Coach Profile
Meet Dr Kirsty Agar-Jacomb
Kirsty is an executive and leadership coach who works with senior leaders who find themselves under tension. Unlike most other coaches, she’s an Accredited Coaching Psychologist. She has 25 years of training and experience in understanding human behaviour and over 15,000 face-to-face hours helping clients transform their thinking and behaviour. Kirsty is passionate about empowering her clients to become the leaders they aspire to be, aligning their personal and professional lives to achieve their fullest potential.
Dr Kirsty Agar-Jacomb
Associate Coach
Kirsty brings the worlds of psychology and business together through coaching, consulting, professional supervision, training, and facilitation. Her leadership experience includes governance, strategic planning, workforce development, and leading service development, change, and quality improvement initiatives. She also has extensive experience in workshop development and facilitation covering workplace wellbeing, team development, leadership, and women in leadership.
Kirsty coaches C-suite executives and senior and high-potential leaders in Healthcare, Finance, Legal & Professional Services, Science and Research, IT and Tech, Higher Education, Public Service and For-Purpose sectors. “The best investment in my career to date!”
As an Accredited Coaching Psychologist, Kirsty specialises in helping leaders with:
- Evolving leadership identity and purpose
- Managing stress, well-being, and productivity
- Enhancing self-awareness and self-management
- Strengthening confidence and value
- Negotiating communication and relationship challenges
- Navigating professional and life transitions
- Inspiring motivation and engagement
Kirsty is particularly passionate about empowering women in leadership roles to thrive and succeed.
Kirsty’s coaching style is both collaborative and empowering, encouraging clients to draw on their skills, strengths, and new ways of understanding themselves to develop the capacity to thrive and succeed in both their professional and personal lives. She partners with clients to consider all stakeholders’ perspectives, add ‘range’ and flexibility to their skillset, experiment with solutions, and make the changes that matter to them. Kirsty helps clients find clarity and direction, building the capacity and confidence to take meaningful action.
Kirsty’s work draws from developmental coaching, Acceptance and Commitment Coaching, Positive Psychology, mindfulness, neuroscience, and more.
Summary of Roles
Summary of Executive & Governance Roles
Qualifications, Certification & Affiliations
Qualifications, Certification & Affiliations
This was my first experience with a professional coach and will not be my last. I'm left with an impression of having really sharpened the tools that I was already using to make things happen in my life and career. I've definitely had the chance to add a few new tools to the kit as well. Thank you to Kirsty and Mind Coach!
I really want to again thank you as without your support I would not have found the strength to stand my ground with (seniors and contract partners)
For me, it was very helpful that you understood that DHB context and culture – I felt like you
got the challenges of the power dynamics.
I really enjoyed my sessions with Kirsty. I felt like she had a good understanding of what I needed to get from coaching and tailored our discussions accordingly. I'd highly recommend Mind Coach.
I’m now in a great role as service development manager at X. Valued, respected, trusted,
managed by one incredible woman and our CEO. Having a great working life and involved in
and leading lots of cool pieces of cross agency and strategic work.
Kirsty was fantastic, highly, highly, highly recommend.
I have found the coaching a valuable tool to guide me on my career pathway and would
recommend it highly to anyone that was offered this.
Kirsty helped me to realise how important personal development is and gave me a number of tools I can now use to help me grow personally and in my career. I feel like I have gained control back and have direction instead of just living day to day with no drive or purpose.
My team and I really appreciate your ability to get us to focus on what we knew and to see
beyond was blurring or confusing our decision making. (Team Coaching)
It really has been a turning point for me in how to be the leader/manager I want to be,
validating my learning and having someone as a resource or to give guidance through the trickier parts of my role.
Coaching has supported me in developing confidence and guided me to make decisions about
my career.
I really valued my sessions with Kirsty. Her approach to coaching is so relaxed and at the same time so deep and meaningful. She knows how to draw things out of you, and has such a wealth of knowledge to back up all of her observations and advice with resources or examples. We covered everything in my goals and more.
I chose Kirsty because I knew she would push me outside of my comfort zone and that's what I wanted to learn and grow, and the feedback from my boss noting that she can see the impact the sessions had is the icing on the cake. I highly recommend Kirsty as a coach for leaders and managers wanting to continue their personal journey.
Adie Johansen
Community Services Manager, Manawatu District Council (Coachee)
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