LIANE KEMP
Liane Kemp is an accredited coach. She founded Kemp Street Partners to utilise her skills and passion for coaching to help individuals embrace and manage the challenges around them to be the best that they can be. She combines the latest research with many years of business leadership experience, to assist clients in creating a learning agenda that fits their unique learning styles, fits into their busy daily schedules and brings lasting results. Then she supports them to move forward seamlessly as they adopt new approaches and experiment with new behaviours.
In addition to her coaching and team facilitation work, Liane is a highly experienced instructional designer. Workshops and programs developed for clients span senior leader development, using coaching style conversations to increase leadership effectiveness, interpersonal and team effectiveness. In addition, she designed and runs a public Women in Leadership program, including topics such as resilience and self-compassion, building confidence and high impact influencing. She also works with individuals looking to make a career decision, including preparing them for interviews.
Her clients include consultants, senior and C-suite executives, from industries as diverse as education, telecoms, heavy industry, consumer goods, biotech, not-for-profit, government agencies, financial and professional services. She is largely agnostic as to industry or function as her view is that “the key to the door of growth and lasting behavioural change is a restlessness with the status quo”.
Liane’s coaching work goes beyond performance and career-based coaching to help executives understand the origins of life patterns that my be hindering behavioural change. She works with leaders, who are bombarded with the relentless demands of today’s business environment, to find sustainable strategies to create time and space for reflection, and offers them a safe place in which to reflect, and test ideas.
Prior to founding Kemp Street Partners, Liane was the Partner who built and then led the professional development function for global executive search firm Spencer Stuart for more than eleven years (six of which were on the worldwide management team, five of those based in the USA). Before moving into professional services, she had a line management background, having managed the nutritional products division of what is now known as Fonterra, including leading the day to day operations of a US-based joint venture. She started her career in the oil and gas industry in a corporate planning and technical advisory capacity, before becoming the planning manager for a venture capital company.
Liane has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. She gained her coaching accreditation from Columbia University and has served as the Academic Chair, and subsequently Conference Chair for the International Columbia Coaching Conference. She is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is accredited in a number of psychometric tools, including the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI) and the Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI). She has a particular passion and interest in leaders and leadership and has written and presented on this topic. Her research, focussed on how reciprocal peer coaching enables sustained leader development, was published in the Philosophy of Coaching Journal (May 2019 edition).
Liane partners with a range of professionals in search, succession planning, transition support, outplacement, psychology, specialist assessment, positive leadership and design thinking. Through her Columbia network she has access to coaches in North America and Europe. Please contact Kemp Street Partners for further details and/or referrals.
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