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Gaye Kuelsen

Neuroscience Executive Coach for High-Achieving Leaders

Gaye Kuelsen is a PCC-certified neuroscience executive coach based in Brisbane, Australia, working with leaders globally. She combines Positive Intelligence (PQ), Brain Coaching, and mBIT to help high-achieving executives break free from perfectionism and build lasting mental fitness. With over a decade in government leadership and deep experience across finance, insurance, and healthcare, Gaye brings real-world credibility to every coaching conversation.

Gaye Kuelsen, neuroscience executive coach, Brisbane

“Gaye is a highly skilled empathetic and intuitive coach. She listens deeply asks direct questions and challenges compassionately. Most of all she is willing to go with the flow of the conversation rather than follow a set structure optimising the value added for her clients. I highly recommend Gaye as a personal coach.”

Diane, UK

Experience Includes

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Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Certified Positive Intelligence Coach (CPQC)
Certified mBIT Coach
Accredited Mental Health First Aider
Registered ICF Mentor Coach

About Gaye

Gaye Kuelsen is a PCC-certified neuroscience executive coach helping high-achieving leaders break free from perfectionism. She specializes in working with executives who appear confident externally but struggle internally — and her clients learn to lead with both confidence and calm.

With extensive experience in business administration across finance, insurance, and medical sectors, combined with over a decade in government leadership, Gaye understands the real-world challenges executives face. What distinguishes her approach is the integration of neuroscience-based techniques including Positive Intelligence (PQ), Brain Coaching, and multiple Brain Integration Techniques (mBIT).

As a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach (CPQC) and Accredited Mental Health First Aider, Gaye helps clients develop mental fitness alongside leadership capability. She also serves as a Registered ICF Mentor Coach through ReciproCoach, supporting coaches working toward PCC and ACC credentials.

Areas of Focus

Gaye’s neuroscience executive coaching approach covers three core areas.

Breaking the High-Achievement Paradox
Working with leaders who excel professionally but struggle with perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and relentless self-criticism that creates stress and limits further growth.

Neuroscience-Based Leadership Development
Leveraging Brain Coaching, Positive Intelligence, and mBIT techniques to help executives rewire thought patterns, build mental fitness, and align their head, heart, and gut for better decision-making.

Mental Health & Resilience for Leaders
Supporting executives in developing sustainable performance practices, managing stress and burnout, and cultivating the psychological safety to lead authentically without sacrificing wellbeing.

Who Gaye Works With

As a neuroscience executive coach, Gaye works with executive coaches and leaders across industries including:

  • High-achieving executives struggling with perfectionism and critical self-talk
  • Leaders seeking to improve resilience, mental fitness, and work-life integration
  • Executives navigating career transitions who want to lead with greater calm and confidence
  • Organizations investing in leadership development with a neuroscience-based approach
  • Coaches working toward ICF PCC or ACC credentials

Location & Availability

Based in Greater Brisbane, Australia | Available for virtual coaching globally

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What Clients Say About Gaye

Gaye is a great coach. She helped me with new topics each time and they created the change or shifts in my life that I needed. She is very thoughtful in her questions and her questions come from a place to truly understand my experience. Gaye was also open to think outside the box and let me lead where I needed to go in the sessions. We followed the Breakthrough Coaching process for my real life coaching topics that proved how valuable this program can be. I am truly grateful that Gaye was the coach I was lucky enough to have for this program.

Charlene

United States

Gaye is a thoughtful skilled coach who truly partners with her clients. She supported me in exploring both everyday challenges and deeper struggles always letting me figure it out (letting me “struggle”) without offering shortcuts. As a result I became more aware of how my values were impacting my life and how much I struggle when I lack alignment with values and commitments.

Matthew

United States

I was coached by Gaye through a Career Mentoring Program. I had little understanding of what career coaching really entailed and felt some apprehension going into our sessions. However I immediately felt at ease with Gaye. She emitted warmth and compassion (even over zoom) and over the course of our sessions my confidence and reflective skills grew. Our sessions highlighted the benefit of coaching even in the early stages of a career I would highly recommend Gaye to anyone considering professional coaching.

Amanda

Australia

Gaye’s style is a lovely blend of warmth and directness. Her questions are clear and designed for insight. That straight forward approach flows through into the way she does business too – ie. she’s really easy to work with! I’m very grateful for the mentoring she provided and would highly recommend her to others.

Kate

New Zealand

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Frequently Asked Questions About Working With Gaye

What makes Gaye Kuelsen different from other executive coaches?

Gaye is a neuroscience executive coach who integrates three evidence-based frameworks — Positive Intelligence (PQ), Brain Coaching, and mBIT (multiple Brain Integration Techniques) — rather than relying on a single methodology. She also brings real corporate leadership experience across finance, insurance, healthcare, and government, so she understands the pressures her clients face from the inside.

What credentials does Gaye hold?

Gaye holds a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the Certified Positive Intelligence Coach (CPQC) credential, and Certified mBIT Coach status. She is also an Accredited Mental Health First Aider and a Registered ICF Mentor Coach through ReciproCoach.

Who does Gaye typically coach?

As a neuroscience executive coach, Gaye works primarily with high-achieving executives who appear confident on the outside but are dealing with perfectionism, imposter syndrome, or chronic self-criticism internally. She also supports leaders navigating career transitions and organizations building neuroscience-based leadership development programs.

Where is Gaye based and does she coach internationally?

Gaye is based in Greater Brisbane, Australia and works with clients virtually across the globe. Time zones are no barrier — she regularly coaches leaders in the US, UK, and across the Asia-Pacific region.

How do I start working with Gaye through Enable Leaders?

You can reach out directly using the contact form on this page, or request a curated match if you’d like Enable Leaders to help identify the right coach for your specific situation. There’s no cost to you for the matching process.