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Areas of expertise

• Executive and leadership coaching to maximise performance
• Transition coaching to support newly appointed leaders
• Coaching project teams to achieve their goals
• High potential/future leader coaching
• Training and developing internal coaches
• Developing Human Resource strategy to support business goals
• Designing and delivering complex change programmes
• Creating and delivering talent and leadership development strategies
• Mentoring Human Resource leaders and their teams

Special interests

• Developing organisational culture and capability
• Creating high performance teams
• Strategy implementation and transformational change
• Executive, leadership and team coaching

Business background and experience

Alison has over 20 years’ experience of working with organisations to create a performance edge through people. She brings together expertise in strategic Human Resources, organisation effectiveness and coaching to help businesses translate their goals into pragmatic strategies and programmes that deliver lasting results. She is passionate about working with individuals, teams and organisations to help them perform at a higher level and to realise their full potential.

Alison has held executive and leadership positions during her career and is experienced across a diverse range of industry sectors including FMCG, Retail, Telecoms, Transport and IT, both in the UK and internationally.

Coaching, facilitation and consulting approach

Helping her clients to achieve their goals is at the heart of Alison’s approach, along with the values she works by: partnership, passion, quality, learning and results. She helps her clients to gain a deep understanding of their situation so that they can develop realistic and focused plans that can be progressed with commitment. Alison helps her clients to assess their results as they move forward with their plans so they remain flexible and able to address the unexpected or unplanned’ opportunities or challenges that inevitably accompany change.

Alison understands the complexities of organisational life and the challenges of leadership. Feedback from her clients confirms that they value her experience and her approach; she is someone who engages with them, understands their context, works flexibly and who is committed to providing the support and challenge that clients need to achieve their goals, develop their capability and undertake their roles with confidence.

Areas of expertise

• Designing and facilitating coaching, leadership and high performance development programmes
• Executive and leadership coaching
• High potential future leader development
• Identifying and developing social business capacities and strategies
• Conference speaker and event facilitator

Special interests

• Developing leaders, executives and social entrepreneurs to attain full potential
• Creating high performance teams
• Achieving project ambitions
• Identifying and realising commercial opportunities with social impact for global companies

Business background and experience

Jackie is an experienced executive coach and programme leader. With over 20 years business experience, Jackie has worked in a range of organisations including academic institutions, internet start-ups and large telecoms companies; latterly managing £1.6bn of revenue for T-Mobile bringing new products and services to the market.

She has partnered with companies including Heinz, Tesco, Royal Bank of Scotland, Allianz, BT, Net-a-Porter, Jamie Oliver and Accenture. In the last 3 years, Jackie has worked with social visionaries providing coaching, events and trainings to create breakthrough models and frameworks for increased social impact combined with commercial growth.

Coaching, facilitation and consulting approach

Jackie has a natural ability to create the condition for transformation with people. She brings a sense of calm, possibility and challenge that allows people to step into their natural leadership style and go beyond limiting behaviours and beliefs.

When leading programmes, she is thought provoking and impactful. She brings focus and clarity and stretches people to step into their full potential. Her knowledge and experience of business combined with understanding what makes people tick, underlies her down to earth and practical approach.

Jackie has experience of working with senior management and executives in companies competing for market share, managing structural changes and down-sizing, companies in growth phase moving to maturity and social enterprise environments where innovation is required to meet objectives with limited resources.