Alison began her career by spending the 1990s in client service in London's advertising industry, working with industry leading creative talent on world-class brands. As a Board Director at AMV BBDO, the UK's no 1 agency, she learned that it is possible to lead for creativity and growth with humanity. Increasingly passionate about enabling organisations to thrive through their people, Alison became an executive coach and talent development practitioner in 2000. She has gained her coaching experience since then in a global leadership consultancy, in-house with the BBDO network, and with her own coaching practice Grow People. Alison is rigorously trained and accredited as a coach with a 1st Class Masters in Executive Coaching (among other qualifications useful to have but dull to list!) Based in the UK but working globally, Alison specialises in leadership and team development in creative and entrepreneurial organisations (clients include FRAME Denim, Wieden + Kennedy and Brandwatch, for example). Her work encompasses 1:1 and team coaching and leadership development programmes.