Marie Wicker
UpAGear Team Coach
Exec & Leadership Coach
Locations: UK
Executive coach empowering senior leaders and teams to drive intentional leadership, build sustainable performance, and deliver strategic impact.
Executive Summary
Marie Wicker is a UK-based executive coach dedicated to leadership transition and performance, driving senior team excellence and the development of resilient, high-growth cultures.
She partners with Directors, C-Suite executives, and senior leadership teams, nationally and internationally, to sharpen strategic agility, shift from reactive management to intentional leadership, and drive sustained high performance.
With over 25 years of leadership experience- including an 18-year career at Barclays Bank PLC leading global change – Marie brings a focused and pragmatic approach to the boardroom.
Since 2014, she has worked across diverse industries, including Financial Services, Public Sector and Technology, to support over 600 leaders, expanding leadership capacity and driving measurable business impact.
Known for her insightful “critical friend” style, she creates the psychological safety necessary for teams to navigate complexity and build sustainable momentum.
Focus Areas:
- Executive Performance and Leadership Capability
- High-Stakes Leadership Transitions
- Senior Team Effectiveness and Accountability
- Intentional Culture and Strategic Alignment
- Resilience-Led Leadership and Mental Agility
- Business Presence, Navigating Change and Sustainable Impact
Coaching Approach
Marie’s coaching philosophy is built on the transition from reactive management to intentional leadership. She creates a high-trust, psychologically safe environment that allows for a “Critical Friend” dynamic – balancing deep support with the robust challenge necessary to expand executive capacity and strategic agility.
Her methodology is focused and pragmatic, moving beyond theory to drive measurable business impact. The process typically begins with diagnostic discovery, utilising anonymised feedback or emotional intelligence profiling, to identify clear growth benchmarks. Sessions are structured yet adaptive, ensuring coaching remains aligned with real-time organisational complexity and commercial KPIs.
By integrating her leadership experience with evidence-based frameworks, Marie ensures every engagement is grounded in corporate reality. Her clients value her warmth, honesty and pragmatism. This approach empowers senior leaders to build sustainable resilience and behavioural change whilst delivering consistent, high-performance results.
Proven Impact
Marie’s coaching delivers measurable shifts in leadership maturity and organisational performance. Key outcomes for her clients include accelerated transition into C-suite roles, enhanced commercial decisiveness, and the successful navigation of complex restructures.
By fostering psychological safety and accountability, she has enabled senior teams to resolve fractured dynamics, leading to increased strategic alignment and retention of high-potential talent.
Working with the senior team of a global medical technology company, she helped the leadership move from operational silos to a unified, high-performing board, resulting in improved delivery of long-term business objectives.
Her approach ensures that development is not just felt, but evidenced through sustained business impact.
Credentials
An award-winning ICF Accredited Coach, Marie’s expertise is underpinned by a B.Sc. in Financial Services (ACIB) and B.A (Hons) Economics and a two-decade leadership career at Barclays Bank PLC.
She is certified in a suite of data-driven diagnostics including EQ-i 2.0, Motivational Maps, Resilience Builder, Clarity4D, and UpAGear Team Coaching.
Based in the UK, Marie partners with clients globally via virtual platforms and in person.
To discuss how Marie can support your leadership team’s performance and strategic impact, please book here for an introductory call or email marie@certanovo.com