Joint Head of Unit, Major City Law Firm
“Finding myself in a position where I needed to change my role and adapt to a different and more demanding working environment, I realised that I needed some external help both to manage the practical aspects of that change and my emotional response to it. I sought help from Bryan (Emden) to enable me effectively to negotiate new terms with the firm and to clarify my own needs and responses to the change. Bryan enabled me to identify what I sought and why I sought it so that my approach to the negotation was focused, measured and unemotional. What struck me afterwards was that even professionals who give good cogent advice to others every day are in need of a principled independent person who can give them high level assistance when it comes to their own career and business.”
Allen & Overy
“We have been very impressed with the dynamic and professional approach.”
Senior Associate, Allen & Overy, Paris
“Shan is very gifted at asking series of questions which go to the heart of the issue that needs to be solved.”
Chantal Burger, Directeur Général, Allen & Overy LLP, Paris
“Alice est un remarquable professeur d’anglais et un coach efficace et impliqué. Sa grande expérience de coaching de dirigeants lui permet de comprendre très vite le contexte, les problématiques et les enjeux et d’adapter ses cours à vos besoins spécifiques. Au-delà de sa capacité à vous faire progresser rapidement en vous enseignant un anglais recherché, adapté et percutant, elle vous accompagne réellement, s’empare de votre challenge et le vit avec vous. J’ai travaillé avec Alice en sessions très intenses en vue de préparer un examen particulièrement difficile et je considère que son coaching a été déterminant dans ma réussite. Par ailleurs, elle est extrêmement sympathique et charmante et on se sent tout de suite à l’aise et en confiance avec elle.”
Arthur Andersen
“… remarkable coaching adaptability …”
Managing Partner, Leading French Law Firm
“Alice (Armstrong–Scales) is a wonderful coach who has the intelligence to adapt to her clients so as to motivate and guide them.”
2009 Partner, Allen & Overy, Paris
“D’une grande capacité d’écoute, Shân Veillard–Thomas sait vous faire prendre conscience des différentes pistes qui sont à votre disposition et vous orienter sur celle sur laquelle vous vous sentez le plus à l’aise. Plutôt qu’un changement radical avec un coaching directif, Shân vous fait travailler dans la progression, vous apprend à gérer la transition, à remettre en question des habitudes acquises depuis longtemps et à vous inscrire dans le long terme. Shân met énormément l’accent sur le suivi. Elle sait être à vos côtés quand vous en avez besoin, même en dehors des séances de travail avec elle, ce qui donne beaucoup de sécurité et surtout de cohérence et de continuité dans son travail. Shân a une connaissance approfondie des cabinets d’avocats internationaux. Elle en comprend les mécanismes et jeux internes. Elle comprend également les besoins d’évolution de chacun et des équipes et vous aide à vous inscrire dans cette évolution. Le fait que Shân soit parfaitement bilingue permet de travailler avec elle dans l’une ou l’autre langue avec la même aise, ce qui donne une totale liberté de réflexion et d’expression. Je suis très heureuse de recommander Shân pour apprendre à gérer les phases de transition et le passage aux fonctions de manager.”
Senior Executive, BNP Paribas, London
“I have been using Jonathan Soar as my executive coach for over nine months and have found his style and approach to be both challenging and thought–provoking. He has made me question my usual ways of thinking and of going about things. I have been inspired to clearer, more incisive decision–making and have realised things about myself which have been, frankly, quite uncomfortable on occasion, but invariably useful. In all, I have made many changes for the better.
“Recently, I have faced some major career and personal choices. Jonathan has helped me see things from different perspectives. I have been seriously considered for more senior roles within the Bank for which I would never have contemplated applying a year ago. I now have a much sharper idea of where I want to take my career and develop myself personally. I would commend Jonathan to anyone contemplating change in their executive lives.”
Rio Tinto
“This was my first coaching program and it has been a very ‘refreshing’ experience. Not knowing much about coaching nor expecting a lot out of the process, I was positively surprised at how it helped me ‘take time out’ to focus on other elements than short term issues in my family life and in my job. I did recalibrate my focus looking at the demands of my family life and at the requirements of my job. The process has been friendly and positive; basically it helped put a ‘real’ perspective in what my objectives should be:
- I needed to define my objectives clearly;
- It required that I established a program and dates to realise them;
- It forced me to take decisions and also actions.
“All those things that we should do: some do them well, others do not or at least do not do them properly and in a ‘robust’ manner. I found out that I was preparing myself better for negotiation sessions with customers than for ‘the’ negotiation with myself.
“It turned out that with my coach, Shân Veillard–Thomas, without much effort and time, I was able to see the alternatives more clearly and decide on the best path to take in order to achieve my personal and my business objectives; it doesn’t resolve the issues that do come up, but it helps being more at ease in communicating, in helping the family/job debate and be more effective in my job.”
Our Clients
Clients coached by PCI coaches include the following:
London
ABN AMRO
Amnesty International
AOL
Baker Tilly
blackswan
BMW
BNP Paribas
BP
Cameron McKenna
Cazenove
Deloitte
GSK
Herbert Smith
Hextalls
HSBC
Kent Probation
KPMG
Linklaters
NatWest Commercial
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
RBS
Rio Tinto
Thomas Eggar
UCL Business
Worldvision
Zurich Insurance
Paris
Allen & Overy
Arthur Andersen
Barclays
BMW
Ducati
Financieres de Courcelles
Gide Loyrette Nouel
HSBC
L’Oreal
Medicus/Publicis
Morgan Stanley
Swiss Life
TNS Sofres
UBS
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