Who we are and how we can help

Joan, Head of Leadership Development, 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…

Shannon is our Business Support Manager and holds a degree in Education Studies and a PGCE in Primary School Teaching. 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 Buddy, her Jack Russell x Border Terrier.

Indoors you’ll find Shannon working on home interior projects and relaxing with a good thriller novel.

Rose provides the concierge service to our Platinum clients, runs our events programme and and also provides EA support for the team.

Prior to 10Eighty Rose worked at Drax, an executive search firm who specialise in supporting Private Equity and growth capital journeys, for 4 years. Here she ran the events practice and was EA to two of the founding partners. Rose’s career began in retail at Jigsaw, a luxury ladies clothing company, and she believes that learning customer service values early on gave her a strong foundation for the polished service that she is able to bring to clients today.

Rose has a Masters in Business Management and a Degree in Advertising. She is about to start an evening course in silversmithing and stone setting so watch this space! When not working Rose enjoys country sports, baking (for the 10Eighty team) and horse racing.

Helen is stepping in for Rose whilst she is on maternity leave, providing the concierge service to our Platinum clients. Helen also runs our events programme and and provides EA support for the team.

Before joining 10Eighty, Helen has worked across Business Support and Talent based roles, helping first time Founders to build their businesses, with a specialism in everything people- finding and keeping the right teammates.

Helen’s passion is working in high growth start-ups and scale-ups, with people who care deeply about their people and culture.

Helen is a keen runner and CrossFitter having run the London Marathon, several Tough Mudders, and she has just started competing in Amateur CrossFit competitions.

However, as life is all about balance, she also loves to cook and bake, and has begun a quest to ‘bake’ the perfect Aperol Spritz!

Her life also wonderfully revolves around her 5 year old pug, Arnold, who accompanies her almost everywhere,

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.

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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”

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!

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.

Executive coach and facilitator Emma is a People Development professional with 2 decades plus experience of training and coaching business professionals from many sectors.

Her focus is developing people and maximising their potential for leadership through coaching and training facilitation “My MO Is helping people do the right thing at the right time with support from emotional intelligence insights”.

You could describe Emma as a wellie-clad country girl, enthusiastic about animals and maintaining the beautiful English countryside who loves nothing more than walking her dog Jake in rural Sussex.

Indoors you’ll find Emma cooking Italian cuisine for her family with fresh local produce washed down with wine, champagne or prosecco, watching procedural cop shows like CSI, enjoying her village’s local music festival or rocking out to the Kaiser Chiefs in Brighton.

Mike, Executive Coach, has worked in the financial services sector since the 80s. After a decade or so as a Senior Executive in Lloyds Banking Group, he yearned for a new challenge and embarked on a career as a coach.

Applying his business and behavioural expertise – he has a Masters in Executive Coaching from Ashridge Business School –  Mike has worked with senior leaders and teams across the sector working with established names, challenger banks and startups. In a sector that’s working hard to rebuild its reputation, he leads the delivery of ethics and integrity programmes in the UK and abroad.

Keen to give something back, he gives his time as a trainee psychotherapist to those who find themselves excluded and is completing a Masters in Psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute.

You could describe Mike as a dyed-in-the-wool Gooner – ex-owner of a flat on Highbury North Bank where he stood as a boy, and an AFC season ticket holder who saw his team beat Inter Milan 5-1 on his 40th – a fan of off-West End theatre, especially the intimate and edgy productions at Islington’s Almeida, and proud owner of a ‘no bells or whistles’ Morgan, ‘perfect for weekend poodling’.

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 900+ Facebook friends and 2700+ LinkedIn connections 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.

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 CareerCENTRE™ 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.