
Ian Snape
Company director
Ian has 25 years of experience leading research teams in polar regions for government and private agencies. He is a professorial fellow at Macquarie and Melbourne Universities and neurocoach for the Australian Olympic taekwondo team. As a Ph.D. graduate, he has a distinguished scientific research profile and provides scientific advice to the Australian Government Ian is a martial arts instructor who has led more than a dozen Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. He trains the Frontline Mind programme to Police Special Operations groups, correctional officers, and other frontline services in Australia


Greg Hince
Company director
Greg has more than 20 years’ experience as an executive and scientist in the Australian Government. He is a Chief Petty Officer in the Royal Australian Navy Reserves and is co-founder/director of The Coaching Space. His experience includes leading and managing science, engineering and defence teams. He lectures at university in leadership and communication, and regularly speaks at international conferences. Greg specialises in systems analysis and workflow, helping teams achieve high performance in complex and risky environments. His approach connects human decision-making back into the risk-management framework. He is a certified coach, relationship awareness facilitator and has served as a mediator for the Australian Defence Force


Melinda Murzecki
Finance manager
Mel is an entrepreneur. Principal and owner of two businesses, a Neuro-coach and the Chief Financial Officer for The Coaching Space Pty Ltd. Holding a BCom, Mel is an accountant, a member for the Institute of Public Accountants and a registered agent with the Tax Practitioners Board. She has over 21 years experience working in finance and accounting, both in corporate and industry, business and manufacturing with particular focus on developing business systems and processes. She mainly works with small to medium businesses, coaching and training them in a financial sense, how to thrive in a continuous changing business climate. Mel holds a certificate in Process Orientated Coaching, has been trained in clean language and systemic modeling. She also works with individuals to enable them to recognise their own choice in their emotional states and to develop the states that works well for them. She is particularly passionate about working with women to develop health; well-being and supportive sense of identity during and after parenting, and helping people retrain neural function involving injury or disease
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Gary Kuehn
Adventure Transformation Coach
With a background in physics, engineering, and mountaineering, Gary is an accomplished international climber, kayaker, skier, and coach, and he works as a mountain and ski guide in New Zealand and Alaska. Gary holds a Certificate in Process Oriented Coaching, is passionate about coaching others, and passes on his enthusiasm for continually learning and improving. He is currently transferring his skills in mountaineering and guiding, to the less mountainous domain of sailing and sail training
Gary shares his interest in nature, being outdoors, activity, curiosity, understanding, accepting and testing as well as a passion for questioning, curiosity, thinking big and experimenting intelligently. This approach, creates incredible opportunities for his clients to experience differently, think differently, and generate new perspectives and choice
Gary has guided throughout the world and now travels between his homes in New Zealand, Tasmania, Alaska and Seattle. Gary loves being in the outdoors and is completely at home heli-skiing, ski-touring, and ski-mountaineering. Among his accomplishments he can count numerous first ski descents in North America and New Zealand as well as traverses of Denali and the Southern Patagonian Ice Cap. Gary is an IFMGA guide associated with the American and New Zealand Mountain Guide Associations and a professional member and certified instructor of the American Avalanche Association
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Bec Donaldson
Training partner
Bec has 20 years’experience training, coaching and mentoring individuals and groups,primarily in the education sector and also in remote-area travel, the Australian Army, creative arts and community engagement. She has held teaching, project management and research roles at Murdoch University and the University of Tasmania. She has biology/behavioural science degrees, a visual arts diploma and extensive experience of facilitating academic and other outcomes and directions for both youth and adults Bec has worked with a diverse range of groups and individuals, from academics to remote-community Aboriginal youth, people with English as a second language and disadvantaged youth