Coaching to accelerate your actuarial career goals
Guardian Actuarial offers a unique service focused on fostering rising talent in the actuarial world, helping individuals to maximise their potential and achieve their professional goals.
Are you…
⛌ Experiencing an obstacle in reaching your next promotion at work?
⛌ Facing redundancy and need help defining your next steps?
⛌ Experiencing a unique challenge at work and need an independent sounding board to discuss solutions?
⛌ Thinking about starting your own business?
⛌ Looking for clarity around your next career move?
Our coaching services are designed to support you in achieving clarity and direction in your actuarial career and help you build a clear action plan to help you achieve your goals.
Whether you need a one-off session or a series of sessions, individual coaching can help you explore the unique challenges you are facing, including:
✔ Career planning
✔ Better time management
✔ Practical delegation
✔ Understanding different work styles
✔ Building your personal brand
✔ Supporting your wellbeing
✔ Active listening skills
✔ Team management skills
✔ Running better meetings
✔ Combining remote and on-site teams
"I often joined the session without knowing where the problem was, but left with clear actions"
Andrew Yin,
Experienced Actuary
Your Coach, Julia Lessing
Julia Lessing is the principal actuary and Director of Guardian Actuarial. She helps actuaries build communication and leadership skills to have great actuarial careers.
Julia is leading a mission to foster forward-thinking leaders in the actuarial industry. She has developed and delivers a suite of training programs tailored for actuaries, including the first-to-market Guardian Actuarial Leadership Program.
Julia is a qualified actuary (FIAA) and has worked as a big four consultant, in corporate actuarial roles and the wider fields of public health and human services. She has established and runs a boutique consulting firm and holds actuarial educator roles for the Actuaries Institute and Macquarie University.
As a certified organisational coach and experienced mentor, Julia’s unique skills and experience makes her an unparalleled resource to support actuaries across the career continuum.
“Julia has been exceptional. Through our one-on-one coaching she has helped me build a well-rounded approach to understanding my values, create a self-brand and resilience at work. We did this using several tools including role play, practical reflection exercises and discussions.
Julia was generous to share her own experiences around managing work while being a mum with several practical tips to balance one’s own wellbeing. Julia is a pro-active coach who works with you in a mindful way, is highly professional and customises her sessions to your needs.
I highly recommend Julia for your coaching needs.”
Shivani Juneja
Actuary and Coaching Client
Is coaching for you?
1:1 coaching is for you if you:
✔ Are ready to invest some time and focus to take your career to the next level
✔ Feel more comfortable working 1:1 than in a group
✔ Have specific goals in mind and need help to build and execute a plan to achieve them
✔ Are at a career cross-roads and need help making a decision about your next move
✔ Want some independent, personalised help to define your goals or career plans
✔ Have sensitive issues or need a confidential sounding board
1:1 coaching is probably not for you if you:
⛌ Would rather stay where you are
⛌ Prefer to work with peers in a group
⛌ Don’t have time to try new things
⛌ Are not ready to critically examine the barriers to your goals
⛌ Believe that other people are the source of your problems
Not sure that coaching is for you? We also offer group and buddy training courses.
“I've been receiving corporate mentoring over the last decade, which has provided an independent voice that has helped me focus on the direction I want to take my career and also work through difficult decisions.
I can't thank Julia enough for her support - she's fantastic at getting to the crux of the issue and equipping you with the tools to solve matters for yourself. I can't recommend her highly enough!”
Daryl Umakanthan
1:1 Coaching Client
Ready to invest in your career goals?
Book in a no-obligation introductory chat with Julia to discuss your current challenges and discuss whether coaching is right for you.