About me
I’m a coach with more than two decades of strategy and delivery experience. I’ve worked with leaders all over the world to improve performance and manage change.
My own leadership journey spans the public and private sector, from improving education to scaling an international business. I bring this hands-on leadership knowledge to my coaching with senior executives and teams.
Ready to align your ambition with your impact? Let’s work together to unlock your full potential and achieve meaningful results.
About me
I’m a coach with more than two decades of strategy and delivery experience. I’ve worked with leaders all over the world to improve performance and manage change.
My own leadership journey spans the public and private sector, from improving education to scaling an international business. I bring this hands-on leadership knowledge to my coaching with senior executives and teams.
Ready to align your ambition with your impact? Let’s work together to unlock your full potential and achieve meaningful results.
My mission has always been to make a difference in the world.
About me
I’m a coach with more than two decades of strategy and delivery experience. I’ve worked with leaders all over the world to improve performance and manage change.
My own leadership journey spans the public and private sector, from improving education to scaling an international business. I bring this hands-on leadership knowledge to my coaching with senior executives and teams.
Ready to align your ambition with your impact? Let’s work together to unlock your full potential and achieve meaningful results.
Client Stories
My mission has always been to make a difference in the world.
For the first 16 years of my career, I channeled this passion by working in government – trying to improve systems and services to keep people safe and help them thrive through better education, health and security.
Then I moved country – and sector – and worked with governments, multilaterals and businesses around the world. I used my operational experience to make sure strategy and lofty goals were translated into real, on-the-ground impact.
And now I coach. I coach in all sorts of different ways: individually; with teams; in peer groups, and with organisations looking to collaborate. But the goal is always the same: to help leaders make a difference.
I’ve gone from working across different systems around the world to focusing on what matters most when it comes to making a difference – and that is the potential that every single one of us has to lead well.
My mission has always been to make a difference in the world.
For the first 16 years of my career, I channeled this passion by working in government – trying to improve systems and services to keep people safe and help them thrive through better education, health and security.
Then I moved country – and sector – and worked with governments, multilaterals and businesses around the world. I used my operational experience to make sure strategy and lofty goals were translated into real, on-the-ground impact.
And now I coach. I coach in all sorts of different ways: individually; with teams; in peer groups, and with organisations looking to collaborate. But the goal is always the same: to help leaders make a difference.
I’ve gone from working across different systems around the world to focusing on what matters most when it comes to making a difference – and that is the potential that every single one of us has to lead well.
Apparently this is where you’re supposed to start. Not with the what or the how but with the why. So here goes.
It’s 2020 and on paper everything looks good but things feel somehow misaligned. I’m turning 44. It’s the age my Dad was when he died.Â
What’s my background and how does it make me a better coach?
From my career as a senior civil servant in the UK government, I bring lived experience of how to lead successfully in a complex and demanding political system. Advising Tony Blair on innovation in public services at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit was a real lesson in what it takes to lead change and improvement when people, and structures, are set in their ways.
Having shaped thinking and action on numerous social and political challenges, I’m not afraid of seemingly impossible problems. At the Cabinet Office Defence and Overseas Secretariat, I had the opportunity to design the core pillars of the country’s counter-terrorism strategy, which is still in place today.
I later worked for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to lead an independent review of online safety and violent video games. Securing collaboration across fiercely competing stakeholder interests allowed me to test and refine my skills as a facilitator.
Over the years, I progressed from building high-performing policy teams to establishing large national operations. As Director of Academies at the Department for Education, I headed up a growing group of 250 people across England. That job showed me how to instill my leadership vision and values across a broader stage, and how to lead a team who were leaders in their own right.
My move out to the private sector – leading the growth of a global company that doubled in size across 15 countries during my tenure – taught me about commercial realities and cross-cultural staff engagement. Helping leaders around the world ensure that their ideas were turned into meaningful impact for the people they served put all my change-management muscles to the test.
There are many more leadership experiences and lessons I could share. But the headline is this: I’ve been there and I get it. I don’t coach from a place of theory; I am at your side and ready to help you make a difference.
What’s my background and how does it make me a better coach?
From my career as a senior civil servant in the UK government, I bring lived experience of how to lead successfully in a complex and demanding political system. Advising Tony Blair on innovation in public services at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit was a real lesson in what it takes to lead change and improvement when people, and structures, are set in their ways.
Having shaped thinking and action on numerous social and political challenges, I’m not afraid of seemingly impossible problems. At the Cabinet Office Defence and Overseas Secretariat, I had the opportunity to design the core pillars of the country’s counter-terrorism strategy, which is still in place today.
I later worked for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to lead an independent review of online safety and violent video games. Securing collaboration across fiercely competing stakeholder interests allowed me to test and refine my skills as a facilitator.
Over the years, I progressed from building high-performing policy teams to establishing large national operations. As Director of Academies at the Department for Education, I headed up a growing group of 250 people across England. That job showed me how to instill my leadership vision and values across a broader stage, and how to lead a team who were leaders in their own right.
My move out to the private sector – leading the growth of a global company that doubled in size across 15 countries during my tenure – taught me about commercial realities and cross-cultural staff engagement. Helping leaders around the world ensure that their ideas were turned into meaningful impact for the people they served put all my change-management muscles to the test.
There are many more leadership experiences and lessons I could share. But the headline is this: I’ve been there and I get it. I don’t coach from a place of theory; I am at your side and ready to help you make a difference.
Having shaped thinking and action on numerous social and political challenges, I’m not afraid of seemingly impossible problems. At the Cabinet Office Defence and Overseas Secretariat, I had the opportunity to design the core pillars of the country’s counter-terrorism strategy, which is still in place today.
I later worked for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to lead an independent review of online safety and violent video games. Securing collaboration across fiercely competing stakeholder interests allowed me to test and refine my skills as a facilitator.
Over the years, I progressed from building high-performing policy teams to establishing large national operations. As Director of Academies at the Department for Education, I headed up a growing group of 250 people across England. That job showed me how to instill my leadership vision and values across a broader stage, and how to lead a team who were leaders in their own right.
My move out to the private sector – leading the growth of a global company that doubled in size across 15 countries during my tenure – taught me about commercial realities and cross-cultural staff engagement. Helping leaders around the world ensure that their ideas were turned into meaningful impact for the people they served put all my change-management muscles to the test.
There are many more leadership experiences and lessons I could share. But the headline is this: I’ve been there and I get it. I don’t coach from a place of theory; I am at your side and ready to help you make a difference.
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Professional Accreditation
I’m a professional coach and mentor, which means I’ve been properly trained, and my skills have been independently assessed and accredited.
It also means I’m a member of a professional coaching community that sets standards and ensures ethical practice in coaching. You can see my credentials here
I’m also accredited to use evidence-based leadership profiling and 360-feedback tools approved by the British Psychological Association – StrengthscopeÂ
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I have found Claudine’s approach to relational coaching really helpful...it has given me space to think and to steer the direction most useful to me... I felt a connection with Claudine which has enabled me to be reflective and challenge myself and my motivations without feeling defensive...to have someone to talk through things without consequences or judgement is hugely valuable.