A highly experienced Executive Coach and facilitator, Ruth has extensive experience of coaching and mentoring high performing executives/Board level directors since 1990.

Her business background is in Sales and Marketing and started with Ford Motor Company and since then she has worked with a number of organizations helping them develop their Marketing strategy as well as coaching Sales and Marketing Directors.

Her qualifications include a Psychology degree, an MBA from a leading UK business school and a PhD in Relationship Marketing. She has also trained as a coach (Coaching and Executive Coaching) with one of the world’s leading coaching organizations and is an accredited coach.

Sonia specialises in working with Board Directors, Business owners and entrepreneurs. A successful entrepreneur with a strong background in marketing and strategy development, her experience spans across a wide range of industries, sectors and international boundaries.

Sonia is an experienced Executive and Leadership Coach who has leveraged her business experience, cultural diversity and language skills to coach and train effectively across cultures. Clients describe Sonia’s style as “challenging yet supportive”, “empathetic and passionate”, “strategic and real world”. One of her clients recently said “You make me face up to the truths that I already know”.

Emily has been helping people develop their performance in work for over thirteen years, focusing in particular on the creative industries in which she started her career. She has clients ranging from large media and insurance companies to individuals from across the creative and corporate worlds.

 

By looking at the areas of leadership ambitions, team development and business planning, she helps clients to gauge the realities of their workplace and how they can impact and improve their happiness levels.

Working extensively in the area of mentoring, Emily has a good understanding of legacy within an organisation and how to facilitate the handing down of experience from established to emerging talent.

Jane has over 20 years experience working in the City of London within HR where her experience lies in management and performance development, leading through major restructures and process integration. Jane’s leadership helps others define their personal and professional vision, set clear goals and achieve their aspirations.

She is an accredited coach with the ICF.  She has an advanced certificate in psychological coaching and is a qualified Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Coach.

Tracy has a reputation for being a pragmatic and positive coach. In 2006, Tracy moved into corporate and career coaching. She coaches executives from middle-management to Director level on a one-to-one basis and delivers group coaching workshops to leadership teams

 

Tracy was a founder member of a successful recruitment business build from scratch and subsequently spent 5 years as Managing Consultant of a leading marketing recruitment business, working with FTSE 100 companies across FMCG, retail and manufacturing markets. She is a Professional Co-Active Coach trained with the Coach Training Institute (CTI), and is a licensed provider of the Firework Career Coaching programme.  Her recent client include: Alliance Boots, Leeds University Business School, Ann Summers, Ageas and Tesco.

Angela is a qualified life and performance coach, accredited with the Association for Coaching and a council member, in ‘Head of Professional Forums’.

As MD of her own training & development consultancy since 1994, she coaches executives, business owners and individuals on all aspects of their personal and professional lives. Before then, Angela spent many years in senior marketing management within large organizations. Her specialism is helping people to find their own niche, in their career, their business or life in general.

As a Master NLP practitioner, a certified Clean Language facilitator and holding a diploma in Marketing, she brings a range of different skills and techniques to her coaching.

Sarah is a dynamic executive coach and facilitator with a mix of commercial and HR experience spanning 18 years, specialising in Leadership and Talent development.  Her psychology training has been from the body of work of the Human Potential Movement. Utilising her expertise in psychometric testing and practical psychology, Sarah combines both her professional experience and study with her personal experience of business, leadership, coaching and training to achieve major shifts for individuals, teams and organisations.

Having operated at a senior level acting as coach and advisor to many of the top 50 leaders within Blue Chip organizations and the third sector, Sarah brings experience and a pragmatic approach to helping individuals and teams perform at even greater levels.  With previous roles including managing regional sales teams through to later qualifying as an auditor, Sarah connects with business leaders from a position of real insight.

Sarah understands that meaningful change occurs over a period of time. Human beings are multi faceted by nature, so to achieve lasting change she takes a holistic approach and works with the whole person. Leaders and managers are real people with real lives and her coaching approach embraces this enabling them to enhance their performance.

She has developed a reputation for creating and assisting change.  From Directors in the Board room to operational customer facing teams, Sarah is regularly called upon to help get to the heart of issues and make a substantial difference to team and individual communication, cohesion and performance. 

Prior to becoming an Executive Coach, Madeline had 15 years experience in a variety of HR, line management and consultancy roles. She has coached Managers, Middle Managers and Directors from a variety of private and public sector industries, including a number of leading brands.

Madeline is reputed for her energy, passion and goal oriented approach to coaching and has a warm, empathic, honest and challenging style.  As well as being a Trained Psychotherapist in Transactional Analysis (TA) she is an ICF accredited coach and member of the Association for Coaching (AC)

Alex has over twenty years experience in strategic management and operations. She is COO of the Association for Coaching, which she co-founded.

She specialises in strategic leadership, transition and stress management, and developing performance and potential in order to improve communications and relationships. Her business background covers a range of senior positions which allows her the opportunity to develop herself, others, and the organisations that she was part of. 

Alex holds an award for “Influencing the Coaching Profession”, is an author in Excellence in Coaching, and is on the International editorial board of, “Coaching an International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice”.

Annie is a qualified Career and Executive Coach, and an Accredited Member of the Association for Coaching. Annie works with fast moving, hi-growth individuals to support and challenge their step up to the next stage in their life and career.

Annie runs her own business working as an Executive and Career Coach, and works in alliance with a number of key organisational partners. Prior to this, she had careers in Education and as an internal HR consultant in an international engineering organisation.

Annie has worked with clients from many sectors over the years, and has built a reputation as a coach and facilitator of major personal change and development. Her style is warm, engaging and challenging, and she acts as a real thinking partner to help clients achieve their goals, whether in an organisational or personal leadership arena.

Oona is an international Senior Executive and Board-Level Coach and Facilitator who specialises in leadership development, and team building for high performance. She has over 20 years experience incorporating board level positions in operational sales and marketing and has worked and lived in Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto, Sydney, Europe and the USA.

Her commercial experience includes start-up operations in the Far East, and leading teams in the acquisition and sale of multi-million pound development schemes. Oona combines her appreciation for commercial reality with a strong belief that any development programme needs to motivate, inspire and result in learning that can be practically applied to people’s lives.

Lindsay is an executive coach, helping clients build confidence, manage dilemmas, get ‘unstuck’, and create behaviour and thinking shifts.  Her clients are often on the edge of releasing their talent to step up to a bigger challenge, whether as established or as new leaders.

She specialises in coaching for authentic leadership and career development.  Lindsay holds a Postgraduate Certificate in The Psychology of Coaching and an Advanced Diploma (with Distinction) in Professional Coaching & Mentoring, and is one of only 11 people awarded EMCC European Individual Accreditation at Senior Practitioner level.

Debbie has more than 15 years marketing experience. Having started her career on client side working for United Biscuits, Heinz and Arla, she then moved across to agency side.

As board director of a brand design consultancy, she gained first hand leadership experience, before finally training as a coach.

She now specialises in working with marketing and commercial professionals on a variety of coaching agendas

Caroline Montagu has held senior executive roles in Sales and Marketing in a variety of industries, running large nationwide teams.  She works with high potential leaders and teams in FTSE 500 companies and fast growing SMEs.

Caroline brings the same drive for success that she achieved for herself in corporate life to support her clients to achieve their own career and business objectives. 

She is passionate about developing people to their full potential.  She has a direct, pragmatic style injecting her energy and humour into the coaching process.

Katherine is Founding Chair and CEO of the Association for Coaching, and Co-Founder of Wisdom8, a boutique firm specialising in coaching CEOs, Boards and Global Leaders.  An Accredited Coach, with an International background in Strategy and Marketing at board-level, her purpose to “inspire and stretch global leaders”.

A driving force for coaching excellence, she is also a speaker, lecturer and author, including contributions in Leadership Coaching, Diversity in Coaching, and Excellence in Coaching (Kogan Page). She was awarded “Coach/Mentor of the Year” by Coaching at Work, the Honorary Awards for “Influencing & Impacting the Coaching Profession”, and serves on a number of Boards for her expertise in Coaching.

Claire specialises in whole-life, personal coaching engagements – helping the individual to better understand their cognitive skills and processes, and finding fresh ways of developing them further through the use of creative analysis, perception, alternative linguistics and whole-brain thinking.  Claire specialises in constructing a unique coaching programme that suits the needs and aspirations of the individual.

Coaching clients include senior executives, successful artists, entrepreneurs and those just starting out in their chosen or changing careers. Additionally, having been the wife of a CEO, she has first-hand experience of the issues surrounding career advancement.

Claire’s professional qualifications include a BA and MA in Design, and numerous coaching and related courses including hypnosis, NLP and memory techniques in both the UK and Middle East.

Co-CEO of Wisdom8, Georgina specialises in working with current and emerging CEOs, Managing Directors and other C-Suite executives.  A successful entrepreneur, her experience intentionally spans across a wide range of industries which gives her the ability to cross-fertilise learning and ideas. 

A strong and experienced Executive Coach and Coach Supervisor, with more than 15 years track record in her field, she is a co-author of “Coaching Global Top Teams” in Leadership in Coaching (Kogan Page).  Clients describe Georgina’s style as ‘strong presence and credibility’, ‘experienced and wise’, ’sees people’, ‘extraordinary empathy’, ‘challenging but gentle’, ‘questioning and questing spirit!’ 

Darren specialises in the field(s) of CEO/Executive/team development and Purposeful Entrepreneurship. He works with CEOs, entrepreneurs, executives and underprivileged young people to raise their individual and collective game. 

He is passionate about purposeful capitalism, where we increasingly see organisations as a force for good in the world, currently launching a new social venture Ministry of Entrepreneurship that aims to connect street entrepreneurs from the UK, Africa & India with people who wish to make a difference to their lives www.darrenrobson.com.

He is a Director on the Global Board of the not-for-profit Association for Coaching and honorary award recipient.

After a career in the British Army developing future Leaders, Barbara held a number of senior roles in the private sector including Group Training Manager for Reed Elsevier, Organsiation Development Director for Thomson Reuters and Head of Leadership Training for Leadership Development Ltd. Since 2005 Barbara has been a Founding Director with mc-cubed ltd specializing in helping individuals and businesses to get extraordinary performance from their people, through excellence in Management and Leadership.

Barbara is qualified to use a number of coaching tools, holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development.

Elizabeth Anderson helps grow her clients. She is a certified Master Coach, considered an expert executive coach who specialises in leadership and behavioural coaching. Her style is one of engaging curiosity combined with empathetic analysis. She is a connecter of people and thoughts. Her previous life was as a successful corporate lawyer, and she has connections in most sectors including finance, e-commerce, media, marketing and TMT. Her clients emerge from three categories-From leaders, whether CEOs, directors or senior executives; from high potential or key talent; from teams. Working with clients she achieves exceptional results with them, using their agenda. Her aim is always to achieve long-term positive change, to find out what matters to clients, what they need to do to make their life matter more and be happy with who they are, and to consider what they are doing and how to do it.

As a business and personal coach, Boris specialises in developing outstanding talent. He has worked with clients from several top organizations, with experience both in and outside the UK. He is known for his warm, supportive and challenging coaching style.

Prior to coaching, he had implemented systems handling hundreds of millions and setup an online record store. 

Currently, Boris is developing a confidence model and is launching a business deploying coaching skills in the education sector.

Anna Inama has more than 18 years marketing experience in a variety of blue chip multinational organisations, running, mentoring and coaching large cross cultural teams. She trained as a business coach with one of the leading coaching organisations,  and is just in the process of completing an accredited Masters qualification. Anna is known for her energy, passion and performance orientated approach to coaching. She is passionate about building strong relationships and has an empathetic, commercially aware, honest and challenging style.

Adrian combines coaching with his experience as a senior executive in industry and investment banking. He works with leaders, their teams and rising talent who want better, different results. Typically, this deals with the opportunities and challenges of leadership, self-belief, teamwork, clarity of direction and communication skills.

 

As a fully accredited coach, Adrian’s style is both warm and challenging, offering an impartial, confidential sounding board and also support for executives to stretch themselves, build confidence and develop actions to reach their goals. He is passionate about both the individual’s unique contribution and potential, as well as the impact of this on the organisations in which they work.

An accredited Executive coach, NLP practitioner, CIPD member and founding member of the Association for Coaching, Soraya spent 16 years in some of the world’s leading global advertising agencies. 

For the past 7 years, Soraya has run her own coaching consultancy that focuses on management and leadership skills, working with rising talent, managers and their teams, senior directors and board members.  

Soraya’s works across a broad range of industries, including NABS (National Advertising Benevolent Society) who are the communications industry’s charity, and she is told by her clients that they value her strategic and innovative thinking learnt during her advertising career.

Angela Jopling is an experienced executive coach, organisation development consultant and psychotherapist.  Over the last 20 years, Angela has built a strong belief that coaching success relies upon working with the ‘whole person’ to help them connect more strongly with their authentic self and bring that to their Leadership role. She is passionate about enabling her clients to become better ‘self-coaches’. 

Angela’s leadership and visioning talents were honed during her time at British Airways where she led a team of 80 management development specialists.  Angela has a joint honours degree in Marketing & Economics, a Masters in Existential Psychotherapy and is a tutor on a new Masters programme in Existential Coaching.

Elizabeth has over 20 years experience working in the City of London, within Professional Services and Media and has spent many years working with the financial services sector.  Her background is in B2B consultancy sales, delivering client led people solutions and leading teams to achieve high level performance.

 

Her coaching style is supportive, insightful and challenging and seeks to enable individuals to create possibilities for themselves and to look at the use of language that they use to communicate with themselves and others in pursuit of their personal and professional aspirations.  Elizabeth is a qualified practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Alison has 15 years international marketing experience working for global technology companies in Paris, London and San Francisco and spent 4 years running a brand consultancy in San Francisco.

 

As a business and leadership coach, Alison uses her experience, insight and intuition to work with leaders and teams on sustainable growth through people and performance. She has developed a leadership and management skills programme specifically for digital media companies experiencing rapid growth.

 

She trained at The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in London and San Francisco, and holds a diploma in NLP as well as being an Accredited Coach with the Association for Coaching.

Gail is an accredited executive coach, Master NLP and Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner specialising in a strengths based approach. She has 13 years experience of developing leaders in FTSE 100 organisations.

 

Raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Gail studied psychology in France before working in public relations and marketing in the Middle East, USA and Africa.  Contributing author to 'A Career in your Suitcase',  Gail is currently writing a book aimed at helping high achievers to predict, cope with, survive and prosper from major setbacks at work. She was shortlisted for Mentor of the Year in Women of the Future Awards in 2008.

Jane has over 20 years’ business experience gained largely through BBC Radio where she launched the first National black music station in UK history.  Jane coaches at senior and board level to achieve personal impact and high visibility while also evaluates learning outcomes with clients to achieve positive impact for the business.  Jane specialises in the corporate and public sector.

 

Jane is a highly insightful transformation coach, able to co-create reflective insights with clients working in highly challenging environments. She brings high energy, analysis and wit to her work with clients. Accredited as an Executive Leadership Coach with Ashridge Business School (2006), the ICF and the EMCC accredited BBC’s Internal Coach Foundation Course (2006)

Lisa is passionate about working with talented individuals and developing executives.  She has an extensive business background working in a global financial institution, is an experienced HR professional and has worked as an executive coach and development consultant to senior leaders since 2005.  She is most effective in maximising individual’s talents and strengths and enhancing leadership qualities, making the most of both their personal and professional potential.  This is achieved using a combination of intuition, natural listening skills and grounded commercial common sense to produce an all round supportive relationship

 

Lisa was a highly successful executive at HSBC and is now working as an independent executive coach and HR consultant.  She qualified in 2007 with an Advanced Practitioner Diploma with The Academy of Executive Coaching.

Adrienne is a consultant in Leadership, Performance Development and Executive Coaching. With a business background in Market Research and International Marketing Strategy, she has also trained in Organisational Behaviour and Individual Psychology.

For 15 years she coached International Corporate Boards, CEO's and Executive staff, as well as smaller/start-up businesses, where her role has been to support the CEO through very rapid growth. Her particular skill is to enable clients to move beyond limiting mindsets and to achieve their fullest potential as Leaders, Colleagues and Human Beings.