Unlocking Risk & Safety Compliance, Cultural Transformation, and Behavioural Change - From the Top
Coote Advisory helps boards and leaders transform risk and safety compliance from a cost centre into a competitive advantage — embedding safety leadership where it matters most: in the boardroom.
About Coote Advisory
Unlocking Risk, Compliance And Safety Leadership From The Top
Coote Advisory are specialists in providing support, consultancy and training to all levels of your organisation, focusing on C-Suite clients by embedding risk and safety leadership where it matters – in the Boardroom.
We help leaders turn compliance into a driver of cultural transformation and measurable improvement across their organisation.
Values
Our Commitment To
Transformative Safety Leadership
We deliver honest, evidence-based advice that stands up to scrutiny, grounded in law and aligned with your values. We lead ethically and strengthen organisations where safety, compliance, and culture define reputation and results.
Integrity isn’t just what we value—it’s how we work.
We deliver honest, evidence-based advice that stands up to scrutiny, grounded in law and aligned with your values. Boards and executives trust us to challenge constructively, lead ethically, and strengthen their position in a world where safety, compliance, and culture define reputation and results.
Respect drives out organisation’s culture. We champion fairness across all levels of the organisation, ensuring that risk and compliance strategies are not only effective but equitable.
By embedding these values into boardroom decisions and frontline behaviours, we help leaders foster cultures where accountability thrives, voices are heard, and safety becomes a shared commitment—not just a mandate.
We deliver excellence through precision, insight and impact. Our support and advice is rigorous, relevant, and results-driven because in risk and compliance, good enough isn’t good governance.
When their position in a world where safety, compliance, and culture define reputation and results.
Consultancy & Advisory Services
We deliver bespoke support across strategic, cultural, and operational risk and safety disciplines.
Consultancy & Training
Board-level strategy, governance, and compliance support that embeds safety leadership where it matters – in the boardroom.
Safety Culture & Behavioural Safety
Immersive programmes and workshops that transform safety culture and behavioural performance across all levels of your organisation.
Outsourcing Services & Competent Person
Our outsourced services give you access to senior level expertise as well as routine/operational support without the cost or commitment of a internally employed resource.
Expert Witness
Authoritative insight and evidence-based expert witness services for complex civil or criminal safety investigations.
About Nicola Coote
Proven Leadership In Safety Transformation
With extensive board-level experience across multiple sectors, Nicola Coote helps leaders navigate complex behavioural, regulatory, and operational challenges. Her approach combines cultural and behavioural insight with commercial pragmatism — strengthening governance, performance, and reputation.
Expertise
Chartered Fellow of IOSH (CFIOSH), Chartered Member of CIPD, and Registered Expert Witness in civil and criminal cases
Experience
Over three decades in occupational health, safety, and risk compliance – including leadership of UK business units, PLC board service, and international safety operations.
Approach
Pragmatic, evidence-based solutions that reduce liability, enhance performance, and embed sustainable safety culture from the top down.
Recognition
Published author and contributor to Gee Professional Publishing, Croner Publications, and LexisNexis Butterworth Tolley.
“Coote Advisory transformed our strategic approach with remarkable precision and insight.”
Blogs, Insights & Case Studies
Latest safety leadership perspectives
Cutting-edge thinking from our safety experts
Case Study
Inside a Catastrophic Safety Failure: An Expert Witness Case Study for Boards and Leaders
Being an Expert Witness is a privilege. It requires years of experience dealing with a variety of complex operational and…
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Case Study
Case Study: Transforming Safety Culture After a Workplace Fatality
Background: A Crisis and Its Aftermath In 2017, a major manufacturing firm in Northwest England experienced a workplace fatality, resulting…
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Case Study
Due Diligence – A Story of Success
A targeted due diligence audit provided clear insight into compliance risks, improvement progress, and potential liabilities across multiple care settings,…
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