OUR COACHES

Rebecca Priestley MVO

MENTOR, EXECUTIVE COACH

With 10 years’ experience working for The Royal Household at Kensington Palace, Rebecca specialises in coaching and mentoring individuals to navigate high profile, high stakes professional and family systems. Rebecca’s style is pragmatic and insightful, establishing relationships based on trust. She offers strategic thinking and empathetic support at critical times of personal development, change and challenge.

Experience

Rebecca previously served as Chief of Staff and principal adviser to HRH The Princess of Wales.  During her six years in this post Rebecca was responsible for the overall strategic narrative and delivery of HRH’s public work, and the establishment and growth of her office at Kensington Palace.  Rebecca’s 20 year career brings global experience covering leadership, strategic communications, major events, personal development and project strategy and delivery.

After 10 years working for The Royal Household, Rebecca became an Executive Coach and has been working with CEOs, Family Offices, senior executives and teams.   With experience working with clients in a wide range of sectors including financial services, legal, creative industries, consumer, and engineering Rebecca is an empathetic and trusted listener.  She creates a safe and supportive space to work in, but with challenge, fun and drive for change and deep exploration at the fore.

Her passion is supporting both leaders and talent to achieve their professional and personal goals, develop successful personal branding and reputational impact, optimise their leadership as well as managing challenging situations and transitions.

In addition to her coaching work, Rebecca is a Consultant who specialises in strategic communications and complex change management programmes.

Rebecca is actively engaged in work supporting mental health, addictions and emotional wellbeing.  These are issues she is personally passionate about and made significant strategic contributions in this space during her time at Kensington Palace, on campaigns such as Heads Together.  This informs Rebecca’s coaching as she looks to bring positive changes to culture and wellbeing in the workplace.

Education, Qualifications, Professional Memberships

BA Honours in English Literature, University of Newcastle
SAID Business School, University of Oxford – Reputation and Executive Leadership Programme
Executive and Personal Coach, Barefoot, London
• Associate Certified Coach (ACC) accredited with the International Coach Federation

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