Talent development

Dr Anna Kane

Anna is a coach, facilitator, assessor, trainer and speaker. She is undertakes research that enables herself and other coaches to work with up-to-date psychological approaches, addressing relevant workplace challenges for a diverse workforce. Anna has worked across public, private and third sectors for organisations such as Foreign and Commonwealth Office, University of London, Blue Cross and EDF.

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Coaching Style

Anna blends an evidence-based approach with interpersonal sensitivity. Many of her coachees describe her style as someone who listens, challenges, supports, advises and stretches them to proactively address their workplace goals. Anna’s experience in assessment, development and change facilitation gives her a wider view on the challenges brought to coaching, and potential solutions.

Special Interests

Anna’ Professional Doctorate research focused on self-confidence at work where she developed a model which many of her coachees find exceptionally insightful. Over the years she has worked with many people who have found confidence to be a barrier to their performance. Anna enjoys working with individuals from under-represented groups, and those who aren’t from under-represented groups appreciate the insights and challenges she brings from having a wider perspective. She uses the principles of mindfulness and compassion frequently in her coaching, and some clients choose to take part in associated online mindfulness and compassion training at no extra cost.

Training and Qualifications

Registered Coaching Psychologist, Chartered Occupational Psychologist
HCPC Registered Practitioner
EuroPsy Registered Psychologist
Member of International Society for Coaching Psychology
Special Group in Coaching Psychology & Mindfulness Association
Certificate in Performance Coaching
PG Diploma Studies in Mindfulness
Accredited Mindfulness and Compassion teacher
Accredited to use 16pf, Facet 5, NEO PI-R, CPP, ODC, OPQ32 and Dimensions.

Testimonials

"Anna has been a wonderful, supportive and encouraging coach. Over the period of time she has worked with me she has helped me see how my mind and motivations work, and how this can be harnessed for my own development, but also for the benefit of staff I manage. In addition Anna is a wonderful listener who is skillfully able to give me pointers and suggestions about things to consider whilst at the same time ensuring that all decisions are made and owned by me. Her manner and approach is hugely reassuring and helpful. It has been a pleasure to have had Anna as my coach - I know how lucky I have been."

"Anna’s clear and direct approach, underpinned by lots of empathy, support and good, sound advice, was just what I needed. A real revelation"

"I just wanted to thank you again as my meeting last week was so different to how it would have been a few months ago. I felt nervous/excited before rather than super nervous and not wanting to do it. I actually rather enjoyed it!

Emma Turner

Emma has over 10 years’ experience as a coach, and more than 20 years as an occupational psychologist. She has coached senior leaders and managers at various levels working in a range of sectors. Emma is highly committed to helping leaders reach their full potential whilst ensuring that they have a real impact on business outcomes.

Coaching Style

Emma’s approach is tailored to her clients’ individual needs. As a coaching psychologist, she uses a range of scientifically grounded techniques to help individuals tackle psychological blockers that might be holding them back at work. Coaching with Emma is not therapy or counselling. It is about personal growth, creativity, performance and action. It focuses on clearly defined and appropriately agreed goals, making it easier for both individuals and organisations to measure the results.

Special Interests

Emma is particularly interested in coaching individuals transitioning into leadership roles. She primarily uses cognitive behavioural coaching, solutions-focused coaching and psychometric tools in her coaching. Her goal is to help individuals improve their performance, increase resilience, enhance well-being and overcome blocks to change. As an adult dyslexia assessor, Emma also helps leaders manage the impact of difficulties associated with neurodiverse conditions.

Training and Qualifications

BPS Register of Coaching Psychologists
International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP) Accredited Member (MISCP Accred).
Association for Coaching Member (MAC)
Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Psychologist
British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered Occupational Psychologist
Qualified to use a range of psychometric tests, including Saville Wave, Hogan, NEO, MBTI, TalentQ and NEO.

Testimonials

'Coaching with Emma has been ‘game changing’ for me.'

'The coaching has raised my self-awareness and helped me to be better at managing certain unhelpful behaviours in the workplace.'

'Emma helped me to shine a light on how some of my behaviours were both helping and hindering me at work.
Working with Emma has made a real difference to my development this year. My self-confidence has noticeably improved (I recognise it and colleagues have commented too) and my team and managers unanimously fed back that I have successfully transitioned into a more senior role.'

'I sought an executive coach to support my development immediately following promotion. I particularly wanted to focus on building my self-confidence. I’d had no previous experience of working with a coach so wasn’t sure what to look for when selecting one, however Emma was recommended to me by colleagues who’d worked with her previously. From the very start, working with Emma was great. She struck a great balance between making me feel comfortable yet challenging me, holding me to account for the actions I’d agreed to take forward. I’d very strongly recommend Emma as coach.'

Clare White

Clare is a Chartered Psychologist, beginning her career as a Rehabilitation Psychologist with a focus on helping people back into work after accident or illness. Utilising the skill’s she developed in career coaching and assessment, Clare moved to a global consulting firm where she worked as a coach on leadership development and assessment centres, and built coaching talent within organisations through training solutions. She has worked with a broad range of clients including Shell, Vodafone, Coca-Cola, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Cabinet Office.

Coaching Style

Clare’s approach is grounded in the importance of the coaching relationship and creating the space for leaders to think. Clients comment on her ability to quickly create a trusting and supportive environment enabling them to be vulnerable. Along with this supportive approach though, Clare challenges those she works with to take a critical look at their thinking and the assumptions which are perhaps being made. With a belief that there is not one coaching framework which will work for everyone, she has developed skills in a number of different coaching approaches including cognitive behavioural, solution focused and “Time to Think” approach.

Special Interests

Clare has a particular interest in helping leaders successfully transition between roles, whether that is into more senior roles or into new organisations. She works with them to support and facilitate their recognition and understanding of the changes in requirements and to navigate their way to success. Her other area of passion is helping individuals build self confidence, tackling the perceived barriers holding them back so they can truly reach their potential.

Training and Qualifications

PGCE Business and Personal Coaching
NLP Practitioner training
C-IQ (Conversational Intelligence) graduate
ACT for self esteem
MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction)
Career Coaching certificate

Pippa Burr

Pippa is a Coach & Chartered Occupational Psychologist who has been providing high quality, evidenced based assessment & development solutions across the public & private sectors for 20 years. Previously she enjoyed seven years in the Financial Services sector as a Key Account Consultant with Friends Life.

Coaching Style

Throughout her psychology career Pippa has built strong coaching relationships at all levels, from graduates to senior managers, with a wide range of organisations including St. James’s Place, MetLife, Cineworld and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Her coaching style demonstrates her commitment to helping people recognise and draw on their internal resources, empowering them to initiate positive change and achieve their goals, at work and in their lives. Her coachees describe her as an attentive, focused and insightful coach, who skilfully challenges them to explore their often difficult realities in an authentic but compassionate way. Having a positive impact on coachee well-being and motivation are always key aims for Pippa, no matter what the challenges that are brought to coaching.

Special Interests

Pippa draws on coaching approaches such as Solution Focused, Gestalt, Cognitive Behavioural, Transactional Analysis and Strengths Based coaching. She also brings an in-depth understanding of psychology and Emotional Intelligence to her coaching and so works at the developmental and transformational end of the coaching continuum.
Much of her coaching work involves developing women towards and within senior leadership, helping them address life and professional challenges that may be obstacles to their career progression. Pippa also coaches men and women around challenges such as work-life integration, working in high risk countries, resilience and well-being, engagement, career confusion prompted by life transitions and helping leaders to manage the impact of significant life events at home and work on their well-being, leadership climate and performance.

Training and Qualifications

Chartered Occupational Psychologist, British Psychological Society
Registered Psychologist, Health and Care Professionals Council
BPS Coaching Psychology Register, application in progress for (2018)
Career Coaching Programme
Executive Coaching Programme

Testimonials

“Pippa is a fantastic coach – very down to earth and thoughtful – she really gets it! She responds nimbly to the ever-changing landscape, ensuring her approach is fit for purpose for every challenge. She has supported me in growing myself and my teams through significant periods of change and is always a pleasure to work with. I couldn’t recommend her more.”
Gemma Cracknell – Marketing Director, Entertainment Sector
“Pippa’s calm and thorough review approach facilitated clarification and enlightenment about my personal situation at a challenging time in my career. Follow-up work using more detailed psychometrics and analysis provided insights about my interaction with others, which have continued to guide my development and my career. I was pleased she was also able to work with members of my team.”
Charles Woodd – Executive Director, Financial Sector
“I have worked with Pippa for over 7 years, first while I was fully employed in a leadership role, and more recently in running my own business. I have always found her work insightful and compassionate. She is a highly experienced and skilled facilitator who uses her considerable psychological understanding lightly but with great effect. I always come away with a fresh perspective, and a better understanding of myself that I can use with confidence.”
Margaret - Consultant and former Managing Director, Media Sector

Trisha Cochrane

Trisha is a highly experienced Business Psychologist with a particular interest in personal development and coaching. She has worked across the private and public sectors, working with organisations to help them make sound selection decisions and to develop and retain their talent.

Coaching Style

Trisha uses her psychological knowledge and expertise to help people understand the reasons for their behaviour and emotional reactions. These insights combined with the classic coaching skills of questioning and listening provide the thinking space that people are rarely able to provide for themselves. She creates a supportive environment, whist providing gentle but incisive challenge to help people disrupt their thinking and find new perspectives. At its best, coaching is a series of deep, thoughtful and enlightening conversations that allow people to clarify what they want – and how to get there.

Special Interests

Apart from using psychology, Trisha has a real interest in how systemic thinking can help people to recognise the wider influences that are at play on and around them. If appropriate, she also likes to use the tools of the Psychology trade, i.e. personality questionnaires, to provide more insights.

Training and Qualifications

BSc Psychology, University of York
MSc Occupational Psychology, University of Hertfordshire
Diploma in Performance Coaching, NCFE
Advanced Coaching Programme, Wise Goose (leading to accreditation with the Association for Coaching).

Testimonials

“nurturing and kind and warm yet super professional”
“you kept the conversation open and fluid”
“you linked in your psychology background and were able to offer some great insight and connections”
“you helped me to delve deeper but kept bringing back the focus in terms of action and direction to keep us on track”
“you made me think about my honest response”
“it was very helpful when you cited the evidence ... I like to know the facts/research”
“your questions were brilliant

Janet Newman

Janet is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Career Coach, who has extensive experience of supporting many blue-chip companies and public sector bodies with coaching and management development processes. She believes passionately in people’s ability to learn and change and feel that virtually everyone has greater skills and capabilities than they currently use and that coaching is often the key to ‘unlocking’ this true potential. Janet has coached more than 250 managers, leaders and directors, both on an ad hoc basis and in relation to large-scale (sometimes global) organisational change initiatives and leadership development programmes, involving building leadership skills and identifying and supporting high-performing leaders as part of succession planning.

Coaching Style

Janet’s coaching is flexible, enabling, present, goal centred and non-judgemental. She works collaboratively with individuals to achieve whatever outcomes they wish to pursue, whether it’s improving work performance, learning new skills, changing behaviour, finding personal success or identifying and achieving specific aims and goals. Her personal style is engaging, supportive and yet ‘quietly’ and insightfully challenging. Janet helps people discover, focus and direct the energy needed to turn intent into action and effect the change desired or required.

Training and Qualifications

Chartered Occupational Psychologist, British Psychological Society
A practising counsellor underpinned by a formal university-accredited training and supervised practice over many years. My coaching experience and practice has also been reinforced and validated through more recently undertaking a university-accredited Diploma in Coaching, involving completing 50+ supervised executive coaching sessions.

Testimonials

“Janet has undertaken 14 coaching assignments for my HR Company over the last three years. My client base is mainly Private Sector FTSE 500 organisations, operating across a range of sectors, who primarily have individual coaching needs at middle and senior management level. I am able to highly recommend Janet for any individual coaching assignments. In all the work Janet has undertaken for my company she has been totally professional, trustworthy and become a trusted partner to client managers. I can offer no better reference than to say many clients, who seek coaching support ask for Janet by name.”

"I didn’t know if I needed a management coach or not but as the old adage goes, "you don’t know what you don’t know". Janet gave me a different point of view and enabled me to recognise where I could improve myself. I found balance in my work and home life. During my time with Janet, I was required to make a very difficult decision on my career and family. With their help, it became an easier transition than I expected.”

"Janet allowed me to take an honest, non-defensive view of myself through the eyes and perceptions of others within the organisation. While some of the 360 comments and perceptions were critical of my communication and management style, Janet was compassionate in her approach to help me focus on change and self-improvement. This allowed me to take an honest assessment of myself and put my goals and aspirations into context for the future. She helped me to become more aware of the elements of communication and management situations that I could control and change for the better. The end result has been transformational for me. I have been able to change my communication and management style for the better as well as the perceptions of my subordinates and peers across the organisation. My self-awareness has grown and allowed me to become a much more effective leader, manager and coach.”

Hannah Courtney Bennett

Hannah is a Chartered Psychologist and Registered Career Development Professional. She is passionate about lifelong learning and she coaches to help others make choices that are more than planned happenstance and assist them in developing their careers to achieve their full potential.

Coaching Style

Hannah’s aim is to try to ensure that we all have careers that are truly talent led. Her work is underpinned by the principles of positive psychology. She uses the power of Flow alongside 21st century schools such as Mindfulness, Growth Mindset and Gratitude and how these are supported by emerging neuroscientific evidence as well as environmental factors.

Special Interests

Hannah’s experiences have led her to recognise the importance of job-person 'fit' and context. She knows that different individuals have different ideas as to what the 'right' work life balance might be and that this can manifest itself at different stages and in different ways. She is especially interested in coaching the development of career management competencies and has presented on the importance of developing Career Resilience at conferences and workshops aroound the country. Hannah has developed an equine facilitated coaching programme as a platform for coaching career management and personal effectiveness in the work place.

Training and Qualifications

Chartered Occupational Psychologist, BPS
Full member of the Division of Occupational Psychology
Associate Fellow within the BPS
Registered Psychologist, Health and Care Professionals Council
Member of the Special Group of Coaching Psychology
Founder member of the Association of Business Psychology
Register of Career Development Professionals
I am licensed to use a range of tools including Wave, LJI, OPQ, 16PF, PRISM, Hogan, Talent Q, Factet5, Morrisby, GCI and RQI, The Game Changer Index and The Resilience Quotient Inventory as well as strengths based tools. I also carry out diagnostic neurodiversity assessments for SpLDs, including dyslexia, dyspraxia (DCD) and ADHD.

Testimonials

I am very grateful. Reading your e-mail below this morning has enabled me to have a greater understanding of my problems. I think that you have clearly understood them! I am very glad to be doing this work with you. I believe it will better enable me to make informed choices. (Equity Partner, Legal – career changer)
Thank you for working with Thomas, I think you have probably reached him in a way that we could not have done, so very many thanks Hannah. (Manager)

Ruth Sandford-Smith

Ruth is an Occupational Psychologist with a special interest in Coaching. She is a Chartered Psychologist, is registered with the Health & Care Professions Council, and is a Founder Member of the British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology. She undertook a Certificate in Coaching in 2007 and since then has worked with individuals in a range of organisations to help them develop and achieve their full potential, as well as manage difficulties and relationships at work more effectively.

Coaching Style

Ruth uses a combination of different approaches within a coaching framework, including: 360-degree feedback, development centre evidence, and psychometric tools. Ruth is also a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and this greatly informs her approach, in particular helping coachees identify unhelpful thinking styles and behavioural responses that might be hampering performance and progress.

Special Interests

Ruth has worked with a range of levels of individuals within organisations, e.g. administrative staff, graduates, middle and senior management. In recent years she has worked predominantly with employees identified as having leadership potential and with women in senior roles. She has also worked closely with individuals going through a career transition or change; this has included people facing redundancy, proactively seeking new horizons, coming to term with long-term health conditions, and those seeking promotion.

Training and Qualifications

Ruth is Level B (Intermediate) trained and qualified to use a wide range of psychometric instruments (OPQ32, Wave, 16PF, LSQ, HPI, HDS, NEO, Firo B, EIP).