Katherine Murby

Katherine Murby is a highly regarded learning and development specialist with more than 15 years experience of working in the people development arena. She has led, designed and implemented transformational people programmes and possesses a natural instinct to inspire and motivate others via excellent coaching and facilitation skills.

Coaching Style

Katherine’s main passion is in the area of behavioural change, particularly in the context of leadership development, executive coaching and performance improvement, working at all levels within organisations to help improve business effectiveness. With a style that is both supportive and challenging, she enables people to reach their full potential, ensuring they take individual control of their personal development whilst contributing to organisational goals and objectives.

Areas of Specialisation

Leadership, Coaching, Facilitation, Teambuilding, Management Skills, Change Management and Behavioural Change.

Client Organisations and Seniority

Katherine’s experience includes working with Barclays, First Choice, Northamptonshire County Council (NIAS), Pfizer Ltd, RBS.

Career Background

Having spent over 15 years working in a variety of senior training and development roles for a FTSE top 100 company, Katherine has a wealth of experience in learning and development solutions and proven coaching and leadership skills.

Qualifications and Training

Katherine is a qualified coach and NLP Practitioner. Additional qualifications and training include: Diploma in Training Management (CIPD), Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Practitioner (OPP), Advanced Behavioural Facilitation (Sheppard Moscow), Occupational Testing, Level A (SHL), Accredited Resourcing Assessor, Level 3 (SHL)

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.

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.

Dorothea Ciniglio

Dorothea Ciniglio is an experienced consultant and has worked in the area of assessment and development of Managers for more than thirteen years. She has deep expertise in Psychometric Assessment, Assessment and Development Centres, 360 degree assessment, and Executive Coaching, as well as many applications of emotional intelligence.

She is also experienced in team building workshops and organisational change initiatives and working with Senior Managers in career management programmes. Previously, Dorothea worked in sales management and training, and was also a director of a specialist recruitment agency.

‘Rock The Boat’ Expertise

Dorothea brings a high degree of expertise, qualifications and experience in the field of Development and Psychometrics. With a Masters degree in Human Resource Management, Dorothea is highly skilled and trained in a wide range of psychometric instruments; (British Psychological Society level A and B) including the California Psychological Inventory, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Firo B, as well as a wide range of emotional intelligence measurement instruments. She has gained certification as an EQ Map Instructor from Qmetrics Inc. Chicago, Hay McBer Goleman competency approach to emotional intelligence, and trained in character dynamics. Dorothea is a certified Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic programming and a qualified NLP Coach.

Vivienne Mackay

Vivienne Mackay is an experienced Relationship and Event Manager, working with people at all levels across a variety of organisations. Vivienne’s role is to continually develop productive business relationships, organise conferences, seminars and training days. She also delivers our unique and interactive, Making Connections – Networking Skills and Work Life Balance workshops.

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Coaching Style

Vivienne’s key strength is with her natural affable style of encouraging people to interact, make connections and get the most from an event. She has an inquisitive nature with a focus on learning and giving to others.

Areas of Specialisation

Networking and Work Life Balance events.

Career Background

Vivienne qualified as a Stage Manager and spent time working in Radio, Theatre, Television and Film. Her experience in these worlds involved managing budgets, creative problem solving and working with unconventional individuals. Vivienne’s natural ability to network stems from a colourful and diverse working background, and from travelling extensively whilst growing up. Vivienne enjoys cooking and playing with her kids.

Qualifications and Training

Diploma in Drama (Stage Management)

Niall Foster

Niall Foster is a pragmatic coach and facilitator with worldwide experience in human capital management, business culture transformation, change management, start-ups, value based management, strategic planning and competence development based on benchmarked best practices. Through his work he has extensive experience of writing on performance improvement themes with his best seller ‘Kaizen Strategies’ series published by the Financial Times/Prentice Hall. The Institution of Engineering and Technology publish his new book on Team Leadership in 2009.

Areas of Specialisation and Approach

Niall aligns an organisation’s vision, strategies, employees with technology, processes and culture to realise bottom line results. He diagnoses issues, designs and implements/facilitates enduring measurable solutions. Niall’s approach is at the cutting edge of development. His methodologies are based on the assumption that organisations must find ways of tapping the inventiveness of their staff and systems in line with their customers changing expectations. He works with his clients and coachees to enable them to close the gap between concepts and practical action. He helps align attitudes and processes to create environments where people are better motivated, thus helping to bring about change and continuous improvement. All this is founded upon his expertise and experience as a manager, trainer and professional coach.

Client Organisations

International work includes Microsoft and the Arab Academy of Science and Technology in Egypt; the Great Man Made River Project in Libya; Interlink College, Nigeria; Saudi Aramco; Al-Khafji Joint Operations, and Marafiq Power & Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu in Saudi Arabia, Qatar Gas; RasGas, and Transfield Emdad Services/Intergulf in Qatar; Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and PDO in Oman. During 2004-06 he delivered public programmes and 1:1 coaching for EuroMaTech and Glomacs, based in Dubai.

Private sector experience includes Computer Associates, Cisco Systems, Nestlé, Dell, Toshiba, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, State Street Bank, Coutts, BT, Henderson Global Investors, the European Bank of Reconstruction & Development, Cuisine de France, ABN AMRO and Hibernian Insurance. Public sector clients include the NHS Scotland, the London Boroughs of Islington, Hackney, Merton, Lewisham, Kingston and Croydon, the Ministry of Defence, London Transport and Homes for Islington.

Career Background

While Niall is a consultant he also leads considerable numbers of personnel in companies where he works as an interim director. He assists organisations that want to build competitive advantage through the development of employee talents and skills in support of their company vision and strategies. He was interim Group Training Director with Barclays Bank and interim HR Manager at Vodafone. Additional interim and non-executive board roles include Stafforce Personnel, Sterling Commerce, Henkel, SAS Institute and Sandvik Steel.

Qualifications and Training

Academic qualifications include a BA in Economics and an MSc in Organisation Development. He is a visiting lecturer and consultant at London Metropolitan University, Bournemouth Business School International, the Baltic Management Institute in Vilnius, Fairplace, Capita Consulting as well as a member of the European Bank of Reconstruction & Development’s Turnaround Management and Business Advisory Services team.

 

Margo McClimans

Margo C. McClimans is a leadership development coach with experience building and delivering programs for executives and business students. She has coached all levels of management, from CEOs to first-time managers both in Italian and English.

Coaching Style

Her coaching style is extremely supportive and at the same time intense. Common remarks from her clients are that she makes one feel very comfortable opening up and that her questions are thought-provoking. Her experience living and working in the US, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, UK, Thailand and Italy have also contributed to her acute cultural sensitivity, which makes her coaching style very accessible and language very comprehensible to clients from any nationality.

Areas of Specialisation

She specialises in one on one coaching for leadership development. She also designs and delivers customised leadership and management training to groups in the topics of trust building, active listening, intercultural training, communication, feedback, conflict management, and persuasion among others. She uses indicators like 360-degree feedback, Kouzes-Posner SLPI, VIA strengths test, and MBTI.

Client Organisations

She provides coaching and leadership training around the world for managers at Siemens AG. She has also done individual coaching for employees of Agusta Westland, Telekom Slovenija, Cardinal Health, and others. She co-developed and coached for the Leadership Development program at CIMBA Consortium International (MBA) in Italy through the University of Kansas.

Career Background

Her own professional background is entrepreneurial; she founded International Stone Consultancy, a natural stone brokerage and consulting company that facilitates exportation from Italy to Europe, Middle East and North America. Previously she worked as Purchasing Manager for a stone importer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been in the stone business for nearly ten years and continues consulting in this field.

Qualifications and Training

Margo holds a BA with honours in International Relations from Franklin College Switzerland, an MBA from the University of Kansas’ CIMBA program and is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach with training through CTI. She is also a Six Sigma Green belt, has Kepner-Tregoe project management certification, and also has expertise in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool. She is American born and also holds an Italian passport.

Gilly Freedman

Gilly graduated from the University of Newcastle with a B.A.Hons. in Philosophy in 1975. She then went on to do an M.Lit. in Language and Psychology at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1984. She has Diplomas in Systemic Management and Psychological Counselling (Roehampton University).

Gilly worked for Nomura for six years. She has worked as a consultant in career and business coaching for over thirteen years. She is qualified in Psychometrics to level A and B and is also qualified to use the Emotional Intelligence Instrument. Her clients have included the following:

• Save the Children
• BBC
• MOD
• Audit Commission
• Barclays Bank

Gilly organises and runs five day training courses in communication and coaching skills for her clients. She has trained senior management, Human Resource departments and Occupational Psychologists among others. She has set up Career Management departments within her client companies.

Peter Braidwood

Peter Braidwood is a training and development specialist with more than 20 years experience of working with people from all walks of life. His background was initially in the outdoor training and learning sector before moving onto general training roles within the Scottish Police Service and the Higher Education sector. He has designed and delivered creative and meaningful team development programmes, both indoors and outdoors, with an emphasis on the direct transfer of learning back to the workplace through on-going support and coaching.

Coaching Style

Peter’s expertise is in the area of Team Building and Development, particularly in the context of experiential learning and the transfer of skills back to the workplace. Peter’s style is both supportive and challenging as he continually seeks to assist people with reaching their full potential.

Areas of Specialisation:

Teambuilding and Team Development, People Management Skills, Leadership, Change Management and Behavioural Change.

Client Organisations and Seniority

Peter’s experience includes working with Kodak, United Distillers, Scottish Power, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, The Scottish Police Service, The Citizens Advice Bureau, The Scottish Football Association and the University of Stirling.

Career Background

Having spent over 15 years working in a variety of senior outdoor training and development roles for the Outward Bound Trust in Scotland, New Zealand and the USA, Peter’s proven coaching and leadership skills from the outdoor sector have been successfully transferred to the world of training and development.

Qualifications and Training

Peter has a plethora of qualifications which have enabled him to develop and enhance his training career – such as a MBA degree. Additional qualifications and training include: the Diploma in Training Management (Chartered CIPD), Myers Briggs Type Indicator Practitioner (OPP), NLP Practitioner, Logo Visual Thinking Practitioner and the Belbin Team Roles Accredited Provider.

Peter’s outdoor qualifications include Mountain Leadership, Kayaking and Canoeing Coaching, Dinghy Coaching and Yachtmaster Instructor. Peter is also an Accredited Practitioner of the Institute of Outdoor Learning

Gillian Lock

Gillian Lock graduated in Architecture (Master of Arts) from Princeton University, U.S.A. in 1985. She started her career in Architectural and Urban Design in Boston and then New York City where she qualified as an Architect, working on major projects in Manhattan and other urban centres around the U.S.

Career Background

After spending twelve years in the U.S., Gillian returned to London working in Project and Design management, eventually being appointed to the Board of Directors of BDG McColl, a subsidiary of WPP. She ran offices in London, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Budapest, also opening a new project office in Kuala Lumpur.

RTB Expertise

With her international experience in project and team management within the construction industry, Gillian became increasingly interested in team and executive coaching and the challenges inherent in the relationship between an individual, the role and the organization. Her particular interest is the psychological well-being of the individual and the impact the individual and the organization have on each other.

Qualifications and Training

To further her understanding Gillian obtained an M.A. in Psychotherapy from Regent’s College in 2000 focusing on the psycho-dynamic approach and then undertook a further 2 year post-graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy in 2003. She is now a qualified Integrative Psychotherapist with the U.K.C.P and a member of the B.A.C.P. and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.

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