Diane Peebles

Diane Peebles is an experienced executive coach and people development specialist. With a broad HR background and over 10 years’ experience in the executive coaching arena, Diane has designed and delivered high-level leadership and people development programmes for many large and complex organisations.

Coaching style

Diane is an empathetic yet challenging coach who specialises in helping busy executives understand their own personal style, and the impact they have on other people. She encourages and stretches her clients to realise their full potential through helping them to build more productive and fulfilling work relationships with those around them. She also supports clients who need help to navigate their way around the complexities of large organisations, and who need to build wider influencing strategies. Clients have often described her style as ‘stretching’ and ‘bringing focus’ to their issues.

Areas of specialisation

Diane specialises in executive coaching for leadership development. She also has extensive knowledge of innovative team development programmes, behavioural change programmes using instruments like the MBTI and facilitation of groups.  She has designed and delivered training programmes in coaching skills for managers, as well as many other management and leadership programmes.

Client organisations

Diane has clients from both the public and private sectors, including HBOS, Scottish Power, Edinburgh City Council, The Edrington Group and Edinburgh University.

Career Background

Having a career which spans both general HR and specialist leadership development in a major FTSE top 100 company, Diane has a proven track record in working with and developing executives over many years. Her large-company background, together with nearly 10 years’ consultancy experience, has given her an understanding of the challenges of working within complex organisations.

Qualifications and Training

Diane has an honours degree in Business Studies and is a graduate of the CIPD. She is fully-qualified to use and interpret both the MBTI and SHL psychometric tools, which she uses extensively in coaching and development planning. She is currently studying for a Certificate of Psychology in Coaching through the Academy of Executive Coaching in London.

Luke Hockley

Dr Luke Hockley undertakes work for the Universities of Cambridge and London and is the Professor of Media Analysis at the University of Bedfordshire. For the last 15 years he has led high performing teams in the UK university sector providing world-class media education.

He has worked for the national Quality Assurance Agency as a subject expert and led numerous review visits. As an internationally published author and lecturer Luke is renown for his work on the psychodynamic approach to communication.

Coaching Style

Luke’s uses Jungian psychology to understand an individual’s experience in terms of the organisation. To enable effective leadership, he examines that relationship systemically to address the client’s understanding of the interplay between his or herself and the organisation as a whole.

This work includes client’s ‘private’ issues (e.g. personal anxieties, marital difficulties) as a means to gain a greater understanding of personal and organisational boundaries. The insights that this reveals make it possible to arrive at solutions that both deal with personal matters and which also have a positive impact on organisations. Central to this is listening to the person and their experience of their ‘inner-organisation’ as well as the actual organisation.

Areas of Specialisation

Communication Issues, Coaching, Mentoring, Understanding Personal-Organisational Interactions, Team Building, Vision Setting and Management Skills.

Client Organisations and Seniority

Luke’s career was primarily in educational management where he moved quickly through the ranks to run some of the largest and best university media departments in the UK. He retrained as a psychotherapist to further develop his management and training skills. He combines this work with his role as a research professor and author.

Career Background

Luke has been responsible for developing some of largest and strongest university media provision in the UK. He has provided consultancy services and expertise to a range of organisation both in the UK and abroad to develop high technology media programmes including an 8 million pound media centre at the University of Bedfordshire. Another groundbreaking initiative involved overseeing the training and cultural integration of Chinese journalists preparing for the arrival of the world community at the Beijing Olympics.

Qualifications and Training

Luke is a professional psychotherapist (MBACP), he trained at the School for Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology in London. Additional qualifications include a doctorate in psychoanalytic approaches to films (University of Stirling) and a BA Hons Degree in Film, Television and Photography (University of Middlesex). He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

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Ana Paula Nacif

Ana Paula Nacif is a successful coach with 15 years experience in communications, journalism and PR. She specialises in career and personal development. Apart from her work with middle and senior management across a range of industries, Ana has also developed coaching programmes for the public/voluntary sectors, including a group coaching programme for a London prison.

Coaching Style
Ana’s coaching style is challenging, intuitive, encouraging and direct. By creating an atmosphere of trust, Ana is able to challenge comfort zones and tap into the resourcefulness of her clients with clarity. Clients say that Ana is a dynamic and insightful coach who is not afraid to push the boundaries to support her clients to achieve their full potential.

Areas of specialisation
Coaching in the areas of career development, work-life balance, personal development and performance management.

Career background
Prior to coaching, Ana spent over 15 years in journalism and public relations. She worked for leading financial publications. Also, throughout her career she worked for various local and central government departments, which has given her a great insight into the public sector.

Qualifications & Training
Ana has trained with the Coaches Training Institute, a leading-edge school of coaching, the first to be accredited by the International Coaching Federation. She is also a NLP practitioner and a member of the Association for Coaching. Ana holds a BA (Hons) in Journalism and an MA in Films Studies. She speaks fluent Portuguese and Spanish.