Meet The Team

Business Coach, EBW Emotional Intelligence facilitator, MAPP Practitioner, Workplace Mediator, Trainer and Mentor

• Highly motivated professional business coach.
• A ‘generalist’ with a Difference.
• Has worked and is comfortable with clients at all levels from CEOs down.
• Working on all areas including Corporate Strategy (inc. vision and values lead organisational performance), Performance, Leadership, Culture Change, Career progression, Succession, Presentation Skills, Confidence, Anger Management, Stress… And more.
• Face to face with Senior Executives, Teams and ‘Rising stars’ as well as telephone, skype or e-mail.
• He guarantees success to his clients and their testimonials reflect that success.

John is a highly motivated professional with over 30 years ‘hands – on’ senior executive experience managing and developing multi-disciplined teams. Commencing his career on the ‘ground floor’ he rapidly aspired to the position of Managing Director and has a comprehensive understanding of what it is to run a business and manage people.

John has been coaching for over 10 years and is an NLP practitioner, Emotions and Behaviours at Work Emotional Intelligence Facilitator, MAPP Licenced Practitioner, Workplace Mediator, Trainer and Mentor. In 2010, John joined James Caan and Bev James’ EBA (Entrepreneurs Business Academy) Business Coaching team.

Having coached at all levels across the business spectrum within major corporate, SME’s, within education and sport he combines his dynamic coaching with a unique understanding of what ‘Excellence in business’ really means.

John’s coaching style is no less than dynamic, no soft touch – just added value! John combines his wealth of experience, coaching, NLP and expertise in Emotional Intelligence to get the best out of Business Leaders, executives, teams and organisations.

John has abundant enthusiasm, energy and is driven by a passion to enable individuals and businesses to consistently improve their performance. ‘Can-do’ is very much a part of his business. He guarantees success to his clients and their testimonials reflect that success.

Telephone Coach, Teacher and Mentor

• Specialist in language analysis, both spoken and written.
• Ascertains the conflicts within the individual.
• Exposes the conflicts between present actions and what the individual desires and wishes.
• Identifies the issues or problems, the hidden agenda, which is preventing full and knowledgeable choices.
• Values and beliefs; how these can create harmony or conflict.
• Providing the space in which to consider all possibilities and their effect on those around without judgement.

I have worked in the industry for six years as a coach and mentor working with people from all walks of life. I am a Master of Neurolinguistic Analysis and have studied the principles of values and beliefs in the workplace. I am a director of the International Business and Personal Development Association. As a communications specialist I also train business executives in the concept and application of Non-Violent Communication.

In my previous incarnation I worked in Education, working in both middle and higher management with responsibility for staff and their personal and professional development. I also played a major role in innovation and design within the business. I wrote many courses for examination boards, worked with a team developing the Numeracy Strategy as well as acting as chair and motivator for in-house development within teams and departments.

Finance Director and ‘Company Doctor’

With over 20 years board level experience gained working as finance director & “company doctor”, Mark has a good understanding of the financial, accounting and corporate governance challenges faced by small and medium sized businesses.

Mark has worked for venture capital investors and directly with a number of high growth start-up’s and early stage companies. He has excellent insight to the needs of both entrepreneurs and what investors are looking for when reviewing business plans and investment opportunities. He has also worked with business link and helped hundreds of companies to raising grant finance restructure debt and turnaround underperforming companies.

Mark particularly enjoys the buzz of working with companies undergoing significant change – high growth start-ups, ambitious early stage companies and turnarounds. He expects to take a “hands on” role in his clients business working in-house alongside directors.

Experienced in many of the issues that affect early stage businesses:

Employment Relations Specialist – Mediator, Independent Conflict Assessment, Investigations and Appeals, Trainer and Coach

• Highly regarded employment relations specialist with over 20 years’ experience of conflict management and dispute resolution.
• Accredited mediator and member of the ACAS panel of arbitrators and mediators.
• Specialising in the prevention, management and resolution of claims of bullying, harassment and discrimination.
• Training – for HR and other specialists and general awareness training – in these areas, equality and diversity, conflict management, discipline and grievance handling… And more.
• Independent conflict assessment of interpersonal and team disputes.
• One-to-one coaching and mentoring in conflict management and dispute resolution.

Carol brings a unique mix of skills and experience to her work, having worked with a wide range of organizations across the public, private and voluntary sectors. She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been a member of Employment Tribunals since 1999.

Carol’s approach is professional, while being sensitive to the needs of individuals and the organizations in which they work. She has been described as ‘supportive, but sufficiently robust to ensure that the process was not sidetracked’, ‘always maintaining the highest standards’ and whose work has been ‘of great benefit’.

In addition to her dispute resolution work, Carol is regarded as a highly effective trainer, coach and facilitator.

Executive Coach, EBW Emotional Intelligence Assessor and Practitioner, Management Trainer and Facilitator.

• An experienced Coach, Trainer and Facilitator
• Develops personal skills to improve success and reduce stress
• A positive, pragmatic and results orientated approach
• Has worked with Blue Chip and Owner Managed businesses
• Delivered key skills programmes in Leadership; Management, Presentation Skills; Time Management; Negotiation Skills; Change Management; Customer Care; Team Development

Ivan is a positive, pragmatic, methodical individual who delights in enabling others to succeed and flourish. He believes we are all much more capable than we normally achieve and aspires to enabling individuals, teams, and companies to realise their potential.

With a wealth of experience as a senior executive in the Financial Services and Healthcare sectors, Ivan is a former Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, and was Secretary & Deputy Chief Executive of an organisation with assets approaching £600 million, and subsequently ran the National Case Referral Centre for the UK’s largest occupational healthcare provider, delivering a first class service for the likes of the Inland Revenue, HM Prison Service, and BT.

Ivan has worked with a variety of companies ranging from the 14th largest in the world to “one-man-bands”, and in locations ranging from the USA to Ireland and the UK. He is comfortable delivering one to one coaching, corporate training programmes, and facilitating larger group events at any level.

An Accredited Coach, Certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Ivan is also qualified at corporate level in banking, building societies, and insurance.