Women in Financial ServicesSupporting your development
While our community is a big part of E2W, we also provide our members with individual support. We want to help you develop your skills, so you can achieve your ambitions.
That’s why we offer a range of coaching services that can make it easier for you to articulate what you offer, encourage you to take on new challenges and give you a way to envision the 'future you'.
This can start with the exclusive member benefit of a free career status review that will explore where you are right now and where you want to be in future. It means we can help you decide if coaching is right for you – and if it is, which programme is best suited to your current needs.
Interested in learning more? Please give Katie a call on +44 20 8078 2093 to discuss the next steps.
Louise Newton - Empowering women to optimise their professional presence and realise their potential
A certified career coach and CV writer, I empower women to find their voice, create or reimagine their professional brand and ensure they are being heard in the right places in the right way. Working collaboratively, I help my clients identify what makes them strong and unique and how to showcase the value they bring to an organisation.
Initial Consultation
A free 30 minute call to get to know each other, and etablish how I can support you with my experience and expertise. We will discuss the future you and how to get you there and which package is most suitable for your requirements.
Career transition and changing career direction
Where do you want to take your career next? Explore and pinpoint where you are in your career and where you want to get to. Uncover your options around what your career move might be or, if you know where you want to go, determine how you are going to get there and what success will look like.
Includes four hours of coaching and self-directed activities for further reflection and action.
Develop and optimise your brand
Can you ‘tell me about yourself’ in a compelling way? Create impactful profiles and showcase your value on your CV, LinkedIn, and when you network. Identify your skills, experience and strengths, define your value proposition and develop your message to achieve a strong, engaging professional brand and presence.
Includes four hours of coaching and self-directed activities for further reflection and action.
Acing an interview
How do you stand out as the best candidate for the job? Learn how to showcase your talents, experience and impact to demonstrate maximum value. Understand the four types of interview questions and how to prepare and deliver winning answers then grow your confidence and skills with two mock interviews and feedback.
Includes four hours of coaching and self-directed activities for further reflection and action.
CV & LinkedIn Review
Receive detailed feedback on style, content, structure and ATS (scanning software) compatibility for your CV and LinkedIn feedback section by section to help you maximise your impact and ensure new connections and recruiters find you.
CV & LinkedIn Update
If your CV and LinkedIn profile are out-of-date or require repositioning for your target role then this full review and update will deliver a CV and LinkedIn profile that are market-ready, keyword-rich and fully compatible with ATS (scanning software).
NEDonBoard, the Institute of Board Members is the professional membership and development body for non-executive directors and board members. We are an authoritative platform made by board members for board members, providing independent, curated, practical and actionable insights for directors to secure non-executive roles and excel in the boardroom.
The non-executive director (NED)
Sitting on the main board, the role of the non-executive director is to challenge, question and monitor the CEO and senior management, bringing an independent perspective to decision-making. As well as holding senior management to account, non-executive directors also support and mentor the CEO. They are a “critical friend” and must always act in the interests of the company’s stakeholders.
Fast-track your journey to becoming a non-executive director
NEDonBoard, the Institute of Board Members, has designed the NED Accelerator® - The Complete Programme to support you at every step of the process to become a non-executive director. We have leveraged a decade of accumulated knowledge and collaborated with non-executive directors and chairs that have recruitment experience to guide you at every step of the process.
The NED Accelerator® - The Complete Programme is a professional qualification certified by the Institute of Board Members. It will provide you with the skills, knowledge, and strategies to secure a non-executive role with ease, confidence, and success.
- Online, self-paced, in your own time, at your own pace
- Highly flexible with modules of varied format and length
- NEDonBoard practical and proven roadmap to non-executive appointments
- Comprehensive curriculum, covering all aspects of the NED role, search and recruitment to step on a board confidently and effectively
- Delivered by experienced portfolio non-executive directors and subject matter experts
- Professional qualification awarded by the Institute of Board Members on completion
NED Accelerator – The Complete Programme
Dr Alessandra Wall - Bridging the Gap between where you are and where you want to be
I specialize in working with professional women who aren’t showing up the way they want to. My clients are smart, savvy, successful professionals in key senior and leadership roles. Despite all their talent, drive, and hard work, these women feel undervalued, overwhelmed and lack the confidence to consistently do what’s right for them.
My clients are frustrated by their inability to speak up or have the impact they know they can have. These extraordinary women are at a place where they leave work feeling stressed, unfulfilled, even anxious and may be considering leaving their firms or their fields altogether.
My coaching process is simple and effective:
Introductory Call with Alessandra
We schedule a 20-minute call to discuss what is going on in your life and explore how I can support you.
Deep Dive Strategy session
We will talk for a 60 or 90-minute Deep Dive Strategy (DDS) session. This session can be a stand alone coaching opportunity, but is often the first in a longer coaching relationship.
In the DDS session you will get:
- A clear picture of where you are and where you want be
- A list of current roadblocks/obstacles
- Practical recommendations for steps you can take on your own to show up differently
- A risk assessment should you choose to not take action of any kind
- A list of options for you to follow through and reach your stated goals
- Back to Me e-book (4-week better self care program)
The Focus Map Programme
The Focus Map Programme (3.0) is a process designed to build awareness, define right-for-you, and create a clear focus for your career.
This month-long programme is designed for women who want to pivot professionally and feel unsure about what they need or where they should be focusing their efforts.
- The Focus Map 3.0 combines at-home independent work and one-to-one coaching.
- Start by completing the Focus Map coaching tool and define what your ideal career and life look like.
- Meet twice (90-minute sessions) over the course of a month to draft a clear list of needs and create actionable goals.
Upon the conclusion of this month, you will be able to confidently articulate your needs and set goals to express them in clear and realistic ways. You will also be able to answer two simple but daunting questions: “What makes me happy?” and “What should I do next?”
Three, Six or 12-month intensive coaching
Engage 2x a month for 60-90 minutes (depending on your needs).
Receive unlimited email feedback and support between sessions.
Get professional support, accountability, and honest feedback about your progress and prognosis
In my coaching sessions you will:
- Get a crystal clear understanding of what you need to feel fulfilled professionally and personally
- Learn how to articulate those needs both verbally but also through your choices and daily actions
- Get a clear process to identify needs as they shift throughout life
Gain strategies, tools and support:
- To speak-up,
- Improve self-confidence,
- Increase assertiveness while bridging the gap with your male and female colleagues
- Draw better boundaries in professional and personal relationships
- Show up the way you want to be seen
Work using a process that is in line with your values and personality, so that you can do more of what’s right for you and feel great about it.
Kat Hutchings - Working with leaders to transform their careers and business results
Kat works with driven, senior leaders at key transition moments like a career move, change of company direction or promotion, to magnify their unique contribution and impact. Clients create a strategy for change, develop empowering leadership capability and feel fulfilled as they create results in alignment with their personal values.
She believes you have a unique contribution to make, because no one has the same combination of skills, interests and values as you do. It is this one of a kind combination that Kat elicits from leaders and helps you both articulate and embody to create a positive impact in your career and organisation.
Kat leverages her background in financial services leadership roles to bring commercial acumen and strategic thinking and her experience with NLP, neuro-science and mindfulness to help you reconnect with your intuition. This combination helps to spark key moments of insight that allow clients to create fast results in a way that works for them.
Coaching services are typically tailor made and co-created with clients based on the outcome they'd like to create. Kat has provided some example programmes below that may support you - please book an introductory call to discuss what will be the best fit for you. This approach leads to powerful results and is the reason why clients stay in touch for years, regularly re-engaging Kat at pivotal moments or recommending her to peers and friends.
If you’re a change maker and have a live challenge or opportunity you’re working on, Kat would love to hear from you.
Career Insight Programme
This is for people who have a niggle (or a feeling of certainty) that their current role is no longer a good fit. Your intuition is telling you it’s time to explore other options, but you’re unsure what you want your next career move to be.
You could be fatigued or burnt-out in your current role or environment, feeling unfulfilled or undervalued. Or it could be that you have a growing sense that you have untapped potential – you have more to give. The important point is that you’ve noticed it is time for change.
This coaching programme is a mix of coaching and mentoring as Kat supports you through her bespoke 4 step process to:
- Recentre – breathe, pause and acknowledge where you are, what you’ve learned from your career so far and how to manage your energy through a transition whilst also delivering at work.
- Reconnect – uncover your personal values (what drives you), your passions & interests and your skills & experience to learn the type of work you want to do next.
- Realign – use these insights to articulate the criteria for your next role, plan how to engage your network, explain your unique contribution.
- Rewire – identify any blockers or limiting beliefs that are in your way or preventing you taking steps towards the role you want – clear the way for success.
Kat often recommends this is a 4 month programme (6x 60 minute sessions), but has created both a faster pace and more spacious options for those with different drivers. She is accessible by e-mail and Voxer (voicenotes) between sessions for the duration of your programme to help your progress.
During this programme, Kat is happy to help you review your CV and share edit ideas based on what we learn. She is open to you choosing to use one or more of your coaching sessions to prep for interviews. All sessions are 60 minutes unless otherwise stated. You will discuss what you’d like to achieve with Kat and the programme will run in a way that supports you best.
Leadership alignment programme
This is for leaders who are change makers in their organisation. This leader may have:
- Been given an expanded remit or new role
- Been asked to create/ implement a new strategy e.g. a people restructure/ change of roles & responsibilities, simplify a product set, launch a new product/ service, implement a change transformation programme or new platform
- Been newly promoted from a management/ early leadership role to a senior leadership role
- Decided that they want to create a legacy and upgrade their leadership capability to have even more positive impact on their team, clients and business.
The purpose of the programme is to help leaders reconnect with who they are – their values, their passions and skills, in order to dial up their unique contribution. This is about doing leadership your way, feeling aligned and fulfilled as you do it.
Real leadership (forging a new path ahead) is a lonely place. You’re out front on your own. Clients often choose to work with Kat in these areas:
- Insight around developing your leadership style – you suspect you’ve accidentally become too ‘corporate’
- How to delegate more effectively to create capacity to work more in your zone of genius
- Strategies to shift the culture of your team and boost engagement
- How to create a vision & mission that your team are excited by
- Ideas for managing your boss and peers to allow your team to shine for the great impact they create
- Transitioning teams from performing to out performing
- Creating fast impact in a new role/ when leading a new initiative.
Kat believes you know the best way to lead your team. She’ll help you elicit this and trust your leadership. You bring the agenda and Kat partners with you to create the changes you want to see in the world.
The programme format is 2 sessions per month – 1x 60 minute call for deeper exploration and 1x 30 minute call for quick insights, renewed focus and action.
This programme can be self-funded by signing up here or your organisation can be invoiced directly.
Virtual Careers Club
Following the success of our first seven Alpha Career Clubs – We are launching the 10th Virtual Career Club in September 2023.
The club will meet weekly, in addition to a self-support group our we will be on hand to give advice and help members of the club to get their careers back on track.
The topics covered include: Value Propositions, CV’s & LinkedIn, Networking & Using the Technology, Planning, Interview Preparation.
The Clubs meet ‘virtually’ every Thursday at 14:00 starting on Tuesday 19th September 2023.
Please contact katie.robertson@e2w.co for more information.
Virtual Careers Club
E2W Members – Register to join the club now. There is a small charge of £55.00 to join the club. The club is open to E2W Members only. You can become an E2W Member by following this link.
Magriet Steyn: Transformational coaching for resilient leaders
Magriet works with high-performing professional women to rise to higher levels of leadership, have more autonomy, impact and influence as well as the salary increase they deserve.
As an ICF accredited coach and leadership consultant, she equips her clients with practical, tangible tools and a clear, actionable leadership progression roadmap, aligned with their values.
She draws on over 20 years of experience in Financial Services, Management Consulting and Insurance to support leaders on how to best prepare themselves going into new challenges while also helping them become better leaders during periods of uncertainty and change.
Coaching packages are designed for my client’s unique needs and can be customised to suit your budget and schedule. Please contact Katie or Magriet if you’d like to discuss payment plans as we’d like to ensure coaching is accessible, whatever your circumstances.
Free Leadership Roadmap Call
Coaching packages are designed for my client’s unique needs and can be customised to suit your budget and schedule. Please contact Katie or Magriet if you’d like to discuss payment plans as we’d like to ensure coaching is accessible, whatever your circumstances.
Book to arrange a free introductory call with Magriet, to discuss how you would like her to support you and the flexible options she offers.
Resilient Leaders Programme
The Resilient Leaders Programme
Let’s discover who you really are as a leader and explore your opportunities for growth so that you can step into the next level of your leadership progression with confidence.
This programme is for you if:
- You’re committed to taking ownership of your career progression
- You’re ready to accelerate your leadership growth
- You want recognition, respect and to be taken seriously and have a bigger impact
- You want to perform at your best and lead with compassion and retain the people on your team
- You want a promotion, salary increase and a more attractive benefits package
Here’s what we’ll work on:
Magriet’s custom packages are designed for her client's unique needs. Here are just some of the areas we may work on together.
- Establishing your leadership style, strengths and opportunities for growth
- Building strong relationships for success and expanding your network
- Increasing your impact and boosting your professional brand
- Working through imposter syndrome, building confidence and getting seen and heard
- Navigating the gender biases that still persist in many work environments, and taking ownership of career progression
- Creating personalised strategies and boundaries for a better balance between work and personal priorities.
A typical programme includes:
- A 90-minute complimentary Leadership Deep Dive session (worth £500)
- Fortnightly sessions (60-minutes) for the duration of the programme (either 3 or 6 months)
- A leadership assessment and access to online resources to complement and enhance development between coaching sessions
- Support by email or WhatsApp between sessions
Coaching packages are designed for my client’s unique needs and can be customised to suit your budget and schedule. Please contact Katie or Magriet if you’d like to discuss payment plans as we’d like to ensure coaching is accessible, whatever your circumstances.
Kelly Keating - Coaching and Development
Kelly is a certified Executive and Leadership Coach, Change Practitioner, Facilitator and NED with extensive experience working with transformational leaders across Global Financial Services and the 3rd Sector. Amassing a 25 year career with roles across Marketing, Operations and Technology at reputable brands such as JP Morgan Chase and the RNLI.
Kelly partners with driven and committed senior leaders to achieve clarity and increased self awareness by leveraging their own unique values and strengths, specialising in those experiencing a transition, be it exploring a new role, career progression, successful flexible working, preparing for retirement and developing confident authenticity in the workplace.
Kelly has helped her clients successfully define and achieve their goals such as obtaining promotions, identifying a career that they are truly proud of, increasing performance by reframing limiting beliefs, successfully changing roles and careers and enhancing their leadership impact.
Kelly's coaching style is compassionate, whilst honest and energetic, working hard to ensure that each session is tailored to each client's individual needs and desired outcomes. Kelly is a life long lover of learning and enjoys gaining new skills and qualifications enabling her to include new tools and techniques.
Kelly lives by the coast in the South of England with her partner and son, loves exploring, camping and attending music festivals in their beloved VW T5.
Coaching and Development services are typically bespoke and co-created with clients based on the outcome they'd like to achieve. This approach leads to impactful, sustainable results and means that Kelly becomes a trusted partner with her clients, often going on to work with teams and other parts of the organisation. Kelly tends to spark with natural change makers that need a safe space and mirror held up to get them back on track to intentional living.
Free 30 minute discovery call
Get to know each other and explore how we can partner together to achieve you desired outcome or help you gain clarity on what it might be.
90 min Deep Dive with Kelly
Some clients have a specific issue that they need help to get unstuck. Perhaps an opportunity at work like preparing for a promotion conversation or interview or getting the desired outcome from a difficult conversation or relationship, or making a decision and moving forward with something that is playing on their mind and holding them back.
Refocus, Reignite, Reimagine
During this package of 6 sessions (ideally over a period of 3 months) we’ll explore and gain clarity on where you want to get to (in your life or career). You’ll have optional exercises throughout the programme including a free DISC Assessment to allow you to focus on your values, strengths and beliefs and use these to design your path ahead to intentional living. You’ll leave with a individual action plan for you to take forward to enable to you lead and thrive your way.
(payment plan available)
Brian Ballantyne – A Safe and Courageous Space
Brian is currently working towards his executive coaching qualification (ILM level 7) and certification (EMCC). Brian is already coaching Directors and Managers on navigating a new corporate culture, onboarding successfully, moving to a new country, bouncing back after redundancy, and leading complex teams.
Having experienced coaching himself several times over the past decade, Brian deeply believes in the benefits of experiencing a safe (confidential and supportive) and courageous (challenging and exploratory) space, where you can speak your thoughts aloud with a thinking partner, who can share what they notice about your words, body language and energy, support you in exploring options, challenge any limiting beliefs, and hold you accountable on actions to learn and move forward.
Brian has over 20 years’ experience working in European and American tech corporations, across roles in Commercial Finance, Product / Program Management, Procurement, Marketing and HR. He is a co-founder of Men for Inclusion, sits on the board of Women in Digital Empowerment, and wrote a book Confessions of a Working Father, to encourage more men to lean-in as engaged caregivers. He is exploring coaching as a possible future career option, and to make him a better people leader.
Introductory chemistry call
30-minute chemistry call (clarifying the outcomes you want)
6 hours of 1:1 coaching
Package of 6 coaching sessions (1 hour, every 2 – 4 weeks)