Natalie Schürmann

Global Portfolio Lead, Coaching

Natalie Schurmann, Senior Consultant

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Natalie is a German national, born and raised in Rome, Italy. She has lived and worked in the UK, Belgium, France and Kenya. As an organizational psychologist, executive coach, leadership development facilitator and consultant, Natalie is highly multicultural and has worked with hundreds of leaders across many industries across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, US, and Asia. Natalie’s global business experience spans over 20 years across the technology and professional consulting services sector. Natalie brings this wealth of experience to her global role at Table Mountain.

Background & Industry Experience

Prior to becoming a professional qualified ICF (PCC level) leadership coach, mental well-being coach and occupational psychology consultant, Natalie held various corporate roles in the technology and consulting services sector. The most recent corporate executive roles Natalie held were that of Global VP Leadership & Development at Infosys (a 120,000 employees global IT services firm in India) and Chief Talent Officer for a global leading engineering consulting firm.

Previously, Natalie held positions as Head of Talent Development at Yahoo! Europe, Head of Executive Coaching Practice & Portfolio and Leadership Programs Director EMEA, at the Centre for Creative Leadership. Before that she was HIPO MBA Selection & Development Lead at Dell and Recruitment Consultant at SITA (Airline Technology). At the start of her career, she was based in Kenya at the United Nations Southern & Eastern Africa, where she was responsible for fund raising and skills education for underprivileged youth in the Nairobi main slum areas.

Coaching Approach

Natalie delivers executive coaching & training in support of leadership and organizational culture development. She supports learning interventions for organizations to help shape their culture for increased employee engagement, development of coaching & feedback skills for managers and stress reduction in organizations. As a certified individual and team coach, she also delivers 1:1 executive and team coaching across a variety of industries and geographies. Her coaching approach includes different evidence-based methods ranging from positive psychology through to the science of well-being and includes authentic, cross cultural and transformational leadership.

Facilitation & Teambuilding Approach

Natalie facilitates group and team coaching/learning sessions, across different industry sectors ranging from technology through to retail, biotech, cybersecurity, software /IT managed services, pharma, Oil and Gas, consulting, and the EU government sector.

Talent Strategy Approach

Natalie’s experience holding various senior leadership talent roles ranging from Head of Talent EMEA in the startup hypergrowth fast moving technology sector to Chief Talent Officer for the professional services/engineering sector coupled with her client consulting experience informs her approach to talent strategy consulting. As a talent leader of small and large global teams she was responsible for defining talent strategies and ensuring their execution, covering the entire talent life cycle from talent acquisition, management through to development and retention.

Relevant Coaching Assignments

  • MD France IT company – Paris
  • Global VP HR for a multinational life sciences firm – Berlin
  • COO of a leading telecom startup – West Africa
  • CFO and Finance team for European energy company-Luxembourg
  • MD- global retail company- Canada
  • Head of R& D Biotech medical research company-UK
  • Executive Board Member & BU Head for Processing Technology company- Germany
  • Global VP Sales- Gaming company – Italy & UK
  • VP & Sales; Directors at Airline company – Dubai & Abu Dhabi
  • Partners at Investment Banking Firm & Management Consulting Firms US & Europe
  • Head of Sales & Team Leaders at global IT and telco company, US and Europe

Relevant Facilitation & Teambuilding Assignments

  • Leadership Development Programs-for different industry sectors across Europe, ME, Africa, Asia, and US.
  • Neurodiversity & Inclusion at the workplace – Tech company, US/UK
  • Advanced Coaching Skills-Global Pharma company, France
  • Managers & Employee training feedback skills-Global Biotech company, France
  • Strategic Thinking – Management Consulting, Europe
  • Stress, Resilience & Mental – Well-Being at Work and the Hybrid Workplace – EU Government & Public Sectors

Relevant Assessment Assignments

  • Earlier in her career, was part of the YSC assessment consultant cadre, conducting deep dive assessment of leadership talent for the selection of top executives across all industry sectors in EMEA region.
  • Responsible for leading Infosys Leadership Institute (Global Leadership Academy) and the development/delivery of psychological assessment methods aimed at identifying high potentials, high performers, and succession talent for the top 1000 global Infosys leadership positions.
  • Designed, implemented, and delivered complex assessment centres involving cognitive, personality, values, people, attitude, mindset, and commercial orientation, aimed at the selection of most critical (MBA) leadership roles for DELL EMEA.
  • Led and delivered global executive leadership assessment projects for a leading Middle Eastern airline which entailed case studies, critical thinking assessment, personality assessments, complex leadership group assessment, in depth personal history interviews and final candidate profile reports in support of organisations annual promotion cycle.
  • Created, designed, and applied a new hybrid type psychometric assessment tool (Situational Judgement Test) which was adopted for successful selection of customer staff used by the UK job centres.
  • Conducted a wide variety of psychometric assessment consulting and coaching projects. These includes a range of diverse assessment batteries which resulted in deep psychological profiling and reporting, for the purpose of accelerated leadership talent development (Airline, retail, banking, pharma, supply chain and engineering sectors in Europe, US, UK, Africa and Middle East)

Relevant Talent Strategy Assignments

  • Led Talent Strategy Program for a Global Oil & Gas company in support of development of top 100 HIPO leaders
  • Developed & run talent assessment & identification initiatives for leading ME airline company to support development of leadership succession strategy
  • Run global coaching talent program for development of internal leader coach cadre and high performer talent retention program in healthcare organisation & beverage company
  • Designed and led global assessment center for hiring and selection of leadership potential in technology company

Education & Professional Affiliations

  • BSC in Psychology and Sociology and MSc in Psychological Assessments in Organizations, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
  • Qualified Psychotherapist (Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy) at CPPD, London, certified by the British Association of Psychotherapist and Counsellors (BACP)
  • ICF PCC (advanced) level coach
  • CCL qualified Leadership Coach
  • ORSC (Organization, System, Relationships) Team Coach.
  • Certified in a wide range of occupational psychometric assessment tools
  • Professional training qualifications in Stress Management, CBT, Mindfulness and Integrative Counselling.
  • Regular keynote speaker and moderator at learning events for organizational psychology, coaching and leadership development.
  • Publications include articles on mental well-being at work, stress management and coaching. She co-authored a book chapter in ‘Advancing Executive Coaching’ (Society of Industrial & Organisational Psychology Series, published by Jossey Bass Wiley, 2010)