Christine K Champion

Background / Experience

Christine K Champion photo Christine’s early career was in retailing with M & S and Storehouse, holding senior operations and buying roles. Christine developed a parallel career with the Business School at Oxford Brookes University, where she is currently leading the set up of the International Centre for Coaching & Leadership Development. Building on her diverse sector experience and the key theme of developing talent within organisations, Christine moved fully into leadership development and executive coaching in 2002. Christine has extensive business experience working in a range of organisations and sectors, where the development of the potential in the people has always been a passion. She very much sees coaching as a tool situated at the heart of organisational strategy.

Clients

Christine works with a range of individuals and teams mainly at senior and Board level. Client organizations are from a range of sectors and include ABN-Amro, Arts & Business SE., AXA UK, BankSeta SA, BBC, GCL Solicitors, B T, CABI, Debenhams, Dept. Health, Excel Jet Ltd, Foster Wheeler, Genzyme Therapeutics Ltd, Kier Group plc, Helios Technology, Handheld Pcs Ltd, Hyde Group, Mercer, Merrill Lynch, Standard Bank.

Qualifications

Certificate in Executive Coaching at the School of Coaching (London)
Postgrad Cert in Coaching & Mentoring (Oxford Brookes)
Postgrad Cert in Coaching Supervision pending September 08 (Oxford Brookes)
Level A & B by BPS
MBA from Henley Management College
Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing

Value Added

Christine’s areas of specialisation include; Strategic Leadership development, talent management, female leadership and development programmes, organisational transformation and breakthrough, working both 1:1 and developing high performance teams. Her research is around what makes for effective coaching and the evaluation challenge.