Current
Executive and leadership coach
Colette works with senior leaders and executives navigating pressure, transition and significant decisions.
About Colette
Leadership experience. Coaching expertise. A human perspective.
Colette understands the challenges leaders face because she has lived them — building businesses, carrying responsibility and working with ambitious people through defining moments.
For more than 20 years, Colette has helped business leaders, CEOs, entrepreneurs and high performers operate at the top of their game.
Her career has placed her on both sides of the coaching conversation. After founding and leading a successful UK property investment business, Colette knows the reality of responsibility: the expectations, difficult decisions and personal pressure that rarely appear on an organisation chart.
That experience is matched by a deep interest in how the mind works. Colette’s coaching helps clients look beneath the issue they first present and notice what their own thinking is adding to it.
“The aim is not simply better behaviour. It is clearer thinking — because that changes what becomes possible next.”
Colette brings warmth, directness and perspective to every conversation. There is no performance required in the room and no formula to follow. The work begins with what is real for you now. Explore her executive, leadership and transition coaching.
Colette’s experiencePast and current roles
Past
Founder and business leader
Colette founded and led a UK property investment business, bringing first-hand experience of responsibility, expectations and difficult decisions to her coaching work.
Across business and social impact
Leadership and board experience
- ChairThe Saltire Foundation
- TrusteeEntrepreneurial Scotland Foundation
- TrusteeEnlight Foundation
- Vice Chair and DirectorEntrepreneurial Exchange
- TrusteeWinning Scotland
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Advisory Board2026 to Present -
Trustee2024 to Present -
Trustee2014 - 2025 -
Chair2014 to 2020 -
Founder & Director1996 to 2019 -
Trustee2012 to 2014 -
Vice Chair & Director2011 to 2014
What shapes the work
Serious about performance? Understanding ourselves is how we get there.
Clarity over complexity
Useful insight often appears when unnecessary noise falls away, not when another framework is added.
Experience over theory
The work is grounded in the lived reality of leadership, transition and sustained responsibility.
Humanity over performance
You can be ambitious and deeply human. In fact, your best leadership depends on both.