Mary-Louise Clark

She had a long association with the Whitehall facility the Innovation Space for the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and is visiting faculty for Blavatnik School of Government.

Having originally graduated from Cambridge University she worked as an actor for the National Theatre, in London’s West End and all over Europe and ran her own practice as a vocal coach.

This led her to create her specialist personal impact and communication skills coaching. 

As a programme director and designer she is currently working on a strategic leadership programme as a collaboration between Oxford and Peking University. She has designed leadership and policy schools for government and codirected women’s leadership programmes for Razak School of Government and the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science. She was a cohort programme director for the Astra Zeneca Rising Leaders Experience and is part of the teaching faculty for Women Transforming Leadership and Advanced Management and Leadership programmes at Saïd Business School.

As a facilitator, Mary-Louise has worked with most Whitehall departments including the Cabinet Office and has been involved with a huge variety of government projects including over 200 programmes. She is part of the facilitation team for the Major Projects Leadership Academy.

As an executive coach she has over 3,000 hours' experience of coaching senior executives from across the globe and acts as lead coach on many programmes across Oxford Saïd. Outside of Oxford she particularly enjoys working with women who have been promoted into complex senior roles. As a group and one-to-one coach she has worked with senior clients from both public and private sector including professional services, pharmaceuticals, banking and tech.

She designs and delivers theatre based training interventions for clients around inclusion, bullying and speaking up.

She has worked with a huge variety of clients including Marks and Spencer, Selfridge and Co, Roche Products, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Fujitsu, Cadbury Schweppes, UBS, the Foreign Office, the Home Office, UK Government Investments, the Cabinet Office, the Department for Transport, the Department for Food and Rural Affairs, Astra Zeneca, Freshfields, Kennedys, Bearing Point, Munich Re and Bank of Jamaica.

Mary-Louise runs the creative team building workshops The Singing Workshop and The Bigger Picture.