Author: adminus

Fiona is a highly skilled leadership coach and facilitator with 25+ years’ experience in blue chip, international, organisations across many industries including financial services, energy, automotive and telecoms. She has also worked with smaller enterprises in technology, construction and higher education. 

Her expertise includes designing and delivering leadership development interventions; driving global change initiatives; developing employee engagement strategies and leading teams to create and deliver learning & development programmes across multiple locations and countries.  

Fiona began coaching 20 years ago, has studied coaching as a discipline since 2011 and has an academic background in the science of behaviour and mind. She brings her knowledge, insights, experience, empathy, and humour together in her work. She has worked mainly with mid-level and senior managers with a focus on emotional intelligence,  navigating change and managing career transitions. The challenges she has faced, and supported leaders through, during her career have made her passionate about enabling leaders and managers to gain powerful insights and to translate these into actions, both advancing their personal leadership and benefiting the organisations they work for.

Industry Knowledge

• Public and private sectors
• International development (improving living conditions globally)
• Financial Services
• Engineering
• Energy
• Manufacturing
• Automotive
• Education
• Healthcare
• FMCG

Recent Achievements

• Led the design of an award-winning early talent programme for an organisation at the forefront of international development, an organistion at the forefront of improving living conditions globally.
• Co-designed and delivered a management programme accredited by the Institute of Leadership & Management and shortlisted for an award.

Education/qualifications

• Bi-monthly coach supervision 
• Monthly ICF accredited learning calls 
• Level 2 BTS coaching training 2020 
• Certificate in Coach-mentoring with Distinction, The OCM – 2012
• Competent and certified in profiling and tools including MBTI, DISC, OPQ, Motivation Questionnaire and PDI 360 – from 2004 onwards
• Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management with Merit, Coventry University – 2003
• Rogerian Person-Centred Counselling, University of Warwick – 1998 
• Psychology BSc (Hons) 2:1, University of Warwick – 1998

Sue Waller, coach for personal transformation; inspirational speaker, mentor and advisor to the people who cross her path.

Sue is a force, reshaping the perception of what it means to be successful in today‘s world. Renowned for her unwavering commitment to supporting individuals in their pursuit of what it means to really feel alive.

A luminary in the realms of authentic leadership, equality, and diversity, Sue champions the transformative power of being uniquely and authentically you in effecting personal, organisational and societal change. 

Sue has an impressive background with many years in senior leadership positions, across different countries and industries, including her most recent role as a Managing Director in a leading global financial services organisation.  There she found her purpose and determined to support others in reaching personal fulfillment in what appears to be an increasingly volatile and unpredictable world.

Globally experienced talent acquisition & development expert

Terence has over 25 years’ experience of recruiting, coaching and developing students at various organisations including Towers Watson, JP Morgan, KPMG, BNP Paribas and Wells Fargo across Europe, United States, Canada and APAC.

Terence has received numerous awards for his contributions and has acted as a subject matter expert on graduate/early careers, MBA, and experienced hire talent and development issues across various media channels, including radio, press, and television.

Jane is an accomplished strategic learning and development professional with a strong commercial focus, honed across diverse roles. Recognized for her program design expertise and an approach that combines empathy with challenge, Jane excels as both a facilitator and executive coach. Her outstanding contributions to the field were acknowledged when she won the 2010 Personnel Today Award for “Excellence in Learning and Development.”

Her career has seen her in leadership positions such as Group Head of Learning and Development and Senior HR Business Partner, where she seamlessly integrated learning strategies with business objectives. Jane also brings valuable experience from operational management roles, demonstrating commercial acumen and leadership in a blue chip retail environment, managing profit and loss responsibilities with finesse.

Jane’s professional background includes impactful stints at Boots plc, Npower, and ATS Euromaster, where her strategic initiatives significantly enhanced workforce capabilities and business performance. Her ability to drive success, coupled with her adaptable expertise across sectors, makes Jane a key asset in advancing organizational learning and development goals.

Jane is an experienced executive coach and facilitator.  She has worked in Learning and Development for 30 years and during this time has gained a wide range of experience and understanding in self development and behavioral change.

Focus of Work Experience

Jane’s work history includes management roles in a number of high profile retail and training organisations.  From there she moved into consulting roles gaining an interest in patterns of behavior that influence our leadership style and approach.  As a consultant she has worked in many parts of the world with clients in Retail, Healthcare, Transport and the Service sector. She has coached clients at different levels in both the public and private sector.  

Jane’s coaching style is client centred drawing on a range of techniques and models to suit the client’s objectives.  The coaching approach is focused around the client exploring the opportunity to question and examine their thoughts and actions as leaders.

Jane has a post graduate certificate in Coaching and Mentoring and has completed an MSc in Leadership and Management with distinction from Bristol University.  She is a trained facilitator, neuro-lingistic practitioner and accredited in level 1 MBTI.