Lesley Hayman Leadership and Career Pivot Coach MBA MCC FRSA

Trusted thinking partner for academics and professionals

• Ready to take your career to the next level?
• Want to achieve success and fulfilment by overcoming self-limiting beliefs?
• Looking for the right strategy in a volatile, uncertain, complex and diverse work environment?

I am an executive coach based in central London drawing on 30 years of successful senior managerial experience leading large teams, managing change, and developing strategy. I have worked internationally for the government, UK HE sector and a FTSE 100 company. I have lived in 8 countries and worked in over 30.  I work with managers and leaders encouraging them to strengthen key competencies and develop a global mindset, essential for leadership in complex organisations both public and private in a globally connected world.’

My coaching style is client centred, highly supportive and solutions focussed. I draw on a number of schools of coaching, always tailoring my approach to the needs of the individual. I am passionate about helping clients both in the UK and globally to find new perspectives, fulfil their potential and lead more balanced and enriched lives.

Find out more about me. Find out more about my service for individuals

Leadership and Career Pivot Coach 

I have been very fortunate to have worked with Lesley as my coach for the past few months, as I was preparing for a new leadership role and adjusting to rapid change within my institution and field.  Lesley is a fantastic listener and has extensive professional experience and offers great insight in our discussions. She has really helped me clarify and focus on my priorities and aims, identify actions to work towards them and identify issues that are distractors or outside of my control.  I highly recommend Lesley as a coach – it was a real pleasure working with her.  Professor Collins, Professor of Epidemiology, UCL

A new approach to supporting professional managers, leaders and academics in higher education and business schools  with career development and challenging transitions

Your challenges

The pace of change and level of uncertainty in HE has never been greater with increased regulation, financial constraints, restructuring and competing pressures.  You may be struggling to:-

• Make sense of your role in a complex, fast-changing, uncertain environment
• To grow into and make the most of a recent role transition 
• Get the next promotion
• Coping with Voluntary severance, redundancy and retirement
• Decide whether it is time to move on and if so what to do and how to get started
• Get out of feeling ‘stuck’ in your present role
• Overcome impostor thoughts and feelings of overwhelm

I worked with Lesley as my coach for a few months. Lesley combines an empathetic style with a well-structured and focussed approach to coaching. Lesley’s confidence in me and my abilities is infectious! She skilfully managed sessions to help me work through issues and come to my own conclusions, combining this with her challenge to push myself further. I particularly like the way Lesley makes the sessions feel like a relaxed conversation but enables clients to leave the session with solid development tools and techniques. I highly recommend Lesley as a coach both for specific issues and for longer term development Julia Weston, Chartered Marketer, MCIM;  Head of Marketing and Communications, Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL

As your dedicated coach I can help you to:-

• Manage workload pressures to allow time for career development
• Rekindle your motivation for your current role
• Have a clearer a vision of what is important in the next stage of your career
• Understand your strengths and transferrable skills, not just in your current role but drawing on your whole career and life experience
• Think out of the box when considering career options
• Elevate your personal brand to position yourself for promotion 
• Network  effectively to  grow your career  and generate funding opportunities 
• Prepare job applications and ace job interviews
• manage your transition to your new role optimally

and to cultivate the self-belief , clarity, purpose and motivation to achieve the above

I offer individual coaching both face-to-face and virtually across a wide range of subject areas I use my expertise from working in large international organisations, universities included, to help my clients navigate a successful path through complexity and conflict, build networks and partnerships inside and outside their organisations, and to work across cultures. Clients tell me through my coaching they have become better managers, more strategic and more confident. Many have found a job they love.

Why work with me?

I have an MBA from London Business School, a Professional Certificate in Coaching (PCIC), distinction level, from Henley Business School and I am a Master Certified Coach (MCC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) – a distinction only awarded to 4% of coaches globally (120 in the UK). I am also a qualified trainer, consultant and mindfulness practitioner.

“I set up the Institute of Education coaching service …. some years ago and have published, as well as supervised Ph.D research in the coaching area and feel that Lesley has all the qualities one would hope for in a coach/mentor.  Dr Susan Askew, lecturer, Institute of Education, University College London. Joint author , (2011) ‘Transformative Coaching; A learning theory for practice.’ IoE, UCL Publications

I believe that provided you are truly committed to change and open to exploring issues and opportunities without fear there is always a way forward

Are you ready to start your journey to transformational professional growth and success?

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