Managing Director, Investment Banking

Rachel was a senior Managing Director in a large investment bank's Global Capital Markets business. She led a highly successful team which built a very substantial revenue stream over a 4 year period. Rachel sought coaching early in those 4 years to help her:

gain senior management engagement with what was a complex, new product area
increase her ability to read senior management pressures and organisational signals
develop greater influence and collaboration with her peers and bosses
manage her team of very bright, capable and demanding people enabling them to fully develop their own potential

"Coaching with Rosie made me better equipped to navigate the senior reaches of the firm. This was essential to enable me to effectively promote and expand my business, resulting in materially enhanced revenue contribution. Through the coaching, I now network more effectively amongst peers and senior managers in the firm. I also improved my leadership skills with the team. One of the key things I do differently is play a longer game – both at a tactical and strategic level. I notice I am better at dealing with upsets on the way to delivering my goals.

As a coach Rosie brings deep understanding of the objectives of both my management and of the business itself. This enabled her to help me develop the navigation skills to become a senior MD in a complex and changing organisational structure.

I found coaching produced significantly greater lasting benefits for me and the firm than other development methods. It is bespoke and works at a deep level of understanding of the individual and the firm."

Rachel Lord, MD, International Investment Banker