Who We Are — and Why We Do What We Do
Dr Olivier Becherel
Executive Coach
Career & Life Decision Strategist
Personal Leadership Specialist
We didn't find our way to executive coaching through a straight line. We both built serious academic careers — in molecular genetics, cancer research, medicine, and microbiology — before realising the system we were working within couldn't contain what we were actually here to do. That crossroads became our greatest teacher. And it's why we understand, intimately, what our clients are going through.
From a very young age, I've been fascinated by the mysteries of life — how things work, why people do what they do, and what drives human potential. I was always naturally inquisitive and sought to understand how things worked around me.
That fascination with Life and the ‘micro-world’ led me to study biology and then undertake a PhD. in Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology. Eventually, this led me to pursue a career in cancer research and neuroscience, to better understand the connections between external and internal influences in the context of health and disease.
From my scientific training, I learned to understand how changes in the external environment influences the internal one by exploring different perspectives and looking for cause and effect relationships.
Ultimately this allowed me to develop an uncanny ability to see things most people don’t and 'connect the dots' to make sense of the world and what’s happening behind the scene.
Despite my love of science, the academic system slowly began to stifle me. Research funding politics, bureaucracy, and rigid thinking restricted my freedom to explore. Research funding imperative, bureaucracy and politics were restricting my exploration and freedom of thinking. Gradually, I became more and more disengaged with my work. I felt stuck, underutilised, and my opinion didn’t really matter.
The lack of fulfilment was crying out loud that it was time to change something… That was a turning point in my life and my career path. I made a commitment to myself to find a career path that would allow me to fully express my potential.
I put an end to my academic career and left behind the security and ‘prestige’ to start my entrepreneurial journey. It was a steep learning curve and a genuine leap into the unknown. But deep down, I knew it was right because I was born for more.
To relaunch myself, I studied extensively human potential, the universal laws and their application to human behaviour, leadership and business and I sought out the guidance and support of mentors, advisers and coaches along my journey.
Integrating my own personal experience and the insights gathered from working with clients from around the globe, Marcia and I gradually developed our signature coaching program Clear Path Forward®— a 10-Week Roadmap to Influence & Impact—to empower high-achieving professionals and emerging leaders in the Tech & Finances to break through to the next level of their career and life. Since leaving academia and launching Mastery to Success Pty Ltd in 2009, I haven't looked back!
My mission is to guide high-achieving professionals to unlock their unique leadership potential and build a career path designed around their authentic gifts, not someone else's template.
Dr Marcia Becherel
Personal Transformation Facilitator
Creator of Neuro Emotional Integration
From a young age, I've been driven by one question: what does it take for a human being to truly thrive? I started my journey in medicine, became a medical doctor and then pursued my exploration with a Ph.D. in Microbiology & Public Health. From the start of my medical career, I sensed that conventional Western medicine was only telling part of the story. So, parallel to my medical and scientific career, I also extensively studied Natural Therapies, Energy Medicine and the Mind-Body connection to expand my knowledge and skills beyond my academic qualifications.
All my life, I have been looking for a holistic approach to wellbeing and the fulfilment of human potential. With courage, I decided to quit my medical/scientific career to pursue my true calling in personal transformation.
10 years ago, I started to really deep dive into the role of emotions in wellbeing and personal transformation. Since then, I gained expertise in cutting-edge technologies for accelerated personal transformation such as the Demartini Method, Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), NLP, Time Line Therapy, Hypnosis, HeartMath, and the Sedona Method.
Over the past decade, I've developed my own mind-body integration methodology — empowering clients to transform stress into success, emotional turmoil into balance, and self-sabotage into a creative driving force.
Clients come to me burnt out, overwhelmed, and at the mercy of their emotions feeling like life is happening to them rather than for them. Through one-on-one coaching, I flip the dynamic around and guide them back to be in the driver’s seat of their life.
I am on a mission to educate and empower professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs to master their emotions, develop resilience and reclaim their personal power.
My gift is to assist individuals to identify and break through the mental and emotional roadblocks that are holding them back from embracing their full potential.
From there, they reconnect with their inner authority and build the career and life they actually chose.
Together, Olivier and Marcia offer something genuinely rare — a fusion of strategic clarity and deep emotional intelligence that creates transformation at every level.
If our story resonates with yours, we'd love to connect.
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