About
Alanna Henry FCIPD
• Executive & Leadership Coach
• Team Coach
• Leadership Development
• Organisational Development
Alanna is an experienced executive and leadership coach who combines 20+ years of senior corporate experience with a deep
understanding of people, leadership and organisational dynamics. Her approach is commercially grounded, insightful and focused on helping leaders create meaningful and sustainable change.
Alanna spent 15 years with the John Lewis Partnership, working in operational leadership, strategic business partnering and
organisational development roles. She has since worked across sectors including the NHS and charity sector.
She has a passion for psychology and combines this with her commercial and organisational experience to coach senior leaders at Board and Director level, as well as established and emerging leaders, helping them navigate complexity, increase their impact and achieve both personal and organisational goals.
Coaching Approach
Alanna brings a warm, open and supportively challenging style to her coaching. She combines this with her psychology knowledge to build trust quickly, creating a safe space for clients to think differently, challenge assumptions and explore difficult issues, while maintaining a clear focus on outcomes and action.
She is skilled at cutting through complexity and confusion, getting to the heart of an issue and helping clients focus on what really matters. Her coaching combines commercial insight with psychological understanding, recognising the importance of
relationships, wellbeing and the wider organisational context in achieving lasting change.
Alanna works particularly well with leaders facing transition, increased responsibility, organisational change or complex people and business challenges. Whether coaching individuals or teams, her aim is to build greater clarity, self-awareness, confidence and impact.
Qualifications
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ICF-accredited Coach — Postgraduate Certificate in Business & Personal Coaching
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City & Guilds Certificate in Executive Coaching
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Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology
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Fellow of CIPD (FCIPD)
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Diploma, Family Law Supervision, FLIP Faculty Ltd
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Certificate in Organisational Development Roffey Park
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Motivational Maps Practitioner
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Coaching Constellations
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BSc (Hons) Business Management
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NED Accelerator Programme, Institute of Board Members
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Emotional Capital Report & Clarity 4D accredited
Client Testimonials
“Alanna brings a fantastic breadth of skill and experience to her work as a coach. Commercially astute and very insightful about
people, she is exceptionally adept at cutting through complexity and confusion and getting to the heart of an issue.”
“Alanna’s coaching approach generates high performance. She brings structure, rigour and challenge to the client which enables
them to get to the heart of the issue, quickly and effectively. This turns the client into a problem solver with tangible actions to
help move themselves forward.”
“I have worked with Alanna in her capacity of providing executive coaching and have found her expertise equally outstanding…
I would recommend Alanna to all business leaders, without any hesitation.”