Coach profile

Sue Raby

With 15 years experience as an executive coach, Sue's focus is on developing leadership capabilities and enabling individuals to achieve their full potential, whether through organisational or individual change. This includes supporting leaders through their first 100 days in a new role. Sue particularly enjoys working with CEOs and MDs on the unique challenges they face as leaders.

Sue specialises in developing the leadership capabilities of senior executives in fast-paced and challenging business sectors. Working with CEOs, MDs and Directors, as well as Board members and top management teams, she is an experienced and highly effective coach. Sue delivers challenge and support in equal measure through high levels of insight and empathy.

Coaching Style

Sue is known for her high quality and creative approaches, as well as measurable results. The scope of Sue's coaching has been a mixture of one-to-one coaching, team development and board review work. She is also interested supporting the development of leaders through working with them to develop their own coaching skills. Sue coaches through a mix of face-to-face meetings and telephone and video conferencing sessions.

Maternity Coaching and Developing Leading Women

As a highly experienced executive coach and Director of the Executive Coaching Consultancy, Sue has provided coaching expertise for the maternity coaching programme at ECC since early 2007. With 15 years in Management Development in the retail industry as a backdrop to her coaching experience, Sue has supported many senior women through the maternity transition and beyond and currently coaches a number of board level females in media and fashion retail. Sue is a confident and skilled facilitator of Managing Your Maternity Leaver programmes, handling the challenging issues raised with the aplomb her considerable leadership development experience has afforded her.

Background

Sue’s background is a mix of executive coaching and line management roles.
Prior to joining The Executive Coaching Consultancy early in 2007, Sue had 20 years specialising in people development. Sue spent ten years as Director of Management Development for the Arcadia Group (the UK’s largest fashion retail group) where she specialised in executive coaching and developing the top teams, with responsibility for the development of 7 Operating Boards and their teams, and 150 of the top Senior Executives in the company. Before that Sue was an HR Director for one of the fashion brands. She has also worked within the finance sector. This broad business experience enables her to understand the complex businesses in which many clients work.

Qualifications

Sue is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, she has a degree in English and History from the University of Leeds and a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management. Sue is also a member of the Association for Coaching and an organisational member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.

Clients include

Carat, White Stuff, ASOS.com. Dwell Ltd, Arcadia Group Ltd, Wolters Kluwer UK, Tata Group, Deutsche Bank, Herbert Smith, Allen & Overy, SJ Berwin and Nabarro.

Contact details

Office: +44 (0)77 1035 9274
Mobile: +44 (0)77 1035 9274
Email: sue@executive-coaching.co.uk
Website: http://www.maternity-coaching.co.uk/