Business Experience
Lorraine is a certified Executive Coach, Organisational Development and Assessment Specialist and Customer Services Consultant with a blue-chip HR/training & development track record, experienced in working at all levels and across an enviable range of national and multinational organisations, public and charitable organisations.
Her passion for developing others is evident, and she strikes a balance of developing great relationship skills whilst not taking her eye off the commercial realities of business. Lorraine specialises in helping others successfully navigate challenging and sensitive issues at work. She has a particular skill in creating relaxed environments in which individuals feel safe. From here she coaches them to stretch themselves and make a real step change in their performance. In a very practical way Lorraine’s strengths focused approach to transition coaching enables clients to achieve success in the early days of a new appointment or a change to their role.
Lorraine has built strong relationships with people at all levels in client organisations, taking time to really understand their business from a people and commercial perspective. Lorraine’s coaching clients include functional directors and senior managers across a wide range of sectors. She is a certified coach with over 2000 coaching hours and in her coaching practice she is trained to work with a range of approaches to coaching including NLP, coaching within a Thinking Environment, and performance coaching. She is also experienced in the design and delivery of assessment and development centres.,
Professional Qualifications
ILM 7 Coaching & Mentoring, NLP Master Practitioner, Coaching Diploma (ICF) Strengthscope, and Strengthscope Team Facilitator, Core Strengths Partner Certification & Facilitator, Thinking Environment Certification. Qualified to work with a range of psychometric assessment instruments including Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Belbin Accredited, Life Coaching Diploma
Clients include:
Accenture, RLSS, EY Breakthrough Funding, School Academies, Prudential Insurance, Knightstone Housing NHS Trusts, Barclays, Bermuda Commercial, Bank, Kelloggs, John Lewis plc, Pfizer, O2, Vodafone/Vizzavi, BAA, London Gatwick Airport, Rift UK, Skill Force, Clarks, Imperial Tobacco, The Planning Inspectorate, The Highways Agency, Government Office South West, LMS, BAE Systems, , Adecco,.