Lee Chalmers

Lee is a consultant, facilitator and coach who specialises in personal authenticity, sustainable and ethical leadership development and women’s leadership styles.  She has worked in the development business for 5 years and has coached and developed business leaders around the world.  She has worked with senior members of companies such as The Guardian newspaper, The Sunday Times, VOCA, Bradford and Bingley, Direct Debit, Arts Council and Cap Gemini.

Lee has co-created several leadership development programs for corporate Universities on ‘Authentic Leadership’ or leading from the gut.  She is regularly invited to speak to women’s groups on the topic of Women’s Leadership.  She has co-lead outdoor coaching programs in the Spanish mountains which combine coaching and reflective work with hill walking, canoeing and swimming.  She has also worked with small businesses on developing strategy, business vision and the implementation of key performance indicators and business systems to ensure continued growth and expansion.

Prior to joining Future Considerations as a consultant, in 2003 Lee created her own successful private coaching business, working with individuals to create and live lives with meaning and purpose.  In this capacity she is a coach on the Clore Leadership Program, the UK Arts developmental program.  She also consults to small business owners on how to get the most out of their leadership style and to motivate employees to enable maximum sustainable growth.  She has been featured in the national press and is regularly invited to act as a mentor coach. 

Lee began her career in retail management.  As well as running a skateboard shop in her twenties, she worked for an international book and music retailer as a General Manger, responsible for multi-million pound turnovers, substantial physical operations and large teams.  It was there that she honed her leadership skills, as she fully believes that focusing on people and truly understanding the local market are the keys to long term business success. 

Lee’s first and second degrees are in Philosophy from the Universities of Stirling and Leeds.  Her MA dissertation was on the applicability of moral theory to living a worthwhile life and her initial PhD studies were on moral education.  It was during these studies that she developed her interest in developmental psychology and women’s leadership, as research shows interesting differences between men’s and women’s thinking in the moral domain.  She also has qualifications in Psychotherapy and Counselling and Coaching, from Regents College, The Coaching Academy and Newfield Network. 

Lee is passionate about people doing work that they love and businesses existing to serve the community and the environment, as well as making a profit.  She believes that through authentic leadership and corporate social responsibility, business can change the world.  In her spare time she has been known to make documentaries on the future for women and participate in discussion groups on the evolution of consciousnesses.  Her secret desire is to coach on board a flight to space and to live in a house that her husband has designed and built.