Author Speakers

Laura Ashley-Timms

Bestselling Author and Thought-Leader on How to Revolutionise Management Performance through Operational Coaching

Contact Us

At a Glance

Co-author of bestselling book The Answer is a Question

The Missing Superpower that Changes Everything and Will Transform Your Impact as a Manager and Leader


The co-creator of the STAR® model and the multi-award-winning STAR® Manager development programme

The first programme in the world to certify management and leadership competence and embed an Operational Coaching® style of management


The co-founder and COO of performance improvement consultancy Notion

Awarded Personnel Today magazine’s Learning & Development Supplier of the Year award in 2021

Programme Director to FTSE and Fortune 500 companies

including Mitchells & Butlers, Sainsbury’s, NBC Universal on embedding coaching cultures and upskilling people managers


Co-author of published academic research paper

Proves adopting Operational Coaching® increases skill levels across 9 management competencies including communication skills and handling challenging conversations, drives productivity and improves retention within 6-months. Research funded by the UK Government (BEIS) and evaluated  by London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE)


Award winning Executive Coach and one of 40 Outstanding Global Women

Senior Leadership experience working within the UK, Asia and the USA 

Co-creator of the multi-award-winning Certified STAR® Manager programme

Laura is the COO at Notion. She is an expert and thought leader on how to leverage Operational Coaching® behaviours across organizations to drive commercial results and improve productivity and engagement levels. 

Laura learned about the power of coaching from her early childhood career in international sports and began coaching others by the time she entered Oriel College, Oxford (as one of the first females to that college). She gained not only an MA (Oxon) but also an Extraordinary Full Blue 

With over thirty years of international business experience, living and working in the USA, Europe and Asia, Laura has a strong focus on pragmatism and results. She is the architect of many of Notion’s client programmes and is responsible for the outstanding quality of engagements. She has been recognised as one of the UK’s top executive coaches and as one of 40 Outstanding Global Women.  

Operational Coaching® - The future of effective and rehumanised management

The STAR® model is a simple 4-step management framework that helps leaders to adopt coaching-related behaviours to stop firefighting and start asking more powerful questions. 

The UK government commissioned a large-scale study to assess the impact of STAR® and the subsequent research trial was designed and independently evaluated by London School of Economics. The study measured the impact of leaders and managers from 62 organisations across 14 sectors learning to apply the STAR® model in their day-to-day interactions over a period of 6 months.  

The outcomes were remarkable, with those who followed the programme spending 70% more time using an enquiry-led, Operational Coaching® style of management leading to higher levels of organisational recruitment, improved staff retention and increased skill levels across 9 management competencies including communication skills and handling challenging conversations.  

Book Speaker

Co-author of The Answer is a Question

With the rise of hybrid teams, economic uncertainty and an ever-increasing number of “accidental managers” ill-equipped to deal with the ‘people’ side of leadership, managers today are struggling to effectively engage and develop their teams in a fast-paced and constantly changing workplace.  

Groundbreaking new book, The Answer Is A Question, reveals how managers all over the world can ditch the command-and-control leadership model and adopt an enquiry-led approach that cultivates a new wave of engaged, problem-solving employees – and it starts with how we use questions in a more purposeful way.  

Co-authors Dominic and Laura Ashley-Timms are the co-creators of the STAR® model – a simple 4-step management framework that helps leaders to adopt coaching-related behaviours to stop firefighting and start asking more powerful questions in order to stimulate higher levels of collaborative, solution-driven teams. 

Keynote and speaking topics:

Laura is an experienced and engaging speaker and is available for keynotes, interviews and expert comment on topics including:

Generating a measurable ROI from management development

Addressing poor employee engagement and productivity levels 

Creating a Coaching Culture 

Tackling stress and overwhelm in the workplace 

Increasing organisational resilience 

Why our 'accidental managers' are holding back productivity  

How leaders can tap into the huge reserves of talent that most people don’t bring to work 

How to identify coachable moments with your employees  

Future-proof leadership: How to set yourself up to thrive in the world of AI 

Our Experts

Author Speakers

Enquire
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

Follow UsOn LinkedIn

Follow

Privacy Preference Center