Claire Thomas
PRESIDENT, Pembroke Leadership Development and Executive Coaching
Claire brings deep experience and broad leadership perspective to her coaching work with executives, and senior leaders. Focused on guiding individuals and organizations to achieve extraordinary results, her work centers on authentic leadership, ‘personal branding’ and building stronger emotional and social intelligence skills particularly at the executive level.
Her work also places an emphasis on organizational alignment, mastering transitions and building and retaining high performance teams. Her coaching skills are drawn from her successful career across multiple geographies and cultures with large business-to-consumer(B2C) and business-to-business(B2B) companies, where in numerous operational roles she focused on supply chain, procurement, marketing, strategic planning, and organizational design and development.
A high energy individual she helps her clients maximize their potential and successfully navigate transitions through clarity of needs and values, deeper self-awareness, and a practical focus on action and results. Her clients benefit from her conviction that business success requires consideration of a person’s goals and priorities in conjunction with the broader context of their environment and lives.
An accomplished business executive with over 20 years’ experience in the UK and US for Fortune/FTSE 500 companies Claire built a strong track record serving as a senior leader in complex operational businesses where she gained a reputation for delivering exceptional results. She has proven functional expertise working with leaders and executive teams to align goals and strategy in order to implement change. Her clients include a diverse set of Corporations, Universities and Professional Service Firms that appreciate her results-based approach.
Claire has a Business degree from The University of Greenwich, London, she is also a graduate of the Advanced Management program at Harvard Business School and she holds a diploma in Marketing from the UK Institute of Marketing. Claire is a certified coach from Columbia’s Executive Coach Program, which teaches a proven executive methodology widely recognized as one of today’s top approaches to Executive Coaching.
