About
coaching/mentoring Services
Tonia helps executive coachees to overcome personal and business challenges, leading to more effective and fulfilling performance. She offers person-centred and solution focused one-to-one coaching, with a particular emphasis on:
Career development
Support at times of promotion
Impact
Team leadership
Prioritising time
Given her legal training and experience, Tonia also offers blended coaching, insight, guidance and mentoring to lawyers (in-house and private practice) and other members of the Legal community.
Tonia’s coaching style is relaxed yet focused. By creating a calm and non-judgmental environment, Tonia supports the coachee in embarking upon a journey of self-reflection and self-confidence to carry their career to the next phase and/or become more effective in their current role.
Bio
Tonia studied law in the 1980s at Cambridge University and Guildford Law School. She then practiced law for nearly 30 years; firstly, in the City law firm Linklaters and then, for over 20 years, at Unilever (the consumer goods company). At Unilever Tonia progressed up the ranks of the legal function with her last two roles being Chief Legal Officer and Group Company Secretary.
In 2019 Tonia completed the Professional Certificate in Coaching at Henley Business School.
As well as coaching and mentoring, Tonia has a number of non-executive and advisory roles.
Client Feedback
“Tonia guides her coachee through the process very skillfully.”
“I came away from the session with an enhanced feeling of self-worth and motivation.”
“It was a great session. Most useful was Tonia’s vast experience in the day-to-day of my everyday working life.”
“Through allowing my thoughts to flow and then summarising or probing further Tonia was able to help me more accurately label my issues.”
