Gyongyver Szabo is a global talent leader and career strategist with 25+ years of senior HR experience across complex international organisations. She has designed and led enterprise-level talent management, succession and leadership development frameworks globally, including serving as Global Talent Lead at GSK in London. Her background spans senior HR Business Partner and regional HR leadership roles across the UK, Europe and Central & Eastern Europe, working in matrix environments and advising senior executives on talent, capability and workforce decisions. Today, Gyongyver brings that insider perspective into discreet, one-to-one executive coaching and advisory work through Best Chapter — working with senior leaders and the organisations who take talent seriously.
Executive Coach I Certified Transitional Intelligence (TQ) Coach I Accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
About Me
I joined GSK at the start of my career and stayed for 26 years. It was an extraordinary professional education — values-based, globally ambitious, deeply serious about developing people. Over that time I moved through HR operations, business partnering, and global talent leadership, living and working in Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, and London. I led through mergers and acquisitions, drove culture change programmes, and built a deep understanding of how complex international organisations actually function at the top.
In my final role as Global Talent Lead I had a rare and privileged vantage point: inside an enterprise's long-term talent and succession thinking for its most critical roles.
It was there that something else began. Senior leaders started seeking me out for confidential, private conversations at pivotal moments. Questions they couldn't ask their line manager or their HR partner — not because those people didn't care, but because organisational HR, however well-intentioned, ultimately serves the enterprise. That is its nature and its purpose. I had spent years as one of those HR partners. I knew exactly where the boundary was — and what it left unmet.
I left the corporate world to fill that gap.
Best Chapter was founded as a discreet, private executive career advisory practice. Four years on, the work has deepened. Clients who came for executive career coaching stayed to navigate a promotion, work through complex organisational dynamics, prepare for high-stakes leadership conversations, or take a more deliberate approach to their executive presence — so that every challenge becomes part of the full arc of their career success.
Best Chapter is built on two pillars: deep corporate experience at the highest levels of global talent leadership, and rigorous executive coaching expertise. This is the foundation of everything. Every client engagement is unique, tailored entirely to the individual and their specific situation. I work with a deliberately small number of senior executives and C-suite leaders at any one time — because depth of focus, genuine availability, and truly personalised executive coaching are not possible at scale. This is boutique by design.
I live between London and Budapest — two cities that have shaped how I think about ambition, belonging, and what a working life can look like when it's built deliberately rather than just accumulated. That perspective travels with me into every client relationship.
Working with senior executives and C-suite leaders internationally.
