Region
United Kingdom
Area of expertise
Developing Leaders, Women in the Workplace
Maureen Obatomi
Executive Coach
Maureen is a transformational and purpose-driven executive coach and leadership consultant who is passionate about enabling people to become successful, accomplished, and visionary leaders. She specialises in coaching senior leaders, groups, and teams to achieve breakthrough change and unlock their full potential by creating spaces for disruptive thinking, mindset shifts, and purpose-aligned problem solving.
She has extensive experience in a variety of industries and a diverse background in senior management and leadership roles across corporate, public & charity sectors. Her background includes successfully navigating a career change from pharmacy & the healthcare industry into the leadership development & career consulting space. She now specialises in helping organisations cultivate strong, effective leaders, build collaborative high performing teams, and create meaningful and sustainable culture change.
Maureen’s areas of expertise include strengths-based coaching, career development & transition, psychometric assessments, breakthrough thinking, talent & team development, inclusive leadership, and organisation culture.
Coaching Style
Maureen has a catalytic edge to her coaching and helps individuals to gain the clarity, confidence, and self-awareness needed to create purposeful change. She particularly specialises in working with ambitious leaders who are feeling stuck and are ready to focus on making radical changes from the inside out and lead their teams in an inspiring direction. Her holistic and strengths-based approach is focused on helping clients achieve powerful mindset shifts and incorporates a strong emphasis on living and leading from a deep awareness of oneself, purpose, and values. She is passionate about enabling clients to “unlock the untapped potential from within” and make empowered decisions in alignment with their authentic selves and life vision, even in the face of challenges and setbacks.
Clients describe her as being insightful, warm, open, and direct, with the ability to stimulate clarity, inspiration, and decisive action. Her coaching style reflects her genuine, supportive, and tenacious nature; she brings a unique blend of introspection, creative exploration, and positive challenge to her work as a coach. She is also very perceptive and observant, often noticing and emphasising crucial details that are the key to unlocking effective solutions
Special Interests
- Leadership Presence and Impact
- Developing Leadership Style & Authenticity
- Diversity Awareness & Creating Inclusive Cultures.
- Leadership Partnership & Team Dynamics
- Managing Transitions and Leading Change
- Career Development & Transitions
- Values & Purpose Discovery
- Emotional Intelligence
- Resilience
- Self-confidence and Motivation
Training & Qualifications
- EMCC Accredited Coach Practitioner
- BPS Level A and B Psychometric Assessment Qualified
- Licensed Psychometric User – Hogan Assessments, Saville Consulting, Strengthscope, Positive Resilience Profiler
- Practitioner in Conscious Business Coaching
- Certificate in Talent Management Assessment & Design
- Mental Health First Aider
- Organisational Leadership, Advanced Diploma of Leadership & Theology
- Master’s degree in Pharmacy
- Member of the Association for Business Psychology (ABP) and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)
Current Clients
Maureen has experience working across a variety of sectors including Finance, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Law, Technology, Automotive, Retail, FMCG and Higher Education.
Some notable clients are Barclays, Bloomberg, The Independent, Mars, PWC, Sky, Salesforce, Unilever, BAE Systems, and Credit Suisse.
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