Our people bring exceptional diversity and richness of experience and are the very heart and soul of our business. Each is a hand-picked specialist who reflects the calibre of the leaders we serve.
Every one of us has shaped critical outcomes in the C-Suite.
CEO, Partner, Advisor & Coach
Francesca brings tremendous experience of coaching the C-suite, partners, boards and executives across many industries, with a particular focus on professional and financial services, technology and media companies, spanning all geographies. Having spent decades working and coaching at the top of global organisations, Francesca has developed an innate and deep understanding of the pressures, challenges and opportunities that come with leadership. She works with her clients to develop and shape those skills and behaviours that distinguish successful and impactful leaders in today’s complex, dynamic and interconnected working environments.
Francesca’s wealth of commercial and strategic experience was gained throughout her investment banking career at JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, where she held senior management positions across Europe, Asia, the US, the Middle East and Africa. During this time she advised clients on a full range of financial opportunities and lead some of the firm’s key strategic initiatives.
Clients value Francesca’s energy, acumen, and her strategic and commercial insight. In particular they appreciate her ability to combine the art with the science of coaching: her Masters in engineering, her love of neuroscience, combined with her empathetic Mediterranean spirit and her years of coaching experience, blend to make Francesca’s approach to coaching unique: safe and protected, yet challenging, disciplined, practical and instantly impactful.
As a native Italian, who grew up in New York City and has lived and worked across four continents, Francesca truly embraces diversity and understands the challenges and opportunities that arise from working in multi cultural, global environments.
Francesca takes coaching to a whole new level: she is also my guide, my sounding board, my strategic advisor. Her executive background means she understands my world and its challenges. She is equally comfortable discussing numbers and emotions, and this is so powerful! I feel supported yet challenged across all domains.
Partner, Global Law Firm
Chairman, Partner, Advisor & Coach
John’s deep experience of working at the very top of global companies, combined with his extensive coaching skills and experience, have made him a highly sought after executive coach for CEOs, boards and leadership teams.
John’ s 30 year commercial career encompasses numerous C-suite roles across engineering, retail and financial services, as well as seats on the executive committees of WH Smith PLC, Norwich Union PLC and Aviva PLC. Additionally John has sat on boards at INSEAD business school and CIPD, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and has acted as a Non Executive Director for several companies in the healthcare and finance industries.
The depth and breadth of his experience have given John a deep-rooted understanding of the commercial context in which leaders operate, a clear grasp of the responsibilities they shoulder and, crucially, the gravitas to command their respect.
John’s coaching style is always perceptive, insightful and plain-speaking, yet mindful, and is valued in environments where objective and honest opinion is often scarce – one of the reasons his client relationships are deep and enduring.
Above all, John helps leaders to grow, stretch their vision and push their boundaries. He is greatly skilled at enabling individuals and leadership teams craft strategies that deliver change and real business results with agility, pace, resilience and consistency.
John combines the most valuable attributes of a coach and mentor. He has a great combination of unflappable common sense, practical business experience and thoughtful insight, all delivered with a welcome sense of humour. John's advice and support to me has been a great asset. I highly recommend him to any senior leader seeking mentoring, coaching or support.
TSE 50 CEO Insurance
Partner, Advisor & Coach
Rory holds a genuine belief in his clients’ ability to achieve truly extraordinary things. Led by their needs, appetite and context, together they develop the approach that’s right for them, not simply the approach that’s in the textbook.
Clients appreciate his thoughtful and intellectually rigorous approach; he is broad-minded and focused on exploration. With his commitment to lasting capability development evident, his coaching supports immediate opportunities and equips clients with the necessary tools and confidence for the future.
Rory’s belief in his clients’ potential is more than aspirational; it is grounded in over 25 years of rich executive and non-executive experience.
He has been a senior leader in Lloyds Banking Group, an Operating Director (c-suite) for a boutique international consulting firm, a John Lewis & Partners board member, and an independent member (NED) of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Today, he maintains his board-level contributions as Non-Executive Director of Newcastle Building Society and Independent Chairman of Ignite Consulting.
With relentless positivity, Rory is passionate about purpose, responsible leadership and our preparedness to build the capability and thinking that are essential for modern business and society.
With Rory, clients do deep and focused work… enjoying the journey, and leaving uplifted, energised and ever more capable.
Often held as a role model for welcoming and promoting inclusivity of thought, Rory is approachable, trustworthy and an excellent communicator. He acted as counsel to Board members and to me personally, providing coaching support to explore sensitive topics confidentially and bringing an external perspective from his extensive career.
Chief Financial Officer, Retail
Partner, Advisor & Coach
Polly has a widely-recognised reputation for creating the conditions for high-performance, inspiring and enabling individuals and teams to flourish.
Polly’s driving force and the thread running through her career is a passion for fostering environments where people are supported and motivated to be outstanding.
Her approach to coaching combines formal training with experience and observations drawn from blue-chip organisations, most recently leading a $1bn business through the pandemic.
Polly brings a sophisticated understanding of how to operate within matrixed structures and steer leaders through high-pressure situations, gained from over 20 years in senior leadership roles, including Director of Marketing & Communications at Channel 4 and most recently Country Manager at Warner Media, now Warner Bros. Discovery.
Polly’s coaching style is ‘active’ rather than ‘directive’, aiming to provoke the kind of reflection and self-awareness that underpins personal growth, lasting change and sustained high performance.
Drawn to complexity, but skilled in the art of making the complex simple, Polly deploys a trademark mix of fierce logic, creativity, and curiosity to get to the heart of intractable issues and enable the unlocking of solutions.
Polly graduated from University of Cambridge with an MA in Architecture and is an Alumnus of the INSEAD Advanced Management Programme. She is an accredited coach through the Meyler Campbell Mastered Programme and EMCC.
Polly lives between London and Gloucestershire and is married with two university-aged sons.
Polly is uniquely qualified and is simply brilliant. With her keen listening, perceptive questioning and insightful input, she graciously facilitates and supports effortless transformation.
CEO, SC Collective and GloWD
Partner, Advisor & Coach
Jeremy coaches senior executives, partners and next-generation leaders to help maximise their impact and fulfilment in their roles.
Jeremy was previously the CEO of an international law firm, piloting the business from turnaround to market-leading growth, while championing a award-winning strategy to increase gender/racial equality and social mobility. He helped to drive the transformation of his firm to become the largest in the world. He served in management and Board roles within the firm for over 14 years.
Prior to that, for many years, Jeremy was a highly ranked City M&A lawyer, working across many sectors in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. His clients ranged from start-ups to Fortune 500. He is now a non-executive director in the legal and tech industries, a Senior Adviser to investment bank Panmure Gordon and a charity trustee.
Jeremy’s hands-on experience give him an instinctive understanding of the pressures and challenges facing leaders today, together with a real appreciation for the excitement and inspiration that they can bring. He works with clients across a wide range of UK and international businesses, as well as with leaders in the NHS and charity sector CEOs.
As a transformational C-suite coach Jeremy uses a warm and supporting style to energise, challenge and empower his clients.
Jeremy has been a huge asset to me leading my service out of Covid. Our sessions have given me clarity of purpose, detailed plans that I have implemented, and the confidence to go out and influence those around me to make the changes I need.
Dr Emer Sutherland, Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine, King's College
Partner, Advisor & Coach
Becky has been coaching CEOs and executives for over 15 years. Her mix of natural empathy, strong business insight and psychological understanding enable clients to make significant shifts in their leadership and successfully navigate challenging business contexts.
Becky’s 30 year business career spans a number of key industries and disciplines, combining to give her a multidimensional perspective of what it takes to be a great leader.
Following an early career in retail buying and marketing, Becky became a strategy consultant with Boston Consulting Group, working directly with the boards and CEOs of global companies to advise on transformational strategies. She went on to become a board level search consultant, first with Spencer Stuart, where she led the European internet practice and then as Board Partner at the JCA Group. Both roles involved working closely with numerous FTSE boards to identify and hire CEOs. She also advised on the functioning of boards and board committees.
A highly regarded business coach, Becky has a deep understanding of the issues and dilemmas facing the CEO, executive committee and board. Clients value her insight into how to become board ready and crucially how to improve their impact with the board.
Supportive, warm, pragmatic and insightful, she focuses on helping clients increase impact, raise performance and deepen their self awareness.
Becky understands organisational systems and can swiftly get to the nub of commercial issues, adapting with ease across sectors and cultures.
Becky has coached across a broad spectrum of industries, including technology, media, retail, luxury, fashion, consumer goods, banking, insurance, utilities and professional services. She is working with a number of PE backed businesses helping their executives adapt to the PE operating model.
Having Becky as my coach has proven extremely valuable in my role as a new CEO in a complex and political environment. She understands the issues quickly, she is both thoughtful and challenging. She makes me think and offers advice which has consistently enhanced my leadership of the team and my relationship with the board.
CEO, Mining industry
Partner, Advisor & Coach
A lawyer by background, Erica started her career at A&O Shearman before becoming a partner at Weil Gotshal and then founding the securities and structured finance practice at Ashurst. She has considerable commercial experience, having moved from private practice to become the European General Counsel at Barclays Investment Bank and then BlackRock. During this time, she worked at senior executive level, managing large, complex and internationally dispersed teams, both sitting on and chairing senior executive and Board committees.
During her career Erica has gained valuable experience of building and developing businesses, restructuring teams, embedding cultural change and supporting the development of many colleagues, with a particular focus on the diversity agenda. Since becoming a coach, Erica has combined her work coaching with roles as a non-executive director on various commercial organisations and public sector bodies and as a trustee of various charities. She is currently chair of Spark Inside which provides coaching in prisons. She is also a qualified yoga teacher in three different yoga disciplines.
Erica takes a holistic approach to coaching, encouraging an understanding of self and exploring what her clients might want to experience in life overall as well as in career, with an emphasis on achieving fulfilment and creating a ally and cheerleader of the inner voice. She encourages self-reflection and is passionate about continually increasing her understanding of all that psychology and neuroscience can teach us about the human condition.
In her interactions with clients Erica is warm and empathetic but also challenging, highlighting inconsistencies of thinking and behaviour or avoidance of difficult areas. She focusses strongly on potential but also on concrete outcomes, exploring deeper psychological drivers as well as holding coachees to account when it comes to execution of desired change.
Erica has been an incredible and life-changing coach for me. She listens intently and challenges astutely. She has continually encouraged me to reflect on my achievements, to step out of my comfort zone and to ask for (and remind myself of) what I deserve in terms of life and career aspirations. I have recommended her to many already and will continue to do so.
Senior Executive, Scaling Consumer Tech Business
Partner, Advisor & Coach
Richard is a pragmatic, challenging and caring coach, working with the leadership of high profile corporates and professional service firms to help them perform at their fulfilled best.
He is a teaching Associate at the Møller Institute at Cambridge University, a course contributor at Oxford Saïd Business School and a Faculty member of Meyler Campbell, delivering executive coach training and leadership development. He also serves on the advisory board of Imperial College’s MBA programme.
Based in London, he previously spent over 10 years living and working in New York, Paris and Brussels. Drawing on his own frontline experience as a global leader and local manager.
Described in the trade press as “a corporate heavyweight”, Richard’s many leadership roles include:
Deeply committed to diversity and inclusion, he is a mentor for the 30% Club (promoting women in FTSE 250 board rooms), serves on the Advisory Board of The Big Change, a Virgin family charity focussed on improving education, and is a listening volunteer at The Samaritans.
As well as a focus on coaching individual leaders and high-performing teams, he speaks frequently around the world to large audiences on market disruption, innovation, sales culture, entrepreneurship and international strategy.
The difference with Richard is that he’s actually lived it himself as a world class leader in his own career - and this really shows in the results he gets with you.
Jan Mühlfeit, Chairman Microsoft Europe (ret), author of the Positive Leader
Partner, Advisor & Coach
Jill has extensive experience of coaching senior executives and top teams in complex, challenging and diverse environments – across multiple disciplines and industries. Clients value her wisdom, commercial insight and strategic mind, combined with her exceptional observation skills and personal warmth. She brings a deep understanding of life at the top of organisations gleaned from an extensive corporate career, during which she occupied global roles at Exco level spanning several decades.
Having lived and worked in Hong Kong and operated in the United States, Middle East and Europe, Jill has broad first hand experience of working internationally in complex multi-site matrix businesses.
She has led cross-functional and cultural teams as HR Director within organisations such as law firm Mayer Brown, leading international construction firm, Davis Langdon and property company Capital and Counties PLC.
Jill brings a great energy and insight into her coaching and is able to challenge and drive real business transformation. She has unique experience of building successful people strategy and has enabled countless leaders to build confidence and create following over the years. Frequently regarded as game-changing, her coaching has high impact.
Jill has a particular interest in the area of Diversity and inclusion and works with a number of anti-discrimination organisations on a pro bono basis.
I have thoroughly valued and enjoyed my time working with Jill. I admire her calm, wise and pragmatic approach. She has the ability to know when constructively to challenge and when to provide absolute support and encouragement. She takes the time and has the acumen to get close enough to my work to fully understand my challenges, whilst always remaining sufficiently detached to bring fresh perspective.
Executive Director, International Manufacturing Company
Partner, Advisor & Coach
Lloyd has led many UK companies as CEO and he brings that insight into his coaching. He coaches executives who want to be challenged and stretched to become world class leaders. Lloyd has been a Board member of many leading FTSE companies. He is respected in executive coaching and as a business leader. He specialises in working with CEOs and future leaders who aspire to become truly exceptional.
Having sat on many boards including WHSmith, Crest Nicholson, Kingfisher and St Ives, as well as acting as Non Executive Director for various PLCs, private companies and trusts, clients particularly value Lloyd’s perspective and the breadth of his business acumen. They also appreciate his great capacity to challenge and bring clarity and focus to strategic decision making, to build on personal strengths and to tackle obstacles to progress.
Lloyd began his career at Mars, in sales management and brand marketing. He then went on to to work in a variety of senior roles across publishing, wholesaling, retailing, entertainment and marketing services.
It was in his role of Managing Director at WHSmith News, that Lloyd first experienced the power of working with a business coach. The discovery of the extent to which coaching can unleash untapped personal potential and generate significant business growth, led to his training as a professional coach.
Lloyd has since worked as a business coach to a wide variety of leaders across many industries, financial services, marketing services, education, trusts and consulting, helping them each to reach their optimal performance level.
What is it like to be coached by Lloyd? It has enabled me to understand my true potential. It has been deeply energising. It has been life changing.
COO, Property Development Company
Associate Partner
Daniel is a leadership consultant who brings a combination of business psychology and eight years of consulting and coaching at board level.
With a BA in Business Psychology and a MA in Psychoanalytic Studies Daniel has a deep knowledge of current frameworks for leadership and people management. He is a PhD Researcher in Coaching Psychology.
His consulting work focuses on the people-side of change, from aligning FTSE100 executive teams around their strategy to advising the famed German Mittelstand on how to make change stick. He has worked across many major industries, including Retail, Finance and Transport.
Daniel combines empathic curiosity for his clients with a supportive nature, that allows him to build deep relationships, fast. His warm presence and candour enable the tricky conversations needed to make change possible.
In his coaching work, Daniel balances free-flowing conversation with a lightly held structure that will produce clear action points. He brings psychological insight that helps his clients achieve long lasting change and maximise both their impact and their satisfaction in their roles.
He is an expert in providing psychometric assessments 1:1 as well as leading team interventions.
Daniel gets it! We worked on areas that I wasn’t aware of before the coaching, and I don’t think I’d have come as far without him.
Design Director, Tech Company
Advisor & Coach – Asia
Andy has 30 years’ of coaching and management experience, predominantly in Asia Pacific. She has worked across a broad range of industries including FMCG, manufacturing, hospitality, luxury brands and utilities with a significant focus on finance and professional services.
Her approach to helping clients achieve lasting change is simple and pragmatic. Clients identify practical actions that they do at their desks that help them with transition, performance, potential and inclusion.
Having established her private coaching practice in 2002 she is now one of the most experienced coaches in Asia and her services are constantly in high demand with both global and local institutions.
Previously Andy led several regional functions for Goldman Sachs in Asia Pacific. She was responsible for sourcing, selecting and developing talent and has an in-depth appreciation of the specific issues that organisations face in managing a multi-cultural workforce in a highly dynamic region.
Andy began her career as a Research Fellow in Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University and later managed an HR consulting practice for EY in Hong Kong.
Andy is an inspirational and impactful coach who’s worked successfully with our senior leaders. She relates quickly to different business and individual development needs and easily establishes trust. She challenges whilst having a supportive style and she offers leaders specific strategies and practical insights.
Operations and Innovation Director, Public Services Company, Asia
Advisor & Coach – South East Asia
David is an eminent leadership coach who journeys with business owners, board members, C-Suite executives, and leadership teams across multiple sectors and geographies. The distinctive edge of his coaching is applying behavioural science insights to enabling leadership effectiveness while staying deeply attuned to his clients.
David’s 30-year career spans multiple sectors and across various leadership roles. Following an early career in policing, David headed the Organisation Effectiveness capability in Singapore’s Economic Development Board, working with the Chairman, and Managing Director’s office on the organisation’s transformation.
He then went on build the Global Leadership Fellows Program at the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is a vehicle to identify and build top management talents for the WEF. Thereafter he joined the CIMB Group of companies to assess the bench strength of their management talent and worked with the Board to acquire and progress executive leaders across the Group.
Through working directly with Board members and top management teams, he developed a multidimensional appreciation of the competing commitments in the Boardroom and C-Suite.
Clients value David for his capacity to engage with their present and strategic issues and dilemmas. He helps them identify the gifts in their leadership crucibles; obstacles are seen as a challenge to surfacing assumptions. In particular, clients appreciate his grasp of organisational dynamics and connecting the dots on the visceral shifts required for turning around and sustaining high performance.
David has coached executive leaders across a broad spectrum of industries, including technology, media and entertainment, universities, luxury, commodities, oil and gas, banking, and insurance.
David lives in both Singapore and Malaysia with his family.
David is uniquely effective in executive and group coaching. He straddles across cultures and has an uncanny sensitivity and psychological insight into the personality of leaders of any culture. During my 28 years as a senior partner of McKinsey & Company, I have worked with many accomplished professionals. In the leadership development and organizational dynamics area, David compares with the very best.
Dr. Michael M. Obermayer Ph.D., Chairman of Samplix Aps
Advisor & Coach – Americas
Richard has been a Professor of Management and Organisations at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern since 2000 and was a Professor at London Business School for 22 years before moving to the US. He has consulted with business leaders and senior management teams in 41 countries
Based in Chicago, he travels extensively for client engagements. Beyond his core coaching practice, he is a board member of several large family businesses in the US, as well as facilitating senior management teams, moderating industry conferences, and providing consulting services.
He also lectures on leadership, organisational change, power and politics, and resilience, among many other topics. He is amongst the most-awarded lecturers ever to teach at LBS.
His research focuses on the dynamics of in vs. out-groups, and what those in the outgroup can do to get traction.
He has co-authored the chapter on Leadership and Executive Coaching in the Sage Handbook of Coaching.
His lectures on YouTube are amongst the most popular ever produced by LBS.
Richard is the first person I call before any big career or leadership decision. His unique combination of insight, experience, and expertise (particularly with lawyers) make him an invaluable thought partner and coach.
Damien Atkins, Chief Legal & Administrative Officer, Aura (former General Counsel of The Hershey Company)
Advisor & Coach
Keith brings vast global experience coaching C-Suite executives, partners and teams across many industries, with a particular focus on professional services, retail and technology companies.
Keith’s extensive experience offers his clients years of deep insight, commercial acumen and a strategic approach to the challenges that they face.
In addition to his coaching practice, as a faculty member at Meyler Campbell, Keith trains and supervises top-flight executive coaches on mastery of a vast array of leadership tools and approaches. Keith coaches in both English and French.
The strategic and commercial experience that makes Keith’s coaching approach so successful is built on the foundation of his own leadership journey as European General Counsel for Expedia and UK General Counsel for AOL & the Huffington Post UK. As a cutting-edge technology lawyer during the emergence of the Internet as a disrupter of traditional business models, he has a wealth of experience leading teams through uncertainty, forging new processes and approaches, and motivating and mobilising those around him to drive positive outcomes even in the face of daunting unpredictability.
Keith’s clients include C-Suite executives from a wide range of sectors including technology, media, software, art, insurance, banking, shipping and retail, as well as Managing and Senior Partners of global Professional Services firms.
Keith has worked, lived and taught in France, Taiwan, the US and the UK. He brings a deep understanding of and sensitivity to the challenges and opportunities of working in geographically and culturally diverse environments.
Keith is very smart, engaging, pragmatic and business savvy. On top of his sharp intellect, he has an incredible amount of emotional intelligence, which is welcomed (and needed) in any environment.
CEO & Founder, Legal Solutions Company
Advisor & Coach - Americas
Petra is a transformative Executive Coach and Human Capital Expert who bridges advanced coaching methodologies with extensive C-Suite experience to catalyze profound organisational change.
With over 15 years’ experience, Petra has supported senior executives and leadership teams across media, finance, education, retail and hospitality, both as Executive Director at the Columbia Business School–affiliated Mentora Institute and as founder of her own leadership practice.
Petra’s coaching insights are deeply informed by her own C-Suite leadership experience. As President of a Time Inc. business unit, she integrated brand platforms into a cohesive portfolio. As EVP of Bertelsmann, Petra orchestrated a transformative, multi-year-year change initiative in preparation for a planned IPO.
Earlier, she headed up Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s Television division, steering international expansion and IPO execution. Her multifaceted expertise extends beyond corporate leadership, encompassing roles as a BCG strategy consultant and investigative reporter for one of Germany’s top TV networks.
As a dual-culture leader with deep roots in both Europe and the United States, Petra brings a global perspective that resonates with today’s interconnected business environment. Her journalistic background has honed her exceptional ability for deep inquiry and quick identification of underlying storylines within complex organisational dynamics.
What sets Petra apart is her unique ability to bridge strategic thinking with profound inner work. Her coaching methodology weaves together advanced leadership theories including Positive Psychology, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Systemic Team Coaching.
Combined with a deep dedication to meditation and martial arts, this creates a unique coaching presence. Petra’s coaching practice is grounded in rigorous academic and professional credentials, including affiliations with Harvard-affiliated Institute of Coaching (IOC). Petra holds an MBA from Wharton Business School.
I have found Petra's insight and guidance a personal transformation into a more enlightened and intentional leader. Our biweekly calls were both challenging and compelling as she provided methods to deal with the inevitable challenges of leading major change in a big organisation. She is empathetic, candid, and firm. She is Socratic while helping you discover your vulnerabilities.
Senior executive, Top-ranked Technology Co.
Head of Operations
Lynsey is the operational engine of The Alexander Partnership. As Head of Operations, she ensures that every client experience runs smoothly and that the partnership functions as a well-oiled machine behind the scenes.
She oversees all aspects of the Partnership’s finance, technology and administration and ensures that our internal operations reflect the same professionalism we bring to our clients.
With a rich background in executive support and operational delivery, Lynsey combines precision, reliability and an eye for detail with a deep understanding of how to make a business run effectively.
She has been a key member of The Alexander Partnership team since 2014 and plays a pivotal role in enabling our work to flourish.
