Sophie Robertson was born to parents from Shanghai, and grew up in Hong Kong, Denmark, Canada and United States before coming to Australia in 1985. Sophie went to school in Canada, US and Denmark, where she also attended University of Copenhagen. Since coming to Australia in 1985, Sophie has graduated from the Institute of Personnel Consultants, now known as Recruitment, Consulting Services Association (RCSA). Sophie is a current member of RSCA and holds the designation of MRCSA. Sophie has completed her Cert IV in Life Coaching and is a member of ANZI Coaching. Career wise Sophie has been in various roles, but spent the last 18 years in the corporate world in various positions with recruitment companies.
On a personal level, Sophie has lived on 4 continents, speaks 3 languages and harnessed much hope and resilience throughout her life. Sophie has become stronger when faced with adversity and believes that all experiences are life lessons sent to challenge us and make us better people.
Career Highlights: Promoted from Consultant to Branch Manager within 12 months, where Sophie ran the most profitable branch for 5 consecutive years out of 25 branches nationally. Sophie later joined a boutique recruitment firm and held various roles including Business Development Manager, General Manager and Business Development Director. Sophie is a regular contributor to recruiterdaily.com.au as their resident expert on all matters relating to recruitment and increasing personal and business performance. Sophie has also written for magazines such as Recruitment Extra and is a regular writer for evancarmichael.com on business coaching matters.
Personal Highlights: Having two beautiful boys, going to ten different schools by the age of ten. Surviving various challenges in life. Being able to create a successful life and career in Australia on the opposite side of the world to Denmark.
Strengths:
Overcoming adversity,Appreciating the things that matter. Reinventing and rebuilding my life wherever I am in the world.
Relationship building, solution selling, managing teams of people both in the same office and remotely. Winning and managing Major accounts e.g. David Jones, B. Braun, Asics Tiger, Samsung Electronics, Liquor Marketing Group and many others.
Vision:
Enhance the awareness of coaching in Australia; to the extent that it becomes as accepted to have a personal coach as it is to have a personal trainer. Personal training for the soul!
Mission:
Sophie’s passion is to assist people to fulfill their dreams and grow personally and/or professionally. Empower people to create their own lives rather than live an accidental and unfulfilled life.