Anwen Bottois

We help organisations to successfully promote operational managers into strategic leadership roles, reducing costs, the risks of the Employment Rights Act 2025 and the time to performance resulting in new leaders who are engaged, retained and high-performing.

About

At Purple Sky Consulting, we help Executive and HR Teams turn their talented operational managers into brilliant strategic leaders. 

We help organisations promote more of their talent, helping them reduce the costs and risks of a reliance on external hiring, especially important with the Employment Rights Act 2025. The reduced qualifying period for unfair dismissal means internal promotions are a safer option and by promoting more of their internal talent, organisations increase talent engagement, retention and high-performance.

We’ll work with you to prepare your organisation’s talent for the next-level, and when promoted we then work with them to be high-performing, quickly:

• Clear on the priorities and expectations of them as a new leader so that they don’t get drawn back into their technical comfort zone.
• Ready to develop and translate strategy so that they can have impact and provide clear communication and direction.
• Recognise and make the shift needed so that they enable and empower their team, reducing the risks to disengagement, well-being and performance.
• Navigating key challenges, such as leading those who were peers (maybe friends) in a safe and confident way, so that they engage and retain those who may be put out by the promotion or who could get in their way!

They become a leader who is clear, capable and confident, and they have a team who wants to work with them because of the positive impact they have on engagement, wellbeing and performance.

When organisations invest in preparing and transitioning promoted talent into leadership roles:

• They reduce overall disruption in performance for the team (on average, there is a 15% drop in performance when a leader struggles moving to a bigger role).
• They mitigate impacts on engagement (when they struggle, organisations see a 20% increase in team attrition).
• They enable the promoted leader to get to a positive performance level quickly (49% of promoted leaders are still struggling after 18 months).
• They reduce the risks of external hiring, made even more risky by the Employment Rights Act 2025 new qualifying periods for unfair dismissals.

We help you create a bespoke and structured approach that supports your organisation to realise the true benefits of internal promotions into leadership roles. We help you overcome the barriers to achieving this and help you create a more sustainable approach to talent development and succession planning.

Our focus on the preparation and promotion of talent to leadership roles comes from our own experiences of transitioning into leadership roles. Too often, those stepping up are underprepared and unsupported. They are moving from managing tasks and individuals to leading strategy, translating this into operational plans, whilst leading through managers who may have been peers.

At Purple Sky Consulting, we use our experiences, insights into what works for effective leadership transitions, and our passion for helping others to shine, to work with organisations to prepare, promote and enable high-performing next-level leaders. 

Our Founder, Anwen Bottois is an ILM Level 7 Executive and Senior Leader Coach and Mentor, a Member of the EMCC, and a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. All members of the Purple Sky Consulting team meet high levels of qualification, experience and our Purple Sky Consulting standards.

Here’s what some clients have said:

“I feel more capable of picking my head up, taking a step back, and evaluating situations more clearly. I feel like I have better mental clarity to make leadership-level decisions, and more confidence to trust myself to do the right thing. Anwen is brilliant at helping you work through your thought process, identifying your blockers or biases, challenging you when needed, and ultimately supporting you to arrive at your own light-bulb moments.” Finance and Resources Director, Leadership Coaching Client

“Anwen is a brilliant coach and facilitator, I trust her completely to add value with our clients. She really cares about the value she brings to her work. I’ve watched her lean into difficult conversations with grace and skill, and trusted her with some really tricky group dynamics. She has added value to everything she has done for us.” Business Owner, Client

To increase the success of internal promotions, reduce your organisation’s reliance on external hires then let’s talk about your organisation’s plan. Head to the contact form below.