Exchange

Nicky is an experienced and sought-after executive coach, consultant and facilitator in developing leaders, teams and organisations. 

She has worked extensively across private and public sectors and in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America with FTSE 100 and 250 organisations, small fast growing start-ups, family businesses, universities, charities, the NHS, the UK Cabinet Office and other central government departments and arms-length bodies.  In her corporate career, Nicky held senior and international leadership roles in HR in high growth tech companies, and in Marketing, Projects and Organisation Development in financial services and banking.  Her last corporate role was as Global Head of Talent with Standard Chartered Bank.

Nicky has worked as an independent consultant and coach for over 20 years, helping leaders and teams to transform their businesses and develop their capabilities to deal with professional and personal challenges and to make the most of new opportunities. Over the years, projects have included developing a business case and target operating model for Egg, the UK’s first internet bank; developing change management capability across Standard Chartered Bank’s footprint; creating and leading top talent programmes for over a decade for the UK Cabinet Office; working alongside top leadership teams to develop the strong relationships and high performance essential for success in a range of challenging situations, from restructuring and closure announcements during economic turbulence and the pandemic to new market, ownership and growth opportunities.

Throughout her career Nicky has worked to bring people together to forge connections, to collaborate, to work across boundaries - between departments within organisations, between organisations in mergers and acquisitions and between public and private sectors – to develop strategic capabilities and to lead system wide change.   Leading WIG’s Exchange Programme brings all of these elements together.

As well as being an experienced organisation consultant and coach, Nicky is a qualified yoga teacher, psychotherapist and coaching supervisor.  She lives in London and Chichester and is an enthusiastic sailor, walker and student of French.

Tim is an experienced development consultant who has worked with individuals and teams helping them to develop the resilience, agility, and pace to lead and navigate their organisations successfully through a time of disruptive and complex change.

His approach encourages leaders to learn more effectively from their experience and, as a result, to address the challenges of their current and future business environment more successfully. In his coaching and group work, his focus is building individuals’ dialogue skills, their influence and awareness, helping them to develop an inclusive and enabling leadership style.

Tim has worked with board and senior leadership teams in the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, with organisations in the Banking, Engineering, Tech, Energy, Insurance, Retail, Health and Consultancy sectors.

Since 2009 he has been involved with the National School of Government in the design and delivery of the Top Management Programme, and from 2013 of the Cabinet Office High Potential Development Scheme. Currently, he facilitates The Whitehall and Industry Group Exchange Programme, a cross sector development programme, that includes Director Generals from the Civil Service, C-suite leaders in the private sector and CEOs in the wider public and third sector. 

Tim has led Executive Development International Limited, a consultancy specialising in Team, Leadership, Personal and Organisational Development, for the last 28 years.

Tim began his career in Industrial relations in the Oil industry before joining Marks and Spencer in Commercial Management. He later became Head of Talent Development for the group. His consulting career started with Development Associates. He left to found Executive Development International in 1994.

Danielle joined WIG’s Leadership team in 2018. She is the Programme Manager responsible for WIG’s Exchange Programme (Director Generals and the C-suite), Senior Leaders Programme (Directors) and a government department commissioned programme (Grade 6 & 7’s).

Danielle also leads on WIG’s one day masterclasses, both in-house and open intakes. She recently assisted with the design of a highly successful new Ethnic Minority leadership programme and the design and delivery of a Learning Exchange Group. Dani holds a BA Degree from the University of Nottingham.

Outside of WIG she enjoys skiing and cooking.