Mentoring

An experienced Executive and Independent Non Executive Director. 40 years experience up to CEO level in healthcare organisations in the English NHS and the Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. From 2016 to 2018 an Independent Director of a leading Women’s Hospital and from 2018 to 2024 Independent Chair of an NHS Ambulance Trust. A Trustee of a charity providing care services for the elderly since 2018.

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Law
• Accountancy
• Professional Services
• Education
• Family Businesses
• SMEs

Areas of Specialism
Iain primarily works with people to help reflect on their performance, priorities
and their support and development needs:
• Senior leaders: Chief-Exec, CEO, Managing Partner, Chair roles
• Leader elect, so people about to be appointed to a senior leadership role
• Leaders about to step down
• Board members or Heads of large Departments (e.g. Heads of Legal

Richard has had a successful and varied career in financial markets and technical training. He developed teams where colleagues were able to grow and broaden their skills. He brings objectivity and an enquiring mind to listening and solving problems.

Representative Client Sectors
• Asset management
• Private banking and family offices
• Investment banking
• Capital markets
• Sales and trading
• Financial services companies
• Companies whose clients are in the finance sector

Areas of Specialism
• Career development and promotion
• Leadership skills
• Boosting board effectiveness
• Enhancing technical skills in financial markets
• Presentational and influencing skills
• Developing business strategies
• Enhancing selling skills

Rick spent most of his career in financial services and has led business teams in more than 15 different jurisdictions. Since leaving the banking world, Rick has been CEO of an international Family Office business and now has a portfolio of Non-Executive Director positions supporting the success and governance of their businesses. 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.

Representative Client Sectors

• Finance/banking
• Professional services
• Private equity and investments
• SME’s and fast growth businesses
• Family offices
• Charities and voluntary organisations

Areas of Specialism

• Business Chairs, CEOs and the executive leadership team
• Next generation aspiring leaders
• Young entrepreneurs developing their business
• Those going through major pivot moments in their careers or managing complex change or expansion programmes
• Those managing in a diverse cultural environment or facing inclusivity challenges

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Media and Entertainment
• Technology
• Professional Services
• Leisure
• Financial Services

Areas of Specialism
• Helping first time senior executives transition from Executive to Non- Executive roles
• Senior Professional Services roles
• Interviewing
• Planning and prioritisation
• Time management
• Driving the strategic agenda
• Overcoming imposter syndrome

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.

Representative Client Sectors
International career in:
• Engineering
• Healthcare
• Pharmaceuticals
• Cosmetics and toiletries
• Packaging
• Drinks
• Private Equity
• Insurance

Areas of Specialism
• Influencing
• Leadership and executive presence
• Stakeholder relationships
• Driving the strategic agenda
• Problem solving

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial Services
• Oil and Gas
• SMEs and Family Owned Businesses
• Pharmaceuticals
• Professional Services

Areas of Specialism
• Leadership purpose
• Managing change
• Motivating your team
• Leadership and executive presence
• Self-awareness

Barry has had a successful and varied career across several sectors. As a former
HR Director, he has a track record of coaching and supporting executives
through change and navigating challenging situations in a corporate setting. As a seasoned mentor and advisor, Barry loves to help people face change head on. He brings objectivity and curiosity together in a safe and secure space for his clients. Barry believes that mentoring should be a rewarding and engaging experience that leverages the power of networks and connections to create new opportunities.

Representative Client Sectors
• Professional Services
• IT Services and Technology
• Real Estate
• Automotive
• Membership
• Not for Profit

Areas of Specialism
• CEO and Leadership team
development
• Newly appointed Chief People
Officers
• Remuneration Committee Support
• Career Transition

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial Services
• Professional Services
• Information Technology
• Retail
• Hospitality and Tourism
• Real Estate
• Healthcare

Areas of Specialism
• Leadership
• Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
• Strategic thinking
• Influencing
• Motivating your team

Gareth has a long career as a Board-level HR Director with deep experience in financial services and markets, in global roles. He has also worked with start-ups and FinTech, chairs a leading educational not-for-profit, and successfully co-founded a ground-breaking business, focused on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. He has acted as mentor, sounding board and critical friend to numerous CEOs and their teams and is a specialist in leadership potential & effectiveness, preventing derailment, and building culture. He is a Mentor on the Solaris Global Women’s Leadership Academy for black professionals and executives.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial Services
– Investment management
– Insurance
– Wealth
• Fin Tech
• Further Education/charitable

Areas of Specialism
• Senior leader mentoring
• Leadership development, risk factor assessment and correction/ management
• Culture, values and purpose
• Inclusion, diversity and social sustainability
• Executive, Board and Senior Team facilitation
• Mentoring diverse talent

Paula is highly skilled in mentoring 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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Property and real estate
• Investment banking and capital markets
• Private banking, family office and asset management
• Mutual sector
• Telecommunications
• Professional services

Areas of Specialism
• C-suite and senior leadership development
• Career development and stepping up to leadership
• Managing career and personal transitions
• Developing strategic thinking and influencing
• Personal presence and resilience
• Women in business

Tim has spent 40 years working in the London (and global) insurance markets, both at broking firms and at a carrier. He’s had the privilege of working with and for many of the most high profile individuals in the marketplace we know today.

He has experience of leading large operations teams at both broking and (re)insurance firms. From sales and marketing initiatives in the front office through to claims and post placement operations in the back office. Both for high performing ‘business as usual’ operations and oftentimes during significant change initiatives.

Tim is an active supporter of many D&I initiatives. Someone who prefers to ‘walk the walk’ and actively engage as an advocate for the sometimes marginalised, which he finds highly rewarding.

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Health and Social Care
• Higher Education
• Not-for-Profit
• Professional Services
• Public Sector

Areas of Specialism
• Stakeholder relationships
• Motivating your team
• Problem solving-“setting things right”
• Being effective across cultures
• Leadership purpose

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Hospitality
• Not-for-Profit
• Property and Real Estate
• SME
• Education

Areas of Specialism
• Advisor to a Corporate Board
• Trustee of a Charity
• Effectiveness of people and the business
• Defining and implementing the strategy
• Alignment of inner and outer scorecards
• Assisting entrepreneurs manage their businesses

Jeremy has been an executive coach for the last seven years, although he only
left full time employment 3 years ago. He has a highly personable approach and has a flexible style depending on the requirements. His last major role was
leading a sales division of a large UK asset manager. Over Jeremy’s career, he has developed strong processes around stakeholder management and change
management whilst delivering BAU and personal resilience. Much of his work
has been helping sales and marketing leaders step up into more senior
management roles, leaning on his own personal experience.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial Services
• Legal
• Not-for-profit
• Professional Services
• Public Sector

Areas of Specialism
• Stepping up into more senior roles
• Managing difficult stakeholders
• Developing Board behaviours
• Managing constant change whilst delivering on BAU plans
• Business strategy

Anna works as an executive coach, mentor and leadership facilitator specialising in developing leaders and teams across a variety of organisations to build leadership capability to enhance performance, build confidence and develop their careers.

Representative Client Sectors
• Professional Services
• Financial Services
• Technology
• FMCG
• Media
• Education
• Fin Tech
• Telecommunications
• Energy

Areas of Specialism
• Leadership
• Team performance
• Culture change
• Influencing
• Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
• Neurodiversity Coaching
• Parental Coaching

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.

Representative Client Sectors

• Financial services: investment and retail banking,
  brokerage and exchanges
• Professional services: consultancy and legal services
• Technology and fintech
• Public sector: social services and housing

Areas of Specialism

• CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CPOs and the top team
• Newly appointed and aspiring leaders
• Leaders and managers facing career blocks, poor relationships, career transitions and potential exits
• International and global firms in Europe, Asia and the Americas

Warren is a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry. He has held senior positions and led businesses across international Fixed Income and Portfolio Management. He started out as an internal risk manager on a trading floor in London, but changed career direction when given the opportunity to start a research function for the Asia credit business in Singapore. With that experience under his belt he joined J.P. Morgan in New York where he ran Global Emerging Markets Corporates Research and Strategy. He left that position in 2012 to join Morgan Stanley Investment Management where he was the lead portfolio manager and Head of the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt Strategy.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial services
• Commercial and Investment Banking
• Asset Management
• Fixed Income Research
• Emerging Markets

Areas of Specialism
• Career planning
• Communication skills
• Talent and team management
• Change management
• Business development
• Stakeholder Relationships
• Strategic thinking

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• International banks
• Private equity
• I.T.
• Legal services
• Media
• Academic Journals

Areas of Specialism
• ESG and Sustainable Finance – delivering the Transition to NetZero as a senior leader
• Senior stakeholder management – how to navigate the C-suite
• Leading and managing multicultural teams
• Stepping up into Senior Leadership roles
• Developing your authentic leadership style

Geoffrey has a practical and pragmatic approach to deliver strategic and
operational interventions in challenging and changing environments. His creative background, combined with his business acumen, brings rigour and fun to mentoring and new ways of working.

Representative Client Sectors
• Arts and Creative Sector
• Transport and Logistics
• Built Environment and Housing
• Higher Education
• Not for Profit
• Technology and Telecoms
• Retail

Areas of Specialism
Geoffrey enjoys working with a variety of people on their personal performance
and development, organisation and business issues:

• Senior leaders, CEOs, MDs
• Leaders about to take on a more senior role
• Graduates starting out in their career
• Experts and professional specialist taking on leadership roles

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Legal
• Insurance
• Health
• Housing

Areas of Specialism
• Transition to leadership
• Effective People Management
• Dealing with challenging people
• Managing and driving large change projects
• Business and strategy planning
• Career coaching
• Critiquing bids proposals

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Fintech
• Finance
• Banking
• Technology
• Education

Areas of Specialism
• Agile, innovation & creative thinking
• Being effective across cultures
• Leadership and executive presence
• Overcoming imposter syndrome
• Self-confidence, self-belief and resilience

A seasoned CEO and Chair who has set direction, built leadership teams, turned
around performance, and delivered outstanding results. An approved person
of regulated legal entities with experience in listed and private companies, across financial services, hospitality and consumer sectors in UK, Europe and USA. Ian is interested in helping individuals, businesses and organisations transform and grow by creating strong workplace cultures to support achieving great things.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial services
• Hospitality
• Consumer
• Education
• Engineering

Areas of Specialism
• Building a high-performing workplace
• Leading change initiatives (growth, consolidation, transformation)
• Crisis response and management
• Developing strategic communications, backed up by practical experience

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial services
• Professional services
• Entrepreneurs
• Publishing
• Healthcare
• Architecture

Areas of Specialism
• Leadership and executive presence
• Team building and motivating
• Conflict management and handling difficult conversations
• Leadership through Objectives and Key Results
• Motivation and fulfilment in the workplace
• Self-confidence, self-belief and resilience
• Handling corporate culture clashes

Sherree is an experienced executive and leadership coach who has operated at both C Suite and Board level. She is a committed and supportive coaching partner who draws on her experience to facilitate practical, supportive and challenging coaching conversations. She has senior level leadership and business experience across a number of industries from commercial to non-profit environments including UK and Internationally. She is a committed coaching partner who works with clients to unlock leadership performance and potential.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial Services
• Professional Services
• Higher Education
• Technology and Telecoms
• Charity and Non-Profit
• Utilities and Energy
• Manufacturing and FMCG
• Chemical and Pharmaceutical

Areas of Specialism
• Leadership & Executive Performance
• Transition to Leadership and Executive
• Women in Leadership
• Culture and Change
• Stress and Resilience

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.

Representative Client Sectors
• Financial Services
• Professional Services
• Higher Education

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.

Representative Client Sectors

• Financial services – Regulated
• Multi-site retailing and services – Pharmacy/Travel/ Funeral/ Dept stores/Legal services
• Not for profit – Energy and Communications

Areas of Specialism

• Leadership
• Influencing
• Culture change
• Driving the strategic agenda
• Team performance

Richard is an Entrepreneurial and strategic thinking Chartered Accountant with Non-Executive, Audit Chair and Executive Board experience across the Financial Services and Technology sectors. He also has experience in Private Equity and tech start-ups. In 2007, as CFO, he started a new bank from scratch which demanded that he test all his business and people skills to the limit. He enjoys sharing the lessons he learnt on his career journey.