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LBS Alumni Career Centre offers all alumni up to two free career coaching sessions a year. Each session is adapted to your needs by Alumni Career Coaches who are highly skilled on a range of career topics including:

Clarifying your career goals
Preparing and executing a job search or promotion strategy
Transitioning careers or seeking out stretch assignments
Interview preparation and salary negotiation
Re-entering the workforce following a career break

What is career coaching?

Career Coaching at LBS is solution-oriented. Working 1-1 with a coach from our Alumni pool you can explore career goals and plan concrete steps towards meeting your objectives.

Career Coaching can help you assess your professional situation with a greater degree of openness, curiosity, empathy, and compassion allowing you to gain career confidence, insight, encouragement and inspiration.

A pool of experienced Career Coaches around the world

Our experienced coaches are used to working with alumni who come from a range of sectors, as well as entrepreneurs and those exploring portfolio careers or non-executive directorships. If you are facing redundancy, or looking to re-enter the workforce after a career break, they can support you.

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Alexandra has been a Career Coach for 3+ years, working almost exclusively with Business Schools’ students and alumni.

Alexandra has always been passionate about all things career related. With her 6+ years of experience as MBA Recruiter at the Boston Consulting Group in London and her qualification in transformational coaching, Alexandra loves using both her coaching skills and experience as a recruiter to give her clients the best possible support.

Areas of expertise include: job search strategy, CV review, preparation for fit interviews, general career development.
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Amy is an Executive Career Coach and former Head of Strategic Delivery in a FTSE 250 company. Having guided large-scale organisational transformation and worked closely with Executive Committee leaders, she brings a deep understanding of change — which she now applies to help clients navigate their own transitions with clarity and confidence.

She is passionate about helping people build careers they feel proud of — whether that means securing a new role, stepping up in their current one, returning to work after parental leave, or navigating uncertainty about what comes next. Her coaching blends proven job search strategy with personal reflection, supporting clients to strengthen their confidence, understand their values, and shape a career that genuinely fits.

Alongside her private practice, Amy coaches students and alumni at London Business School. She has supported hundreds of professionals across consulting, finance, technology, marketing and many other sectors — helping them express their strengths with impact, refine their CVs and LinkedIn, and perform at their best in interviews, increasing their chances of landing the roles they want.

Amy holds an MBA (MBA2009) from London Business School and is an accredited Executive Coach (ACC), with additional training in psychotherapy. Her approach is honest, encouraging and action-focused — helping clients gain clarity, take meaningful steps forward and move into careers where they can thrive.
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Aurora Aritao is a PCC-level executive coach, systemic team coach, organisational consultant & leadership development specialist with extensive leadership experience at some of the world’s largest global Tech/Telecom companies.

Passionate about human capital and its strategic value to organizational success, her interests lie in deeply understanding transformation, organizational behaviour, and the interrelationship between personality, leadership style, culture and decision-making.

Aurora's multi-disciplinary coaching approach is influenced by her research in behavioural change, motivation, EQ, presence and adaptive leadership. She uses tools from social neuroscience, systems psychodynamics, design thinking, positive psychology and group relations. In her practice Aurora helps leaders and teams find the right balance between action and reflection, and develop adaptive leadership skills that enable them to sustainably maximise their impact.

Aurora works with clients from senior managers, aspiring leaders to C-suite executives and their teams, from medium-sized cos to MNCs. Her recent work involved the rollout of leadership principles at a Fortune 100 tech company, Clients include Cathay Pacific, Bank of America, Jardine Matheson Group, Microsoft, HP, QBE, Brita, GSMA, PMI.

Prior to coaching and consulting, Aurora spent 15 years in tech product marketing: launching and growing award-winning productivity solutions globally. She led and coached cross-cultural teams at Westpac and Optus Singtel (Australia), Hutchison (UK), Vodafone Group (Global/EU) and Microsoft (HK).

Aurora holds an Executive Masters in Clinical Organizational Psychology from INSEAD Business School and a Bachelor of Business from University of Technology, Sydney. She is a certified brain-based coach with a Masters in Applied Neuroscience from the NLI.
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Christina’s leadership coaching credentials are underpinned by a former 18+ year corporate career in HR and people development in the UK. She has an expansive global footprint, coaching executives and other business leaders across multiple countries, regions and industries. Christina’s bespoke coaching is human purpose centred, enabling her to uncover what really matters, to empower individuals to make conscious, sustainable career decisions. She also influences leadership styles and structures that optimise organisational performance.

Gaining international media recognition that includes recently featuring in the Australian Business Journal as a top 10 leadership coach, Christina has worked with 1000+ leaders in developed and emerging markets across APAC and the EMEA. Her qualifications include a Diploma in Executive Coaching, a Masters in HR, chartered CIPD status, and a Professional Certified Coach accreditation from the ICF. She also has an NLP certification.
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Before becoming an Executive & Leadership Coach, Christopher Leach spent almost 30 years in finance. After completing undergraduate studies at universities in Germany and London, he worked for a decade in the City, before completing a Master’s in Finance (MIF) at London Business School. Chris then spent a further 18 years in the Private Equity and Venture Capital worlds, at top-ranking global banks and subsequently in Partnership.

Executive coaching is really a culmination of what Chris has enjoyed most in his business career so far. He is by nature curious, open minded, entrepreneurial, proactive & results-driven. His coaching philosophy is quite simple and he hopes reflects these ethos. Chris enjoys helping clients to unlock fresh thinking, to find new purpose where necessary, in order to enhance their performance and most importantly to achieve higher goals. He is an accredited member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and also affiliated to the Association for Coaching.

Over the years, Chris has chaired and sat on the board of several charities, with a predominant focus on social transformation, particularly those supporting underprivileged young people. Extending the theme of caring for future generations, he is also an increasing advocate of sustainability, having invested time & capital in a variety of global sustainability opportunities all of which adhere to the targets enshrined the UNESCO SDGs.
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Connie Dato English served as a career advisor/coach to executives before leading an internal global recruiting team and then conducting executive searches for clients as a retained recruiter.  Throughout Connie’s 35 year career, she has been exposed to a broad range of industries including logistics, manufacturing, financial services, consumer packaged goods, and consulting. Her career has included stints at Booz Allen Hamilton, PepsiCo, J.M. Huber Corporation, CFA Institute, and Industrial Search Partners.

For fourteen years, Connie worked with over 1000 MBA alumni of the Darden School at the University of Virginia – guiding them in networking strategy, resume development, interview preparation and career development. During that time, she also delivered workshops for alumni re-entering the workforce after a hiatus, developing professional image in the age of social media, and finding fit through personal career assessment.

Connie earned a B.S. at the United States Merchant Marine Academy and an MBA at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.  She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband, Austin, a Lean expert and Productivity Improvement consultant.
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Daphne completed her MBA at London Business School (MBA2012) and spent 12 years in consulting post MBA, with 8 years running her coaching practice alongside this.

During her time in consulting, she worked at various boutique and large firms, including PwC Strategy&, and as a coach, she helped many professionals navigate career uncertainties and obstacles, experiencing first-hand some of the challenges her clients were going through.

Daphne now coaches full-time and, bringing also an MSc in Organisational Psychology (Distinction), she works with professionals in consulting, finance, entrepreneurship and industry to overcome career obstacles, pinpoint their career direction, and lean into their strengths and values so they can thrive at work.

Further, having personally experienced burnout in the past, Daphne is deeply passionate about supporting professionals to build their internal resources and safeguard themselves against work-related burnout.

Industry Experience and Specialisms include strategy/management consulting, advertising & communications, pharmaceutical industry, career transition, career direction.
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Ellen Miller is currently a Consultant and Executive Leadership Coach working with a range of individuals, organisations and business schools on executive and non-executive talent development, culture and governance. Ellen’s coaching is centred around helping individuals and teams reach their professional potential; within public, private or charitable organisations or as self-employed entrepreneurs or non-executives. She focuses on working with individuals and teams to gain unique insights into their strengths, skills and passions.

Ellen’s first career was a 25-year stint in Investment Banking, spanning Investment Banking (Corporate Finance, M&A, Debt Capital Markets); Fixed Income ( Syndicate, Research and Divisional Management) to Human Resources (Graduate Recruitment, Training and Development). Her last position in finance was as a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers in London.

Ellen has been affiliated with LBS since 2008. In a full-time role from 2014-2017, she was head of the Career Centre for Leadership Programmes, responsible for coaching and delivering a full suite of career development tools to the most senior degree programme students (EMBAs/Sloans) and all the School’s alumni. She has extensive career and leadership coaching experience across all degree programmes and is a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coaching Programme. She has served as lead coach for Executive Leadership for the Sloan Programme since 2018. She is also a member of the school’s E100 club, an angel investing and venture capital club, active in supporting start-ups and promoting entrepreneurs.

She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1983) and holds dual nationality (US/UK).
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Graziela Cajado-Ogland (Gra) is a Professional Certified Executive Coach (MBA, PCC, CPQC). She started her career at JP Morgan where she worked in Credit Research and M&A in São Paulo and in New York. Following her Harvard Business School MBA, she worked for American Express in the UK (VP Strategy & Bus Development) for 8 years. She later transitioned to the non-profit sector and worked for Save the Children UK (Partnerships Director) and consulted for other non-profits and foundations (Lemann Foundation, Founders4Schools).

She started her coaching practice in 2018 and offers executive coaching to professionals focused on Leadership Development and difficult transitions. She also coaches at Women Returners (supporting women return to work after an extended career break) and hosts Women Coaching Circles. Gra strongly believes in coaching as a powerful conduit towards a more collaborative, empathic, and thriving society. She helps clients better understand themselves, use their values to guide their decisions, and play to their strengths. In addition, she has great experience helping clients navigate through challenging personal and professional transitions.

Gra has been invited to speak at conferences, panels, webinars, as well as to smaller groups within Corporates, not-for-profit organisations and to the Harvard Business School Alumni Circles. She has been on the Board of the UK International Coaching Federation since 2021 and in 2022 she was awarded as Personal Coach of the Year by the CEO Today Magazine.
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Holly has worked with early in careers talent (trainees, graduates, interns, apprentices – you name it!) all the way to executive leadership teams forming post-merger. What everyone has in common, is the need to grow confidently in a sustainable and fulfilling manner.

Holly had a 14+ year corporate career in consulting and Financial Services, (Insurance and Asset Management) in the Learning & Talent Development arena.

Holly is the Founder of Know Your Pace, an individual and group coaching organization, specializing in performance & fulfillment, leadership, and career transitions. Holly’s clients are Directors going for Partner, COOs, portfolio managers, industry experts, tired parents, health nuts, and humans just looking for more clarity on their career journey.

Clients who Holly coaches are often mid-career managers with demanding responsibilities. These clients are ironing out what type of leader (at home and in the office!) they want to be and are working to gain trust, to let go of minutia, to understand individual differences, to have gravitas & a clear voice, and to understand what balance truly means. They are working to tame their self-doubt and impostor syndrome as well as deciding if they want to keep climbing the career ladder. Either way, time and energy matter.

Holly has her MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and further certifications from the International Coaching Federation – ACC, Hogan, Emotional Intelligence (EQi 2.0), DiSC, Transactional Analysis, as well as Triathlon England. Holly loves learning and hopes her natural curiosity about what makes us human enriches not only who she gets to connect with, but also who she is. Holly has two young daughters, a supportive partner, three road bikes and an ice cream maker that is in constant use.

Holly lives in London, UK and is from the heartland of the USA.
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Ihab Tabbara, author, consultant, coach and a mentor holds an MBA from London Business School where he was recognized for his outstanding contributions and honored with a Student Achievement Award. With an entrepreneurial spirit, creative and forward-thinking growth mindset, Ihab went on to specialize in strategic planning and marketing. Ihab’s professional success in the retail industry has evolved over twenty-two years leading business development, supply chain management, and strategic planning among diverse teams across forty multi-site operations within the MENA region trading in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and the UAE. Currently, Ihab extends his professional expertise as Managing Partner at Spectrum, a retail consultancy firm based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

In addition to gaining professional accolades from industry peers, Ihab is an acclaimed public speaker moderating panel discussions and organizing keynote speaker events globally. Most recently, Ihab launched Pathways to Business Success, a podcast series that takes a closer look at the full spectrum of the business world with industry insiders.

Along his professional path, Ihab has followed his passions and result-oriented mindset. Ihab started his career as executive sales for two years in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He then got promoted and worked for four years in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a Sales and Marketing Manager. Further to that, he got reallocated to work in Dubai, UAE as a Sales Manager for one year. Eventually, Ihab decided to start his own retail business in Beirut, Lebanon for four years.

In his personal pursuits, Ihab created an official Alumni Chapter for London Business School comprising over 100 members where he organizes monthly social gatherings and quarterly keynote speaker events. Ihab has devoted time and effort towards his professional pursuits, but at his core, he is a family man. Ihab is married and a proud father of three children. His two sons have made great achievements and are currently studying Engineering. He enjoys traveling and vacationing to spend quality time with his family. He enjoys an active lifestyle, playing tennis, and running.
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Imran Gokal is an executive and leadership coach with over three decades of entrepreneurial experience, including leadership roles in family businesses across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. An alumnus of London Business School (MBA, 2001) and accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), Imran draws on his vast personal experiences and expertise gained from a master's in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology to guide clients in unlocking their potential.

Imran specializes in helping entrepreneurs, executives, and family business practitioners actualize their talents through strengths-based development. His coaching empowers leaders to identify innate strengths, overcome psychological hurdles, reframe challenges from new vantage points, and ultimately gain clarity on achieving career goals.

With a multicultural upbringing in Singapore, Imran brings a unique cross-cultural perspective to his coaching conversations, adeptly connecting with executives from diverse backgrounds. His core philosophy centres on unlocking human potential by fostering strengths-driven mindsets and facilitating insightful coaching conversations. Imran is passionate about empowering leaders to reignite their internal motivation for impactful, meaningful growth and achievement.
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With over 20 years’ experience in executive search at Spencer Stuart, Jacquie is an independent careers consultant supporting talent acquisition, board and leadership development, and career progression. She offers NED advice and executive coaching to help senior executives and aspiring non-executive directors achieve their career goals. Having led Research & Knowledge teams across EMEA for Spencer Stuart for many years, she also provides learning and development for search professionals, including mentoring and coaching.

Most recently, she supported business development for the Board & CEO Practice of Spencer Stuart UK through an innovative relationship management initiative with the boards of FTSE 100, 250 and UK Top 50 private companies. This involved discovering and advising new and diverse (with a focus on ethnic minorities) talent as future non-executive directors. Prior to this she delivered international Chief Financial Officer, Head of Audit, Head of Tax, Group Treasurer and Group Financial Controller assignments across a variety of sectors – mainly healthcare, consumer fmcg, industrial and technology – for leading global businesses. Earlier in her search career she worked on C-suite and SVP level assignments in technology, media and telecoms.

A qualified Chartered Secretary with a career in recruitment, training, corporate governance and leadership in a variety of settings both in the public and private sectors, Jacquie has a passion for encouraging others to achieve their best. She is also a volunteer mock interviewer and coach for Resurgo Trust’s Spear Programme, which helps young people facing disadvantage into work or education.
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Kathryn Ullrich is an Executive Search Partner at Odgers Berndtson where she works with executives of public, private, entrepreneurial, and not-for-profit companies across technology, healthcare, biotech, fintech, academia, e-commerce, media, gaming, and consumer industries.

She has twenty years in executive search including at Heidrick & Struggles and Russell Reynolds Associates. Earlier in her career, Kathy worked in software product marketing at Scopus/Siebel Systems (now Oracle), strategy consulting at Accenture, and engineering at GTE (now Verizon) and Motorola.

Kathryn led Alumni Career Services for UCLA Anderson School of Management where she coached over 2,000 sessions on topics including job search, career transition, career strategy, career development, and leadership skill development.

Kathryn founded a Silicon Valley non-profit for women in technology and actively works with clients on increasing diversity. She is an advisor to Athena Alliance helping women into board roles. Kathryn is author of the award-winning career book, Getting to the Top: Strategies for Career Success, and is a speaker on career development and diversity topics.

Kathryn has a B.S. cum laude in electrical engineering from University of Michigan and an MBA with top honors from UCLA Anderson.
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Laura is an executive and career coach with extensive experience in helping people to achieve their professional and career aspirations. For over 25 years she has been working with senior professionals, those in their early-mid career and entrepreneurs from a wide variety of sectors and countries.

Laura’s involvement with London Business School started almost 20 years ago when she built and developed the career skills programmes and coaching offering for all the graduate programmes. She was also involved in running workshop and coaching students.

In 2011 Laura became a consultant, but has maintained close connections with the School by coaching alumni, being involved in several graduate leadership programmes and working as executive coach with Executive Education. She has also developed her own coaching practice.

Laura’s extensive experience in career development includes a Director position at an executive career consultancy and four years in executive search with Heidrick & Struggles and the Curzon Partnership. Before moving to the UK, Laura started and expanded internationally the career services for SDA Bocconi in Italy after several years in strategy with a major chemical company.

Laura has lived in Italy, Singapore, the UK and Norway. She has an MA in Economics from Bocconi University, an MSc in Career Management and Coaching from the University of London. She is level A and B qualified NEO-PI and Hogan. Also, she has a Diploma in Executive Coaching at the AoEC and has completed introductory training in psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre.
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Luisa works with individuals and organisations who recognise there is always room for personal and professional growth and helps them succeed in what matters most to them. She supports her clients to advance in their careers by increasing awareness of themselves, their goals and environment, enhancing leadership capabilities, reframing problems, reaching out to the right resources and dealing with uncertainty.

Taking from behavioural science and leading coaching approaches and tools, Luisa can help you improve behaviours, skills and mindset so you can maintain better relationships, have more impact and deliver superior results. Maintaining a challenging and supportive atmosphere, she uses proven techniques to support you envision the future you want for yourself and make that future a reality.

Luisa is a certified coach by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), by Academy of Executive Coaching and by Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching. She has an engineering degree from PUC-Rio (Brazil) and a London Business School MBA, as well as experience in consulting and in-house work in some of the world’s top organisations like PepsiCo, Costa Coffee and Shell.

Before working as a coach, Luisa started her career working with system implementations, including SAP and Cognos and an in-house system to measure all functions of a company according to the Malcolm Baldrige Award. Metrics come to her very naturally and she finds it particularly important to define the right metrics before starting measuring them.

After completing her MBA, Luisa worked as a marketing strategy consultant, supporting FT 500 companies to generate growth by creating new products, entering new markets, and creating new brand messages, among others. In 2010 Luisa became a Senior Strategy Manager at PepsiCo where she worked closely with the leadership team to produce the Innovation and Growth Plan for Latin America Beverages to the PepsiCo CEO.

For over two decades Luisa has been researching evidence-based studies in psychology, leadership, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, motivation and habit change. She has worked in 3 continents, almost always with multinational teams. Her work as a coach combines her strong experience supporting senior leadership to achieve their growth goals as well as years long of training and helping clients to achieve their professional ambitions.

A member of the London Business School Alumni coaching team, she works with clients that are driven, authentic and committed to continuous learning. Her pragmatic approach to coaching allows her to achieve transformational results in a short time, with sessions that are practical and relevant.
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After studying Law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, Marc started his career in the Telecoms industry in 1994. He held several senior sales positions at global telecom operators in the Netherlands.

In 2004 Marc followed a post-academic Mediation training program at the University of Amsterdam and became a registered Mediator in 2006. With a natural interest in human and social behavior, he became more and more passionate about working in a business focused on people.

In 2006 Marc joined an Executive Search firm in the Netherlands, where he successfully recruited for senior positions at different global companies and start-ups. Looking for a new adventure abroad in 2008, he co-founded Wise&Miller Executive Search in Dubai, with a strong focus on Professional Services, Technology, Manufacturing, Consumer / Retail and Private Equity / Venture Capital. Since 2012 Wise&Miller is part of ENEX, a Global Executive Search Network, with offices in over 40 countries.

Marc’s experience of more than a decade on retained senior assignments in the Middle East and Africa regions, resulted in an extensive global network of long-standing clients and candidates. Marc also established strong partnerships with top business schools like London Business School and is a frequent speaker at networking events and forums.

Marc’s executive search work during the last 15 years and the related intense interactions with candidates naturally progressed into coaching many of those with their career decisions. In the beginning of 2018 Marc completed the MMS coaching program in Dubai and became a certified MMS coach. Marc has since coached partners and principals in Management Consulting firms and executives in different industries in the region.
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Marie Holive brings 25+ years of experience as a 3X board member/committee chair, COO and former CEO / CFO to her mentoring / coaching practice. She began her career at McKinsey & Company, then joined General Electric, where she was fast-tracked through a variety of roles in GE businesses all over the world, including four years in the internal audit function moving from auditor to audit manager to senior audit manager. She then joined Comcast NBCUniversal as the UK Finance Director of the Home Entertainment division (£200m P&L), was promoted a few years later to CFO of the International Networks business (£600m P&L) where she ultimately became the CEO, overseeing 750 employees.

Marie is an expert in supporting delegates clarify their personal vision and strategy, identify obstacles and inspire them to discover new ways to achieve success. Great at listening and building rapport, she tailors her approach to the delegates’ objectives, situation, values and challenges. She is especially committed to helping finance professionals embrace change, develop an inclusive leadership mindset, build high-performing teams and influence the broader business.

In her roles at NBCUniversal, she delivered the digital transformation of a global business, successfully led culture change, and drove double-digit profit growth of a £0.6Bn business. Skilled at identifying people’s strengths and matching them with the needs of the business, she again and again created a shared vision and inspired her team to achieve it. As a board member / coach / mentor, she helped executives and organisations be more successful and future-ready.

Marie is an independent Board Member/NED/Audit Committee Chair with GDEV, a game video company listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: GDEV) and Team Internet Group PLC, tech company listed on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: TIG) and ESG.AI. She is also the COO of Proteus International, a boutique consulting firm based in the US focused on Transformation, Leadership Development and Executive Coaching. She is also a coach, mentor and speaker at the ICAEW, London Business School and INSEAD Business School.
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Mhorag joined LBS in late 2019 to grow and develop the Alumni Career Centre. She has varied experience across Asset Management and HR Executive Search, Higher Education, and Entrepreneurship when, prior to joining LBS, she launched her own technology based startup in the PropTech industry. Prior to relocating back to London in 2019, Mhorag worked in the HR Centre of Expertise for Global Executive Search firm Korn Ferry, based out of their Zurich Office, where she delivered global CHRO searches for a number of global blue-chip clients.  

She is a trained Coach, aligned with the Association for Coaching, is a certified Belbin and MHS Emotional Intelligence diagnostic facilitator. She also coaches and mentors mid-career professionals across a variety of industries through her own coaching practice careeriosity.co and sits on the Board of the MBA Careers Services for Working Professionals Alliance – an organisation supporting leading Business Schools globally to enhance their effectiveness in working with Executive MBA, Part-Time MBA and Alumni communities.

In her earlier career Mhorag worked in academic research commercialization, postgraduate skills development and cross-industry employer engagement for the business school at the University of Edinburgh. At this time she was also an active member of MBA Careers Service and Employer Alliance, chairing the 2016 European conference bringing together business schools and key MBA employers to share best practice in career management and professional development.

Mhorag completed her Masters in Global Human Resources in 2012. She chose to write her thesis on values based recruitment, conceptualising a new model of recruitment for organisations with strong values-based cultures. This was preceded by MA studies at the University of Edinburgh in Business and French.
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Nicholas is passionate about bringing out the best in people and their organisations by tapping into the under-utilised resources and connecting them to individual vision and organisational goals. His passion in coaching stems from his own experience in personal transformation – in re-examining his career and life priorities and taking steps in realising his personal and career visions.

Nicholas coaches entrepreneurs and high-potential executives in a broad range of industries including Finance, Insurance, Industrial Multinationals and Family Businesses, He partners with his clients in making self-discoveries of hidden resources not only in themselves but also in their stakeholder network and context, and co-creating development plan and action steps to achieve their individual and organisational goals.

Nicholas has more than ten years of experience in leading teams and managing P&L at one of the largest international banking groups in Hong Kong, and as Finance Director at his family textile and garment business in Indonesia. His experiences in both large multinational and local entrepreneurial businesses help him quickly grasp the context and challenges of his clients.

Currently an Associated Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and holds a Master in Organisational Coaching from the University of Sydney and an MBA from London Business School. He is also a CFA charter holder and a CPA (Australia). In help clients and new coaches learn more about the inner working of coaching, Nicholas has co-authored two books - “Much Ado about Coaching” and “Translating Coaching Codes of Practice”.
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Nina empowers high achieving, talented professionals at pivotal moments in their careers. She thrives on coaching professionals, entrepreneurs and individuals who take their development seriously and are ready to take action. She provides clarity, challenge and support to help clients take control of their career direction and reconnect with their professional purpose. She works with clients who are looking to accelerate their current career path, or those looking to make a career transition through a process of discovery and redesign. She also supports clients around key life transitions as these can have a big impact on careers. She combines her coaching expertise with a strong corporate background and understanding of businesses.

Prior to becoming a professional coach, Nina spent 15 years working in investment management in an investment bank and boutique fund manager. She was responsible for assessing hundreds of companies and making multi-million dollar investments on behalf of large institutional investor clients. This offered her a unique window into many different businesses, sectors and geographies. She engaged at a high level with CEOs and senior management teams on issues relating to strategy, growth prospects, management capability, valuation and the macro-economic environment. She learnt a huge amount about businesses and relationships, but also: what it takes to perform under pressure. Nina sees herself as a catalyst for change bringing new insights and fresh perspectives to clients. She forms strong connections with her clients and brings curiosity, energy and empathy to her coaching with her proactive style. She believes that coaching is most effective when clients deepen learning and forward action, and combines both in her approach.

Nina obtained her MBA in 2008 from the Melbourne Business School (including a semester at London Business School) and is also a CFA Charterholder. She completed her coaching training in 2016 through the Co-Active Training Institute, and is accredited with the International Coaching Federation.
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Sarah Inigo Jones is a professional development consultant and coach, providing strategic advice, programme design and coaching on talent, career and leadership development to business schools, organisation teams and private clients.

In a career spanning over 30 years, Sarah has worked as a strategy consultant at L.E.K, led global consumer insights at Coca Cola and undertaken interim director roles for WPP agencies. She has worked with LBS for over a decade including being Head of Professional Development, serving as a leadership and career coach and more recently advising on career management programmes for alumni.

Sarah coaches a wide range of clients at pivotal moments in their careers, bringing a combination of leadership, career theory and practical experience to encourage time to think and courage to act. She offers a confidential space to listen and explore, encouraging you to gain greater perspective, build on your strengths and resources to achieve your goals. She also runs a series of workshops and brings practical tools on subjects including job search strategy, salary negotiation, building effective networks, moving into NED roles.

She has a BSc in Economics, an MSc in Organisational Behaviour and is accredited as a Leadership Coaching by The Tavistock Institute. She can integrate reports such as NEO and 5STeP or 360 reports. Working life presents many challenges as different stages; she believes in the value of coaching to help us overcome these and enable each of us to have the working life that makes us thrive.
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Stefano is a certified professional coach and strategy advisor based in London, UK, and operating globally. He provides leadership development, team development, executive coaching, and team coaching to clients worldwide.

Stefano firmly believes that everyone can unlock their full potential and has supported business leaders and their teams in building sustainable and scalable paths to high performance. His passion lies in helping leaders and their teams navigate change and develop high-performing mindsets.

Stefano helps his clients clarify and align their personal and professional goals with their values. He supports them in developing strategies that build on their strengths and guides them towards taking meaningful actions to achieve their objectives.

Stefano leverages the latest findings in coaching psychology, applied positive psychology, neuroscience, and his experience of working in fast-paced multicultural organizations and sports coaching.

Stefano has coached leaders and teams globally for organizations such as Google, Amazon, IBM, Blackrock, Salesforce, Dell, Biogen, BP, Visa, American Express, Just Eat, and Lamborghini, as well as several start-ups and Scale-Ups.

With over 25 years of international leadership experience in general management, strategy, marketing, product, sales, and business development at high-growth global organizations, including Meta, Amazon, Expedia, American Express, Deloitte, and start-ups, Stefano has extensive direct experience in building highly successful and engaged teams and businesses during times of high ambiguity and change.

Stefano holds an MBA with Distinction from London Business School and a BA in Business and Economics from Luiss University in Rome. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the ICF, with over 1,500 hours of coaching. He graduated with distinction from the Coaching Academy, is certified in Hogan, Neo and DISC profiling, is a certified Executive and team Coach with Marshall Goldsmith (Stakeholder Centered Coaching), is a Certified Positive Intelligence Master Coach (CPQC) and NLP Master Practitioner. Stefano also trained in Brain-Based Coaching with the Neuro Leadership Institute and is currently reading for an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology with the University of East London (2023-25).
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Thouraya Sayess is the Founder and CEO of Thouraya Sayess Coaching; a collective of global experts specialising in Organisational Culture, Behavioural Change, and Relational Intelligence.

With over a decade of experience, Thouraya leverages science-based approaches to help top executives, government advisers, and entrepreneurs develop transformational leadership skills, emotional literacy, and high-performing teams and organisations.

Her unique background in strategy, combined with her MBA and coaching career, gives her an edge in supporting clients bridge the gap between their organisation’s strategic goals while developing people-centric organisational cultures.

Throughout her career, Thouraya has worked with leaders from diverse cultural backgrounds and over 100 nationalities. Her clients include leaders and teams from top-tier institutions that are influential in their industries and have a strategic impact on the global stage. These include top management consultancies, leading tech companies, UAE & UK government entities, CNN, and the United Nations (UN), among others.

Thouraya holds an MBA from the London Business School and is the recipient of the Entrepreneur Visa for her work related to People & Organisations. She also serves as a leadership development expert and facilitator with the School.

As a qualified Executive & Team Coach, Thouraya is particularly skilled at creating psychologically safe spaces for critical conversations. She is based between London and Dubai, and works fluently in both English and Arabic.
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Professor in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham, Vince has mentored 1000s spanning the whole career lifecycle from school to university, executive and board level, and made it his mission in life to inspire and mentor future generations into STEM, Engineering, Tech, and Energy careers. His other pillars around which he has built his portfolio are education, the energy transition and equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Vince has 40+ years of relevant, global business experience incorporating executive management and board positions in blue chip companies including ExxonMobil, Suez, V. Ships, Nalco, and P&G and with a boutique executive search firm, Preng & Associates, that specialises in executive and board recruitment for companies in the energy sector.

Today he manages a diverse portfolio that incorporates career mentor to undergraduates, graduates and alumni at the University of Nottingham, energy sector career mentor to students and alumni at several prestigious UK business schools including London Business School, Imperial, Oxford, Cambridge and Chicago Booth, and holds Trustee and Non-Executive positions on several boards.

He won the prestigious Chairman’s Award as global General Manager of the year at Suez for outstanding performance, and recently the Davidson Medal 2024 from the Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) for global leadership in mentoring, the TechWomen100 2024 Award for Gender Balance and the Men as Allies 2024 Award from the Women’s Engineering Society.

Vince is a Trustee/Non-Executive Board member and Ambassador for various organisations including Male Allies UK, the Women in Engineering Society, Female Leaders in STEM Subjects, POWERful Women, MyBigCareer, a charity providing career guidance to students from disadvantaged backgrounds and the South Shropshire Multi-Academy Trust. Vince is also a member of the Progressiya 2024 initiative and mentors top businesswomen from Ukraine, and is also a mentor for the Cajigo group where he inspires women in tech.

He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of several organisations including the IChemE, Energy Institute, Women’s Engineering Society, and the Chartered Management Institute. He is a Group Partner of Circklo start-up and a member/volunteer of Graduate Mentor, UN Women UK, the Career Development Institute, the Society of Women Engineers, the Denim G100 Mission Million for gender equality and European Women on Boards.
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With over fifteen years of board experience and over a decade in finance and social entrepreneurship, Vimmi now works as a leadership coach and thinking partner to enable clients to reflect, experiment, learn and move into action enabling them to achieve their potential and goals through value based, collaborative strategies. Drawing on her experience with career transitions, working within boards as well as in financial services, Vimmi excels at coaching high potential executives across industries through major transformations by co-creating plans and next steps using positive psychology, deep listening, questioning, and connecting.

Vimmi built her foundation in financial services, with experience in investing, developing, and advising on strategy for early-stage companies. Her early career roles include sourcing and screening investment opportunities at JP Morgan London, managing a structured fund at ANZ London and as a manager at India’s first venture capital fund set up by an international consortium including Lazard, IFC, ADB and CDC in New Delhi. She later cofounded an entrepreneurial venture for women in business in the UK and then led a turnaround as country head of Trinity College London in India.

Vimmi has been applying her international and cross-cultural experience on boards and committees where she can constructively challenge and contribute to strategy and governance. From 2008 to 2016, Vimmi was Governor and Trustee at Trinity Laban, a world-leading music and dance conservatoire, and a member of their Audit Committee. In her next appointment, Vimmi was on the Board of Trustees at Regent’s University, Vice- Chair of the Remuneration Committee, Member of the Finance and Estates Committee and Chair of Diversity and Inclusion. Working as part of this Board, Vimmi enabled a successful transfer of the Regent’s University business in September 2020 to Galileo Global Education, Europe’s largest higher education group. Vimmi is currently a Trustee on the Board of the Inner Circle Educational Trust in London supporting disadvantaged communities to access higher education.

Vimmi is member of the Women in Business Club Committee at London Business School. Vimmi has been a member and later Vice-Chair of the International Alumni Council at London Business School during 2011 to 2017. She was President of the LBS London Alumni Club during this period and President of the Mumbai Alumni Club earlier.

Vimmi holds an MBA from London Business School, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary from India and holds the FT Non-Executive Director Diploma. In 2022, Vimmi completed the Meyler Campbell Mastered Programme in Business Coaching. Vimmi is based in London and Singapore
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Vladimir is an Executive Coach for Entrepreneurs and Founders. He coached and mentored at various U.S. and U.K. incubators and accelerators, with a primary focus on launching, developing, and sustaining startups. Vladimir champions innovation, particularly in transforming ideas into tangible businesses (zero-to-one approach).

He's a serial entrepreneur, having founded three companies with successful exits in fintech and spacetech, demonstrating proficiency in scaling businesses through various funding stages. His entrepreneurial journey, encompassing roles such as Founder, CTO, COO, and CISO, lends him a comprehensive perspective on creating optimal data and technology services.

Vladimir holds MBAs from Columbia and London Business Schools and dual degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stony Brook University, where his studies spanned software development and robotics. He is passionate about enhancing communication strategies, studies organizational and social behavior, and is an avid reader.

Vladimir is a professionally certified coach (PCC) by International Coaching Federation and a graduate of the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.

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Preparation is key to making the most of your coaching session

We want to make sure you get the most out of every Alumni Career Centre coaching session. We recommend that in advance of your session you:

Identify how you want your alumni coach to help and support you. Are you considering a career transition but don’t know where to start or are you thinking about that first board role? Are you knee deep in your job search strategy and need support polishing your interview skills? Giving some thought to what you want to discuss will maximise the value of your session. To support your preparation, access our new digital career learning tool Alumni Careers².
It's a good idea to go through your CV and revisit the key points. Use it to give the coach a sense of who you are and help them understand how you are marketing yourself to potential employers. Ideally, your CV should be tailored to each position you're applying for. At the very least, you should have multiple versions for different types of positions or employers. If you have multiple versions, provide the coach with your top two (for example, a chronological CV and a skills-based CV).
If you're seeing one of our alumni coaches to clarify your career goals, do some initial self-assessment. Ask yourself the following questions to give yourself a head start:

What do you most enjoy doing at work?

What are your strengths (and what are your areas for development)?

What's most important to you in a job? What motivates you?

Which of your jobs did you like the most? Which did you like the least? Why?

Your coach is not here to give you all the answers or find your job for you. You are in the driving seat and accountable for your own actions. Own it and the value you get from any career coaching session will be exponentially greater.

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