Confidence…The Key To Success

Jacky Dakin is an endorsed Organisational Psychologist and Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. She runs a successful organisational psychology consultancy and also operates a private psychology practice. In the past, she worked for Price Waterhouse as a senior consultant and then as Director of a management consultancy working with both the public and private sectors. She subsequently held the role of Psychological Services Manager and Training and Development Manager at BDO Consulting and regularly presented programs for senior staff and partners and external clients.
She set up Halifax House Consulting in 1995 providing organisational consultancy services to both public and private sector clients. Jacky specialises in designing and presenting training workshops, executive coaching and leadership development, plus offering conflict mediation, facilitating strategic planning sessions and working with dysfunctional teams. She has worked with many government agencies and has a sound understanding of the public sector. She has also worked nationally and in the Middle East.
She has previously lectured to Organisational Psychology Masters students at UniSA and currently lectures at the University of Adelaide. She facilitates a range of workshops including Leadership Development, Emotional Intelligence, Coaching skills , Building Confidence and Resilience, Wellbeing at Work and utilising Mindfulness, among others, and tailors her presentations to meet client needs.
Jacky is active on several Boards and committees and regularly mentors younger colleagues and Masters students. She is a sought after public speaker and frequently presents sessions for various organisations and at conferences and seminars. She has published three popular self-help books, writes articles for various publications and for a number of years was a regular columnist for the Advertiser Saturday Review writing on Wellbeing. She is a past SA finalist for the Telstra Business Woman of the Year.