LEADERS IN EXECUTIVE COACHING
Mairi Eastwood
In an increasingly pressurised world it is particularly isolated operating at senior levels in an organisation. As a coach, I help my clients to think through their business and personal strategies and to be at their most effective more of the time in leading their Boards, organisations and teams.
Coaching Experience
My purpose in coaching is to help senior leaders play at the top of their game; to maximize their effectiveness with their organisation. Sometimes ways of thinking get in the way; sometimes particular behaviours may be counter-productive. Sometimes it is the space to step back and reflect with a challenging but supportive sounding board that helps most. I generally find myself working in some mixture of all these areas with most of my clients.
I seek to help my clients learn more about themselves, as well as to acquire a greater tool-kit of approaches.
I have a strong analytical and logical training, together with a breadth of business and organisational structure experience. I combine my broad intellectual curiosity with a strong sense of values. I enjoy helping clients unravel complex business problems and issues as well as working together on complicated and difficult interpersonal relationships.
I bring to my coaching a strong belief that everyone wants to be at their best and that everyone can learn and grow at any stage of their career, although I recognise (from personal experience also) that change is not always easy. I believe that people are at their best and happiest when they are authentically themselves, and that everyone has within themselves most of the solutions to their own problems.
A number of my clients ask me to work with them together with their Boards and executive teams, either to review effectiveness, to facilitate challenging discussions or as a team coach.
Examples of recent assignments include:
- With CEOs – providing a sounding board and space for reflection and encouragement to focus on the big strategic issues
- With new CEOs – developing effective relationships with the executive team, non-executives and other stakeholders and finding one’s own authentic style
- With leaders in professional firms, new to leadership positions or facing increased challenges in strategic, or people issues
- With clients who want to think through the next stage of their career or life, generating and exploring options
- With women leaders who want to be at their best without compromising their authentic personality
Business Career
Mairi has coached business leaders and senior teams since 1995. She has worked with Boards, Chief Executives, Directors and leaders in a wide range of business and in professional services and the public and charitable sectors. She is the Managing Partner of Praesta Partners LLP and a member of the Praesta International Board.
Mairi has also sat in both an executive and non-executive capacity on a number of UK Boards and Governmental Committees.
In her previous business career, Mairi was one of the first women audit partners in Ernst & Young, and was a member of the firm’s executive, leading Human Resources. Subsequently, she was a founder and MD of a consulting business, which she ran for ten years, where she worked with senior leaders in a variety of sectors helping them to manage organisational change.
Selected Client Companies
Addleshaw Goddard
Allen & Overy
Bridgepoint Capital
Catlin Group
Diageo
Ernst & Young
Gambling Commission
Glas Cymru
ntl:
NAO
NHS
Schroders
Scottish Power
Standard Chartered Bank
Education, Qualifications, Professional Positions
BSc Maths; ARCS – Imperial College
FCA – Fellow Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Mastercoach accreditation, Middlesex University
Primary Certificate in CBT
Contact details
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