Having the opportunity to work alongside Claire has been a remarkable and cherished experience in my career. As VP of People and Delivery, she was central to maturing Koodoo beyond its start up phase and demonstrated her ability to create high-performing teams and has provided vital mentorship to many individuals like myself.

Claire keeps unwavering composure under pressure with a commitment to healthy organisational growth, she played a truly pivotal role in developing a strong and open team culture to create a thriving workplace. Through her leadership, we established the foundations for hiring processes, effective people management strategies, and an inspiring, positive atmosphere that were crucial to our successes at Koodoo.

In addition to her impressive leadership skills, she takes a genuine interest in promoting the well-being and advancement of her team. I genuinely appreciate and value how her mentorship catalysed my engineering career during our time together at Oakbrook. By actively advocating for diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and mental health awareness, she prioritised the success and well-rounded development of those who worked with her.

Kojo Hinson VP Engineering

Claire is great with people whether leading, coaching or just generally getting the best out of those around her. A pleasure to work with both professionally and personally and brings expertise and passion to the table every day. Matt Whetton CTO

I feel so lucky to have had the chance to work with Claire – she’s one of the most genuine and caring leaders I’ve ever met. I’m constantly inspired by how she balances vulnerability with strength, leading with empathy, passion, and a contagious energy that drives real results.

Claire has been an incredible source of support and confidence for me, and our team. Her feedback is always constructive and encouraging, and her sense of humour keeps things positive, even in tough times. She creates spaces where people feel valued, empowered to grow, challenged to think bigger and able to find their voice.

Thanks to Claire, I’ve been able to show up as the best version of me. For anyone looking to grow as a leader or build stronger, more connected team, Claire is an absolute game-changer!

Sinead Daly

Director People Experience

I had been newly promoted into this role, in the context of a department that had been through a lot of change in the previous months, and had no Senior Leadership representative. The expectations were really high for me to contribute to stabilising the department, and creating and delivering new processes to evolve the department from start-up to business maturity.

Claire worked with me to

• Analyse the context I’m operating in, and recognise what I can and can’t control and influence.
• Get clarity around my role, expectations of me, and be clear what I’m able to deliver and my blockers
• Review where we are on the change curve as a department
• Tailor processes to move us in the right direction, but in an increment that can be easily adopted given the context

Within 5 weeks of sessions, we got a version of the ways of working that we successfully had approved by the team leads. I really didn’t think this would be possible 5 weeks ago when we started!

I have set a clear remit for my role, with what I can achieve and what’s blocking me. This has been well received in meetings with the COO. I am feeling much more confident in my role, and better able to handle the ambiguity and change I’m going through.

I really don’t know what I would have done in the last few weeks without Claire. She’s been a brilliant sounding board, and asked prompting and challenging questions that got me to think in a different way. I really believe the products of the last few weeks have been better and have succeeded through my mentoring with Claire.

Charlotte Lancaster Programme Manager