Alice Cooper

Background

About Alice Cooper

I am an excellent communicator, with a warm and engaging personal style, backed up with strong commercial experience and acumen, a real ability to identify and focus on key issues, and a calm professionalism. I am experienced at working collaboratively with individuals at all levels, using both effective challenge and support to achieve challenging organisational goals. I work with people across a wide variety of businesses and the third sector, both as a Non-Executive Director, and also as an Executive Coach and facilitator. As a Non-Executive Director, I enjoy working in a number of diverse sectors, and am perceived as a strong leader of change, an intelligent thinker able to readily focus on the key issues, and someone who is able to very effectively balance the robust challenge of Executive colleagues with working as part of a united Board team. As an Executive Coach I work with clients (both corporate and personal) on a wide range of issues, ranging from helping leaders make an impact on their transition into new roles, to working with those at a career crossroads, or supporting on CVs and interview preparation. Whatever the goal, my focus as a Coach is a firm belief in the unique value of each individual as a whole person, and also in the real benefit to their wellbeing and personal effectiveness coaching can bring. Helping them better access their potential not only benefits the individual themselves, but also their interactions with others, and the effectiveness of the teams and organisations they operate within. I have historically had a particular focus on clients in the financial services sector, where I bring a great deal of credibility, and my own commercial experience, to bear in helping my clients develop, but strongly believe that coaching need not be sector specific, as indeed are many of the skills needed to be a great Non-Executive Director. Before working as an Executive Coach, I initially studied psychology, and then went on to qualify as a chartered accountant working largely with Financial Services clients. I later made a move into the sector taking a number of senior roles in areas including risk & governance, change management, and strategic planning. In all my roles I have always had a significant focus on engaging and developing people, and this led me to complete my formal training as an Executive Coach following a very positive experience of coaching myself. Since then I have been working as an independent Coach and Consultant alongside my other work.