Claire Warnes

Claire is an Executive Coach to senior leaders and board members (current and aspiring) who are typically at a crossroads in their career, heading towards a new leadership role, or feeling stuck, and often juggling work and life pressures.

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Claire brings deep understanding of the career structures and leadership challenges of organisations as diverse as the Big 4, corporates, law firms, the NHS, universities, sport governing bodies, government departments and regulators.

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She coaches with compassion and challenge so that clients feel able to untangle complex situations and expand their perspective on what is possible. She builds strong relationships to enable trust, honesty, directness and positive action.

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Claire’s clients feel a renewed sense of confidence, potential and practical action about their career, life and wellbeing, as well as a deeper sense of themselves and their impact on others.

Claire is a former consulting partner at KPMG where she worked for 22 years, predominantly with public sector and regulatory clients. Her early career was spent in the Civil Service and the education sector.

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As a KPMG partner, Claire held senior client-facing roles including UK Head of Education, Skills and Productivity. She was a longstanding member of the firm’s Ethics Committee and the Senior Sponsor for KPMG’s LGBTQ+ network. She was also Chief of Staff to the Chair of KPMG EMA, Europe and Germany.  She worked extensively on new and experienced partner development programmes at KPMG, and she co-led a 10-year leadership development programme with the NHS.

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Claire has many years of Board experience, including as an independent NED and Vice Chair of Commonwealth Games Wales. She is a Fellow of the University of Worcester.