Caroline Stanford

Caroline is a highly regarded professional facilitator and coach who works with team leaders, teams and individuals in effectively optimising potential and accelerating behavioural change.

She helps them to achieve the business and professional results they desire through: faster implementation of change; better leadership and management; more objective feedback and profiling; accelerated career progression; improved performance and business results

Coaching and Facilitation Style

Caroline’s passion is effectively linking people and people processes to business outcomes. Using a variety of tools and techniques that are practical, insightful and inspirational she collaboratively works with individuals and teams in achieving their full potential.

Using an analytic coaching approach Caroline helps people to realise their goals, build powerful relationships, and enhance their problem solving and decision making capabilities ultimately achieving fulfilment and success in both their professional and personal lives. Whilst always helping clients to achieve their goals, feedback from her clients describes Caroline’s style as ‘challenging, insightful and inspirational whilst at the same time empathetic’.

Areas of Specialisation:

Leadership, Coaching, Career Development, Mentoring, Performance Management, Influencing and Personal Development.

Client Organisations and Seniority

Caroline has recently worked on assignments supporting GSK, MOD, Cabinet Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Carillion, Wickes, and Asda and Applied Bio Systems.

Career Background

Caroline had extensive experience within learning and development, specifically in the areas of Leadership Development, Competency Frameworks, Selection and Assessment, Performance Management and Personal Effectiveness. Previous assignments have supported clients such as Scottish & Newcastle, Sainsbury, Argos, HM Treasury, TGI Fridays, British Aerospace.

Qualifications and Training

Caroline is also a qualified coach specialising in Leadership, Performance, Career and Development coaching. Caroline is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the European Coaching Institute. She is also qualified Level A&B [SHL] Occupational Testing, specifically OPQ32 [SHL] and MBTI [OPQ]. Caroline also holds and MA in HRM and Training Development from Warwick University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

She lives in Stratford Upon Avon and is married with two children.