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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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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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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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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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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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Authentic, relational and creative leadership coach
Ella Schwarz is a relational and creative leadership coach and EMCC Senior Practitioner who brings an intersectional, human-centred approach to leadership and life more broadly. A former charity CEO with over a decade’s experience leading
purpose-driven programmes and teams, she specialises in helping leaders and changemakers navigate transition, overwhelm and questions of purpose with clarity, compassion and creativity. Through her practice, Coffee With Ella, she supports
people across the social and creative sectors to lead and live with greater self-trust, presence and alignment. Ella’s coaching blends accredited methodologies with reflective, somatic and wellbeing tools — grounded in an understanding
of how identity, systems and stress intersect. Creativity sits at the heart of her approach: not as something reserved for artists, but as a way of curating work — and life — with more meaning, balance and intention. Drawing on her
background in strategy, storytelling and organisational design, Ella helps individuals and teams re-imagine leadership that feels authentic, sustainable and true to who they are.
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.
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.
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.
When Change Feels Overwhelming, Understanding Your Brain Changes Everything
Leading in the social sector means navigating constant challenges: limited resources, complex stakeholder demands, and the emotional weight of mission-driven
work. You're expected to do more with less, inspire your team through uncertainty, and stay resilient when burnout feels almost inevitable.
I help you lead differently - by understanding how the brain actually works.
What makes my approach different: I combine neuroscience insights with an understanding of the pressures of leading in a high-demand world. I've launched global initiatives, managed multicultural teams, and worked in fast-paced
environments. I know what it's like when "just set boundaries" isn't realistic.
Credentials: Certified Solution-Focused, Results-Oriented™, and Neuroscience-Based Coach | Certificate in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership
| Certificate in Applied Neuroscience & Brain Health
Why partner with me? Because leading with your brain, not against it, means change becomes natural - not another thing on your already-impossible to-do list.
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Senior and emerging leaders in charities, education and other purpose-led organisations
Andrew is an ICF-credentialled executive coach and team coach working with senior and emerging leaders in charities, education and other purpose-led organisations, particularly leaders navigating change, transition and complex, often cross-cultural,
stakeholder environments.
He brings extensive experience of senior international leadership from a long career with the British Council, including 24 years as Country Director across Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle
East. He led large multicultural teams and worked closely with government, educational and cultural institutions, and international partners. Andrew has also served as Chair and Trustee, leading a small UK rare-disease health charity
through major change.
Andrew’s coaching style is highly relational and responsive to the individual. He is known for creating a safe, thoughtful space where clients feel able to speak openly, explore difficult issues and
reflect honestly on what is really going on for them.
Andrew is particularly skilled at helping clients move beyond the presenting issue to what is really shaping their situation, allowing the work to focus quickly on what
matters most. He supports people to make sense of complexity, clarify what they can influence, and find their own way forward with greater confidence and direction.
Pinelopi coaches social impact professionals and people navigating leadership and responsibility
Pinelopi is a social change leader, coach, and training facilitator. She specialises in values-led and feminist leadership and governance, sustainable people management, and inclusive organisational cultures. She places a lot of value
on one-to-one coaching as a space for trust, depth, and reflection. She is drawn to the intimacy of individual coaching, where clients can slow down, explore complexity, and reconnect with themselves, their values, and the kind of
leadership they want to practise.
In her coaching work, she supports people and leaders in purpose-driven roles who are navigating responsibility, growth, and pressure, often while caring deeply for others and their communities.
Her approach centres care, connection, and honest reflection, helping clients lead in ways that feel grounded, humane, and sustainable.
She is, also, the co-founder and Head of Training, Empowerment & Educational Programs
at WHEN, co-founder of WHEN Hub — Greece’s first co-working space with childcare — and co-founder of inc.lude, where she leads the design and delivery of leadership, mentoring, and empowerment programs for individuals and teams across
Greece and beyond. She is certified by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as a trainer in entrepreneurship development and is a certified Playing Big Facilitator.
