Trusted career management experts
As the purpose-driven directors of Strategic Career Management, Helen Holan and Kendal Drew are catalysts for practical, positive, and tangible workplace change.
They are both driven by a desire to achieve the same thing – better long-term outcomes for their clients.
When we launched Strategic Career Management in 2017, we were ready to take a more considered and strategic approach to career-building. We’re not interested in ticking boxes. Our vision is to collaborate with individuals, teams, and organisations to achieve greater clarity and genuine, long-term career and workplace transformation.
Kendal Drew
Accredited career management coaches driving lasting change
Helen and Kendal are accredited coaches who focus on making a real difference through their work. Whether you’re an individual with a complex career challenge or an organisation seeking to improve performance, you’ll benefit from their 20+ years’ collective experience in:
Career management
Leadership development
Team development
Workshop design and delivery
People development
Sectors Strategic Career Management have worked with:
Construction
Design
Education
Engineering
FMCG
Finance
Fire & emergency services
Government
& defence
Graduate programs
Health
& medical
Hospitality & tourism
HR & recruitment
IT
Legal
Media
Mining
Not-for-profit
Oil & gas
Recreation
Sales & marketing
The arts
Tourism & sport
Utilities
Creating better careers, better leaders, and better businesses
With a passionate but pragmatic approach, Helen and Kendal support individuals to form strategies, take action and achieve professionally and personally rewarding outcomes.
Their work in the corporate sector develops effective, authentic, values-driven leaders and teams that are accountable for their results.
Experienced, purpose-driven duo
In addition to their practical experience as career management professionals, Helen and Kendal have both successfully engineered their own careers. So, they have lived experience of many of the challenges their clients face – as individuals and as leaders.
Their combined history includes working in Professional Services (Big 4), Defence, Not-for-Profit, Mining, Education and Recruitment.
Helen Holan
Helen has been delivering transformative career coaching, leadership coaching, team coaching and workshop facilitation since 2008. She facilitates insights that change careers, people and organisations for the better.
Driven by curiosity and values of growth and contribution, Helen asks perceptive questions to spark understanding and encourages clients to stretch themselves to gain the results they desire. With her pragmatic approach clients are supported to develop practical action plans and inspired and challenged to own their actions.
Helen’s approach delivers measurable results.
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Kendal Drew
Kendal understands the courage, self-development, and careful planning it takes to successfully switch careers – whether that means changing jobs or embracing leadership.
With 30+ years of experience working across different sectors including the Defence Force, Mining, Education, and Not-for-Profit, she’s familiar with the practicalities of significant career change.
Kendal’s enthusiasm, compassion, and pragmatism helps her clients move their careers or organisations forward with confidence and composure.
Learn MoreHelen and Kendal have helped 1000s of clients push past their existing limits through 1:1 coaching, workshops, and coaching programs.
They can help you too.
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