Elizabeth Anderson
Since it is individuals, rather than organisations, that tend to limit success, Elizabeth is passionate about supporting clients by coaching them towards and through their desired change, whether or not this is transformational. Using various coaching techniques and tools, she encourages them to articulate, more clearly, their operational preferences, and how to use these, to best effect, in their particular business environment. She is totally client focused, and recognised for her ability to be empathetic, engaging and enabling, yet remaining solution focused. She is objective and unafraid to challenge, where this is necessary.
Experience
Elizabeth has worked with boards and senior executives for more than 20 years. Before qualifying as an executive coach, she practised as a corporate and commercial lawyer, both in the City and within industry. Most of her clients have had to manage organisational change, including major corporate transformational and structural change, many of whom were high achieving individuals or those engaged in strategic development of their organisations. She has supported clients ranging from large corporates through to entrepreneurs and high net worth individuals.
Elizabeth is well acquainted with the challenges for executives working their way to the most senior positions in organisations, and the different focus required maintaining those positions. Clients comment that they have experienced her as insightful, able to tune in to their needs and get to grips with their issues quickly, allowing them to feel heard, understood, and motivated to change. They particularly liked her ability to get alongside them, and to understand and work with highly technical information in order to assist them in arriving at the solution best suited to the matter or concern. She inlcudes amongst her clients scientists by training, or those who work within scientific based communities.
Elizabeth has always been at her best acting as a sounding board for senior executives on confidential significant issues. She has supported her clients well through major corporate activities. Clients commented that they particularly liked her ability to get alongside them, to be able to work quickly and get to grips with highly technical information in order to assist them in arriving at the solution best suited to the matter or concern.
Elizabeth has always enjoyed being a facilitator of innovative change and promoter of new edge thinking. She was a founding member of The International Communications Round Table (ICRT), an informal, cross-sectoral global grouping of 27 leading publishing, media, computer and communications companies. She publicly encouraged new ways of working together in special areas of work through her public speaking. She spent much time trying to nurture and foster commercial activity growth within the academic and scientific communities, assisted by organisations such as AIRTO (Association of Independent Research & Technology Organisations). She was a contributor to the book "Electronic Publishing Strategies".
Professional Expertise
Dual qualified as a solicitor in Scotland and England, Elizabeth practised as a lawyer first in Linklaters, and then Clifford Chance, before joining Pearson in the dual role of Legal Advisor and Deputy Company Secretary. She became a director of a number of the Pearson group of companies. She went on to become the first Legal Director of global publishing house, Macmillan Publishers, before going on to encourage the growth of e-commerce through her legal practice work at Denton Wilde Sapte. Her legal expertise grew most extensively within the fast changing sectors of TMT and e-commerce. She has a special interest in, and additional training and qualification in, Forensic Medicine.
Education, Qualifications, Professional Positions
BA (English Literature & Language) Edinburgh Universy
LLB Dundee University
Diploma in Legal Practice Dundee University
Admitted to practice as Scottish Solicitor
Admitted as Solicitor of the Supreme Court, England
Admitted as Justice of the Peace, England
Advanced Diploma in Coaching
Trained as a Corporate and Executive Coach
Certified MBTI Practitioner
Contact details
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