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Professional coaching is personalised professional development.
People engage a professional coach to help them improve their performance, improve their wellbeing, or because they’re grappling with a particular dilemma. Gain clarity, think differently, upskill and find your balance.
Dr. Lynn Scoles
Medical Practitioner (GP), Professional Coach
Lynn is a qualified medical practitioner of more than 30 years. She has a passion for learning and has spent time as a lecturer and supervises registrars as part of her practice. She has combined her work in General Practice and as an Executive Coach for 20 year and she loves what she does!
Lynn’s coaching is centred around Leadership with a focus on personal growth and resilience. She has been an Associate of the Melbourne Business School for the last 17 years, coaching people from many and varied industries. She completed the Institute of Company Directors course and exams in 2020, broadening her understanding of organisations even further.
Her passion lies in helping people be the best version of themselves; to grow and see things in a new light; and to be more effective in their work and in their lives beyond work. She challenges and supports; stretches thinking and nurtures all while helping people connect with their values and purpose.
Lynn supports the Coaching for Doctors vision of a healthier workforce, especially in our health system, where people feel resourced to do and be their best and make the necessary changes to facilitate better patient outcomes. She has a lot to offer in this space and looks forward to working with you.
Jade Tjia
Professional Coach
Jade understands how difficult it can be to break from the mainstream path or dominant paradigm, whether that be prioritising your wellbeing in a demanding job, making a radical career change, or choosing a non-traditional version of 'success' for yourself. She helps you develop practical strategies and skills to navigate these challenges, as well as explore your deeper patterns when necessary so you experience greater clarity, confidence, and ease.
Clients appreciate Jade’s calming presence, empathy, and her ability to meet their depth and complexity. Using a trauma-informed coaching approach, Jade offers a supportive, flexible, and collaborative partnership that considers your context and prioritises finding options that resonate with your values and strengths.
Partnering with Jade, you'll benefit from different perspectives and new tools from multiple disciplines. Jade's prior experience includes working in the high-performance culture of a leading global management consulting firm for 10 years. Currently, in addition to coaching, Jade works part-time in the public mental healthcare system, deepening her understanding of the pressures faced by healthcare professionals.
Jade has a special interest in coaching people from underrepresented groups, including women, introverts, people who feel or process things deeply (empathetic, emotionally intense, or ‘highly sensitive people’), and people whose identities include multiple cultures e.g. Asian-Australians.
Karina Meacham
Professional Coach and Therapist
Karina Meacham is an experienced Coach, Facilitator, and Speaker with a deep passion for supporting doctors in navigating the complex interplay between their professional and personal lives. With over eight years of coaching experience across various sectors and a 15-year career as a Paediatric Nurse, Karina brings a unique blend of clinical insight, emotional intelligence, and compassionate leadership to her work.
Having witnessed firsthand the immense pressures and emotional toll of the medical profession, Karina understands how these challenges can impact a doctor’s relationships—both within the workplace and at home. She provides a safe, supportive space for doctors to reconnect with themselves, communicate with confidence, and manage conflict without compromising their sense of self.
Karina’s coaching is rooted in a fusion of science and intuition. Her warm, authentic approach invites doctors on a collaborative journey of self-discovery and personal evolution—empowering them to become leaders in their own lives while restoring balance and harmony in their relationships. Using practical tools, sharp insight, and a touch of light-hearted humour, she helps her clients move through life with greater ease, purpose, and fulfillment.
As a wife, business owner, and mother of two teenagers, Karina understands the complexities of balancing multiple roles while prioritising personal well-being. She is deeply committed to her own personal development and brings this same dedication to the doctors she supports, helping them cultivate resilience, clarity, and a renewed sense of fulfillment in both their work and personal lives.
Dr Bruce Arroll
Medical Practitioner (GP), Professional Coach
Bruce has been a qualified medical practitioner for over 30 years. He is endlessly curious about the human condition and has a strong desire to help colleagues flourish. His coach training and preparation has equipped him to ask powerful questions that help his clients explore the obvious and not-so-obvious options in their current situation. Coaching provides a crucible where options can be safely explored, assisting you to decide your next step.
Bruce understands complex, large and small healthcare working environments deeply after many years of hospital, primary care, private, public and academic experience. He has worked in hospitals in New Zealand, Canada, and Australia, as well as in primary care in New Zealand and Canada.
Bruce has a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine. He was Head of the Department of General Practice and Primary Healthcare at the University of Auckland for eight years where he is Professor. He has a passion for teaching and learning with undergraduates and post-graduates, and was part of setting up a private primary care practice in Manurewa, South Auckland, focusing on training medical students, GP registrars, and nursing students.
He was also involved in setting up the New Zealand Branch of the Fred Hollows Foundation and is on the board of the Himalayan Trust. Bruce is the Patron of the Nurse Practitioners Organisation of New Zealand and is the Director of the Goodfellow Unit at the University of Auckland, an education unit that provides online webinars, podcasts, elearning materials, and face-to-face educational events.
What I like about coaching is the magic moment when there is an "aha"moment, an insight is gained and movement may be possible. I am committed to helping my colleagues to flourish and get away from that stuck feeling that we all have from time to time. I am hoping my experience will be of value to others.
Sharee Johnson
Professional Coach, Psychologist, Author, Meditation Teacher
Founder and Managing Director of Coaching for Doctors
MAPS BBSc Grad Dip App Psych Grad Dip HR
Doctors partner with me as their specialist psychologist coach to help them respond to the professional and personal dilemmas of a medical life. I have invested a decade learning how a psychologist coach can support doctors to be well and perform well for their own benefit and that of their patients. I work best with leading doctors and those who are invested in designing a better healthcare system.
I help doctors, (and sometimes leading nurses and other healthcare leaders too), craft a better life, one that comes from expanded thinking, raised awareness and a willingness to challenge existing assumptions. Coaching with me is high in trust, high in candor and action oriented.
In the candid, safe space of coaching we can restore hope, amplify skills, create more wellbeing and improve performance. As a psychologist I have made understanding people my life's work and bring a depth and breadth of psychological knowledge, honed over three decades, to the coaching process.
I have worked with doctors as their specialist coach since 2014, establishing Australia's first coaching practice dedicated to doctors. Your human skills are what deliver the art of medicine. These intra and interpersonal skills enable your optimal practice of the science of medicine.
Individual and group coaching with me can help you raise your capacity, skill, sustainability and wellbeing.
Finding the Right Coach
At Coaching for Doctors we are making it easier for doctors and leading healthcare professionals to find the right coach to help them develop.
Our coaches are experienced independent professionals.
Most of them are credentialed with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) or the Association for Coaching (AC), which means they have invested significant time, energy and money into learning how to be an effective coach.
You can feel confident that we have done the due diligence required to find a great coach for you. Our Coaches:
- have trained and been mentored specifically in the skills and competencies of coaching.
- understand the difference between coaching and mentoring, counselling, supervising, teaching and consulting.
- are diverse in their backgrounds and experience so you can find the right fit for your needs.
Choose a coach who is also a doctor or choose a coach who’s lived work experience is outside of medicine. There is merit in both choices.
Every coach we endorse meets our high standards of training, ongoing professional development, and experience.
Are you ready to meet your own high standards in your life?
We acknowledge Australia's First Peoples
Coaching for Doctors is based on Gunaikurnai country. We pay our respects and honour the First Nation people of all the lands we work and play on. We pay our respects to their ancestors, Elders past and present and to their emerging leaders.
We remain committed to listening, learning, growing and being together on what always was and always will be, Aboriginal land that has never been ceded.
