Victoria Canham

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Summary

Vicki Canham – Founder, Victoria Canham Consultancy

 

Vicki Canham works with senior leaders and organisations to transform culture, employee experience, and leadership performance. She helps leaders navigate high-pressure, complex environments while building the habits, presence, and emotional intelligence needed to lead effectively.

 

Through her consultancy, Vicki delivers a unique combination of organisational insight, leadership identity work, and human-centred strategies. Her approach ensures that change sticks, teams thrive, and employees are engaged and resilient. She partners with clients on the conversations and transformations that cannot safely happen internally, helping them align leadership, culture, and strategy for measurable impact.

 

Vicki has over 25 years of experience in talent development, change management, and executive coaching. She is a professionally certified ICF coach and brings a deep understanding of how leadership behaviours shape organisational outcomes. Known for her clear, grounded, and psychologically sophisticated approach, she works with high-achieving leaders who want to perform at their best without sacrificing their wellbeing.

Experience

• Victoria Canham Consultancy

  People Side of Change Consultant

  1 - 5 Employees 2015 - Current

  Victoria Canham Consultancy is a specialist leadership and organisational consultancy that helps senior leaders and organisations navigate complex, high-pressure environments while building resilient, high-performing teams and engaged, sustainable cultures.

   

  We work at the intersection of leadership, culture, and the employee experience, addressing the human and organisational dynamics that prevent change from sticking. Our approach combines strategic insight, leadership identity development, and psychologically sophisticated interventions to help leaders operate with clarity, presence, and influence, while creating work environments where employees thrive and business results follow.

   

  Through executive advisory, culture transformation, employee experience design, and leadership development, we enable organisations to improve engagement, retention, performance, and wellbeing. We also facilitate the “conversations that cannot happen internally,” unlocking hidden challenges and accelerating meaningful change.

   

  Simply put, we help leaders and organisations perform better, feel better, and achieve sustainable impact—without shortcuts, platitudes, or surface-level fixes.

• HSBC Bank Plc

  Regulatory Compliance Education Lead - Europe and Commercial Banking

  101 - 500 Employees 2015 - 2017

  Designed and delivered leadership and employee learning strategies across multiple business lines in Europe. Partnered with senior leaders to build capability, embed regulatory accountability, and strengthen organisational culture. Developed region-wide solutions to enhance employee confidence, knowledge, and performance, ensuring leaders and teams could operate effectively in complex environments.

• HSBC Bank Plc

  People Change and Training Global Lead - Commercial Banking

  101 - 500 Employees 2013 - 2015

  Managed global change and training programmes for high-stakes financial operations. Led learning strategy, stakeholder engagement, and people-focused change initiatives to ensure leaders and teams adopted new ways of working effectively. Built expertise in organisational transformation, workforce readiness, and embedding sustainable behavioural change at scale.

• RBS

  Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Training Project Manager

  101 - 500 Employees 2012 - 2013

  Managed large-scale behavioural change initiatives across corporate banking divisions, ensuring employees understood expectations, processes, and risks. Developed and implemented learning solutions that shifted mindsets and habits, strengthened accountability, and aligned teams with organisational priorities. This role reinforced skills in change leadership, employee experience design, and influencing behaviour in complex organisations.

• HSBC Bank Plc

  Global Learning Manager - Regulatory and IASB Change

  101 - 500 Employees 2011 - 2011

  Oversaw training for regulatory, finance, and operational change programmes across global teams. Translated organisational strategy into practical learning solutions that enabled leaders and teams to adopt new practices effectively. Strengthened expertise in leading change, aligning behaviours with strategic objectives, and designing scalable solutions to embed organisational capability.

• Thomson Reuters

  Learning Consultant (Instructional Design)

  101 - 500 Employees 2009 - 2011

  Designed and developed learning programmes to enable global teams to adopt new systems and processes. Focused on translating organisational priorities into practical, engaging learning experiences that changed behaviour and enhanced performance. Developed experience in workforce transformation and aligning employee capability with organisational goals.

• Fitch Ratings

  Director of Learning

  101 - 500 Employees 2017 - 2018

  Established and directed a global learning function for 3,000 employees, shaping culture, leadership capability, and compliance awareness. Designed and implemented large-scale learning and communications strategies to ensure leaders and teams understood organisational expectations, regulatory requirements, and operational priorities. Developed insight into influencing leadership behaviour and embedding learning into organisational systems.

• BGC Partners

  Change Lead: Culture and Conduct

  101 - 500 Employees 2019 - 2020

  Led cultural and behavioural change programmes across senior leadership teams, focusing on embedding accountability, ethical standards, and organisational values. Designed and delivered multi-channel communications, learning experiences, and townhalls to shift leadership behaviours and influence culture at the C-Suite level. Strengthened expertise in driving sustainable organisational change and aligning leadership behaviour with strategic objectives.

• Randstad RiseSmart

  Career Coach

  101 - 500 Employees 2020 - 2024

  Delivered high-value career coaching to leaders and professionals navigating transitions within their organisations or into new opportunities. Supported clients in discovering clarity, planning strategy, and executing career moves while maintaining confidence and performance. Collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure coaching aligned with broader talent and organisational goals. This role strengthened expertise in human behaviour, performance psychology, and individual transformation.

Education History

• Bachelor of Education: Post School

  Cape Peninsula University of Technology

  2001 - 2001

  An additional year of university to obtain an education degree

• Food Service Management

  Cape Peninsula University of Technology

  1998 - 2000

Qualifications

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