Executive & Team Coach
There is more to life
than just being alive.
I work with leaders and teams who want more than performance and efficiency. They want it to mean something. They want to enjoy the ride — and bring the best of themselves to it.
"Can you think of one great leader you'd want to work for? If I asked your team, would they think of you?"
Coaching philosophy
Relational, systemic, strengths-based, practical, challenging and caring. I help leaders reconnect with their humanity — foster mindful leadership, and create environments where people truly thrive.
What I offer
Coaching for leaders,
teams and yourself
Leadership Development Programmes
The best learning happens in the doing — with real live challenges, real stakes, and someone in your corner who will challenge you as much as support you. Working closely with you, I design and deliver leadership development programmes for leaders at every level, who want to grow with intention, not just with experience.
Find out more →Team Coaching
Effective teams are built on relationships — on how people listen, how they disagree, how they make decisions together. I work systemically with teams to surface what's getting in the way and build the trust and habits that make collaboration genuinely work.
Find out more →Executive Coaching
There are moments in a leader's life when you're ready to look honestly at how you're showing up. Who you are as a leader. What you want from it — and at what cost. Executive coaching creates that space: to think, to explore, and to choose who you're becoming.
Find out more →Systemic and relational
I work as a temporary part of your system — seeing patterns and dynamics that are often invisible from inside. Change doesn't happen in a vacuum; it happens in relationship.
Strengths-based
My focus is on what creates energy — doing more of what grows you, while honestly addressing the gaps. People perform best when they feel genuinely capable, not just corrected.
Evidence-based and practical
30+ years in industry and consulting means I understand the commercial world you're operating in. My approach is grounded in Occupational Psychology, not just coaching models.
Mindful and compassionate
I teach yoga and bring that same quality of presence, patience and honest attention to my coaching. Rigour without warmth is just pressure. Both matter.
My approach
Independent.
Challenging. Caring.
Working closely with you, I create, hold and nurture the space for people and teams to think well, explore the unsaid, and challenge themselves to meet their own aspirations.
We'll explore how you show up as leaders — how you communicate, hear and make sense of diverse views, and how you use these to make good decisions. We'll check in with our humanity: our kindness and compassion for each other, without relinquishing the expectations we have of each other to deliver.
Together we will become more mindful of how we show up — as leaders, as teams, as human beings.
"I grew into this role over 30 years — often developing most at unexpected times and places."
Meet the coach
Mignonette
Smith-Moore
There is more to life than just being alive — and that's especially true for leaders. In my coaching practice I work with leaders and teams who want more than just performance and efficiency. They want to enjoy the ride too. And a lot of it starts when we reconnect to what makes us human, what makes us tick, what makes us smile.
I grew into this role over 30 years in industry and consulting, working with large global corporations including BT and Sara Lee; pharmaceutical firms; global banks; insurance companies; and government teams ranging from HM Treasury to Cabinet Office-sponsored projects. I've also worked with Cranfield and Ashridge University to support the development of clients.
My primary approaches are systemic and relational — working with you as a temporary part of your system. I teach yoga and bring a mindful, practical and compassionate edge to everything I do.
What clients say
In their own words
Working with Mignonette changed the way our leadership team operates. She created a space where we could be honest with each other in a way we hadn't managed before — and the impact on how we make decisions together has been lasting.
Mignonette brought a rare combination of psychological depth and commercial pragmatism to our programme. She understood the business context immediately and designed something that genuinely stuck with the people who went through it.
Challenging, caring and completely present. The coaching sessions created a quality of thinking I hadn't experienced before — and a shift in how I show up as a leader that I can still feel now.
Get in touch
Let's explore
what's possible
Tell me a little about your situation — what you're navigating, what you're hoping for, what's getting in the way. There's no obligation. Just a conversation to see if working together makes sense.
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