
Kam Embleton
Director
Kam is an Executive assessor, coach and consultant. Her experience comes from her twenty-year career working in People, Talent, and Organizational Development roles both in-house and in consulting firms. Since joining YSC in 2015, she has partnered with senior clients across sectors, particularly retail, financial services and pharmaceuticals to deliver solutions spanning YSC’s products and services. She particularly thrives with the complexity of working with top leadership teams and creating creative solutions to drive cultural change. Her experience in-house gives her a strong appreciation of the importance of commercial, innovative and pragmatic solutions as well as the challenges around creating sustainable change in complex and global organizations.
Kam’s coaching and partnership style balances facilitating deep reflection and honesty and empowering ownership and action. She is passionate about using psychology to bring deep insights to her clients and helping them to drive change at all levels – professionally, personally, team and organizational. She partners with clients to improve their personal effectiveness but also their effectiveness as leaders working in teams and in large, complex organisational systems.
A Chartered Occupational Psychologist, she has a BSc in Psychology and Management, MSc in Occupational Psychology and a Foundation in Psychotherapy. In 2015, her work around ethical leadership and culture in a financial services organization won her the award for ‘Excellent Innovation in Business Psychology’ with the Association of Business Psychologists.
“I received coaching from Kam at a point in my career where I took a massive step up into a very challenging role where everything was new. She provided support, structure and clarity to help me navigate the challenges faced and lead the team through difficult circumstances. I'm very grateful for her support.”
Corporate Relations Director,
FTSE 100 Beverages Firm
“As my coach, Kam gave me real points of reflection and development…honestly this is the first time that similar threads have been raised but they landed this time.”
Managing Director,
FTSE 100 Insurance Firm