Bridget’s goal through coaching is to improve professional effectiveness. She helps individuals achieve objectives, navigate change, and gain clarity or self-awareness. This could be in the context of a career review, a different role or new environment. She often gets involved when there is a specific issue to confront such as a dilemma of any kind, a new role or challenge. She gives the individual an opportunity to discuss important and sensitive matters in confidence with someone knowledgeable and impartial.

Bridget enhances performance and accelerates business results. She stretches, stimulates and supports. Every client gets the benefit of fresh thinking as well a depth of experience gained from multiple business sectors and situations.

She is dedicated to building the capability and enhancing the performance of all the leaders, boards and top teams she works with.

WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE TO WORK WITH BRIDGET

• Executives prefer to work with an advisor they view as a peer, Bridget has significant business experience at Managing Partner/ Director level
• Excellent interpersonal skills means she is able /equipped to work with strong personalities and is prepared to broach sensitive and or difficult subjects, as well as challenge their thinking
• Organisational know how makes her adept at entering a situation, quickly assessing how its people and parts work or fail to work together
• A number of executives from a variety of organisations, with different issues, cultures and operations, have benefitted from her unique mix of capability and experience, resulting in measurable improvement in both business and personal performance.

ILLUSTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS

• Supported Personal Transitions – she has worked with Partners or Senior Executives leaving their organisations after many years of excellent service to create a ‘next chapter’ – recognising that transitions are hard because they shake your sense of identity, but also provide an opportunity for growth and development, whilst tapping into their network with a compelling story.
• Supported New and Potential Partners to improve their presentation, impact and image, to change the way they are perceived, both internally and externally. She helped develop Business Plans to create new networks and win new clients, as well as better manage the significant challenges of being a Partner.
• Assisted with addressing the challenges of a New Position – joining a Board, heading up a Global business, becoming a Partner or Group Head, or securing a new strategic market. Bridget assisted with the prioritisation, time management, Business Planning, Portfolio Management and new Leadership behaviours.
• Mentored the CEO of a national Charity in Board dynamics and Trustee performance, Bridget helped set out a new strategy to improve fundraising and enhance organisational reputation.
• Worked with Directors of a leading Retail business Bridget supported them to adapt to new leadership expectations, embrace a new culture and improve collaboration, accountability and profitability.
• The Permanent Secretary and several Director Generals from a Central Government Department were helped to help review the governance arrangements, their roles, board effectiveness and were supported in a personal drive for excellence.
• Bridget assisted an International Board in enhancing working practices and optimised profitability following a series of acquisitions. She helped establish a core common culture across all geographies (Middle East, Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, the UK and USA) to establish a better approach to innovation and sharing of effective practices.
• Supported the Permanent Secretary of a major Government Department to review the Departmental priorities, identify where and how they could best add value and how they could successfully lead a disparate group of stakeholders and staff.
• Advised the Vice President, Global Research and Development on the implementation of culture change within a major expansion of medical research facilities in the European R&D Headquarters.