Gaelle Lamotte
Executive Coach
Gaelle is an AC-accredited executive coach with over 20 years’ experience in strategy consulting and senior leadership. She partners with leaders to align self, purpose, and strategy, creating the conditions for authentic growth, inclusive leadership, and high performance across complex organisational systems.
Country: United Kingdom
Sector experience: Financial services and retail.
Background
Gaelle draws on her 20+ years of working with senior teams in both strategy consulting and leadership roles to shape her coaching style and practice. She believes that coaching can deliver significant, lasting positive impact for the individual, their team, and organisation. Gaelle makes a difference as a coach by creating a space for her clients at the intersection of self, purpose & strategy, and their environment (organisation, family, community); where they can grow as individuals and leaders, and map out a future where they can thrive. Gaelle is an AC accredited Executive Coach.
Coaching Style
As a woman with a long career in professional services who received little or no formal coaching, Gaelle is keen to offer leaders – aspiring, established or in transition – the opportunity to engage in coaching to accelerate their development and growth with confidence. Her style is shaped by her inherent curiosity about people, their unique perspectives and team dynamics. She is naturally optimistic, preferring to work from strengths, unlocking blockages, and enabling awareness of underlying patterns or behaviours. She offers her clients the time and space to assess, reflect, test assumptions, and reframe challenges, in order to make assertive, positive choices.
Gaelle has an integrative and systemic coaching approach. She brings to the relationship a depth of business experience gained by working in a variety of roles – as a senior manager and P&L holder, as a seasoned consultant, and as an executive and non-executive Board member. She can tap into a rich and multi-disciplinary repertoire to support the coaching discussion as needed; such as profiling tools, 360 feedback, visualisation/visioning, strategy mapping, Scorecard, leadership assessments, cultural map, etc.
Clients and colleagues describe Gaelle as non judgemental and empathetic, considered and analytical, incisive and a perceptive listener. She believes that success comes when people can perform at their best. Her goal is to help create the conditions and develop pragmatic solutions to make that happen.
Special Interests
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Leadership style and executive presence: Finding your leadership style, role transitions, interpersonal effectiveness and confidence, growing as a leader in step with organisational needs, growth and coaching mindset, personal brand
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Purpose and impact: Purpose and values, vision/visualisation, personal strategy map
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Creating conditions for high performance (team/individual): psychological safety, diversity, team dynamics, meeting norms & inclusive work practices
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Disrupting bias: speaking up, giving/receiving feedback, constructive challenge, allyship & inclusive leadership
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Leading change: stakeholder management, prioritisation, roles & accountabilities, change agenda, productive reviews, success metrics
Training & Qualifications
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Association for Coaching Executive Coaching Accreditation – Executive Coaching Consultancy Professional Coach Recognition Programme (PCRP)
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ILM qualification, Executive Coaching Consultancy PCRP
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INSEAD Executive Education: Impact Strategy & Investing
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MBA, INSEAD – Fontainebleau, France
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BComm Finance & International Business, Minor East Asian Studies, McGill University – Montreal, Canada
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Native French Speaker
Current Clients
Gaelle has experience working with senior executives, management team members, leaders in transition, senior managers, entrepreneurs, founders & co-founders and NED’s across a variety of sectors including clients such as Mintel, Takeda, Johnson & Johnson, Oxx VC, Samsung, MSD, Innovate UK, Shell, Thinkbox, Rexam, BMS/Celgene, HBA, Ingersoll Rand, NCC, Central Bank of Nigeria, IQVIA, University of Abu Dhabi.
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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.
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.
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.