ELAN TLC - Key Persons
Bernadette is associate coach and facilitator for Elan TLC. She is an experienced coach and leadership development expert specialising in team performance, strategy and change. She brings clarity around complexity and brings commerciality and structure that works for many organisations. She is a coach, mentor and ambassador for wellbeing and inclusivity. With a focus and passion for learning, inspiring change, collaboration and leadership in others, Bernadette has designed programmes that tackle the barriers to personal effectiveness. Combining this with her love of the outdoors as a place to work, she works with people and teams as they empower each other during times of challenge.
Bex Baxter has 20 years experience in people development, and is a certified life coach. She began her career running art workshops for the homeless, progressed to creating personal development programmes for the Prince's Trust, and then coached on and helped develop transformational leadership programmes for large organisations with Elan TLC. Client's have included BP's ‘high potentials', BDO accountancy firms, the NHS, and the Police Service.
Since 2009 Bex has held several key roles in the Bristol social enterprise Coexist CIC, including serving as People Development Director and Board Chair. Bex instigated significant changes at Coexist to acknowledge biological cycles at work, including a menstrual flexitime policy. Her work garnered significant media and public attention internationally, and in 2017 she gave a TED talk on the positive impact of the policy for the whole organisation. Most recently, Bex has taught workshops on the value of integrating natural cycles for business development in arts organisations in the South-West. And in the new year Bex will be co-founding the launch of Cyclical Consulting LTD with the renowned author and expert in the field of biological cycles - Lara Owen.
Ellie Hale is an experienced, powerful coach and facilitator, who has helped to transform the culture of many prestigious organisations, bringing over 20+ years of experience in delivering and designing programmes. Her passion is the opportunity to transform businesses and its people. Her no-nonsense approach encourages clients to experiment with new ways of doing things so that their life and work flow more powerfully and more smoothly. She delivers globally most notably as part of the BP faculty delivering Leadership Development programmes. Ellie is responsible for developing the in-house cadre of facilitators and leading coaching training programmes for many large corporations and was a lead facilitator and resident coach on the Free to Lead programme which was delivered at both the NHS and Selfridges.
At BDO she worked as facilitator and resident coach for their coaching programme designed to create a coaching culture in the organisation and rolled this out nationally to all the Strategic Business Units. She has also weaved her magic with her unusual mixture of compassion and honesty at organisations such as Coca Cola, HSBC, Telefonica, BP, Capita and Schlumberger Oilfield Services. Ellie developed pre-school education programmes and founded the play buses scheme which to this day offers free play for children as well as giving advice and support for parents. Ellie was in addition the principle fundraiser for the finances for this project garnered from the Regional Development Agency and the National Lottery. Outside of work Ellie can be found in her garden creating living art - describing herself as an amateur gardener, she has planted well over 5000 plants, shrubs and trees to create a garden from scratch.
Ian is a coach to senior executives as well as being able to design and lead behavioural change projects for organisations across the globe. Ian consults at executive director level for multinationals in a wide variety of sectors with extensive exposure to cross-cultural leadership. He has an instinctive style that delivers "swift, rapid and lasting change" in a language that transforms drive and motivation. For the last 20 years Ian has worked developing senior leaders specifically in the areas of Culture, Personal Influence and Impact, Presentation and Performance Management, Conflict Handling and Team Working.
Imran has over 25 years experience in training, consultancy, sales, coaching and personal development. This coupled with 9 years experience in child protection social work has given Imran an insight into what makes people tick and address the challenge of elevating human performance in the areas of communication, relationships, and productivity. Over the years, Imran has delivered programmes in English and in Urdu/Hindi to over 15,000 people, to groups as small as 10 to as large as 250, from students and retirees to C level executives, and everything in between. His passion and appreciation for people pervades his programme delivery which is engaging, professional and empowering.
Karen is an experienced HR leader with over 24 years' experience of partnering, coaching and mentoring HR teams and business leaders across the transport, financial services and retail sectors. Passionate about stimulating change and personal development and an advocate of flexible working and personal and organisational wellbeing, Karen is currently completing her CMI Level 7 in Coaching and Mentoring (Masters).