Meet Helena

Where it all began

The first thing you need to know about me? I’m a geek at heart.

I started my career over 30 years ago as an educational psychologist and psychotherapist, with specialisation in how adults learn, play and work better in groups or teams. As a university professor, I taught graduate courses in Consulting Psychology, Career Development, Leadership Development, Communication, and Group Dynamics.

“Beyond Coaching”

In 2005, I recalibrated my academic and therapy tools into coaching and training corporate leaders.

I developed an approach called “Beyond Coaching,” which takes the leaders outside the average executive coaching to include self-psychology and relational intelligence. 

As a Coaching Psychologist, I combine the practicalities and proactiveness of coaching with the science of psychology to move leaders to the next level of clarity and agency. By shedding light on patterns, habits, conditioning and strengths, First, I help them to retool and recalibrate their existing skills, and then build on those to develop and practice new ways of knowing and leading.

My clients describe our sessions as tailored masterclasses and form of advanced self-coaching and self-leadership. The practical tools to coach and lead others are the fringe and organic byproduct.

Coaching philosophy

Leadership is fuelled by weaving professional and personal elements with the 7 C’s.

Professionally, work is where you hold your purpose, achievements and satisfaction. Personally, it involves your meaningful relationships, values and happiness. Both operate on what I call the 7 C’s of Leadership and Relationships: Connection, Contribution and Confidence, fuelled by effective Communication, wise Conflict management and Clarity. The main C’s and supporting C’s are optimised if you genuinely Care about learning and growing yourself and others. I specialise in facilitating better, stronger and happier leaders across life and work implementing emotional and relational intelligence. 

Who I work with

In the last 17 years of coaching and training, I have worked with leaders from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, UBS, JP Morgan, London Stock Exchange Group, Fujitsu, The Royal Mail, Astra Zeneca, Medable, The National Gallery, Anson, Horta, Hays, NHS, Undo, Cambridge Angels, Bolton Business Ventures, i2i and the University of Cambridge, Baxter in Belgium, and the U.S. Air Force.

I also run the intensive personal and professional success coaching service for MBA students and alums at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School called MindWorks@CJBS.

“Soft Skills for Hard People”

I wrote and published a best-selling book during the Covid lockdown.  A toolkit for busy leaders, SOFT SKILLS FOR HARD PEOPLE, is a rational take on the demands of emotional intelligence written especially for sceptics, stoics, and pragmatists grappling with the elusive people skills often recommended by experts and organizations. It hit #1 in 3 different categories in business and management (2020, Amazon). 

Leadership & Relationship Intelligence

Today, I use my unique blend of experiences as a Coaching Psychologist and Executive Coach to help leaders transform the quality of their leadership and personal & professional relationships. 

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