Region
United Kingdom
Area of expertise
Working Parents, Women in the Workplace, Developing Leaders
Frances King
Executive Coach
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
- Allen & Overy
- 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
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