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CJ Executive Coaching in London was founded by former corporate finance lawyer, Caroline Johnston. Caroline is an experienced and qualified independent executive and career coach who works with professionals at key stages of their careers. Her individual clients come from a range of international backgrounds and work in sectors including law, finance, advertising, media, retail and not-for-profit.
She is a co-creator of the Visionary Leadership foundation programme for young leaders.
Caroline’s coaching experience includes leadership development, fast tracking future leaders, preparation for partnership or board appointments, parental transition, return to work and career transitions. She has a proven track record of delivering results.
Her interpersonal style is calm, solution seeking, supportive and challenging. She supports her clients to become more self-aware, aware of the impact they have on others and helps them identify their own best options and solutions to the challenges they face. She offers insights and alternative perspectives to help individuals discover what they don’t know they don’t know and unlock hidden potential.
"Caroline really encouraged me to push boundaries when thinking of my future, my aims and my wants. She helped me realise what is truly important to me and identified what steps I need to take to achieve my goals. I found the preparation she did with me before starting a new job has been invaluable and has shaped how I have approached my new role and colleagues."
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Caroline practised as a solicitor specialising in corporate finance at a major London law firm. She subsequently worked as a professional support lawyer at an international law firm and for a leading City head-hunter.
She understands the context and associated issues and opportunities at large professional services firms and has links to and knowledge of the UK, US and Australian corporate worlds. She has experience working with CEOs, CFOs, Chairmen of public companies and SMEs, and owners and founders of businesses. Her business experience as a corporate client adviser underpins her work.
Caroline volunteers as a Magistrate in central London in both the Adult and Youth Courts and, in her role as a Chair, she has experience working both as a member of, and leading, teams. As Chair of the Central and North London Youth Panel she sits on multi disciplinary youth crime prevention partnership boards.
Now based in London, she lived in New York and has had first-hand experience of navigating the competing priorities of managing a career and raising a family, geographical relocation and dual career families. She is married with two children who have graduated and are working.
Caroline trained on the specialist business-coaching course The Professional Coach Recognition Programme. She then qualified as an Executive Coach and is accredited by the Association for Coaching. She is a certified MBTI practitioner and a member of the Institute of Leadership and Management.
She is also a licenced Firework Career Coach (International Coach Federation accredited) and a trained appraiser and mentor for HM Courts & Tribunal Service.
As a certified coaching practitioner Caroline adheres to the Association for Coaching and European Mentoring Council’s Global Code of Ethics. She is a qualified solicitor and has an LLB (Hons).
