About GCA

Our Team

Meet the facilitators who guide every cohort with presence, skill, and heart.

A small team of coaches, mentors, and educators committed to ethical, heart-centred training.

Led by Jay Birch with Camille Nelson and founder Belinda Baillie, GCA brings together decades of coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and personal development experience.

We teach what we live — and we walk alongside every student as they grow into the coach and mentor they are uniquely meant to be.

Global Coaching Academy team

Facilitators

Our lovely professional coaches & facilitators

The people you will learn with, practise with, and grow alongside throughout your GCA journey.

Jay Birch (ACC)

Facilitator

Jay Birch (ACC)

In 2025, Belinda Baillie (friend and founder of The Global Coaching Academy) handed over the business and leadership reins to Jay. Since then, he has been gratefully and enthusiastically leading GCA into a new expanded Global phase of growth and development.

Camille Nelson

Facilitator

Camille Nelson

Camille is a GCA graduate and working mentor and coach, bringing bright, irrepressible enthusiasm to our team and students.

Belinda Baillie (MCC)

Founder / Facilitator

Belinda Baillie (MCC)

Belinda is the founder and chief course creator at GCA, with over 30 years mentoring and coaching people.

Dr Jenna Cornell M.D.

General practitioner · Holistic medicine

Dr Jenna Cornell M.D.

Board Certified Family Doctor and Fellow of the RACGP, with Board Certification in Holistic Medicine and 25+ years across private practice, emergency medicine, and indigenous health.

Dr Elinor van Ommen

Clinical psychologist

Dr Elinor van Ommen

Dr Elinor van Ommen is a Clinical Psychologist known for her compassion and her wholistic approach to psychological wellbeing. Elinor’s therapeutic focus is to understand the whole person, not just a collection of symptoms, and to help people identify and transcend unhelpful patterns that keep them feeling ‘stuck’.

Campbell Carew

Leadership Coach and Mentor

Campbell Carew

Campbell Carew is a coach and consultant who believes good leadership starts with self-awareness, wherever it's being practiced. With a Master's in Business Leadership, a Cert IV in Mentoring and Coaching, and membership with the International Coach Federation, he brings over 400 hours of coaching experience to his work, along with a genuine curiosity about what makes people and teams thrive.

Want to see the impact of this team’s work? Read graduate success stories, or get in touch.