Partners

Anne Klara Schrijnemaekers, Brazil

Anne Klara has over 30 years of experience empowering leaders in various industries in Brazil. Her clientele includes international banks, pharmaceutical companies, and audit firms, among others. She specializes in enhancing soft skills such as communication style, public speaking, and cross-cultural intelligence in both English and Portuguese, helping professionals build confidence to excel in professional settings like job interviews and presentations.
Anne has been an educator for many years, training and mentoring teachers and translators, dedicating time to pro bono work. She has designed customized courses for language institutes and conducted extension courses for BA teachers. Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Language Arts, a postgraduate degree in education, and a specialization in Anglo-Irish Literature.
Adding to her experience in her field, Anne Klara has served as a Virtual Producer for three years. This experience has upgraded her remote coaching skills and teamwork abilities, which she leverages to assist others as a consultant and coach.
Outside of work, she is a fitness enthusiast and a PADI Dive Master, having coached novice divers in different locations including the Dutch Antilles, where she lived with her husband in the early 1990's. Click to connect.

Ali Rothwell, UK

Ali’s customer service, sales and leadership experience spans over 30 years working within both the private and public sectors. This includes working with FTSE 100 organisations, TUI Travel, Capita, KPMG, and Vodafone. In 2015 Ali set up Booming Performance a small organisation helping teams, individuals, and organisations to be the best that they can be and in Ali’s words #boom!

Ali is an NLP Practitioner, qualified in SDI Facilitator (Strengths Deployment Inventory), an Executive Coach with the ILM and EMCC and is also an authorized partner with the Five Behaviors®

Ali’s energetic, coaching style challenges people to think differently, and she has a natural flair in helping others to believe in themselves ultimately leading to improved performance in their working and personal life.

Growing up in the travel industry Ali has a real passion for travel that ermmm “Just keeps on growing” she loves spending time with her wife Jo, family and friends and is a big Lego fan! Click to connect.

Amy Grazen, USA

Amy Grazen develops and facilitates trainings for companies globally. Amy has 25 years of experience in corporate training, coaching and leadership development. She has a passion for supporting clients in living their best lives, multiplying talent of teams, and fostering healthy high performance as a priority for leaders. Creating work culture that enables individuals and teams to thrive drives competitive advantage when we recognize our most valuable resource is our people!

Trainings include; Leadership, Team and Personal Resilience, Change Management, Energy Management, Coaching, Wellbeing. Her clients include Allstate, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, GSK, Toshiba, Johnson and Johnson and MARS.

Amy lives in North Carolina with her husband Greg and their three children. Click to connect.

Charlotte Talmage, UK

Charlotte has over 20 years of experience as a change and communications specialist and runs, Uuna is a hand-picked community of expert Change Managers and Communication specialists. Based on the latin word for together, Uuna provides people and data led change management solutions that are highly bespoke and tailored to your culture, context and the way you work.

One of our key principles is that we build your internal change capability as part of working together, so you become future-fit to manage change ongoing.

Uuna has a suite of Change Diagnostics which provide insights and data to understand and improve your change capabilities - including Coaching on the Go! Click to connect.

Claire Rason, UK

Claire Rason is the founder of Client Talk. She is a consultant and an accredited coach. She has worked in, or alongside, professional services firms for over 20 years. Claire is passionate about bringing the power of active listening and diverse thinking to professional services firms.

Claire is a Mum of four children so can usually be found in a car taking one of them somewhere! When she isn't doing that she loves to entertain, put her feet up with a book and a glass of wine, or just put her feet up
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Debbie DeRoode
Debbie’s professional experience, and her passion to help others discover their best life, lead her to Health and Wellness Coaching. She is a certified Health and Wellness Coach, through the Duke Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching Program and the co-founder of Vibrant You – Wellness.
For over 20 years Debbie worked in a fast-paced corporate environment. As a sales leader, in a highly competitive environment, she had the benefit of working for an organization that supported employee well being and she personally experienced the positive impact it had on individuals and teams. Debbie strongly believes the core of any successful business is a healthy, happy and engaged workforce. Employees who thrive, strive to do their best work, it’s just that simple! As a facilitator, she brings a wealth of experience and a diverse skill set to her workshops. Debbie is passionate about working with organizations to empower more individuals to lead healthy and productive lives both personally and professionally. Click to connect.

Evija van der Beek, Latvia

Strong professional with a Master's degree in Management psychology and supervision, business trainer and a professional coach.

Areas of my expertise: wellbeing, stress management, Emotional Intelligence, management, individual and team coaching and supervision sessions; business and leadership soft skills development training, seminars, and workshops.

We used to value a company or organization by its KPIs, efficiency or productivity reports, etc. I believe that people are a core value of any organization so creating an environment for personal and professional growth, engagement and psychoemotional wellbeing is a key for developing a long term relationship with employees. Click to connect

Inita Alexander, UK
With over two decades of experience in both the sales and corporate sectors, my career has been characterized by a profound engagement with executives at every level, business owners, and team leaders across various industries. This extensive professional journey has endowed me with a nuanced understanding of the intricate dynamics and challenges prevalent within professional settings, guiding leaders and teams toward achieving their full potential.
Beyond my professional life, I am happily married and a devoted parent to two children and two stepchildren. My personal life is filled with activities that enrich my soul and body; I dedicate my spare time to fitness activities, am currently learning to play the piano, and am deeply invested in self-development. Supporting my husband's music hobby also brings me great joy and allows us to share creative pursuits together.
In my coaching career, my approach is grounded in Transpersonal Coaching, ensuring a holistic development for my clients that encompasses all aspects of life for fully rounded personal and professional growth. Click here to connect

Jeannie Jones, USA

Leaving a 32-year career in corporate human resources, Jeannie founded Rudder Consulting so that she could focus on her passion of inspiring and empowering healthy high performance. She enjoys working with leaders as they have a profound impact on team culture, employee performance and wellbeing. A Certified Wellness Practitioner, lover of positive psychology and neuroscience, she believes that effective leadership is an “X factor” and that, with intention and practice, it can be cultivated. For fun, she enjoys tennis, hiking and saltwater fishing. Click to connect.

Karen Walls, UK
Karen has a first-class degree in Economics and Business Studies from Edinburgh University. She began her career as a graduate trainee with the Ford Motor Co, working at both the Dagenham factory and in Head Office. She left to join Accenture in their Change Management Division and subsequently spent seven years with Hay Group before setting KWA Ltd.

Karen says of herself, my approach is always constructive, honest and motivational. Supporting senior leaders requires a reasonable insight in to a business and its culture, but more than that it requires a great insight in to an individual - done well it means never to make assumptions but to ask questions that enable me to understand motives, values, personal fears or inhibitors and aspirations. I always agree upfront issues around trust and confidentiality and my approach is premised on trust and mutual respect as well as creating a positive chemistry. Click here to connect.

Kerry Outlaw, UK
I have spent much of my career in investment banking, initially as an operations and risk professional and then in change and business transformation director roles. Since receiving my MBA in 2001, I established and led two change consultancies providing change consultancy and interim support across commercial, public and charitable sectors.
I now work as an independent consultant/coach under Yellow Bean Ltd. working with a portfolio of clients including start-ups, social enterprises and other charitable organisations.
My work underpins my broad interests in leadership and organisational culture. It is my “people focus” - my ability to build collaborative working relationships and to engage and partner with empathy, honesty and integrity that has defined my career. Click to connect.

LaBarron Burwell, USA

LaBarron Burwell is a wellness practitioner and organizational development expert hailing from Oxford, North Carolina where he completed his undergraduate degree in kinesiology. He later spent a decade in the DC Metro area to refine his skills, applying wellness education to the world of organizational development. LaBarron holds a master's degree in organizational development and is also a certified wellness practitioner by the National Wellness Institute. His driving mission is to empower individuals in both their personal wellness journeys and professional development through systematic approaches. When not assisting others, LaBarron finds joy in his favorite pastimes - comedy shows, cornhole, golf, and all kinds of sports. For an extra dose of excitement, challenge him to a friendly match in anything! Click to connect.

Dr Lois Brand, UK
Lois has many years of experience in coaching, leadership and education. As an emergency medicine consultant for nearly twenty years, she is experienced at leading and directing teams in high pressure situations. She currently works for Oxford University Medical School as Associate Director of Clinical Studies, Lead Clinical Tutor for Pembroke College and Coach for the Thames Valley Professional Support Service.
She has been coaching since 2010, is ICF accredited with a certificate in Business and Personal Coaching and is MBTI trained. Lois is a skilled and experienced group facilitator, regularly delivering workshops on leadership skills, challenging conversations in the workplace, interview preparation and career development skills. She also lectures post-graduate students on the Masters in Medical Education Course at Oxford University.
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Margaret Haarhoff, Australia

After over 20 years working as a leader within the corporate people and culture space, Margaret stepped away to create Consulting Make it Happen. Her passion is to work with managers and leaders at all levels to help them realise their full potential and thereby create the ripple effect enabling them to better support their teams to do the same.

There is no one size fits all approach! At times Margaret is engaged as a consultant to provide strategic direction and support leadership development, other times as a coach to work with individuals and teams. Margaret’s uses a strength based approach, which focuses on empowerment and growth. With her understanding of business and proven commercial acumen she is able to support leaders develop and learn resulting in improved leadership skills, individual performance, and greater alignment to organisational goals.

As a certified, Mental Health First Aider, NLP Practitioner, and Functional Nutritional Therapist, her approach is a holistic one, where wellbeing is paramount. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, Postgraduate Degree in Psychology, an MCIPD Diploma, is a certified Organisational Coach and MBTI practitioner. Click to connect.

Mike Thorne, UK

Mike Thorne works as The Engineering Leaders’ Coach, helping engineering organisations create high-performing leadership teams. As a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years’ experience in large engineering and utility businesses, including 15 years in senior roles, he has experienced and seen first-hand the challenges that prevent many engineering leaders and leadership teams from functioning at their best. But he’s also discovered that team and individual success are possible with the right support, which is what he brings in his team and executive coaching assignments.
Prior to starting his coaching business, Mike had operated in technical, commercial and regulatory roles, as well as working on high-profile projects and issues with senior stakeholders from UK government, Ofgem, UK and EU companies and industry bodies.
Building on this, Mike specialises in coaching directors, senior leaders and senior teams who come predominantly from an engineering background. His ability to establish good rapport quickly and to help his clients identify a way through their leadership challenges comes in no small part from his personal understanding of the way they think and the kind of challenges they face. Click here to connect.

Rebecca (Becks) Hoy

Becky has always had a natural instinct to help others and if you were to ask those close to her, they would say she has the best ears in town.

This has been evident throughout her career as a child and teenage counsellor, self-worth mentor, facilitator and coach.

Along with a cracking pair of ears Becky’s empathic nature combined with thought provoking questions helps those she works with to be the best that they can be, in both their work and personal lives . Click to connect.

Sandy is an experienced facilitator and has a passion for people and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for helping leaders reach their full potential. She is currently a neuroscience coach trained by the NeuroLeadership Institute, New York University, and is working with organisations to develop positive and sustainable change in teamwork and relationships.
Sandy started her career in education then in the early 1990s, she joined the corporate world working for an American Global IT company. Over the next three decades, she travelled worldwide, working with clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Her roles of European Director for People, Culture and Communications, and Head of Leadership Development UK IT operations allowed her to design and embed processes that made significant cultural changes.
She trained at MIT, Boston, in the Learning Lab and has worked as an Organizational Development consultant for many years. She is a psychometric practitioner and a Master of the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development.
She has written guidebooks on leadership, managing change and transition management, and for over 10 years, she studied leadership and lived with tribes in Kenya and Tanzania. Click to connect.

Ryan Armstrong, Spain

Ryan is a researcher at the University of Barcelona who studies well-being at work, focusing on the tensions caused in the context of immense societal, technological, and ecological change. He is also a facilitator at OtuLabs, a collaborative effort with organizational change and mental health specialists he co-founded to help organizations become more resilient, adaptable, and to carry out more meaningful work.

Ryan had a colorful work history prior to starting his academic career. In his native USA his resumé includes house painter, farm-hand, garbage man, retail worker, and kitchen manager, before finally landing as a business analyst in San Francisco. Before taking up his current position he advised companies in the recruiting sector on a wide range of issues related to big data and analytics. Click to connect.

Tash Ullah, UK
Tash worked for over 15 years in PR and Comms at some of the world's leading agencies, including Hill & Knowlton, Freud Communications and FTI Consulting, before moving into coaching in 2017. She went to set up The Reframe, an independent coaching consultancy focused on one thing, helping individuals and teams feel more powerful in the way they work.
She is known for being high energy, working hard to get people to where they need to be, and always delivering results.
Past experience includes being an in-house coach for communications consultancy Fanclub PR. Holding workshops for businesses including Snapchat and Wimbart Public Relations. And working with private clients from a number of businesses including Bumble, Netflix and TikTok. Click to connect.

Salam Al Kurdi, Canada

Salam Al Kurdi is a leadership and organizational development consultant, design thinking strategist and executive coach and facilitator. She has more than 10 years of diverse experience designing, developing, and implementing people development schemes and initiatives. Salam pioneered major leadership development programs across sectors and industries. She holds a master’s degree with dean’s list distinction in applied positive psychology, specialized in organizational coaching and wellbeing.
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Wendy Chowne, UK
Wendy is an experienced coach within the higher education and finance industries, and a qualified independent coach, mentor and educator. Through her career of over 35 years, Wendy has loved developing people and helping them to achieve success through proven coaching and mentoring processes. She is passionate about empowering people and adopts a philosophy-based approach, enabling them to achieve positive change within their lives.
From a background in banking, Wendy has worked extensively within the higher education sector and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The London Institute of Banking & Finance for her services. As an educator she has delivered bespoke individual and group training to professionals in terms of enhancing their teaching practice, and as a coach she has worked with individuals and groups from many different industries, enabling them to enhance their own performance through varied lenses such as: leadership, change management and presentation skills. She also undertakes pro bono coaching for The Brain Tumour Charity and The MicroLoan Foundation.
For Wendy coaching is all about “delivering tangible impact together”. And to relax, Wendy is an avid reader and loves playing & listening to music- most genres…and has recently taken up the challenge of Ceroc dancing! Click to connect.

Kevin Jennings, Dublin

Kevin is a leadership and OD consultant and executive coach with over 20 years experience building leadership and organisational capability in everything from scaling start-ups to complex global companies. He has held senior roles across multiple verticals, including global tech (Google), pharma
(ICON plc) as well as international education, healthcare, fintech and the music industry. Kevin has extensive individual and team coaching experience to c-level and has designed and led multiple manager, leadership and team development programmes. He enjoys working with leaders and teams on self-awareness, emotional intelligence, communication and collaboration, operational effectiveness and personal and organisational growth. He is especially interested in adaptive
leadership practices, systems thinking and leading change in complexity. He also has considerable experience in broader aspects of talent management including performance management, succession planning and high-potential leadership development, and deep experience in organisational learning strategy and digitally-mediated learning solutions.
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Marcus IIes, UK

Marcus is a passionate creative leader specialising in proposition and strategy creation and people engagement.
He has 25 years’ experience building bridges between leaders’ ambitions and business and communications strategies and the people who realise them.
Experienced CCO/ECD, NED and Board Advisor, accredited mentor, coach and facilitator. First and foremost, a creative and writer. International creative awards include Cannes Lions (Titanium, Silver, Bronze), Creative Circle, LIA, YouTube Effectiveness, DMAs, Echos, Crystals, Caples
He writes stories, poetry and top film lists.
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Nikki Appavoo, Mauritius

Originating from Southern Africa, and currently in Mauritius for more than 17 years, Nikki has grown into a diverse range of experiences in different sectors, majority of her career being focussed on people in human resources. She formally completed her training in coaching and neuro-linguistics more than 6 years ago and has developed stronger business relationships over the years thanks to this. Having run a recruitment agency for more than 4 years, and growing her own coaching business on the side, she now focuses solely on developing people into leaders by enhancing their own skills in the workplace, as well as communication levels being the focus. Her main motto in life is: "It's not what you say, it's how you say it."
Being a single Mum to a teenage boy keeps her occupied most days, and weekends being both a PADI Divemaster and level 3 AIDA Freediver, Nikki experiences life outside of work most weekends in the beautiful surrounding Indian Ocean of Mauritius, and is able to share her passions with many that come from abroad to explore the life underwater the small island has to offer. Click to connect

Trish Coppola, USA

Trish has spent her entire career in healthcare. She is trained as both a
dental hygienist and dentist and has had a successful career as a sales
professional in the pharmaceutical industry. She is keenly aware of the
challenges that clinicians face in delivering patient care as well as the
stressors associated with maintaining a successful business. Her former
employer offered a health and wellness program, and her life was changed
forever! In a matter of months, she found she was happier, more productive,
and less stressed. Her passion for health and wellness led her to become
a Certified Health and Wellness Coach through Duke University.
She is also the co-founder of Vibrant You – Wellness. Trish works with
organizations to create wellness programs that teach employees how to
balance stress and increase energy and resilience. As a Health and Wellness
Coach, she’s trained in the science of behavior change and can guide individuals
as well as groups in the change process. Change is not a linear process, and
employees will learn to identify obstacles to change, take small realistic steps
towards their goals and create healthy habits that stick. As an experienced
facilitator she brings a diverse set of skills to the coaching process:
Active listening, creative problem solving, and strategic thinking. Trish is
trained in Motivational Interviewing which is an evidence-based approach
to behavior change. She’ll will work with you to create a culture where health
is a priority, and individuals thrive both personally and professionally. In her spare
time, she enjoys hiking, traveling, and cooking nutritionally balanced plant-based meals.
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