About us

Robbie Steinhouse

Robbie's background in sales, computer programming and as an entrepreneur gives him a combination of skills which he utilises as an executive coach. He started his career working for companies ranging from NCR, Mitsubishi and Deutsche Bank before founding the property and insurance company Gray's Inn Estates.

Ann Baldwin

Ann is a former partner of a large firm of accountants where she helped clients to develop their businesses and latterly led and managed major areas of the firm’s business.

She is a chartered accountant, a member of the Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers & Commerce, a Founder member and former Board member of the Professional Speakers’ Association, and a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (the study of excellence.)

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Rachel Brushfield

Rachel is an executive and career coach with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in career development, marketing, networking, self-promotion, targeted communication for results, personal branding and smarter self-management. Rachel uses a focused yet flexible non-directive incisive and insightful approach, drawing from a large toolbox of practical tools and models and experience in different market sectors.

Helen Neal

Helen Neal is an executive coach and HR development consultant with a coaching style that is honest, knowledgeable, pragmatic and commercial. She has twenty years experience in various roles both in professional practise and industry.

Amanda Vickers

Amanda’s background is in banking where she worked both within business and support areas such as HR and training. She is now one of the Directors of a successful and well established Training Company – Speak First – that specialises in transforming business relationships. She is also the author of three books: Be Your Best Coach and Beyond, Teach Yourself NLP and Teach Yourself Coaching (published by Hodder Headline) and has expertise in communication, leadership, sales, customer relationship management and individual and team coaching at senior management level.

Aina Egeberg

Aina’s background in leadership development, coaching and media provides an excellent platform to support the development of exceptional leadership talent. Her multi-lingual capacity along with her extensive international experience, enables her to both coach and mentor leaders for the challenges that face global business today.

Francis Currie

Francis is an experienced executive coach whose clients have included celebrities, senior executives, managers, and people from sales, human resources, creative, marketing and technical teams. His coaching style has been described as “engaging, fun, and challenging”, and the coaching process becomes a motivating and stimulating experience for the client under Francis’ guidance.

Rob McPherson

Rob has worked as an independent Business Psychologist for 10 years, gaining experience in a wide range of business sectors. He enjoys applying his understanding of the psychology of individuals, teams and organisations to support people in the world of work. Prior to working as a Business Psychologist, Rob worked for Health and Social Services with people with disabilities.

Ron Down

Before setting up his own business 13 years ago, Ron spent 20 years in the IT industry in a variety of technical and senior management roles. From his involvement in personal and management development coupled with his process and business competencies. Ron has developed many skills and strategies which he uses in executive and personal coaching.

Gillian Dow

Gillian is an executive coach and HR and development consultant with a coaching style that is supportive, pragmatic and practical. She has thirty years experience in various roles in commercial property, insurance, legal and publishing industries. She is fluent in French, having worked in Brussels during a time when many leading global companies based their European headquarters in that city.

Anton Teasdale

Anton’s background is in strategic communications, marketing and coaching. He specialises in breakthrough coaching for businesses and individuals where people or teams feel ‘stuck,’ despite previous attempts for change.

David Buswell

David’s background in marketing, advertising and market research, combined with his experience of founding and managing two successful businesses and his work as a counsellor, gives him a wide range of skills which make him an exceptional executive coach.

Barbara Fossi

Barbara spent fifteen years in sales and marketing roles in the financial sector, working internationally for companies including Merrill Lynch. She specialises in cross-cultural coaching, with experience of working with individuals and teams working in ‘hostile’ environments.

Maite Barón

Maite is an experienced international NLP Executive Coach, working with executives, private individuals and teams, empowering and motivating people at all levels within organisations to master every opportunity they encounter professionally and personally.

Sarah Christie

Sarah Christie is passionate about potential and uses her coaching to help individuals re-engineer their beliefs about what’s possible for them. Her style of coaching is a potent combination of humour, enthusiasm and support, whilst not being afraid to challenge. Sarah understands that personal transformation can only take place when we are stretched beyond our comfort zones.

Anne Roques

Anne has gained a wealth of corporate, business and management experience through the different international roles she has held in the Finance, Supply Chain and Change Management areas before becoming an Executive Coach in 1999.

Irene Zalessky

Irene has a strong background in finance, commerce, consultancy and coaching. She spent 14 years working in the City of London in the securities industry for blue-chip financial institutions such as Cazenove and Co. and BZW, and ran her own import agency for six years. She currently works as an individual executive/career coach, drawing on her wide business experience and the understanding she has gained through her own personal and professional development.

Jim Hicks

Jim Hicks has many years of experience in developing companies and brands, through strategy, operations communication, and people development. Jim is an excellent communicator himself and a dedicated ‘people person’.

Lisa Capaldi

Lisa is a qualified Performance Coach and Trainer. Coming from a successful corporate media background, she has over 14 years experience in sales and marketing in Press and Radio. As a qualified NLP Trainer and Master Practitioner, Lisa is passionate about developing individuals to achieve higher levels of performance personally and professionally. She has a great ability to connect, engage and motivate her coachees in a fun, real and practical style.

Susan Brodie

Susan has a wealth of experience in HR, management development, change management, coaching and career counselling. She started her career in retailing, working in a variety of roles focussing on resourcing, change management and management development. She now works with a range of clients from the retail, legal and financial services sectors.

Rie Ota

Rie has a diverse background in multilingual communication and relations, having worked across a number of industries and countries; most notably as a Japanese Manager for Foreign Language Business Development in an E-Commerce company. She has also worked in the Hospitality industry as a Japanese Relations Manager responsible for sales, marketing and PR, dealing with ministers, embassies and international corporate directors.

Lucy Marks

Lucy is an Executive Coach with over fourteen years senior HR experience gained in a wide range of sectors, including Investment Banking, Oil and Gas, Publishing, Manufacturing, Luxury Goods and the Drinks Industry. Her roles have encompassed Generalist HR, Talent Management and Organisational Development.

Bernie Wales

Bernie has over 25 years experience as a successful entrepreneur. He is a former founding director of two successful property management companies, and is currently an executive coach and business consultant to several national building development companies.

Edward Hines

Edward began his career in the traditional domain of coaching – sports. An award-winning martial artist, he lived in the Republic of China researching martial and related arts for several years, and taught and competed successfully in the international field before turning to full time NLP training and coaching.

Alice Scales

Alice ran a successful language school in Paris for 14 years. During this time, she went beyond language teaching, and her practice over the years developed to include negotiation, presentation and diplomacy as an art in business. She has worked in these roles with a wide range of companies including Morgan Stanley, Axa Private Equity, Allen and Overy, Gide Loyrette Nouel, Publicis and Arthur Andersen.

Antoine Bebe

Antoine’s background is in communication, creativity and management. He has developed a multi-disciplinary coaching approach dedicated to professional development, executive coaching, communication and change management.

Florence Rigneau

Florence’s background in R&D and sales and marketing and her natural capacity to connect with people leads makes her an ideal coach. Florence also designs customised training for personal and professional growth, stress and time management, and communication skills improvement.

Constance Konold

Starting from a solid base as manager and chief of staff for international corporate leaders, educators and diplomats in France, Malaysia and Africa over the last twenty years, Constance formalised her coaching skills as a response to market demand for multi-cultural coaches.

Cynthia Indriso

Cynthia Indriso is an executive coach with nearly two decades´ experience sucessfully living and working internationally. As someone who’s been there and understands global life and work, she specialises in cross-cultural business coaching. Cynthia inspires her clients to embrace and use the richness of cultural diversity as a resource in meeting the challenges of their multicultural and global business environments and achieving high performance and high fulfilment, wherever they are in the world.

Eva Wieprecht

Eva began her career in banking and moved to the consultancy industry with her MBA (University of Cologne) in Marketing and HR Management. She worked for KPMG and Gerling Consulting Group as a project manager and consultant for business development and Business Process Re-engineering projects.

Jeffrey Hui

Jeffrey’s teachings and trainings amalgamate Chinese and Western cultures and management theories. Currently the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Trainer of Jeffrey Phoenix Training & Consulting, Jeffrey is a professional trainer, coach, motivational speaker, business consultant and columnist.

Ingrid Straet

Ingrid has over twenty years of professional experience in various fields and has spent the last 10 years in a consultancy & coaching context. Working with people to help them become more aware of their strengths and weaknesses and possibilities and limitations creates added value, not only for the organizations they work in, but also to themselves.

Lucy Vittrup

Lucy runs a cross-cultural consultancy based in Denmark, where she lives. She has extensive experience with helping international leaders, diplomats and front figures in a variety of fields overcome challenges and become a success in their professional and personal lives.

Over the last couple of years Lucy has worked with television anchors, performing artists and others who need to communicate efficiently to larger groups of people.

Kazim Yurdakul

Born and educated in Istanbul, Kazim has carried out research, held conferences and facilitated training programmes at various universities throughout Turkey. At present he is conducting his coaching and mentoring training programmes at Maltepe University.

Nataly Chevrier

Nataly has been coaching professionals and managers for more than ten years on career, interpersonal, and cross-cultural skills development. She works in an international environment with multinationals, and in small and medium size companies in the high-tech industry. Her private practice includes a diversity of clients from various professional and cultural backgrounds.

Kevin Cottam

Kevin is committed to the pursuit of excellence/high performance and growing people’s potential.  His background as a figure skating coach, trainer and choreographer to National, World and Olympic Champions and competitors, an award winning dance filmmaker, contemporary dancer and director of Opening and Closing Ceremonies of large sporting events gives him first hand knowledge in reaching goals. He devotes his life to coaching, speaking and delivering trainings for business, government and individuals.