Education & Qualifications:

Executive Coaching Diploma (Academy of Executive Coaches)

BSc (Hons) in Sociology with Study Abroad (University of Bristol)

Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE Institute, USA)

Dame Kelly Holmes Trust – Lead Athlete Mentor

Mental Health First Aid

Experience:

Anna exemplifies performance under pressure and embodies the term resilience! After a life changing accident in a quest to compete in the Olympics Anna went on to compete in two Paralympic Games. She
now coaches and mentors corporate clients and athletes for the International Paralympic Committee and the University of Birmingham.

Anna is passionate about enabling confidence, diversity and elite performance through their challenges. Her coaching unleashes clarity, focus and resilience to extremely powerful effect.

Anna is a renowned keynote speaker, regularly presenting on large and influential platforms on motivation, resilience and diversity and is a TEDx speaker.

Anna is an adventurer at heart. She enjoys the outdoors, competitive sport, yoga and travel.

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Coaching Style:

Calm, Supportive, Inquisitive

Anna’s coaching is performance and solutions driven to meet your goals. Anna’s focused yet relaxed style allows you to quickly discover and reenvisage your challenges. She stimulates reflection and new perspectives, energising you to action and getting you results.

Anna works best with clients who are driven, willing to look inwards, try new things and take action!

Education & Qualifications:

International Coach Federation (ICF) Executive Coach​

BA (Hons) Business Studies, Bournemouth ​

CIPD: Certificate in Learning and Development Practice​

The Mind Gym: Coaches Training Academy​

Level 4: ‘Training The Trainer’ ​

TMS Psychometric Profiling Accredited​

Qualified Mountain Leader 

Experience:

Chris has worked with over 8,000 delegates in businesses, education, healthcare, politics and the 3rd sector since 2009.  He is a soft skills expert with an in-depth understanding of strategy and technical delivery. 

His work has included briefing the Speaker of the House of Commons before a presentation to 1000 people, coaching a Nobel Prize nominee as she prepared for a TED talk and helping to design a dramatic cultural shift for an organisation with 6000 employees.​

During 2020 alone Chris has billed for work within banking, insurance, healthcare provision, energy, technology and the pharmaceutical industry. ​

Outside the corporate world, Chris is a qualified global expedition leader.  He has run leadership, teamwork and resilience programmes in remote and challenging environments across the world.

His favourites include the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and a 6000-metre peak named Stok Kangri in northern India.

“I attended a fantastic training session on presentation skills lead by Chris. He’s passionate and dedicated and kept all participants highly motivated throughout the two day course. The carefully selected content, Chris’ engaging personality and attention to detail and the personalised feedback were very helpful indeed, thank you, Chris!”

“Chris has this unique style wherein he believes in providing the participants with dynamic feedback as the session progresses. His on the spot observations are simply amazing and were the major takeaway for me personally. I thank him for being an influential being for many with me in that pool.”

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Coaching Style:

warm, challenging, direct

Chris is a positive and engaging pragmatist.  He builds trust before using direct questions to achieve clarity for his clients.  Personal ownership and responsibility are cornerstones of Chris’ approach which has helped leaders in start-ups and multinationals.  Clients are asked to set their own SMART objectives which Chris then supports with encouragement and accountability until goals are met.​

Chris works best with clients who enjoy tough questions and ­­­­­­seek to take responsibility for their own success. ​

“Chris was able to direct my incoherent hopes for this new venture and swiftly create focus points for me to act on. He was able to quickly crystallise abstract ideas into succinct principles and create a passion for the project that I hadn’t quite tapped into myself. I am continuing to work with Chris as my business coach and I know that his steady hand will be essential in guiding me and the project successfully forward.”

Education & Qualifications:

Executive & Senior Coach and Mentor (seeking ILM Level 7 accreditation) ​

Advanced Command and Staff Course​

Fellow of the Institution of Royal Engineers​

Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers​

Chartered Engineer​

BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering, University of Southampton

Experience:

With over 30 years experience in military and commercial operations, David has brought organisations and teams through experiences as challenging as the Gulf War and the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone; he has successfully achieved major organisational and cultural transformations in the Army and the commercial sector, including the AA; where he has delivered, concurrently, record levels of operational performance, financial benefits, improved customer experience and higher team engagement.​

David is passionate about people; his approach is collegiate and empowering and is rooted in openness and trust.  By concentrating on the people – whether that’s at the foundations of trust, the mechanics of structure or the hard metrics of performance – David has been able to unlock the full potential of individuals, teams and organisations.​

In his spare time David enjoys walking his dog’s and designing gardens.

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Coaching Style:

Solution Focussed, People Centric, Exploratory 

David’s approach is positive, enthusiastic and engaging.  He is particularly adept at seeing connections and in enabling clients to view challenges and opportunities from alternative perspectives opening different options and identifying new solutions.​

David brings his training and experience forward into his coaching style applying rigour and curiosity to achieve a deep understanding of context and clarity of vision.  He is skilled in helping clients see possibilities, build belief and find and nurture the courage to see plans through.​

David works best with people who are not satisfied with the status quo, who are open to challenge but might not yet see a way forward or feel they have the courage to effect transformative change.

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Education & Qualifications:

Post-graduate Certificate in Coaching – Henley Business School 

Fellow of the CIPD​

Organisational Member of the Association for Coaching (the AC)​

MBA – Lancaster Business School (Specialising in Culture and Change) 

Post-graduate Certificate in Employment Law​

Psychometric BPS Level A & B, qualified for: MBTI, Wave, OPQ, Insights and TMSDI 

Mind Gym Train the Trainer (Distinction)​

BA (Hons) English – Newcastle University

Experience:

Dulcie spent over 20 years in FTSE 100 and 250 environments working mainly in leisure retail across a  wide range of functions including Operations, Commercial, Finance and Brand Development before  finding what she wanted to do when she grew up and specialising in HR.

As well as being a coach, trainer  and facilitator, Dulcie has also worked as a non-exec director for a craft brewery and is a published author  and public speaker. She regularly appears on BBC Radio to talk about the science of human performance  and how to actually use it in real life.​

Dulcie has 2 children, 3 stepchildren and 2 dogs. You might therefore not be surprised to know that she  enjoys eating and drinking out. She models and typifies never being the finished article or being too old to learn new tricks. Dulcie learnt to play the guitar in 2018 and finds practicing her latest skill is a really  good way to clear a room of teenagers to get some time alone!

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Coaching Style:

Results Oriented, Kind, Challenging​

Dulcie’s clients describe her as having a “spider-sense” of intuition that is combined with her Yorkshire  temperament to be straight talking. She helps people to get to the root cause of what is really holding  them back – and then to use her experience of applied psychology and neuroscience to form a plan that  leads to actual change and growth.​

Dulcie’s approach works well for anyone – apart from those who secretly think they are already perfect and have nothing left to learn.

“When it comes to coaching I can’t think of anyone who’s had a bigger impact on me than Dulcie. Her natural curiosity and incredible ability to stretch clients thinking with a no-nonsense style encourages reflection and commitment to action that genuinely makes a difference. Dulcie has a unique talent in being able to simplify her wealth of knowledge about psychology and neuroscience into highly effective coaching models and techniques. I’ve had the privilege of working alongside Dulcie and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her services to anyone looking for high support, high challenge coaching that delivers real results.”

​”Dulcie and I have worked together over a 6 month period during which time, through her positive coaching style, she has enabled me to move forward in my own personal development and apply this effectively in the workplace. I think it is her enthusiastic, down-to-earth approach and balance of humour which meant that I felt connected with her immediately and which has enabled me to work through my goals. She has the right balance of empathy and honesty whilst questioning and challenging effectively to really make me think and challenge myself. It has been a great opportunity to work with her and I appreciate her support and encouragement throughout.”

Education & Qualifications:

Executive Coach – ACC professionally credentialed International Coach Federation (ICF) ​

Mastering Trade Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University​

Foreign & Commonwealth Office Leadership Programme​

Trauma Risk Management (TRiM) trained​

MA in South East Asia Studies, The School of Oriental & African Studies​

BSc (Econ) in International Relations, The London School of Economics​

Stonewall Leadership Programme ​

Postgraduate Certificate in Multimedia, Middlesex University​

Internal Environmental Auditor, ISO 14001​

Honorary Doctorate, Middlesex University​

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

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Experience:

Jonathan is an executive and career coach specialising in clients who inhabit the board room and c-suite environment.  Jonathan has honed his craft working as an internal coach for Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), to which he brought his extensive learning, experience and interest in international trade and policy.  At the FCO he worked on commerce, trade & Brexit, counter terrorism and conflict resolution, gaining promotion into the FCO’s senior management.  During his successful career as a diplomat he was a change leader in the FCO, advocating effectively for equality for LGBT+ staff and better opportunities for BAME staff.​

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Jonathan has worked overseas in East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Canada and Afghanistan before being appointed British High Commissioner to Mauritius, Ambassador to the Comoros and Head of the British Indian Ocean Network, leading a team of around 40 people and winning almost £1 billion in contracts for British business from a standing start.  Before leaving the FCO he led its Trade Diplomacy Department and helped secure the UK’s accession to the Government Procurement Agreement, worth around $1.7 trillion annually to its members.​

Jonathan has recently been appointed Associate Board Member for Universities of the International Coach Federation’s UK Chapter (UK ICF) and is leading the UK ICF’s Covid-19 Emergency Taskforce.  He has subsequently been appointed Vice President of UK ICF.  He is Chair of Gatwick Airport’s Noise Management Executive Board and sits on the International Executive Board of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.​

Jonathan holds both British and Canadian nationality.  In his spare time he likes to bake cakes before walking them off on the North and South Downs.  He also keeps fit at the gym.

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Coaching Style:

Results-focused, Challenging, Warm

Jonathan is particularly adept in getting to know and understand his clients so he can best provide appropriate challenge for their growth and development.  He is particularly skilled in coaching his clients through a journey of self-reflection and understanding that results in the seemingly impossible, evolving to the possible, to be realised as the probable. 

Throughout Jonathan maintains a warmth and connections that helps his clients to retain their focus on the results that they want and aspire to.

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Education & Qualifications:

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International Coach Federation (ICF) Executive Coach ​

MA in Management​

BSc (Hons) Environmental Planning and Management​

NLP Master Practitioner​

SDI & TMS Psychometric Profiling Accredited​

Charted Institute of Personal Development (CIPD)

Experience:

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John-Paul (J-P) has worked at director level as well as being a successful business owner for over 15 years.  J-P started life as an outdoor adventure coach in Pembrokeshire.  He now coaches World Class elite paddle sports athletes as well as high performing individuals in business.  In his own right J-P is an international athlete, being one of only 5 people in the World that can coach at such an exceptional level in sea and surf kayaking.  ​

J-P combines his high-performance acumen with his years as a learning and development manager to provide consultancy, deliver management and leadership training, and executive coaching.  His clients have included Visa Europe, Tetra Pak, SwissRe, Heathrow and Royal Mail through to organisations such as the Environment Agency and the National Trust and charities such as ShelterBox.​

If you are with J-P, and you are not inside, then you are probably in or on the sea, at the beach or climbing.

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Coaching Style:

Action Focused, Optimistic, Challenging

J-P’s coaching demeanour is quick-witted, inquisitive and goal oriented.  J-P uses his considerable experience in operating in challenging and dangerous environments, to help others to navigate change and storms with flare and results.  ​

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J-P works best with people that are motivated, seek results and prepared to work to get the highest levels of return and attainment that they can.  His style is for no-nonsense direct communication where he is understanding yet set on getting you results, which is what he expects of himself and will offer you.

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Education & Qualifications:

International Coach Federation (ICF) Executive Coach​

Masters in Business Administration (MA), Loughborough University ​

Diploma in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing ​

Business Leadership for Women, Ashridge ​

Certificate Health Services Management ​

BSc (Hons) Pharmacy, Welsh School of Pharmacy

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Experience:

Linda worked in the pharma industry in multinational global roles and in NHS healthcare management for over 20 years in each sector.  These challenging positions fuelled her interest in people: what makes them tick, what motivates them and what gets in the way of letting them be the best they can be.  Having held many executive and senior leadership roles, Linda has mentored many colleagues and witnessed the power of coaching in unlocking potential in colleagues, both internal and external to the pharma business.​

Linda is now exclusively an executive and business coach and consultant.  She says she is particularly energised by the positive results a coaching approach provides clients in different settings, different countries and careers.​

Linda regularly practices yoga and enjoys art, the theatre and Italian cuisine.

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Coaching Style:

Energetic, Action Oriented, Enthusiastic

Linda’s approach to coaching reflects her approach to life – it is one of enthusiasm, energy and action!  Linda is focused and flexible, curious, energetic and interested and her prime objective is always to partner with her clients to address the difficult questions, challenge and support them to achieve their goals.​

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“The coaching sessions with Linda covered a lot of ground. It felt like I had done a full work out by the end of a session but each time I ended the session with entirely new concepts and perspectives; of others and myself.”

“Linda helped guide me to solutions and self-knowledge that have helped me to significantly improve in both working and non-working life. The sessions were insightful, at some points difficult, but always respectful and supportive. Linda is a fantastic listener and an even better coach; I was lucky to have had the experience.”

Experience:

Nic is exceptionally experienced in researching, informing and providing policy and strategy in high pressured environments having worked in local government, public health, politics and enterprise at the director and chair levels for over 15 years.  Nic’s work has led to her being recruited as a consultant for Oxford Brookes Business School where she leads their work on supporting and scaling businesses.  Nic’s forte is leading and managing strategic projects including communications.  Nic’s executive clients really resonate and value her experience as a leader, facilitator and negotiator of complex projects. ​

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Nic loves quality sodas, poetry, real tea, food grown in her own garden, wild swimming and her chickens.

Coaching:

Direct, Compassionate, Reflective

Nic’s strength is providing accepting and considerate spaces where new perspectives and ways of thinking can be explored without judgement.  Nic is insightful and skilled at spotting patterns and themes across behaviours and situations, helping to generate new insights.  Nic also reports that, although a surprise to some clients, they have fun in coaching sessions! ​

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Nic’s approach works well for those people who are reflective, curious and desire change.

The coaching exceeded my expectations and was perfect for what was going on workwise and personally. I was looking for answers and to work through things. I felt able to be very open, and said things I didn’t feel I’d say (I thought I would be more reserved and superficial). 

“I felt reassured by Nic, who has a calm demeanour. I sit in rooms of people who can’t wait to talk over each other. I never felt like Nic was waiting for me to shut him and join in. She waited for me to stop, there was a pause, a space, it felt thoughtful, she was digesting what I said and working out the best thing to say in response.”

“It was easy to trust Nic very early on, and I felt I was in safe hands and she was focussed on helping me move this forward, hand holding, supporting me in the direction I was going in. I can’t praise Nic highly enough.”