Lead Change that Lands With Energy that Lasts.
For leaders done driving change on instinct and adrenaline, ready to make strategic change leadership an integrated, daily reality and your obvious career edge.
The plan gets change started. Great leadership makes it land.
Most organisations are good at designing the change. The frameworks, the timelines, the communication plans, the restructured org chart. That's the visible foundation and it matters. Without it, you have chaos.
But designing the change doesn't deliver the transformation.
Transformation is delivered by leaders. And the leaders who make it land don't just manage the plan, they lead the people living through it.
That's the part most leadership development misses.
The trust that determines whether your team moves or just nods. The communication that shifts people not just informs them. The resistance that gets misread, mismanaged, and quietly spreads. The gap between what was said and what people heard, felt, and went home worrying about.
TILT Leadership™ works across both.
The visible foundations your organisation has built and the invisible layer that determines whether they deliver.
One leader. The complete picture. Change that lands with energy that lasts.
The result:
→ Teams that move with you, not behind you
→ Communication that lands, not just reaches
→ Resistance read early and led, not managed
→ Leaders with the confidence and energy to see it through
It starts with wiring, not a framework. You can't bring the right behaviours to a situation your identity hasn't caught up with yet. TILT Leadership™ starts with who you actually become under change pressure — and builds the identity-level shift that makes every other skill finally stick.
It builds the conditions that actually moves people. Not frameworks that describe change. The everyday reflexes that create real momentum — communication that lands, decisions made clearly in the fog, micro-moves that shift how your team feels before any formal initiative has been announced. Transformational coaching built for operational reality.
From both sides of the table. Not a consultant who has studied change. Someone who has led it as a General Manager and directed it as a Transformation Director. It’s the full picture of everything it takes to make it stick. That expertise has been distilled down to what works in today's reality.
The frameworks teach the WHAT. TILT teaches the HOW
Who is this for?
You’re not stuck. You’re squeezed.
TILT is built for seasoned operational leaders, heads of function, and directors inside medium-to-large matrix organizations.
You already know how to manage but you are currently caught in the permanent state of the Messy Middle Squeeze:
The Pressure From Above: You are handed slick corporate decks, bold KPIs, and constant, uncoordinated "patchwork change" from executives - with zero space to stress-test how it actually works in practice before the next wave hits.
The Reality in the Middle: You are the one running on pure adrenaline, trying to execute massive, overlapping organizational pivots in the cracks between your actual 9-to-5 day job.
The Friction From Below: You act as the "unofficial therapist" and translator - continually absorbing your team's unvoiced fear, skepticism, and fatigue while trying to maintain baseline operational momentum.
Hi, I’m Claire.
For 15+ years, I lived in the thick of it. As a General Manager and Transformation Director at a global Fortune 500, I led a large and complex transformation across multiple countries, navigated global restructures, and steered teams through ongoing change.
And having worked for some of the world’s most profitable companies, I've had access to the “perfect” transformation playbook - the consultancies, the certification, the frameworks. You name it, I had access to world-leading change management strategies, tools, and investments.
And here's what the frameworks don't prepare you for: the human complexity. It was the human layer. The invisible work. The part nobody trains you for that makes or breaks it. The real-world capability built with Managers on the ground. And no amount of consultant hires can help this when you are responsible for leading the day to day.
This isn’t an assumption. It’s lived experience. And my experience directing a global transformation impacting UK and Ireland, rolled out across Europe, confirmed it with data.
I founded TILT Leadership™ because I want you to have a better choice.
I want you to actually have what it takes to lead as a modern, forward-thinking leader navigating constant transition.
And I want you to get recognised and rewarded for it.
15+
Years in Senior leadership including General Manager & Transformation Director across multiple countries transforming businesses & teams
Qualifications
Prosci® ADKAR Certified Change Practitioner, Certified executive coach, MScMP & BCom
12
Weeks to master what it took Claire 10+ years to learn
Where do you want to start?
LEAD CHANGE with CONFIDENCE & CLARITY
The TILT Accelerator
12 weeks · 5 x 1:1 coaching · async support between sessions
If leading change feels like an extra job on top of your actual job — this builds the specific reflexes to change that. Embedded in your real work, not stacked on top of it.
1:1 Leadership Coaching
For senior leaders navigating a specific challenge, decision, or transition.
Focused coaching that creates the space to think clearly, unblock what's getting in the way, and move forward with confidence.
Four to six sessions. Entirely yours to define.
Change Leadership Advantage Diagnostic
Take 10 minutes to discover exactly where you are pushing the hardest for the least return right now, and the one micro-move that will finally create real Momentum.
This isn't a personality test. It's a change leadership gap analysis built for the messy reality you're actually in.
What leaders say after working with me
“Claire is a brilliant and delightful person. As a founder, being coached by her changed how I moved on the things I’d been avoiding. In just three sessions, I came away having named a critical goal I’d been circling for months, worked through what was actually holding me back, and committed to a timeline I wouldn’t have set on my own. Then I pulled it off. The confidence that came out of actually doing it, not just talking about it, has stuck with me since. Claire has a way of going past the surface fast. Thinking about what it’s like working together, I keep coming back to the French expression “les yeux fermés” (meaning you can go to her “eyes closed” with complete confidence in the quality of result). Claire won’t just listen and nod, she’ll actually move you.”
Kristin Peterson, Founder, Pivotal Journeys“I recently had the opportunity to complete a series of business coaching sessions with Claire, with a focus on improving my workplace efficiency and achieving a better work–life balance in a demanding Medical Affairs role. … What stood out most was how tailored and relevant the guidance was to my day-to-day challenges in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. Through these sessions, I have developed clearer frameworks for prioritisation, greater confidence in setting boundaries, and a more structured approach to managing my time. I believe this has already translated into improved efficiency and a stronger sense of control over my workload.”
Fiona Flynn Smyth, Senior Medical Manager, Astellas“I worked with Claire for over 4 years and have rarely worked with anyone whose reputation for being a brilliant leader is so unanimously agreed across teams and layers in an organisation. … I worked very closely with Claire during a high change, fast paced transformation project and will forever be impressed by her ability to communicate clearly, consider all details and remain focused on the bigger picture at the same time. Claire is exactly who you would want to lead change and ensure you finish in a stronger place than you started, even if the transformation is difficult.”
Sarah Atkins, Chief Digital Officer, L'Oréal“Claire is one of the most genuine, inspiring leaders I’ve had the pleasure to work with in my career. Working alongside Claire through a divisional transformation had a huge impact on me: she has amazing strengths in her ability to lead through change and navigate difficult times with compassion for her teams and for the people around her as well as her ability to inspire and bring people on the same journey.”
Gemma Cotter-Stone, Talent Management Lead, L’Oréal“We both sat on the Irish leadership team together and Claire set the bar in terms of the vision, ambition, and culture we wanted to create for the team and business. She was highly trusted, worked incredibly hard and managed to bring people on the journey, across a number of key initiatives, including some larger business transformation projects. For example, during Covid, not only were her business results exemplary, she delivered high team engagement and enablement scores, whilst also leading an eCommerce transformation for the business.”
Fiona Flynn Smyth, Senior Medical Manager, AstellasClaire Gahan, Market Director, former L’Oréal colleague“I highly recommend Claire based on our successful collaboration on a complex organisational transformation project. As the Transformation Director, Claire showcased exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and effective communication. Her meticulous planning and dedication to quality were key factors in the project’s success.”
Christian Ring-Knudsen, Director, Simon-Kucher & Partners