Lindsay Wittenberg

Lindsay specialises in bringing clarity to complex agendas in the following areas:

• Coaching for wellbeing: Facilitating clients to create healthy working lives, achieve balance, manage stress and challenges to health, and build resilience
• Authentic leadership: accelerating effectiveness, stimulating higher levels of performance, building resilience, confidence and impact, invigorating teams
• Career development: Re-energising and refocusing careers, finding meaning at work, and managing career transition points, including First 100 Days
• Cross-cultural effectiveness: Creating new routes to crossing cultural boundaries and moving successfully to unfamiliar cultures, from international to organisational

Lindsay equips her clients to achieve shifts in their thinking and behaviour – and hence sustained results – and to release more of their talent through her in-depth understanding of how change occurs and her fearlessness about working in challenging areas.  Her clients:

• build and sustain their wellbeing and resilience
• tap in more fully to their own and their organisations’ capabilities
• become better able to make well-grounded decisions and judgements
• become more insightful, creative and resourceful in their thinking
• nurture productive working relationships.

Her clients speak of her as challenging and supportive, caring and tough, dynamic and deep, positive, warm and insightful.

She has worked across a range of sectors, including City and regional law firms, insurance, financial services, technology, City accountancy practices, government and international intergovernment, Olympic sport, media, charities, engineering, health (practitioners and managers), business schools, social work, advertising, telecommunications, energy, transport, and retail. 

Organisations she has worked with include PruHealth, NFU Mutual, LTSB Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, FTSE-100 companies, NBTY, DLA Piper, Network Rail, Accenture, BDO Stoy Hayward, UNICEF, GLA, NHS, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, Google, Dept for Work & Pensions, Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK Sport, Sony Ericsson, Girlguiding, and Guide Dogs for the Blind.

Lindsay enjoys working with clients who:

• are at a turning point or transition
• are tussling with dilemmas
• are stressed
• may be struggling with working relationships
• enact behaviours that others may find difficult.

She is the originator of the Wittenberg Career Coaching Model and she holds EMCC European Individual Accreditation at Senior Practitioner Level.  She is a Member of the EMCC and the Association for Coaching, an Emeritus Certified Management Consultant, and the author of the e-book ‘Become the Leader You Are: Self-Leadership through Executive Coaching’, available at http://bookboon.com/en/become-the-leader-you-are-ebook

Lindsay has:

• a B.A. Hons degree (class II.1) in Linguistics (University of Reading)
• the Advanced Diploma (with Distinction) in Professional Coaching and Mentoring from the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring (accredited by Oxford-Brookes University), and
• the Certificates in The Psychology of Coaching and Gestalt Coaching Skills from the Academy of Executive Coaching

She was Highly Commended for Coaching at Work’s Award 2015 for Best Thought Leadership.

She is:

• Certified and licenced by The Fearless Organization, LLC to administer and debrief the Fearless Organization Scan (Psychological Safety Index)
• A MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) Certified Practitioner (Step I and Step II)
• A trained and qualified Practitioner in Systemic Coaching and Facilitation
• An accredited user of Facet5 psychometric profiling
• An approved provider of ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management) Endorsed Programmes in leadership, management and career coaching
• Accredited in Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment at Foundation level
• Accredited in PROPHET senior team profiling
• A Mental Health First Aider

She has trained in Mindfulness for Coaches (through Mindfulness Works).