An engaging executive coach, programme director, facilitator and speaker with over twenty- five years’ experience.

Alison designs and runs programmes on a number of subjects including leadership, women’s development and team management as well as using her financial roots to work on business perspectives. Her book which draws on her experience with professional service firms (Inside Knowledge – How Women can Thrive in Professional Service Firms) was published in 2017.

Alison’s aim is to develop and release the personal potential of individuals, but she brings to her work a strong business focus underpinned by her qualification as a chartered accountant with PwC. Her approach is to support and challenge, working closely with her clients to develop practical solutions to their needs. Her range of clients is broad and includes senior professionals and executives and the boards of international legal, consulting and accountancy firms including EY, Linklaters, Allen & Overy, PwC and McKinsey, banks and financial organisations including HSBC, the Bank of England and the IMF and also global corporations such as Cisco and Rentokil Initial.

Alison has a particular specialism in women’s leadership. She has been the external programme director of the award-winning Linklaters Global Women’s Leadership Programme since its inception in 2012.

Alison has an MA in Organisational Psychology which focused on coaching and organisational development and is a member of the Association for Coaching. She is an accredited coach and tutor of the Centaur model. She is a qualified MBTI practitioner and sat as a lay member on the British Psychoanalytic Council’s ethics committee. Alison was a director of the Praxis Centre at Cranfield Business School and a visiting tutor at Judge Business School in Cambridge.

An Economics graduate, Alison is a Chartered Accountant qualifying with C&L (now PwC) where she managed a number of major client engagements. She has lectured in Financial Accounting, Economics and Tax in the UK and overseas and written articles on taxation for The Observer in the UK. She was Head of Career Development for the tax and legal practice across Europe, the Middle East and Africa before leaving PwC in 2001 to set up her own practice which became atd partners.