Arabella Ellis
Arabella is a business consultant, executive coach and entrepreneur, who for over 20 years has helped leaders transform themselves, their teams and their organisations. She is valued for her perceptive insight, practical advice and warm style. She is passionate about helping organisations build cultures that combine trust with challenge and uses this approach in her coaching too.
Clients say the experience of working with her is different and at the heart of her approach is an ability to ensure leaders navigate the challenges they face today, while building the character they want or need for the future. She currently works with both established businesses and scale-ups, which means she is well-aware of the different issues facing these two worlds and how this poses challenges for both groups. Fundamentally Arabella is curious about people and how to help them bring the best of themselves to their world of work. A founder of both The Thinking Partnership and Gyre, Arabella is a chartered psychologist with a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Liverpool, and post-grad certificate in Organisational Consulting & Leadership from the Tavistock Institute. As an undergraduate, she studied Social Psychology at the University of Kent and the University of Massachusetts, USA.
Coaching Leaders
Arabella focuses on helping individuals realise their potential and enjoys the challenge of seeing people develop a deep confidence in their leadership. Whether the challenge is helping someone to recognise and capitalise on their talents, to navigate the organisational politics, to develop their capacity to inspire and motivate others, to change the way they lead the business or to manage their work load, Arabella is known for being a mix of insight and pragmatism.
Coaching Teams
Making great decisions is hard enough, but in a team context, additional layers of complexity are added. Critical strategic decisions require senior leaders to be able to articulate their views clearly, listen to and build on the views of others, and manage differences constructively. Arabella is recognised for her ability to help teams focus on the conversations that really matter, however sensitive they are, and to make the bold changes that deliver transformational change.
Clients
Uber, Amazon, Google, Tangle Teezer, Arisaig Partners, Genesis Investment, Schroders, Mintec, Anthesis Group, Martin Currie, Prudential, Legal & General, Group, Liberty Speciality Markets, St Andrews Healthcare and 1508 London.
References
“You are an exceptional adviser and a source of wise and objective counsel. Furthermore, you are a preternaturally calm - and that characteristic is immensely comforting to senior executives weighed down by the competing demands of their people and their paymasters. You are also moral, principled and courageous. None of those characteristics are common in the senior echelons of the sort of business you consult to. People respond to those characteristics in you because it is what they sorely lack from their own leaders”.
CEO, Asset Management
“I would highly recommend Arabella as a consultant to individuals and teams. She is intuitive, empathetic and very business focused. Her coaching skills are gentle, persuasive and she is transformational in guiding towards peak performance. She is excellent in her ability to get to the nub of the matter and enable the individuals to find a more positive and constructive path to career success”.
Group HRD