Ideara

Who we are

We deliver tailored coaching and training for organisations fired up about nurturing modern leaders and teams. Our approach sparks collaboration, celebrates difference, diversity, and builds leaders who shine, teams that thrive, and businesses that succeed.

What we do

At Ideara, we understand each client, team, and organisation is one-of-a-kind, with its own goals, challenges, and DNA. Using a flexible framework, we create learning packages for individuals, groups, and teams that fit and flex around precisely what you need.

Our experience spans a wide range of challenges faced by executives, leaders, and future leaders—whether it’s career transitions, stakeholder management, strategic decision-making, performance enhancement, or fostering inclusive leadership.

We also work closely with teams to strengthen collaboration and build inclusive cultures that drive results, and for groups, we facilitate complex problem-solving and innovation, driving individual and collective growth.

With a strong track record across sectors and quality at our core, we are proud of our approach to developing modern leaders and thriving teams.

What we've done

Ideara's founder, Vicky Pike is an award-winning leader with 30 years of diverse experience across the private, public, and third sectors. Her career spans industries such as retail, telecommunications, tech, education, and non-profits, showcasing her deep expertise and adaptability. Driven by a commitment to fostering modern, inclusive leadership, Vicky founded Ideara to support executives, emerging leaders, teams, and groups in reaching their highest potential and creating impactful change.

Vicky has coached C-suite, director-level, and senior leaders across time zones for organisations such as Sainsbury’s, American Express, ITN, and numerous UK charities.

Notable coaching outcomes include:

1. A group coaching programme for high-performing women, 50% of whom were promoted to leadership roles.

2. Supporting a CEO of a large UK charity to elevate her senior leadership team’s performance, creating organisational-wide impact.

3. Assisting a medium-sized organisation’s CEO to achieve a better work-life balance, enhancing their leadership effectiveness.

4. Facilitating Women in Tech circles, including action-learning sets to promote insight and action.

5. Many years experience facilitating collaborative workshops, e.g., ideation, vision and strategy, team building, planning (sprint/quarterly/annual), retrospectives, value-stream mapping, empathy mapping etc.