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Leadership Performance Coach

Leah Tomlin Executive Coaching

Leah Tomlin Executive Coaching is an award-winning business. As the founder, I am in the Brainz 500 Global list for the top business leaders and entrepreneurs of 2021. I run my online coaching company with a mission to transform quality of life and enhance performance for women leaders and their organisations. As a result of working with me, my clients see transformations in their self-belief, behaviours, leadership, strategy and organisational culture. I empower women to leap equality hurdles, value wellbeing, transcend current circumstances and achieve greatness as women leaders. I am a published neuroscientist, qualified head teacher and writer. My expertise lies in leadership, business, neuroscience and learning. I am passionate about gender equality, helping women to excel in life and leadership, feel inspired in their roles and achieve personal and business goals beyond their expectations. 

www.leahtomlin.com

Executive Leadership Coach for Leah Tomlin Executive Coaching

Brainz Magazine Official

As an Executive Contributor, I write monthly articles for Brainz Magazine, on my professional passions: 
- Leadership
- Business
- Neuroscience
- Mindset
- Coaching
- Gender Equality

Executive Contributor Writer

Self-employed

Executive Leadership Coach

NATIONAL ELF SERVICE LIMITED

Edited, wrote and published health research blogs for The National Elf Service (https://www.nationalelfservice.net)- part time associate.

Blog Editor

HENLEAZE JUNIOR SCHOOL

- Developed an organisation-wide coaching approach, improving accountability and culture
- Ran coaching workshops for leaders at conferences, who were then inspired to incorporate organisation-wide coaching cultures
- Developed leadership capacity of female staff that built their confidence as leaders and allowed them to gain promotion/ lead more successfully
-Trained staff in leadership styles and development theories 
-Tackled and a culture of staff bullying and low morale to create a happy, productive team
- Restructured staff, leading to greater teamwork, productivity and sustainability
- Led transformation of the curriculum to achieve an OFSTED grade of ‘outstanding’; This leadership journey was published in a QCA document that was rolled out to every primary school in the country. 
- Developed an active agenda for pupil voice, leading to happier and more engaged children
- Created and implemented a whole-school strategy for the Every Child Matters agenda
- Developed a philosophy curriculum across the school 
- Trained and ran workshops for teachers across Bristol, who described my training as ‘exciting’, ‘inspirational’ and ‘thought-provoking”
- Led whole-school improvements in teaching and learning that saw significant improvements in: outcomes for children, target-setting, lesson planning, assessment... Teaching and learning was then graded ‘outstanding’ by OFSTED
- Used my neuroscience  knowledge to implement a meta-cognitive ‘learning to learn’ initiative across the school 
- Enhanced the lunch-time experience for children, meaning happier and more active children, improved behaviour and pupil relationships
- Created community networks involving all stakeholders, seeing an improvement in inclusion & wellbeing
- Networked with various agencies to improve child protection and safeguarding across Bristol
- Shortlisted, Interviewed and employed staff
- Developed a performance-management cycle that led to greater accountability and organisational relevance

Assistant Head Teacher

COLSTON'S PRIMARY SCHOOL, Henleaze Junior School and Strand on the Green Junior School

Henleaze Junior School, Bristol; Colston’s Primary School, Bristol; Strand-on-the-Green Junior School, London
Consistently graded to be an “Outstanding” (or equivalent) teacher from time of training, through being newly qualified and as an experienced teacher. My classroom practice was based on positive relationships, nurturing with empathy and emotional intelligence, having high expectations of myself, my colleagues and the children I taught. Pupils made excellent progress across the curriculum, with exemplary standards of wellbeing and behaviour.

Teacher

UCL, KCL and Imperial College London

Researched brain science and neuronal development, disseminating my research nationally and internationally at conferences. Published several research papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Key Science Publications 
(Maiden name Leah Toole)
Eddison, M., Toole, L., Bell, E. and Wingate, R.J., 2004. Segmental identity and cerebellar granule cell induction in rhombomere 1. BMC biology, 2(1), p.14

Toole, L.J, Eddison M. and Wingate R.J.T., 2001. Overexpression of HoxA2 in dorsal rhombomere 1. In: Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27, 1, p.1228

Toole, L. and Wingate, R.J.T., 2000, January. Molecular and cellular correlates of midline fusion in the chick cerebellum. In EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE (Vol. 12, pp. 301-301). 

Grammatopoulos, G.A., Bell, E., Toole, L., Lumsden, A. and Tucker, A.S., 2000. Homeotic transformation of branchial arch identity after Hoxa2 overexpression. Development, 127(24), pp.5355-5365.

Toole, L., Belai, A., Shochina, M. and Burnstock, G., 1999. The effects of hibernation on the myenteric plexus of the golden hamster small and large intestine. Cell and tissue research, 296(3), pp.479-487.

Toole, L., Belai, A. and Burnstock, G., 1998. A neurochemical characterisation of the golden hamster myenteric plexus. Cell and tissue research, 291(3), pp.385-394.

Neuroscientist

Helping You to Propel Your Productivity

I truly understand the challenges of juggling it all and balancing hectic life & leadership! As a single mum to 3 young children, an award-winning certified Executive Coach, a business owner and magazine writer, I have nailed productivity.  I can help you do the same. I am on a mission to equip women leaders with a warrior mindset and productivity strategies for calm, motivating and fulfilling lives. 

We can only be amazingly productive if we first build strong foundations of wellbeing, energy and mindset. Only then are we able to take on productivity systems, prioritise, set boundaries and develop the best habits. As a published Neuroscientist I am well-equipped to help you to understand your brain, master your mindset, hone your habits, smarten your systems and propel your productivity. 

Through supportive 1:1 coaching and my Propel Your Productivity Program, your journey to productivity will be fun and engaging. You will have a clear roadmap to feeling calm, in control, motivated and loving your life and leadership. 

⭐️Click on the link below my profile photo ⬆️ to assess your current productivity.


Helping You to Level-Up Your Leadership

I understand the demands and expectations of leadership. As a qualified Head Teacher and business owner, my leadership experience is wide and varied. What’s more, my career as a published Neuroscientist gives me an understanding of the brain and learning that will help you in your mission for leadership excellence. 

My scientific approach means that the impact of your leadership journey will be measured and clear, starting with a baseline assessment that raises self-awareness of your leadership strengths and areas for development. Progress is tracked and impact for you and your team is measured so your success is tangible. 

My masters-degree level qualification in Executive Coaching, and my many years of outstanding coaching experience, ensure that you are in safe expert hands. My client testimonials speak reams as I’ve helped many women leaders to excel way beyond their expectations. 

Together, through a supportive 1:1 coaching relationship, I will help you create ambitious and meaningful goals, built from a place of real desire and purpose. Together, we can uncover hidden challenges and create true leadership excellence that’s targeted to your needs and to those of your organisation. 

⭐️Take the Level Up Your Leadership assessment:
https://levelupyourleadership.scoreapp.com/

⭐️Book a FREE strategy call: 
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Leah Tomlin

BT Group

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Working as Technical Program Management for  Devops and SRE projects

Collaboration with Application Support Team
Extensive collaboration with the application support team to effectively manage incidents and ensure seamless operations. 
Facilitate effective communication between SRE, CSOC, and Application Support Group (ASG) teams, ensuring cohesive project operations.
Conduct workshop to share/educate application team on the work done by SRE and Devops team
Created a process to track onboarding of application team to common Devsecops platform via JIRA
 

Coaching & Mentoring
Dedicated to coaching and mentoring test teams to optimize script execution time, enhancing overall efficiency and performance.

L&D Initiative Involvement
Actively involved in Learning & Development initiatives as a Digital India Colleague Champion, contributing to the professional growth and development of team members.

Help Increase Employee Engagement through Gamification
Conduct various team building activities across multiple Digital and Consumer Team to ensure employee engagement.

SRE Specialist

The Mentoring Club gUG

Mentor

Social Saturday Squad

Member

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Roles & Responsibilities
Schedule, coordinate meetings for development teams
Facilitate meetings by allowing and encouraging constructive communication and help to keep topics on track throughout the ceremonies
Help to establish release and sprint cadence
Manage and coordinate risks/dependencies and organize the team artifacts
Identify and escalate impediments
Publish committed project objectives
Coordinate with product owners to keep the release and individual team sprint backlogs groomed
Provide up-to-date and accurate department defined metrics on team performance, findings, issues and progress
Coordinate elements of the release plan with other technology staff outside of the project
Participate in Scrum of Scrums
Encourage Architect and Team collaboration
Coordinate timely response and support to production line customer issues and helps to ensure that teams maintain adherence to Service Level Agreements
Participate in Release Planning process
Promote adherence to Agile software development best practices
Drive continuous improvement initiatives at the project and team level
Act as an Agile coach to the project team

Senior Scrum Master

Netomi

-Testing Conversational AI bots
- Created Datadriven framework in selenium+python for automating email bot integrated with Zendesk
- Integrated Allure with framework for reporting
- Ensures projects have measureable and clear exit/success criteria
- Identify risks and issues, develop risk mitigation strategies, and define a critical issue process
- Manage effective decision-making with leadership, sponsors, and critical partners
- Supervise overall roadmap, identify and report potential obstacles such as scope creep, resource and personnel shortfalls, problems with the schedule, release delays

Quality Assurance Project Manager

PayU

1. Work to improve team performance by building team cohesiveness, and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency, and boost morale
2. Work closely with stakeholders for test strategies and release planning.
3. Participate in Requirement analysis , test case writing & Execution.
4. Conduct an internal Retrospective to find areas of improvement
5. Ensuring that the entire team understands the business requirement in form of the user stories and they commit on the acceptance criteria after understanding the priority & the business value they will deliver.
6. Work with the product owner to promote and contribute to the improvement of the product backlog
7. Participates in continuous improvement initiatives to increase project and process efficiency
8. Involved in Release Management and Resource allocation
9. Maintain existing automation script 
10. Perform exploratory testing 
11. Write automation script for new feature
12. Deployment readiness, to assess Release Readiness and Breakthrough achievements
13. Continually worked towards making improvements in the release process through Program Increment Planning and Sprints
14. Lead and coordinate Go-Live activities including preparation of support, execution of the deployment plans and triaging of issues during deployment

Lead Software Engineer in Test | Release Manager

1. Skilled  in BDD framework with Cucumber,TestNG,Java,Selenium WebDriver
2. Extensive experience in manual and automation testing of UI and API's
3. Steered teams to imbibe the Agile mindset and helped team’s members get onboard the Agile journey. 
4. Mentor team to leverage our framework for creating test scripts
5. Trained Team on Performance Testing using Gatling
6. Working Knowledge of Docker and Jenkins 
7. Provide support to sprint team on there queries related to framework, infra or scripting
8. Working knowledge of RestAssured with Java
9. Reviewing the Automation Test Cases of Teams in Respect of Coverage and Quality
10.Drive daily-stand-ups
Ask what was done yesterday, what is the plan for today
Ask probing questions in the stand-ups and outside of it
Identify potential roadblocks or challenges that may come up
Consult Sprint Team Lead and hear there
11.Connecting and Collaborating With Sprint Teams.
12.Task Distribution, Sprint Planning and mentoring team mates.
13.Run sprint-retros
14.Create Physical boards “information radiator board (with stickies)
Plan deliverables (JIRA/Sprint) along with the team
Organise the Sprint, get re-estimates done
15.Send out weekly Status emails to internal sprint team on automation updates
16.During retros listen for “cause” behind the words; by asking probing questions
17.Continuously strive to improve self and team
18.Handhold team on Scrum way of doing
19.Raise/Flag issues to feature development team and work aggressively within the team/org to mitigate this

Lead SDET

•Developed and supported of the automation test framework
•Reviewed code for reaching code standard
•Estimated the testing effort for user stories
•Worked on Test scenarios for Functionality and Regression Testing
•Provided day-to-day operational support for existing automation tests, framework usage to sprint team across offices
•Created Test script for API using ReadyAPI

Senior Software Quality Engineer

•Reviewed Business requirements, Functional Requirements documents and prepared Test Plans
•Worked on Test scenarios for Functionality and Regression Testing
•Provided day-to-day operational support for existing automation tests
•Test scripts developing
•Participated in meetings, communicated with QA Leads, Programmers, Business Analysts, Project Managers  during all stages of SDLC
•Run queries in the database and verified the results match the expectations

Software Quality Engineer

•	Developed detailed Test Cases based on the Functional Requirements and Design Documents
•	Executed end to end and Functional test cases 
•	Run automation test case and analysing test results

Intern Software Quality Engineer

Anovikan Infrastructure

Did testing for their newly created web application

Intern

TPM with expertise in Operational Readiness, Monitoring, Devops and Product Development

Throughout my career, I have honed my skills in testing, operational readiness and monitoring, understanding the critical importance of these aspects in ensuring the seamless functioning of technical systems. I have developed and implemented comprehensive strategies for operational readiness, performance management, release management encompassing meticulous planning, resource allocation, risk management and automation
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Complex Systems Implementation and Management

By leveraging my deep understanding of system architecture and integration as tester and now as TPM, I have consistently delivered solutions that align with organizational objectives while meeting stringent operational requirements.

Leadership and Collaboration

In addition to my technical acumen, I am adept at leading teams and fostering collaborative relationships across departments. I prioritize clear communication, strategic alignment, and stakeholder engagement to ensure that all project stakeholders are aligned towards common goals. My leadership style emphasizes empowerment, mentorship, and a commitment to cultivating a culture of excellence within project teams.

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