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In a 25-year career, Tony held a wide range of management and leadership roles within the charity sector, from operational program management to senior leadership and executive roles. He took voluntary redundancy from a UK-wide disability
charity and now works full-time as a coach.
Tony has a detailed understanding of the pressures and challenges of working in the social sector, which can be very difficult, challenging, and unforgiving. Managing funding cuts,
recruitment issues, strategic uncertainty, restructures, and inadequate resources is relentless and exhausting. He understands the constant juggling of numerous responsibilities at work and home, leading to burnout.
Working
with Tony will enable clients to step back and critically examine their situation to understand what is or isn’t working. He helps clients identify what they need more of, what they need less of, what needs to change, how to achieve
these changes, what balance means to them, and how well they are honouring their core values.
Tony empowers clients to develop strategies to cope and prosper, reconnecting them to the purpose that originally drew them to
the sector.
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Transitioning to leadership, Leveraging strengths, Building confidence
Beth has been facilitating learning programmes for the last 20 years, and coaching for the last 4. People have described her as Purposeful, Powerful, Playful, Present-full and as a person who works in Partnership with others.
Throughout the course of her career, she has focused on developing people in leadership positions or transition points in their life, especially younger people between the ages of 18 – 30 and, as a passionate advocate of ‘championing
the underdog’ (the result of being a teenage Mum), ensuring that she practise what she preaches in terms of equality, diversity, and opportunities for all. She is now also working in the senior leadership development space.
Her openness to working with a wide range of people has seen her work in the corporate environment (including Amazon Web Services and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority), the Public Sector (to include the Cabinet Office, Citizen’s
Advice Bureau, Greenwich Council) and with many Third Sector organisations, to include Clore Social Leadership and Common Purpose. As a result, she has established a very chameleon like career and is able to cross fertilise ideas and
insight.
In her spare time she likes to travel, dance Salsa (not very good yet) and climb very big hills 😊
Sam is an experienced executive coach and mentor with a particular interest in trauma informed, somatic and whole person approaches. She has a proven track record of enabling individual development and leading edge, award winning services
in challenging environments. Sam has extensive strategic, board, community, and business experience with a flair for delivering innovative approaches and a strong dedication to creating a positive client experience, which is coupled
with extensive experience of governance and financial resourcing.
Sam has a deep-seated commitment to relational development work in releasing the full potential of each of us and this is at the core of her offer. Her approach
is integrative, tailored to the individual or team she is working with and grounded in her wide range of training and experience. For example, much of her approach draws on neuroscience, somatic, creative, and systemic constellations
work. Sam creates the conditions for you to show up authentically, offering a safe yet stretching space to work together effectively towards fulfilment of what matters most to you.
Sam is a Clore Social Fellow, Co-founded
The Junction-Young People, Health and Wellbeing and currently Co-Chair of Social Action Inquiry Scotland.
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Leaders’ and teams’ thinking partner, Systemic approach, Strengths-based and resilience building
A qualified executive and team coach, Catherine draws on over 25 years as a leader and CEO.
Catherine coaches individual leaders and their teams, working with organisations undergoing complex change. Partnering with leaders
to develop their capacity to reflect and engage, she enables coachees to lead organisational change, influence key stakeholders, and inspire their people to collaborate and achieve their full potential.
Responding to the
needs of clients, Catherine enjoys supporting leadership development at all levels of the organisation from executives to middle managers and governing boards.
Committed to inclusion and diversity, Catherine combines empathy
and challenge, creativity and humour. Holding the coachee and their resourcefulness at the forefront of the coaching relationship, she creates a safe, non-judgmental space where closely held beliefs can be explored. As a coach she
is patient and rigorous, able to shine a light on limiting assumptions and respond with creative questions that will enable coachees to gain new perspectives and generate actions.
Catherine’s deep leadership experience informs
her work in creating and delivering innovative leadership programmes, including with On Purpose Social Enterprise. Since going freelance, Catherine has co-founded several community initiatives focusing on community energy and nature
recovery.
Whenever possible Catherine takes the coaching outdoors.
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Leadership confidence, Career development, Conflict dissolution, Work-life balance, Group and peer coaching on request
Annie is a highly experienced leadership coach. She coaches from her own leadership experience as well as her professional coaching training.
Annie’s current work supports personal and professional leadership development at
all levels of the organisation from executives to middle managers and governing boards. Her approach is highly facilitative and focuses on the needs, wellbeing and aspirations of the client. Alongside coaching, she can also offer mentoring,
team facilitation, peer supervision and action learning where appropriate and agreed with the client.
Annie has trained with well-known coaches in a range of coaching approaches including narrative conflict dissolution,
organisational constellations, transactional analysis and NLP. An accredited Action Learning Facilitator with the Institute of Leadership and Management, as well as an accredited coach.
Annie also draws on her own recent
and current lived leadership experience. Her executive leadership roles include Head of a large Community Education Centre, and 12 years heading up an award-winning service Oxfordshire County Council with a staff team of 300. Since
going freelance she has founded successful small community and social enterprises: Barracks Lane Community Garden The Nature Effect CIC and the award-winning hub Flo's the Place in the Park.
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Leadership Development, Career Acceleration and Promoting Wellbeing
Alison is an ICF Associate Certified Coach with additional certification in career coaching, stress/wellness coaching and group coaching.
Alison specialises in leadership development coaching for emerging, new and established
leaders. She supports them to gain a greater awareness of their leadership style and any elements of leadership they may find more challenging. She draws on her coaching expertise and 25 years senior leadership experience to empower
leaders to hone their executive presence and thrive as visionary and inspiring leaders, whilst remaining true to their beliefs, values and personality.
Alison favours coaching the 'whole you,' encouraging personal growth
alongside professional development. This is founded in her belief that sustained success and a sense of accomplishment is attained when we grow as a person and strive to achieve work/life integration.
She prefers to describe
her coaching style by sharing the words of clients - Socratic style of dialogue allowing self-identification of problems and solutions, setting the foundation for independent working; genuinely supportive; non-judgemental; empathetic;
appropriately challenging.
As the Chair of a charity whose purpose is to support and advise unpaid young and adult carers, Alison is acutely aware of the pressures and uncertainty faced by the social sector.
Goal clarification, Resilience, Career development, Work-life balance
Estelle is an ICF-qualified Executive Coach (Professional Coach Credential) specialising in Leadership Development. She has had the privilege of coaching over 450 leaders, from new managers to CEOs, in various sectors including social
justice, women's and girls' issues, youth, homelessness, arts and culture, community development, migrants and refugees, social care, health care, diversity and inclusion, and neurodiversity.
Since 2018, Estelle has partnered
with Clore Social Leadership, serving as their Lead Coach from 2018 to 2022. She also coaches on various Leadership Training Programmes at the United Nations and mentors participants in 'Enterprise' programmes. Additionally, she is
a licensed trainer in Personality Profiling and an NLP Practitioner.
Before becoming a professional coach, Estelle built her management career in the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain, accumulating 15 years of leadership
experience in roles ranging from Project Management to Managing Director. She has also founded three businesses. Her extensive management and business background enriches her coaching and mentoring with real-world insights.
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Transitioning to leadership, Leveraging strengths, Building confidence
Tailoring her approach to the individual’s way of thinking, Sarah works with senior execs and professionals new to leadership positions to capitalise on their strengths and convictions so that they can lead confidently and thrive in challenging
roles.
Sarah is passionate about working with people to help them make the most of their unique 'bag of tricks'; by tapping into their natural resourcefulness and resilience she creates a space for clients to stretch beyond
previously perceived limits.
Her coaching approach involves holding up a mirror to thought patterns and behaviours that may no longer be useful, doing so with kindness and without judgement.
Sarah believes that
leadership starts from within, as everyone is a leader in their own lives, regardless of their formal roles.
Executive leadership, Change and difference, Wellbeing, Creativity, Work-life
Jeremy's coaching supports executive presence, leadership development at all levels, creativity in strategy and operation, self-awareness, appreciation of differences in communication and teams, mission and activism, personal wellbeing,
and more.
His coaching begins with building a trusting partnership, enabling clients to share their thoughts and feelings openly in areas important to them. Jeremy acts as a thinking and feeling partner, showing curiosity
in what clients share without judgement. Clients will experience this curiosity as both challenge and support and as prompt for discovery of different perspectives. The coaching partnership becomes a journey into self-awareness, exploring
as widely and deeply as clients are comfortable with.
Jeremy believes that exploring differences is valuable in coaching. His interest in this exploration allows him to work with clients at all career stages, across all
sectors, and from any personal and professional background. This interest led him to realise that his coaching niche is captured by the phrase, 'I will coach anyone who is open to be coached by me.'
Jeremy's credentials
include PCC ICF accreditation, a Master's in Executive Coaching and Mentoring, coaching 400 coachees across 90 organisations (60% from the charity sector), 36 years of professional experience, and nearly 1,000 hours of coaching-related
CPD.
Executive coaching, Systemic/organisational coaching, Group coaching
Pat is an experienced Executive and Leadership coach, facilitator, and trainer. She is also a qualified Group Coach, using Action Learning Sets within teams.
Pat works in a systemic way supporting individuals, and teams to work
more effectively within their organisations. Through coaching Pat supports clients to understand the nature of organisational culture and how individuals can work more effectively within the system. She describes herself as being ‘passionate
about people’ and is driven by supporting others to make positive progress on the issues that face them as they discover fresh insights through coaching. She works in an emergent way which focuses on what arises within the coaching
space. Her approach to coaching draws particularly on her training in Transactional Analysis, and other techniques that may enable fresh insight into the presenting issues and the possible solutions.
Pat is an experienced
leader with over 30 years of working in several sectors including education, social care, voluntary sector and private sectors. She ran her own Training and Consultancy businesses for 18 years and delivered nationally accredited programmes
on behalf of the government.
Pat is an accredited Senior Practitioner of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and holds an ILM Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Action Learning Set Facilitator Accreditation
with the Institute of Leadership and Management.
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Wellbeing, Career transition, Women in leadership, Group coaching
Ana is an experienced executive and group coach, facilitator and consultant who works with individuals and organisations interested in improving inclusion, wellbeing and leadership capabilities. Ana has over 15 years of executive coaching
experience, having worked with a range of clients in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
Ana comes into coaching from a senior management background, including board-level experience. Ana’s consultancy work expands
over 20 years. During this time, she supported organisations in the statutory and not-for-profit sectors in various capacities, including communications and engagement; organisational development; and the design and delivery of wellbeing
and leadership programmes. In the private sector, her focus has been on executive coaching, group coaching and facilitation, particularly in professional and financial services.
In the social sector, Ana has managed and
delivered various projects, working in partnership with National Lottery Community Fund, Kent Police, NHS, The Young Foundation, Department for Work and Pensions, Vital Regeneration, local authorities, amongst others.
Karen helps leaders unleash their potential, communicate effectively, make a greater impact, navigate accelerating change and uncertainty, and empower their teams. By truly knowing themselves—how they think, act, what they believe, and
what they need—leaders gain the confidence and authenticity to thrive. With a direct coaching style that incorporates careful listening, empathy, and challenge, she supports their growth. She brings 30 years of senior leadership experience
in the fast-changing media industry and professional coaching credentials to this process.
As a journalist, Christina has interviewed Nobel laureates, rock stars, artists, scientists and politicians. As a coach, Christina works with leaders, founders and teams who want to have more impact in the world. Her aim is not just to
help you make the most of your talent, it's to help you think about the mark you want to make. Christina will challenge you to think more deeply, but also to listen to your heart.
Christina is a critic for the Sunday Times
and a political commentator on Sky News. She has been a chief exec (in the arts) and a non-exec (in the arts, NGO and housing sectors). She has written for most of the UK’s leading publications and was a columnist at The Independent
for six years. Christina is a Fellow of the RSA and an ambassador for Women on Boards. She has written two books: The Art of Not Falling Apart and a memoir, Outside, the Sky is Blue, which was picked as a Times/Sunday Times Best Summer
Read.
Christina is an ICF-accredited Professional Certified Coach, also trained in somatic, group and transformational team coaching. She is comfortable working with people at the highest levels, and with those who are moving
into leadership for the first time.
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Emma has a background in Higher Education and journalism and has worked as a consultant with the British Council and Trinity College. She has over thirty years of experience of using coaching skills with executives and in tertiary education.
Emma’s philosophy of coaching revolves around being supportive of the entirety of the client: mind, heart and soul. She encourages a growth mindset and positivity, and also relishes helping clients to explore and work through
the fear and doubt that often holds us back from becoming who we really are.
She enjoys working with all her clients, but especially with those who are approaching burnout. She knows how important it is to provide support
when burnout approaches and how to navigate the overwhelm. She believes in fostering true resilience that enables a joyful, balanced lifestyle instead of facing life with gritted teeth. Emma uses her experience to empower clients who
work in complex environments where perfect solutions are hard to find. She supports clients in exploring their inner landscape to discover their core identity and their unique way of living and thriving.
Shalini has 20 years of experience coaching leaders, aspiring leaders, and managers both one-on-one and within group coaching programs. She brings a strong leadership background from careers in law and learning and development and has
experience leading in the public sector and non-profit world as a non-executive director and chair of trustees.
Her work contributes to forming truly diverse leadership teams at every organisational level and across all
sectors. Having lived and worked globally, she enjoys working cross-culturally. Shalini particularly enjoys building leadership skills and capabilities, coaching leaders in transition to new roles, and working with leaders and emerging
leaders on becoming truly inclusive. She is especially inspired by supporting women and high-potential non-white men and women to reach and retain leadership positions.
Shalini holds a Diploma in Coaching and a Professional
Certified Coach credential from the ICF. Her recent clients include charity executive team members and CEOs, government agencies, the NHS, international humanitarian organisations, universities, global law firms, insurance companies,
and UK corporates.
Sohini is an experienced and accredited leadership and team coach with a grounding in positive psychology and places wellbeing at the core of her practice.
She works with leaders—especially from the Global Majority—supporting
them to lead with courage, clarity, and wellbeing.
Her work blends coaching, wellbeing, and decolonial perspectives to help people lead in ways that are effective and deeply human.
Sohini offers coaching support
for spacious and wide-lensed reflection - what leaders need to navigate high-pressured, complex, multi-cultural, multi-generational contexts.
Sohini provides workshop facilitation, group coaching, team coaching, team development
and individual coaching for leaders and leadership teams.
In all her work, Sohini provides truly inclusive offerings that are designed with diversity in mind, are designed around our unique social identities, integrates
anti-racism, and is trauma-informed and anti-oppressive.
Her focus areas are well-being for leaders, inclusive leadership, navigating ADHD as a leader, managing the dynamics of power, and creating and managing effective
teams.
Sohini works across all organisational levels and has an in-depth understanding of organisational challenges and the pressures that are faced in managing personal and professional commitments.
Nicola Kidston is a coach and Clore Social Leadership Fellow who works across the social and public sectors to help leaders and their teams find clarity, confidence, and renewed purpose in their work. With over 20 years' experience in senior charity roles—including Co-CEO, Deputy CEO, and Director positions—Nic understands the realities of leading through change, balancing strategy with people and culture, and keeping mission at the heart of decision-making.
Her coaching offers space to pause, think, and reframe challenges. She brings a calm, curious, and practical approach that helps leaders navigate complexity, strengthen their impact, and feel more connected to their values and goals.
Nic is a Senior Practitioner Accredited Coach with EMCC Global, holds a Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching, and a PGCert in Coaching for Behaviour Change from Henley Business School. She's passionate about helping leaders bring out the best in themselves and the people around them—creating the conditions for growth, balance, and lasting change.
Nicola is a qualified Life and Mindset Coach with over 20 years’ experience working within the charity sector. She coaches professionals at all levels, from CEOs to frontline staff, helping them navigate change, avoid burnout, and reconnect
with what matters most.
With a background in youth and community leadership (London Youth, Leap, Mayor’s Fund for London), Nicola understands the pressures of mission-driven work: constant change, emotional intensity, and
the pull between delivery and strategy.
Clients describe her as warm, insightful and unafraid to challenge. Whether coaching individuals or working with groups and teams, she creates space for personal reflection, difficult
conversations and bold action. All held with humour and most importantly kindness.
Sue has over two decades of experience as an executive coach, working with CEOs, directors, and senior leaders across various sectors, including non-profit organisations, public bodies, charities, sports, academic institutions, and corporations.
She typically works with clients on topics such as communication, influencing strategies, networking and peer relationships, career development, finding one's purpose, and developing teams.
Sue takes clients on an
'inner adventure' to explore what’s really stopping them from being better. Her expertise lies in helping people achieve transformational change by critically reflecting on their core values, beliefs, and assumptions about themselves
and the world around them. As a result, they construct new ways of thinking and behaving to transform how they lead.
Clients describe Sue's coaching style as inspiring, confident, results-focused, clear, empathetic, positive,
adaptable, enjoyable, and fun.
Sue is the first British woman to ski to the Magnetic North Pole and has explored over 75 countries, including some of the world’s most remote environments. She brings this explorer mindset
to her coaching, believing that both coach and client must be prepared to explore the unknown, trusting each other with the innate belief that the journey will be worthwhile.
Magda has always been interested in how the brain works and how this knowledge can be translated into simple, actionable change strategies that people can apply to their work and life, especially during challenging times of transition.
As a Certified Solution-Focused, Results-Oriented™, and Neuroscience-Based Coach holding a Certificate in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership, Magda supports inquiring individuals on the change path, helping them clarify their
goals and confidently achieve them. Magda works with clients to expand the 'neuro toolkit' needed for seamless and sustainable change.
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