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Emma Spitz

Emma Spitz

Executive Coach

Emma is an experienced executive coach and former HR and L&D specialist with a background in financial services. She supports leaders and high-potential professionals through career transitions and leadership growth, combining empathy and challenge to build confidence, clarity, and sustainable performance. A pioneer in parental transition coaching, she continues to champion inclusive, human-centered leadership development.

Country: United Kingdom

Sector experience: Legal and financial services. 

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Background

Prior to joining the Executive Coaching Consultancy in February 2004 Emma spent over 10 years working in the financial services sector, working for the Prudential, the Liberty Life Group and JP Morgan Chase. As an HR Business Partner, a Learning and Development Specialist and now as a coach, Emma has worked extensively with individuals across a wide variety of roles, levels, organisations and sectors to help them optimise their performance and maximise their potential.

Emma is particularly interested in working with individuals during transition points in their careers – either to a more senior role, working within a new organisation or through periods of significant change. She enjoys working with high potential individuals and Leaders to enable them to maximise their potential and achieve their aspirations.

 
 
Coaching Style

Emma has a highly empathic and intuitive approach to coaching which provides her with insights into her clients which allows her to challenge them in a fearless and demanding yet encouraging and supportive way.

Each coaching programme is tailored to her individual client’s needs, where they will examine their strengths, development areas, coaching and business objectives using a structured framework which allows them to develop relevant and achievable action plans leading to significant results. Emma combines perceptiveness and empathy with a strong pragmatic and business focus.

“Clients describe me as being open and challenging within a highly supportive and constructive framework. I bring objectivity and structure to a client’s personal and professional development goals, as well as thought-provoking insights.

 

Special Interests

  • As a natural development of her interest in transition and development coaching, Emma successfully created and launched Maternity Coaching in 2005. Through her personal experience of maternity leave at a major Investment Bank (Emma has three children), Emma recognised the need for bespoke coaching for working parents. On joining The Executive Coaching Consultancy she subsequently designed and developed a coaching programme to support women before, during and after their maternity leave.

  • She is a passionate advocate for supporting parents at work and continues to lead ECC’s market leading services for Working Parents.

  • Emma is experienced in coaching senior individuals at transition points and particularly enjoys working with senior female leaders supporting them in the choices they need to make to further their career development and maximise their performance.

 

Training & Qualifications

  • Psychology graduate, with an MSc in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics

  • She has completed a Certificate in Coaching

  • Trained in the use of psychometric profiles and often uses these, together with 360 Degree Feedback, to help individuals increase their self-awareness.

  • Granted the Association for Coaching Accredited Coach status in March 2007 & Accredited Executive Coach status in April 2013

Current Clients

  • A&O Shearman

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch

  • CMS Cameron McKenna

  • Credit Suisse

  • Deutsche Bank

  • DLA Piper

  • HSBC

  • Herbert Smith Freehills

  • JP Morgan

  • Macfarlanes

  • Morgan Stanley

  • Reed Smith

  • 3i

  • Tower Research

  • UBS

 
Emma is a fantastic coach. She made me feel at ease and someone I could easily speak with. She was great in challenging the decisions I had made and actions I had taken in the past to assess my strengths. The sessions were focussed and the resulting objectives tangible.
Partner
Major Law Firm
I cannot recommend Emma highly enough. Over the past 18 months, she has been a fantastic coach who provided the clarity I desperately needed. She helped me truly own my strengths and identify sharp areas of focus. I felt genuinely empowered and equipped to re-enter the workplace and now have a feeling of renewed energy and purpose. Thank you so much for everything.
Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
Telegraph Media Group
All employees deserve to get an attentive, committed and improvement focused coach, and all businesses deserve to get improvement from investing their employees. This coaching experience delivered on both those things - it’s the easiest decision you can make
Head of Social Strategy
Toy Construction Company
The six sessions I had with my ECC Coach changed my perspective of coaching. I was initially uncertain (and possibly sceptical) about the benefits of coaching but my coach read me very well and knew when to coax a response out from me by being encouraging and when to firmly push me to see the benefits of reframing some of my previously held positions.
Head of Legal
International Property Group
I found my ECC coaching sessions incredibly valuable – for the unique and necessary space I was seeking as a sole proprietor to feel heard, understood and connected to a peer in business. My coaching experience provided a safe space where I could be the real me, and provided a relationship I could truly trust. Thank you ECC.
Manager
Creative Retail Agency
The coaches at ECC are commercial, pragmatic and highly focused. The coaching they provide on an individual basis has given valuable insight and helped our senior executives to gain greater perspective in terms of managing relationships, prioritising, strategic thinking, influencing and confidence.
Senior Leader
Multinational Retailing Company
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