Nic Armitage

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Professional experience

  • Various HRD roles including with Costa Coffee 

  • Various Head of L&D roles and a period as Service Quality Director for an FMCG business

  • Founder of Enzyme Consulting, a London-based coaching practice

  • An operator turned HR professional turned coach

Expertise

  • Professional certified coach – International Coaching Federation

  • Accredited team coach – Heidrick Consulting

  • BA Sociology - London, Goldsmiths

  • Diploma in Wine – W&SET

  • L2 Cricket coach – ECB

  • Accredited communications coach – McAlinden Associates

  • Extensive psychometric accreditations

Major achievements

  • Founded and developed a successful coaching practice that has positively impacted individuals and organisations across a wide range of sectors

  • Led two root-and-branch culture change programmes which transformed business results

  • Played a pivotal role in the acquisition and early development of Costa Coffee, ultimately creating a £3.4bn business from an investment of £19m

  • Designed and delivered a number of innovative leadership programmes which clients credit as major contributors to organisational, team and individual growth

  • Worked with numerous senior team transformations developing a specialism in optimising multi-cultural teams

  • Member of a team that has created large scale in-house, ICF accredited, coaching faculties for FTSE companies