Jackie Adams

Personal Profile

Jackie is a qualified and accredited executive coach with experience coaching a variety of individuals. She has a challenging, but supportive solution focused coaching style.

Jackie is an experienced HR professional, having held senior level roles within a variety of FTSE 100 companies. She has supported business leaders and managers in a variety of challenges, which include carrying out disciplinary investigations, appeals and grievances, restructures, and redundancy consultations. She has also run reward processes and implemented talent review and succession planning processes.

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Background and Experience

Jackie also has a deep knowledge of the Education Sector, having been a school governor for 10 years as well as spending 11 years as a Trustee of GLF Schools (a multi-academy trust of 40 schools).

Jackie has a warm and empathetic style, with great listening skills and a non-judgemental approach, and is able to build rapport and develop relationships quickly and effectively. She help clients to challenge their thoughts and behaviours, giving them space to reflect and consider options, and then enabling them to decide on next steps.

Areas of Expertise

  • Coaching
  • Facilitation
  • HR Consultancy
  • Transition and Career Coaching
  • Team Development
  • Use of psychometrics

Professional Qualifications, Accreditation and memberships

  • MA Employment Law and Employee Relations
  • CIPD Advanced Certificate in Reward Management
  • Towers Watson Reward Leadership Programme
  • AoEC Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching (affiliated with Middlesex University)
  • British Psychological Society – Qualified at levels A&B
  • BA Home Economics and Social Administration
  • Myers Briggs (Steps I and Step II)
  • Hay Job Evaluation
  • Investigations Training (Baker & McKenzie LLP)
  • Qualified to use Psytech International psychometric tools, including 360 feedback

Clients

Jackie has worked with clients from a variety of industries including:

  • Education
  • Finance

Coaching Assignments

  • Finance – coaching CEO of a major online investment service leading his company into overseas expansion and significant global growth.
  • Education – Executive Head Teachers, enhancing perspective and energy levels, focusing on how to ‘achieve more with less’.