Rachel Anderson

Facilitator & Coach

A powerful and seasoned executive coach and facilitator, Rachel revels in supporting her clients make the simple shifts that unlock remarkable changes. She is fascinated by adult human development and potential; over the last 15 years Rachel has coached over 1000 leaders and executives 1:1, enabling them to realise and step into their full potential through her strong blend of empathy and challenge.

An experienced and inspiring leader herself, Rachel draws on 23 years of unusual and diverse leadership and management experience in Operational Management, Policy and Strategy, and Learning and Development. She’s worked in Government (contributing to Land Reform, and Devolution), in employee relations (from both sides of the table), in organisational development, transformation, integration and business improvement.

Most recently Rachel was European Head of Coaching and Facilitation in a global consultancy, developing, aligning and motivating a team of over 90 professional world class coaches to deliver quality leadership development programmes.

Unusually, Rachel also had a successful career in Forestry, managing trees and woods before realising she found it more rewarding to help people to grow instead!

Her versatile approach has enabled her to now work across many sectors and industries: public sector, not for profit, energy, retail, finance, science, FMCG, small businesses and other growth focused transformational clients.

Rachel quickly establishes a warm coaching relationship with empathy and wise insight. Practical and compassionate, she flexes every coaching journey to maximise the personal learning for that individual, whilst making relevant connections to organisational and systemic context.

Both reflective and active, Rachel enjoys Qigong, kickboxing, snowblading, gardening, reading, writing and a very full family life. She describes herself as a 'social introvert'….and she still likes trees.

Qualifications

(as of June 2023) Over 3500 coaching hours

2012 Associate Certified Coach (ACC); International Coach Federation achieved

2015 MAC; Association for Coaching

2021 Leadership Circle Profile Certification, TLC

2018, updated 2023 Leadership Development Framework, Harthill

2021 Kuan Yin Qigong Intermediate Instructor

2022 The Neuroscience of Change, Coaches Rising

2017 Organisation and Relationships Systems Coaching (ORSC) Fundamentals, CRR UK

2015 Interpersonal Neurobiology; Dr Dan Siegel Mindsight Institute

2015 Science of Happiness (online EdX); University of California, Berkeley

2014 Presence Based Coaching; Experiential Neuroplasticity; Doug Silsbee

2015 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction; The North Centre for Mindfulness and Compassion

2012 Membership of Professional Speakers Academy: Public Speakers University

2011 Coaching Essentials; Coaching Development Ltd

2009 Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming; Christopher Howard Training

2009 Level 3 BTEC Certificate in Life Coaching Skills and Practice; Edexcel

2007 MCIPD (Chartered Member); Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development

2005 Investors in People Internal Reviewer

2003 European Foundation for Quality Management Internal Assessor

1997 Professional Certificate in Management; The Open University