ABOUT WENDY BUCKINGHAM
Career Background
Speaking Personally

Career Background

As well as information and skills, Wendy brings to her work with you and her books the benefit of a life rich in experience, learning and transformation.

Wendy's career background includes journalism, small business, broadcasting and coaching. She has over 30 years experience in the Australian media as a feature writer for some leading newspapers and magazines. Her favourite subject and speciality was real estate and in the 80's she was property editor on the Sydney Daily Telegraph and later a contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald. 

In 1990 with her husband Paul Buckingham she founded Class One Productions which is a producer of creative and inspiring audio and video programs for many leading training organisations and businesses.

Wendy first became interested in the benefits of using goals as a context for success and the finer distinctions in goal planning, when she attended a goal-planning seminar given by the man who became her inspiration, teacher and mentor, Allen Wright. Guided by his information and expertise and her own study and experience on the subject, Wendy began conducting her own workshops and coaching sessions. She continued to study and grow her skills with masters including Robert Kiyosaki, Marvin Oka, Stephanie Burns, Thomas Leonard, Dolf de Roos and Jason Whitton.

Wendy is a graduate of the American coaching school, Coach Inc and has been credentialed by the International Coach Federation. She also  an experienced tele-class leader and holds Certificate IV in workplace Training and Assessment.

Through experience with her clients (and herself) Wendy discovered that being able to guide her clients to set powerful authentic goals was just the beginning of the story. It was helping them to identify and handle the "stuff" or obstacles, real and perceived, that were blocking their path, that was the real key to a happier and more fulfilled life.

In 2001 Wendy wrote Ready Set Goal! which brought her work together in a simple format for success.  She has now followed this up by marrying the principles of goal planning and real estate investment in her new book Ready Set Real Estate Goal! to provide the missing link between goal planning and real estate investment and specifically written to help aspiring real estate investors achieve their goals.

This and her CD, Secrets of Successful Goal Planning echo the essence of her work which is to enable people to take charge of their lives and make the best possible choices. Click here to preview and order.

Wendy also believes in giving back to the community. She has worked pro bono with recovering drug addicts and disadvantaged teenagers to help give them the confidence and life-skills to get back on their feet again.

Wendy supports the Cystic Fibrosis foundation (Wendy's niece Julia Goodwin, who has CF, was a finalist in the 2008 Miss Australia Quest) and won the talent section.  She also  sponsors the support and education of a child through World Youth International.  If you would like to know more about these organisations, click here to go to Site Seeing.

Speaking personally
I believe that our highest purpose and challenge is simply to discover the wonder of who we really are and be the best we can be at whatever we choose to do.

Life has been my greatest teacher in coming to realise that it is better to run and stumble and hurt yourself, than to regret never having run at all.

My stumbling has included three "learning" marriages until I met and married my soul mate Paul in 1990. I have two daughters from my second marriage, Sharon and Samantha and two stepdaughters Lindsay and Samantha.

Highlights in my personal life (apart from marriages, divorces and births) have included coming to Australia from London in 1961, living on a Kibbutz in Israel and trekking five days in the Sinai with a Bedouin guide, camels, but no tent and publishing my books. To celebrate the millennium I finally turned my "someday" dream of trekking the high altitude trail to Machu Pichu in Peru, into an exhausting if exhilarating achieved goal. I'm looking forward to more adventures in my work and my life. The best is yet to come!