Extraordinary Leadership

Helen Battersby

Helen's impressive corporate European experience at board level within multi‐national global market leading organisations spans the challenges faced by small and large businesses with multi‐ cultural perspectives as well as the human resources challenge of absorbing new companies into an established culture. This rich and diverse corporate background puts Helen in an excellent position to enhance other' performance at senior levels in the business environment.

In her own career, Helen has demonstrated that powerful coaching leads to more effective and inspirational leadership, renewed personal and corporate energy levels, enhanced commitment and personal fulfilment.

Helen’s personal vision is to deliver coaching, which dignifies each individual whilst enhancing the performance of their organisation.

Jefferson Cann

Jefferson’s primary aim in coaching, facilitating and speaking is the development of high-performance leadership behaviours, enabling the fulfilment of the individual, their teams and their companies through whole being, 3 Dimensional Leadership.

Since 2003, following a successful, senior, international, 23–year career in pharmaceuticals, he has been delivering Leadership Performance Coaching at board level and below across all sectors and has developed high‐level expertise in personal, team and cultural leadership development.

Jefferson believes that professional and personal fulfilment in today’s world requires the integration of the individual’s mental, emotional, spiritual and physical dimensions. This he achieves within the framework of the 3 Dimensional Leadership and ACT models he has co-developed with Nigel Linacre, his co-founder of Extraordinary Leadership and co-author of "An Introduction to 3 Dimensional Leadership".

 Jefferson is married with two adult children and lives in Hampshire.

Nigel Linacre

As a facilitator, speaker and writer, Nigel creates spaces that prompt discovery. His purpose is to enable people to lead their lives with more grace and flow. 

Nigel co-founded Extraordinary Leadership with Jefferson Cann, co-developing 3-Dimensional Leadership across time, space and action. His titles include The Successful Executive, Recipes for Happiness, Why You Are Here – Briefly, and is co-author of An Introduction to 3-Dimensional Leadership. Some of his reflections appear in the International Leadership Association’s 2012 publication, Leading in Complex Worlds.  

Nigel has worked on development projects in a dozen countries in four continents on World Bank and UK Government funded projects, he has set up and run businesses, and co-founded pressure groups and charities including WellBoring. He has run for Parliament and had a first career in marketing communications.

Chris Monk

Chris is an experienced international leadership development facilitator, executive coach and Cultural Transformation Tools® trainer. He specializes in coaching leaders and facilitating teams to help them connect through discovering their core values and deeply held purpose. Going a step further, Chris believes that synergistic levels of performance can be achieved through the creation of a unifying, energizing vision.

Chris served for 19 years in the British Armed Forces receiving a commendation on leaving as being ‘the driving force behind a visionary and groundbreaking coaching initiative which has led to significant culture change while maintaining world-class operational effectiveness and highly respected standards’.

Chris’s passion today is supporting leaders and change-agents on their life adventures to help inspire the creation of an abundant, synergistic world.

Eithne Wright

Eithne brings over 20 years of commercial and administrative management expertise to the Client Services Management role at Extraordinary Leadership, experience gained in diverse industries from both public and private sectors.

She manages the communications, documentation and client accounts for the team and our clients, and is adept at nurturing the both the internal & external relationships whilst implementing processes to ensure the smooth implementation of the varied programmes.

Anne Stenbom

Anne is a global executive coach and an accomplished intercultural specialist. She works with individuals and teams, encouraging them to realize their full potential. A positive, non-judgmental outlook and the willingness to stretch in order to grow is her own mantra, and one she encourages her clients to adopt.

Anne has over 20 years of international business experience with large multi-nationals. She has lived in different countries, worked across the globe, and across functions and industries, providing a breadth and depth of experience which she builds upon to give of her best to each individual client. She speaks 5 languages fluently and lives with her family in Stockholm.

Some of Our Clients ...

Bath Building Society

Cargotec

Chandler Chicco Agencies

Citibank

COLT

EasyJet

Glaxo SmithKline

Hammonds LLP

Hays plc

International Speciality Pharma

The Hydrogen Group

Livewire Communications

Monahans

NHS PCT

MPC-Data

National Association for Colitis and Crohn's Disease

Nokia

Novartis

SGM Project Management

Shipley Wins

Shire Pharmaceuticals

Specialty European Pharma

Sure-Track Monitoring

TRMG Group

TSAP

Versatus

Westinghouse Rail

Vodafone