Background and experience
Alex was educated at three British Universities and has taught at two international Business Schools. Experience includes a period in the Royal Navy, senior roles with leading global companies including DHL, Avis, Cable & Wireless and professional services firms in the City of London. Alex has worked in over 60 countries around the world. He is part of a successful Anglo American yacht racing team and has sailed across the Pacific. Alex runs Business Techniques – a Coaching & Strategy consulting enterprise. Experience in multiple “heavy lift” transformation projects and assignments. Alex writes extensively and is a regular contributor to Health and Wellbeing Magazine.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients
Sentiment Analysis and understanding of mood, motivations and change capability are key to achieving above average Sector returns for investments in transformation and Learning & Development programmes. Successful delivery of strategy and effective leadership demand empathy, organisation-wide alignment with Mission, and emotional intelligence

Coaching style and approach 
Accepting from the beginning that effective leadership is both tough and complex is the place to start. Clients can expect a direct approach to addressing challenges and will emerge more resilient, structured in approach and determined as a result. The focus is less upon the What but more on the How and the Why.

Background and experience (around 100 words):

Annabel Graham brings 20 years of coaching experience, grounded in an 18-year career as a senior leader in PLC retail, spanning sales, operations, commercial, leadership development, and HR, including five years at SLT and EXCO level.

For over a decade, she has partnered with clients across private, public, and not-for-profit sectors, across industries such as national infrastructure, technology, retail, professional services, charities, NGOs, healthcare, education, and housing.

Annabel is an accredited Master Executive and Team Coach with the Association for Coaching, and is extensively trained in systemic team coaching, several psychometrics, and diverse coaching methodologies.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients 

Annabel sees coaching as a partnership to enable others to discover new thinking about themselves, their work and develop personally and professionally and works systemically, exploring the organisational context within her work.

She typically works with senior leaders to explore how they can be more effective in their roles, working with the whole person within the context of their work and life.

She also partners with executive, senior and newly formed teams, focusing on team functioning, dynamics and strategic focus, enabling them to cultivate high-performance behaviours and effective collaboration

Client Feedback: “Annabel’s coaching has had a profound impact on me and has shaped my journey as a senior leader. It has enriched my leadership skills and made me more self-aware, which has enabled me to promote a collaborative approach that fosters unity and shared-decision making among my teams.”

Coaching style and approach 

Annabel has a flexible, relational coaching style and works at the transformational rather than the transactional end of coaching.

She partners with clients to create a safe thinking space where they can explore their beliefs, behaviours, and patterns that show up in their life and work. This enables them to stretch their thinking, perspective and skills, and create better outcomes.

She often coaches around the following themes:

• Developing authentic leadership presence and personal brand
• Deepening self awareness, emotional intelligence and emotional management, especially in conflict
• Navigating personal and organisational transition
• Building stakeholder relationships and leveraging personal influence
• Thinking and operating strategically
• Establishing and building high performing teams, including team dynamics and psychological safety
• Creating alignment across teams of teams and organisations

Background and experience:

Ian has spent three decades working in sales and service roles, developing a deep understanding of how people think, behave, and succeed in customer-facing environments. His background includes leading teams, coaching sales professionals, and designing practical development programmes that help individuals improve performance in a way that feels authentic and achievable.

Drawing on broad industry experience, Ian supports organisations in creating stronger customer relationships, building collaborative teams, and encouraging more creative approaches to service and sales challenges.

He has coached professionals at all levels of experience from those new to customer-facing roles to established team members seeking fresh thinking and greater impact.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients:

Ian believes coaching works best when it is warm, supportive, and human but also gently challenging.

His approach encourages people to think for themselves, uncover their own solutions, and gain confidence through exploration rather than instruction.

“Coaching is about helping people discover what they’re capable of. I create space for people to think differently, find clarity, and build practical steps that lead to better results.”

Ian works with customer service teams, sales professionals, and anyone wishing to improve how they connect with customers, collaborate with colleagues, and bring creativity into their work.

Background and experience 

Jane has held senior strategic leadership roles in education and local government (e.g. Barnsley MBC, East Riding of Yorkshire Council), where she shaped and led national policy implementation, directed workforce transformation and embedded positive culture. Today, she works across public, private and VCSE sectors, supporting senior and exec teams through strategic facilitation, leadership development and 1:1 coaching. She is PRINCE2-accredited, DiSC-certified, and an associate on national programmes including NHSE. Jane’s expertise in strategy, people development and organisational change underpins her commitment to helping leaders embed bold, people-centred leadership that drives performance and impact.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients 

Jane believes authentic, values-led leadership creates the conditions for resilience, growth and purposeful action. She works with founders, business owners, directors, partners and senior leaders as a trusted thinking partner – providing supportive challenge, clarity and strategic stretch. Her coaching helps clients develop their leadership identity, sharpen decision-making and create space to lead with greater impact. Jane supports reflective insight alongside purposeful action, often using the outdoors to shift thinking, increase focus and unlock new ideas. Her clients leave sessions re-energised, aligned and ready to act, with renewed confidence in themselves and their leadership.

Coaching style and approach

Jane’s style is pragmatic, warm and boldly encouraging. As both a sounding board and strategic challenger, she creates an energising space where insight and action go hand in hand. Known for helping clients cut through the noise and refocus on what matters, Jane blends visual tools, values-based coaching and nature-connected thinking to deepen reflection and promote momentum. She works 1:1 with clients, with senior leadership teams and with peer groups, balancing support with accountability. Her coaching helps leaders reconnect with their adventurous spirit, unlocking curiosity, clarity and direction, and leading with greater agility, resilience and courage.

Background and experience:

Mark holds a degree in social psychology and sociology, a master’s qualification in human resource management, and certifications in coaching and workplace mediation. He has occupied senior HR and Organisation Development roles across the private, public, and higher education sectors.

With over 35 years of experience leading the development, management, and facilitation of engaging learning and organisation, leadership development strategies and initiatives, Mark enables organisations, leaders, teams, and individuals to reach their full potential and aim higher.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients:

Mark supports a Gestalt approach that examines all aspects of a person’s life and experience to foster personal growth and greater self-awareness. The goal is to cultivate a sense of the whole person, not just the self within the organisation.

His background as a workplace mediator also enables him to establish a supportive and empathetic coaching relationship that offers a framework for exploring emotions, behaviours, and thinking patterns in a safe environment, thereby promoting healthy change.

Coaching style and approach:

Mark’s approach is client-centred, where the objectives and goals are created by and for the client to achieve transformational learning outcomes from the coaching relationship. He supports a non-directive approach that believes in the other person’s potential and ability to make the right choices for themselves, regardless of the coach’s own values, beliefs, and ideas.

His solution-focused approach involves focusing on solutions, strengths, and what’s going well, rather than problems, weaknesses, and what’s gone wrong.

By adopting this appreciative inquiry approach, he collaborates with the client to identify key strengths that can be celebrated and utilised to support transformational change.

Background and experience 

With over 15 years in Learning & Development, I’ve built a career blending strategic vision with hands‑on delivery. I’ve led L&D strategy at Wave Utilities, managed external partners, and driven engagement through creative, learner‑led programmes. Alongside corporate roles, I’ve worked as a consultant and associate, supporting organisations across sectors including retail, telecoms, and professional services. As a career and performance coach, I now focus on empowering individuals and businesses to unlock potential through tailored coaching and development. My background combines leadership, facilitation, and business development with a passion for people‑centric growth and performance.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients 

I believe coaching is about unlocking the art of the possible. It creates space for reflection, curiosity, and growth, helping individuals discover clarity and confidence in their own path. My role is not to provide answers, but to ask powerful questions, challenge assumptions, and spark light bulb moments that shift perspectives. Coaching for me is a partnership built on trust, authenticity, and connectedness. It blends strategy with empathy and warmth, enabling people to explore ambitions, set purposeful goals, and act with impact. At its heart, coaching empowers individuals to thrive and lead with energy, resilience, and authenticity.

Coaching style and approach

My coaching style is energetic, empathetic, and people‑centric. I create a safe, collaborative space where leaders and professionals can explore possibilities, challenge assumptions, and unlock their potential. Blending strategic insight with empathy and curiosity, I use powerful questions, storytelling, and behavioural profiling to spark light bulb moments that drive clarity and confidence. I balance structure with flexibility, tailoring each conversation to the individual’s needs while keeping focus on impact and growth. Rooted in authenticity and connectedness, my approach empowers clients to set purposeful goals, embrace change, and lead with resilience, creativity, and renewed momentum.

Background and experience:

Nevil has been coaching and training coaches for over 20 years. He built a highly effective and inclusive coaching programme for a FTSE 100 organisation over a number of years.

His depth of experience in coaching and training others in coaching allows him to really engage people in useful, effective, and overall impactful coaching sessions.

He brings experience from a range of professional coaching engagements and is trusted by international and national organisations, coaching and their senior leadership and exec teams.

Nevil has been trained in a range of coaching techniques, holds an ILM Level 5 qualification on Coaching and Mentoring in Management, and has been trained in the “Lifestyle Architecture” model of coaching.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients:

Nevil believes coaching should be practical, challenging, and deeply personal. His approach blends behavioural science, strategic insight, and hands-on experience to help professionals unlock their full potential.

“Coaching is about unlocking what’s already within you. I help professionals see their strengths, challenge their thinking, and take confident action.”

He typically works with Partners, Directors, Business Owners and Senior Leaders.

Client feedback “He has an easy approachable style, asks very insightful questions, challenges without causing offence and managed to tackle every barrier that I had put in my own way! (even the ones I’d hoped he hadn’t noticed!)”

Coaching style and approach:

Nevil’s coaching style is engaging, direct, and grounded in empathy. He understands the pressures of professional development and creates a safe space for reflection, growth, and transformation. He does this by:

• Focusing on personal transitions, executive presence, and strategic clarity
• Using tailored coaching frameworks, tools and approaches to create specific actions and move towards goals
• Supporting professionals in navigating complex client relationships, team dynamics, and career progression
• Offers individual coaching, team coaching, and coaching culture development

Nevil uses a mix of support, challenge and accountability to get the best from those he coaches.

Before becoming a trainer and facilitator, Simon had a successful career in university research and in university administration. In over 24 years he wrote or co-authored over 100 books, papers, and articles published in peer reviewed journals.

Simon is now one of the country’s leading communication skills trainers and thought leaders.

I believe people have an innate ability and desire to do the best they can – so what you need are the right tools. By bringing these researched tools together with your personal experiences I believes you can make faster progress than you think!

I won’t leave you wondering what to try next, but nor will I be totally directive: tools that work for some people are uncomfortable for others. Instead, we’ll experiment with the tools to find what works best for you – modifying and customising as required.

Coaching style and approach 

I’m not a coach in the traditional business sense. I’m a bit more directive, based on the research of “what works most, for most people”, providing tools that have been researched and proven to work. That doesn’t mean there’s no personalisation of course, just that for my areas of speciality there are proven techniques which are more likely to work than others.

In the training room, I’m light hearted and supportive, but there’s a “no jazz hands” style.

Change gear today.

Are you leading at the top but feeling isolated in your decision-making?
Is your team communicating as effectively as they could?
Do you want to manage your emotions and blind spots more skilfully?

I work with leaders, teams, and high-achieving professionals to help them communicate better, lead with confidence, and develop emotional intelligence that makes a real difference. Coaching with me isn’t just about strategies and frameworks (although I love a good model!)—it’s about creating a space where you can step back, reflect, and figure out what’s really going on beneath the surface.

I specialise in working with leaders in the CDFI & oil/gas sectors, elite sports, hospitality, and the NHS, supporting them in:

✅ Developing conscious leadership through greater self-awareness and reflection
✅ Improving team performance by enhancing trust and communication
✅ Building resilience to handle challenges with confidence
✅ Navigating career transitions and periods of change with clarity and focus

I don’t coach the problem—I coach the person. Because when you truly understand yourself, everything else starts to fall into place.