Colette Henry is a Leadership Coach, Team Facilitator and Strategy Consultant. She builds on a 20 career in leadership roles in the Creative Communications, Corporate and Social Impact sectors.
She led Global Communications Strategy with multi-disciplinary agile teams to develop brand campaigns and create internal organisational change. She has designed consumer and stakeholder insights and innovation projects to steer C-Suite decisions and new product development. This on-the-ground industry experience has given her deep insights into the different worlds, from global tech and finance, to national governments, local retail and NGOs. This all helps her to understand and empathise with clients from diverse backgrounds.
She trained as a Coach with Animas in London in 2017, and has built her practice working with leaders and organisations driven to make a positive impact. She draws on different coaching tools, and her coaching style moves between structured and goal-oriented, to more empathetic and energised, depending on the client’s needs.
She holds a first class Masters in Social Cognition from University College London where she focused on social neuroscience, behavioural economics and cognitive psychology. She conducted a meta-analysis of cognition and meditation, and ran experiments to explore how mindfulness influences creative thinking. She also holds a Masters in Advertising from TU Dublin where she won the prestigious Conlon Memorial Medal as well as a recent PostGrad from DCU in Sustainability Management. She is on the Board of Directors of Leave No Trace, an environmental organisation, and is an avid dancer and musician.