Dr Dominic Moran
Email: dmoran@mainlandmomentum.co.nz
Phone: 027 681 6555
Website: mainlandmomentum.co.nz
Location: Canterbury
Face to face delivery:
Locations without disbursements: Canterbury, West Coast
Locations with disbursements: NZ wide
Virtual delivery: Zoom, Microsoft Teams
Dominic is an experienced leadership and culture development practitioner with more than 30 years’ experience working with businesses and organisations. He works with senior leaders to strengthen leadership capability, improve communication and accountability, and build high-performing, resilient managers.
His coaching approach is practical, structured and grounded in real-world experience. Dominic works alongside leaders to understand their goals, challenges and organisational context, providing direct, honest and constructive feedback. He helps leaders develop greater self-awareness and understand how their leadership and communication styles influence those around them.
A key strength of Dominic’s coaching is translating insight into practical action. He uses real-life workplace situations to challenge thinking, explore different perspectives and identify behaviours that improve leadership effectiveness. He supports leaders to build confidence, strengthen decision-making and influence, navigate complexity and change, and develop the leadership presence required in demanding environments.
Dominic has particular expertise in supporting leaders through change, crisis, uncertainty and organisational transformation. He works with individuals transitioning into senior leadership roles and helps established leaders remain adaptable and professionally relevant as technology, including AI, reshapes the workplace. His coaching also addresses resilience, wellbeing, leadership character and alignment, recognising that sustainable leadership requires both capability and self-awareness.
His style is engaging, warm and challenging when required. He creates an environment where leaders can examine their performance, have honest conversations and explore new approaches, with a strong focus on agreed objectives, measurable outcomes and practical improvements.
Dominic holds a PhD with an academic background in sociology, psychology and social psychology. He is a qualified REACH coach, specialising in leadership development and helping leaders increase their influence through understanding communication styles.
Areas of specific leadership coaching expertise:
- Leading through change, uncertainty and organisational transformation
- Building leadership confidence and capability in an AI-enabled workplace
- Supporting promotion and transition into more senior leadership roles
- Career transitions, career clarity and maintaining professional relevance
- Building resilient and adaptable leaders capable of responding to future workforce challenges
- Managing conflict and challenging behaviours
- Resilience and wellbeing
- Understanding communication styles to improve leadership relationships and influence