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People

Two partners: one focused on the organisation, one on the people who lead it. Both have spent their careers advising chief executives, boards and investors.

Colin Price

Colin Price

Organisation performance

Senior adviser to boards, chief executives and investors on organisation effectiveness. Former McKinsey Senior Partner and worldwide leader of its Organisation Practice, and former CEO of Heidrick Consulting. His work connects strategy, organisational health and leadership behaviour to business results.

Works on

  • Chief executive and top team effectiveness
  • Private equity and business transitions
  • Organisational performance and health
  • Operating models and organisation design

Background

  • Fifteen years as Partner and Senior Partner at McKinsey, the last seven as worldwide leader of the Organisation Practice
  • CEO, Heidrick Consulting
  • Managing Partner, Price Waterhouse Consulting
  • COO, Quintet Private Bank
  • Co-founder, Talos Capital, an investment vehicle focused on AI in financial services
  • Chair, itim Group plc

Writing, teaching and education

  • Author or co-author of seven books, including Accelerating Performance (with Sharon Toye), Beyond Performance (with Scott Keller), Mergers (with David Fubini and Maurizio Zollo) and Vertical Take-Off (with Sir Richard Evans)
  • Visiting Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
  • Visiting Professor, Centre for Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London
  • Speaker at Davos and the Harvard Business School Roundtable
  • BA Economics, MSc Industrial Psychology, MPhil Organisation Behaviour
Sharon Toye

Sharon Toye

Leader and team performance

Adviser to chief executives and senior teams on leadership, team effectiveness and lasting behaviour change. Former Partner and head of the Team Acceleration practice at Heidrick & Struggles. Her work connects the psychology of individual leaders with the working relationships that decide team performance.

Works on

  • Top team dynamics and effectiveness
  • Chief executive and senior leader coaching
  • Leadership development and mindset
  • Culture and behaviour change
  • Leadership under pressure and wellbeing

Background

  • Partner and global head of the Team Acceleration practice at Heidrick & Struggles; built it to 30 accredited partners and principals in two years and developed the IP now used globally
  • Founding partner of Co-Company, a boutique consultancy of 24 staff and 150 associates, sold to Heidrick
  • Consulting Manager, Accenture, New York and London
  • Co-creator of the Leadership Accelerator Programme
  • Former Vice President, ICF UK, and board director of the ICF Global Board for Coaching in Organisations

Qualifications

  • Master Certified Coach, International Coach Federation
  • UKCP psychotherapist; MSc Integrative Psychotherapy
  • MBA, London Business School
  • MSc Organisation Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Co-author of Accelerating Performance

Our network

Colleagues who we have worked with accelerating the performance of organisations, teams and leaders for well over a decade.

Barum Jeffries14 years leading talent and people development teams. Designs learning that converts directly into commercial results.Read bio Dave AllanFounder of What If, a global innovation consultancy, with a unique perspective on hyper-growth companies.Read bio Helen PriestleyEx Santander Marketing Director. Fifteen years coaching executives and teams through change and flotation.Read bio Imtiyaz Foolat23 years in operations, change and P&L leadership. Six Sigma Black Belt; coaches senior teams on effectiveness and high performance.Read bio Jeannie HorsfieldFaculty for Lumina Learning and coach to the top 600 leaders of a global telecoms provider. Gets beneath behaviour to what blocks performance.Read bio Laurent TerseurEx Barclays, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan senior banker turned APECS Master Executive Coach; built and transformed corporate banking teams at two Fortune 500 institutions.Read bio Liz RochesterFormer Associate Partner at Co Company and Director at Sky. Systemic team coach to CEOs in complex, matrixed organisations.Read bio Miranda RockMaster Executive Coach, psychotherapist and former senior HR leader in banking and law; coaches C-suite leaders and teams on what actually drives behaviour.Read bio Nic ArmitageFormer HR Director and operator who helped build Costa Coffee from a £19m investment into a £3.4bn business. Coaches senior teams; specialist in multicultural teams.Read bio Orri HelgasonBrings new technology, now AI, into the heart of how organisations work, and helps their people make the change.Read bio Sandeep JohalEx Deloitte Director; organisational psychologist who led talent and leadership programmes for 7,000 learners across EMEA and India’s largest telecoms launch.Read bio Steve RedwoodEx PwC, McKinsey and Deloitte. Deeply experienced and performance focused.Read bio Tony DankerFormer Director General of the CBI, with a deep understanding of business and government policy.Read bio Tracy SkyrmeEx KPMG, ICF PCC coach and team coach. Builds purposeful cultures and teams that sustain performance.Read bio

Support team

Rochelle DarbyBuilds trust easily and delivers to a very high standard, with an unrelenting commitment to good outcomes in complex situations.