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Frances King-1

Frances King

Executive Coach

Frances is an accredited executive and career coach with over 15 years’ experience helping professionals in law and business navigate career transitions and step into senior leadership roles. Drawing on her background in business development and leadership at top City firms, she blends empathy and pragmatism to build confidence, clarity, and purposeful performance.

Country: United Kingdom

Sector experience: Legal and business development. 

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Background

Frances has been working as an Accredited Executive and Career Coach for over 15 years. Prior to this she spent over 12 years in Business Development/Leadership Development at Clifford Chance and CMS. Frances coaches partners, associates and business professionals, many of whom are managing career and life transitions. She uses her coaching expertise combined with an understanding of business development to enable high performers to successfully perform, and to do so purposefully.

Through her work with over 400 individuals from City professional services organisations, in the UK and internationally, Frances sees the importance of supporting professionals at key transitional points to help them progress positively through change. Frances supports clients to step-up and prepare for partnership / counsel promotion / senior leadership positions by helping them build their leadership identity and develop confidence in playing to their strengths.

 

Coaching Style

Frances’ experience helps her bring a level of empathy and pragmatism to her coaching and clients describe her as positive, supportive and challenging. Her motivating and human approach means she is quickly able to build trust with clients in a collaborative way with a clear focus on client’s outcomes.

She blends an intuitive style with insightful questions and space to think, to enable individuals to achieve an increased self-awareness and then to gain greater clarity how to progress. This is supported using a blend of MBTI, Strengths Profile, 360 feedback and other tools as appropriate.

 

Special Interests

  • Partnership / Leadership

  • Business development and business planning

  • Career transitions – new roles, career breaks, career change

  • Parental transition

  • Organisational change


Training & Qualifications

  • Accredited ‘Executive Coach’ (Association for Coaching) with over 750 hours coaching experience

  • Advanced Diploma in Coaching & Mentoring, OSCM

  • Career Counselling Practitioner Certificate, CCS

  • Certified in MBTI and NLP Master Practitioner

  • BSc Hons in International Management and French,

  • Manchester UMIST


Current Clients

  • Accenture

  • A&O Shearman

  • Bates Wells Braithwaite

  • Cleary Gottlieb

  • Clyde & Co

  • CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

  • Dentons

  • DLA Piper

  • Herbert Smith Freehills

  • Linklaters

  • Macfarlanes

  • Milbank

  • Skadden

  • The Recovery Centre 
Frances skilfully extracted my ideas and helped me put them together in a coherent fashion to create a plan which I then was successful at achieving.
Senior Manager
Major Law Firm
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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