Bridget Davies FCIPD

Executive and Career Transition Coach

Helping senior leaders and executives navigate career transitions and leadership challenges with clarity, confidence and strategy

Bridget Davies ILM Level 7 Qualification

Helping Senior Leaders Navigate Change

I help senior leaders and executives successfully navigate career transitions and leadership challenges with clarity, confidence and strategy. With over 20 years' experience at the top levels of business — including serving as a FTSE-350 executive, Operations Leader and Global HR Director — I understand first-hand the complexity, pressure and isolation that comes with senior leadership. Alongside balancing a family, I have also held leadership roles in the non-profit sector, including Board Member, Chair of Governors and Trustee positions for educational organisations.


Having personally led global transformations and restructuring programmes both in times of growth and in times of crisis, I have also crafted my own hybrid career and supported senior leaders worldwide to identify and implement strategies that work for them. Today, I draw on this experience alongside Master's-level qualifications in Organisational Behaviour and Executive Coaching & Mentoring to support leaders through their most critical professional transitions.

What Can I Offer?

I work with executive leaders and senior managers all over the world, whether they are established in role or transitioning between positions. Together we develop strategies for:


  • Success in current leadership roles
  • Career advancement and progression
  • Career transition and change
  • Returning to work following absence or career breaks
  • Leadership effectiveness and resilience

I bring some Yorkshire straight-talking to practical yet flexible coaching focused on results. Sessions are collaborative and make use of proven tools to generate insight, clarity and self-awareness. My coaching style creates a reflective, dynamic and appropriately challenging environment that helps clients address both immediate issues and longer-term aspirations.

My Qualifications & Affiliations

  • Experienced executive team member of a FTSE 350 company
  • HR, Change and Communications Director
  • Manufacturing operations divisional leadership
  • Global transformation progam leadership

  • Member of the Association of Coaching
  • ILM Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring
  • MSc Organisational Behaviour
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD)
  • MEng & Management (First Class)
  • Chartered Mechanical Engineer (CEng)

How Does It Work?

We begin with an initial conversation to ensure we are the right fit for one another. Coaching programmes typically consist of 5–6 online sessions, beginning with goal setting and concluding with a review of progress, learning and future actions.


All coaching discussions are confidential.


Where appropriate, I am also happy to collaborate with organisational stakeholders to help define coaching goals and desired outcomes.

Examples of Coaching Goals

  • Stepping up as CEO and developing priorities and strategies for the next six months
  • Rebuilding confidence to apply for jobs after leaving a role under difficult circumstances
  • Managing overwhelming demands in a new leadership role
  • Exploring future career goals after a long and successful career within a single organisation
  • Leading through organisational upheaval whilst preventing team attrition and disengagement

What My Clients Say

"Going through a significant period of change for my organisation and my role, it has been so helpful to have space and time to consider challenges and how to approach them."


CEO of a medium-sized charity
"This has been a vital part of keeping me sane during a draining few months leading enormous change. Bridget has supported me both in thinking through immediate decisions and looking at the bigger picture for me and those around me."

Acting CEO of a social enterprise organisation

"Most significantly, Bridget has enabled me to get my professional confidence back following a period of burn-out. She has enabled me to think with much greater clarity about my skills and experience. I now have a plan for the next stage of my career."

Executive Leader in Higher Education
"An invaluable support during a stage of my professional life when I came back from medical leave and was made redundant. I had the time and space to reflect on my situation, my goals and then find the right next role."


Project Director, Construction Industry
"Bridget asked questions objectively and I have new perspectives on my situation. She has been immensely patient as I have lurched from one mad idea to another and I am in a much better place to understand what I want to achieve — and what I don't want to do."

Doctor and NHS Leader

Contact me for a confidential conversation

Whether you are facing a leadership challenge, considering your next career move, returning to work, or looking for greater clarity and confidence in your professional future, I would be delighted to discuss how coaching may help.


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