Board Of Advisors

Sue Stockdale
Executive Coach and Consultant

Sue is an experienced Executive Coach, Motivational Speaker and Consultant working with clients across a wide range of industry sectors mainly at board or senior management level to help the achieve exceptional performance.  She was trained by, and worked with Sir John Whitmore who pioneered the coaching methodology in the UK that has now become the benchmark for high performance business coaching.  

Biography

Sue’s career has spanned over twenty years in people development.  She held a senior management role in Corporate Training and Development within a UK Utility and introduced a major change management programme across the business. She also led a major improvement project within the United Nations in the Former Yugoslavia.  Since working independently, Sue has helped executives and teams improve their performance in many different industry sectors mainly at senior management and board level.   Sue is highly respected in the women’s enterprise sector having worked internationally on supporting women entrepreneurs.   She is a Women’s Enterprise Ambassador and sits on the Regional Advisory Boards for Women’s Enterprise in the South East and South West of England. She is Chair of the London Chapter of Women Presidents Organisation, for companies with annual turnovers in excess of $1million.

Sue is also an international motivational speaker and author of Kickstart your Motivation and Secrets of Successful Women Entrepreneurs. Her advice on motivation regularly appears in the media.  She has an MBA in Entrepreneurship and a MSc. in Quality Management. In 1996, Sue was the first British woman to walk to the Magnetic North Pole and recognised by HRH the Queen as a Pioneer of the Nation in 2003.  Sue has also represented Scotland in athletics. 

Key Areas of Expertise Leadership Development Motivation Coaching Skills Profiling Tools (MBTI and 360)

Strategic Awareness Psychology of success Developing women leaders

Examples of Assignments

Director in FTSE 250 Company needed to create a marketing strategy plan to improve revenues.  As a result of coaching, revenues increased and communication within the company improved.

Academic professor wanted to reassess department goals and engage staff resources to deliver them.  After coaching sessions, the staff had greater clarity of direction and morale increased.

A leader of a major company sought to improve job satisfaction and work life balance.  Coaching enabled her to develop greater team co-operation, improve confidence, create quality thinking time for herself and make “me time” a habit.

Group Director wanted to develop an overall strategy for the business and had an issue with managing time. Coaching helped him gain clarity, create the strategy and obtain buy-in from key stakeholders. 

Examples of Client Consulting Experience

Alcatel Networks ARM Holdings Barclays Bank BUPA Hospitals Government Office Astra Zeneca

Hays Human Resources Isle of Man Government JP Morgan Learning and Skills Council Nat West Card Services Friends Provident International

Rugby Football Union Swiss Re Swindon and Stroud Building Society The Wrigley Company WH Smith

For further information see www.suestockdale.com