Helping leaders have greater impact

About Trudy

I help leaders have greater impact and influence as they lead by mastering communications

I have a passion to help leaders, professionals and their teams develop influence and create impact through good communication and connection. That’s why I set up Colinear.

Impact is more than achieving targets and financial results, it’s about being purposeful. Making a positive lasting impression and influencing people to engage with you and follow your lead. 

I believe that to excel as a leader understanding impact, finding your gaps and working towards it is a game changer. It starts with knowing what’s important (purpose), what you care about (values) and what you’re good at (strengths).

For years I worked as a communications professional seeing leaders struggle to engage and have a real impact. I’d rarely see leaders who were able to be themselves, lead well and connect effectively.

It led me to coaching – I realised that being a communications consultant wasn’t fully impacting people or making changes. I truly believe that coaching can create lasting change for those ready to work on themselves. And my hope is that leaders / people will want to explore the difference coaching can make by working with me. 

To bring my experience together I started to explore ways to share my knowledge in communications and combine that with coaching to help as many people as I can to confidently lead in work and life. I say both because we need to learn to be real people who show up consistently with whoever we need to interact with. And interaction is key. It’s the cornerstone of leadership and it’s what’s missing in today’s fast paced, technically focused work environments. 

I am a qualified executive coach and a strategic communication consultant specialising in leadership, engagement and change. I have over 20 years’ experience supporting leading organisations from the hospitality, rail, construction and technology industries; delivering the right level of communication aligned to the business strategy and its priorities. 

As a coach I help people to maximise performance by supporting them to find clarity and focus. Building confidence and developing strategies to courageously grow, change or move forward in their work and lives. My work with people helps them to discover how to be more impactful and realise their potential. My aim is to create the space to think and an awareness to act within a positive, non-judgemental environment.

Please get in touch, I’d love to work with you. 

Here are some other things you might like to know about me:
  • I am the founder of Colinear Ltd – an executive coaching, consulting and learning business that supports all I do.
  • I am a public speaker and facilitator who talks on influence, change and topics related to my framework EDGE.
  • A qualified Executive Coach – I trained with AoEC (Academy of Executive Coaching).
  • Co-Chair of the Institute of Directors (IoD), Marketing Communications special interest group.
  • A Fellow and Chartered PR Practitioner with the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), where I also served as a board director.
  • I am a member of ICF (International Coaching Federation).
  • Hold an MA in Communications Management – Metropolitan University UK.
  • Work as an associate executive coach with CoachAdviser and Coaches of Colour.
  • I co-hosted an award-winning podcast – Calm Edged Rebels. We’ve stopped recording but if you’d like to have a listen it’s available wherever you like to listen to your podcasts (Apple, Spotify etc).
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