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BAE Systems
FTSE 250 Organisation
Andrea has worked with me on several projects – most notably in coaching some executive colleagues. On all occasions she has been an exceptional coach and helped her clients achieve lasting results, and in one case the promotion they deserved.
She is a strong original thinker, and has always helped me to tackle issues in the best way possible. I like to talk things through with her generally and find she always brings fresh perspectives to what I am trying to do. I also like her focus on positive outcomes and conversations. She is currently doing ground breaking research and work on how HR can become candidates for CEO roles – as a senior HR practitioner this is inspirational.
During 2011 Andrea was selected to work with me in preparation for my potential move onto the main Board of my company. Her skills of listening, professionalism, breadth of experience were invaluable. She was able through clear and simple processes to draw out, challenge – positively the appropriate areas and then work with me to assist me in my quest. The outcome has been positive as I am entering my 2nd year as a full Board member of my company.
Throughout the time we have worked together, and the personal coaching sessions, you have always managed successfully to bridge between the cutting edge theory to the realities of the business world( eg our strategy, programme challenges and team working) and my personal world (leadership strengths and work/life balance).
Andrea’s support was certainly a contributory factor to me taking on the MD role within the business with such challenges in managing a £1bn plus business with responsibility for over 5,000 people.
Andrea, you do have a rare ability to connect with people and really lift them to realise what they can achieve and to have the confidence to go for it!
After several years of success in different management /leadership roles in Thermo Fisher Scientific, I was provided with the opportunity to lead the company’s market leading Anatomical Pathology business. With over 1500 employees and manufacturing facilities in Europe, US and China, the ability to set clear strategy and alignment of the organisations leadership and capabilities would be key to our success. Even more so, when , as is often the case in large multinational corporations, demonstrating traction and momentum to new line managers is critical to establishing trust and credibility in one’s decision making and the course set for the business.
Working with Andrea on a 1:1 senior exec coaching level, helped tremendously in challenging and supporting my thought process and associated actions at multiple levels- and equally important, constantly benchmarking how effective these actions were in achieving both my personal and business goals for the organisation. One key learning which I have taken forwards as a “life learning” is that whilst your leadership role needs to achieve your business goals, that as a leader, you can only really achieve your full potential if your personal goals and ambitions are also being achieved.
Andrea Adams has provided coaching support to me and been a highly trusted and valued sounding board. I value Andrea’s critical questioning, her astute deduction of causes and effects, and her advice and counsel on different ways to achieve a desired outcome. I also find her great fun to work with!
Andrea Adams is an alchemist, working with base materials she transforms them into gold. As a truly transformative coach she worked with me until I found the right solution for the issues I was wrestling with and left me empowered to address them.
Having been through a coaching programme with Andrea, I really feel, that for the first time in a long time, I’ve made some kind of breakthrough. The areas I wanted help to address were not new and had been raised consistently enough over a number of years by different colleagues for me to know that I needed help.
Having completed the coaching intervention, I know that I’ve improved significantly, evidenced by my stakeholders’ survey results which showed an improvement of over 50% in the areas I wanted to improve, but even more importantly, I feel I am now equipped with the tools and motivation to not only maintain my improvement, but also to continue my journey to become an even better leader.
As the chair of the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival I was looking for a consultant to support the organisation to develop its programme for the next 3-5 years. A senior manager in an art organisation in Liverpool recommended Andrea Adams for this task. Thereafter, I worked closely with Andrea to develop and run her brief for the board members and staff. It was an outstanding result.
Andrea’s professional skills and experience in capacity building and leadership enabled the staff and board members to explore the strength and the challenges ahead of them and the directions of the journey to achieve organisational objectives. Andrea skilfully took the team with her through a rigorous process starting with the individuals and finishing with team dynamics drawing a solid and convincing plan for the organisation to work on in the next three years.
The team coaching that Andrea provided to our senior executive team was a tremendously useful part of our transformation programme. The coaching allowed us to reflect on ourselves and consider the actions we could take to become an even more effective team. Andrea acted as a mirror to our behaviours and how we could work better together, which when you are forming a new team is obviously really useful.
Andrea’s insight, technical skills and experience supported our senior management team (the Bluecoat) in tackling an organisational restructure by clarify the organisations objectives so that decisions could be made clearly and implemented with both strength and humanity.
Working with a large group of separate organisations (Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium) Andrea guided them towards understanding the principles and practice of collaborative working and so prepared the group to face the difficult terrain that had to be traversed.
Hermes UK first worked with Triumpha in 2013 to facilitate a Board Strategy Workshop. Prior to the event Triumpha sought feedback/input from key stakeholder groups which ensured a broad perspective and healthy/challenging discussions on topics including strategic options, developing key processes and culture/behaviours. The outputs included a revised vision statement for the business and clarification of the brand values and differences between the Hermes and myHermes brands. The vision has been clearly defined and quantified in terms of customers/markets, channels, financials, service, people & culture & other categories too.
Andrea has always been a highly driven individual that sets herself extremely high and rigorous standards that when coupled with her deep sense of integrity, make her the model professional that she is.
Her ability to combine pragmatic commercial thinking to challenging business issues both at an organisational level and individual development level, means that she has the ability to help businesses (and individuals) to realise and seize opportunities to move forward, progress and fulfil potential.
Her continual focus to ‘develop and improve’, which for me makes Andrea both the person and professional she is and someone I very much respect and admire.
Andrea helped us turn the concept for our new operating model into reality, and learn how to transform our business with a particular focus on the people aspects of change.
We changed from a regional organisation to a global functional organisation. This included a very large collective consultation process and changing a significant proportion of the roles and staff in the organisation.
One of the great strengths Andrea brings is her rare ability to combine operational pragmatism and cutting edge thought leadership (across a wide range of organisational and behavioural topics). She provided concepts which allowed us to reflect on the direction we were going in whilst making sure that these ideas were also grounded by her understanding of us as leaders, our business and her extensive operational experience. She helped us to decide how we could pragmatically tackle the challenges we faced.
On a personal level Andrea provided a tremendous amount of support to me, and she engaged and worked with our employees guiding us through a process and helping us to make sense of things, which initially didn’t seem to make sense at all.
Andrea brought a valuable “outsider’s view”, a fresh approach and different people to the change programme at BAE Systems. She understands how to make change happen at every level of an organisation, combining pragmatism with commercial acumen and creativity.
She introduced rigorous and sustainable process improvements to the business. But she also added innovative touches such as the ‘rich picture’, a tremendous piece of work that made the business’s move possible.
It was a hell of a journey, and one of which Andrea should be proud – the increase in our technical capabilities was marked, as was our delivery of tangible value.
People take it for granted now – perhaps the ultimate sign of its success.
Worked with Andrea on a large scale business transformation project,involving central Government,the MOD/Armed Forces and the Defence Industrial Base. Large scale reductions to defence expenditure was the project goal and naturally personnel decisions were centrefold to achieving this. Andrea’s thought leadership and strategic direction proved invaluable as business requirements changed within departments, organisations needed restructuring and people needed to become rerolled, trained, geographically moved or regrettably displaced. Throughout this time of large scale change Andrea,s calm approach yet clear resolve to maintain direction, backed up by professionalism and experience,resulted in this project being capable of successfully managing the variety of issues it needed to resolve.
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