Executive Coaching

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.

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.

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.

Ian is a Senior Executive Coach; his experience has been gained in the delivery of Coaching and Team Programmes to major blue-chip organisations in London, Singapore, Thailand, Tokyo, Malaysia, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Nigeria and South Africa.

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.

Paul is an author, speaker, facilitator and coach specialising in leadership and mindset who now works with leaders across a variety of organisations to build leadership capability to enhance performance, build confidence and develop their careers.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Neil is an international business consultant, coach and mentor. He has experience across many sectors and organisations and focuses on helping the next generation of business leaders to fulfil their potential.

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 has worked internationally, coaching and training individuals, teams and organisations around the world. She has a breadth of experience working with clients and learners across a range of sectors from children up to Director level. Liz specialises in visual mapping techniques and works closely with clients to unlock their power to think differently.

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.

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.

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.

Judith is an experienced career and leadership coach who supports clients at all levels, across multiple sectors. She has worked for over 20 years in corporate talent management roles, wearing many hats including coach, people manager and strategic business partner. She has successfully helped organisations develop leaders, engage teams and nurture talent; building capability and driving performance, to deliver results.

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.