Barbara Morrison is a C-suite Executive Coach and Consultant with over a ten year track record of supporting senior leaders and teams in enhancing their performance.  Barbara has coached extensively in individual, team coaching and change management and cultural transformation.  Drawing on her corporate and leadership expertise, her experience as an executive coach and her insights as a behavioural scientist, Barbara is uniquely positioned to create behavioural breakthroughs.  She works across a range of sectors – Investment Banking, Private Equity, Technology, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG and Management Consulting. Barbara’s approach is focused on enabling real sustainable change to drive personal and business performance.

Barbara’s coaching style merges her extensive coaching experience with her successful career in Investment Banking. Barbara spent circa ten years at Goldman Sachs London where she was Head of Global Equities. At Goldman she led the business to a number one rank across the industry. She has a proven track record in building, leading and working with high performing teams and has experienced the systemic demands of fast-paced results driven organisations.  Barbara has spent over 20 years living in London, New York and Sydney and she brings this invaluable cross-cultural perspective to her work.

Engagement Experience

C-Suite Coaching and Consulting

Individual Leadership Development

Leadership Onboarding

Business Strategic Clarity and Alignment 

Building High Performing Executive Teams

Setting M&A and Exits up for Success 

Group Coaching

Industry Experience

Financial Services 

FMCG

Food

Pharmaceuticals

Management Consulting

Education 

London School of Economics
MSc Behavioural Science

Trinity College Dublin
BA Hons Economics and Business

Chester University
Post Grad Executive Coaching

Other Facts

Hogan Accredited with over 10 years’ experience of Hogan for teams and individuals

Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) with over 5,000 hours of individual and team coaching 

What Clients Say

"If you are looking for a Coach who will constructively challenge, who will help you identify behaviours that don’t serve you well and who will have super practical frameworks to help you self-manage as a senior leader, then Barbara is the coach for you. Her highly engaging manner, thought provoking questions and sense of humour means she creates a really strong thinking partnership from the outset. My coaching journey with Barbara has been transformational for me professionally and personally – thank you Barbara!” CEO, FMCG

“I want to thank you so much for being so brilliant, being coached by you has been a game changer for me professionally and personally – I look forward to resuming again at some point in the future.” CPO, Travel Industry

“Our coaching sessions have been enormously beneficial in helping me to think about and set goals and priorities for my myself. Also very helpful in giving me some tools in terms of my own personal resilience, energy and way of responding to multiple challenges / stresses.  As a consequence of this, my engagement with my team, my colleagues and business partners has also benefited. I’ve really taken on board setting a few key goals and focusing on them and not trying to do everything - this remains a challenge in an environment like XX but coming back and reviewing notes / materials periodically is a great reminder. Also the time just spent focusing on my development was useful as a step back to look at bigger picture rather than constantly "in the doing." CFO, US Investment Bank

“ Barbara was a joy to work with; she brings a structured and logical path for growth.  Our sessions were free flowing, we achieved a lot over the six sessions, and she invested extra time to complete a Hogan assessment in her own time.  I would highly recommend her to my colleagues and beyond.” CEO, Food Industry

"Coaching has done a few things. It has made me more focused on the value of my time, not just my time in the office. It has made me reflect more cogently on my goals and values. It has also, unexpectedly, made me calmer about my performance and skills.  The coaching sessions have made me feel that  it’s “legitimate” for me to delegate more. They have encouraged me to think  harder about leadership and how to lead a team. Importantly, I feel that the sessions have given me a larger number of tools and perspectives to use in working with the team. I also think that the sessions have given me greater self-confidence, i.e. have helped me to be comfortable that I am seen as an outperformer in the organisation without making me complacent. Senior MD, US Investment Bank

I have no doubt that I am going to be a better banker as a result of the sessions and can lead more effectively.  I would absolutely recommend Barbara to contacts both with my organisation and outside.  I started as a skeptic and finished as a convert. Barbara was great – occasionally painfully insightful, but really great." Senior MD, US Investment Bank

"I have found my experience with coaching highly beneficial and I would definitely recommend Barbara as a coach to others within X or outside. The single most beneficial part to me was receiving the detailed 360 feedback – I have never in my career received such a detailed and thought-through feedback with some quick wins and actionable recommendations. This was immensely helpful as well as your assistance in interpreting these results. I found the tools and frameworks learned  also very helpful, especially as we applied them together to specific situations (discussion with my manager, resolving conflict within my management team etc). Some very concrete benefits came out of these discussion, such as mending some of the relationships within my local management team and pushing me towards taking a completely different approach and view on the career management of one of the key members on my team. This is closely related to another fundamental area that coaching helped me with: making myself aware of my internal assumptions and blocking thoughts and checking them for logic and truth. The reading materials you assigned also have helped with this and have given me homework for the future also – this is the area in which coaching has helped me outside of my professional life also." Chairman, Capital Markets

"Barbara you were highly competent, very capable and compassionate.  I realise I am not the easiest client to work with, I am not a quick study and what I have found is the work we did together and the self-awareness I built has already had a significant positive impact on how I behave, how I lead and my interaction with others.  A number of your mantras, frameworks, learnings ideas have inculcated themselves in my frontal lobe for access more rapidly (or at all) than they ever did before. So kudos to you! I and my team have already benefitted from them.  Our personal coaching sessions were time well spent for me in terms of my future career goals, and that is a commodity (you well know) I have the least amount of. I would most certainly recommend you and your firm to others."  CRO, US Investment Bank