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"As a senior lawyer in a high profile firm, becoming pregnant was somewhat of a novelty to my colleagues. The reassurance that my sessions with my coach gave me has been absolutely invaluable. I was ready to resign and give up on the many years of studying and training but, using her strategies, I am now better equipped to deal with the pressures of combining parenthood with my career as a lawyer. She both soothed and smoothed my return to work and I now look forward with greater confidence to the path ahead."

Senior solicitor, Nabarro LLP

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Geraldine Gallacher

Geraldine Gallacher

As one of the pioneers of executive coaching in the UK, Geraldine left industry to set up the Executive Coaching Consultancy in 1994. She possesses an unrivalled depth and breadth of experience as a coach and has worked with top teams and individuals across a wide range of industries. Geraldine is fast paced and has a particular talent for galvanising people into action. Her highly pragmatic approach works especially well in fast moving environments.

Coaching Style

Geraldine's expertise is born of eighteen years’ working with an exceptionally wide range of businesses and industries from fashion retail to Investment Banking. Geraldine sees her role and purpose as providing a catalyst for enhanced business performance. Geraldine is frequently described by her clients as challenging, pragmatic and insightful.

Leading Women Coaching

Since setting up The Executive Coaching Consultancy, Geraldine has coached many women through the different stages of their careers helping them to successfully navigate the vulnerable maternity years, start to onramp again in their mid-career and find their authentic leadership style. She works well with senior women at Board and Partner level inspiring them to “sit at the table” as advocated recently by Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg! Lately she has become known for her advocacy of having more women on boards and helps organisations to increase their gender intelligence by introducing them to a range of coaching interventions designed to bolster the female pipeline. She enjoys engaging men in the debate and presents on the Gender Differences in Career Paths and the Need for a Balanced Board to those predominantly male boards seeking to address this business challenge.

Background

Geraldine started her career in the Ford Motor Company in Sales & Marketing. Her grasp of organisational dynamics steered her to management consultancy where she spent 2 years consulting for large organisations such as IBM and the AA, returning to the client side as Management Development Controller for the Burton Group. Geraldine was then appointed Head of Group Management Development with responsibility for the development of the top 300 senior executives. Identifying very early on that there was a significant market demand for one to one coaching (long before it became mainstream in the UK), she launched the Executive Coaching Consultancy in 1994.

Training & Qualifications

Geraldine has a BA in Business Studies and Spanish and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh. She is a non-executive director for Morgan Sindall plc and sits on their Audit, Remuneration, Nominations and Sustainability Committees. Geraldine is an accredited coach with the Association for Coaching with more than 10,000 coaching hours.

Current clients

Avis, BT, J.C.Decaux, Deutsche Bank, Bank of New York Mellon and Allen & Overy among others.

Contact details

Office: +44 (0)20 7795 6556
Mobile: +44 (0)77 9626 4859
Email: geraldine@executive-coaching.co.uk
Website: http://www.maternity-coaching.co.uk/