Tamsin Slyce

Tamsin Slyce is an executive coach and facilitator, with substantial experience of leadership and career development. She specialises in working with established professionals in senior roles. She has more than a thousand hours experience of individual coaching, as well as master coach credentials.

Throughout her career she has engaged with diversity and disability issues. As a journalist, she produced stories with Peter White the BBC's Disability Affairs Correspondent. As a coach, she has had a number of disabled clients. Tamsin works with curiosity, courage and creativity.

Her clients are drawn from across the professions, operating in the national and global sphere. She has worked with people from the BBC, BBC Trust, BSkyB, Warner Brothers, Icon Films, Harper Collins, Corporate Executive Board, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Royal College of Nursing, Newham PCT, Richmond Borough Council, HM Treasury, London South Bank University, Westminster Kingsway College, BP, Shell and Siemens. She has coached British, American, Russian, Chinese, Italian, French, German and Greek clients.

Tamsin's coaching programmes address a range of issues: leading in difficult times, leading change, building constructive professional relationships, creating productive leadership communications, learning to coach others, evolving an appropriate leadership style, stepping up to a new position, shaping a meaningful and manageable career, as well as career transition. Leaders report increased confidence and capability in tackling their professional challenges.

Tamsin's coaching is informed by a synthesis of several approaches including adult learning conversations, future-focused models and existential philosophy. It is also shaped by her own original research conducted through in-depth interviews with a diverse cohort of senior leaders. She engages clients in purposeful investigation and reflection. Clients have valued her astute questions, her insightful observations, her support and her constructive stretching beyond their usual comfort zone.

Tamsin trained as a BBC coach in 2004. As a member of the acclaimed internal coaching service, she delivered leadership coaching across the organisation. She established a First 100 day programme for senior people joining the corporation or taking on a new role. She also provided career transition coaching, through the CareerLink plus programme. For her MA in Professional Coaching, she conducted in-depth interviews with senior leaders across various sectors. Tamsin achieved a Masters in Professional Coaching Practice through the i-coach academy programme. She has also completed a Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Regent's College.

Prior to becoming a coach, Tamsin gained direct experience of the challenges faced by professionals operating in a high-pressured, complex environment. For more than 15 years, she performed a variety of pivotal roles at the BBC. She led the communication and engagement with three and a half thousand BBC News colleagues during a time of extensive change. She was both a special adviser and a public policy adviser to the corporation's senior leaders. As a journalist on Newsnight and the Six O'clock News, she produced world-class programmes.