Fiona Coffey Biography

Fiona has spent most of her career working internationally as an organisation development consultant. She has over 20 years’ change management experience operating at senior levels in a range of organisations, including large private sector business, Government and the third sector.

Her work involves advising boards on business strategy, top team structure and effectiveness. She is an expert facilitator and leadership development coach. Her experience of working with BP before, during and after the Gulf of Mexico spill in 2010 prompted her to return to university after a 25-year gap to understand the challenges of promoting ethical behaviour in organisations. She interviewed senior Ethics and Compliance professionals in large corporations to understand how they were trying to influence behavioural change ‘from the inside’. The findings have subsequently been published in a report authored for the Institute of Business Ethics.

Fiona’s experience includes designing and delivering BP’s global ‘Leading Sustainable Change’ programmes, in which she personally coached and delivered programmes for over 500 senior BP leaders in all parts of the world, including the US, China, Australia and the Middle East. More recently she has created a ‘Powerful Conversations’ programme for an innovation business, reviewed the structure of the British Board of Film Classification, and facilitated a number of pan European events for oncology leaders in Pfizer.

Fiona’s academic background is in business and organisation psychology. Her business background includes line roles at Citibank and British Airways before starting her consultancy career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1989 and establishing her own business in 1993. She has a Master’s in Industrial and Organisation Psychology from the London School of Economics, and a Professional Doctorate from Nottingham Business School.