Sherrie Charlton

Sherrie is a coach who works with a wide range of individuals in organisations across a variety of sectors including financial services, investment banking, pharmaceuticals, education, manufacturing and professional services.

In 1996, she set up her own business focusing on coaching and development. Sherrie is committed to personal development and believes in continuously developing herself. In addition to developing her coaching capability and studying for a masters in personal and organisational development she is also a tutor in Creativity Innovation and Change for the MBA programme at the OU.

Career background

Sherrie’s early career was in the Pharmaceutical industry with Glaxo where she worked for 17 years in a range of roles including sales, customer service and clinical research before expanding her interest in individual and organisational development and moving into Training and Coaching roles. In the last 11 years, Sherrie has specialised in offering coaching and training across a wide range of sectors.

Qualifications and memberships

• Diploma in Coaching
• Fellow of CIPD
• MA in Personal and Organisational Development
• B.Pharm (Hons) and Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Professional Certificate in Education and Children’s Services Development.

Specialist field – Development and Performance Coaching and Facilitation
Sherrie’s expertise enables her to work with a wide range of individuals across many sectors.

She particularly enjoys working with:

• Those that have been identified for leadership positions (often as a result of talent management or ‘fast track’ schemes).
• Individuals who are taking on a new leadership position
• Individuals who are dealing with a change or a challenging situation
• Women in management looking to move forward into leadership roles
• Those who are needing to achieve using influence rather than authority
• Individuals managing and leading across organisations and different geographies and cultures.
• Organisations working to retain key groups e.g. Women in middle management, Associates in law firms.

Sherrie is able to work at all levels in an organisation and her broad business background enables her to quickly grasp the organisational and business context. Her approach is energising, practical and pragmatic focusing on enabling individuals to develop their own solutions and building confidence to taken action.

Recent examples

• Coaching a woman manager identified for fast track Leadership programme.
• Director level coaching to develop strategic leadership capability in the financial services sector.
• Coaching managers who are working with remote teams and reporting lines (US/UK, UK/India, UK/Europe).
• Executive coaching to enable a Director to work effectively in the UK for the first time.
• Coaching of senior lawyers to enable culture change within their firm.
• Coaching of recently appointed research director to support them in building relationships between new colleagues and influencing commercial sector senior managers in pharmaceutical company.
• Coaching school leaders to support individual, school and school to school development and behavioural changes required to address external policy changes.