Helping your People Transition
If some of your team are moving on, we can make their journey as smooth and productive as possible. We build a plan around each individual, with a focus on landing jobs –not just launching them into the world.
When it comes to your organisation, we think in tens and eighties.
10% of your team will be highly talented: you need to spot them and help them to grow.
10% might be struggling or leaving: we can help them transition.
And as for the other 80%: they’re the bedrock of the business – we can increase their engagement, which in turn will increase their productivity, creativity and loyalty and as a result organisational effectiveness
Call us today on 020 7952 8699
We are passionate about helping people across the globe find job satisfaction and career success. In this short video clip Michael Moran explains how we do this.
We make work meaningful through our
If some of your team are moving on, we can make their journey as smooth and productive as possible. We build a plan around each individual, with a focus on landing jobs –not just launching them into the world.
We really believe that business performance begins with people. Employees want managers that care, listen, develop and stretch them. We help organisations build these skills to create exceptional engagement overall.
To reach your goals as an organisation, you need the right team in place. But sending your top team on a one-size-fits-all leadership course isn’t the way to get there. You need to first understand their particular strengths, then play to them.
In 2022, we proudly celebrated the 10th anniversary milestone of 10Eighty, a journey that began with the vision of founders Michael Moran and Liz Sebag-Montefiore. From its inception, our mission has transcended borders, driven by an unwavering commitment to fostering job satisfaction and career fulfilment on a global scale. We firmly believe in the universal right to meaningful work and are dedicated to empowering individuals worldwide to achieve their professional aspirations.
Over the past decade, our dedication to this ethos has only grown stronger. As a global business, we recognise the profound impact of job satisfaction not only on individual well-being but also on organisational success. By cultivating environments that prioritise employee engagement and career development, we enable businesses to thrive, fostering a ripple effect of customer satisfaction and commercial prosperity.
Reflecting on our journey thus far, we take pride in the positive impact we’ve made to individuals and businesses alike. Yet, we remain steadfastly committed to continuous improvement, acknowledging that our work is far from over. Looking ahead, we reaffirm our belief that organisations investing in their people and nurturing fulfilling careers will emerge as true leaders in their industries, driving not only economic prosperity but also serving as pillars of support within their communities and among stakeholders worldwide.
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with the Global Talent Hub, the leading European provider of outplacement and transformation services. Key European office locations include England, France, Germany,
Switzerland and Benelux.
We continue to be passionate about helping people find job satisfaction and career success, believing that everyone is entitled to job satisfaction and a fulfilling career. Executive coaching and leadership development have been our most popular services, whilst outplacement and career coaching remains at the heart of our business model.
Our Net Promoter Score (this measures how likely our service users would recommend us)
Career & Executive Coaching Clients supported over 10 years
Countries we've delivered our services in since 10Eighty began
Accredited Career & Executive Coaches & Mentors
Based in the UK and across the globe, we’re a team of coaches, facilitators and leadership consultants – and we work with our clients to build plans tailored to their organisation and goals. *The coaches below are ordered alphabetically*
Michael is CEO and Founder of 10Eighty. He is passionate about helping people maximise their potential and believes everyone should have job satisfaction and a successful career. He helps organisations design jobs and career paths that maximise employee engagement.
Michael’s background is in Human Resources, having worked in the NHS and Financial Services sector. He has successfully run HR consultancies specialising in career management for the last 20 years.
As an avid reader/commentator on the world of work and sport, he regularly draws parallels between the two. Michael’s favourite scribe is Matthew Syed, Times sports correspondent.
Michael is CEO and Founder of 10Eighty. He is passionate about helping people maximise their potential and believes everyone should have job satisfaction and a successful career. He helps organisations design jobs and career paths that maximise employee engagement.
Liz is a Director and Co-founder of 10Eighty, and has provided HR solutions to a wide range of industries since 2005 working with numerous firms to understand their needs. She’s a great believer in the power and intelligence of networking. She’s always thinking about her next introduction and with 3700+ LinkedIn connections and 4,550 LinkedIn followers the possibilities are endless!
She’s passionate about making a difference through her mentoring work for the CIPD. Making people happy in their career every day is her ultimate goal.
You could describe Liz as an art lover, tennis enthusiast (look out for her at The Hurlingham Club or at Wimbledon in June), hostess with the mostest, foodie à la France, and devoted mum of Orlando and Freddie who enjoys the perfect work-life balance.
Director and Business Development Executive, Hannah is our succession planner (a 10Eighty bench strength) with a background in public sector outplacement support, successfully placing individuals with learning disabilities and autism.
She’s driven by helping others achieve and seeing others succeed, particularly when they don’t know they need career help…you may not be surprised to learn that she has championed 10Eighty’s Fuel50™ from Day One.
A few of her favourite work things are problem solving, building business and personal relationships and making a difference whilst having fun because: “You can’t take yourself too seriously.”
You could describe Hannah as a ‘pedalhead’ often found cycling around Bushy Park, Hampton Court, and ‘part-time petrolhead’ who occasionally races around Brands Hatch in a souped-up Merc.
When wheel-free, Hannah spends QT with friends and family especially Alfie, her fun loving and determined little boy, juggles 10Eighty tasks with keeping Alfie entertained and supporting hubbie Bradley’s business.
Joan, Head of Leadership Practice, is a highly experienced executive coach, facilitator, team coach and consultant and has worked in global commercial environments since the mid-90s.
She enables individuals to make a positive difference for themselves through one-to-one coaching, team effectiveness and team coaching work. In her leadership coaching, she helps people work out what being a leader means to them, and how to become the best possible leader.
You could describe Joan as a vinyasa flow yoga practitioner, a lover of ballroom and latin dancing, who wants to learn the Argentinian tango, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ addict (who even watches ‘It Takes Two’), musical theatre fan, frequent concert goer and convert to the Latin American rhythms of Santana after Carlos’ guitar solos sparked a musical epiphany.
She adores amethysts and is obsessed with the colour purple (not the book/film) which, you may have noticed, has heavily influenced 10Eighty’s branding…
Liz is an Account Manager liaising with 10Eighty clients. She is passionate about building relationships and ensures the day to day needs of our clients are met for successful outcomes.
Liz is also a Coach, Trainer and Facilitator. She works internationally with individuals and teams to unlock their power to think differently. She has a breadth of experience working across a range of sectors and levels, delivering both accredited and bespoke training and coaching offerings.
Liz loves spending time with her family and friends and anything to do with water, including paddle boarding, kayaking, body boarding and swimming.
Shannon is our Business Support Manager and holds a degree in Education Studies and a PGCE in Primary Education. After teaching years 1 and 3, she wiped the whiteboard clean for the last time in the summer of 2017.
Post-teaching her career journey arced towards administration and HR, from recruitment company and local education department working on Education, Health & Care Plans, to 10Eighty where she hopes to “grow with the business”.
When not working Shannon enjoys exploring local sands and beauty spots with her husband Tom and son Ellis.
Indoors you’ll find Shannon working on home interior projects and relaxing with a good thriller novel.
Daniel is our Project Manager and holds two degrees, a BA (Hons) in Business Management and an MSc in Human Resource Management. After working in hospitality, retail, and lettings throughout his academic and post-graduate life, Daniel decided to use his transferrable skills to pursue a project management career and wants to help 10Eighty prosper with his projects and ideas.
Outside of work, Daniel is an avid hiker, weightlifter, and technology enthusiast. You’ll find him hiking the trails of Snowdon with his fiancé Romina or building computers in his spare time.
Lacey is an experienced Graphic Designer and has worked for busy sales teams, enhancing the products on offer. She specialises in layout and page design and has worked on a vast number of tenders and projects from across the Business and Industry sectors from pharmaceutical companies, and international law firms, to the world’s largest advertising company. She also has vast experience in the education sector, from nurseries to universities and everything in between. Yet she also has the versatility to create internal communications, employee brands, logos, illustrations, invitations and more.
She has a degree in Fashion Production and Design and has utilised these design and creative skills throughout her career and all aspects of her life. Most recently she has applied these skills throughout her garden and is awaiting seeds for next years’ garden plan. She’s also hoping to create a Christmas tea towel!
Finance Director Nick has been ‘Chartered Accountanting’ for multinationals, startups and businesses in between since the 90s with a solid track record of helping young businesses get up and running. His forte is sorting out funding, investment, processes and creating reliable financial management reporting for stakeholders and investors.
You could describe Nick as The Singing Accountant with a penchant for water and snow sports.
He’s established six inclusive community choirs in Surrey – Vocality – and is part of a Barbershop Quartet/Octet. You may see Nick performing in pubs around Claygate or at renowned Thames Ditton folk venue, the Ram Club…
…and he’s organised an Oxford to Thames Ditton kayaking trip, is planning a ‘Three Men In A Boat’ style journey down the Thames in camping skiffs, and took part in a famous 90-kilometre cross country ski race in Sweden.
Sona, our Financial Controller and Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales provides number-crunching support for a variety of businesses.
She gets a buzz from getting her figures spot on. Her ideal day is choc-a-block with completed tasks, challenges met, areas for improvement found and bottom lines increased. Working closely with Nick Lawson she ensures VAT returns and board meeting reports are executed on time.
You could describe Sona as a ‘veggie Nigella’ who prepares a mean aubergine curry and bakes a blinding banana and walnut loaf. She’s a seasoned traveller who adores a city break In New York or Venice, but truly loves London, especially the Globe Theatre end of the South Bank.
She volunteers weekends at a local hospice serving tea and biscuits to patients, which: “can be a bit overwhelming and requires considerable diplomacy but rewarding too as you’re a friendly face making a difference at a difficult time”
Nigel is a Non-Executive Director of 10Eighty. He has held Board level Group HR Director roles in FTSE250 and Fortune500 businesses and worked across seven sectors in his career. More recently he has worked in search for a leading Financial Services headhunter.
He is passionate about helping individuals and companies tap into their strengths and realise their potential. He has a particular interest in coaching, career pathing and neuro-diversity. As a qualified football coach he often looks to bring learnings from sports coaching into the world of work.
Outside of work, Nigel is on the executive team of a local West London club which is a feeder for Fulham FC. He also helps a dyslexic school with careers advice and internships.
Howard is an experienced HR professional. Over the last 12 years he has worked as an interim with C suite leaders giving advice on both business and HR strategy. He has worked with VTB Capital, Tungsten (AIM listed Fintech start up), London Metal Exchange and British Standards Institute.
Prior to his interim career, he was HRD at Cargill Investor Services and latterly co-led the joint venture of JP Morgan and Cargill to rebuild their commodities derivative business, growing top line revenues from £19 to £65 million in 30 months.
Howard says: “I am delighted to formalise my relationship with 10Eighty who I consider to be an agile and innovative HCM provider. I have known Michael and Liz for many years and admire their expertise, client focus and tenacity. They are a great business who I hope I can help get to the next stage of their growth and development. HCM is a tough and crowded space with some very big players, but I firmly believe 10Eighty have the capability and foresight to be a real innovator and challenger.”
Paula is a Non-Executive Director of 10Eighty and Trustee of the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation. Recognised by HR Magazine as one of the top 40 most influential C-level HR Directors and opinion formers during her long corporate career, she has worked across a number of industry sectors and has recently embarked on a portfolio career comprising executive coaching, consulting and NED roles.
Paula’s goal is to use her coaching and consulting skills and deep commercial acumen to help individuals and organisations achieve sustainable business performance and growth and to respond with resilience and agility to the uncharted waters we face.
A fluent French speaker, Paula loves France and owns a farmhouse in the Dordogne with blue shutters where, COVID permitting, she loves to entertain and debate with friends.
Peter is an executive coach who works to enhance confidence, effectiveness, and sense of purpose critical to exemplary leadership. He draws upon the latest in Neuroscience research to help his clients grow and thrive in impactful, sustainable ways. Prior to coaching, Peter served as Senior Vice President, Financial Planning and Strategic Analysis during a period of unprecedented growth and transformation at Home Box Office (HBO).
With a huge experience working with large corporate organisations to retain, engage and develop their leaders, Alyson is business focused coach. Individuals who work with Alyson will be empowered to own their careers. Alyson prides herself on her ability to form long lasting relationships based on her values of trust and integrity. Values form a strong part of why she is a coach and are at the heart of her meaning and purpose.
Gill has many years of leadership and organisational development experience working in groups and on a one-to-one basis. mostly within large organisations.
The retail, insurance, health and hospitality sectors feature in Gill’s diverse portfolio. Caring for twin daughters took her down a lifelong learning and flexible freelancing career path and work with several large consultancies.
She favours projects that involve partnering because “You’re supporting people to move forward, and when creativity and collaboration play a part you can really make a difference”.
You could describe Gill as a classic car fan with a ‘Norfolk Mustard’ Lotus Elan in the driveway, a seasoned traveller with a particular fondness for Mornington Peninsular in Victoria, Australia, a lifelong jazz modern and tap dancer, an ex-school governor of 10+ years, a regular gym goer, a linguaphile who enjoys a chat in French or Spanish, events coordinator for her local CIPD committee and author of the Women’s Careers White Paper.
Alex works closely with senior business leaders to provide guidance and support to enhance organisation performance, delivering local people plans to achieve business objectives. Alex coaches in a challenging and supportive way to deliver actions which drive improved development leadership capabilities for organisational performance.
Nicky is an accredited Leadership Coach and Facilitator. She has a background in professional services and the advantage of having worked for blue chip organisations, as well as having set up and run a successful business. Using Cognitive Behavioural coaching techniques, typical topics covered in sessions include raising visibility, developing critical leadership capabilities, increasing resilience, managing upwards, imposter syndrome and building confidence. Supporting her coaching Nicky runs workshops on managing stress, raising awareness around mental health and mindfulness.
Andrew has spent over 25 years helping CEOs and senior leaders develop strategies, improve performance, and grow their businesses, both as a practitioner and a coach. He has worked internationally within public and private sectors and built a career as a senior leader helping organisations solve complex business issues. Uniquely, he has worked at the cutting edge of high-performance sport and business. He is therefore able to translate best practice from sport into a business context succinctly.
Claire is an Organisation Development Practitioner with over 25 years experience. Part of her expertise includes coaching individuals and groups, which she does enjoy. She is a qualified Executive Business Coach and also holds a Masters degree in People & Organisation Development. She is currently in the final year of her Phd studies in Management at the University of Sussex Business School. She works with organisations to help people have better conversations, think more transparently together and with individual self-awareness and also to help people develop and implement key management skills and leadership behaviours.
Marilyn is an Executive Coach with a rich African background and extensive international Human Resource experience. With her deep understanding of diverse cultures and passion for personal development and growth, Marilyn brings a unique perspective to her coaching engagements, helping clients unlock their full potential and achieve sustainable change to become authentic best versions of themselves.
Iain recently stepped down after 11 years as Managing Partner at Browne Jacobson solicitors, a period which saw unprecedented growth and expansion to become a business with a turnover of over £80m and 1000 people. After stepping down Iain qualified as an executive coach to help support clients and make use of the skills, insights and experience – both highs and lows – he gained as a leader.
Kimberly has mentored at all levels within an organisation. She has experience of both HR and business leadership so understands the skills and knowledge required for both. As a business leader Kimberly understands the full range of knowledge and skills required to build a successful business and has experience of each of the key areas of business such as finance, sales, marketing, client relationships, people management and products or services.
Nolly is Master of Social Intervention in Knowledge Societies: Exclusion and Poverty, Well-Being, Family, Gender-Based Violence. Nolly is a clinical psychotherapist with 35 years of experience in human resources consulting. She has a vast experience in stress management, coaching, and conflict diagnosis in different sectors, multinational and private companies, and international bodies. Nolly has a lot of experience in individual, group, and community psychology.
Lincoln has worked with thousands of clients helping guide them to success over the last 22 years. He’s supported over 40,000 people make the most from LinkedIn. Lincoln isn’t just a career coach – he’s a proven career transformation catalyst. He seamlessly blends his expertise in coaching individuals from graduates to main board executives with his insider knowledge of building company recruitment teams and conducting executive searches. This unique blend empowers him to: unlock your LinkedIn potential and master the platform to attract opportunities and showcase your strengths to the right audience; think outside the box: go beyond the next job and craft a sustainable career roadmap aligned with your aspirations and values; and broaden your horizons: identify unexplored paths that ignite your passion and lead to greater fulfilment.
Bharatti is a skilled and experienced technical coach/mentor, offering practical support and guidance drawn from her own corporate experience. She has natural empathy and a deep understanding of the complexities faced by leaders and always offers practical support and solutions.
Peter is highly experienced and has worked for more than 20 years in career management, including career change. In particular, he has worked with individuals taking control of their career for the first time and determining the appropriate course of action to enable them to fulfill their personal goals.
Peter provides assessment of career options, helps develop targeted CVs and provides interview training. He has extensive experience working with senior clients across a broad range of job roles and sectors.
Sybil is an excellent communicator with a direct, but warm and engaging personality. Passionate about people development and focuses on supporting individuals to maximise their potential, achieve their goals and increase their individual and organisational performance. Confidentiality, integrity and great work ethics embody her professionalism. She is highly skilled in developing professional relationships and loves what she does – coaching.
Lucy believes you know what to do, and that you can do it. She will ask you questions, listen to you and hear you, she will support you and critically, challenge you. Lucy offers you a safe space to clear the mental load and the internal voices that get in the way of you being able to do what everyone knows you can do, but that you doubt from time to time. Lucy understands what it feels like to be new to a role, with huge expectations of yourself, whilst also balancing multiple demands at home and at work. Working with her will allow you to get out of the day-to-day drama and self-doubt and focus on doing what you want and need to do.
Rick spent most of his career in financial services and has led business teams in more than 15 different jurisdictions. A qualified executive coach, Rick works with entrepreneurs from a wide range of sectors to develop them as successful business leaders and find their way to deliver against their goals.
Urvashi is an experienced executive coach with a track record of working with large organisations, start-ups and global matrix to retain, engage and develop leaders. Urvashi’s strength derives from her business background and her focus on offering commercial, creative and effective coaching for individuals and teams. Clients who work with Urvashi will be empowered to manage their career path effectively. Drawing on her diverse experience in business, client management, human resource management and leadership development, Urvashi adds real value for clients, helping to develop clarity, connection, and confidence in their professional and personal lives, to realise their full potential and develop the emotional resilience to achieve their dreams.
David has been an advisor to companies as a solicitor, corporate finance advisor and headhunter for 45 years through all parts of the business cycle. David’s early career was as a specialist in the Media and Entertainment sector, but latterly he has been more generalist, acting for a wide range of clients ranging from whisky distillers to FinTech companies, from animal health companies to property. David was also CEO of a quoted company.
Rayne has held global roles in large complex companies as a Senior HR Director and Business Leader. She has coached business leaders and HR teams creatively sparking debate about follow up actions and forward planning. She is a qualified Myers Briggs practitioner and has combined real world experience with a solid academic grounding. Rayne has navigated her career whilst having two sons and managing to juggle work and life balance. Helping others to navigate those challenges, and getting the best possible outcome is one of her focuses.
As a professional trainer and coach for over 20 years, I’ve guided professionals from diverse international backgrounds into the intricate process of career transitions and talent development. My journey started in the classroom teaching C-Executives the language and cultural intricacies of global business. Today, I leverage this foundation to empower individuals to explore new career paths, consider promotion and navigate pivotal career changes.
Following a successful career in executive search and international banking, Peter gained a degree in Consulting and Coaching for Change at INSEAD in 2004 and has since coached senior executives and management teams at some of the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions.
Experienced coach having successfully worked within the consultancy sector for nearly 20 years. His main areas of coaching involve career transition and assisting clients when changing their career focus including preparing for retirement. Extensive HR experience particularly in recruitment and selection. Doug is a Fellow of the CIPD.
Laura has worked exclusively in the Higher Education Sector for the past 25 years at the University of East London, Sussex University, King’s College London and University College London. For the past ten years she was a Chief Operating Officer at City, University of London. She has mentored, coached, interviewed and developed numerous managers, students and staff at all levels of their careers.
She has a deep understanding of graduate employability and career development. She is the Mentor Leader at Lambeth College in South London with “Career Ready”, a national mentoring programme which supports 18-to-24-year-olds from deprived backgrounds into employment or university. She is a qualified Career Coach and Workplace Mediator and holds a Master’s degree in Voluntary Sector and Charity Management from Cass Business School.
Sandra has spent more than 25 years in the corporate world working in tough and challenging technical environments, evolving, and developing cross functional teams to deliver complex business change.
She has collaborated with leaders at all levels of the organisation including the C-Suite and across different business functions and cultures. She has a unique insight into the skills required for strong leadership. Excited by the power of good leadership, Sandra’s passion is coaching aspiring mid-level and senior leaders, helping them to align technical and business expertise with people centric leadership to achieve their business and personal goals.
Roxane is a multilingual, skilled and talented coach, business trainer and consultant, supporting you in French, English, Spanish and Italian, either progressing in your current position or transitioning on to your next role. She will accompany you throughout your growth journey, so you define and shape your future.
Caroline is a certified career transition and executive coach, accredited through the International Coaching Federation. She is passionate about helping leaders and talents succeed through life’s quakes and significant changes. Her mission is to help them discover their ‘true north’ and lead from their core in a way that’s fun and joyful. With guidance on crafting ambitious visions and aligning decisions with personal values, Caroline empowers her clients to achieve their best work, careers, and personal growth.
With over 17 years of experience in international development, working at the United Nations, World Bank Group, OECD, and other renowned organisations, Caroline has held diverse roles, including: safeguard specialist, gender education lead, business and human rights advisor. She has led teams in complex environments and has lived and worked in six countries. Currently residing in Washington DC with her family, Caroline also enjoys traveling, reading, and playing golf.
Jo has a wealth of experience working with individuals of all levels of seniority from a variety of industries. She builds positive, trusting relationships with clients and encourages thinking outside the box. Jo listens, challenges and supports all the way until her client lands just where they want to be.
Clare is a skilled executive and career coach who draws on her experience as a solicitor to partner with lawyers and other business professionals to support them in progressing their career, building self-confidence and achieving their goals more quickly than they would on their own.
Russ is an experienced career coach having coached and mentored at all levels from exec to graduate. With his guidance and experience, Russ has supported many individuals from feeling lost, overwhelmed and unclear of the future, to feeling empowered to make a change, seize the opportunity and ultimately take control of their own destiny. Russ has supported people in all types of career transition, from an internal move to a complete change of direction and sector. Russ is at his happiest when he is guiding and supporting others with their careers and takes a genuine satisfaction when an individual is clear and comfortable with their future plans.
As a multilingual UK resident, born in Germany, Simone enjoys partnering with global leaders and their teams to share her expertise and big systems thinking to deliver commercial value. She is passionate to help clients to identify their purpose and align it to the strategy.
A Facilitator, Senior Coach and Senior Mentor, Miguel has participated in Coaching and 360º feedback processes. He has developed and taught Leadership, Communication, NLP Coaching, Teamwork, Management Skills, Sales, Negotiation, and Strategic Planning programmes for various clients.
Michaela’s passion is helping individuals, teams and organisations discover and then achieve their true potential. She is an experienced and values led Facilitator, Executive Coach, Consultant and Mentor, coupled with a unique blend of extensive operational Transformational Change, HR, and Finance experience gained in multinational companies of size and scale. This operational experience gives her a real empathy and depth of understanding of challenges facing leaders and managers today.
Jonathan is a freelance Training Communication expert and the Founder of a company called Embed the Learning Ltd. Embed the Learning does what it says on the tin! He is CIPD qualified and also volunteers for Engage for Success as he’s passionate about Employee Engagement.
After 10 years in general management, culminating in running an IT operations function, Barry entered the world of HR where he held senior roles in sectors as diverse as automotive, professional services, IT services and real estate. He was Chief People Officer for the FTSE250 technology company Computacenter and the UK’s largest commercial real estate business, Landsec Plc. Barry has deep experience of executive remuneration and is also a qualified company secretary. He is an experienced Non-Executive Director and Remuneration committee chair for listed, as well as private and not for profit, organisations. Barry is also a member of Kilfinan group which exclusively provides mentoring for charity CEOs. Barry has a relaxed and direct style that draws on coaching techniques and listening skills to guide and support CEOs and Chief People officers though challenging situations that face executive teams. A strong networker, Barry believes in drawing from his experience and his network to support his clients.
Nigel is an experienced Executive and team Coach and helps leaders to build their capability and transform their performance. He has successfully coached in a wide variety of business sectors and his coaching is informed by his own extensive senior international leadership experience.
Dean is a qualified executive coach and mentor with a learning and development background. He is passionate about coaching and development, and seeing the lightbulb moments when a new ideas, knowledge or actions from coaching are identified. Dean believes that coaching is a pathway that helps people be the best version of themselves by increasing self-awareness, having a safe space to explore their thoughts in detail, helping make important decision and identifying key actions.
Olukemi believes that people have the potential and capability to be their best selves. She works with executives and senior leaders to transform their realities by visualising goals, navigating issues, creating possibilities, and actualising their ideal, in a sustainable way.
Warren empowers leaders to unlock their potential and aligns them with the organisation’s vision and goals. He supports them in executing key strategies and tactics to drive initiatives forward and helps them build capabilities to transform their organisational culture. Warren’s mission is to inspire and enable leaders to achieve remarkable results and foster a thriving, dynamic workplace.
Gareth is an experienced Board-level HR Director with deep experience in asset management, capital markets and financial services working in a global role (UK, Europe, South Africa,Asia Pacific and US). Skilled in HR Consulting, Transformation, complex Reward, OD, Culture Change, Agile and Future-oriented ways of working. Multi-lingual, strategic and strongly commercial having worked in consulting and p&l responsible roles across a range of sectors in early career.
A highly experienced and versatile Change Management Executive and Leadership Coach, who has driven and advocated business change strategies, business reorganisation, digital transformation, talent management and corporate governance. A solutions-focussed and determined leader with a proven track record of delivering change management in a range of challenging public and private-sector environments. Demonstrated success with developing change management capabilities in diverse industries and sectors. Comfortable working with agile teams, clients, and stakeholders alike, to identify and develop sustainable change solutions.
Paula is highly skilled in coaching senior leadership and rising talent across a number of sectors. Formerly Group HR Director and Executive Committee member at FTSE250 McCarthy Stone, she has over 20 years’ experience of operating at c suite level. Recognised as one of the UK’s most influential people leaders.
David believes that challenge and support can go hand in hand. His personal aim is to help people understand and realise their potential and to play to their strengths.
His professional career started at Bradford and Bingley as Assistant Manager before becoming Branch Manager at Nationwide which helps bring pragmatic experience to his coaching.
Inspired by the Gandhi quote, ‘be the change you want to see in the world’, Snéha values supporting managers and leaders in their personal, professional and organisational development. She is an experienced facilitator, executive coach and provides consultancy support to leaders specifically in relation to developing and implementing values, demonstrated in organisational culture, code of conduct and behaviours.
Marileen coaches clients who are going through some form of transition in their lives, be it professional or personal. Her coaching is totally bespoke and is aimed at helping the client getting unstuck, finding motion and working towards their goal. Marileen has experience of supporting people at all levels in their professional careers, from young professionals starting in the work place, to long-standing executives.
Michele is an accomplished CEO, COO and senior executive with an outstanding track record of successful delivery, transformational change, and performance improvement across hospitals and health care systems. Over 30 years’ experience in strategic hospital and healthcare management, ranging from recognised health services (BUPA Cromwell private hospital) to leading multi-site facilities in Canada. A visionary and supportive leader committed to executive and team development.
Katherine is an experienced facilitator, coach and consultant. She has worked with large, global businesses and in a variety of sectors, including retail, professional services and the public sector.
Katherine has expertise in L&D strategy, blended learning solutions and design and delivery of development programmes and team days. She also has experience of coaching senior directors and managers in both large and medium sized organisations. She specialises in empowering individuals to build their careers and reach their goals and aspirations.
Simon is a former banker, having working in the Capital Markets side of the business for over 30 years. His experience was concentrated in three main areas: Trading- so he could understand risk; Sales and Solutions- understanding of clients needs; and Strategy – the ability to articulate a vision, while showing the risk/reward of a recommended investment.
It is very easy to get caught up in the drama of the banking world, so the need to remain grounded in your pursuit of self realisation, means and needs a strong will not to be consumed by it.
A consumer and distribution focussed financial services Board Director and experienced senior sales leader with an enviable track record of delivering sales growth and efficiencies operating within a large multi stakeholder environment. Flexible, commercially astute and passionate about aligning sales and marketing strategies with excellent implementation to ensure clients are foremost. Highly personable with strong mentoring, mediating and moderating skills.
Linda empowers individuals to achieve success by building self-awareness, setting realistic but stretching goals and exploring ways to make these happen, whilst also maintaining balance. Working in partnership with her clients, Linda builds a strong trustworthy relationship to enable her to understand when to challenge and when to just listen. Working with her will allow you to get out of your own way and focus on doing what you want and need to do.
Having been a senior business leader for many years, Sue knows the real value of developing happy engaged teams. She is passionate about helping people equip themselves with both the mindset and skills to realise their full potential in terms of individual purpose, as well as supporting their organisation’s aims and objectives.
Marion is a certified coach, project management professional and MBA holder with more than 15 years of multi-national experience in Talent Management, L&D and Consulting. Trained through the International Coaching Federation, Marion has had extensive experience coaching leaders in-house for one of the Middle East’s largest conglomerates.
Harold is a seasoned executive who has led multinational and multicultural teams covering a variety of industries including Financial, Legal and Consulting Services, Technology & Telecom and Manufacturing.
Looking back on his career to date he recognises that his greatest pleasure has been in recruiting and coaching senior executives in order to assist them to reach their full potential.
Maria has extensive experience in supporting people at all levels at key points in their career, including transition initiated by the organisation or themselves. Maria provides individually tailored support to help people move on to the next step by combining a practical approach with her professional background in HR and Occupational Psychology.
Howard has had a successful career as consultant, functional leader and member of enterprise leadership teams. He typically works with business leaders but is energised working with clients at any level. Howard has practised executive coaching in many challenging situations including acquisitions/divestures, business transformations and leadership team succession.
Simon specialises in executive coaching, leadership and team performance. He works alongside his clients supporting them to reflect, learn and flourish in their organisations and context. His coaching is informed and enriched by three decades as an executive leader and global human resources professional at Investec and UBS, and as a management consultant with Willis Towers Watson.
Trevor has 15 years’ experience as a journalist with spells as deputy editor on Management Today and editor/editor-in-chief at Human Resources magazine.
As a content creator, he loves to drag the best ideas out of people and as a ‘Collaboration Advocate’ he argues we must kick down silos and pop learning bubbles to work better together.
You could describe Trevor as a team player who’s fascinated with patterns in football (and elsewhere) particularly those his team, Watford FC, make at Vicarage Road. He’s ludicrously proud of coaching a football team of 9 to 10 year olds and helping them develop as people and players.
Trevor factoids: back in the day he was area fencing champion and played the French Horn to Grade 8, he’s currently a presenter on St Albans-based Radio Veralum and is a big fan of Catalan band, Sense Sal. Ole!
Grant is a Development and Sustainable Finance specialist. He actively consults and trains on ESG and Climate Change Finance to banks and other professional services clients. He is a fully qualified, accredited and experienced executive coach and mentor.
Grant brings his whole experience to mentoring (student, financial specialist, consultant, coach, mentor, human). He travels extensively to emerging markets and thrives on finding solutions to difficult problems.
Quentin supports Senior Executives to excel in ambitious, growth-oriented businesses. Typically accountable for championing the firm’s competitive vision, his clients face strategic, operational and people-related difficulties. They must themselves adapt in order to enhance their organisations. Quentin challenges leaders to achieve distinction by empowering themselves to stay ahead of fast-moving market demands.
Michael is CEO and Founder of 10Eighty. He is passionate about helping people maximise their potential and believes everyone should have job satisfaction and a successful career. He helps organisations design jobs and career paths that maximise employee engagement.
Michael’s background is in Human Resources, having worked in the NHS and Financial Services sector. He has successfully run HR consultancies specialising in career management for the last 20 years.
As an avid reader/commentator on the world of work and sport, he regularly draws parallels between the two. Michael’s favourite scribe is Matthew Syed, Times sports correspondent.
Michael is CEO and Founder of 10Eighty. He is passionate about helping people maximise their potential and believes everyone should have job satisfaction and a successful career. He helps organisations design jobs and career paths that maximise employee engagement.
Geoffrey is a senior Human Resources professional with extensive European and UK experience across a wide range of sectors including shipping and logistics, aviation, telecoms and technology, and retail. He was Executive Director Human Resources & Organisation Development at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
He is currently the Independent Committee Member for remuneration and senior appointments at Hyde Housing Association.
Geoffrey is a Visiting Lecturer in Business Ethics and responsible leadership. He uses this knowledge and experience to provide practical, challenging and insightful support to clients. Especially those who are concerned about ethical leadership and working in the contemporary business environment.
Alison is a business mentor and coach who enjoys the variety and challenge of coaching at all levels. Her leadership style is nurturing, and she enjoys passing on her skills by mentoring. She has developed these skills further by taking on mentoring and coaching assignments from CEOs to paralegals. Until recently, she ran a very successful law firm navigating many challenges. This makes her well equipped to support clients facing fundamental transformational change, as well as working in our ever fast paced and changing landscape to make the most of opportunities. She believes the key to success in any business is personal resilience, empathy and excellent, honest communication skills.
Chris has some 30 years odd helping individuals and organisations manage change management and personal development. He has worked across a variety of sectors both Public and Private. In addition to his coaching practice he designs and runs assessment and development centres and trains interviewers. He helps clients understand their unique skills and shares his knowledge to help them succeed in their career particularly in interviews or selection processes.
NLP qualified, EMCC and ICF accredited Executive coach, Specialising in underrepresented leaders, (ethnically diverse, women, the neurodiverse and the disabled) providing empathetic support, for ongoing professional development, developing their unique leadership practice, ensuring that the diversity of thought that increases business success is fully expressed through allowing exploration into their authenticity rather than assimilation, and challenging beliefs relating to culture, and other nuances relating to leaders from under-represented groups. Mentoring and advising using 15+ years of senior HR experience, and Board level consultancy, offering guidance on visibility in the workplace, building a c-suite and board level work portfolio, effective networking, and other practical aspects of leadership.
Director and Business Development Executive, Hannah is our succession planner (a 10Eighty bench strength) with a background in public sector outplacement support, successfully placing individuals with learning disabilities and autism.
She’s driven by helping others achieve and seeing others succeed, particularly when they don’t know they need career help…you may not be surprised to learn that she has championed 10Eighty’s Fuel50™ from Day One.
A few of her favourite work things are problem solving, building business and personal relationships and making a difference whilst having fun because: “You can’t take yourself too seriously.”
You could describe Hannah as a ‘pedalhead’ often found cycling around Bushy Park, Hampton Court, and ‘part-time petrolhead’ who occasionally races around Brands Hatch in a souped-up Merc.
When wheel-free, Hannah spends QT with friends and family especially Alfie, her fun loving and determined little boy, juggles 10Eighty tasks with keeping Alfie entertained and supporting hubbie Bradley’s business.
Joan, Head of Leadership Practice, is a highly experienced executive coach, facilitator, team coach and consultant and has worked in global commercial environments since the mid-90s.
She enables individuals to make a positive difference for themselves through one-to-one coaching, team effectiveness and team coaching work. In her leadership coaching, she helps people work out what being a leader means to them, and how to become the best possible leader.
You could describe Joan as a vinyasa flow yoga practitioner, a lover of ballroom and latin dancing, who wants to learn the Argentinian tango, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ addict (who even watches ‘It Takes Two’), musical theatre fan, frequent concert goer and convert to the Latin American rhythms of Santana after Carlos’ guitar solos sparked a musical epiphany.
She adores amethysts and is obsessed with the colour purple (not the book/film) which, you may have noticed, has heavily influenced 10Eighty’s branding…
Former Chief Executive who has set direction, built leadership teams, turned around poor performance, and delivered outstanding results. Has won numerous industry awards for Customer Service and Employee Engagement. Passionate about creating strong workplace cultures to support achieving great things.
He is currently a non-executive Chair of Chester Race Company Ltd and Advisor to Currensea.
With a background in music, I moved into psychology as a life coach for those engaged in radical change. I have worked with those transitioning to find positive change either personally or as an organisation. I developed academically and through experience by taking diplomas, a BSc in Psychological Sciences and an MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology.
Liz is an Account Manager liaising with 10Eighty clients. She is passionate about building relationships and ensures the day to day needs of our clients are met for successful outcomes.
Liz is also a Coach, Trainer and Facilitator. She works internationally with individuals and teams to unlock their power to think differently. She has a breadth of experience working across a range of sectors and levels, delivering both accredited and bespoke training and coaching offerings.
Liz loves spending time with her family and friends and anything to do with water, including paddle boarding, kayaking, body boarding and swimming.
Since John’s transition to executive coaching and mentoring, he has enjoyed working with others to make lasting and meaningful changes to the way they work and the impact they are having. John likes working with clients who have ambition, drive and a sense of their personal trajectory.
For more than 20 years, Paula worked in multinational companies, mainly in FMCG, Retail Business, Healthcare and Wellbeing, and was passionate about what she was doing. Passionate for the business, for achieving results and passionate for supporting her team to unleash their best potential. She discovered that this was one of her biggest strengths that she was really happy to do (she didn’t know then, but she was living completely aligned with her Life Purpose). She decided to go beyond, starting by helping people and organisations achieve their best potential – happy people in sustainable organisations. She changed her career as Business Director and CEO to become a coach and support leaders and organisations to develop the skills to help them thrive.
Mark is an experienced executive coach, trainer and consultant with first hand C’ level experience. His sweet spot is working with aspiring next generation leaders who wish to build their confidence, capability and careers with an ambition of achieving their next promotion within the next 6-12 months.
Liz is a Director and Co-founder of 10Eighty, and has provided HR solutions to a wide range of industries since 2005 working with numerous firms to understand their needs. She’s a great believer in the power and intelligence of networking. She’s always thinking about her next introduction and with 3700+ LinkedIn connections and 4,550 LinkedIn followers the possibilities are endless!
She’s passionate about making a difference through her mentoring work for the CIPD. Making people happy in their career every day is her ultimate goal.
You could describe Liz as an art lover, tennis enthusiast (look out for her at The Hurlingham Club or at Wimbledon in June), hostess with the mostest, foodie à la France, and devoted mum of Orlando and Freddie who enjoys the perfect work-life balance.
Anna is passionate about unlocking potential to maximise performance. After changing direction from her full-time legal career, Anna qualified as an executive coach at Henley Business School and now splits her time between working as a freelance lawyer to the built environment industries and as an executive coach. Her career has given Anna a deep understanding of the challenges faced in juggling heavy workloads and keeping multiple stakeholders satisfied, all while keeping teams motivated and looking after one’s own development needs and maintaining a sense of purpose.
Mark has 40 years in business, over 22 years as CEO of three banks, leadership of hundreds of people, many whom he hired. He was a bank board director aged 31 and CEO by 36. Mark led the management buyout of Hampshire Trust Bank and built a successful, profitable and growing specialist banking business employing 170 staff.
Highly experienced across a variety of challenging senior/board level roles within Financial Services, multi-site retailing, Not for Profit and service operations during periods of extensive change. With a track record in introducing and leading significant business and capability improvements whilst delivering positive financial results. Proven experience in successfully developing and implementing corporate strategy through dynamic and pragmatic operational and people methodologies.
Kris is a career coach with 10 years experience guiding individuals through changes to their role or transitioning into new roles due to business transformation. She has also coached individuals to start a new business or portfolio career and find more work/life balance. Kris combines this business background with her own experience of making successful career changes in the US and UK to empower clients to build their careers and reach their goals and aspirations.
Ash brings to his Executive Coaching practice a multitude of business, finance and legal experience gleaned from his 5 Careers as:
(i) International Tax Attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind
(ii) CFO of the world’s largest billboard company
(iii) Entrepreneur
(iv) COO of several Talent Management/DEI companies.
(v) Senior Leadership Executive Coach
Marc is a highly experienced and award-winning Career Coach of senior leaders from different backgrounds. He has established a successful portfolio career working with blue chip clients in multiple sectors.
Marc’s main areas of focus are Career Transition Coaching, Outplacement, Business Start-up Coaching, On-Boarding and Interview Coaching. He also coaches our Neurodivergent clients.
Steve has had many years of experience leading and coaching people through his roles in Global Corporate HR, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition and Talent Development, in addition to his consultancy work with senior teams.
He is passionate about working with anyone who may find this is the first time they have needed career support, enabling them to find their way to optimise their potential.
Imagine achieving your most meaningful goals and making a positive impact, while feeling a sense of wellbeing, fulfilment and balance. As your coach, Natalia will help you unleash your creativity and overcome obstacles through a collaborative approach. Together, you’ll align your vision and values to create a path to success that is uniquely yours. Let’s connect and work towards your goals with purpose and passion.