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Kerry Pienaar
Kerry is the founder and Director of Complete Communication Coach. She provides techniques and strategies that will ensure you overcome your personal obstacles so you can communicate confidently both face to face or online. Her communication coaching is customised to each individual’s needs - always with the aim of assisting you to communicate with poise and self-assurance.
Whether you need to communicate in board meetings, deliver presentations, build your job interviewing or networking skills, participate in online meetings or communicate technical content, Kerry will provide you with the tools and strategies to impress and influence any audience.
Kerry’s mission is to have you walk out the door feeling more confident than when you arrived.
Kerry provides easy to apply life-changing tools to help clients experience profound and dramatic impacts on their personal and professional lives. Kerry’s approach has helped many people transform their thinking and behaviour so they can communicate with confidence and clarity.
Working with individuals and groups with a diversity of challenges, Kerry’s aim is to support you to identify and build upon your strengths, and to conquer those fears and doubts that may be holding you back. Her solutions are both well-tested and personalised; you’ll work together to address your fears and concerns, and in doing so, your unique public speaking style will emerge.
Winning multiple public speaking contests at the highest level and recognised by Yahoo! Finance as one of the top public speaking coaches in Australia, Kerry has inspired hundreds of clients to have a voice and works by the philosophy that everyone deserves to be heard. Hence the title of her book, 'You Deserve to be Heard: 101 tips to boost your public speaking confidence', published in 2022.
Kerry has provided coaching to entrepreneurs and executives from both private and government organisations. She has coached TEDx Adelaide speakers, has run workshops for women to build their confidence and to encourage participation in STEM programs and to pursue leadership positions or political careers.
Kerry began her career as a Drama and English teacher, moving into a range of state government roles. Reflecting her interests in communication and inclusion, she has worked on a number of boards and committees including the Meeting Industry Association of Australia, the Ministerial Advisory committees for Students with Disability and Multicultural Education and Languages.