Coach:
Dr Elicia Robinson-Tomek (she/her)
Background
- United Nations
- Defence
- Financial Services
Coaching specialisms
- Executive coaching
- Team coaching
- Leadership development
- Culturally responsive coaching
Qualifications
- Gestalt Advanced Practitioner Diploma (Gestalt coaching)
- PhD Social Psychology (University of Cambridge)
- MSc Organisational & Social Psychology
- Chartered Social Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Executive Coaching Certificate, Henley Business School
- Certificate in Team Coaching
- Certified Prosci® Change Management Practitioner
- Registered BPS psychometric test user
Approach
Elicia is on a mission to elevate leadership quality by enhancing relational intelligence. She equips leaders with the insight to recognise their mindset and apply it effectively – empowering them to maximise their impact – personally and on those they lead.
With a PhD in the psychology of change and over a decade of executive coaching experience, Elicia applies a Gestalt-based approach, driven by your values, to enable awareness as the primary mechanism for growth. This builds a new set of antennae that heightens perception and relational acumen, allowing them to navigate complexity and ambiguity with greater clarity and confident ease.
Elicia combines psychological insight with a grounded presence to create the conditions for innate leadership capacity to surface and flourish. Rather than adding complexity, her approach focuses on stripping away what blocks natural excellence – enabling the brilliance we see in exceptional leaders: deep awareness, authentic presence, and relational fluency. Her style is inquisitive, reflective and always centred on helping clients enhance their mindset to better align their relational style for personal growth, professional success and strategic outcomes.
Background
Originally from Montreal, Canada, Elicia is fluent in French and has worked across borders and industries. She is a Senior Leadership Development Specialist at the United Nations and also serves as a strategic thinking partner to executives operating in the Ministry of Defence, NHS, and private equity. She also supports researchers, professors as well as ambassadors across the European Union and Sub-Saharan Africa.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and board member at the University of Exeter Business School, where she also lectures on inclusive thinking and influence during organisational change – emphasising the critical role conversations play in shaping how well leaders and their teams work together.
Outside of work, Elicia feeds passions for rare tropical houseplants, grows mushrooms, and enjoys fossil hunting on the Jurassic Coast with her young family in Devon. She can also often be found eating strudel in and around Prague.