Caroline founded her first business when she was 26 and within two years it turned over £2 million plus. For the last 30 years, she has used her own extensive experience to support other businesses to grow and maximise opportunities. She has worked at board/senior leadership level with many organisations including BAe Systems, Citi, RBS and Nuffield Health. She is also co-founder of Mindlab, taking mindfulness training into the workplace.
Caroline Hopkins is an insightful coach who specialises in working with individuals who feel “stuck” in the workplace. She can help senior leaders and teams to see the bigger picture, articulate uncomfortable challenges and work collaboratively and mindfully to explore and focus on solutions. She often supports clients new to their roles and helps them to formulate a personal development plan together with a realistic business strategy.
Caroline’s style of coaching supports and challenges clients by creating a safe place for them to pause and understand, from their own perspective and that of other stakeholders, the reality of where they are now and the potential that lies before them. By helping leaders to become more self-aware, they create shifts in their thinking and behaviours. Often a series of small adjustments can lead to the biggest changes. Caroline creates the space to give people the ability to see what these adjustments are and how to make them happen. The outcome is often better communication and more creative decision-making, which both impacts and accelerates the growth of their teams and business.
Organisations too can become stuck when the environment in which the original purpose and vision was formed has fundamentally changed. Businesses have always operated in environments of change – but this means it is sometimes difficult for leaders to spot the difference between organic change and a fundamental paradigm shift in their industry. Darwin’s famous conclusion was “It is not the strongest species that survive nor the most intelligent, it is those responding to change that survive.” The first step is recognizing that the change has taken place. Not doing so is the reason many businesses respond too late.
Caroline’s coaching programme for organisations challenges complacency and resistance to change. She helps leaders identify their “strategic inflection point” and deliver their roles as leaders to re-invent, disrupt, adapt and survive. Caroline has created a simple 4-step programme which helps leaders to pause, redefine their vision and realign their strategies to deliver sustainable results.Thank you so much. So very powerful and useful. The best strategy discussion I’ve had in a very long time. You are truly very skillful
Caroline has been fantastic at supporting our organisation to create the vision for our future. This is something that we had been stuck on for a while and now we have a lot of clarity and focus. Caroline’s patient and supportive approach had a lot of impact on us. I cannot recommend her enough
Caroline’s professionalism in guiding me through the Vision programme shone through every step of the way. She expertly took me on a journey of personal understanding, and patiently and consistently drew me back to what is important to me. She edited my broad, brushstroke ideas into a concise and thorough statement of business intentions. Once this was achieved, she moved me onto my core values and helped me to refine a long list down to three defined areas. After just one session, I feel inspired and relieved.
