People

Diverse expertise, inclusive and future facing

We know that each individual has their unique quality of leadership to offer. We enable them to find it.

We are a unique group of Leadership Coaches.

Our experience operating at the c-suite level of business helps us to see the opportunity in change.

We understand commercial pressure and the challenge of changing a system from within.

Our innovative approaches to the development of sustainability leadership help leaders to move businesses towards regenerative practices. Our expertise in diversity and inclusion helps leaders to adapt their thinking and build future-facing teams.

People

Stuart Pickles

Managing Director

Stuart is a leadership coach and ex-CFO who believes that we can create a better future for society and the planet, whilst also enabling organisational success. He blends his CFO acumen and coaching expertise with 10+ years of researching and developing leadership of sustainability and social purpose. He gives his clients a supportive coaching experience with commercial focus and edge, and deep challenge of purpose and values, creating a practical roadmap towards truly transformational, regenerative leadership.

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Alison Maitland

Independent Associate Coach

Alison is a leadership coach, former Financial Times journalist, and co-author of three critically acclaimed business books. She loves working with people who want to live and lead more sustainably, inclusively, and purposefully to maximise their potential and positive impact. Her areas of specialism include collective leadership, climate and regenerative coaching, career transitions, inclusion and diversity, and effective, empowering communication.

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Andy Bird

Independent Associate Coach

Andy is an executive coach and mentor who provides support, inspiration and guidance to help leaders flourish and succeed. Following a successful career in Marketing with Unilever and then building his own multinational consultancy company, he now partners with clients as they think through the issues they face in their business activities and relationships. More fundamentally, he guides them in developing their own distinctive leadership approach, based on their personal passions, values and talents.

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Carroll Macey

Independent Associate Coach

Carroll Macey has more than 20 years’ experience working with leaders and teams, coaching and developing potential. She is an Executive Coach, Team Coach, a qualified Mindfulness Teacher and an accredited professional dialogue practitioner. With in excess of 3,000 hours of coaching and developing leadership style and effectiveness, her work enables others to enhance their ability to influence, inspire and lead. She has specialised in resilience and behavioural change throughout her career. Her purpose is to enable individuals, teams and organisations to dialogue in ways that enhance thinking, talking and action so that as humans we know connection and belonging and we experience the difference it makes to ourselves, others and the world we live in.

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Dave Curry QFSM

Independent Associate Coach

Dave is an experienced leadership coach and mentor who has a substantial track record in strategic leadership across complex crisis and political environments. Social Justice is central to Dave’s way of life and he has become increasingly conscious and motivated in the areas of climate change and biodiversity. Dave brings this ethos and challenge to the coaching space to help clients explore their corporate responsibility and contribution. Dave’s expertise includes, strategic leadership, culture change, partnership working, political acuity and crisis and risk management.

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Jeremy Lazarus

Independent Associate Coach

Jeremy has been coaching and training leaders since 1999. Prior to that, he spent 18 years in senior finance and consulting roles, including being CFO of the YO! Sushi restaurant chain. His mission is to support people and organisations to have the success they to aspire to, and he does this with a wide variety of clients including Blue Chips, SMEs, an Ethical & Sustainable Investment Management company, The National Health Service and elite athletes.

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John Welsh

Independent Associate Coach

John works with senior executives whose leadership skills expand and mature after each and every coaching session. He does it together with you, having quickly created a relationship where you are comfortable to be challenged through open questioning, assertive listening and the rarity of silence. He'll use all his experience as an experienced leaders’ coach, a wildlife gardener and a former global business leader to scaffold your time together. Your sessions will regenerate you, making you ready to go out and tackle issues that either seemed impossible or just too big. Your difficult colleague. Your year-end figures. Your company’s carbon footprint. Your contribution to a sustainable and equitable future for all.

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Katherine Long

Independent Associate Coach

Katherine is a 121 and team coach, coach supervisor, facilitator and organisation development practitioner. Coming from a background in supporting cross cultural communications for international companies and mergers, she enables organisations to broaden their perspectives and explore the bigger picture. Core areas of specialism include leadership and team development, culture change, supporting organisations on pathways of decolonisation, regeneration and sustainability, and navigating uncertain futures.

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Peter Lachecki

Independent Associate Coach

Peter is a leadership coach, former senior business leader and Chairman. At the core of his beliefs, is a passion for protecting the environment, social justice and enabling high performance through people development. Action oriented, he thrives on listening, supporting and challenging, with his coaching work grounded in senior leadership experience in industry, charities and the NHS. In addition to performance enhancement, client work is focussed on career change, promotions, mobility and cross-cultural challenges.

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Priya Hunt

Independent Associate Coach

Priya is a seasoned executive coach with over 30 years of leadership experience, reaching board level positions and working internationally in 84 countries across four industries. Her expertise lies in fostering inclusive leadership and driving organizational, cultural, and customer experience transformations on a global scale. Priya is deeply engaged in researching psychological flow and regenerative leadership, focusing her doctoral studies on the experience of flow in digital-age workspaces. This blend of practical leadership experience and research-driven insights underpins her effective, thoughtful and impactful coaching style.

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