Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations

Coaching Leadership

Carol now speaks at conferences about the Virgin coaching culture and Branson's leadership style, as well as advising and implementing strategies for organisations to transform their cultures.

Carol was nominated for the Association for Coaching Awards 'Influence in Coaching' and 'Impact in Coaching'

Creating A Coaching Culture

We have a network of hundreds of accredited coaches and trainers worldwide.

We can:

• Train individuals as performance coaches
• Create performance coach training courses for organisations
• Provide one to one coaches at all levels of seniority
• Consult on how to create a coaching culture
• Provide assessment & accreditation programmes for organisations & educational bodies
• Provide presentations and keynote speakers

We are able to provide coaching and training simultaneously in a variety of locations on a local, national or global scale.

Background

While in her early twenties, Carol was invited by (now Sir) Richard Branson to head Virgin's fledgling music publishing company. She worked closely with Branson, absorbing his innovative business and management styles, and within five years had raised the company to be the third market leader in its field. She then became the first woman in the world to found her own successful record label, Dindisc, which today calls up over 11,000 pages on Google. Carol went on to hold board level positions in the corporate entertainment industry. Stars she discovered, developed or worked with included Sting, The Human League, Martha & the Muffins, Tom Petty, J J Cale, The Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, The Mission and Moby.

Corporate Director and Managing Director

Honary VP & Head of Accreditation of the Association for Coaching
Executive Committee, Performance Consultants International
MD of Virgin Music Publishers
MD of Dindisc (subsidiary of Virgin)
Board Director of Polygram
Board Director of Warner Bros Music
MD of Equator Records (subsidiary of Pinnacle)
MD Results Coaching Systems UK

Media experience

Sky News Woman's Hour, Radio 4 James Whale Show, BBC TV Henry Kelly Show, LBC Radio Magazine articles for Fenman, Industrial & Commercial Training, Recruiter, Resource Magazine, Training Journal

Presentations

Surrey University: Leadership Skills
Conference Brunel University: Seminar for MBA Students
Global Security Services: Coaching and Leadership Seminar
Royal Bank of Scotland Leadership Summit
Cranfield University Business School 2006
Richmond NLP Group 2006
Payroll World Conference 2006
Association for Coaching conference 2006
City Personnel Group 2005
HR Forum Aurora cruise ship 2005
CIPD 2005
Department of Education & Skills 2005
Association for Coaching corporate breakfast 2005
The Coaching Foundation 2005
Association for Coaching Conference 2004
Association for Coaching Scotland Conference 2004
International Coaching Summit 2003 Various keynotes