Miriam Luke, Lead Consultant

Miriam Luke

Miriam is an experienced executive coach and facilitator. She specialises in supporting people, teams and organisations to develop effective and collaborative leadership, taking a strengths based approach. As Lead Consultant for GFB she has substantial experience in the creation and delivery of meaningful behavioural and culture change programmes. This has included taking an innovative approach to self-awareness with live 1:2:1 coaching and ongoing support and feedback. She brings her experiences as an Olympic Silver medallist and in high performance sport to highlight the core messages and combined with her strong communication skills she delivers compelling workshops, key notes and off sites.

Miriam is also a triple Olympian rower and achieved her sporting ambition by winning a silver medal at the Sydney Games in 2000. Miriam maintains her involvement in community activities, particularly in sports. She continues to row (although at a slightly less competitive level); she is the first female President of Henley Rowing Club; one of only nine women Stewards of Henley Royal Regatta and, is the Chairman of Henley Women?s Regatta, the pinnacle event for over 1800 women rowers in the UK.

Experience

Miriam has a broad experience of working across a myriad of sectors; banking and finance, IT and telecoms, construction and facilities management, high performance sport and mainstream education, both here in the UK and globally in Asia, the US and Europe. More recent experience has been in taking a Strength Based approach to developing leadership with end result being a more engaged and positive population of leaders who have thrived in a climate of fast paced change. Her lively high energy approach to facilitation along with her collaborative approach to creating bespoke solutions and ideas delivers results that clients value.

She is accredited in the Schroder Leadership Framework and its application to behavioural psychology in identifying and developing successful and effective leaders for corporate management. Some recent clients include, Astellas, Novartis, Costain, O2 Telefonica, P&G, CallCredit, BCS Consulting, Henley Business School, Intertek, KPMG, Eversheds, Sonnedix and HSBC.

Qualifications

  • BSC Biochemistry and Physiology 
  • Member of the British Psychological Society
  • BPS Level A & B accredited
  • Hogan Assessment Accredited