Executive Development

Fiona specialises in developing leaders, challenging and growing their leadership approach and management capability. She uses her leadership framework to help leaders identify their strengths, work with blind spots and develop a sustainable approach to leading themselves and others. Working with personal authenticity to advocate for better leadership.

Described as highly intuitive, her laser approach and insight into understanding human behaviours enables executives to move beyond skills development to transformational leadership change.

Fiona quickly builds trust, creating both a safe and courageous environment for development and growth. Executive coaching is tailored to the individual. Executives report, feeling both challenged and supported, inspired to move forward and motivated. Articulating the value of an independent sounding board and gaining a different perspective on the long and short term goals.

Professionally, Fiona is frequently sought after to help leaders address the demands of complex roles, to identify to how to motivate and guide, as well as deliver strategic objectives.

Personally, Fiona is sought out to support executives navigate transitions, professional transitions out of role, redefining career ambitions or personal transitions of relationship redefinition. To navigate, plan and move forward with new phases of professional and personal life, which is often both challenging and exciting.

A senior faculty member of the Coaches Training Institute, Duke Corporate Education and London Business School Executive Education. Experience in AsiaPac, EMEA, North and South America.

Organisations and Specialist Areas:

Organizations

Unilever
BAM Nuttles
Carlsberg, Bass
British Airways, Avios
RWE npower, Shell, Air Liquide
Virgin Media, Pearson, Cineworld
BNP Paribas, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Moore Stephens
Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, HP and Microsoft
PWC, Accenture, Cap Gemini, EY, ATKerney

Specialist areas

C- Suite
Partners
Women’s Leadership
Transition Management
On-boarding Executives

Leadership Development
Management Development
Commercial Skills Training

Program Themes

C-Suite

Time out for you
Independent sounding board
Bespoke coaching tailored to you
Valuable external feedback
Sparring partner
Support at the top
Challenge and Stretch
New perspectives

Women’s Leadership

Work-life balance
Voice heard at the table
Safe space for open dialogue
Increase sphere of influence
Upward management
Develop resilience
Career ambition and family
Leadership skills

Executives

On boarding to new roles
Managing stakeholders
Navigating Transitions
Upward Management
Career development
Leadership Skills Development
Management Skills Development
Commercial Skills

Testimonials

“Fiona managed to create, very quickly a productive group environment, where we all worked effectively to each recognize and address our development issues in a challenging, supportive and confidential way. Fiona has a good EQ and outstanding judgment in quickly adapting to our group, mixing the warm, encouraging, supporting view with a gentle but steely resolve when one of us avoided issues. Strong IQ, an in our group that was essential to get us on board. Good humour, good judgment about when to give us some pragmatic or slightly theoretic framework (we had the two extremes in the group). Good at using silence. Good at letting / enabling us coaching each other. Overall an excellent experience. Fiona was one of the best coaches I have had.”

Yann Bonduelle
Partner, PWC

“Fiona is a tremendously gifted coach who is tough and kind, challenging and nurturing, keenly attuned and wonderfully stretching. She is well able to be with her clients in deep emotional space and masterfully supports her clients in the richness of that journey and the powerful learning’s, having the courage to know yourself more consciously, brings. Some of the benefits I experienced when working with Fiona were; intense support in time of enormous change and growth in my life; practical “take-aways” to integrate into my life regarding specific topics I brought to sessions inspiration and confidence to be more fully ME and value the impact I have in the world.”

Heather B.
IBM

“Many thanks again for your help in my development over the past 9 months. What I appreciated very much in your coaching was your full commitment to myself and my development. You were always open to my needs and able to adapt the coaching accordingly. There were no sessions where I felt disappointed at the end, on the contrary there was always the sense of added value. You are creative, flexible and knowledgeable and draw from a powerful intuition. You have given my development a spur, triggering new insights and behaviours. And the good thing is that the coaching is not yet over, as its full impact still needs to be realized! Happy to talk to people if they want to know more about how it is to work with you”.

Frank Uit de Weerd
Vice-President Human Resources Shell Innovation / Research & Development, The Netherlands

“Fiona Sturrock has been simultaneously very approachable and very challenging.

Approachable, to the point of establishing a real sense of unity in a group of people that were being coached together and did not know each other beforehand. Challenging, in terms of, keeping those being coached honest and true to the commitments made.

As a result of our ‘one to one’ coaching, I gained a rounded vision of my ambition and a sense of commitment towards achieving that vision.

I would describe Fiona’s strengths as a coach as, Tranquil; Approachable; Committed; Demanding; and Creative.

Thank You & Hope you have the same impact on others. ”

João Abecasis
CEO, Carlsberg (Unicer), Portugal

“Working with Fiona was insightful, rewarding and enjoyable at the same time. Among the many great things to say about her approach to coaching, I would like to highlight her superb listening skills and very constructive and yet direct way of giving feedback. I never had the feeling that she followed a script or made it easy for herself. The opposite was true. Her coaching was tailored to my personality and my needs. Fiona was a coach in the true sense of the word as she worked with me on an eye-to-eye level.

Fiona helped me bring out my strengths and practically address some of my impediments. I have a better sense of what makes me successful in the workplace and how I can take my leadership skills to the next level. ”

Patrick Haischer
Partner, A.T. Kearney

What you can expect from me:

My focus is growing you and enabling you to step into your strengths, helping you identify your goals and move towards achieving them.

You can expect me to:
– Listen and question ·
– Share my intuition
– Challenge you
– Believe in and encourage you
– Hold you and your goals bigger than you often hold yourself

What I expect from you:

As a coachee, I expect you to be wanting, committed and willing to move forward. To be committed to growing yourself, learning and developing.

I expect you to:
– Attend your session
– To ask for what you want
– To engage in the dialogue of coaching
– To undertake actions to move you forward
– To undertake recommended reading where appropriate