Jo Cleary Coaching LeadershipI am an executive coach and leadership consultant in both the public and private sector with a proven track record in helping leaders believe in themselves and develop their confidence to address and resolve conflicts and differences which seem beyond resolution. I aim to create a safe space where you can see the wider picture and explore different perspectives and choices. My style – being empathetic and supportive with an insightful directness, together with recent and considerable experience of working at the top of many organisations, enables people, organisations and whole systems to achieve their own goals and outcomes.

I am also highly sensitive to the politics of organisations and complex systems and support people to navigate these successfully. I have successfully coached many people to achieve new jobs, move into new leadership positions, change careers and build portfolio careers after retirement.

Recent coaching assignments include:

  • Coaching Chief Executives, Directors, Assistant Directors, and Clinical chairs in a range of councils, NHS Trusts & CCGs.
  • Team coaching a number of Executive teams.
  • Facilitating and coaching on a Women’s Leadership programme for an international pharmaceutical company.
  • Coach/enabler for the national Systems Leadership – Local Vision programme.
  • Facilitated and coached on the new Directors and Future Leaders programmes in Wales & England.
  • Led the Skills for Systems Leadership programmes for Directors of Public Health as well as the national Leading for Change programme.
  • Coaching Scholars & Fellows for the Marketing Academy, a charity developing the marketing leaders of tomorrow (Gen Y).

Past and present clients include:

Private sector: AstraZeneca, Diageo, Jacobs Engineering, Bird & Bird (Legal), Disney, L’Oreal, Marks & Spencer, Pestana Hotels.

Local government: Essex, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Telford and Wrekin, Wolverhampton, Bolton, Southend, Bristol, York, Barnet, Pembrokeshire, Cardiff, Havering, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets, Croydon; Staffordshire, Havering, Plymouth, Merton, Central Bedfordshire, Halton, Tri Borough, Durham, Doncaster, Lambeth, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Reading, Barnet,

NHS: Islington, S. Gloucestershire; Suffolk, Oxfordshire, Croydon, N. Essex, Public Health England and Wales.

Other: Livity (Marketing), Full Fact.

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  • Jo is fantastic! Coaching runs through her veins; she cares passionately about her clients and bringing out the best in them so they can aspire to be the best. To that end she takes a holistic approach and agrees key objectives against which progress can be measured. Being coached by Jo is like setting out in a journey – the road to success – in an old, small, tired car. By the time the finishing line is crossed you are driving a brand new top of the range model. This is achieved by appropriate tough challenge and joint hard work and commitment. I cannot recommend her highly enough.

    Director of Adult Social Services, London Borough.

  • “Jo is a fantastic motivator. She engages with people at all levels in a sincere and honest way which creates an enabling environment for people and is something that made me really want to work with her. Jo is an inspiring and authentic leader who embodies the core values of equality by her actions and behaviour.”

    Director, Community Navigator Services

  • “Jo is an experienced and skilled coach & mentor who supports people to develop and deliver. I found working with her to be both energising and supportive”.

    Executive Director, City Council.

  • “Jo was my coach during a leadership course. She is a fantastic person to talk to, a great listener and very supportive and encouraging. She helped me to identify my goals and future direction and thanks to her I have also gained the confidence to try out new things I would probably never done before. I can highly recommend Jo as a coach during change or personal development phases.”

    Design leader/associate principal scientist, international pharmaceutical company

  • “Jo was my executive coach for a year as part of my company’s intensive leadership training programme. She has been the absolute highlight of my training and I would highly recommend her. She is very skilful and deeply experienced and has helped navigate me through the most challenging situations. She is reassuring and inspires huge confidence whilst also challenging me in such a clear and constructive way. I have especially valued her non-judgmental manner and very calming influence. She is BRILLIANT at what she does.”

    Clinical Director, international pharmaceutical company

  • “I can truly say that without the coaching sessions with Jo I would never have got the insights with regards to my leadership that I now have. Jo has a tremendous accuracy in her coaching; she coaches with personality and a warm heart and she safely guides you in the process to become not only the best, the most brilliant you! If you have the chance to have coaching by Jo, please take it! I can only give Jo my absolutely strongest recommendations”.

    Project Site Lead IMED Operations PM, AstraZeneca R&D, Sweden

  • “Jo is an outstanding coach, mentor and leadership consultant. She draws on her deep experience as a senior leader in a distinguished career and she brings clarity of purpose and natural empathy for people facing difficult, complex and wicked issues in public services. In the round, Jo’s qualities and experience make her a natural coach: unafraid to challenge and unstinting in support.”

    National Director of Systems Leadership at the Leadership Centre

  • “Working with Jo has been a revelation. Her approach is both effortless and complex at the same time as she works with you on many levels – giving you the means & space to unlock what is already there within you. An exhilarating and rewarding experience that I would recommend to any senior leader who is considering working with a coach to explore new opportunities for enhancing their skill base and developing their careers.”

    Assistant Director, Council.