Executive Coach and Search Consultant

With more than 35 years of experience in executive search, identifying senior talent for C-suite and leadership teams, Dominique has recognised expertise in cultivating leadership potential and working with senior leaders to enhance organisational effectiveness. At the cutting edge of market intelligence and thought leadership, her work naturally extends to leadership and talent programmes. She is passionate about maximising opportunity, whether at an individual or collective level, and her focus is around delivering practical, intelligent solutions.

Dominique’s approach to coaching is rooted in understanding the power and impact of narrative unlocked, and in her experience in martial arts. Skills learned in the dojo are applied to a business environment. Both contexts demand presence and awareness; in a business context a fatal blow can be received without feeling its impact. Her coaching is:

• Strategic and relational: facilitating leadership coherence, enhanced business influence and future focus – based on trust, openness and commitment to mutual learning
• Investigative and challenging: helping leaders clarify purpose to harness energy and elevate impact
• Solutions-focused: aligning purpose with short and longer-term actions, focusing on clear outcomes that drive future success

For Dominique, a good coaching relationship is built on partnership, trust and good humour. She offers her clients a safe place to re-set, a space to make sense of the present and move into the future with greater clarity and a sense of purpose, in alignment with achievable outcomes.

Dominique has had a long relationship with the Listening Partnership. She has been trained in our distinctive Transformational Narrative Coaching approach and has been a key part of Listening Partnership’s Storytelling Masterclass team. Dominique has co-coached with Nick Isbister on a number of complex coaching assignments.

As a founding partner of Graham Gill, a pioneering legal search firm which is now part of Signium, Dominique’s roots are in the legal sector, working on General Counsel (GC) and partner level mandates. This has expanded into hiring heads of function and C-suite advisory. Her work covers:

• Executive search: searching across GC partners and C-suite and NED roles in the UK and globally
• Leadership programmes: focusing on strategy, communication and career transitioning
• Legal advisory services: advising law firms on impact and positioning; shaping culture for purpose and effectiveness
• Mergers: brokering high-profile law firm mergers