Every project tells a story. Here are some of the organisations I’ve been proud to support on their people and leadership journey.
The Challenge:
AtkinsRéalis leads global infrastructure projects – teams spanning generations, borders, and cultures. Ahead of their Culture Conference, they didn’t need a speaker, they needed someone to connect global trends to what leaders actually do differently on Monday morning.
What I Delivered:
I stood in front of 100 leaders and didn’t let them sit back. The keynote hit three things I see derailing leaders everywhere:
The multi-generational, multi-border tension
Leading through disruption without losing your people
Cultural Intelligence as an edge, not a soft skill
No passive presentation. Interaction, discussion, live Q&A so that they could really grapple with the topic and leave with commitments and actions to embed into their leadership styles.
The Impact:
100 senior leaders leaning in, debating – not nodding along. What stuck was the honesty and a model they could use the next morning on the exact bottlenecks slowing their teams. Not a concept for a slide. A tool for the job.
The Challenge:
Having previously consulted for Third Space, I then returned in 2024 to cover their People Director’s Maternity Leave.
What I delivered:
During my time with them, I led and coached a people team of 12 through a period of high growth – opening 6 new clubs in 7 months, the introduction of a new HR system, a redesign of their L&D strategy for Senior Leaders, and I designed and led the roll-out of a Culture & Inclusion Strategy.
The Impact:
The CEO’s feedback:
‘Anglie you have been a force of such positive impact. Mat cover, personal coach and cultural intelligence expert all rolled into one inspiring person. Uncommon talent.’
Working as the people projects director I completed a full diagnostic of the MindGym new joiner process and designed a comprehensive, interactive onboarding process.
Results:
Results showed increases in retention, speed to productivity and engagement scores of new joiners.
I also supported the cultural transition as they embedded their digital directorate into the core business. Through various interventions including listening sessions and focus groups, I surfaced key themes and supported directors in transitioning the teams into a ‘one MindGym’ mindset.
Inclusive Leaders Program – I delivered a series of workshops to Nomad’s non board directors across Europe. Using my cultural intelligence expertise I ran group coaching workshops on eg Inclusive Leadership and Inclusive Hiring.
Results:
These were a resounding success and have been embedded in their BAU L&D offer – I supported this through train-the-trainer delivery at the end of the project.
Performance Coaching – I worked with a number of teaching and non-teaching leaders at Harrow School on various different personal development goals.
Clients choose what they wish to bring to our coaching conversations- they focus on any number of issues, including handling difficult conversations, managing senior stakeholders, building self-belief, or leading inclusively.
Results:
Participants developed greater confidence and clarity in their leadership roles. They became more effective in handling difficult conversations, improved relationships with senior stakeholders, and strengthened their ability to lead inclusively.
Executive coaching – working with a number of senior consultants who were working towards promotion.
I use a variety of different tools in my coaching from Transactional Analysis, Cultural intelligence, Strengths Finder and others. I work with individuals in a way that is challenging yet supportive – always focussed on their coaching goals, and holding them to account when required.
I spent over 15 years of my career working across both Waitrose and John Lewis, in commercial and HR.
Here I garnered my strong leadership skills, started my coaching journey, and developed my HR specialism. I led teams across several disciplines, from Resourcing, Learning & Development, Diversity & Inclusion to Organisational Change.
“You’ve made a huge difference to hundreds of Partners directly and because of that your influence will reach thousands. Enjoy that, keep on following your instincts and experimenting.’ – ref an Inclusion event that I designed and executed” – Ex-Chairman – John Lewis Partnership
At Avery I designed and delivered a strategy which focused on Leadership development, employee engagement, talent development and culture.
“I’m grateful for working with Anglie, who seamlessly moves between being a consultant, coach and confidante to adapt to what you need when you need it. Anglie’s natural strength is her blend of sharp commercial awareness and compassionate HR knowledge. Her ability to ‘say what she sees’ in a way that doesn’t leave others feeling bruised is something that I will always remember. Anglie’s gift to us was the way she helped my SLT and me step back and create some space to really think.” – Nico Jean-Jean, MD – Avery Europe
Working with one of the divisions Exec teams’ I ran CQ workshops to build their capability in Cultural Intelligence – whether that be working across the globe, across different functional specialisms, or across different generations. Creating true psychological safety, we were able to unpack the real challenges that leaders were experiencing on a weekly basis and build their capability and resilience to operate at their best, and to build cultures that their teams could thrive in.
Result:
The feedback was overwhelmingly positive and resulted in them commissioning me for further workshops and keynote talks. I continue to support them in a CQ capacity across various different pieces of work, and in service of their Diversity & Inclusion strategy.
