USCMA Executive Committee 2025
PADRAIG (POD) O’SULLIVAN – president
Pod joined the USCMA committee in 2025 as President, having been involved in a previous committee in 2005-07. He completed the Master of Coaching Psychology in 2010 and holds an MBA with a major in Leadership and a Diploma in health. Originally working in sales and marketing functions in the healthcare sector, he has worked full-time in executive coaching since 2003. Pod has been published widely on expatriate leadership and top team performance..
MARY ANNE LOVERIDGE – Vice President
Mary Anne joined the USCMA Executive Committee in 2021, taking on the role of Communications and Membership Officer. Mary Anne completed the Master of Coaching Psychology in 2022 and has successfully made a career progression from Electrical Engineer to Executive Coach, with a passion for supporting women in STEM careers and our First Nations people.
INGO SUSING – Treasurer
Ingo joined the USCMA Executive Committee as Treasurer in 2024. He completed the Master of Coaching Psychology in 2011 which marked his career progression from investment banking and private equity to executive coach and leadership consultant. Apart from his coaching and consulting practice, he since has built a reputation as an expert in leadership succession management, having completed a PhD in 2020 as well as lectured, published and presented on the topic.
marcus carroll – Communications
Marcus completed the Master of Coaching Psychology and joined the USCMA Executive Committee in 2024. Marcus partners with clients in a range of industries including major infrastructure, resources, tech and the arts, providing coaching and consulting services to support leaders, teams and organisations to thrive. He has a particular interest and passion for the application of systems thinking and complex adaptive systems to enhance experiences of growth and change.
Chris gildersleeve – Events
Chris joined the USCMA committee in late 2024 as part of the Events Team. He completed the Master of Coaching Psychology in 2011. In 2018 Chris moved from a 30+ corporate HR career to establish his executive coaching practice utilising a dialogue approach to coaching. In 2019 Chris completed a Master of Applied Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne to expand his understanding of the science of wellbeing in his work.
Sue Stewart – Face to face events Coordinator
Sue joined the USCMA Executive Committee 2015 as the Events Co-ordinator, having completed the Master of Human Resource Management and Coaching in 2005. Sue specialises in Student Career Coaching (Years 11 & 12 students) with life effectiveness & study skills to achieve greater results in the HSC.
michelle Lin – MEMBERSHIPS
Michelle joined the USCMA Executive Committee in 2024, supporting the team with communications and member management. Michelle completed her Master of Coaching in 2012, and has been working as an Executive Coach specialising in leaders working across geographies and cultures (most notably CALD and Aboriginal Torres Straits Islanders), neurodiversity and highly technical, knowledge based industries (tech, fintech, engineering, science and health). Michelle is especially passionate about ensuring evidence based practices are utilised in coaching.
Catherine Drury – professional development and event ticketing
Catherine (Cat) joined the USCMA Executive Committee as Student Representative in 2021 and completed her Masters of Coaching Pschology in 2022. Cat has over 15 years experience in research and development, and a pioneer of Agile ways of working in the Australian Pharmaceutical industry through coaching.
Arthur Gurjian – Professional development
Arthur joined the USCMA Executive Committee in 2016 as a general member after completing the Master of Coaching Psychology in 2015. Arthur is an Executive Coach and Business Consultant focusing on leadership, strategic sales performance and strengths based coaching for individuals and teams.
Martin Richardson – student representative
Marting joined the USCMA Executive Committee in 2023 as Student Representative, immediately contributing to the Professional Development Sub-Committee and joining a working group to look at how USCMA can engage Alumni wherever they may be. Martin is a current student of the Master of Coaching Psychology and is based in Melbourne.
Sean O’Connor – Faculty Representative
Sean is the Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit and a great advocate and supporter of the University of Sydney Coaching and Mentoring Alumni. Sean previously convened the 2020 Evidence Based Coaching Conference held at the University of Sydney with over 350 delegates.
Committee members have overall responsibility and duty of care for each area and recruit assistance and resources from other members as needed.
All members are welcome to email the Committee (info@uscma.org.au) with offers of help or with inspirational suggestions.