Collette Stone

Collette is a leadership, team and personal development consultant with over 35 years experience in operational, policy and HR roles in the largest departments of the UK civil service. Alongside her public sector career Collette is also a lifelong volunteer, primarily for Girlguiding and Scouting, having held roles at all levels including local leadership for 10 to 15 year old young members through to management and Adviser posts at County, Region and National levels, with leading roles for leader training and promoting international opportunities.

She is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD, an MBA and holds an MSc in the use of technology in education. Within the civil service Collette specialised in leadership development, executive coaching for senior civil servants in pivotal roles, Director-General led top team effectiveness, the people aspect of change management and mentoring fast-streamers and junior talent. As a volunteer, in addition to working with the uniformed organisations she also spent more than 20 years as a School Governor for a Special Needs school in NW London and latterly as Trustee on the Board of a seven-site Special Needs Academy.

Having left the civil service in early 2022 Collette became an independent consultant, working with Henley Business School as external faculty, with a focus on both the personal development and reputation management aspects of their international MBA programme and, as an experienced Action Learning facilitator, on the MA Leadership, Level 7 Apprenticeship in Leadership and PG Cert programmes. With a long term background in Systemic Coaching she is currently exploring initiatives with the creative industry and as an equine-assisted coach.