Claire Davey

CENTRED • HOLISTIC •  ENABLING

Claire brings diversity of thought and experience, wonderful vitality and a great sense of humour. Her warmth and compassion help her clients quickly feel safe, enabling them to bring their whole selves to the work they’re doing together.

Claire works in the UK and internationally as an executive coach, supervisor and development consultant. She spent 12 years working full-time for Deloitte, where she led the coaching and leadership development agenda. Her responsibilities there included C-suite succession and transition, executive team development and development journeys for those leading leaders across the business. Outside of Deloitte, her clients have included Novartis and other life sciences firms, the UK’s NHS, the education sector, Harlequins and Saracens Rugby Football Clubs, professional athletes and The Carers Trust.

She enjoys pushing the boundaries of coaching in all its forms to keep people at their leading edge help them deliver the best for their people, clients and the wider stakeholder groups. She is deeply committed to the coaching profession as a whole. She is a previous Chair of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council in the UK and has contributed to books on the subject. Examples include the CIPD’s Building and Sustaining a Coaching Culture and Routledge’s 101 Supervision Techniques, Approaches Enquiries and Experiments. She’s also a qualified yoga teacher, which feeds her centred, holistic approach to her work.

Focus

  • One-to-one coaching, including executive transitions

  • Team coaching, including helping teams articulate and communicate a compelling narrative that engages and inspires their people and stakeholders

  • Facilitating leadership programmes and action learning sets

  • Helping leaders upgrade their mental operating systems

  • Creating sustained improvements in commitment, well-being and performance

  • Helping clients find the courage to dig deep, make tough decisions and transform their teams and organisations

  • Training design – from entire curriculums to individual development programmes

  • Helping clients shrewdly navigate their own internal politics

Career Highlights

  • Partnering with two Premiership Rugby clubs to equip the teams’ coaches with skills from the world of executive coaching

  • Building executive development from the ground up across Deloitte Northwest Europe, to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders from a range of cultures, including CEO and Chair succession

  • Playing a key role in creating a coaching culture at Deloitte, including leading on the selection and cutting-edge development of the firm’s internal and external coaches

  • Serving as Chair, Non-executive Director and Governor on the European Mentoring & Coaching Council

  • Pushing boundaries to radically transform a school’s sports curriculum and the lives of the children involved

Qualifications

  • Accredited Master Coach with EMCC Global

  • Certificates in Team Coaching and Systemic Team Coaching

  • Certificate in Coaching Supervision, including supervising across cultures

  • One of the UK’s few certified teachers in Integrative Restoration

  • Certified Practitioner of Immunity to Change with Teams and Individuals

  • Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

  • Member of British Association Sports and Exercise Science (BASES)

  • Advanced Practitioner in the Global Leadership Profile

  • BPS Level A and B Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing

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