LEADERS IN EXECUTIVE COACHING

Peninah Thomson

"Three threads run through my work: a belief in real communication, which I think is the engine-room of understanding and co-operation between individuals, groups and nations; a commitment to helping people identify more options than they thought they had; and the buzz I get from helping good people work their way through to decisions and to action."

Read about Peninah's work with women in boardrooms and Praesta's sponsorship of the FTSE 100 Cross Company Mentoring Programme.

Experience

Peninah’s career began in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Based in Paris, she worked direct to the Board of National Delegates of NATO in Rome, Paris, The Hague, Munich and Washington. After Doctoral Studies at Oxford she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers, where in 8 years in Government Services and Economics Division she worked at Cabinet Office level in the UK and in 14 countries. She spent two years seconded to the UK Cabinet Office and a year seconded to the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg and subsequently became a director in PwC's Corporate Transformation Practice, working for 4 years at Board level in FTSE 100 companies.

Peninah co-founded and now directs the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme, in which Chairmen mentor senior women to assist their development as credible candidates for Board roles. Through its sponsorship of the Programme, Praesta has built a reputation as the UK market leader in coaching women who want to become directors – executive and non-executive - using our specialist knowledge and understanding of the issues they face in what are still the predominantly male upper reaches of organisations.

An experienced conference speaker, Peninah’s books A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom (2005) and A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap (2008) were published by Palgrave Macmillan. Women and the New Business Leadership will be published in 2011.

For the last ten years Peninah has worked exclusively as a Board level executive coach working with male and female senior executives, and with Boards and senior teams as groups, on strategy, organisational change, and leadership. She has worked at Board level in seventeen countries in Europe (Western and Eastern), India, Africa, the Middle East, the Far East and the USA.

Energetic and enthusiastic, Peninah enjoys theatre, music, art, reading, eating out, swimming, pilates and travel. She is the Aunt of James, who is 13, and the Godmother of Eleanor, who is 17.

We are a member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) and subscribe to the EMCC code of ethics (see www.emccouncil.org). The EMCC exists to promote good practice and the expectation of good practice in mentoring and coaching across Europe.

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