Unlocking Risk & Safety Leadership, Cultural Transformation, and Behavioural Change - From the Top

Coote Advisory helps boards, directors and safety teams transform risk and safety compliance from a cost centre into a competitive advantage — embedding safety leadership where it matters: in the boardroom.

If you deal with  compliance, operations, or governance, you already know the pressure.

Strong governance is under sharper scrutiny than ever, and effective safety leadership sits at the heart of it. Stakeholders are increasingly focused on risk, liability and reputation. When a major failure in compliance or safety leadership occurs, it doesn’t stay operational — it rapidly becomes a business risk, a reputational risk, and ultimately a boardroom problem.

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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 then support the managers and teams to deliver on the vision and strategy to mitigate risk, increase safety and efficiency and enhance profits.

We help leaders turn compliance into a driver of cultural transformation and measurable improvement across their organisation. We provide safety consultancy that is pragmatic, driven by over 35 years of experiential knowledge, and which enables Boards to lead with assurance from the top, with systems to measure and monitor from the bottom up. 

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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

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 leadership, compliance, and culture define reputation and results.

Respect

Respect drives our 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. Strong safety leadership becomes an engrained part of a manager’s toolkit. 

Excellence

We deliver excellence through precision, perspective and impact.
Our advice is rigorous, relevant and results‑driven, because in risk and compliance, “good enough” is never good governance.
We help organisations strengthen their position in a world where safety, compliance and culture define both reputation and performance. Strong safety leadership is a thread that binds these together. 

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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.

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Safety Culture & Behavioural Safety

Immersive programmes and workshops that transform safety culture and behavioural performance across all levels of your organisation.

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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.

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Expert Witness

Authoritative insight and evidence-based expert witness services for complex civil or criminal safety investigations.

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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.

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Expertise

Chartered Fellow of IOSH (CFIOSH), Chartered Member of CIPD, and Registered Expert Witness in civil and criminal cases. A full member of the Expert Witness Institute.

Author/ contributor to several leading publications, including Lexis Nexis health and safety law. 

Experience

Over three decades in occupational health, safety, and risk compliance – including leadership of UK business units, PLC board service, and international safety operations.

Non-executive director for a large national charity.

Approach

Pragmatic, evidence-based solutions that reduce liability, enhance performance, and embed sustainable safety culture from the top down. Proven results in developing strong safety leadership. 

Recognition

Published author and contributor to Gee Professional Publishing, Croner Publications, and LexisNexis Butterworth Tolley.

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“Coote Advisory transformed our strategic approach with remarkable precision and insight.”

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