Nell Montgomery

Nell is a qualified Executive Coach and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Based in London Nell works as an Executive Coach with Aesara Partners and for INSEAD’s Global Leadership Group, in Fontainebleau, Paris. She has lived and worked in New York, Los Angeles and India and her typical assignments have been to coach professionals 1:1 at Board level or those who are transitioning onto the Board, or to Managing Director, or Partner level.

Nell’s interest in the human elements of organisation grew from her ten-year career in investment banking. After graduating from Cambridge with a double first in Social and Political Sciences, Nell joined Goldman Sachs’s Equity Division as an institutional equity sales trader both in the London and New York, and in 2001 as Managing Director and member of the Board of Investec Securities UK where she led the institutional sales and trading side of the business. At Investec, as part of Organizational Development, Nell began work as an internal coach. Inspired by the experience, she left banking in 2004 to train as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at The Bowlby Centre in London.

Nell is particularly interested in attachment and relational issues in the work place as well as resilience and diversity issues at work. Nell has worked extensively with Imposter Syndrome and with re-boarding women back into work after maternity leave.