Dr Rachel Ellison MBE
Rachel offers high support with high challenge. She creates a calm, reflective space in which clients are invited to explore their values, patterns and purpose in coming to work. Rachel brings rigour and insight. Her beneath-the-surface approach supports clients to generate fresh solutions and achieve profound, personal & professional growth.
Rachel works with C-suite, senior and future leaders in the commercial, public and third sectors. She has expert knowledge of unstable, unpredictable and changing global environments. Of resilience, burn out and abuse of power.
From Afghanistan to Myanmar, the former Soviet Union to Central African Republic and the DRC, to the Middle East, Central and Latin America, Rachel brings exceptional international experience. She works with leaders in more than 45 different tribes, cultures, nations and organisational systems. Clients who choose to work with Rachel, develop a more knowing sense of who they are as leaders. They become more effective leaders. Rachel encourages them to integrate their multiple sources of informal learning. And to develop multiple perspectives other than their own.
Rachel coaches leaders in multiple industry sectors from banking to electronics, FMCG retail to house building. Her clients include diplomats and elite high performance athletes. She works with governments, the NHS & NGOs. Clients include: HSBC, Samsung, Hyundai, Asda, M&S, Boots/Walgreen Alliance, Barratt Redrow. Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Ministry of Defence, HM Prisons, Crown Prosecution Service, the NHS, UNICEF, UK Sport. Pro-bono Macmillan Cancer Care.
Rachel Ellison is a former BBC news reporter and international development aid director. Broadcasting to audiences of 400m in 120 countries, Rachel’s first leadership position was in a Category 1 warzone. Her team won BBC Team of the Year. Rachel was awarded an MBE for ‘the promotion of human rights and women’s self-empowerment in Afghanistan.’
She holds a PhD (honoris causa) in Global Leadership & Coaching from Middlesex University, an MA in Mastery in Executive Coaching and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology. Rachel is a guest lecturer at Birkbeck University of London, and a keynote speaker at University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
“The coaching we did 3 years ago is giving the resilience and skill to navigate the current global economic crisis.”
“You helped me turn around my performance at interview. It was either up or out for me.”
“Rachel emits high, positive energy. She is probing and has great analytical skills. She makes me think real hard — which can be uncomfortable but transformational.”