Our Team
Lorenza CliffordÂ
Founding Director, AC Accredited Master Executive Coach, AOCS & CSA Accredited Coach Supervisor
Lorenza has a track record of successful coaching with board-level executives, practice leaders and heads of businesses. She also thoroughly enjoys coaching emerging leaders in transitions where they need to continue transforming themselves alongside the organisation, they are leading.
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Lorenza has been an innovative leadership development professional, gaining senior level, multi-sector experience. She combines growth mindset with real understanding of leadership, coaching psychology and practical coaching experience.
Since 2003, she has alternated working for clients in her own business, with full-time Senior Management contracts.  At PwC she designed experiential leadership transition programmes and relationship skills programmes to enable Senior Managers to develop and be promoted to Director. At Grant Thornton, where she was Head of Coaching, she worked to spread the coaching culture, driving the growth of leaders to transform tomorrow’s world.
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​An accredited coach supervisor and experienced developer of coaches, Lorenza raises awareness and opens up choices through exploration of lived experience. She has an extensive spectrum of methods she has trained in, which she blends precisely and uniquely to meet you where you are and propel you forward. Her signature approach is gentle inquiry balancing support and challenge, creating a thought-provoking motivational effect and long-lasting, wide-reaching results.
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Lorenza has been Lead Facilitator on London Business School accredited Business Diploma programmes, has lead ILM level 5 and 7 programmes on Strategic Leadership, Leading Change and Coaching.  She is a contributor to the AC, was recently Chair of the Association of Coaching Supervisors (AOCS) and is a sponsor of the Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA). Lorenza is passionate about human development and her enthusiasm and cheerful diligence is wonderfully infectious.
The Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA) was set up in late 2019 to share resources, explore practice, and hold dialogue to enable coaches to develop strategies and practices around climate coaching. This is to enable clients (individuals, leaders and their teams) the right space to explore, become more aware and step up to make appropriate contributions to change, in the face of the climate emergency.
Additionally, as we see the capacity of our planet to support life dwindle, experience climate related catastrophes and an increased rate of extinction in the more than human world, spaces are needed to process the overwhelming grief, impotence and even despair and maintain hope and grounded optimism. Our founder has been involved in the UK since March 2020 in co-creating spaces for conversation to happen that give confidence to coaches and clients on this important area of work. We will continue to partner and sponsor with the CCA during 2025.