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Our members often collaborate on commercial work to provide local employers and individuals with professional coaching expertise, which can include:
A series of one-to-one coaching sessions focused on personal and professional development
Team coaching sessions to build collaboration and shared purpose
Workshops tailored to your needs, including on high performing teams, leadership development and managing difficult conversations
Lunch and learn talks for staff on topics that include career development and growth mindset, leadership and influencing skills, unconscious bias in decision-making, confidence and authenticity, personality types and wellbeing and resilience
If you are interested in working with Coaching Reading or have a coaching commission you’d like to discuss, please contact us. You can also connect with our members independently through their profiles below.
Find a Coach
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Alice Alesi
Executive Leadership & Learning Coach
I have a passion for enabling leaders and teams to thrive in a fast-changing world. As a certified coach and tutor, I work in the business, education, and non-profit sectors and with private clients. I focus on enabling individuals and groups to gain clarity and to develop the capacity to thrive in an uncertain world. I draw on 20 years of mentoring and leadership experience in the complex multicultural environment of the software industry.
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Annabelle White
Executive Leadership and Transition Coach
After more than 20 years of international experience supporting people and organisations navigating change, I now work with professionals at pivot points in their career journeys. I focus on supporting individuals to raise their self-awareness, to clarify any barriers to development, and their best ways to overcome these. I have a warm, approachable, and collaborative coaching style and can provide challenge and accountability when needed. I am accredited with the EMCC at Senior Practitioner level.
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Anne Gallagher
Insights Discovery Practitioner, Coach, Trainer
I have spent 17 years in senior roles in OD and learning and development in the Higher Education sector, acting as internal consultant and contributing to strategic planning. I set up Leapfrog Training and Development in 2016 and use various psychometric tools and concepts to coach others. I run many leadership and management courses and focus on helping people understand themselves and use their skills to truly connect with others for better results.
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Claire Brown
Executive, Career and Life Coach
Claire works with individuals, teams & executives to help them step into the fullness of their professional potential. She also supports leaders to facilitate growth and positive change within their organisations with confidence, empathy and resilience. As a former Occupational Therapist, she specialises in supporting neurodiverse clients in the workplace. Claire is working towards her ICF PCC Credential, is a mentor for Coaches in training and comes with 12 years’ experience in the charity sector.
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Deborah Jeffries
Executive Coach
I have a passion for seeing people equipped and enabled to be the best they can be and to be fulfilled in whatever context they find themselves. As a qualified coach I draw on my 15 years’ experience as an HR and leadership development professional within large UK-based organisations. My clients will testify to my person-centred and empowering approach.
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Jonathan Bowring
Leadership & Organisational Coach
I’m a coach, facilitator and speaker – unlocking potential and helping you think. My style is reflective, human and straightforward; I’m often called on when things are difficult. I draw on 25 years in the technology and language industries, with experience of managing operations, outsourcing, hiring, relocation and restructuring. I was trained by Canon as a mentor, coach and facilitator and certified in coaching at Henley Business School.
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Julie Williams
Executive Leadership & Business Coach
I work with leaders, business owners and their teams to identify an exciting future vision and go after it. Creating a coaching programme that fits your objectives; we build self-awareness of what you are capable of, what you want and a plan to get there. Limiting beliefs and behaviours are tackled and you’ll ignite your own fires of confidence and motivation. Previous senior roles held: Thames Water and Accenture. MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change.
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Liz Hatch
Executive Leadership Coach
I have over 20 years corporate experience with 10 years spent at a high growth global technology company leading and co-ordinating teams. I transitioned to coaching in 2019 to use my experience to help others. I’m an accredited coach certified by the International Coaching Federation. I work with new, aspiring and experienced leaders helping them to achieve their goals and aspirations. I also coach teams and groups.
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Priya Hunt
Executive Coach, Non-executive Director, Author
I have 30 years corporate experience, working internationally across 84 countries in Airlines, Telecommunications and Utilities industries. I have led organisational culture change, customer experience and digital transformations and have director/board level experience. I am deeply invested in people-development and my mission is to inspire leaders to thrive and make a bigger impact. I am an ICF-certified coach, experienced speaker, facilitator, author, and currently studying for another Masters’ degree in Coaching and Behavioural change.
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Sarah Leach
Executive Career & Life Coach
Sarah works with executives and teams from a range of backgrounds and sectors. She is passionate about helping individuals enable personal and professional growth, clarity of purpose, conscious choice and purposeful action. She is particularly interested in a strengths-based approach to enabling change, career and leadership development. She is an ICF certified coach, author and lecturer in coaching, and master Strengthscope practitioner, with a decade of corporate experience in business change.
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Sue Bennett
Careers & Workplace Coach, Trainer
Experienced coach and trainer, working with individuals and groups. Expertise in: establishing a trusting and effective coaching relationship that enables you to achieve lasting change; taking stock of your career to align with your values; designing practical team workshops so teams can be successful and productive. Qualified coach and MBTI practitioner
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Sue Webb
Executive Coach & Coach Trainer
As a professional coach, I use my coaching expertise and professional experience to work with leaders on the frontline in the education, charity and health sectors.
Together, we focus on what is at the core of the individual, team or organisation – and through coaching, I support people to discover what is driving them forwards, what their motivators are – and what is holding their growth back.
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Susannah Randall
Coach, Communications & Influencing Specialist
Through insightful conversation, I help individuals and teams explore their goals, challenges and motivations and build their effectiveness, influence and impact. A communications expert by background, I often work with people and groups who want to strengthen their networks and become more influential and collaborative in the way they lead organisations, teams or projects. I am a certified coach and I bring insights from over 20 years spent leading, reviewing and developing teams.
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Vicky Poole
The Effective Communication Coach
Helping individuals and teams within businesses to achieve higher performance results by connecting and effective communication. She especially wants to help young employees successfully transition from classroom to company. From listening to lecturers, to collaborating with colleagues; working with new starters to those within the first five years of their careers.
Vicky offers one-on-one coaching, group training and focus group workshop sessions, drawing on 15 years’ experience in Corporate Strategic Sales within Telecoms. Vicky has a Diploma in Executive Coaching with AOEC.
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Mike Phillips
Executive Coach, Facilitator, Trustee
Mike Phillips is a qualified coach who works with individuals and teams in the UK and internationally. A natural leader with strength in building relationships and engaging with stakeholders at all levels, he brings over 30 years of commercial, transformation and business leadership experience to his coaching practice. Mike has an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change from Henley Business School and serves on a number of charity boards.
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Caroline Eastland
Executive Coach, Facilitator and Trainer
I specialise in helping individuals and groups maximise their potential by developing self-awareness, confidence and flexibility. I hold an MSc. in Coaching and Behaviour Change. I have extensive commercial expertise (20+ years) focused on building client relationships, directly and as leader of large service and sales teams. I have worked with major UK retailers, global manufacturers as well as small entrepreneur led start-ups. My specialist areas are managing relationships, working with feedback and championing cognitive and behavioural diversity within organisations.