Clare Withycombe - Leadership & Career Coach, Women in Leadership
Clare is a seasoned and qualified leadership and career coach. With over two decades of experience, she has dedicated thousands of hours to coaching both as an in-house coach and an external leadership coach and mentor.
Specialising in leadership and career development, Clare works with both individuals and groups. She excels in helping her clients reframe perspectives, initiate transformative action, and achieve their aspirations. While she is skilled in coaching senior executives, Clare is particularly passionate about empowering mid-career women in leadership roles to overcome challenges often linked to confidence, self-belief, and imposter syndrome.
Approach: Clare’s approach facilitates natural and positive change, unlocking potential and dismantling barriers to success. Clare is highly results-driven incorporating tailored tools such as strengths-based exercises, growth mindset, neuroscience understanding and is entirely focused on achieving results for her clients.
Clare offers both personalised, tailor-made coaching and structured group coaching solutions. For larger organisations, group coaching can be effective in enhancing or changing organisational culture and supporting specific leadership, talent or under-represented cohorts.
Industry Expertise: Clare has worked with many different types of organisations, from large multinational and multicultural organisations, to ambitious SMEs, entrepreneurial businesses and start-ups. She has worked in a wide range of industry sectors including tech & telecoms, professional services, the arts and creative industries, public sector, philanthropic and third sector organisations.
Professional Background: In addition to her coaching expertise Clare’s commercial experience includes operational and leadership roles in HR, Employee Relations, Talent & Development, and as a Director of Middle East and Africa operations and Global Coaching Lead. Her extensive international and cross-cultural experience provides her with a real understanding of corporate environments and global business dynamics.
