Executive Coaches

Want to Transform Your Talent? An Executive Coach is the Answer

Here are the profiles of some of the key executive and business coaches who help us to transform talent for our clients.

Judy Delaforce

Judy specialises in communication and development of leadership and individual potential which she combines with an excellent insight into marketing and communication strategies. She works with individuals and organizations alike to transform talent and achieve the desired behaviors and change of attitude. She is an international Program Leader and has worked at Board and Senior Management level with a wide range of organizations and industries including the City, motor industry, high street retailers, regulatory bodies, property developers, and catering wholesalers. She also coaches other trainers and coaches in the training industry as well as having been a senior coach and assessor in NLP training programmes.

With a background in the City, she worked in Banking, Investment and Regulation, for over 20 years. She ran teams and departments for Barclays, Fidelity Investments, the Investment Management Regulatory Organization (IMRO) and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) developing a ‘people focused’ approach. Judy is trained in a variety of psychotherapeutic and psychological disciplines including a Masters in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Time Line Therapy, Counselling and Transpersonal Psychology. She is a Member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council. 

Paddy Bergin

Paddy Bergin specializes helping executives to improve communication skills in relationships, improve the quality of decision making, manage emotional & high performance states and how to motivate themselves and others. Using facilitation he helps people to discover where and when they are performing masterfully and how to transfer those skills to other situations.

Paddy's unique and effective style stems from his calm and focused energy attained through years of practicing NLP and Aikido. Paddy has provided executive coaching in a range of companies including Morgan Stanley, Schroder’s, Middlesex University, and Abbot, Mead Vickers (advertising agency). He is an NLP Trainer, Eriksonian Hypnotherapist, 4th Dan Aikido Practitioner and Instructor.

John Carter

A commercially astute individual with business acumen, a proven track record and significant achievements that underline outstanding training, communication, organisational design, project management and operational management skills. John is highly experienced at helping people in major corporates meet the challenges of working in hierarchical and matrix management structures. He is particularly skilled in areas of people management and communication, two of the critical management skills in achieving personal goals.

He brings twenty seven years of business knowledge and experience to his work, most notably working for two blue-chip companies: the world’s largest Insurance Broker and a FTSE100 Outsource provider. He calls upon this experience when helping executives to make the most of their talents.

John holds a Diploma in Management as well as combining two skills, not normally associated, he is a qualified Executive Life Coach and trained and accredited Auditor.

Adie DeCoursey

Adie works with a variety of clients at Board level from major global organisations, financial services the telecommunication sector, public utilities and elsewhere as a consultant and international conference speaker. As a coach he works with senior managers using planning, influencing and psychological strategies to enable them to understand their current situation, clarify their outcomes and create the strategies that will allow them to be effective, play more satisfying roles and increase their performance and results.

Having undertaken roles as deputy chief executive of a national organisation, leader of marketing teams and at the Ministry of Defence negotiating with blue chip organisations, he brings practical experience and empathy to his coaching. He has facilitated groups, led planning and project development groups, facilitated planning-days, designed and implemented communication strategies and managed organisational restructures and mergers. A Master NLP Practitioner and NLP Trainer, Adie is constantly exploring the latest thinking on what makes people tick and his thirst for information has equipped him with a wide range of complimentary skills.

Simon Horton

Simon has worked extensively in the financial services market helping executives to develop leadership skills and apply them in pursuit of the business goals. He describes his approach as relaxed, friendly but purposeful. As well as one-to-one coaching he leads training events to develop leadership, communication skills and influencing skills. Major clients have included Lloyds of London, Accenture, Merrill Lynch, Christies and Cancer Research UK. Before moving into an executive coaching role Simon led complex business process re-engineering or outsourcing projects and spanned the whole project life-cycle from process analysis through to end-user training.

Significant projects included BP/Exult where he managed the migration of all compensation and benefits processes; Henderson Investors, converting their processes to ISAs, as a response to Government legislation, ensuring compliance with all regulatory board requirements, and training the back office administration teams in using it. A master NLP practitioner and NLP Trainer, Simon runs national training events in this essential communications technique. He holds a BSc Hons in Physics, an MA in South-East Asian Studies and is fluent in French, Spanish and German.  

Christopher Howell

Christopher has over 22 years experience of consulting, involving successful organizational changes in both business and information technology. His clients include central and local government, finance, manufacturing, insurance and Top 100 companies. Christopher provides training, consultancy, performance and executive coaching to achieve individual outcomes, facilitate organizational change, define visions and optimize strategies. A coach with significant experience in training and facilitating learning. He is affiliated with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and uses a non-directive coaching style to support executives in making their own changes. His recent successes include developing and delivering coaching programs for teachers in schools as well as continuing one-to-one coaching with executives from business and charities. Christopher coaches other trainers, consultants and has coached on an ‘Ultimate NLP Master Practitioner’ course.

He has a BSc Hons degree in Psychology, is an NLP Master Practitioner and is post-graduate diploma level in Organization Development. He is also a professionally qualified project manager and experienced at senior level within large global change programs. Read more ...

Jo Melbourne

Jo is a qualified and experienced coach, as well as a consultant and trainer. Since 2001, Jo has been appointed to manage training and development for 3 distinguished financial services organisations based in the City in London. Over her career, she has gained extensive experience of delivering high profile projects in a regulated environment. Jo’s focus is on challenging paradigms, encouraging professional excellence and personal growth, and establishing learning and development as a key contributor to organisational success.

Jo is a qualified and experienced coach plus a certified practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Strength Deployment, Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Emotional Intelligence. Jo is a member of the British Psychological Society and is qualified in Occupational and Personality testing (SHL Level A & B). Read more …

Tim Ward

Tim works in partnership with senior managers who are looking to continue to build their businesses and careers. He is skilled at helping people to establish their development needs and working on an individual basis to build or enhance skills in those areas. Examples where he can help include working with technical experts who need to build effective interpersonal or managerial skills; where individuals feel their potential (corporate or personal) is not being realised; and where someone is struggling to achieve a strategic perspective after promotion or entry to a new role or company.

Tim brings a broad spectrum of experience across different industries and has worked with individuals at board and senior management level in a range of organisations including insurance, media, wealth management, equity markets and rating agencies.

His 30 years experience in management and financial markets help him to empathise with and understand corporate stresses and challenges . He was Head of Issuer Services and Head of Marketing at the London Stock Exchange and Finance Director at FTSE International, the global index provider. A Chartered Accountant and Cambridge graduate, he also has an MBA from Henley Business School. He is an NLP Practitioner.