Coach Directory
Find details of some of our Optimus Coach Academy graduates who are now delivering coaching after completing our accredited training.
Coach Directory
This is a selection of our trained coaches, if you're looking for a coach this is a great place to start.Chisomo Fajardo
Life, business and mindset coach
Hi, I’m Chisomo! I’m a life coach, designer, and creative mentor, dedicated to helping women navigate life changes and create meaningful lives across work, wellbeing, and relationships. My coaching is empathetic, compassionate, and centred around personal growth, reflection, and self-awareness. I believe in maintaining integrity, fostering ongoing development for myself and my clients. With a warm and encouraging approach, I help my clients uncover their values, reframe limiting beliefs, and discover new possibilities. My goal is to create a safe space for clients to explore, reflect, and make empowered decisions that lead to a more fulfilling and purposeful life that works for them.
Metra Rowe
Professional Coach
Metra is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), consultant, and facilitator with two decades of experience navigating global businesses and leadership teams through inclusive culture change and transformation.Focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), she collaborates with clients to create environments where everyone feels valued and respected. Metra uses a range of tools and techniques to ensure her coaching gives leaders practical strategies and skills to build diverse and equitable workplaces that not only succeed in business but also make a positive impact on society.
Mike Cole
Professionally Qualified Coach
A professional, qualified coach with hundreds of hours of experience supporting clients evolve a working life that works for them. This includes working on productivity, strategy, inter-personnel skills, motivation mindset, career and business development. I mainly use the coaching principles of GROW, supplemented with relevant templates / 3rd party reports if appropriate (which can include DISC and/or Motivational Maps). I am passionate about neurodiversity and mental health, and I enjoy giving talks on embracing how we are special and leaning into our uniqueness – using examples from my own experience of using dyslexia as a core strength. I am a workplace Mental Health First Aider. Before training as a coach, I spent 16 years working for large complex multinational companies (EY, Rolls-Royce, Experian), in their audit and finance departments.
Laura Hunter
Wellbeing & Confidence Coach
I am an ICF credentialed Coach (ACC) and have been coaching and mentoring for many years, predominantly within the education sector. I currently work as an internal coach for a large organisation, but also have a small private coaching practice, where I coach a handful of fantastic clients. I coach with a strong wellbeing slant and my coaching practise is heavily rooted in positive psychology theory, tools, and techniques. My clients come to coaching for support with boosting confidence and self-esteem, overcoming challenges and regaining life balance. My clients say that I am a grounded coach, who is warm, easy to talk to and compassionately direct. This is music to my ears because I value honesty and authenticity very highly - with me, what you see is absolutely what you get! Aside from being a coach, I’m also a lipstick loving, coffee-fuelled mum, wife & Labrador owner.
Bernadette Musker
Transformational Coach
I have accumulated over two decades of experience as a Psychotherapist, undergoing significant life changes along the way. My journey has taken me from a Corporate Career in Financial Services to the Public Sector, where I worked with the London Police. Four years ago, I relocated from London to Dubai and made a decision to pursue training as a coach. I am passionate about supporting individuals through significant transitions and transformations in their lives and I find fulfilment in supporting others through these processes.
Ngozi Weller
Mental Wellbeing & Productivity Coach
Ngozi Weller is a mental wellbeing and productivity coach who works with progressive small and medium sized businesses to deliver sustainable and effective employee wellbeing and productivity solutions. Calling on her unique experience and expertise, she helps leaders skilfully navigate the challenge of balancing workplace productivity with employee wellbeing in a competitive post-COVID era. Having worked for over 15 years in the world of Big Oil, Ngozi has experienced first-hand how challenging the corporate world can be. Following her own battle with work-related depression and anxiety, she set up Aurora with her psychologist cousin to normalise the conversation around workplace mental health and to provide strategic wellbeing support designed to strengthen your employees’ mental resilience and improve workplace productivity. When she's not doling out advice, she can be found sitting mute on the sofa watching tv with her husband or refereeing fights between her two kids. She is an avid cook and lover of good food, good music and great company (not necessarily in that order!). She is a skilled writer and has her own blog as well as having featured in guest blogs and magazines.
Sophie Weller
Business Coach
I am a business coach, Chartered accountant and Fractional CFO, with over 20 years experience in large corporates, and my current focus is working with start-ups and small businesses looking for growth or to scale. I work with lots of founders looking to set out a clear strategy and then build the steps to get their businesses where they want them to be. Working with founders can mean working with conflict, confidence, money mindset among other things.
Louise Demetriou
Leadership Coach
Louise Demetriou is a certified neuro-based executive coach, senior HR consultant, and founder of Culture Code. Specialising in leadership development, she partners with organisations to unlock potential and foster high-performance leadership. With expertise in mindset, neuroscience, and behavioural profiling, Louise drives transformational change across organisations. She has over two decades of senior HR leadership experience with global companies like Inditex, LVMH, and Selfridges, focusing on engagement, culture, and performance. Louise holds a Master’s in Human Resources, is a Fellow Chartered CIPD member, and an accredited coach and mentor.
Jacqui Frost
Leadership & Resilience Coach
Jacqui spent twenty years years in primary education, sixteen as a headteacher in four different schools. She was also an OFSTED inspector as a serving headteacher. Since January 2017, she has been a leadership coach, working with leaders and teams across many different settings. She is a soon to be ACC ICF accredited coach, a Resilient Leaders Consultant and a Director of Leadership43. Jacqui is passionate about coaching and strives to help her clients “unlock their treasure chest of resources” she guides them to find the key. Jacqui is currently a coach for a large multi- academy trust and has a many individual clients. She has run various programmes and workshops, at the heart of this work is the Resilient Leaders Framework.
Lucie Lachnitova
Leadership Coach & Mentor
Lucie Lachnitova is a coach and leadership mentor who has been in the learning, staff development and leadership space for 11 years. She helps professionals get better at recognising their strengths and believing in how good they are – and use this to achieve their ambitions. Her mission is to get her clients to clearly see and fully use their potential and to grow as a result. She works both with 1-2-1 clients and teams, mainly in education and voluntary sector organisations.
Joanne Stimson
Sales and Lead Generation Coach
Johanne Stimson, an award winning seasoned sales and lead generation strategist, coach and mentor based in East Sussex is the dynamic force behind Go To Jo Ltd. With nearly four decades of sales experience starting from her parents' sweet shop, to roles at Midland Bank to MD and SD and co-owner of an underfloor heating business for 19 years, Johanne built expertise across many areas of sales and customer service, as well as having experienced the stresses of entrepreneurship directly. She’s now working to help other small businesses thrive, passionate about channeling her knowledge to help fast track others to scale, guiding them to treat their businesses as profitable enterprises rather than expensive hobbies.
Nonie Leonard
Vision Board, Life & Mindset Coach
Nonie is a Vision Board Life & Mindset Coach for ambitious driven women ready to elevate and achieve their goals through the Power of Faith, Vision & Strategy. Nonie is also the founder of the Highly Favoured Woman Community and Vision Board Speaker. Nonie has used Vision Boards for the past 10 years to achieve her goals and now she empowers women to find their WHY, WHAT & HOW as they bring their 2D Vision to 4D Reality.
Dawn Wright
Business & Transformational Coach
Dawn works in the wellbeing space. As a business coach she works with independent holistic and wellbeing business owners to help them grow a businesses they really love and that serves them financially, emotionally and energetically. As a transformational coach, she works with clients who are looking to discover their truth and become empowered to live their best life. She uses a holistic approach integrating modern coaching techniques along with mindfulness and meditation practices.
Pankti Killawali
Leadership Coach
I empower senior managers to step up and be leaders who are not only on fire in their roles and passionate about team development but also find time to be with their families/ pursue their hobbies. I do this by helping them develop strategic thinking, improve their communication skills, and manage teams more effectively. I hold the Associate Certified Coach accreditation with the ICF and the EMCC Global Individual Accreditation at the Practitioner Level.My coaching is based on Neuroscience and psychology-informed approaches. In my STEP UP for SUCCESS leadership framework I help my clients with confidence and grit, become role models, seek promotions, find their voice and challenge the status quo, without sacrificing themselves and compromising family time.In addition to being a Coach, I am a qualified Actuary with over 15 years of experience as a Senior Actuary with expertise in leadership, team management, project management and mentoring. I have experience of being a senior professional in the financial services market in this day and age; having seen and experienced what most of my clients face in their professional lives.As an Indian now living in the UK, I understand Eastern and Western cultures; and adapt my coaching style to meet my client’s cultural experiences.I live in London with my husband and 2 young children. I love travelling and we are off exploring different countries on most school holidays. The rest of my time is spent negotiating with my children, reading or watching Netflix.
Rebekah Whitaker
Leadership Coach
Through Quest for EST Rebekah is on a mission to raise standards in leadership and create the HappiEST leaders. After a 15 year career in construction and engineering Rebekah knows what it is like to lead in challenging environments. She works with corporate clients and individuals to develop the person behind the title of leader so that they can lead with confidence, clarity and empathy.
Salma Khan
Divorce Coach
Salma is a Break Up and Divorce coach working with women to reclaim and rebuild their lives during and after the chaos that divorce brings. She has a deep sense of empathy and provides her clients with a confidential and non-judgemental space to explore the challenges that lie ahead.Using a combination of NLP and positive Psychology, clients can work through their emotions of anger, guilt and confusion, to name but a few, so that they can make decisions from a place of clarity and calmness. Her primary objective is to reduce the confusion and conflict that clients are experiencing and allow them to decide how their life will take shape going forward.
Phyllis Woodfine
Resilience, Mindset & Business Coach, ACC, ICF Certified
Phyllis is a Resilience, mindset & business coach working with female therapists, coaches, health & wellness professionals. She helps them to move forward in their life and business positively with clarity and focus. Phyllis has worked in the wellness space for over 25 years with 20 of those as an Osteopath where she is known as an expert in her field. She has supported the profession by continuing to educate undergraduate and qualified professionals to be the best they can be through coaching and mentoring. Phyllis will be starting the Coaching Supervision course with Optimus in the Autumn.
Hilary Thomson
Business & Mindset Coach
Hilary is a business and mindset coach for new and aspiring women entrepreneurs helping them create successful online businesses so they can live a life of freedom and purpose. Hilary trained with the Optimus Coaching Academy in 2020 to gain the ACTP qualification and has trained to PCC standard. Hilary combines her coaching qualification, life experience and technical skills as well as her Masters in Business Information Technology with her 20+ years’ experience of working with and alongside 7 figure business directors and small business owners.
Nicola Skorko
Leadership & Executive Coach
Nicola is a leadership and executive coach helping women to find their fire, that passion and purpose for more influence, impact and income. She works with corporate clients and individuals to own being a leader as who they truly are leading from the heart with empathy and vulnerability, being a force for challenge and change in the corporate world and being the role model they didn’t have.
Francesca Aaen
Leadership & Performance Coach
Francesca is an PCC accredited leadership and performance coach, working with corporate clients across a number of sectors and with individuals to achieve success on their terms. She supports her clients to develop their leadership skills and to look at their performance in a holistic sense to get the best from their selves and their teams in a way that is sustainable and rewarding.
Nicola Rae
Executive coach
Nicola Rae is an Executive Coach (ICF Accredited), qualified Coach Supervisor, Coach Trainer and experienced Creative Strategist who works with ambitious brands, leaders and coaches to help them to live and work well. She combines her 20 year corporate marketing experience with a values-led and compassion-centered coaching methodology rooted in Neuroscience, Positive Psychology and Transactional Analysis. Nicola’s uniquely positioned supervision and coaching practice covers gender and racial equity, leadership development and wellbeing, helping to move her clients into possibility, overcome challenges and step into a more fulfilling way of working, leading and living.
Claire Brumby
ICF accredited coach & trainer
Claire is an ICF accredited coach and trainer; her mission is to help you perform at your absolute best both personally and in your business so you can truly live a limitless life. Passionate about helping businesses and their staff fulfil their potential without compromising on their wellbeing.Expert in transforming behaviours and mindset through effective training and coaching. Helping individuals gain self-awareness, confidence and unlock their potential. Claire is a high-calibre professional, time served entrepreneur, best-selling author and engaging speaker working with global clients such as Amazon.Extensive experience in teaching, training, workshop facilitation, presenting, and coaching clients from a range of backgrounds. Claire has a particular expertise in working with SME’s and hospitality given her track record in founding a now multi-award winning global FMCG brand and working in hospitality for 18 years.When you work with Claire you get someone who listens and understands. Clients have described her as genuine and down to earth coach who listens wholeheartedly to her clients and their needs, and also as double espresso for their goals given the energy and questions she brings.Mum to her three children and a keen open-water swimmer, when she’s not working, you’ll find her in a large expanse of water somewhere!
Donna Edwards
Life & Connection Coach
She is a Life and Connection Coach working with women who want to consciously create a positive relationship with themselves, empowering them to move towards thinking, feeling and behaving in line with who they want to be and how they want to live. She uses her 15 years of coaching experience, alongside other methodologies including Neuroscience, NLP and Positive Psychology, to help her clients embrace self-awareness as a powerful tool for growth in communication, confidence, wellbeing, decision making and productivity.
Natalie Trice
Coach & PR Mentor
Natalie is a Career and Confidence Coach for media professionals and a PR mentor for small business owners.She qualified in 2020, is a member of the Association for Coaching and ACC accredited with the ICF. Named as one of top 50 Global Female Entrepreneurs To Watch in 2020 by ideamensch.com and listed as one of the top women in media by About Time Magazine in 2019, Natalie knows her stuff.
Ruth Wood
Executive Coach
Ruth Wood is an ICF accredited executive coach and an experienced leader having spent almost 20 years leading and managing in central government (Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Cabinet Office). This included roles in diplomacy, conflict resolution, strategy and transformation, and Ruth coached individuals and her teams for more than a decade as part of this. Ruth has a passion for empowering leaders to get the best from themselves and their teams to improve performance and retention. She coaches individuals and teams on challenges ranging from handling conflict, developing strategy and delivering change and transformation, to building trust, confidence and impactful communication.
Amy Leighton
Mindset & Confidence Coach
Amy Leighton is a qualified Mindset and Confidence Coach and DISC Personality Profiling Practitioner, who works with ambitious, creative business owners and professionals to cultivate confidence, shift the overwhelm and realise their full potential. Amy's core purpose is to empower clients through coaching with foundations in Positive Psychology and Neuroscience to create deep-rooted, long-lasting transformation. Banishing the wishy-washy approach, she is all about embracing realness by giving clients space to connect with where they are now, allowing them to align with who they want to be and supporting them to thrive in their definition of success.
Marisa Brennan
Mindset Coach
I’m a former family law solicitor, HR advisor, and charity chair turned professional coach, committed to helping individuals and organizations thrive. My diverse background has shaped a coaching style that’s intuitive, empathetic, and empowering. I work with courageous leaders seeking deeper self-awareness, stronger team dynamics, and a compassionate, values-driven culture. I also coach individuals looking to shift their mindset and perspective, enabling growth and positive change. My goal is to support meaningful transformation and lasting success.
Fay Blakey
Business & Leadership Coach
Fay Blakey is a business coach – working with business owners/leaders to help them maximise their potential by focusing on both their business and themselves as business owners. Fay has been working with business owners (and senior teams of businesses of all shapes and sizes in a variety of sectors) for over 20 years, both as a coach and as an adviser/consultant. Importantly, Fay has worked with businesses through the financial crash of 2007 and the Foot & Mouth crisis in 2001, so she fully understands financial and economic pressures applied to businesses.
Caroline Garlick
Pure Compassion Coach
Caroline is a pure compassion coach. Pure coaching with compassion, courage and growth working with small business owners as well as people who cannot afford or are unable to access pure coaching, helping them grow, change and achieve with confidence. She has a background in health and social care, an ICF Member with ICF ACTP Professional Coach Qualified and fully trained with Optimus Coaching Academy (aka Kudzi Coach Academy) with a view to gain an ICF Accreditation Credential in the near future.
Eleanor Tweddell
Coach & Founder
Chris Roberts
Leadership & Team Coach
Chris is a leadership and team coach and mentor, with 30+ years in the food industry at all levels and across a myriad of functions. He helps leaders and teams to learn, build capability, and achieve their desired results through a step change in collaboration. The ability of a team to learn and collaborate faster and more effectively than the competition is one of the truly sustainable sources of competitive advantage in today’s marketplace. And in today’s job market, creating an environment that inspires and retains great people has huge (tangible) benefits. Chris qualified with Optimus Coach Academy in 2022 and is currently working towards ICF accreditation.
Jenny Stallard
Coach & Writer
Jenny Stallard is founder of Freelance Feels: Coaching and community for the self employed. A coach, writer and podcaster, she works with freelancers who have lost their fire or mojo and want to reconnect with their love of freelancing, build new goals and work through the ‘meh' of the day to day we can often experience as small business owners. She works one on one as well as running workshops and masterclasses.
Claire - Louise Adams
Learning & Performance Coach
Claire-Louise is recognised and acknowledged as an expert within the Learning & Performance industry.She uses her 17 years of Learning, Leadership & Organisational Development experience in supporting her clients to achieve success on their terms in life and businesses. Claire-Louise works with clients on a one to one basis and through group programmes, using a blend of tools such as DISC, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Personal Development and Wellness techniques.
Claire Winter
Trainer & Coach
Claire Winter is a trainer, coach and host of the Cracking Content podcast. She is passionate about helping coaches and creative entrepreneurs to amplify their expertise through storytelling, content and PR so that they can get more sales and make a bigger impact. Claire uses a blended coaching and mentoring approach to ignite her client's creativity so they can share their authentic voice and story.
Dominique Atwell
Mindset & Development Coach
Dominique Atwell is an ICF ACTP certified, Mindset and Development Coach who helps leaders make transformation in their personal or professional lives. She works with clients to uncover blocks, patterns of thinking, behaviours and habits that impede them from living the life or being the leader that they dream of. Using her 15 year of experience in teaching, training and leadership, and having experienced and managed imposter syndrome herself, she uses a mixture of coaching models, such as positive psychology and neuroscience to coach others to live happy and fulfilling lives. Dominique offers 1:1 coaching, group coaching, training days and talks.
Laurence Knott
Leadership & Performance Coach
Laurence is an ACC accredited leadership and performance coach working with leaders, ambitious young professionals and entrepreneurs across a range of sectors with a speciality in property and construction. Laurence’s coaching focuses on supporting his clients to create a personal culture of healthy high performance, overcome obstacles and step into their full power as leaders of their own lives whilst cultivating the gifts of greater self-awareness and personal responsibility. h
Kelly Keating
Coach
Kelly is a certified Executive and Leadership Coach, Change Practitioner, Facilitator and NED with extensive experience working with transformational leaders across Global Financial Services and the 3rd Sector. Amassing a 25 year career with roles across Marketing, Operations and Technology at reputable brands such as JP Morgan Chase and the RNLI. Kelly partners with clients to achieve clarity and increased self awareness by leveraging their own unique values and strengths, specialising in those experiencing a transition, be it exploring a new role, career progression, successful flexible working, preparing for retirement and developing confident authenticity in the workplace. Kelly has helped her clients successfully achieve clarity and follow their goals such as obtaining promotions, identifying a career that they are truly proud of, increasing performance by reframing limiting beliefs, successfully changing roles and careers and enhancing their leadership impact. Kelly's coaching style is compassionate, whilst honest and energetic, working hard to ensure that each session is tailored to each client's individual needs and desired outcomes. Kelly is a life long lover of learning and enjoys gaining new skills and qualifications enabling her to include new tools and techniques. Kelly lives by the coast in the South of England with her partner and son, loves exploring, camping and attending music festivals in their beloved VW T5.
Suzie Richards
Mindset & High Performance Coach
I help high achievers as a Mindset & High Performance Coach. I work with Olympic Champions, ambitious individuals and businesses who strive to be and do better each day. I have developed The Elite Athlete Mentality Method for those who want to learn and apply the mindset of the world's best athletes. I work with global companies who want the winning edge. As an ICF accredited coach (ACC), I provide an open, safe space for new innovative ambitious thinking that creates global impact.
Sara Mobarhanfard
Business strategist & Leadership Coach
Sara is a business strategist and leadership coach. She helps highly ambitious entrepreneurial employees who want to grow a side business and thrive in their corporate job at the same time.Sara, originally an engineer, has over 15 years of experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments. She is also a serial entrepreneur and founder of a fashion accessories brand.Training and qualifying in 2022 with Optimus Coach Academy, Sara is a member of the ICF and holds an ACC accreditation.She is based in Switzerland and works with clients in both 1:1 and group basis
Tess Nixon-Spiller
Coach & Philanthropy and Fundraising Consultant
Tess has held senior roles in the charity and higher education sectors for 15 years. Most recently Interim Deputy Director of Fundraising at Teenage Cancer Trust and prior to that Head of Philanthropy at Cancer Research UK. Tess also brings diverse experience across the school, charity, Arts and HE sectors as a consultant and coach working with numerous clients. Tess is passionate about human-focused leadership, wellbeing, modern workplaces, leading through change and uncertainty, meeting big ambitions, managing conflict, building better relationships and finding your own, authentic leadership style. Tess works with individuals privately – perhaps they want something in their life to change, courage to make a bold decision, support with wellbeing or relationships and individuals at work supporting the transition to leadership roles, managing overwhelm, working through complexity, building better relationships and having great conversations when the stakes are high. Tess is trained and certified by the ICF (International Coaching Federation). Tess has facilitated and trained many diverse groups and is a frequent speaker at national conferences.
Sarah Jane Maxwell
Certified Financial Coach
Sara Jane Maxwell, Certified Financial Coach and Founder of Wealth Coach. Passionate to inject colour and energy into the grey of finances. Empowering individuals, couples, groups and businesses to find the joy in connecting to their money and future. Drawing on 20+ years experience in the Financial services industry, to engage and transform the relationship with money, enabling true financial awakenings.
Val Hassall
Brand and Business Coach
Val is a brand and business coach specialising in personal profiling and confidence (ICF - ACC). She helps creative founders and leaders to nail their positioning and sell themselves with confidence so they can stand out and win clients. Val is Story Skills trained, a TEDx speaker on ‘The Art of Owning Your Story (scheduled Autumn 2022) and has more than 15 years' experience in her field - from supporting small business owners and entrepreneurs to working on 8-figure brands. Outside of work, you’ll find her playing hard with her kids, hunting down good coffee, or dancing to any beat available.
Laura Eeles
Leadership & Confidence Coach
Laura Eeles specialises in coaching corporate clients on topics such as leadership, confidence, communication and self management. Her background is in Private Equity where she worked for more than a decade leading large teams specialising in Finance and Investor Relations. Her approach is practical, down to earth and challenging when appropriate. Her aim in coaching is to provide a space to explore both your professional and personal life to discover what is holding you back and how to unlock your full potential.
Louise Roberts
BSc Psychologist & Mindset Coach
I am Louise Roberts a qualified BSc Psychologist and Mindset Coach. I help women with their mindset to make the transition from there corporate roles into entrepreneurship.The Courage to let go, the determination to see through the fog and the clarity to build a new life. Coaching sessions are via zoom and in person.
Vanessa Huertas
Coach
Vanessa is an ICF accredited coach with a background in HR, leadership, training and development. She focuses on working with individuals and teams who are growing and transitioning professionally. This can be with those returning to work after a period of absence, like maternity leave, with growing teams facing new dynamics and challenges or with individuals stepping into a more senior role as they progress in their careers. Through coaching, Vanessa helps people build their confidence, allowing them to achieve their goals and ambitions.
Ashleigh Hayden
Behavioural Coach
It is my mission to support female leaders by empowering self-belief, supporting development of communication strategies and techniques to better navigate conflict, build inner resources to adapt to challenges and make empowered choices. What we think informs what we feel which informs how we behave. When we understand what we think and have compassion for what we feel, we can decide which behaviours are helpful or unhelpful. As a coach, my role is to create a safe psychological space to explore beliefs, cultivate compassion for emotions and define impactful behaviour. I am an Behavioural Coach certified and accredited with the International Coaching Federation and founder of Hexagon Gold Limited. Using the principles of coaching I help women to personally and professionally thrive. My signature programme is called The Survival Strategy, it is a 12 week one to one programme designed to support new leaders.
Andy Ballie
Coach
Hi, my name is Andy and I am a doctor and personal development coach. I am passionate about helping people to identify blocks and friction in their lives and using a coaching approach to identify individualised ways to overcome them. I mainly work with people who feel that they have lost their direction in life and are not fulfilling what they feel is their full potential. Working together, we can reconnect you with who you are and what is important to you. I produce regular content on all things personal development on my social media pages and webpage. The link below will take you to all of the relevant pages, including the best ways to get in touch with me.
Michelle Parsons
Performance Coach and Nutritionist
Michelle Parsons
Performance Coach and Nutritionist
Michelle is an ACC Accredited Performance Coach, NLP Practitioner and Certified Nutritionist with evidence-based Mac Nutrition University. She has 10+ years of coaching experience and supports professional mums to optimise their performance personally, professionally and physically. With 20yrs management experience, Michelle is a single mum of two and runs her coaching business alongside a performance coaching corporate role. She understands the struggle for women to juggle work, life and motherhood, whilst also taking care of themselves. Michelle supports her clients to get clear on their vision of success, reduce overwhelm, build resilience, increase productivity and make transformational change. Her approach is practical, pragmatic and uses positive psychology and neuroscience to empower women to succeed and sustain their results. In any spare time, she’ll be in the gym, walking dogs, jumping over muddy logs or getting messy with crafts.
Nicole Freeman
Mindset and Performance Coach
Nicole is a mindset and performance coach for high achievers and people pleasers. Her specialty is helping clients get rid of the voice in their heads that’s always questioning, doubting and criticising their efforts at home and work. As an ICF PCC accredited coach and also a clinical hypnotherapist, her approach is based on the neuroscience of how our brains work. She helps clients to overcome their self-doubt and overthinking and start taking the action they need to build thriving, successful, happy lives.
Helen Schoeb
Personal and Career Growth Coach
Helen specialises in working with women who are looking for help with their job and career. Her clients are usually returning to work, starting a new role, looking to develop their career or looking for something completely new. Helen uses positive psychology, is solution focussed and clients often leave with new insights and a list of actions. Helen has had multiple corporate roles, run her own business and has recently added to her knowledge and experience becoming a professionally qualified coach. Helen helps clients to be confident in their abilities, clear on their career goals and to be happy at work.
Shona Johnston
Coach
I am an Optimus graduate, ICF trained coach, mum and paediatric doctor. I have worked in the NHS for 19 years so understand the pressures experienced by health workers, especially during the pandemic. I use evidence-based coaching approaches and have particular interests in neuroscience, positive psychology and ACT. I coach overwhelmed health care professionals so they can find self compassion, joy and purpose and live to their potential.
Jacqui Doyle
ICF Accredited Transformational Coach
I can help you to move from where you find yourself now, to the place where you want to be, and provide you with practical and tangible tools to use along the way. Whether that be a career move, personal change, lack of confidence or direction or with respect to a loss and grief. Certified Grief Coach & BREATHE Program Facilitator
Jude Kempton
Leadership
Jude is an accredited Leadership and Team Coach dedicated to helping ambitious leaders and teams to find better ways to work. Jude supports organisations to elevate their teams and develop calmer leaders by deepening employee engagement, building confidence and improving wellbeing. Prior to coaching, Jude spent nearly 20 years leading and managing high performance digital marketing teams for prominent media brands in the UK. She understands the pressure of working in fast paced environments and has hands-on experience of delivering organisational change.
Nonie C White
Life Coach
Nonie is an ICF-accredited life coach with a Masters degree in Social Entrepreneurship, advanced professional training in Positive Psychology and extensive experience of supporting women to build sustainable businesses around their busy lives. Her passion is to help impact-driven female entrepreneurs and leaders create the aligned businesses and flourishing lives that they want to have, with less hustle and burnout and more happiness & success.
Ian Browne
Coach
One in every two of us describe ourselves as “introverts”. We can be stereotyped as shy, reclusive, lacking in confidence. Often it's untrue, yet we do live in a world largely designed for extroverts. When it comes to careers, that matters.I’m Ian, trained with Optimus Coach Academy with an additional masters degree in coaching practice and many hours of coaching experience.I help introverts develop “Quietly Successful Careers”. Trying to be “more extrovert” is exhausting. I focus on helping you leverage your best introvert qualities; working successfully alongside extroverts, not pretending to be one.With many years of corporate experience, adult learning & development, creative design & talent management under my belt my aim is to help you develop your own “quietly successful career” and maybe grow to become a “quietly successful leader”. All the ambition, just a little less noise.
Penny Phillips
Parenting Coach
Penny is an ICF-ACC Parenting Coach, Facilitator, Supervisor and Founder of The Parent Village a charity that works with parents to support their children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. The Parent Village is here for you and will help you navigate your journey through parenthood in a way that builds on your own experiences, your values and culture allowing you to learn from evidence based strategies and form firm connections and friendships so you feel a little less alone and a little more equipped. Penny has been coaching and working with parents for over 10 years and works 1:1 and with groups. Penny has a love of and competes in Trail events and the Kent Fitness League cross country season, she runs a youth group on a Sunday and is really enjoying being a parent of two entertaining teenagers.
Rebecca Daniel
Mindset & Transformation Coach and Trainer
Rebecca is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Neuro-Linguistic Programming and DISC Personality and Behaviour Profiling Practitioner as well as being a qualified Mental Health First Aider and former teacher.Rebecca works with heart-centered and purpose driven female professionals and supports organisations and businesses to empower their teams by improving and prioritising their mindset and wellbeing. She draws upon her skills, alongside other coaching tools and modalities (such as positive psychology and neuroscience) to evoke awareness and facilitate change in her clients.She is an associate trainer for Optimus Coach Academy and an associate coach for Genius Within CIC supporting neurodivergent adults, helping them to flourish in the workplace and in society. Rebecca is the co-founder and director of, ‘The Coaching Catalysts’ and supports her clients via her membership, 1:1 / group coaching and events.Clients would describe Rebecca as a no-nonsense coach who is completely invested in the growth and wellbeing of her clients. She has a warming presence, challenges her clients in a welcoming and supportive environment and helps her clients to thrive in all areas of their lives so they feel truly fulfilled.
Tamzin Hall
Performance Psychology Coach
Hello there! Allow me to introduce myself - I'm Tamzin, a Performance Psychology Coach specialising in executive and leadership coaching with a unique twist. I firmly believe that incorporating play and fun into the workplace is the key to success!As a qualified coach and mentor for the ABM (Association of Business Mentors) and a graduate member of the BPS (British Psychological Society), I possess a wealth of knowledge on how play at work can significantly enhance performance. My extensive leadership experience coupled with a degree in business psychology enables me to offer a range of services, including 1:1 executive coaching, team coaching, succession plan management, training and development, and DISC assessments.My ultimate goal is to help individuals and teams realise their full potential by weaving a golden thread of fun and play into all my coaching sessions. In fact, my dissertation on workplace happiness has confirmed that a playful and engaging work environment is the secret sauce to success!So if you're looking to infuse some energy and excitement into your workplace, let's connect and start a conversation. I would be delighted to hear from you and help you turn up the volume on your leadership potential!
Nicky Quinton
Leadership and Teams Coach And Consultant
As a former teacher and school leader, I shifted into the world of coaching and consultancy to enable myself to broaden the impact of my passion and skill: Developing people - with compassionate care and candor through self-awareness and conscious communication. I am trained to ICF standards, in Management Drives Profile Coaching, NLP, Dynamic Facilitation and Safeguarding Supervision. I work with local authorities, schools and Trusts providing individual and team coaching, creating and delivering bespoke professional development training programmes devised to meet the needs of the adults within the establishment: supporting, seeing and hearing the people within. My passion for bringing high quality and meaningful coaching approaches into schools stems from deep understanding and acceptance (supported now by the findings of neuroscience) that before teachers and leaders can do the big stuff (be it Booms or Rosenshine) we must start from a baseline of Maslow. In an industry where people are measured by what can be evidenced from transferring from head to the hand – Nicky connects the heart into Education and leadership. A collaborator by nature Nicky also facilitates training programmes such as “Positive Peace in Schools: The Teacher as Peace Worker.”, “Refilling the Well” and “Equipped2succeed”
Kat Luckock
The Social Entrepreneur Coach
Kat Luckock
The Social Entrepreneur Coach
Kat is a social entrepreneur, impact strategist and business coach passionate about helping women in particular generate the income they need to deliver the social & environmental change they want to create through entrepreneurship.Generating money + sales is not talked or taught about nearly enough in the social impact or social enterprise space, which is why Kat has set about to change that and help ambitious leaders for change understand how to build businesses for purpose without ever compromising on their values (especially when it comes to sales). She coaches clients on sales, business development, impact strategy & measurement, as well as messaging and finding your purpose.
Lee-Anne Brown
Coach & Dubsado Expert
Lee-Anne’s vision is to empower women with the knowledge and support to grow and thrive in what they do; starting with unlocking their potential, rediscovering their identity, and reclaiming their confidence!Lee-Anne’s passion to support others comes from her own experience of various trauma throughout her life and has given her the drive to discover, learn and heal. Enabling herself to work through what has happened, has given her the motivation for more. Rediscovering who we are through coaching, is empowering and magical!Lee-Anne is also currently training to become an accredited ICF Narcissistic Trauma-Informed Coach, EMDR and Brainspotting.
Clare van der Spuy
Performance & Wellbeing Coach
Clare van der Spuy
Performance & Wellbeing Coach
Clare is an ACC accredited Performance & Wellbeing Coach, working with women who are suffering under the pressures of “doing it all” to “have it all”, feel confident at work, go after their career aspirations, and create a life that flows for them in their personal lives. Clare believes that we can all be happy, healthy, and high-achieving in life - it’s just a matter of learning how. She is an expert at leading her clients through the process of creating the life they want when they feel it’s completely out of reach for them.
Helen Booker
Personal Development
Personal Development & Neurodivergent Coach. I specialise in supporting teenagers, young adults, teachers, and those with ADHD & Autism.At whatever age and stage, life can be challenging for many reasons. By using a strengths-based approach to build confidence and self-esteem, I empower my clients to find out more about themselves and to have vision for a future in which they thrive. I support clients to discover their own path round the obstacles and to take steps to fulfil their potential.
Sophy Wells
Personal and Career Growth Coach
When creativity is flowing, life is exciting, joyful and meaningful. When it’s not, we can feel stuck, stagnant and unsure of how to move forward. Sophy will help you reflect, refocus and reconnect to what's important to you so that you can feel inspired about what you do again. Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what a client has said: "Sophy has a natural ability to empower; allowing space to work through challenging issues and seemingly insurmountable barriers."
Jo Gibney
Life and Career Coach
Jo Gibney
Life and Career Coach
As an ICF-trained career and life coach, I typically work with mid-career individuals who are feeling stuck or holding themselves back. I support them to have the courage and confidence to make the right choices for their lives, and take the next steps. I have a positive psychology and strengths-based approach to coaching, and may use tools to help clients unlock their thinking. Prior to coaching, I worked in the charity sector, supporting those who work directly with volunteers.
Danielle Cudjoe-Michalski
Neurodiversity and Career Coach and Mentor
Danielle is a neurodiversity coach and mentor with professional coaching certification and co-founder and lead of Neurodiversity Network. In addition, Danielle is a neurodiversity consultant, speaker and delivery of neuro-inclusive workshops based on her knowledge and lived experience. Danielle helps neurodiversity/ neurodivergent adults gain clarity on their challenges and strengths. Gaining support and tools with their challenges and utilising their strengths in all areas of their life and work. Combined with her 18 years of corporate experience, neurodiversity lived experience and over 5 years of coaching and mentoring experience. She is well placed to support individuals who want to regain their life and work easily in their flow.
Hannah O’Donnell
Coach & Marketing Mentor
Hannah is a coach and marketing mentor for women. Through her work, Hannah’s primary aim is to support women in achieving a life of balance and not burnout whilst pursuing their goals. Hannah recognises the pressures faced by women and is as such your ‘anti-hustle’ advocate. Combining her coaching skills with over 12 years of expertise from working within the marketing industry, Hannah is well placed to help women who run their own business or are looking to build their own business on their terms.
Rozalyn Willocks
Career Coach
When we find ourselves in a career rut, its impact often extends beyond our professional lives. Equipping ourselves with the right tools and techniques can provide a clearer vision and empower us to take decisive action. Rozalyn, a Career Coach & Mentor with a background in Recruitment, specialises in assisting individuals navigating various career situations. Her clients, whether returning to work, embarking on a new role, seeking career development, or exploring entirely new paths, benefit from her expertise in devising effective job search strategies, crafting winning CVs, and optimising LinkedIn profiles. Rozalyn employs EFT, NLP and positive psychology maintaining a solution-focused approach. Clients frequently depart with fresh insights and a tangible list of actionable steps. Drawing from her diverse corporate experience and entrepreneurship, Rozalyn recently obtained professional coaching qualifications, further enriching her knowledge and skills. Her mission is to instil confidence in clients, identify their values, clarify their career goals, and feel inspired again. Beyond her coaching role, Rozalyn is also the host of the Career Mavericks podcast and upcoming author. 'Working with Rozalyn was brilliant; her incredible support helped me clarify my career goals, identify preferred organisations, and recognise my values. Thanks to her encouragement, I now feel more confident in what I have to offer and am well-positioned to move forward’.
Becky Wainewright-Smith
Self Worth and Visibility Coach
Becky Wainewright-Smith
Self Worth and Visibility Coach
Hi I’m Becky. I work with female founders who run their business around their children. The topics we tend to explore cover self worth, imposter syndrome and ‘putting yourself out there’. I help you to step into your power, enabling you to feel comfortable being visible as the unique person you are. Offering space for you to become more you as you uncover and work on the things that are holding you back. And once you’re ready, my 15 years of marketing and social media experience means that I can help you present yourself and your business in the online space.
Prof. Maxine Robertson
Leadership & Sober Coach
Maxine works with professional service and knowledge-based organisations. She offers distinctive coaching packages which draw on her professional expertise and coaching skills in order to elevate employee performance and simultaneously support well-being across professional and knowledge-based sectors. In her 25 years in academia, she conducted research on the challenges of effectively managing professionals across numerous sectors (e.g. law, investment banking, NHS, biotechnology, IT) and her research has been published in world-leading journals. She is now Professor (Emerita) of Organisation and Management, at Queen Mary University of London.
Jo Fuller
Menopause and Menstruation Coach and Mentor.
Jo Fuller
Menopause and Menstruation Coach and Mentor.
I am committed to raising awareness of the two big hormonal changes, Menarche and Menopause and I support those who Menstruate to experience the life-changing benefits of working with, and not against their natural cycles at every stage of their hormonal life journey.I help organisations retain and support the valuable talent of those transitioning from Perimenopause to Menopause and into Post Menopause. I offer 1:1 and group coaching sessions to enable anyone to break through the hormonal glass ceiling. www.themerrymenopause.com
Natalie Tucker
Business & Social Impact Consultant
Natalie is a personal and professional coach who works mainly with purpose-driven entrepreneurs, ex-pats, and mid-career professionals seeking a new direction. She is passionate about supporting clients to thrive in work and life, and enabling those who have not yet found fulfillment to build it for themselves.
Anne-Marie Gallagher
Burnout, Empowerment & Well-Being Coach.
Anne-Marie Gallagher
Burnout, Empowerment & Well-Being Coach.
Anne-Marie is a qualified Burnout, Empowerment & Well-Being coach.Through coaching she holds a space for the ambitious, capable, intelligent female professional or business owner who has found themselves continuously highly stressed, overwhelmed and under immense pressure. They may feel they are heading towards, or know they are recovering from burnout.Anne-Marie will meet you where you are at. She can help with strategies and mindset work (using principles of Positive Psychology and Neuroscience in her approach). She also covers the deep stuff. The healing from within due to the repeated impact of stress on the entire system. If you are feeling lost, or asking Is this It? She can help you find your way again, and most importantly find your sparkle!
Claire Fitzsimmons
Well-being and Menopause Coach.
I help people to have more good days by developing an everyday life practice that meets them wherever they are, with whatever it is they need. I draw from positive psychology, transactional analysis, somatics and neuroscience, but also the science of wellbeing, culture, nutrition, feminism, really anything that might help to understand what it means to be a person in this world, and how we can possibly do life with all that life can contain. I also work with women in mid-life, particularly negotiating shifts associated with the (peri)menopause. 1% of my practice goes towards initiatives that support better emotional and mental health for everyone. Website :https://www.ifloststarthere.com/moregooddayshttps://www.instagram.com/ifloststarthere/
Sara Fermore
ICF Associate Certified Coach. Holistic Wellbeing Coach
Sara Fermore
ICF Associate Certified Coach. Holistic Wellbeing Coach
I am a Holistic and Wellbeing Coach working with people from all walks of life and all ages. Specialist adolescent coach with a background in emotional wellbeing. To contact for a free discover call and learn more please contact me at sarafermorecoaching@hotmail.com I look forward to hearing from you.
Victoria Ross
Happiness in Healthcare Coach
Victoria Ross
Happiness in Healthcare Coach
Victoria is an ICF certified Happiness in Healthcare Coach empowering those who work across all aspects of Healthcare to find more happiness in their day to day lives.Having worked as a dentist for many years Victoria understands the guilt experienced trying to balance family time with time spent at work and the emotional overwhelm experienced caring for others on a daily basis.Her coaching underpins the importance of balance in order to prevent burnout.
Holly Clarke
Change & Wellbeing Coach
Holly Clarke
Change & Wellbeing Coach
Holly is a qualified Coach and Mental Health First Aider. She works with people who are entering a new phase of their life or are needing to adapt to a change in circumstances. Along with her coaching skills, she uses positive psychology and neuroscience to help her clients explore new ways of feeling, thinking and behaving so they embrace the changes ahead and feel confident and excited about the future. She is also the co-founder of ‘The Coaching Circle’ and supports her clients via her membership, group programmes and 1:1 work. www.instagram.com/hollycoaching www.facebook.com/hollyiscoaching
Laura Ellera
Coach & Mentor
Laura Ellera is a Business Startup Mentor, top ranking, award-winning podcaster and speaker based in Henley-on-Thames, UK. Her mission is to help new entrepreneurs create a successful business from the inside out and she does this by helping them build rock-solid foundations, making the tech simple and the mindset fun, so that they can go from idea to client without the overwhelm or need to copy what everybody else is doing.
Chris Roberts
Chris Roberts
Chris is a leadership and team coach and mentor, with 30+ years in the food industry at all levels and across a myriad of functions. He helps leaders and teams to learn, build capability, and achieve their desired results through a step change in collaboration. The ability of a team to learn and collaborate faster and more effectively than the competition is one of the truly sustainable sources of competitive advantage in today’s marketplace. And in today’s job market, creating an environment that inspires and retains great people has huge (tangible) benefits. Chris qualified with Optimus Coach Academy in 2022 and is currently working towards ICF accreditation.
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