Natalie Ashdown is an experienced coach whose passion and commitment assists and supports individuals, teams and companies to achieve the amazing results that come from within the person and team. Natalie currently coaches executives, senior management and teams from Australia's leading corporations, along with private business clients.

Natalie is a champion of implementing coaching culture within organisations and her vision for Australian organisations is that coaching "becomes the way we do things around here".

From a business perspective, Natalie brings 15 years experience in strategic business and marketing, leading-edge product development and leadership development, gained primarily in IT, banking and finance industry.  Natalie has held positions of Senior Business Analyst, National Product Manager, General Marketing Manager and Senior Project Manager for companies including ANZ Banking Group and Global Technologies.

Areas of expertise encompass team leadership (including leadership vision and values), strategic business development, development and implementation of strategic plans, leading edge product development, and advanced relationship and communication skills.  She has exposure and experience in international marketing and significant overseas work and travel experience.

Natalie holds a Bachelor of Business in Marketing from RMIT and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from The University of Melbourne (2001). She holds the Diploma of Workplace and Business Coaching, Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training, Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Master Coaching and Master of Ericksonian Hypnosis, thus qualifying her as a fully accredited Master Coach and Trainer.

Natalie is Co-President of the International Coach Federation (ICF) for Victoria, has held the role of Co-Chair Professional Development and Events and is one of only twenty professional coaches in Australia to holds the status of Professional Certified Coach (PCC). 

Natalie is also an experienced and creative writer and has developed and written the workbooks and leadership programs used by Open Door and our clients, including course documentation for the Certificate IV and Diploma of Workplace and Business Coaching. Natalie is the Director of the Open Door Coaching Group Registered Training Organisation.