Caroline Horner BCom, MBA, DProf

Caroline is an experienced coach and consultant with over 16 years international experience, much of which has been working on initiatives that broke new ground, challenging personal and organisational paradigms. Prior to establishing i-coach academy, Caroline worked in marketing and general management roles across the financial services, IT and Telecommunications sectors with organisations such as Siemens Nixdorf, NatWest, Microsoft, Vodafone and Tesco.

Today Caroline combines her broad understanding of business with her knowledge of organisational dynamics and extensive qualifications in coaching to work with individuals and organisations as they seek to enhance their capacity to learn and perform in their ever-changing environments – her aim is organisational effectiveness through individual excellence.

As a coach, Caroline works with senior business leaders and learning/OD professionals in multinational organisations, the public sector and entrepreneurs. Her clients are frequently leaders managing significant change in their organisation and/or themselves where they need to balance their own experience of transition whilst inspiring and influencing others to engage with change, take on more responsibility and deliver through others. Caroline’s coaching approach works well for those who are curious about themselves, open to challenge and motivated to develop and make a difference.

Her clients comment that she is "astute and empathetic" creating an "energising" coaching environment with an appropriate balance between "support and understanding and critical challenge" enabling them "to come to new insights about themselves, organisational issues and their individual leadership."

Caroline also consults widely to organisations looking to embed a coaching and learning culture. She facilitates on leadership development programmes and on the i-coach academy MA programme. She is also a regular speaker on coaching and has presented in the UK, Switzerland, Sweden and South Africa, as well as contributing to several books and articles on the coaching profession.

Caroline’s clients include Air Tanker, AstraZeneca, BBC, BP, British Army, De Beers, IFC, Ministry of Defence, NHS, Royal Navy, Save the Children, Shell

Caroline holds a professional doctorate (DProf) in Coaching Psychology from the International Centre for the Study of Coaching at Middlesex University, UK and an MBA (Distinction) from Imperial College, London. Caroline has also completed programmes in Leadership Coaching, Existential Counselling, and Supervision and holds an NTL Certificate in Organisational Development. She is also an NLP Practitioner, holds BPS Level A and B accreditation and is trained in 16PF, MBTI Step I , Step II, Hogan HDS and FIRO-B.

Caroline has co-authored a chapter on Existential Coaching with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli in the recent publication Handbook for Coaching Psychology (2008) Routledge and a chapter on Understanding Coaching in the CIPD book Human Resource Management: A Case Study Approach (2008)