Co-founder
Marie Willis
Co-founder · Coaching Lead · Team & Executive Coach
About Marie
An ex-Deloitte consultant, Marie works with senior leaders and leadership teams to improve collaboration, trust, communication and organisational culture. She specialises in helping teams work more effectively together during periods of change, growth and leadership transition.
Her work combines practical leadership development with strong emotional intelligence and behavioural insight, helping teams strengthen alignment, accountability and collective performance.
Coaching style
Marie's style is calm, insightful and highly relational. She creates psychologically safe environments while also helping leaders address difficult issues directly and constructively.
Clients value her ability to build trust quickly and help teams move from avoidance and tension towards greater openness, clarity and accountability.
Career history
- Deloitte Consulting · Senior Consultant in Change Management and Leadership Development. Clients included Vodafone, Transport for London, Railtrack, Burton's Biscuits, Barclays, UBS, the Post Office and the Child Support Agency.
- Harrods Ltd · Department Manager, through the graduate scheme.
Accreditation
PCC (Professional Certified Coach), International Coaching Federation
What ICF accreditation meansAreas of expertise
- Senior team coaching
- Leadership development
- Team dynamics
- Organisational culture
- Emotional intelligence
- Leadership communication
- Facilitation
- Psychological safety
- Leadership transition
Typical coaching themes
- Team effectiveness
- Trust and communication
- Leadership alignment
- Organisational culture
- Emotional intelligence
- Managing conflict
- Collaboration across teams
- Psychological safety
Qualifications & training
- UMIST · 1st class BA (Hons) Business Management
- Performance Consultants · coach training
- Coaches' Training Institute
- Newfield Network
- NLP
- Therapeutic Art
- Excellent conversational French
Most engagements with Marie begin with a 30-minute call.
With Peter or Marie, depending on whether the brief sits closer to training or coaching. The named coach is matched to the engagement at scoping.