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AI-Ready Board Adviser & Executive Coach to Businesses & Governments • Specialising in Cross-Border Growth & Governance • Director at LBN • Former Mayor of Chesham, Buckinghamshire

Core Question: How do we govern and grow organisations that outperform?

Operating from London, England, and serving a global audience, Wilford Augustus is a fractional AI-Ready Board Adviser & Executive Coach to businesses and governments, specialising in cross-border growth and governance advisory. 

Driving growth and governance when it matters most, Augustus helps mid-market businesses (£3M–£100M) scale and governments attract bilateral trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) across UK-anchored Global Economic Corridors. 

Deploying an integrated growth model and decision-making framework, Augustus derisks complexity, enhances efficiency, and builds outcome-led growth  and governance systems that create value across four distinct mandates: Leadership • Revenue • Digital • International Markets. 

These four mandates, Leadership, Revenue, Digital, and International Markets, correspond to four organisational growth outcomes: Leadership Growth, Top-line Growth, Bottom-line Growth, and International Growth.

With international experience servicing multinationals across the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Americas, including EY, Santander-backed growth ventures, Kimberly-Clark, the United Nations, cross-border FDI agencies, and a host of SMEs, and as Founder & Director of the London Business Network Ecosystem™, Augustus brings proven commercial experience to the fore.

Drawing upon a wealth of public sector insight and political acumen from the City of Westminster, London, together with elected office experience as Former Mayor of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, Augustus helps clients create civic impact, engage in public-private partnerships, and make complex decisions, including under public scrutiny. 

As an Executive Leadership Coach Augustus's principal lens is how organisations govern complexity, make better decisions, create value, and achieve sustainable growth and outperformance.

Specialisms – Growth & Governance: 

• Leadership Growth I: Derisking Governance Complexity to Drive Leadership Growth. Mitigating Groupthink, Applying Analytical Rigour and the Decision-Making Framework™.

• Leadership Growth II: Derisking Human Complexity to Drive Leadership Growth. Driving High-Performance. Applying CALM-EDGE Framework™. 

• Top-line Growth: Derisking Commercial Complexity to Drive Top-line Growth. Building Pipelines, Demand Generation, and Scalable Revenue Systems.

• Bottom-line Growth: Derisking Technological Complexity to Drive Bottom-line Growth. Applying The AI-Assisted Human Intelligence Framework™.

• International Growth: Derisking Market Access Complexity to Drive International Growth in Complex Global Environments.

Leadership Consultant & Executive Performance Coach • Specialising in Organisational Culture & Governance • Co-Founder at LvL London • Principal at London Leadership Review

Core Question: How do we govern and build cultures that outperform?

Background

Lori Ann Powell is a Leadership Consultant & Executive Performance Coach specialising in Organisational Culture & Governance. 

Her work focuses on how leaders shape high-performing teams and build organisational cultures that translate leadership intent into sustained performance.

Powell has more than a decade of experience in leadership, talent, team performance, learning, and culture development, with a distinguished background in global luxury retail. 

Powell has worked with iconic brands including LVMH, Harrods, and Tiffany & Co., designing and delivering leadership and learning experiences that strengthen talent, develop teams, and support commercial outcomes.

Her work spans executive coaching, leadership development, team building, facilitation, consultancy, talent development, manager readiness, client experience, and commercial performance. Powell combines strategic awareness with emotional intelligence and a practical, people-centred understanding of organisational behaviour.

Powell approaches culture not simply as an HR or employee engagement concern, but as a leadership and governance imperative. Her focus is on the behaviours, relationships, communication, accountability, leadership practices, and team dynamics through which organisational culture is created, reinforced, and experienced.

As Co-Founder of LvL London, Powell brings particular depth in luxury retail leadership, client experience, talent development, and commercial performance. 

Through London Leadership Review (LLR), her intellectual territory broadens across sectors around the central proposition of Culture & Governance.

As an Executive Performance Coach, Powell’s principal lens is how organisations govern their human systems, strengthen leadership behaviour, build high-performing teams, and create cultures that outperform.

Specialisms – Culture & Governance: 

• Executive Leadership Coaching
• Performance Coaching 
• Commercial Performance
• Team Building, Team Development and Culture Change
• Team Performance
• Talent Development & Manager Readiness 
• Client Experience & Commercial Growth
• Organisational Culture
• Emotional Intelligence and Communication
• Talent Development and Manager Readiness
• Culture Change
• Client Experience
• High-Performance Organisational Culture