Mary-Louise Clark

Mary-Louise Clark

Associate Fellow


Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP

Profile

Mary-Louise has been working as a facilitator, coach, trainer and programme designer for twenty years with experience throughout the public and private sectors.

She has 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.

After graduating from Cambridge University she worked as an actor for the National Theatre, in London’s West End and all over Europe. She also ran her own practice as a vocal coach.  This led her to create her specialist personal impact and communication skills coaching.

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.

Being a programme director she has designed Leadership and Policy Schools for Government and runs the women’s leadership programmes for Razak School and Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science. She was Co 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

As an executive coach she has over 2500 hours coaching senior executives from across the globe. She acts as Lead Coach on many programmes at Oxford Saïd.

She designs and delivers theatre based training interventions for clients around inclusion. She has worked with a huge variety of clients including Marks and Spencer, Selfridge and Co, Roche Products, Fujitsu, Cadbury Schweppes, UK Foreign Office, Home Office, UK Cabinet Office.

Mary-Louise runs the creative team building workshops, the singing workshop and the bigger picture.