As we challenge others, we first must challenge ourselves.
Being a Senior Executive is a huge responsibility. The day-to-day complexities of running a business make opportunities to focus on personal development rare.
Your decisions as a Senior Executive have profound impacts on your business. Each of our Executive Coaches challenge your assumptions and beliefs, give you strategic alignment, and hold you to account for your results. They are your objective and external sounding board, providing a haven to delve deep into what’s most important to you.
Why ‘The Rubicon’ Name?
The Rubicon is a small river that once separated Italy from Gaul. It had never been crossed by an army.
Fearing Caesar’s growing power in Gaul, Pompey and the senate ordered Caesar to return to Rome without his army. In an extraordinary act of courageous leadership, Caesar requested that his army joined him at the banks of The Rubicon. His army marched beside him. To choose to defy Pompey and the senate, Caesar’s crossing of The Rubicon was a fundamental challenge to the status quo that forever changed The Roman Empire. Hence, “to cross The Rubicon” means to take a life-changing step towards your goals and reaching beyond your limits in partnership with those that you trust.
Why ‘The Rubicon’ Name?
The Rubicon is a small river that once separated Italy from Gaul. It had never been crossed by an army.
Fearing Caesar’s growing power in Gaul, Pompey and the senate ordered Caesar to return to Rome without his army. In an extraordinary act of courageous leadership, Caesar requested that his army joined him at the banks of The Rubicon. His army marched beside him. To choose to defy Pompey and the senate, Caesar’s crossing of The Rubicon was a fundamental challenge to the status quo that forever changed The Roman Empire. Hence, “to cross The Rubicon” means to take a life-changing step towards your goals and reaching beyond your limits in partnership with those that you trust.
Our Vision
“To achieve exceptional results by matching exceptional leaders with exceptional Executive Coaches .”
Eleanor Stewart, Founder and Managing Director
Our Vision
“To achieve exceptional results by matching exceptional leaders with exceptional Executive Coaches .”
Eleanor Stewart, Founder and Managing Director
Our Values
Courage
Trust
Growth
The Rubicon Partnership Team
Eleanor Stewart
Managing Director
Roz Cuschieri
Senior Partner
Keith Macdonald
Senior Partner
Eunice E Muir MBA FCMI
Senior Partner
Lynn Wassell
Senior Partner
Wendy Cook
Senior Partner
Eleanor is the Founder and Managing Director of The Rubicon Partnership, an Executive Coaching firm specialising in stretching ambitious Senior Executives to enable them to outperform both professionally and personally. Eleanor believes that by partnering exceptional Senior Executives with exceptional Executive Coaches, remarkable commercial opportunities can be realised.
- Eleanor specialises in building organisational capability through the coaching and development of Senior Business Executives and their teams.
- Eleanor and the team have developed a progressive employee engagement and development platform, My Contribution. My Contribution enables the alignment of all employee outcomes with the strategic outcomes of the organisation.
- Eleanor has written and delivered over 108 Masterclasses under the banner “Heroic Masterclasses”, focusing on Executive, Professional and Personal Development.
- Eleanor has worked in partnership with many organisations in diverse sectors such as Food & Drink, Marketing, Sales, Housing, Not for Profit and more, both in an Ex-ecutive Coaching and Advanced Facilitator capacity.
- Eleanor worked as a Senior Executive of Scottish & Newcastle plc in key roles in-cluding Group HR and Corporate Affairs Director.
- Prior to Scottish and Newcastle, Eleanor worked at Tesco plc driving employee-led service initiatives. Latterly Eleanor was their Global Head Customer Service.
- Eleanor’s focus in the corporate world was on building employee capability and maximising colleagues’ contribution to, and engagement with, the business.
- Eleanor has held Trustee and Director positions in several not-for-profit organisa-tions over the past 18 years, including Rathbone, The Bulmer Foundation, The Be-nevolent Society for the drinks industry in Scotland, The Scottish and Newcastle Foundation and The Life Changes Trust.
- Eleanor was a trustee of the S&N Pension Fund, Chaired the Remuneration Committee at The Life Changes Trust and was the inaugural Chair of Scottish Golf for 6 years.
Roz is a highly driven, experienced Executive Coach, CEO, Chair and Non-Executive Di-rector with a passion for growing brands, people and business. Roz is most energised by doing the difficult well and has worked in senior board positions in both PLC and family owned, private businesses. Roz delights in inspiring transformational growth in partner-ship with her clients.
- Roz has spent over 30 years in FMCG food and drink, her board-level experience with multi-site manufacturing and distribution operations includes 18 years spent in the bakery industry – a challenging, fresh, short shelf life, highly reactive and responsive sector.
- Roz worked for Warburtons Ltd for 12 years, latterly as the Commercial Director on the Board, building the commercial strategy that saw revenue grow from £270 million to £480 million. She then joined Genius Gluten Free where, as CEO for 5 years, she presided over the growth of this exciting, dynamic, category creating business from £7 million to £50 million, building its Executive Team for the next stage of growth and leading the move from “manufacturing asset light” to “manufacturing asset rich”.
- Following securement of Verlinvest Private Equity as a stakeholder, Roz spearheaded three years of further international growth and expansion before leaving in 2016. Today Genius is a leading gluten free bakery brand.
- Roz acts as commercial advisor to a number of start-up food and drink brands.
- Roz has been a Non – Executive Director of Marstons Plc for 9 years and was the inaugural Non-Executive Chair of PE-backed start-up Emily Crisps Ltd. She is currently the Non-Executive Chair and Trustee of Social Bite, a Non- Executive Director with Lightbody Ventures Ltd, Babease Foods Ltd and a Trustee of Worldwide Cancer Research and N.C.F.E.
- In her non-executive capacity at Babease Foods, Roz was involved in strategic disposal of the manufacturing operation and outsourcing of all food production.
Eunice is a skilled and highly experienced Executive Coach and personal development specialist. She works with people to enhance business and personal performance through a process of supported self-awareness and self-development. Drawing on her own experience as a director and many years coaching senior teams through the complex dynamics of leadership, transition and transformation, Eunice dis-plays a high level of empathy and is able to establish rapport with her clients quickly; lis-tening and asking powerful questions to get to the heart of the issues. With humour and humanity, Eunice creates valuable space and time for her clients to reflect, take stock, develop options, find greater clarity and awareness, prepare plans, and then take pur-poseful action. She has the ability to inspire and motivate others in challenging times.
- A qualified nurse and midwife, Eunice has worked extensively in clinical and man-agerial roles in the NHS leading national initiatives in education, risk management and clinical governance. Her career progressed to strategic and executive Nurse Director providing hospital and community services where she successfully main-tained a sessional clinical role. Latterly, as the Scottish Government eHealth Clini-cal Lead she established the NHS Scotland Leadership for Digital Health Pro-gramme.
- Eunice brings unique experience of successfully changing career disciplines from Marine Engineering to a clinical and managerial career.
- As Clinical Lead within an international risk management company, Eunice estab-lished the Scottish Government CNORIS (Clinical Negligence and Other Risks In-demnity Scheme) throughout NHS Scotland, providing the managerial and clini-cal expertise to the creation and implementation of the Risk Management Stand-ards and related strategic documents.
- Using a background in competitive swimming, Eunice devised and delivered the NHS Scotland Nationally Accredited education programme for aqua natal exercis-es and aqua natal Classes delivered by midwives in local swimming pools for ante/post-natal women.
- Eunice has had a number of Trustee and NED roles and is currently Chairman of St Vincent’s Hospice where she led the development and implementation of the first Hospice Strategy and annual Delivery Plans, and successfully achieved finan-cial stability.
- A keen golfer, Eunice is currently Club Captain, Ranfurly Castle Golf Club, where she is privileged to be the first woman to be appointed to this position.
- Eunice has presented at national and international conferences on midwifery, management, and leadership development.
Keith is a highly experienced Executive Coach, senior executive marketeer and non-executive director. Keith thrives upon supporting executives grow their businesses. Keith has held senior marketing and advisory positions in major corporates and brings a wealth of commercial and digital expertise to guide clients through their challenges. Keith rel-ishes inspiring a fresh perspective in his clients.
- Keith worked for Tesco Bank, launching an award winning ‘digital first’ mortgage broking service. He led the integration of the RBS and Nat West regulated fi-nance marketing function, creating a refreshed marketing team in Edinburgh.
- Keith has vast experience as a business development consultant in the Financial Services Sector working from both a client and agency perspective for clients such as Standard Life, Tesco Bank and Aegon.
- Keith is a non-executive director with Castle Community Bank, leading the strate-gic plan for growth. The growth plan seeks to bring in new capital and build IT ca-pability to support the not-for-profit on-line loans and savings business in its chal-lenge of high-cost lenders.
- Keith has been a non-executive Board Member of Scottish Golf Ltd for three years, advising on the launch and roll out of the industry leading digital platform for golf clubs and golfers across Scotland.
Lynn is a seasoned Business Development Consultant and Executive Coach, renowned for her strategic vision and capacity to foster organisational growth and leadership development. Her expertise in strategy development and implementation is evident through her work with various executive teams, advancing initiatives for both charitable organisations and commercial enterprises. Lynn’s strategic approach is grounded in her belief that authentic values and a robust organisational culture are essential for business success.
- Lynn has over a decade of experience as a Group Chief Executive, Lynn has a proven track record of leadership in complex and ambitious settings. She has effectively managed large-scale projects, while leading teams of 100 employees.
- Lynn’s tenure at Clyde Valley Housing Group and other housing associations highlights her ability to collaborate with chairs, governing bodies, regulators, and funders, ensuring organisational objectives are met with precision and excellence.
- Lynn’s non-executive roles further underscore her strengths in governance and strategic oversight. As a Board Director for the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and Chair of River Clyde Homes, she has demonstrated her capability to guide and influence meaningful organisational change, as well as her commitment to driving governance excellence and fostering a culture of growth and innovation.
Using this wealth of professional experience and her exceptional communication and analytical skills, Lynn is committed to supporting organisations and leaders to achieve their highest potential.
Wendy is a highly skilled and commercial HR Consultant with extensive experience partnering with senior leadership teams at operational and strategic level in multi-site FMCG, global, SME’s and online start-up businesses.
- A highly respected HRD in Tesco PLC, she managed multiple HR teams to design and implement people strategies to deliver business results.
- Wendy led the Group Resourcing strategy partnering with the Executive Board where she owned the Capability Resource Pool to deliver key business projects. Significantly, Wendy also established infrastructure, Values, OD and people policies to enable the leadership team to build the UK’s leading grocery home shopping site.
- As an independent consultant Wendy has provided expert HR support both on a Retainer basis and for short term projects for small businesses and large corporations.
- With a solution focused pragmatic approach, she brings expertise in gaining employee engagement at all levels. She has specialist expertise which includes Talent, Performance Management, Resourcing, L&D, Leadership Coaching, HR policies, OD and Employee Relations.
- Wendy is CIPD qualified and has benefited from extensive Business and Leadership training. Her operational HR experience ranges across corporate functions, Retail, Distribution and has demonstrated her effectiveness in highly structured global organisations, SME’s and in business start-ups.