Background and experience:

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:

Dave has spent over 20 years working with leaders, managers and teams as a speaker, trainer and coach, with a particular focus on burnout prevention and recovery. He is best known for his “cabbages and sprouts” approach to resilience, distilling overwhelming pressures into small, manageable actions that build sustainable change. Dave holds an MSc in Coaching and Mentoring and has worked with organisations including the Crown Prosecution Service, the Government Legal Department, Durham University and New College Durham. His experience spans large-audience keynotes through to one-to-one coaching with senior leaders navigating the shift from hands-on management to strategic leadership.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients:

Dave believes resilience is a skill that can be built, not a trait people either have or lack. Drawing on narrative and transformative coaching approaches, he helps clients examine and reframe the stories they hold about themselves as leaders, opening up new ways of thinking and acting. His coaching has a deliberate twofold aim for senior leaders: first, to strengthen their own personal coping tools and resilience mechanisms so they can sustain the demands of a strategic role; second, to build their capability as strategic leaders who empower their managers and teams, embedding resilience through the wider organisation rather than holding it all themselves. He typically works with senior leaders, managers transitioning into more strategic roles, and organisations wanting to build resilience at every level, particularly across the public sector, NHS, higher education and other people-facing organisations.

Coaching style and approach:

Dave’s coaching style draws on narrative and transformative coaching approaches, helping clients explore and reshape the assumptions and stories underpinning their leadership practice. He then translates this insight into practical, grounded action, chunking down big, overwhelming challenges into small, achievable steps his clients can actually sustain. He does this by:

• Helping leaders let go of hands-on management habits and build genuine strategic distance
• Equipping clients with concrete coping tools for stress and burnout, not just theory
• Working on how leaders model and cascade resilience to their own managers and teams
• Blending challenge with support, so clients are pushed without feeling exposed

The result is a research-based, results-focused approach that helps clients transform their professional practice, not just manage it.

Background and experience:

Glen works across executive coaching, the design and facilitation of leadership workshops, and targeted organisational development interventions. Her coaching supports individuals and leadership teams to think clearly, reflect honestly, and act with greater consistency and confidence in demanding environments.

She has been trained in a wide range of coaching techniques and holds the ILM Level 7 Diploma for Executive and Senior Level Coaches and Mentors. Her professional training also includes NLP Foundation and Practitioner qualifications, which inform her behavioural and systemic coaching approach.

Glen is particularly interested in the gap between intention and action, and how leaders build the capability to close it, especially under pressure. This focus underpins both her coaching practice and the leadership workshops she designs and facilitates.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients:

Glen believes effective coaching is reflective, challenging, and practical. At its core, her work is about helping leaders deepen their self‑awareness, take responsibility for their impact, and make purposeful choices, even when circumstances are difficult.

“Leadership development isn’t about having better answers, it’s about having the awareness and confidence to act differently when it really counts.”

She typically works with senior leaders, directors, managers, and business owners, supporting them through transition, growth, increased responsibility, or organisational change.

Alongside her professional expertise, Glen brings lived experience of navigating complexity and pressure, which has deepened her understanding of resilience, identity, and leadership under strain, adding depth and credibility to her coaching practice.

Coaching style and approach:

Glen’s style is calm, perceptive, and appropriately challenging. She creates psychologically safe spaces where people can explore difficult issues honestly, without judgement, while being supported to move forward with clarity and intent.

Her work includes:

• 1:1 executive coaching
• Design and facilitation of leadership and management workshops
• Supporting leaders through transition, change, and increased accountability
• Using behavioural insight and reflective challenge to shift patterns of thinking and behaviour
• Helping teams and individuals strengthen trust, effectiveness, and leadership presence

Glen balances empathy with rigour, helping clients not just gain insight, but translate it into sustained action and meaningful impact.

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:

Julia has a multi-sector background including healthcare, financial services, energy, telecommunications and professional services. She has worked in senior HR/L&D/Change leadership roles for organisations such as Virgin, GE and Orange and set up People Science Consulting in 2019 to bring a passion for psychology and real-world experience together to deliver impactful and pragmatic coaching and consulting to teams and organisations.
She is certified to use a selection of team development and diagnostic tools such as Hogan, Insights Discovery and Lumina and holds a Certificate in Systemic Team Coaching.
She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), a member of the British Psychological Society and Association for Business Psychologists.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients:

Julia’s passion is working with teams. She believes every team is unique, shaped by its individual members and the context in which it operates. Her approach is therefore bespoke and practical, meeting each team where it is and tailoring every coaching or development session to its specific needs. Drawing on deep expertise in team effectiveness and first-hand experience of building and leading teams, Julia helps teams strengthen alignment, cohesion and collaboration. Her work focuses on creating clarity, improving how teams work together, and building an enduring team climate where collective impact is greater than the contribution of any individual member.

Coaching style and approach:

Julia’s team coaching style combines credibility, warmth and practical challenge. A CEO of a hyper-growth technology company described her as having “a wonderfully warm, supportive and knowledgeable style that instils confidence and trust from the team in both Julia herself and the process we are going through”. Julia creates an environment where teams can build trust quickly, challenge each other constructively, strengthen accountability and stay focused on collective impact.
She builds team and individual awareness through the thoughtful use of psychometrics and diagnostics, alongside skilful questioning and coaching conversations. Her approach helps teams maintain accountability and momentum during and between coaching sessions, while supporting them to navigate complex or uncomfortable situations in ways that accelerate learning, confidence and impact.

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.

Background and experience:

Sara is a strategic finance leader and executive coach with over 25 years’ experience in senior finance roles, including leadership positions at Northern Rock, Virgin Money and as Chief Finance and People Officer at The Glasshouse ICM. She brings a rare dual perspective on financial decision-making and human behaviour at work, and now supports growing SMEs, professional services firms and purpose-led organisations that need senior financial insight without the cost of a full-time FD. A CIMA-qualified accountant and EMCC-accredited Coach Practitioner, Sara combines deep finance experience with coaching and positive psychology to make complex challenges feel achievable.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients:

Sara believes most leaders already know more than they realise. The work is creating the space, the questions and the accountability to act on it. Her philosophy blends coaching psychology with the structured thinking of a finance career: get clear on what matters, name what’s getting in the way, build the habits that make change stick.

She typically works with business owners, finance leaders, and senior professionals in growing SMEs and creative sector organisations.

Client feedback: “Sara’s coaching has been nothing short of transformative. Her gentle and friendly approach, combined with thoughtful coaching questions, made it easy to discuss difficult topics and reflect on my habits.”

Coaching style and approach:

Sara’s style is calm, direct and grounded. She creates a safe space for honest reflection, then uses well-chosen questions to challenge the thinking that keeps people stuck. Her approach is practical and outcome-focused, with a strong emphasis on accountability between sessions. She does this by:

• Holding the mirror up, so clients see their own thinking clearly
• Drawing a clear line between coaching and mentoring, and being explicit about which mode she’s in
• Sharing practical tools, frameworks and book recommendations clients can use straight away
• Building in accountability so insight turns into action and new habits

Background and experience:

“I’ve never met anyone who can unpack so much in one session!”
Sarah-Jane offers a paradigm-shifting perspective on traditional leadership and performance coaching:
What if success isn’t about changing yourself but becoming a fuller version of yourself?
What if growth isn’t something you have to strive for but something you can relax into?

Instead of fighting to control or change what’s “getting in the way” (which leads of resentment, shame, and burnout), Sarah-Jane helps clients work WITH their unwanted behaviours and emotions to unlock it’s hidden intelligence; releasing new levels of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and courageous self-expression; for improved leadership communication, conflict resolution, capacity, and sustainable performance.

Her methods achieved an 1,100% return on investment at King’s College London where mindset-only coaching and therapy had failed, and is most suited to conscientious high-achievers working in high-stakes environments; where composure under pressure, rapid stress recovery, and assertive communication are not just ‘nice-to-haves’ but non-negotiable, safety-critical skills.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients:

Sarah-Jane’s philosophy draws heavily from the emerging neuroscience of mind-body connection and how the body reacts under stress; understanding that resilience does not develop when we KNOW MORE but when we FEEL SAFE enough to communicate the fullness of who we are, in vulnerable, assertive, and collaborative ways. In this space, natural leadership skills develop, that are adaptive, empowering, and deeply aligned with our core values.

“The sessions with Sarah-Jane have been honestly life changing! I’d tried coaching and CBT, but wasn’t getting anywhere. It felt invalidating and stressful.
Sarah-Jane validated me in a way I hadn’t had before. We covered a lot of ground; unpicking thought patterns, beliefs, triggers, and boundaries, without shame, enabling me to engage with conflict more confidently and assertively.
I’ve learnt practical strategies for confidence and communication as I move forward in my career. I feel happy and hopeful, and better able to support and protect myself moving forward.” -Kings College London executive coaching client

Coaching style and approach:

Sarah-Jane passionately believes that effective leadership is not taught, but released. She draws out individual’s innate leadership skills through compassionate awareness of subconscious road blocks and facilitating deep-brain self-actualisation (learning to own and express our full selves, even the parts we’ve learnt to hide or protect).
Creating a safe space for her clients to explore and express both their vulnerable and assertive selves, releases a natural capacity to stay curious under pressure, courageous in boundaries, collaborative in conflict, and creative in adversity; the unstoppable ingredients for adaptable, sustainable, high-performance.

“This was incredible, such a revelation, I’m completely floored to be honest! My sessions with Sarah-Jane have changed my life.
They’ve been encouraging and validating, but also helped me approach difficult conversations with confidence…not only understand my own response to challenge and conflict, but understanding and naming defensive reactions in others.
I’ve realised I have the ability to influence positive change. I feel so calm, and strong, and hopeful. The process has been incredible and so empowering. I can’t recommend it highly enough!” – NHS Coaching Client (Senior Nurse)

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.

Background and experience:

Tess has over a decade of experience coaching leaders and teams across sectors, including finance, utilities, hospitality, education and scale-up organisations. Alongside her coaching practice, she is an Associate Lecturer at Teesside University Business School and designs leadership programmes that combine individual coaching, team learning and real-world application. Before founding Accelerator Coaching, Tess co-owned and scaled a publishing business, giving her first-hand experience of performance pressure, growth and people leadership. She is an Advanced DiSC Practitioner, an Accredited Emotions Coach (ICF), an Accredited Team and Group Coach (ICF & EMCC), and holds CPD in grief coaching and confidence coaching.

Coaching philosophy and coaching clients:

Tess believes effective leadership starts with self-awareness and emotional agility — the ability to respond well rather than react under pressure. Her philosophy centres on the belief that people are already resourceful; coaching creates the space to access that capability with clarity and courage. She typically works with Senior Leaders, Directors, Business Owners and leadership teams who care deeply about their impact and want to lead in ways that feel authentic, not performative. Clients value her balance of empathy and honest challenge, particularly during periods of growth, change or increased responsibility.

Coaching style and approach:

Tess’s coaching style is warm, grounded and quietly challenging. She creates psychologically safe spaces where people can slow their thinking, explore blind spots and reconnect with what matters most. Her work blends evidence-based frameworks with practical application and is always tailored to the individual or team. She takes a whole-person approach, considering performance, emotions, values and wellbeing, and supports leaders and teams to embed sustainable changes in how they lead, communicate and work together.