Summary​

Nell’s typical assignments have been to coach professionals 1:1 at board level or those who are transitioning onto the board, Managing Director, or Partner level.​ Nell is particularly interested in attachment and relational issues in the workplace as well as resilience and diversity issues at work. Nell has worked extensively with Imposter Syndrome and with re-boarding women back into work after maternity leave.​

Coaching Style​

Nell’s dynamic coaching style reflects a diverse range of experience, including a successful career in investment banking and her entrepreneurial achievements founding an award-winning pork pie company. Nell is naturally strategic, commercial and goal-orientated and is able to use her training as both a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and an executive coach to help her clients find creative solutions to unlock their business, personal and professional potential. Nell works as an executive coach at INSEAD's Global Leadership Centre, and at Aesara Partners. Nell has coached Managing Director and above, including C-suite Executives, and over the past 3 years, she has been the Executive Coach to RBS’s Bank Exco. Her key themes are relationships with the board and within the executive team, business strategy and performance, career transitions and people leadership. As a psychotherapist, she has also been involved in crisis situations and where mental health issues are present.​

Professional Experience​

Nell’s interest in the human elements of organisation grew from her ten-year career in Investment Banking. After graduating from Cambridge with a double first in Social and Political Sciences, Nell joined Goldman Sachs’s Equity Division as an institutional equity sales trader both in London (where she went on to be Executive Director) and New York (VP), and in 2001 as Managing Director and member of the Board of Investec Securities UK where she led the institutional sales and trading side of the business. At Investec, as part of Organisational Development, Nell began work as an internal coach. Inspired by the experience, she left banking in 2004 to train as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at The Bowlby Centre in London.

Qualifications

Nell is a member of UKCP, BACP and The Bowlby Centre. She is EMCC and ICF accredited. She is currently receiving 1:1 supervision from Susie Orbach and group supervision from Helga St Blaize (both UKCP accredited Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists).