Clients
Testimonials
What Clients Say
“My experience with Vicki has been hugely positive – the fact we had so many sessions over so long is testament to that. With her coaching I have experienced transformational change. I would not hesitate to recommend Vicki as a coach”
Managing Director in a Digital Company.
“With a great coaching style through compelling and supportive perspectives, insights and experience, Vicki created the right executive level improvement environment. This engagement allowed me to work through important scenarios and challenges to reflect, test and change my approaches to ensure I was in a stronger position that has improved results – Excellent!”
Vice-Present,Global Electronics Company in Defence & Aerospace sector.
“The coaching sessions with Vicki give me energy, courage, and affirmation. Her approach is challenging and there is ‘nowhere to hide’. She achieves all of this by creating a warm and supportive environment. She encouraged me to be bold, to think differently and the sessions have helped me to constructively tackle some difficult issues resulting in positive outcomes. I unreservedly recommend Vicki, a dynamic, positive, and inquisitive coach”.
Chair of an NHS Trust.
“I have worked with Vicki for many years, she has coached lots of leaders in my current and previous organisations with tailor made individual coaching programmes. The results have been remarkable – with transformation at both the organisation and the individual level. Members of my team who have worked with Vicki on their individually developed plans have had life changing long-term impact to their personal and business outcomes. This manifests itself in many ways dependent on the needs of the individual or the business. I would highly recommend Vicki as someone who will not only make a difference to your team, but will bring out the very best of your people to allow them to contribute to their full extent to your business”.
Vice-President of an Energy Technology company (UK&I).
“Vicki’s coaching was invaluable to my career development. Her guidance on leadership and managing change helped me successfully transition to the executive team and have a positive impact. I highly recommend her to anyone who is looking to improve their executive leadership and make a wider business contribution.”
Chief Operating Officer, Green Energy Company.
Case
Case Examples
Coached a Managing Director through a period of major organisational change, (including department mergers, restructuring and transformational change). This involved honing his leadership and change management skills during a period of uncertainty; ensuring the operational delivery, and creating a high level of employee engagement and stakeholder influence throughout the change process. He also developed the talent and succession managements strategies to stabilise the workforce plan and to deliver the business requirements.
Coached a Chief Technology Officer in a global Energy business to develop his partnership working with a new venture company. This included helping him navigate the company politics, initial resourcing set up and negotiation, ensuring business integrity and strategic alignment.
Developed a global Technology Head to lead and influence diverse business teams in different countries to develop his strategy and improve cross-cultural working. This involved managing multiple priorities, influencing stakeholder requirements expectations and navigating the politics.
Coached a Managing Director of Integration during a significant transformation of two well-known logistics organisations, increased his executive presence and stakeholder influence and the smooth implementation of their business integration across two key regions. This created the template for other change programmes and further cultural change initiatives.
Coached an Engineering Director on an international assignment, focused on navigating the context and politics in a different county and culture. Guided subsequent career transition into an Operational business leader role to meet development gaps and to optimise progression for a longer-term career progression to Board level.
Developed an Executive Vice-President in a hi-tech company during a private equity ‘buy out’. Enabled him to lead well and influence new shareholders and the executive board during a strategic shift in the business direction. He developed his sphere of influence and increased his executive impact, and achieved stretch business targets by building a high performance team which delivered the changes required.
