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Our core team, led by Maggie, consists of experienced professionals who have collaborated closely with each other for many years, and who dedicate a significant portion of their time to Sokrates Partners projects.

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  • North America
    • Akira Otani
    • Amy McDonald
    • Elspeth Chasser
    • Johan Naudé
    • Laura Daley
    • Martha Debs
    • Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend
    • Michelle Malloy
    • Mike Moore
    • Rob Elsey
    • Ushma Pandya
  • Latin America
    • Martin Sommer
  • Europe
    • Alper Tengüz
    • Andrea Ingrisch
    • Arjen Iwema
    • Brian McIlroy
    • Deborah Thomas
    • Jason Rabinowitz
    • Margreet (“Maggie”) Van De Griend
    • Martha Debs
    • Michael Newman
    • Nick McRoberts
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    • Philippe Leonard
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Deborah Thomas

Loving Learning

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Learning has been absolutely pivotal in Deborah’s life, and she’d like everyone she comes into contact with to benefit from its power. Her childhood studiousness and academic aptitude propelled her from a small and very dull village in the north of England to the inspirational environments of Oxford University and then London. Here, after a period exercising her creative muscles in the advertising and design business, she spent almost two decades with the management consultancy McKinsey.

Deborah was originally hired to help McKinsey consultants get their ideas across clearly to their clients, but rapidly saw that what mattered much more than mere clarity was that they built strong, trust-based human relationships. She devoted herself to that cause, which demanded rapid learning and personal growth of her own; she then took what she had learned into client service, and moved into a different role, coaching and training McKinsey clients to build the personal insight and skills to lead people and engage them in change.

After almost 20 years in this rich playground, she decided that she would learn more about the things she most cares about by working outside a large firm. She is focusing her consulting practice on leadership skills, and now also has time to act as a learningmentor for refugee schoolchildren with the London charity Love to Learn.

Credentials

LANGUAGES

  • English

EXPERTISE

  • Leadership skills capability building – curriculum and program design and delivery
  • Team effectiveness coaching
  • Executive coaching

EXPERIENCE

  • McKinsey & Company, 1993-2012: Leadership coach and consultant, and global head of client communication
  • Previous career in the advertising and design industries

EDUCATION

  • MA in English, University of Oxford
  • Graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach program, accredited by the World Association of Business Coaches
  • MBTI Step II qualification
  • RSA Counselling Skills Certificate

CURRENT PROJECTS

  • Teaching MSC Management course at Imperial College business school
  • Designing a leadership skills curriculum for senior management in a global pharmaceutical company
  • Designing and delivering a program to build the skills, confidence and coherence of the leadership team of a newly forming public sector organization in Europe
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