ABI MARCHANT

Executive Coach & Consultant

Summary​

Abi believes passionately in the unique potential of each individual and her coaching focusses on unlocking and developing that potential. She has a great personal understanding and experience of strategic leadership at an organisational level, as well as significant experience in developing, managing and engaging teams.​

Coaching Style​

Abi’s main themes include resilience, people and team leadership, influence and impact in the organisation, career transitions, change management and authentic leadership.​ She particularly enjoys working with an individual to process challenging feedback, working with them to create meaningful change in their behaviours. Abi's natural energy and her ability to bring complex leadership theory to life in a pragmatic and simple way means she is often sought after to lead group interventions and leadership masterclasses. Abi’s warm, pragmatic and considered approach as a coach and strength in helping others bring clarity from complexity is equally beneficial when coaching individuals as it is to high performance team coaching. ​

Professional Experience​

Throughout Abi’s 22-year career in FMCG, she held board director positions in Commercial, Strategy Development and HR. In her position as an HRD at Danone, she partnered several CEOs to lead complex business transformations, giving her a unique perspective on the dynamics of change as well as invaluable first-hand insight of leadership behaviour development. Having been a leader of several large teams in her career, Abi is fascinated by the leadership dynamics required to create aligned, motivated & high performing teams and organisations.

Qualifications

Abi has a PGCert in Business & Personal Coaching, as well as being accredited in Insights Discovery, TEIQue Emotional Intelligence, Hogan Leadership and is a qualified NLP Practitioner. Abi is also an accredited Professional Certified Coach of the ICF and holds a Certification on Neurodiversity in Coaching.

Personal Interests​

Abi is passionate about travel and loves exploring new cultures with her family. She enjoys cross-training, walking the dog and playing piano, and provides pro bono coaching to organisations in her local community.