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Helen Buckwell
Founder
Helen Buckwell is a collaborative leadership development specialist and executive coach. She has a wealth of experience in professional services organisations and large corporates, most recently as the UK Head of Leadership and Skills Development in one of the ‘Big 4’ Accounting firms.
Helen's ability to bring together a blend of learning, coaching and design perspectives enables her learning interventions to make a real impact on the organisations and individuals she works with.
Jude Sclater
Executive Coach & Facilitator
Jude is a Kiwi (New Zealander) who combines an antipodean attitude with over a decade of experience living and working in the UK.
After nine years coaching internally at Deloitte in London, she set out as an independent coach and facilitator with a mission to help individuals and teams thrive.
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Jude brings an impartial ear to her coaching and work, combined with a healthy dose of challenge, and the energy needed to build momentum. Consequently, her coaching empowers individuals and teams to overcome what’s keeping them stuck and get them closer to their potential.
Boaz Safier
Executive Coach & Facilitator
Boaz is an experienced Executive Coach with 20 years experience in the corporate world. Since starting his career as a Chartered Accountant in a ‘Big 4’ Firm, he now works with talented individuals at various leadership levels exploring the relationships we have with ourselves, our ambitions and the people around us.
He supports individuals in gaining greater clarity, a renewed sense of purpose and a greater level of confidence. His clients tell him they value the challenge, perspective and psychological insight he brings.
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Karen Dawson
Leadership Development Consultant & Facilitator
Karen is a qualified tax adviser and creative learning specialist who has extensive learning and development experience in multinational, multicultural matrix organisations, most recently as the Head of Leadership Development at one of the ‘Big 4’. She has been devising, developing and delivering learning curricula in leadership, teamwork and performance improvement for over 20 years.
She is skilled in all aspects of the learning and development spectrum from learning identification and needs analysis, through design and delivery to evaluation and measurement.​
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Paul Golding
Executive Coach & Facilitator
Paul is a leadership and development specialist, and an executive coach. He has over a decade of experience developing and delivering learning in a variety of industries including professional services, financial institutions and healthcare. Prior to his time in learning, he qualified as chartered accountant and had 10 years experience advising and running organisations in distress with one of the 'big 4' accounting firms.
He helps people engage with learning and immediately apply it in their day to day. He combines practical experience in the workplace, proven understanding of learning and development theory and a personable coaching style.
Charlotte Gibson
Executive Coach and Facilitator
Charlotte Gibson is an executive coach and leadership development consultant. Her coaching is often focused on working with individuals and groups in leadership roles particularly those going through a change or challenge in their career.
Charlotte has spent over 20 years in financial services and is a also a qualified actuary. She brings the rigour and structure from her actuarial training and combines this with warmth, compassion and non-judgement. The feedback from clients is that this provides a supportive coaching environment with action focused outcomes. Clients experience raised awareness, shifted mindsets and feel more confident in taking their next steps.
Špela Trefalt
Executive Coach & Facilitator, USA
Špela is an experienced coach working with professionals who want to combine extraordinary career success with meaningful lives outside of work. Over her 15+ years of coaching, Špela has honed a focused approach to coaching that enables her clients to use the most effective research-backed strategies.
Špela is a globally acclaimed authority on work life balance, organizational change, and leadership coaching with a strong research background. Her workshops give leaders and teams practical tools and insights to achieve balance and excel in high-pressure environments. She has worked with hundreds ofprofessionals to deliver interactive sessions that inspire, challenge, and empower.
Laura Birch
Executive Coach & Facilitator, UK
Laura is an experienced Executive Coach and Leadership Development professional specialising in guiding high-performing and high-potential senior leaders and executives to advance and unlock the next stage of their careers. Laura is experienced in utilising 360 feedback tools, resulting in tangible action being taken.
Laura has over 17 years experience coaching and developing individuals and groups across the employee lifecycle, most recently in the ‘Big4’ organisations. Outside of coaching Laura has led the strategic direction of leadership development programmes for key talent in some of the world’s most advanced professional services firms. Topics have included; every day coaching skills, feedback mindset, sustainable ways of working, influencing and impact and managing the inner critic. Laura has been described as an engaging, passionate and knowledgeable facilitator, skilled at encouraging learning through the sharing of experiences and ideas which bring the theory and concepts she shares to
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Aysha Tupman
Associate, Hidden Strengths Learning
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Aysha is a Leadership Development, DEI and Learning consultant and facilitator and a member of the UK Board for the International Coaching Federation (ICF) coach.
She brings 20 years' experience in complex global organisations, latterly at Citi where she was the EMEA Head of Leadership Development and where she co-led a team of 25 across EMEA in Learning, Leadership, DEI and Talent. More recently she works with clients from multiple sectors, from financial services and insurance to the arts and public sectors.
Catherine Law
Associate, Hidden Strengths Learning
Catherine has been an Executive Coach for more than a decade, working with senior leaders to unlock their potential, especially during periods of transition. Prior to devoting herself to coaching, she held a variety of leadership and influencing roles in banking and consultancy, including Citi and the Big Four. As a strategic thinker and commercially-minded person, Catherine enjoys drawing on her own professional experience to realistically challenge her coaching clients to push beyond limiting beliefs and realize their ambitions. In her facilitation work, Catherine seeks to move groups forward through provocation, while providing a supportive environment in which it is safe to be vulnerable.
Catherine’s career has led her to spend extended periods of time living in New York, London, and Zurich, and she has been based in Singapore since 2018. She loves working with a diversity of clients, and she brings genuine curiosity to each engagement.
Sophie Ryan
Personal Assistant
Sophie is s a highly motivated, dedicated professional with a wealth of transferable skills, keen to extend these to make a real contribution to a business or organisation. After a career break to raise a family, Sophie re-trained as a bookkeeper and deployed her creative skills to become a virtual assistant.
Previous employment includes working for International blue-chip companies where meeting tight deadlines and working under pressure were an everyday occurrence. Building strong, long-lasting relationships with suppliers and premium brands, both in Europe and the Far East, were Sophie’s highlights, along with commercial and successful global product ranges for various markets and industries.