Coach Directory

Find details of Optimus Coach Academy graduates who are now delivering coaching after completing our accredited training.

Coach Directory

Mike Cole

I help small business owners to evolve a long-term business that meets their financial and lifestyle goals. You can have a business that suits you, and supports you financially. As an ICF accredited coach (ACC), I provide a calm, supportive space to explore your options and shape your way forward. And my past life as a Chartered Accountant means that I can offer solid business insights and help you to make profitable decisions.

Lucie Lachnitova

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.

Nonie Leonard

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.

Salma Khan

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.

Nicola Rae-Wickham

Nicola focuses on working with creatives who want to live and work with heart. She is a Career Coach at Allbright, ICF Coach Trainer for Optimus Coach Academy and a Life Coach at the Shift.

Dawn Wright

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.

Anita Phagura

Anita is a Fierce & Authentic leadership coach, empowering diverse leaders to embrace their misfit and lead in their own style, through owning their superpowers, amplifying their message and taking risks out of their comfort zone where they need to, to create career success on their terms and effectively lead their teams.

Rebekah Whitaker

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.

Nicola Skorko

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

Francesca is an ACC 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.

Claire Brumby

Claire is a high-performance business coach and mentor working with ambitious women who are ready to play a bigger game; are tired of playing small and want more. She is here to help you perform to the absolute best you can, more so than you possibly believe you can right now! She is a qualified and accredited high-performance business coach, mentor, consultant and inspirational speaker who’s been on one hell of a journey over the past 25 years, here’s some of that craziness!

Donna Edwards

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

Natalie is a Career and Confidence Coach for media professionals and a PR mentor for small business owners.She qualified with the Kudzi Coaching in 2020, is a member of the Association for Coaching and is currently working towards full ICF accreditation. 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.

Hannah O’Donnell

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.

Prof. Maxine Robertson

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.

Amy Leighton

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.

Fay Blakey

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

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.

Hilary Thomson

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.

Laura Ellera

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.

Jenny Stallard

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.

Eleanor Tweddell

I help you to reinvent yourself, your business, your next chapter. Every month we go exploring in The Reinvention Lab. From there anything is possible. 121s, online courses and amazing, fun, transformational programmes are where we work together. Time to Reimagine Your Future!

Claire - Louise Adams

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

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

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.

Suzie Richards

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.

Sarah Jane Maxwell

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.

Victoria Tretis

Victoria is an Associate Certified Coach dedicated to conducting first-class business in a first-class way to transform behaviour and mindset for greater productivity, profitability and impact. Victoria offers a blend of pure coaching (non-directive conversations in line with values, ethical principles and standards of behaviour set by the International Coaching Federation), business mentoring, plus training design and delivery. Throughout her career, she has invested heavily in continued professional development to become a well-respected coach, trainer and mentor.

Val Hassall

Val is a personal profile and confidence coach (ICF - ACC). She specialises in helping creative founders and leaders to nail their positioning and sell themselves with confidence so they can grow their brand and business. 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.

Sara Mobarhanfard

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

Phyllis Woodfine

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.

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