Sandra Henson

Sandra Henson is a highly-experienced and internationally well-respected Corporate Executive Coach and Coaching Supervisor. She works with CEOs and leaders at the top of major international organisations to deliver sustainable growth and change.

Sandra tailors the latest evidence-based thinking in organisational change, people development and leadership into grounded, highly-effective programmes which are aligned to clients’ business objectives and help them to achieve a tangible commercial edge.

Much of Sandra’s work with senior executives focuses on changing leadership behaviours to deliver the change and impact they seek for their organisations, their teams and themselves. Renowned for her results-driven approach, Sandra works with individuals and teams to discover their authentic selves and use their natural strengths as a platform for growth, transforming both their professional and personal lives.

Her clients include Sandra’s client base includes

3M, AbbVie, Anglo American, Barclays, Centrica, Chanel, Dell, Diageo, Electronic Arts, Equinix, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Future Cities Catapult, GSK, Haleon, HPE, Infosys, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Philips, PwC, Qualcomm, Silicon Valley Bank, Smith and Nephew, SRSL, Standard Bank, Takeda, ViiV, 3M, Universities (Bedfordshire, Kingston, Brighton, Gloucestershire, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Nottingham, Oxford Brookes, Regents)

Sandra volunteers her time to support Coaching Research, Higher Education ( HE) and Environmental charities.

Recent Assingments Include

-Executive Transition Coaching
-Group Coaching of C-Suite women leaders (Chief Core Guide)
-Partners Group and Individual Coaching (self leadership, leading others). Big Four Professional Services.
-Board Members, Business Sector Heads, MDs. Financial, Pharmaceutical, Medical sectors
-Group Coaching Women in Leadership (leadership reach and impact, career progression, networking). Global Technology.
-Group and Individual Coaching (L-2, Executive Presence, Influencing Others, Leading Horizontally). Banking.
-Intercultural Coaching (secondees and transitioning families) to the UK. Luxury Retail.
-Organisational wide 360 programme. Development Bank.
-Exceptional talent to evolve their leadership mind-set, driving cultural and performance shifts in the global supply chain. Global Leader. Alcoholic Beverages.
-Finance Directors to step outside of constraints of existing risk management mind-sets to cultivate a business partnering outlook and develop new financial models. Global Energy.
-SVPs, Chief Counsel, CRO, ExCom, VPs, GMs, MDs to manage complexity and challenge, seeing through business transformation whilst also delivering on BAU
-Gamechanging leaders on leading edge sustainability programme. Global Mining.

There are many testimonials to Sandra’s work on LinkedIn.

Background

Sandra’s 17-year corporate career spans Agribusiness, Retail and Healthcare sectors in a range of senior strategic marketing and business development roles. The experience of supporting a global team through a new business strategy and acquisition project led Sandra to develop her interest in – and talent for – people development and go on to launch Ascentia Corporate Coaching, in the UK, in 2000.

Across the last 24 years Ascentia has built a track record of supporting clients to accelerate the pace of change, creating the environment and mind-set to lift performance at both an individual and organisational level. Ascentia has a team of experienced associate coaches who work for some of the world’s largest and most admired organisations. Ascentia works at an executive level, with board members and senior teams throughout client organisations and often across international borders.

Coaching Style and Methodology

Sandra’s style has been described as incisive, inspiring and challenging as she works with leaders to leverage their performance. She coaches with transformational and highly-tailored skills to help leaders make sense of the complex array of challenges facing them and identify new ways of achieving their goals.

How she does this varies according to the client, context and coaching goals. Her fundamental approach is to work across the business performance, adult development and psychological spectrum to deliver a bespoke coaching programme that adds tangible value to both the individual and the business.

As well as coaching individuals and teams, Sandra’s coaching work includes helping leaders to articulate and demonstrate a shared vision, bring focus and address the leadership challenges they face. In many circumstances these coaching assignments include supporting clients through professional transitions, whether integrating into a new organisation, building capability to excel in rapidly growing businesses, working in a new country or career navigation during periods of significant organisational change.

Sandra works well with a range of different clients and particularly enjoys working with leaders who are open to change, dynamic, bright, curious and wish to be challenged and stretched to higher levels of thinking and performance.

Professional Qualifications

• Master Certified Coach (ICF)
– Certified Flow Coach
• Systemic Coach and Facilitator
• Systemic Team Coach
• Master Certified Developmental Coach and Consultant
• Coaching Supervisor
• MA (Merit) in Coaching and Mentoring
• Master NLP Practitioner and Breakthrough Coach
• Art of Developmental Coaching
• Coaching from Source
• Power of Embodied Transformation
• 1st Class Honours Degree in Chemistry (cum lauda)
• Certified Strengthscope and Realise2, Myers Briggs Steps I and II; Hogan psychometric profiling, EBW (Business Emotional Intelligence Practitioner)
• Published author of ROI papers in the International Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring