic, Enthusiastic, Inspirational, and Challenging.

Former academic and a university lecturer in Mathematics with over 15 years of corporate experience as a leader and manager of a group of specialists, Executive Manager, Adviser to the Managing Director of a major European bank, and Human Resources Executive, Alicia has always followed her passion of helping people to achieve their potential and to excel.

Through multi-discipline industry experience and senior management leadership roles, Alicia has developed a wealth of hands-on commercial expertise. She specialises in providing career services for professionals, managers and executives, helping to create the career you want, make sound career decisions, develop your job search strategies and skills. Alicia has a thorough understanding of employers’ needs, what it takes to get a job you want and manage your career within organisation. With varied career, Ph.D in Mathematics, she coaches for effective transition from specialist to managerial and leadership roles.

As a Human Resources Executive at the Commonwealth Bank she directed high profile projects such as: barriers to the women’s advancement in the workplace, employment and management of mature age workers, the bank-wide Employee Workplace Survey, employee engagement and post-exit interviews. She represented the bank on the National Diversity Think Tank.

Alicia holds post-graduate qualifications in career developement and career management, and also in professional counselling. She is certified NLP practitioner, Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Team Management Systems practitioner, Behavioural Interviewer and Image Consultant.

Alicia is a Professional Member of the Career Development Association of Australia (formerly known as the Australian Association of Career Counsellors) and President of it’s NSW Division. She has also held professional membership status with the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Human Resources Institute.

Alicia has published articles in magazines and peer reviewed journals, and she was awarded inclusion in the International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Cambridge for her achievements during her academic career.

Recognised as an inspirational leader, excellent coach and mentor, Alicia easily interacts with people at every organisational level, builds relationships of trust and enlists the participation of those she works with. With her professional background, experiences and her own career transitions, she builds easily rapport with executives, managers, professionals, and specialists of scientific, IT and technical backgrounds. She is an expert in coaching for effective transition from specialist to managerial and leadership roles.

Her motto ‘Equipping people with the career key steps of know-what, know-why and know-how’ reflects her passion and commitment to helping people create the career they want and achieve their goals.

Rosemary Sainty Career Coach and Coaching Psychologist

Rosemary Sainty MA (Psych) M Prof Ethics is a registered psychologist and ethicist and a full member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and the Australian Association of Applied Ethics (AAPAE).

Rosemary Sainty has recently returned to her chosen profession of psychology and careers coaching where she can apply her wealth of experience to assist clients to navigate meaningful career paths in a rapidly changing labour market.

Rosemary has over twelve years experience as Career Development Manager at the University of Sydney and Warwick University U.K, working with major corporate and public sector organisations, academic staff and graduates. During this time she also established a world class careers and employer relations unit for the University Of Sydney Business School as well as having her own private practice and consultancy. Prior to this Rosemary came from a broad background in the community services sector in service establishment, management and delivery, and in corporate community partnering.

She established the term “Career Ethics” in response to a growing demand to incorporate ethics into career decisions – in choice of employer, seeking a career aligning with personal values and the desire to make work more meaningful. She sees this as a perfect complement to the growing driver of “CSR” / sustainability / corporate citizenship in attracting talented employees.

More recently Rosemary Sainty became the Head, Secretariat for the United Nations Global Compact Network Australia, hosted by St James Ethics Centre. Funded by the Australian Federal Government (through Treasury) to expand the number of Australian companies adopting more responsible business practices Rosemary has, over the past 3 years built a ‘HUB’ of international initiatives and local resources including the UN Global Compact the Global Reporting Initiative and a series of national resources for small to medium enterprise. For this she has received endorsement from HRH the Prince of Wales, the Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan, and the Business Council of Australia.

Rosemary currently sits on a number of related committees and Advisory Councils including as an Australian Expert, Social Responsibility Committee, Standards Australia for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 26000), the Work and Organisational Studies Academic Board, University of Sydney and the Business and Professional Ethics Group, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney.

Rosemary has worked with:

• Leading corporations including ANZ, Westpac and Ernst & Young, Telstra, Nestle, Rio Tinto, KPMG, Woolworths, Sebel Furniture, Allens Arthur Robinson and others (including the Executive Directors of the Global Reporting Initiative and the Global Compact Office, United Nations);
• A range of federal government departments and ministerial offices across Treasury, Departments of Innovation and Finance, Small Business, Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Environment and Climate Change;
• Civil Society, Professional Bodies, Academic and Labour organisations including Brotherhood of St Laurence, Australian Conservation Foundation, Macquarie University (ARIES), Deakin University, Oxfam, Transparency International, Australian Human Rights Commission, CPA Australia.