We are delighted to announce that Jenny Spray has joined Aesara Partner’s Executive Coaching and Consulting Team in the UK.
Jenny believes that to be an authentic leader, it is vital to bring your whole self to the role. She is inspired to bring this approach into her coaching, with a holistic style that identifies both the underlying and interrelated issues, opportunities and challenges being faced.
Founder Jodie Gibbens commented, “Jenny’s background as a commercial leader as well as HR & corporate strategist brings a powerful combination of perspective and experience to the Aesara team and our clients. She has an intellect that continues to astound me, which combined with her emotional intelligence results in a unique pragmatism in how she deals with the complexities and pressures of leadership today. I want her to coach me!”
“Working with people to unlock their potential and reach development goals is something I find hugely rewarding”, says Jenny, “I feel privileged to be joining this incredible team of coaches at Aesara Partners and I look forward to working with Aesara’s clients to help them shift thinking and bring about productive change in their self-belief, confidence and performance.”
Jenny is a Barefoot Certified Business and Personal Coach, an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), an Insights Discovery Practitioner and is Hogan Certified. She has over twelve years of coaching experience.
Jenny's corporate career spans over twenty years, two industries and several functions. Her career began at Syntegra, an IT consulting division of British Telecom. She switched industry into FMCG to join firstly L’Oréal in Marketing & Sales and then Danone where she has been for the last seventeen years. During her time at Danone, Jenny transitioned from a ten-year career in senior commercial leadership to HR leadership and then Strategic Governance. Most recently she headed up Learning & Development for Danone UK & Ireland.
Aesara Partners is headquartered in the UK (London, Edinburgh) with offices in France, (Paris, Lyon), Ireland (Dublin), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Melbourne), and the Americas (Boston, New York, Buenos Aires).
JENNY SPRAY - BIOGRAPHY
Jenny believes that to be an authentic leader, it is vital to bring your whole self to the role. She is inspired to bring this approach into her coaching, with a holistic style that identifies both the underlying and interrelated issues, opportunities and challenges being faced. Her background in senior commercial leadership as well as HR & corporate strategy brings a powerful combination of perspective and experience that enables her to deal with commercial pragmatism, people complexity as well as leadership pressure.
Jenny’s coaching style is warm and supportive, coachee-led and yet challenging. She sees the most productive change in self-belief, confidence and performance when coaching is tailored to the individual, in a safe environment. She uses a combination of classic coaching techniques, creative tools and imagery to unlock the different aspects of the unconscious and shift thinking. Her coaching style has been variously described as ‘positive’, ‘pragmatic’ and ‘empathetic’.
Jenny's corporate career spans over twenty years, two industries and several functions. Her career began at Syntegra, an IT consulting division of British Telecom. She switched industry into FMCG to join firstly L’Oréal in Marketing & Sales and then Danone where she has been for the last seventeen years. During her time at Danone, Jenny transitioned from a ten-year career in senior commercial leadership to HR leadership and then Strategic Governance. Most recently she headed up Learning & Development for Danone UK & Ireland. She has played a leadership role in successful business transformation projects, facilitated the roll-out of a new strategic direction and led the implementation of regionally aligned leadership competencies. Consequently, Jenny brings her own in-depth experience of change – between industries and functions, and organisational transformation – to her coaching practice.
Having completed an Internal Coaching Accreditation whilst at Danone, Jenny coached teams and supported team members to make positive progress with their personal development. She has a thorough appreciation of the complexities of corporate life, especially in relation to the challenges of returning to work post maternity and sabbatical.
Jenny is a Barefoot Certified Business and Personal Coach, an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), an Insights Discovery Practitioner and is Hogan Certified. She has over twelve years of coaching experience.
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Realise human potential. Maximise business performance. Aesara Partners is a global executive coaching and transformation practice. We enable individuals, teams and cultures to realise potential. We harness clarity of thought and positive behavioural shifts through world class executive coaching. We deliver performance through transformation, with customised solutions that embed sustainable, self-learning, new habits, competencies and core confidence. Together, we’re different. Because of the eclectic mix of talented and experienced Executive Coaches and Consultants from across the globe, who choose to think, create and coach as a cooperative, it means that together, we’re different. By living our purpose, we support each other to be our best self, in order that we can support our clients to be the best they can be and maximise human and business potential. We are passionate about encouraging this perspective in everything we do.