“My goal is to challenge, inspire, encourage and support high level and emerging leaders and their teams, particularly during times of escalating complexity and change, to improve their performance, fulfil their potential and take action to achieve ongoing business and personal success.”
Accreditations and Expertise
Heather is an Association for Coaching Accredited Professional executive coach, mentor and facilitator of individuals, (particularly Chairs, CEOs and Senior Managers), teams and peer groups with wide-ranging International experience. Using a blend of coaching, education and behavioural skills she works with leaders and teams willing to:
- Learn to become transpersonal leaders who lead beyond their ego
- Enhance self-awareness, self management, self-confidence, social and relationship skills
- Uncover and explore limiting behaviours and beliefs which impact on goal achievement
- Increase trust to build sustainable high functioning teams and organisations
- Flex leadership and management styles to expand customer satisfaction, shareholder value and employee fulfilment
Heather is an Associate of LeaderShape Global and also been a member of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School (SBS) since 2005. As part of the SBS Coaching Team she works in Executive Education as a tutor, coach and facilitator on Advanced Management and Leadership Programmes. She also coaches SBS MBA and EMBA students. In 2008 and 2009, as part of a team within SBS, she delivered leadership and personal development programmes to senior civil service leaders in Abu Dhabi. Heather previously worked as a Senior Programme Director for Common Purpose, a non-profit international leadership and educational development organisation.
Her qualifications include: Member of Association for Coaching (ACM); AC Professional Accredited Coach, Accredited Transpersonal Leadership Coach with LeaderShape UK; Accredited Time to Think Coach (Nancy Kline -Time to Think Organisation UK); Accredited Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling and Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge Facilitator, UK; Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Washington DC and New York; Post Graduate Diploma in Family and Couples Therapy, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP), Manhattan, New York; Social Work Masters Degree (MSW) Family Systems Therapy, Catholic University of America, Washington DC; Psychology, University of South Africa (UNISA); Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA), Witwatersrand University, South Africa.
Business Experience
Heather brings to her practice a unique blend of eighteen years executive coaching and leadership development experience in the UK and internationally; nineteen years business experience with IBM in South Africa in marketing support, sales, training, product management and education and five years education, training and practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, working as a family systems therapist in Washington DC and New York. She has cross cultural experience.
She has worked as an Executive Coach with organisations, across the public and private sector, including health, finance, education, law, manufacturing, biotechnology, engineering, dealing with a diverse range of issues and challenges.
Some of Heather's clients include:
- UK: MD, Structural Engineering Company; CEO, Biotechnology Company; Chief Economist, Health Regulator; Finance Director and Chairman/CEO, Timber Company; IT Director, Telecommunications Company; HR Director, Health Regulator; Regional Director, Oxfam; Senior Pension Officers, Pension Organisation; Leaders UK Open University
- Europe: CEO Strategic Investments, USA Bank
- USA: CEO Biotechnology Company, Chicago; CEO Insurance-Bank, Mexico
- Middle East and Africa: CEO’s Private Companies in Kenya and Nigeria, Civil Service leaders Abu Dhabi.
Testimonial
Awareness is power. Understanding yourself and the others, combining these forces together and building on them, allow you to reach the goal of a stronger and capable enterprise, which is able to offer a "continuous improvement". Without the clear targets, which also come with the proper open questions, there is the risk to have incomplete, partial and ineffective visions.
Through the Action Learning Set (ALS) we got value by re-evaluating our own actions as managers, our outcomes and our ways of operating through distinct variables and different perspectives. The ALS helped us broaden our perspectives and gain greater awareness and completeness of the overall view. Hence we increased the possibility and the will to redefine our own modus operandi by enhancing the result through using each other to think this through in the ALS format.
Heather, through a mixture of her highly experienced professional approach and empathic humanity, has supported changes by encouraging the growth and development of her ALS participants potential and their own personality.
GM, General Logistics Systems Enterprise, Italy 2017