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Our TeamBiz School, as with all The Winding Staircase is lead by its two Directors, Michael Prince and Kim Lisson. Besides the two directors, we work in partnership with experienced associates who form flexible small teams according to the particular needs of our clients. Our team have:
Members of the Biz School team have worked with the following organisations: Australian Institute of Management; Curtin University; The Pacific Institute; Woodside Energy; WA Lotteries Commission, Coca-Cola Amatil; AMP; Ernst & Young; Dominoes Pizza; Westpac; Asgard; Pricewaterhouse Coopers; Royal Automobile Club (WA); AusAID; Watercorp; ANZ; Australia Post; McKinsey & Co. All our coaches are members of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the implication of which includes their agreement with, and commitment to, the ICF’s definition of professional coaching, and to the ICF pledge of ethics and standards of conduct. Michael Prince — Director
Prior to being in his own business, Michael worked for over 15 years in internal Training & Development roles for several different organisations in Australia and Asia. In Nepal, this included developing a twenty-strong training and development unit offering consulting, coaching and training services throughout the country. Michael began using coaching processes in the mid 80’s when designing and delivering long-term ‘action learning’ programs. His varied background makes him ideally placed to coach and consult to leaders driving organisational change. His focus is helping “leaders to lead with greater integrity of character and relationships and to lead with greater rigour and clarity of thought”. Michael has a Master of Arts degree (Interdisciplinary studies – including inter-cultural studies, anthropology, community and organisational development, poverty alleviation, religious studies), from Regent College, Vancouver, Canada and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Western Australia. He has an 18 month, Diploma in Professional Coaching (1999/2000) from Newfield Australia. Kim Lisson — Director
Kim is well recognised by many of his peers within the WA coaching community as “the coach’s-coach”. He has mentored or trained over 100 professional coaches within WA, across Australia and around the world, has managed Australia’s first and largest coach training organisation, Coach U Australasia; and founded the WA Chapter of the International Coach Federation (ICF). He has conducted coaching skills training for corporate leaders and managers and is regularly asked to give presentations on coaching and its benefits for individuals. Kim’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Sociology, from the Australian National University, study towards a Masters in Leadership & Management degree at Curtin University’s Graduate School of Business and he is first of only two professional coaches in WA to have achieved the status of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) status with the International Coach Federation. Susan Kroening – Associate
Originally from the field of education, Susan was intrigued by the human potential movement and the business world and initially promoted international speakers seminars for the likes of Zig Ziglar, James Rohn, Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra. Susan now works as an organisational transformation and leadership development consultant and coach working in strategic alliance with national and international associates, such as McKinsey & Company. She works to rigorously integrate the ‘soft skills’ with the more traditional business focus on: bottom line, cost containment, corporate strategy, accountability and performance measures. She has also consulted and trained in subjects such as conflict management and mediation, performance measurement, organisational mentoring, and customer service. Susan is a Certified NLP Trainer, and has complemented this with training in Experiential-Accelerated Learning, Brain Based Certification and Behavioural Science that she uses in all her consulting, training and coaching work. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Education (Hons) from the University of Calgary, numerous high level and in-depth training, presentation and facilitation skills programs, and she is accredited in a wide range of personality, team role and appraisal instruments. Tony Clitheroe — Associate
Tony has over 12 years experience in a range of line management roles in operational areas of a large public utility. From this he moved internal consulting roles in organisation development, training and development, human resources and coaching. As the Manager of an in-house technical training centre (Power Training Services WA), he led and supported the team through a process of commercialisation. This involved establishing, developing and leading a team of 18 human resource professionals to provide a comprehensive range of in-house HR consulting services to a large and complex organisation. Fundamental to his role was the adoption of a coaching approach to support team members shift their role from being technical trainers to consultants. He has a keen interest in supporting people and organisations undertaking transformation, learning and development. This arises out of his own learning journey as a leader, consultant and coach. Tony has degree qualifications in human resource management and management, has completed a significant proportion of a Diploma in Ontological Coaching with Newfield Australia and has completed Coach School’s 18 month Diploma of Professional Coaching. He is accredited to use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and has completed the core curriculum of psychodrama training. Graham Taylor — Associate
Graham has a relational focus as his approach having made the observation that organisations are a network of relationships. A set of principles for building and maintaining relationships called ‘REG’ (Respect, Empathy and Genuineness) have informed all of Graham’s work in organisational development. He has an extensive client base that includes small to large business enterprises and government organisations covering such sectors as health, human services, education and training, oil and gas, mining and manufacturing, both locally and overseas. Graham currently spends up to half of his professional time focussed on Executive Coaching (coaching leaders and managers) within organisations. In the past 5 years Graham has coached around 85 people, usually coaching between 7 – 15 clients at any given time. Graham has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Western Australia and an 18 month, Diploma in Professional Coaching from Newfield Australia. Pauline Wearne – Associate
Pauline is very interested in facilitated learning and the way this process encourages focus, stimulation and engagement for participants in training programs. She incorporates coaching as an approach to her facilitated learning repertoire. Pauline has completed an 18 month Diploma of Professional Coaching from Coach School and has been working as a professional coach since 2005. She also has Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education and Master of Education qualifications. Her Masters focused on reflective learning processes through role-play and sees connections between this and the role of coaching as a facilitated learning opportunity. Michael Wood – Associate
These days, Michael’s particular interest lies in organizational transformation through the “creation of space”, honouring the unique giftedness of every person and allowing the self organising power of groups to find solutions to challenges of common concern. Michael is one of Western Australia’s most experienced Open Space Facilitators and is now offering professional coaching as an integral part of his work. Michael has degrees in Business (Human Resource Management) and Theology and has completed an 18 month Diploma in Professional Coaching. As an Anglican Priest, Michael shares his time between parish work, university chaplaincy and consulting work with The Winding Staircase. |
Michael is a founding Director of The Winding Staircase. He has over 20
years experience working with leaders in Australia and Asia as a manager,
consultant, facilitator and coach. He works with a range of organisations
(small to large, business, government, not-for-profit) in different sectors
(health, human services, education, vocational education, agriculture, mining,
engineering etc). Michael has been in his own business for 10 years. 
Kim is amongst the most experienced of Australia’s professional
coaches, having commenced coaching in 1997, based on an extensive background
in people and organisational development within the Australian federal
government, and as a consultant and adult learning facilitator for many
Australian organisations. He has since worked with over 250 coaching clients,
amounting to approximately 2000 hours of one-on-one coaching experience
with clients across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada.
His clients include senior executives, professionals from a range of
industries, small business owners, creative artists and consultants.
Susan joined TWS as one of our key 
Tony Clitheroe has 23 years experience as a manager, consultant
and coach. He has experience of working in the areas of leadership,
management, training and development, human resources development
and coaching, and works with a wide range of organisations large
and small in the public and private sectors, including local
government, engineering, mining and utilities.
Graham joined TWS as one of our key Coach School facilitators
and mentor coaches in 2004 and for the past 20 years has been the
Director of his own coaching, training and consulting business,
Pauline joined TWS in 2006 as the co-ordinator of Life
School and as an associate of Biz School, specialising in
client relationship management, coaching and facilitation.
Pauline brings a strong background of learning and development
in the financial sector. Her diverse education background
enabled her to provide customised training solutions for a
broad range of corporate clients. Prior to working in the
finance sector she had over 10 years teaching and training
experience in Australia and overseas, including with young
offenders, secondary students and adults. She has been able
to incorporate the transferable skills of providing
individualised and customised learning experiences into
the TWS business.
Michael’s experience in the human relations field has spanned over 25 years while working in Human Resources Management in a large national shipping company and then with a regional bank, Michael was involved in leadership recruitment, succession planning, and training and development.