SHINE Executive Coaching & Consultancy

Helping organisations, leaders, and partners shine.We partner with leaders and organisations to unlock potential, sharpen strategy, strengthen governance, and drive meaningful change.With deep roots in healthcare, life sciences, and the public sector, we bring real-world leadership experience to every engagement.

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How we can help

SHINE Executive Coaching & Consultancy strengthens organisations at their core — clarifying strategic focus, transforming governance, enabling system‑wide collaboration and building cultures where people, partnerships and purpose can thrive.Here are some of the ways we can help you and your team to shine:

Strategic consultancy

We partner with leaders and executive teams to sharpen strategic direction, tackle complex governance, operational and cultural challenges, and define the value and impact they want to achieve.Our consultancy model is practical, collaborative, and outcomes‑driven. We design and facilitate workshops and programmes that align leaders around shared priorities, surface and resolve difficult issues, and build the frameworks, metrics, and narrative required to demonstrate impact. Whether the task is setting a new organisational strategy, managing change, developing a compelling investment case, or uniting partners behind a common ambition, we provide the structure, challenge, and expertise to accelerate progress.

Leadership development

Strong organisations are built on impactful leadership at every level. We design and deliver leadership development and talent finding programmes that build capability, confidence, and resilience within and across teams.Our approach is practical and grounded in real experience. We draw on a blend of coaching, facilitation, and structured learning to create programmes that are engaging, relevant, and focused on defining and realising impact. We work with you to understand your context and tailor our approach to what you and your teams need to drive change. We work with partners to support your executive search and talent finding needs, locally and globally.

Executive coaching

Leadership can be rewarding and demanding in equal measure. Our executive coaching programmes provide a confidential space for senior leaders to reflect, challenge their thinking, and develop the clarity and confidence to enjoy leading well.We work with Boards, executives and leaders across the public, life sciences and tech sectors. Our coaching is informed by decades of lived leadership experience — we understand the pressures, trade-offs, and realities of senior roles in highly regulated sectors and complex partnerships because we have been there ourselves. Whether you are stepping into a new role, leading through change, or looking to grow as a leader, we can support you.

Testimonials

“The SHINE ECC team have been amazing. I have been so impressed by the energy and engagement in their workshops.”

NHS Senior Leader

“We will look back on our work with SHINE ECC as a key moment of transformation.”

AHSC Executive

“My coach's unwavering encouragement and practical approach helped me navigate difficult situations with resilience and confidence.”

Chief Executive Officer

About us

Jill Lockett
Managing Partner

Jill has 30+ years of senior leadership experience in healthcare and academia, and has worked as an executive coach with board-level leaders for 15+ years.Jill's career includes roles as Managing Director of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre, Interim CEO at the Academy of Medical Sciences, NHS Commissioning CEO, and UK Government Lead for Cancer & Cardiovascular programmes. She was Director of Behavioural Psychiatry for the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Bethlem Museum of the Mind.Jill has a primary degree in Public Administration and post graduate qualification in Managing Health Services from Manchester Business School. As an executive coach, Jill trained with Jenny Rogers and Management Futures and is a graduate of the INSEAD Global Women Leaders programme.

Natalia Stepan
Associate

Natalia is a strategic consultant, EMCC-accredited coach, and former NHS programme director. She brings over thirteen years of experience developing strategy, delivering transformation, and leading complex programmes in healthcare.Natalia was Programme Director of the Mind & Body Programme at King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Center, where she enabled testing and system-wide adoption of innovative healthcare approaches. She raised over £3m in external funding and held strategy roles at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Improvement. Natalia developed and implemented strategies at the service, organisational, and national levels. She began her career in consulting at KPMG.Natalia holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA in PPE from the University of Oxford.

Kate Barlow
Associate

Kate brings 20+ years of experience across the NHS and higher education, specialising in translating complex challenges into actionable plans.Kate has held senior leadership roles at King's College London, including Director of Portfolio and Director of Transformation within the Vice-Chancellor's Office, where she led a £400m+ enterprise portfolio and established the university's Transformation Office. Her experience spans research platform transformation, commercial development, and securing complex research collaborations with industry and international partners. Kate also brings extensive NHS operational experience across clinical, academic, and commercial interfaces.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Pharmacology from the University of Leeds and is Good Clinical Practice (GCP) certified.

Get in touch

Whether you are at the early stages of considering your strategic refresh or fully progressing into a partnership approach and leadership development programmes, please do make contact. Whether you have a specific challenge in mind or would simply like to explore how we might work together, please contact Jill to arrange an initial conversation.

Our clients

Our partners

SHINE ECC works in partnership with Sowen and Blue Lozenge to drive impact and change.

Shine Executive Coaching & Consultancy Ltd
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Last updated 30 March 2026

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