CY People
Coaching York’s membership includes professional coaches, people who use coaching in their work or vocation, or who are supporters of coaching methodology. We form a generous and supportive community with a focus on building connections, supporting personal development, and helping release potential in ourselves and those we work with.
We connect and share through a variety of formal and informal events, professional development opportunities and social media. We are an inclusive organisation - so please do join us!
Individual summary biography details of our members can be found below.
As a social enterprise, we have a Board of Directors and an Executive Committee who work with members to run and set the direction of the organisation.
Bob Garvey is one of Europe’s leading academic practitioners of coaching and mentoring. He is an experienced coach/mentor working with, for example, musicians, HR Managers, small business owners, young people, academics and executives.
Bob has great experience in a whole range of different types of organisations. These include large and small businesses, the public and private sector, voluntary organisation and NGOs. He has worked in many different industries including financial services, manufacturing, scientific, creative arts, education and health. Bob subscribes to the ‘repertoire’ approach to mentoring and coaching. He is in demand internationally as a keynote conference speaker.
Bob has a PhD from the University of Durham in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has published many books and papers on the practice of coaching and mentoring. He is a founding member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and Honorary President of Coaching York. In 2014, the EMCC presented him with the Mentor award for services to mentoring and also in 2014, he received a life time achievement award for contributions to mentoring.
There are three directors of the Coaching York which is a company limited by guarantee.
The normal term is three years. Two consecutive terms can be served after which a minimum of a one year break is necessary.
We are registered in England and our company number is 10797490.
Steve Gorton is a founder director and company secretary of Coaching York Ltd.
As a coach he has been helping people enhance the quality of their thinking through his company Enabling Development (www.enablingdevelopment.com) from 1996. As a result you make a positive, interesting, significant and sustainable difference to your bottom line – however measured.
This is through enabling you to operate more strategically and holistically, be that in SMEs or large corporates across the sectors, in his role as an executive coach and confidential strategic counsel. Additionally he has tutored MBA strategy and other subjects and is particularly interested in helping people find their space to explore possibilities for growth.
In a nutshell I help people to start thinking again and bake bigger cak
As a dual-trained coach and therapist, I offer a therapeutic coaching approach that combines the motivational energy of coaching with the depth of understanding provided by therapy, in a way that enables lasting personal change.
To make sustainable changes in our personal or working lives, we need a clear vision of our future and our yet-to-be-realised potential. We also need an understanding of how our present ways of thinking, feeling, behaving and relating to others (and to ourselves) have been shaped by experiences throughout our life.
Therapeutic coaching uses bifocal vision to switch between coaching and therapeutic ways of looking at our lives. Its overall aim is not to heal distress or correct dysfunction, but to enable people to grow into more complete versions of themselves, to work more effectively and live more fully.
I hold a MA (with Distinction) in Coaching and Mentoring Practice and a Professional Certificate for the Advanced Study of Coaching Supervision, both from Oxford Brookes Business School. I also hold a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from Leeds Metropolitan University and am a BACP-accredited and registered counsellor-psychotherapist
What are you looking for in a coach? My personal mission is to help people think more clearly and make better decisions. I've been a professional freelance coach for over a decade working in the commercial, non-profit and faith sectors. I curate the Coaching York Podcast and, as a former Director of Coaching York, have extensive contacts in the industry. Contact me on Linkedin to tel me what you're looking for and, if I'm not the coach for you, I'll help you find someone who is.
Bryony works with people through confidence, overwhelm and going well into their next chapter. She enables people to be more self-aware, so that they have more choice and power; allowing them to live life with more flow. Her experience in education, healthcare and family support has built on her knowledge of how to hold space for individuals and groups, and to 'be with' people wherever they are at. She works as a personal Coach and through organisations, particularly those wanting to create a culture of wellbeing and those providing frontline services in society.
Bryony's clients reclaim their anchor, find space to breathe and choose who and how it is they really want to be so that they can show up more courageously in life. Her style has been described as intuitive, spacious, playful, wise and creative.
Bryony is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and is accredited through the ICF.
I have 30+ years coaching experience across a range of sectors: youth, community, health, sports, arts, not-for-profit, social enterprise & self-employed and different scales - NHS, British Council, EU to freelance community artists. I especially enjoy working with:
- Individuals/groups undergoing life, career, organisational change eg: startup, windup, growth, loss...
- People experiencing additional barriers such as ill health, minoritisation...
- Individuals/organisations working primarily towards social change or community/environmental benefit/welfare of others.
Qualifications: Coaching, Hypnotherapy, Stress Management and Management Consultancy. Memberships: MinsLM, FRSA, IAC and NCH. I am currently establishing accredited training in peer learning facilitation and coaching.
Debbie is trained in both traditional and leading edge coaching methods which gives her the ability to work flexibly with clients and the changes they want to achieve. She is also a behavioural and communications specialist which means she can help clients develop specific soft skills that contribute to greater effectiveness in their relationships, personal impact and influence with others.
Debbie works with clients to get results which are evidenced through gaining tangible examples of ‘change' for the client and organisation. Debbie has worked with people from employee to director/business owner level across different sectors including Financial, Health, Education, Police, Manufacturing and SME’s.
Debbie has an Advanced Certificate in Business/Executive Coaching from Leeds Metropolitan University, a Diploma in Coaching and Influencing Skills using NLP, Licence to practice Generative Coaching, ILM qualification using Transactional Analysis (TA) for Leadership in Organisations. She is also a member of the CIPD, local Chamber of Commerce, the IAGC and is Co-Chair of Coaching York. For more information, go to www.hrschool.co.uk
I’m a freelance Coach based in Munich, Germany, with experience in coaching executives and organisations for over 30 years. My passion is to coach time- and structure-centred topics for anyone in business who wants to have enough time and space for people and activities that really matter to them. My clients tell me I’m an empathetic listener with a clarity of thought helping them to untangle their issues.
In times of virtual calls and having once facilitated a workshop for Coaching York about vision/mission and roles I’m very much interested in helping to support this wonderful community of coaches and their clients in any way I can.
For the past 25 years, I've worked in settings across the Education sector, in teaching and in my current LA specialist role, supporting the social, emotional, and behavioural needs of children and young people, alongside delivering empowering staff professional development.
Coaching forms consistent element in my approach, from developing self-awareness, and positive identity to finding connection and purpose.
Since qualifying as a coach in 2016, I’ve been involved in a number of projects, including the establishment of a Life Coaching initiative at Bishop Burton University Centre. I’m also currently studying an MA in Inclusion at the University of Birmingham.
Steve Gorton is a founder director and company secretary of Coaching York Ltd.
As a coach he has been helping people enhance the quality of their thinking through his company Enabling Development (www.enablingdevelopment.com) from 1996. As a result you make a positive, interesting, significant and sustainable difference to your bottom line – however measured.
This is through enabling you to operate more strategically and holistically, be that in SMEs or large corporates across the sectors, in his role as an executive coach and confidential strategic counsel. Additionally he has tutored MBA strategy and other subjects and is particularly interested in helping people find their space to explore possibilities for growth.
In a nutshell I help people to start thinking again and bake bigger cakes.
I am an experienced, well-respected independent leadership coach with prior experience as a senior leader in the NHS, higher education and independent health sector working nationally, regionally and locally.
A qualified coach and member of Association for Coaching with >15 years experience, I offer a bespoke service to support your leadership journey using a variety of diagnostics and techniques as appropriate. Our high quality questioning conversations will encourage reflection helping you to move from surviving to thriving.Particular interests include
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leading with authenticity
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career coaching
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leading through change
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developing effective communication
I also offer express (short single session) coaching experiences.
I am a qualified coach and counsellor (MSc Coaching Psychology; Grad Dip Counselling). I have been working with others in one-to-one helping relationships for over 15 years. I thrive on the unique and energising encounters I have with coachees. I cherish being a part of the life-changing, empowering transformations that are initiated in those settings. I work from a humanistic, developmental perspective and draw on the pluralistic approach. I am also a senior lecturer in Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring at York St John University. In that role I have trained hundreds of individuals to empower both themselves and others using those skills. I am currently researching a PhD on coaching.
I am a qualified coach with previous commercial and leadership experience, running manufacturing businesses in the UK and Australia.
I have coached since 2016 and work with individuals from all backgrounds; executives and business owners, senior management teams, front-line managers, Supervisors and Team Leaders, but my specialism is in supporting SME business leaders, particularly in manufacturing.
I have a holistic coaching approach, believing that you cannot separate the work life from the personal life in an individual. It is the most rewarding work I have ever done in my career. Coaching - Because life is harder without support.
I help restless women create clarity and change their world.
Are you at a career crossroads? Feeling overlooked? Ready for a new challenge? Lacking direction but unsure how to change?
I am a warm and intuitive coach. I love creating a place which facilitates clients to have light bulb moments that spur them on. I will challenge you to act on your insights.
After a varied career I understand the journey of pursuing purpose in your life and work. I have worked in accountancy, education and charity sectors. I have also volunteered extensively in schools, focussing on wellbeing.
My clients say
Eileen brings a rare expertise in holding space for a client to do their best thinking.
I am a member of the ICF
I’m a resident of York since 1996. I’ve ten+ years’ experience as a freelance executive coach and supervisor. I’m also employed part-time as a faculty member of the Academy of Executive Coaching, teaching on their Certificate, Diploma and Senior coach training programmes; and I have a very part time role teaching leadership and management at the University of York’s Centre for Applied Human Rights. My coaching focuses particularly on leaders and leadership development, in the not-for-profit, private and public sectors; and I write frequently about the practice of coaching on my website and on LinkedIn.
I am an experienced and certified coach (ICF ACC) working mainly with women in public services and the charity sector. I came to coaching in 2011 after a long career in public services and subsequent leadership consultancy across care, health & justice.
Typical issues my clients bring to our coaching include:
o Finding balance between home & work
o Building confidence to take action / speak out / do something different
o Dealing with challenging relationships effectively
o Working through life or career change
o Managing stress and finding ways to be calm and clear the mind.
Ian is an EMCC Accredited Coach at Master Practitioner level. He is co-director of Move & Learn (www.moveandlearn.co.uk) and recently an author.
He has coached middle and senior leaders to date in relation to:
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behaviour change on Move & Learn approaches within a school or organisation
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behaviour change on other agendas set by schools
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Wellbeing
As he develops as a coach, he is interested in working with other coaches and organisations that want to explore evidence informed practice regarding:
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How we interleave training and coaching more effectively into staff development
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How we use team coaching in educational and training organisations
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How movement can be used more effectively in coaching
As the founder of The Coaching Bug, Karen, a dedicated professional coach, passionately supports individuals and organisations in reaching their potential. Providing one-to-one support to private clients and organisations, she also offers training for Coaches & Mentors, including ILM accreditation at Levels 3 and 5.
A longstanding supporter of the Yorkshire Accord Coaching & Mentoring Scheme, Karen collaborates with over 10 organisations and 100+ Coach/Mentors to provide cost-effective training and development opportunities.
Genuinely interested in balancing professional development with personal wellbeing, Karen continuously evolves her skills. Her recent exploration into Health Coaching enriches the comprehensive services she offers her clients.
I am working as a coach-therapist and supervisor in private practice, based in Sheriff Hutton, near York. In my work with clients I draw on many years as a coach, counsellor, supervisor, trainer, group facilitator and as a senior leader in two UK Universities. My current coaching clients include CEOs of SMEs in the commercial sector and those with development and leadership roles in the public sector. I supervise coaches, counsellors and pastoral leaders.
I endeavour to balance work with family life, sculpting, gardening and helping to manage our local village hall.
Nita specialises in working with leaders and organisations to develop and improve their effectiveness and achieve outcomes. With a proven track record of working in senior leadership roles herself including being on an Executive Board, Nita comes with professional credibility, a pragmatic approach and energy for seeing others develop and attain their outcomes.
Working with integrity and with a partnering approach Nita builds strong relationships. She has an ability to balance creating a safe psychological space to explore and be supported whilst holding the broader business perspective to enable change to happen.
She is a qualified Executive Coach and has worked with significant numbers of senior leaders focusing on various outcomes.
My name is Rachael Wells & I am a Stress management and Well Being Life Coach living and working around the York/North Yorkshire area.
I am ex-NHS, having worked for almost 25 years in Mental Health settings.
I offer one to one sessions for people who wish to work on the following:-
- Managing stress and anxiety.
- Improving resilience and self-esteem.
- Enhancing communication skills.
- Developing a more positive mindset.
I am also experienced at group work and can offer workshops, small group mentoring & training relating to Mental Health Well Being in work settings.
Offering practical approaches for managing life’s challenges.
I am a theatre director with productions ranging from the Fringe First-award-winning The Container to operas in Selfridge’s shoe section. I now also use the skills I developed supporting and enabling artists in over 70 high-pressure projects as a coach (Relational Dynamics 1st accredited), communication and leadership skills trainer (ILM-qualified), and facilitator.
I am a core facilitator with Flying Cloud, the University of York’s Strategic Leadership Program and People Create. The common thread through all my work is the conviction that if we provide the right support and encouragement everyone can reveal their own inner wisdom and unique potential.
Jeremy offers authentic, insightful and impactful coaching for executives that focuses on their key challenges, helps them make better choices and increases their potency as leaders He typically works with directors and senior managers across the public and private sectors.
Jeremy also works with coaches a catalyst for their own development, offering individual and group supervision to help them solve dilemmas that arise, support them through the emotional challenges they face and provide fresh perspectives so they understand themselves more deeply, relate better to their clients and develop into the coach they want to be.
I create safe spaces to address the key questions that open up new career opportunities and life choices.
I specialise in transition coaching - the inner journey that underpins eternal change. I create partnership with clients to identify the indicators that a transition is imminent, to navigate the process, maintain forward momentum, to finally setting in place the condition for successful ongoing change. My work helps people explore the person they are becoming as well as the destination to which they are heading.
With Coaching York I build relationships between businesses and charities matching professional expertise with opportunities for service.
Sandra offers one to one professional coaching for managers and senior leaders across the public
and private sectors.
Sandra, as a coach, helps individuals who may be at a cross roads in their careers by creating an environment to explore opportunities for their own development. She works with individuals to
achieve their full potential.
Sandra’s professional background is over 30 years in the education sector with 15 years as a senior
leader.
As a coach and trainer I am keen to help people address and act upon matters of importance, be it work, or non work, related. Coaching York is the vehicle through which much of this happens. I see our purpose being to extend the provision of coaching beyond the workplace and into communities, where the difference between productive and non productive outcomes is often determined by the quality of conversation. Coaches create great conversations!
As an experienced CIPD qualified HR practitioner and EMCC qualified business coach for more than 20 years, I can help you in the following areas:
– Developing and implementing your HR and coaching strategy
– Working with you to enable you to perform at your best
– Ensuring you and your teams make the most of the unique talents they have
My client base has included: BAA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Aviva, Bombardier, Siemens, Rolls Royce,Rugby Football League, Methodist Church, ICI, Sabic, DEFRA and Network Rail
I carry Professional Indemnity insurance
As a coach I create a safe space for clients to understand what matters to them and what holds them back, so that together we can surface their challenges and explore different choices they can make. This can focus on relationships, behaviours, decisions about the future, or personal confidence. Whatever the circumstances, I aim to build self-belief in my clients supporting them to deal with life’s challenges and thrive.
With significant experience of working at executive level mainly in the third sector, and in HE, I draw on my experience of organisational leadership and strategy, culture change and communications.
I am EMCC-qualified at senior practitioner level.
Joanne is a warm and intuitive coach with deep experience and understanding of how people work - plus a passion for growing new leaders. Her coaching philosophy is to be non-directive yet to offer her experience and challenge through the questions she asks and in what she notices. A former chief executive who has held a number of senior leadership roles, Joanne has worked as a qualified coach for 10 years. Her own specialist background was in communications/public affairs. She holds the ILM Level 7 qualification in coaching and is an executive committee member of Coaching York.
An experienced coach who helps professionals be intentional in their career to feel confident, happy, and proud of what they do. I coach around all areas of professional life including career development, adapting to big changes and helping clients create a bigger vision and possibility for themselves. I love supporting all walks of life, any career stages and have a strong interest in supporting social mobility and DEI.
ILM Level 7 qualified and an accredited Mindflick Spotlight Practitioner. I enjoy incorporating the Spotlight profiling tool (created in elite sports) to support adaptability and high performance to my coaching and people development work with individuals and teams.
Over a decade's experience working in Higher Education designing and delivering impactful career and professional development programmes, shaping provision and developing DEI approaches.
With a background in communications and the creative industries, Hester helps clients shake off the fear and trust their out-of-the-box thinking.
As ADHD and autistic, Hester is also well equipped to work with neurodivergent clients. She prides herself on creating a super safe space to explore challenges that come not only from our own self-criticism, but also from a life spent being criticised by those around us.
Hester takes a fluid approach to coaching, using a host of creative tools and ideas, like Tarot card reading and brainstorming, knowing that when clients really tune into themselves, big things happen.
What inspires me as a coach is to work with individuals or groups to help them bring about positive and sustained change. I take a collaborative partnership approach to design the best intervention for each client’s specific needs. I provide support and challenge appropriate to each situation.
My career developed in finance with a global food manufacturer. I always loved people development and as I moved into leadership roles I was increasingly able to work on manager and leader development programmes. I set up my own coaching and consulting business in 2012.
I am a qualified NLP practitioner and have an ICF accredited coaching and neuroscience qualification.
I am an innovative, compassionate and values-driven Executive Coach and Organisational & People Development professional with 25 years of experience across the public (civil service and NHS) and private sector.
I provide an oasis in a busy world by creating a friendly and focussed space for you to move forward by tapping into your own unique set of values, beliefs and desired goals.
- ILM7 Leadership and Executive Coaching (Leeds Beckett 2019)
- MSc People and Organisational Development- Roffey Park (2015)
- Accredited to coach across Civil Service at executive level (Oxford Brookes University)
- Founder & Voluntary facilitator York Coaching Circle (2011-)
It fascinates me how we continue to unfold and grow as adult human beings; what enables us to flourish in life and work, and what can keep us stuck. In my first career in forestry, I created the conditions to enable trees to grow and flourish.
Now, as an executive and leadership coach, I create the conditions which enable my clients to grow into their fullest potential – I call it a journey of Radical Self-Acceptance. Over the last 13 years I’ve worked with around 1000 incredible leaders 1:1 as they’ve come to realise how they are TRULY enough, relaxed and grounded, being their own natural self. In that centred, aware state they have greater impact, presence and perspective to help them navigate the complexities of life and leadership.
With over 25 years of people, organisational and leadership development experience in a range of sectors, I’ve witnessed the difference my coaching has made to individuals and their businesses. Working with people to achieve their potential, my belief in the power of coaching to transform resulted in me starting my own coaching business.
My approach is client centred and is based on trust and integrity, adapted to meet the unique needs of each person. Although my style is non-directive, I draw on a wide range of tools from my experience in people and leadership development. I’ve coached people in all sectors and at all levels, including board level.
My purpose is to be the curious explorer forever seeking golden egg laying geese. I’m passionate about developing self-sustaining value.
What makes me unique as a Business Coach is my 20+ years experience in business analysis, collaborating with managers to transform and grow their businesses . I synthesise this experience with my coaching skills so that I can help business owners to create self-sustaining transformation and growth both within their businesses and themselves.
People say they are ‘amazed at the impact’ of my coaching. I’d love more people to experience this.
I am a member of the ICF and Association for Coaching demonstrating my experience, qualifications and ethics.
With over 20 years of experience across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East in both commercial and government sectors, I specialize in unlocking potential to maximize performance.
Mentored by Sir John Whitmore, I bring a dynamic, results-driven approach to personal and business coaching. My passion extends to 'coaching the coach,' fostering excellence in the coaching profession. My sessions are professional, enjoyable, and focused on achieving tangible outcomes.
Let's embark on a transformative journey together, where challenges become opportunities and goals become achievements.
Following a successful 20+ year career in senior management and recruitment roles, Margaret is an experienced and qualified Coach who creates a safe and secure environment for her clients providing a safe space to explore possibilities. She helps them and their teams identify strengths and development needs, develop robust plans for successful outcomes delivering impact to meet their organisations changing needs.
Margaret also works with individual Leaders and Managers, supporting them to develop or change their career, going through redundancy or contemplating retirement.
Using a range of established coaching approaches she has developed her unique “Rainbow” Model which delivers effective results. Qualified with a PGC in Business and Executive Coaching and as an A & B qualified Psychometric Test user she is a member of EMCC; BPS and Fellow of the CMI.
With over 25 years’ experience as a senior executive, I have worked with many individuals going through (often challenging) transitions, in their career, their leadership aspirations or the direction of their life. My starting point is ‘What choices are you making and how is this impacting on how you behave and feel?’ I then support you to make small, but significant, changes in your approach to explore other choices and challenge your assumptions. I believe the key to development is self-awareness, and that ultimately you know yourself better than anyone. I listen: and give you the space to hear yourself.
After a fascinating career in the NHS I am now able to prioritise coaching with the sole purpose of supporting people. As a qualified coach I offer one to one sessions to those who are wanting to learn more about themselves in a safe space. Having experienced coaching myself I am crucially aware of its positive impact on self-esteem, confidence and decision making – at times when these concepts can feel difficult to achieve and/or identify with.
Whilst my coaching experience has been within leadership roles in the health sector, I am adept at applying coaching principles to any environment – work and life.
See my LinkedIn profile to provide you with my experience but please do get in touch if you would like to talk through the process and decide if it is right for you.
A highly experienced leader and people development expert; Kay has a natural talent for connecting with people and unlocking their potential. Kay’s coaching will help you set your direction and make positive decisions informed by a clear awareness of your strengths, values and motivations. She will support you to navigate challenges and make a positive impact as you achieve your goals.
Kay is a respected People and Culture leader with many years’ experience in private and public sectors. She has extensive experience in leadership and performance coaching. Kay is a member of CIPD, British Psychological Society and a qualified psychometric test user.
Jan is an executive coach, coach supervisor and facilitator with an interest in working with those in transition and supporting the building of resilience, mindfulness and compassion.
Her coaching clients are often executives, leaders or individuals who are looking for new meaning and purpose in their professional or personal lives, who want to stretch themselves or who need some space to work through significant issues that range from career transition to managing their own wellbeing. Her supervision clients value the light touch combination of safety, support and challenge that allow for a robust exploration of their own client work.
I help extraordinary people maximise their potential
I specialise in taking creative and passionate individuals who want to make a difference to their next level of success.
I love watching people grow and from my extensive career in the higher education sector, I have gained an in-depth understanding of how people learn, develop and connect, and what makes them step up and be seen.
I truly believe we are all capable of achieving so much more than we allow ourselves to. So often we are held back by our own self-limiting beliefs and the fear of failure. But these boundaries we create for ourselves can be challenged and demolished - and I can show you how.
For more info visit: www.waynecullen.com
Meg is an ILM qualified Executive Coach, Leadership Coach and Career Coach/Mentor. With over 15 years experience in leadership development and over 7 years as an independent coach Meg has worked with many clients from senior leaders through to school leavers and graduates to help them find a job they love or perform brilliantly in the one they’re in.
Working closely with clients Meg supports individuals to help them fulfil their potential at work. She has supported people through career changes including; promotions, career moves, redundancy, retirement as well as navigating various challenges faced in the working environment. From being a neutral sounding board and listening ear, Meg uses a warm and supportive coaching approach whilst challenging people to raise aspirations and be at their best in their life and work.
Meg is fascinated by people and motivated by helping people achieve their goals. She enjoys enabling people to see new possibilities, tap into their true potential and find fulfilment or confidence to pursue their goals.
Meg is a member of the CIPD and EMCC, a qualified practitioner in MBTI, Thomas PPA, SDI.
| Social sector coach and facilitator.
To think clearly and thrive at work, my experience is that we need a safe space, outside our daily environment, to explore, question and refocus. My main area of coaching and mentoring is with emerging female leaders. So many remarkable women are limited by assumptions that inhibit their self- belief. As CEO of a successful charity for 10 years, we developed a culture of growing our own people. It has always been my guiding principle that, in order to succeed, individuals must truly connect with their purpose. Clients report that I combine a calm, still presence along with appropriate challenge. |
As a dual-trained coach and therapist, I offer a therapeutic coaching approach that combines the motivational energy of coaching with the depth of understanding provided by therapy, in a way that enables lasting personal change.
To make sustainable changes in our personal or working lives, we need a clear vision of our future and our yet-to-be-realised potential. We also need an understanding of how our present ways of thinking, feeling, behaving and relating to others (and to ourselves) have been shaped by experiences throughout our life.
Therapeutic coaching uses bifocal vision to switch between coaching and therapeutic ways of looking at our lives. Its overall aim is not to heal distress or correct dysfunction, but to enable people to grow into more complete versions of themselves, to work more effectively and live more fully.
I hold a MA (with Distinction) in Coaching and Mentoring Practice and a Professional Certificate for the Advanced Study of Coaching Supervision, both from Oxford Brookes Business School. I also hold a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from Leeds Metropolitan University and am a BACP-accredited and registered counsellor-psychotherapist
Jenny is an ICF certified coach (with Barefoot Coaching). She has volunteered and worked in many industries - including software engineering, sales, mentoring, self-employment, counselling, secondary teaching and tutoring.
She is passionate about development of the whole person, whether that is through executive coaching, career progression coaching, early retirement navigation or personal coaching.
She loves nothing better than to give her clients the space to think, to challenge and reframe their limiting beliefs, to have light-bulb moments all the while encouraging them to enjoy the journey and dance in the moment!
In less than 55 minutes, I can take you and shift your mind-set in such a way that you feel comfortable and understand your purpose. You become the visioner, director and producer of your life aware of what you want and able to achieve. After shifting your mind-set we define your mission giving you a strategy to improve your life bringing greater confidence and more joy. Then I show you the moves to realize your potential. These are the three things I help you with mind-set, mission and moves. Visit my website https://coaching4millions.com/products/ to download my free book.
As a Personal & Business Coach, I partner with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that helps them maximise their personal and professional potential, and ultimately create their best experience of life. I am an ICF Associate Certified Coach.
Working across a wide range of sectors, I enjoy working both with individuals and within groups, and love seeing the positive impact of transformative coaching ripple out across organisations and personal networks.
If you want to shift your life or work in a transformative way, are starting a new adventure (or wondering how), if you want to challenge the status quo, or you are from a minority background, LGBTQ+ or neurodiverse I may be the coach for you. My approach is always compassionate and fun, and my clients describe me as ‘intelligent’, ‘quirky’ and ‘fearless’.
Previously I have worked in both the public and private sector as an HR director and a Senior Civil Servant, coaching to board level and I speak regularly at conferences and events on wellbeing and resilience.
Credentials: FCIPD, MSc in Executive Coaching at Ashridge Business School (in progress)
I love to help people make the most of their skills, talents and opportunities. I work as a coach with business owners and managers in all sectors who want to be challenged to understand their goals in order to achieve them.
If you want to make progress in your career, with your business or with your team leadership, I can work with you to support you in making the best possible decisions for you.
For over 30 years I have applied psychology to help people change their behaviours: as an NHS Clinical Psychologist and from 2005, supporting leadership development through coaching, facilitation and consultancy.
I use evidence based psychological tools and models to help you understand your behaviours, their impact on others and how to change them to be even more effective. My coaching style is empathic, caring and wholly focussed on you. I bring new ideas into the sessions in a way that suits you, working together so you can use them to make a big difference to you.
I am a registered Coach, Team Coach and Clinical Psychologist with the BPS and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Heather is a personable and creative coach, coach supervisor and therapist, with over 25 years experience, working with individuals, groups and teams. She is passionate about hosting safe, reflective and trusting spaces.
Her style is warm, intuitive, enthusiastic, and engaging, evidenced to lead to the development of positive relationships and outcomes. She provides a supportive, trusting yet challenging environment which enables individuals, teams, and organisations to tune into and embody their core values, leading to a greater sense of connection, authenticity, wellbeing and satisfaction.
- ILM 5 & 7
- MSc Healthcare Leadership
- Qualified Barefoot Coach Supervisor
- EQi 360, MBTI, Affina, HLM 360 Facilitator
- HCPC registered
I am an experienced and qualified coach who specialises in personal and team development.
Clients regularly testify to my ability to support and challenge them in exploring their outer reality and inner world.
This enables them to more confidently and realistically set, or reset, their goals and ambitions.
Clients value how I adapt my approach and questions to what works best in the moment and for the topic we are coaching on.
I always learn from my clients and never lose the sense of privilege of serving others so they can in turn serve themselves more fully.
For several years I have supported Coaching York in its development ambitions and was pleased to be a member of the Executive Committee.
Qualified coach since 2022, working with clients from diverse backgrounds in charity, private sectors, and civil service. My varied experience gives me a unique perspective helping clients set goals, explore themselves, their relationships, and behaviours in both professional and personal settings.
I blend evidence-based strategies with empathetic coaching to help individuals navigate challenges, uncover potential, and achieve lasting success. I encourage stepping out of comfort zones to explore new possibilities.
As an International Coaching Federation member, I adhere to their code of ethics. I invest in personal and professional development through coaching, supervision, and continuous learning. Currently, I am training to be a counsellor to further support my clients.
Joy works with adults who are struggling to juggle the demands of parenting with other responsibilities. She helps parents to focus on themselves, their resources, time, energy, and motivation.
Developing self-confidence and clarity on their next steps, so they can regain their sense of self and recalibrate their lives.
Joy supports people returning to work, achieve good work-life integration. Using active listening and an empathic approach, Joy provides a safe, confidential space for people to explore aspects of themselves and their life, making positive, sustained changes.
As a mentor, Joy works with families with children who have additional needs (SEN & adopted). She helps parents navigate the education system, identifying strategies for support and helps in communications with school.
An ILM Level 5 qualified coach and mentor with 20 years’ experience in education. For the last 5 years, Joy has been supporting adoptive families with mentoring, coaching, and training for a leading charity and the local authority.
Jane Barrett has been a Career Coach for over 20 years and is the founder of The Career Farm, an Executive Leadership and Career Coaching company. A former Chartered Surveyor she now focuses on coaching and works with Masters, MBAs, Exec MBAs and alumni of leading business schools in the UK and Europe.
She also coaches within many different organisations from start-ups and SMEs to large organizations such as Amazon, Expedia and Prudential Plc to develop the careers, teams and leadership capabilities of their leaders and high-potential talent.
Jane is co-author of ‘Taking Charge of your Career’ published by Bloomsbury.
Joanne has transformational conversations that inspire her clients to confidently take the next step in their professional lives. She empowers clients to evolve a holistic view of who they are, find their purpose and determine the right role for them to be successful on their own terms.
Her focus is career and leadership development with the outcome of increasing job satisfaction and fulfilment. In turn, enabling organisations to build exemplary and sustainable cultures with highly motivated employees.
Joanne is a ICF qualified Coach, Accountant and Project Manager, with 28 years experience of leading teams in high pressured and complex FTSE 100 Financial Services organisations. She combines her accountancy and change management skills with her coaching to offer a unique and rewarding experience.
The Authentic Spark was born out of my passion for supporting others including working with teams and individuals on visioning, creative collaborative thinking, skills development and personal growth. As The Authentic Spark, I harness my ability to see the bigger picture, to make connections and to enable others to reflect and utilise their own resources.
My background is in the heritage sector but I coaching with people from all walks of life. I love to use creative techniques and tools to encourage reflection. My super power is to help coachees find their SPARK, of creativity, of passion, of energy and motivation.
As an Executive Coach, Alison supports people through phases of transition, reflection, and personal development. Her style is calming, warm and naturally builds rapport quickly enabling clients to focus, and with supportive challenge, get to the heart of the matter and connect the dots. Alison has worked across a range of roles and sectors in the UK and globally.
Her coaching accreditations and expertise are supported by her background in working in HR and Change Management roles. Alison blends her business insight and coaching skills to understand her clients and the context in which they work and play. Her purpose is to help leaders to move forward, achieve their goals but be congruent with who they are and their values.
Hi, I’m based at the University of York and I am the Mentoring Coordinator for the Next Generation RSVP (Research Supervision) project, an initiative funded by Research England to transform research supervision in the UK.
I have been working in the area of professional skills development for the last 10 years. I am also a Clifton Strengths finder coach, and this is something I love doing for individuals or teams. I have found that it can really help teams understand each other.
By recognising and leveraging each others strengths teams can be happier, much more engaged and productive. I am also really interested in academic coaching and have a lot of experience working with research students and academics in workshops and 1-1.
Alex is a highly experienced business practitioner turned coach and management trainer with over 20 years of leadership experience in financial services.
He understands the challenges faced by leaders: demanding stakeholders, work/life balance, building trust, and making tough choices. Having walked the walk allows Alex to really understand his clients.
His key areas of focus are executive coaching, leadership development, and diversity and inclusion. His clients speak of his ability to create the safe space for difficult and exploratory conversations, enabling them to take insight-driven transformative action.
My passion is helping clients with their self-enquiry and self-exploration, guiding them to discover what they want or need.
My coaching style is person-centric and holistic and in this way I work with clients to understand patterns and themes that cut across all aspects of their lives and can lead to new insights.
I have worked with a range of clients across the public and private sector, undertaking whole organisation and executive level coaching through to individual specific coaching. In all coaching relationships I aim to create a way of working that meets individual needs and helps the coachee unlock their potential and achieve their goals.
I am an educational coach and trainer working with senior and middle leaders, teachers and support staff in schools, colleges and universities. My clients range from senior leaders leading on strategic vision setting, to middle managers juggling multiple hats, to educators looking to hone their practice.
I have had a 30-year career in education in governance, leadership, teaching and support roles and understand the challenges and opportunities that leaders and educators face. My approach is supportive and collaborative and I am passionate about creating meaningful, sustainable development opportunities for leaders and educators - and the power of coaching to do that.
With over 20 years of experience working with universities, the NHS, and local government, I have empowered teams and managers to collaborate effectively and enhance their performance. As a qualified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner, Hypnosis, and Timeline Therapist, I founded my own executive coaching and facilitation business.
Many individuals quietly struggle under the weight of new responsibilities, managing uncomfortable emotions, and navigating the complexities of leadership roles—even though they are fully capable of performing the work itself. Over the years, I’ve come to appreciate the immense value of a friendly, competent coach in alleviating anxiety and stress, while rekindling motivation and self-belief. Having benefited from such experiences myself, I’m passionate about helping others unlock their inner worth, build confidence, and achieve their personal and career goals.
I partner with both private and public sector organisations to facilitate positive, transformative change that is both rejuvenating and sustainable.
My qualifications are as follows:
- Certified NLP Master Coach
- Certified master Practitioner of NLP,
- Certified Master Practitioner of Time Line Therapy
- Certified Master Practitioner of Hypnosis
With over 20 years experience of working in the civil service in both policy development and project delivery, I use a coaching approach within my teams in order to help individuals build confidence and develop their skills to perform to the best of their abilities.
I firmly believe in the power of coaching to help people to achieve their goals. I am now looking to further develop my own coaching skills and practice beyond my current work place. I recently gained the ILM level 5 qualification in Effective Coaching and Mentoring.
I worked at Board Level within Human Resources for over 30 years, before completing an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change at Henley Business School and becoming an Executive Coach.
Acting as their ‘Thinking Partner’ I help my clients gain clarity about their professional challenges and work with them to find ways in which they can move closer to achieving their goals.
I support clients (individuals and teams) to develop positive working relationships, by helping them to consider other perspectives, recognise and value psychological differences, and build rapport.
My clients tell me coaching style is supportive, encouraging, positive and empathetic.
I am a Lumina Emotions qualified practitioner, Accredited Senior Practitioner with EMCC and member Association of Coaching, Henley Centre for Coaching and CIPD (Level 7).
I support women navigating life and career transitions — from returning to work after burnout or family leave, to redefining success through a purposeful career pivot.
My compassionate, gently challenging style creates a safe space to reconnect with clarity, confidence and start taking steps in your new aligned direction. I bring a wide variety of experience and knowledge:
- a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry and years of experience leading multi-million-pound research projects
- my own career pivot into HR
- qualifying as a PRINCE2 Practitioner
- leading challenging change projects
- over a decade of mentoring experience .
I’m currently training as a One of Many Certified Women’s Coach (ICF accredited, completion date September 2025).
My flexible 12-week coaching journey helps you move forward with courage, authenticity, and a renewed sense of self.
"Being a member of CY comes with both interesting opportunities to contribute and the responsibility to play a part in helping with local community development. I value occasions to meet with like-minded people. Knowing that there is a ‘local tribe’ you can belong to certainly makes a difference."
Dr Ira Laketic-Ljubojevic from I Realised Coaching and Consulting Ltd