Expertise
Victoria is an Executive coach and change specialist. She holds an MBA, postgraduate diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring and a postgraduate diploma in Counselling. She is Lean Six Sigma qualified, has change management expertise and has been a practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming for many years. She is also member of the Association for Coaching (AC).
As an executive coach, Victoria applies a number of powerful techniques to ensure her clients develop and perform to the best of their capabilities. She is particularly skillful at challenging leaders to tackle obstacles and supporting them to overcome setbacks and build resilience. In addition, she also uses a level of creativity, to assist her clients to problem solve and develop solutions, which helps them to achieve their goals.
Victoria typically works with aspiring leaders, senior leaders at director level and CEOs.
Experience
As well as her role as an Executive Coach, Victoria and is also a Board Member of a not-for-profit training organisation. Her role is focused on promoting of diversity and equality in the workplace, dealing with unconscious bias and other obstacles which prevent creating balance.
Victoria has worked with both public and private sector clients, especially in the areas of Emotional Intelligence, Mental toughness /resilience and change. Example clients include, NHS, Oxfam and various councils across the UK. She has delivered talks on the area of resilience.
Prior to coaching, Victoria has worked in a number of industries in business and IT, including manufacturing, engineering, financial services, where she has strategic focus. This has brought commercial gravitas and an ability to adapt and understand a variety of clients needs.
Increasing confidence
Reducing anxiety
Dealing with setbacks and developing resilience
Delivering presentations with impact
Managing personal and professional change
Improving communication
Dealing with difficult conversations
Behaviour change
Coaching Style
Victoria values honesty and openness. She has natural warmth, which means clients gravitate to her and she quickly builds trust.
She has an aptitude for skilfully challenging her client’s beliefs and behaviours. As well as this, she challenges the rational and practicality of existing goals, and encourages the adoption of new perspectives, before commitment and action. Her style enables her clients to reflect, identify new horizons, grow and reach their full potential.
Victoria is an active listener, positive and supportive. She encourages her clients to identify - and be mindful of - their values and motivations.
Qualfications and Training
MBA
ILM level 7 Executive Coaching and Mentoring
Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling
NLP Practitioner certified
FCMI (Fellow of CMI)
MAC (Member of the Association for Coaching)
Lean Six Sigma qualified.
Change Management trained
Coaching Philosophy
Victoria believes that everyone has their own key to unlock solutions and discover great capabilities, which were not always apparent to them. Coaching is powerful when meaningful results are achieved by people who hold themselves accountable.
