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About Emma

Emma Russell is an executive and leadership coach as well as a designer and facilitator of leadership development and executive training programmes.  She has a zest for life, is passionate about learning and believes that learning should be a lifelong experience.

Prior to coaching, Emma spent 17 years in the corporate environment, and has extensive experience in building high-performance, multicultural virtual teams, leading large change management projects and delivering high impact leadership training.   She is passionate about human development and spent over ten years in senior leadership roles in finance, change management, commercial management and economics. 

Emma has worked in the UK, Poland, India and Malaysia and has guided hundreds of people through changes and organisational transitions, whilst being involved at a design level in many organisational changes.  Her corporate experience includes coaching leaders, designing and facilitating leadership development and cross-cultural integration programs and creating new business and finance processes.

As a coach, Emma thrives on supporting others to discover that their lives, both professional and personal, can be deeper, richer and more meaningful, and helping them to make long lasting and sustainable positive change through a process of discovery and learning.  Her work involves understanding the sources of energy within a client that limit or hold them back.  Her lifelong interest in drama and acting results in a deep passion for communication and relationships and she sees both as the key to connection, inspiration and trust.

Emma is a certified Integral Coach, an Associate Certified Coach with the ICF and holds a certificate in Neurobehavioural Modelling.  She holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD (Dean’s List) and First-Class Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Leicester.  She is also a certified accountant.