“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Dr. Jane Goodall, Primatologist and Anthropologist
Dr. Jane Goodall, Primatologist and Anthropologist
I work with leaders and future leaders in professional services firms.
I have coached more than 200 partners and senior executives in legal, consultancy and financial services firms. With a professional background in law and more than 20 years’ experience in senior City roles I understand my clients’ world.
Whether you are stepping up to a leadership role or already an experienced leader I can help you become the best you can be.
Indira Ghandi, 1917-1984, Prime Minister of India
My role is to create the space and ask the questions that will enable you stand back, reflect and think creatively about your challenges and issues. I bring objectivity, an external perspective and fresh insights.
I will help you get to heart of things quickly, identify what’s holding you back, and settle on a positive course of action to accomplish your objectives.
John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848, 6th President of the United States
Leadership is about passion and purpose. It is about influencing, encouraging and inspiring others to achieve positive goals. Even if you don’t have a team to manage you can be an inspirational leader.
These are some of the leadership challenges clients have discussed with me:
Transition to a more senior role – how to step up and lead with authority, getting to grips with unfamiliar challenges as quickly as possible
Adapting to leadership - as a professional expert how to re-focus towards managing the business, and leading your peers as ‘first amongst equals’
Settling into a leadership role – how to find your voice, develop your authentic leadership style and be the confident ‘best version of you’
Edna Murdoch and Miriam Oriss, founders of the Coaching Supervision Academy
With scientific genes and a love of the arts I chose law as my first profession: a perfect combination of rules based logic and the unpredictability of human behaviour. My experience in legal practice, and subsequently in academic teaching and research, led me to a number of senior international roles in leading law firms including Norton Rose, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Baker McKenzie where I was the firm’s Global Director of Professional Development.
I have been coaching full time for more than 10 years. Coaching is a dynamic and evolving field and as a coach I am trained in and can draw on many disciplines – for example positive psychology, neuroscience, transactional analysis, systems theory, Gestalt, NLP and mindfulness.
In the end good coaching rests on a relationship of trust; open and honest dialogue; and a firm belief in the resourcefulness, imagination and courage of my clients.