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TLC Coaching

Nicky

Nicky has extensive experience as an international executive coach and organisational development specialist, particularly at Board and Exec level. Having worked across multi business sectors and industries, she has expertise in the areas of 1:1 coaching, inclusive leadership, systemic working, designing, delivering and leading Leadership Development and Cultural Transformation Programmes aligned to delivering the business strategy.

She works extensively with Board and Exec teams, facilitating and building high-performance cultures as well as 1:1 coaching. Nicky is the owner and MD of TLC and has strong commercial and operational acumen. She leads an international team of virtual facilitators and coaches.

Drawing on over 25 years’ operational experience within market-leading companies both in the UK and USA, Nicky brings a deep and thorough understanding of real-world business coupled with an intuitive, empathetic and pragmatic approach. Trained in psychology, Nicky brings in-depth behavioural insight to her work from an organisational, team and individual perspective. She is therefore able to help embed change, new ways of working, behaviours and mindsets, facilitating self-awareness and proactive problem solving to deliver business results.

Particular areas of expertise are coaching inclusive leadership, female leaders, impact and influence, mediation, conflict resolution, team dynamics or relationships that her clients find complex, demanding and challenging, supporting them to find pragmatic and creative solutions that get results.

Operational Experience:

  • Manager for Marks & Spencer
  • HR Director for Lowndes Queensway
  • L&D Director for Rhône-Poulenc Rorer in the USA and UK
  • Owner and MD of TLC, The Learning Curve Ltd.

Qualifications:

  • MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling
  • Trained Supervisor
  • TA 101 (Transactional Analysis)
  • Qualified Psychometric Practitioner: MBTI Step 1 and FIRO-B
  • Mediator
  • Qualified teacher in further education.

Specialisms:

  • 1:1 coaching at Board, CEO, Exec and Director level
  • 1:1 coaching with female leaders
  • Team development at Board and Exec level and for teams that are new, underperforming or in conflict
  • Building confidence, impact, influence and networks
  • Strategic design and delivery of Leadership Development and Cultural Transformation Programmes to develop leadership capability and a high-performance culture to deliver the business strategy
  • Working in engineering, construction and rail
  • Getting buy-in and commitment from key stakeholders to support change interventions and create a collective leadership mindset
  • Developing emotional intelligence and resilience
  • Conflict resolution and mediation expert
  • Working with difficult teams, people and behaviours
  • Enabling difficult conversations with positive and constructive outcomes
  • Measuring commercial and cultural returns on investment.

Clients

Abri, Adevinta, Arriva, B3Living, Boots, Brakes, British Gypsum, Brown[1]Forman, Capco, Catalyst Housing, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, E.ON, Govia Thames Link Railway, Hitachi Rail, HSBC, Intergen, King, Lewisham Homes, Leeds University, Linklaters, Maximus, Orbit Group, Origin Housing, Oxford University, Pfizer, Saint[1]Gobain, SBM, Southern Railway, Swiss Re, Telefónica O2, The Open University, Southern Housing, Waitrose and Warner Bros.

Additional Expertise:

Nicky has grown a consultancy business, which now has 60 UK and European coaches and facilitators who design and deliver bespoke Leadership Development, 1:1 and team coaching and Cultural Transformation Programmes to global blue-chip companies.

Nicky is a thought leader on Inclusive Leadership and Cultural Transformation and conducts extensive research, which she shares in the white papers and insights she writes.

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