Helen Carrington

Corentus Leadership Coach, Team Coach & Facilitator

Helen is dedicated to helping others embrace the transformative power of their authentic selves.

A certified Leadership and Team Coach and Organizational Consultant, Helen has provided consulting, training, facilitation and coaching services over the past 20 years in both the private and public sectors. Building on her extensive experience as owner of a small management consultancy, Helen engages as a reflective partner with leaders, and their teams, to accelerate self-learning as they navigate the leadership transitions required for sustainable organizational growth. Her extensive travel experience for study, work, and leisure provides her with a unique advantage and personal ease when working with cultural differences, diversity and emergent change.

Helen earned a Master of Science in Management at the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University as a Fulbright Scholar, following her B.Sc. at the University of the West Indies. She has also worked as an International Staff Consultant on Group Relations conferences, most recently the Surviving and Thriving Conference 2020 with the Caribbean Group Relations Consulting and the Tavistock Institute. She is also certified in leadership assessments, coaching and training techniques such as Team Coaching, Appreciative Inquiry, Experiential Training Methodologies, The Leadership Circle Profile and the Team Management Profile.

Helen is a food enthusiast with a passion for cooking who enjoys trekking the world with her husband. She keeps fit and centered with weekly yoga classes and meet-ups with extended family and friends in the lush tropical outdoors of Trinidad, her home base.

Professional Highlights

  • Director – Syntegra Change Architects Limited

  • Over 20 years’ experience in designing leadership and team development programs

  • Delivering professional coaching, consulting, training and facilitation services using traditional and non-traditional methodologies

  • Experience with the systems psychodynamic approach to change in organizations

  • Worked with clients in various islands of the Caribbean, USA, UK and Switzerland (through our Swiss partners Stucki Leadership and Team Development)

Client List (select set)

  • Senior Executives; Oil and Gas, Insurance, Logistics, Finance, Banking and Human Resources

  • CEOs and Senior Managers of SMEs

  • President, Chamber of Commerce

  • Senior management teams of multi-national corporations

  • Various government ministries and statutory boards

Education

  • MSM (Marketing) - Purdue University, Krannert Graduate School of Management (Fulbright Scholarship)

  • BSc. Hotel Management (First Class Honours) – University of the West Indies

Assessment Tools and Certification

  • Leadership Coaching Certificate, Institute for Transformational Leadership, Georgetown University, Washington DC

  • Certificate in Corentus Team Coaching, Corentus Inc.

  • Team Management Profile, TMS America

  • Professional Certified Coach, International Coach Federation

  • The Leadership Circle™ Profile

  • Appreciative Inquiry, Innovative Partners International

  • Experiential Facilitation – Stucki AG, Switzerland and Brathay Hall Trust, United Kingdom