About Us
Wise Sherpa is the brainchild of Rebecca Hill an experienced, trusted and sought after coach, consultant, facilitator and mentor based in London, working internationally. She is a former “Big 4” global Director with an extensive background working for major global professional and financial service organisations. Latterly at EY as a global director specialising in consulting on people-focused leadership, strategy and organisational change.
After 25 years in the City, Rebecca is now firmly embedded in the entrepreneurial space having successfully launched several businesses with her business partner. In her work through Wise Sherpa, Rebecca is collaborating with a range of purpose led and impact focused Start Ups and Scale Ups as well as more established organisations and businesses providing coaching, consulting, facilitation and mentoring services across geographies and cultures virtually and in person.
She has a particular interest and specialism in working with purpose led, impact focused individuals as well as organisations including supporting their experienced professionals on transitioning out of the organisation in mid to later career into fulfilling encores. To this end, she has co-authored a book From work life to new life – rewriting the rules of retirement for smart professionals.
Additionally, primarily as a result of her coaching and mentoring work, she has taken on a number of leadership, strategy and change consulting assignments with clients on their purpose led and impact focused journeys.
At the core of her business belief system, Rebecca has a passion for the economic empowerment of women. Whilst at EY she led their global Women. Fast forward Programme. She was a founding member of the UK delegation to the Women20 (W20) – an official engagement group of the G20 – and continues to work with the UK government on policy issues related to women and enterprise. As a result, much of her coaching and consulting work is with women leaders in large organisations as well as female entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs.
Rebecca holds an MSc in Coaching and Consulting from Said Business School, Oxford University and HEC Paris, as well as being a Chartered Marketer and qualified coach. She has lived and worked in several countries including France, US and Switzerland. She also sits on a number of boards and committees, most recently as the Chairperson for auticon’s UK’s Advisory Board.
Rebecca frequently speaks on a broad range of topics including mid-life to later life transitions into fulfilling encores, navigating major life stages from a career perspective and women’s economic empowerment to name a few. She is the author of the Wise Sherpa blog. Rebecca is also accredited as a teacher of Mindful Self Compassion.
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