Richard Reid
Founder & Head of Clinical ServicesWith more than two decades of high-level experience in the corporate world, Richard brings to his coaching practice a unique perspective and drive to succeed. He has the ability to help his clients dive deep, as required, and to shift between narrow and wide focus depending on the context and goals.
In his own words, Richard is “on a mission to make you better.” He emphasizes working collaboratively with his clients to achieve the results they aspire to. His pragmatic, integrative coaching style has generated incredible results for those seeking support in areas such as developing resilience, boosting presence or charisma, and navigating organizational development.
Over the course of his career, Richard spent nine years as a senior consultant in the IT sector, including two years heading a team at Booz Allen Hamilton. He has also spent 15 years as CEO of his own company, which has offered him a deep understanding of the challenges that corporate leaders face. He has worked in a coaching capacity for many years, supporting executives in organizations such as Cisco, Sophos, Cap Gemini, and Novartis.
An experienced international executive coach, Richard has certifications and accreditations from recognized global executive coaching organizations, including:
- Certified Coach by Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching
- NLP Practitioner
- Accredited Coach by Apter
- Accredited Psychotherapist by BACP
Alastair Duns
Alistair is a learning and development consultant and a former professional yachtsman, with over a decade of building, coaching and leading race teams across the globe.
Alastair is able to bring academic theory to life with his compelling stories of leading and managing diverse teams in ultra-high-pressure situations.
With a degree in languages and a certified Human Factors trainer, Alastair is well placed to understand the many components which influence both human performance and culture.
- High-performance coach
- Certified Human Factors trainer
- Former professional yachtsman
Andre Persad
Andre is a maritime leadership and safety advocate. He has more than 20 years’ experience working in the maritime and shipping industry across various roles globally.
Andre coaches leaders on their approach, their style and their influence on the team. He helps them to see how even incremental improvements in their own leadership effectiveness can bring visible benefits for the individual and the organisation, leading to greater profitability, competitiveness and employee retention.
He has worked with some of the world’s largest shipowners, including Svitzer (part of the AP Moller-Maersk group) and P&O (part of the DP World group), to ensure that transporting goods by sea is effective, efficient and safe for customers and employees.
- Marshall Goldsmith-certified Executive and Team coach
- Holds DP World Institute certificates in Group Leadership Journey and Personal Leadership Journey
- Experienced in developing and implementing HSE programmes aimed at injury and accident prevention, and designing HSE management systems (i.e. policies, procedures and workflows)
Caroline Ribeiro-Nelson
Caroline is an experienced psychotherapist, executive coach, consultant and trainer who has been working in the fields of mental health and wellbeing and employee assistance support for over 25 years.
She has extensive practice in executive management and has worked for corporate, public, and charitable organisations. She has a proven track record of working in partnership with businesses to identify, assess, create and deliver effective mental health and well-being development programmes, based on an alignment of meeting the needs of employers and employees.
Caroline holds advanced diplomas in existential psychotherapy, life coaching, mindfulness and a bachelor of social science in psychology and politics. She is trained in creative personal and professional development, intercultural business training and moderation and stress management.
- Psychotherapist, executive coach, consultant and trainer
- Experience in mental health and wellbeing and employee assistance support
- Designs and delivers effective mental health and well-being development programmes
Dr Jonathan Katz
Dr Jonathan Katz is a high-performance coach and consultant psychologist, whose experience includes a wide variety of senior advisory and coaching positions in high-performance sport and business environments.
He has been the UK psychology lead for the British Paralympic Association and its National Governing Body squads; as well as providing individual and team psychology support and coaching at Paralympic Games: World, European and Commonwealth Championships and World Cup tournaments.
Away from sport Jonathan has been a business coach and trainer to clinicians, project and senior management in corporate and NHS settings. He has also developed and delivered psychological wellbeing support programmes within corporate environments, performance and professional sport settings.
- High-performance coach
- Consultant psychologist
- High-performance consultant to sport and business
Dr. Liz Clark
Liz is an executive coach and senior trainer with roots in elite sport and more than 20 years of experience in management and leadership roles. Liz’s areas of expertise lie in the development of personal excellence, leadership, resilience and life coaching.
Thriving on challenge, she is driven by a strong conviction that excellence, whether individual or realised through others, is based on the personal foundations of a growth mindset combined with courageous self-awareness and authenticity.
Liz has been delivering one-to-one coaching together with highly successful group training and seminars since qualifying as a coach ten years ago. Her pragmatic, action-oriented coaching style enables individuals to achieve practical change and tangible results, and she tackles real-world challenges such as adaptation to management and leadership roles, career planning, interpersonal skills and thriving under pressure,
Outside work, running and yoga are two passions that continue to inspire and motivate Liz to ever greater personal challenges which now include ultra-distance running. She is still working on her headstand!
- Ten years as a coach
- Action-oriented coaching style
- Uses tools drawn from cognitive behavioural and compassion-focused models
- Uses evidence-based practices drawn from the world of mindfulness meditation, performance imagery and biofeedback
Dr. Odette Beris
Dr Odette Beris is an experienced chartered psychologist with a background as a coach, offering personality profiling for selection and development purposes.
Odette’s business experience is diverse, but there is a common thread to her various roles whether that was working as an organisational psychologist at the BBC, or as an independent business psychologist working in the public and private sectors. Her focus is always on improving individual performance and well-being within the workplace.
Most recently, Odette worked as a senior researcher for the UK government, having completed a PhD looking at how emotion and risk perception drives organisational security behaviour.
- Chartered business psychologist
- Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- MSc in Organisational Psychology
- Foundation Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Regent’s College, London)
- Coaching Certifications and Level A and B in Occupational Testing
- PhD Human-Centred Information Security (University College London)
- MA in Intelligence and International Security (King’s College London)
James Kirk
James is an actor and communication skills coach. He has performed as an Actor, Voice over Artist and Presenter, with companies such as ITV, TomTom, Playstation, Theatre Royal Stratford, Cambridge University Press and Channel 4.
He recognises that the challenges he faces daily as an actor such as making a good first impression, networking, overcoming nerves, managing rejection, dealing with improvisation, presenting to an audience, are common difficulties we often experience at some point whether professionally or personally.
James now works consultatively with groups and individuals to develop interpersonal skills. He is one of the key instructors on our acclaimed Charisma Masterclass.
Justin Tipper
Justin is an experienced leadership and management trainer and coach. He holds certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Trainer Level), Lego® Serious Play ®, DiSC ®, Trait Emotional Intelligence, and Hypnosis (Instructor Level). He has acted as a psychological consultant to the Isle of Man government.
His 20+ years in business, working with clients in international and high net worth banking, fund management, ship management, e-gaming and the public sector gives a breadth of knowledge of corporate issues and processes.
He has worked in the UK, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Europe, the Baltic, and Far East. Justin’s approach is that every client or project is unique, and that people are endlessly resourceful, even in the face of adversity and problems.
- 20 years in business
- NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer
- Lego® Serious Play
- DiSC ®
- Trait Emotional Intelligence
- Instructor level at hypnosis
Karl Bovenizer
Karl is a high performance coach who challenges his clients to set inspiring targets for themselves, for life and work. He then works to create a roadmap, plus the tools and resources to get them there. As an active listener whose questions challenge, he offers a deep sense of connection with his clients.
Karl works with people who are committed to their own change and brave enough to be really challenged on it, and want to live and work to their highest potential. Karl is inspired by matching people’s commitment to transformational change by challenging them to create that change within their own resources. He works with clients to craft their vision and then helps them own and create the strategy, attitude and skills needed to get there.
- NLP Practitioner
- Hypnotherapist
- Ciq (conversational Intelligence) coach
- Certified in Pig Wrestling – problem-solving techniques
- Member EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council
- Currently undertaking Masters in Executive Coaching
Lucinda Shaw
Lucinda believes that by learning about ourselves we can transform how we think, feel, engage and operate, for the better.
With many years’ experience in the workplace, Lucinda’s focus is on enabling people to break free of everything that holds them back in order to achieve more for themselves and, in turn, their organisations. She works at the C-suite level and with middle-managers across the private, public and voluntary sectors, as well as individuals from a broad range of backgrounds.
As a coach, and an experienced and successful senior executive and team leader in organisations large and small, Lucinda is skilled at enabling a safe space where people can learn to be their best selves. She works with individuals and empowering them to become significantly more effective, resilient and, crucially, happier.
- 30-year career as a coach and senior leader
- Member of the Leadership Trust faculty
- Worked for the United Nations
Miriam Jayne Ferreira
As an organisational development and leadership expert, Miriam specialises in helping FTSE companies and global organisations to improve their performance, competency and market place positioning using business psychology and behavioural methodologies.
With an MSc in OD & Change Management, Miriam is skilled at providing guidance across the full HR lifecycle in order to solve problems, restore harmony and create resolution, engagement and improvement. She is passionate about transforming
organisations into high performance cultures and improving efficiencies.
Miriam has just returned from Australia where she was researching the changing landscape of today’s workforce, personality traits that impact organisational behaviours, the importance of instilling a growth mindset, habits of high performers, how to create resilient workforces, the importance of hiring critical thinkers & those who can innovate, how to improve leadership bench strength.
- Organisational development and leadership expert
- MSc in OD & Change Management
- Guidance across the full HR lifecycle
- Transformation into high performance cultures
Richard Nanton
Richard is an experienced executive coach, crisis communications expert and airline pilot, who has held a range of senior positions in the aviation industry for more than 30 years.
In his various roles as both pilot and member of executive leadership teams he has conducted coaching for individuals on leadership and change management and the development of high-performing teams. He also led a re-engagement project with pilots following the first pilot strike in the UK for 40 years in 2017.
Richard continues to work in the aviation industry, delivering technical, managerial and training consultancy to airlines.
- Marshall Goldsmith-certified Executive and Teams Coach
- Human Synergistics-accredited practitioner
- Trained by Kenyon International in crisis management, crisis communications and crisis leadership
- Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society
- Member of the Institute of Leadership and Management
- Post Graduate Diploma in Air Transport Management from City University London
Scott Johnston
Scott Johnston is an executive coach with a diverse background in legal services. Initially beginning his career as a barrister specialising in child protection, he moved into employment law in the public and private sectors.
Scott currently works as both an employment law consultant and a highly-regarded speaker, trainer and executive coach, with particular expertise in soft skills and emotional intelligence.
He also has a passion for debating, having been a champion at national and European level as well as a trainer and coach to world champions.
- Executive coach
- Legal background
- Soft skills and emotional intelligence
- Public speaker
