The Thinking Partnership
Business Coaches
The Thinking Partnership
Centre for Innovation, Oxford
# The Thinking Partnership
The Thinking Partnership is an Oxford-based leadership development and organisational consulting firm that helps senior leaders and their organisations achieve sustained transformation. Founded by chartered psychologists Arabella Ellis and Mark Loftus, the firm combines deep psychological expertise with pragmatic business acumen to drive meaningful change at the leadership level.
The firm works exclusively with ambitious organisations across Financial Services, Government, Media, Technology and Manufacturing. Their client roster includes blue-chip companies such as Schroders, BlackRock, Sage, The Guardian, and major regulators including the FCA and Payment Systems Regulator.
What distinguishes The Thinking Partnership is their distinctive approach: they engendered trust through credible, psychologically-informed assessment whilst challenging deep-rooted behaviours and thinking patterns. Rather than offering generic development programmes, they combine objective analysis of leadership credentials with genuine sensitivity to the human experience. Their practitioners bring substantial experience—Mark Loftus contributes over twenty years as a trusted consultant and coach, whilst Arabella Ellis is recognised for her fresh perspective and winning combination of business insight and psychological understanding.
The firm specialises in working with Boards and senior executive teams, leveraging their expertise in both individual executive coaching and systemic organisational change. Their methodology focuses on helping leaders understand themselves more deeply whilst developing the capabilities needed for sustained personal and business success.
The Thinking Partnership is an Oxford-based leadership development and organisational consulting firm that helps senior leaders and their organisations achieve sustained transformation. Founded by chartered psychologists Arabella Ellis and Mark Loftus, the firm combines deep psychological expertise with pragmatic business acumen to drive meaningful change at the leadership level.
The firm works exclusively with ambitious organisations across Financial Services, Government, Media, Technology and Manufacturing. Their client roster includes blue-chip companies such as Schroders, BlackRock, Sage, The Guardian, and major regulators including the FCA and Payment Systems Regulator.
What distinguishes The Thinking Partnership is their distinctive approach: they engendered trust through credible, psychologically-informed assessment whilst challenging deep-rooted behaviours and thinking patterns. Rather than offering generic development programmes, they combine objective analysis of leadership credentials with genuine sensitivity to the human experience. Their practitioners bring substantial experience—Mark Loftus contributes over twenty years as a trusted consultant and coach, whilst Arabella Ellis is recognised for her fresh perspective and winning combination of business insight and psychological understanding.
The firm specialises in working with Boards and senior executive teams, leveraging their expertise in both individual executive coaching and systemic organisational change. Their methodology focuses on helping leaders understand themselves more deeply whilst developing the capabilities needed for sustained personal and business success.
Services offered
Executive coachingLeadership assessmentBoard developmentOrganisational consultingPsychological assessmentSenior team coachingChange leadershipLeadership development programmes