Vikki Powell

Vikki is a long-standing associate partner of PIC Consulting and a highly experienced coach and consultant, with a track record in executive coaching, development and consultancy solutions for individuals and organisations.

She is one of the few coaches in the UK to have a Masters in Coaching and Mentoring, as well as being certified to use a range of psychometric and psychology-based interventions. Vikki combines this expertise with a pragmatic solution-focused approach to working with clients.

Typical projects include: coaching leaders to achieve enhanced performance by translating ‘talk’ into clear thinking and positive action; working with executives to formulate strategic leadership plans; developing personal influence and impact as a leader; as well as developing managers and leaders to coach others.

Her approach focuses on providing clients with challenging questions, focussed attention and psychological insight. This helps them to increase their own self-awareness and identify both the success they seek, and the right practical steps to achieve it. Most clients identify the coaching opportunity to stop and think within their challenging environments as being a critical factor in their continuing success.


Areas of expertise:

Executive coaching

• Preparing for and/or managing the transition of a recent promotion
• Problem solving work issues that are creating stress
• Improving existing work relationships
• Coping with the human and organisational dynamics of change
• Making significant decisions, personally and professionally
• Own personal influence and impact as a leader including an awareness of personality preferences; similarities and differences to others; self- regulation.
• Addressing self-limiting beliefs and thinking patterns
• Cross team communication and collaboration on company strategy

Vikki is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), the British Psychological Society (BPS), the BPS Coaching Psychology unit, and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). She has spoken at a number of conferences, conducted academic and organisation-led research, and is also qualified to use the following:

• Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the world’s most widely used psychometric personality questionnaire
• Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI), a tool for analysing individual motivation and group dynamics
• Fundamental Interpersonal Relationships Orientation (FIRO), a personality profiling tool to explore areas of control, openness and personal interaction
• Four Seasons Profiling Questionnaire (4SPQ), a creative personality profile based on self at work
• Reflective Leader Profiling Tool (RLPT), an in-depth assessment incorporating 360 feedback on personal strengths and development areas as a transformational leader.
• Career anchors, a profile examining individual’s career preferences and priorities
BPS Occupational testing, a series of ability and competence tests typically used in recruitment and assessment centres.