PRACTIVE - Key Persons
Abbi trained as an actress at Bretton Hall and worked professionally for 10 years, before moving into the music biz, working for ie:music ltd for 8 years - the artist management company who represent Robbie Williams among many other well-known singers and bands.
Since having her two children, Abbi has been applying her well-honed project management and organisational skills to all things she can get her hands on and in this case, co-resourcing Practive's leadership development work, alongside her superlative job share partner, Ruth.
Adam is a Director at Practive. Central to his work is the idea first offered by Susan Scott in her book Fierce Conversations that 'leadership happens one conversation at a time'. Adam supports individuals, teams and organisations who would like some help with having important conversations. He works with people just beginning to lead, through to those at the top of large organisations. The kinds of leadership challenge he might help people with include preparing for job/promotion interviews, making presentations, having tough performance conversations, developing their personal impact, developing their negotiations skills and influencing others to bring about change.
Adam's approach to this work acknowledges and cites some of the very helpful leadership theory which is available, and combines this with pragmatic approaches, designed to allow people to ‘try the theory on for size'. Through a process of coaching and experimentation, he helps people develop mindsets, strategies, and behaviours which feel right for that individual, in that context. Adam has worked at all levels and in many functional areas. Private sector work includes law firms, banks, manufacturers, schools, major retailers, premiership football clubs and the Royal Household. He has worked in the NHS from Board to Ward, from Trusts to CCSs to CSUs.
For the Senior Civil Service Adam co-designed and delivered the Negotiation Skills courses for DfT, DfE, DExEU, the Board of Ofwat and The Cabinet Office as well as open programmes available across the Senior Civil Service. Adam has also facilitated on cross-departmental programmes for SCS Basecamp and SLS and talent and leadership programmes for Treasury, Home Office and HMRC.
Adam has a theatre and television background and has appeared in West End shows and numerous television comedies and dramas.
Over 15 years Alec has built a wealth of experience in the public and private sector as a facilitator and coach, offering leadership and communication skills development through practice. He works with senior leaders in both the public and private sector.
Alec's areas of experience include Leadership Development, Consulting Skills, Assessment Centres; Development Centres; Customer Service; Communication Skills; Presentation Skills, Diversity Training, Personal Impact, Storytelling, Crucial conversations and Negotiation Skills.
The major input of Alec's work is in allowing and supporting participants to practice the skills they have just be exploring and learning about. Giving participants the opportunity to try out skills in a safe and supportive environment. He particularly focusses on practical based learning, doing it rather than talking about it. Practicing rather than theorising. Alec trained and continues to work as a professional actor and so is able to make the practice feel as close to the real thing as possible. . Performers will rehearse, athletes will train, and musicians will practice. Everyone in their particular field of work can take the opportunity to prepare in the same way.
Alexandria is a bi-lingual French-English actor, improviser & writer. She has written and directed work for Theatre 503, the Lyric Hammersmith & the Southwark Playhouse as well as being an accomplished improviser and stand up comedian.
She completed an MA Acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and prior to that she completed an LLB Law from the University of Sussex. She lived in France for 14 years and is totally comfortable running workshops in French with the added of bonus of having a native level of understanding of the French working culture.
She is just starting out in her career as a workshop facilitator. She has been training with Practive for the last year, she has also collaborated with other leadership training companies and most recently completed a workshop on "Pitching with Confidence" for a young entrepreneurs charity.
Her strength is connecting with younger audiences and appealing to the next generation of managers and leaders.
Alison understands and works with the business and emotional influences at work. Her work includes executive coaching, development workshops, programme design, facilitation and lecturing. Her aim is to develop and release the personal potential of individuals, but she brings to this work a background with a strong business focus. Her approach is to support and challenge, working closely with her clients to provide practical development solutions that meet their needs.
After taking an Economics degree Alison qualified as a Chartered Accountant and was head of career development for the tax and legal practice across EMEA before leaving PwC in 2001. She now works with executives of large city partnerships, financial institutions, manufacturers, the public sector, NGOs and is a Director of the Praxis Centre at Cranfield Business School. She has an MA in organisational psychology and a particular interest in what is going on underneath the surface for individuals, teams and organisations.
She leads the coaching for Cranfield's highly commended bespoke Women's Leadership Programme and is the Programme Director for Cranfield's experienced coaching programme.
Amanda graduated Magna cum Laude in 2015 from a Bachelor's Degree in Comparative Literature and Drama from the University of Puerto Rico, where she received a full scholarship for her academic and artistic merits. She finished her Master of Arts in Contemporary Acting from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2017, graduating with a distinction.
She is a trained actress and certified Spanish Teacher with experience delivering one-on-one classes and language through drama workshops. In her native country, she has organized and led public speaking workshops. She has also done volunteer work in underprivileged communities delivering drama and public speaking workshops for children and adults.
Amanda speaks fluent Spanish and English is organized, professional and sensitive.
Amy Marston trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre school and enjoys balancing her working as an actor, writer and director in theatre, TV, film and radio with her work in the business environment. She's worked with many leading directors and movement/voice coaches in the country at the National Theatre and in the West End including Patsy Rodenburg (author of Presence) and Jeannette Nelson. She enjoys transferring this knowledge to her work on impact, presentation and media skills.
Anna is a qualified ILM Level 7 coach with a BA (Hons) in Drama and Music from the University of East Anglia. She has worked for the past 20 years as a facilitator and coach in both the public and private sector, combining this with her work as an actress and musician. With extensive experience in feedback coaching, difficult conversations, presentation skills coaching and resilience workshops, she is passionate about flexing people's delivery style - whether their challenge is 1:1 communication or delivering messages to wider teams. She works through facilitating feedback from myself, the individual and the participant group.
Anna Elena Pepe is an ICF ACC accredited coach (International Coach Federation), trainer and lead actor facilitator. Anna qualified as a coach at the ICF certified Animas Centre for Coaching in London and she also gained a CPD (Certificate Post Diploma) in Positive Psychology Coaching, Relationship Coaching and in Group Coaching and Facilitation. Anna started her training with a degree in Biotechnology, followed by a PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine from King's College London. Having been a child actor, Anna continued studying dramatic arts at Guildhall in London alongside her research, and also developed an acting career by performing on stage and screen.
The combination of her acting and scientific skills were soon noticed as transferable and precious to the corporate world, where she started working as a Trainer and Roleplayer. Over the years she worked for multinationals as Coca Cola, Kraft Foods, Pfeizer Medicals, EY, Trip Advisor, Triumph, Deutsche Bank, Versace and many others. She also developed training programs for academics and PhD Students and worked for FENS (Federation for European Neuroscience Society). She holds dual citizenship (Italian and British) and delivers training programs internationally.
Anna's areas of expertise include: one-to-one coaching sessions, performance and person centred coaching, forum theatre, bespoke role play, personal development, presentation skills, influencing skills, negotiation, unconscious bias (D&I), courage ous conversations, feedback sessions and advanced communication workshops. An additional focus area for Anna is coaching women in self-confidence and self-awareness in and out of the workplace.
Anna's strengths as a trainer come from her varied experiences. She has a personal understanding on how to juggle multiple lines of work, in a calm and focused way. Anna also studies and practises the Buddhist philosophy, which she incorporates in her coaching. Her coaching focuses on people's strengths and builds on them to expand capabilities and confidence and to use emotional intelligence to overcome challenging situations.
Anna is an executive coach, facilitator, and clinical psychologist. She has worked on leadership programmes for the NHS in England (Breaking Through) and on responsible leadership initiatives in the private sector.
Anna, until recently, worked in the humanitarian sector (IOM, UN Migration) overseeing a team providing psychosocial support for wellbeing to staff in various countries. She was also involved in strategy development for mental health and well-being.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Leadership Coach, Communications Consultant
Anneliese Guerin-LeTendre is a leadership coach, communications consultant, and workshop facilitator with over 30 years' experience in the public and private sectors. She works with decision-makers and their teams to resolve the challenges of VUCA environments, review communications processes, manage change sustainably, and optimise multi-professional team-working.
A fluent French speaker, Anneliese's experiences of living in France and Canada have given her personal and professional insight into the cultural issues involved in cultural shift and intercultural communication. Working alongside leaders and their teams, she helps organisations leverage differences and synergies between cultures to achieve the highest levels of individual and team performance.
Founder of Dialogue Links Leadership Coaching and Team Development, Anneliese has a proven record of delivery, and a total commitment to helping leaders and teams align their communication with their personal and organisational values. Clients appreciate her depth of knowledge as well as her practical, dynamic, and holistic approach.
Anneliese holds an honours degree in Education and French, a Master's degree in Intercultural Communication and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management. A certified coach, she is also an NLP Master Practitioner, an MBTI profiling Accredited Practitioner and an Accredited Practitioner for Strengthscoperm Individual, Leader, and Team Strengths Profiling.
Anneliese has co-authored a self-help guide for international medical graduates working in the UK 'So You Qualified Abroad,' as well as a practical guide for individuals and teams, 'Making Relationships Work at Work'.
Anthony has worked for two of the Big Four for nearly 30 years. He has been a Senior HR Business advisor an OD consultant, and an Executive coach.
For the past 25 years, Coaching and Facilitation have been his passions. He has worked across public, private and the third sector. He is also an international sports coach. He just loves supporting: Organisations, Teams and individuals to develop.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- ILM Level 7 Coach
Belinda is an ILM Level 7 coach who many years of 1:1 coaching experience. She also works as an Actor Facilitator for the Civil Service and NHS. An actress by trade, Belinda has worked solidly in the corporate field providing professional feedback, facilitation and coaching skills in the training room for 15 years. She works regularly with organizations such as the NHS, on Leadership courses that require a high level of role-play and feedback, as well as facilitation for small groups of consultants and managers dealing with bespoke Difficult Conversations. Belinda's facilitation work involves detailed and insightful feedback using coaching techniques, applied to all levels from Chief Executive level down, for organisations both in the public and private sectors. For the BBC Editorial Leadership courses and the Civil Service, Belinda participates in Forum Theatre scenarios to great effect, as well as utilising case studies and bespoke difficult conversations. Belinda's work for the BBC is with Producers, Presenters, Editors and Journalists. Other clients are from both the private and public sector and are diverse, including The Home and Foreign Office, The Guardian, The City of London Corporation, The John Lewis Partnership, Sony, Yahoo, Heineken, Home-Base, Barclays, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Mercedes, Louis Vuitton and Aston Martin.
Belinda provides Presentation Skills and Personal Impact Skills to a variety of clients including architects and medical consultants. She also delivers and co-leads on Diversity Workshops for clients including Sure-Start and various Borough and County Councils, as well as Influencing and Negotiating skills for banking clients including Nationwide and Black Rock. Belinda also teaches sight-reading technique and self-development at The International School of Screen-Acting.
Bindu trained as an actress and has worked in the Training and Development sector as a Roleplayer, Facilitator and Behavioural Coach for over 17 years. She is bi-lingual in Italian and English and speaks conversational German and French.
Her open, fresh and professional style has led her to work with some of the largest organisations, both in the public and private sectors, working and facilitating globally, from Italy to Qatar, the UK to Greece, remaining sensitive to national and cultural differences at all times.
Bindu has an ability to challenge, motivate and inspire, whilst remaining personable and connected. Throughout her career, she has designed, facilitated and directed films, Diversity & Inclusion workshops, conferences and E-Learning DVD's for numerous organizations across the UK, Europe and Middle East. Bindu has also worked extensively with external trainers, consultants and lawyers, giving her a clear understanding of the legal definitions of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and UK legislation. She is organised and reliable, able to lead one-to-one coaching sessions and bespoke roleplays, as well as confidently run large conferences and masterclasses of two hundred or more delegates.
Bindu is multi-cultural and has lived, travelled and worked extensively throughout the world (eg, India, United States, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden as well as the UK) giving her a strong understanding of cultural differences and social behaviours.
Brad began working life as an actor after graduating from an accredited London drama school in 1986 and has a first class honours degree in Theatre from the University of Surrey. He then worked as an actor in theatre and television for over twenty years and was a drama and comedy script writer for both ITV and BBC television.
Since 1998 he has been delivering experiential learning & personal development programs for both public and private sector organisations; researching, writing, developing and delivering original programmes. Key areas of focus have been personal impact and influence, inclusive leadership, trusted advisor and consultancy skills, client engagement and selling skills, performance management, challenging conversations, coaching conversations and diversity and inclusion programmes. More recent programmes have included work for NHS Academy, The Bank of England, National Air Traffic Services (NATS).
Brad is CIPD trained in advanced facilitation skills and has a Master's degree in Coaching & Mentoring Practice from the International Centre for Coaching & Mentoring Studies at Oxford Brookes University.
He is currently designing and delivering a pilot coaching initiative for people living with HIV for a combined London patient care trust. He is also a long standing volunteer with the incredible children's mentoring charity Scene and Heard.
Caroline originally trained as an actress at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and continues to be a successful audio artist. She has nine years experience as a role player and coach working on an extensive range of programmes throughout the UK and Ireland. Over the years she has developed her skills in case study work, bespoke role-play, forum theatre & coaching, with particular interest in Presentation Skills and Voice Coaching for people in business. She lives in London and also has a base in Dublin.
Christie originally trained as actress at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. For the last 15 years she has worked as a facilitator/coach & role player for an extensive range of clients.
She specialises in presentation skills, personal impact and behavioural management. She has worked with Practive since its inception in 2002 and was part of the facilitation team for the National Management Development Initiative (NMDI) for the NHS. She continues to work with the NHS at a senior level. Christie also works as a theatre director and is an associate artist of the National Youth Theatre.
Claire has worked extensively in experiential communications and behavioural skills training for 20 years. She has designed, written, facilitated and utilised her acting skills on numerous courses from graduate to senior leadership levels. She creates a warm, supportive, relaxed environment to heighten self-awareness, enhance existing skills and encourages participants to remain authentic.
In addition, she is an Executive Coach accredited by the AoEC and is working towards her ICF accreditation. She is very experienced in Forum Theatre, Role-Play, Bespoke Skills Practice, Feedback and Coaching and has worked in the public and private sector on a wide range of programmes including: Leadership Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, Performance Management, Managing Conflict, Customer Service, Recruitment and Selection, Personal Impact, and Presentation Skills.
Claire is an actress from the West Midlands and a new member of the Practive team. She trained in Forum Theatre with Augusto Boal while she was studying at Bretton Hall. She has taken part as an actor in forum theatre workshops in a corporate setting, as well as running forum workshops for teenagers and adults within drama classes.
She has led corporate training sessions in confidence in leadership for the NHS, as well as led Acting for Confidence evening classes (including body langu age and vocal technique) for adults for Stage and the City, where she is a regular teacher and coach.
She also has an MA in Text & Performance Studies from RADA/King's College.
Claire works across many business sectors on development and assessment programmes. Her work has involved design as well as delivery, and one-to-one coaching.
With Practive Claire has worked extensively for the NHS including, for the Leadership Academy: Top Leaders, Aspiring Directors, Senior Operational Leaders, Frontline Nursing Programmes and the Graduate Management Trainee Scheme. As a Leadership Associate with the Hay Group she facilitated on the Mary Seacole Programme. She is part of the Civil Service Learning Practive team delivering on a variety of courses for Senior Civil servants. She has also worked with leading professional services companies.
She last appeared on stage as ‘Mother' in ‘The Railway Children' at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake, and is a member of the therapeutic improvisational storytelling group, Manchester Playback Theatre. She was a lecturer in Voice and Speech for four years at the University of Salford.
Clare has been an Associate of Practive since 2002.
She is a facilitator, expert forum theatre practitioner, impact and business coach.
Trained as an actress, she had a parallel career in theatre, television, radio, comedy improvisation and as a voice over artist for over 20 years before making the choice to work solely in Leadership Development. She is also an associate of Korn Ferry, trained in the diagnostic tools: Leadership Styles and Organisational Climate.
She has a particular interest in Impact and Presentation Skills, drawing on techniques used by actors to develop performance. Most recently she co-designed (with Christie Jennings) a two day programme for Senior Civil Servants focusing on Women's Leadership: "Find Your Voice". She has also designed and delivered programmes on Delivering Effective PDRs, Coaching, Handling Difficult, Influencing Skills, Vital Conversations, Harassment Awareness, Zero Tolerance - Dealing with Violence, Media Skills…
Another focus is enabling the safe practice of challenging conversations 1-2-1 and in small groups. Her approach is to find a balance between appreciation and challenge to enable leaders to make small changes that make a big difference… Clare loves working with Practive.
Daniela is an EMCC Global accredited Life & Leadership Coach with over a decade of experience in the wellness sector. In addition to being a coach, Daniela is also an actor, voice over actor, certified yoga teacher, Reiki Master, Mental Health First Aider and holds a BA in Biology.
In her leadership roles within the wellness industry, she has been responsible for coaching and mentoring new managers and leaders. She developed and delivered several seminars over the years, including how to manage mental health in the workplace, how to effectively communicate & resolve conflict and how organisations facilitate bringing employees back to work after prolonged absence (including a seminar on how organisations return employees to work en masse following lockdown furlough).
Daniela is passionate about personal growth, transformation and conscious leadership. As a coach, Daniela strives to guide her coachees to to live mindfully, kindly, compassionately and gratefully; to connect with their full selves and allow that wholeness to be expressed authentically, freely and confidently.
Deborah Asante began her career as an actor working in Theatre, Radio, Film and TV in the UK and abroad and this grounding has been invaluable in her work as a leadership coach, facilitator and role player specialising in communication skills. She has over 19 years experience working in experiential training and development for executives and professionals across both public and private sectors. Most recently working with senior leaders in the NHS through the NHS National Leadership Academy and the Kings Fund, the Senior Civil Service and Vodafone's Global Leadership program, Inspire. Other companies she has worked for include EY, KPMG and PWC helping consultants develop their consultant skills and develop their selling technique without selling. She's also worked in a variety of different sectors including finance, construction, energy and retail.
Through coaching Deborah has helped leaders create a Coaching Culture in various departments within Civil Service and trained Managers to Coach for the Royal Mail earning ILM accreditation through this. She is a certified coach receiving a Diploma with distinction in Personal Performance Coaching through the Coaching Academy and trained as a NLP Practitioner with Richard Bandler. Other coaching clients include Vodafone, Brown Brothers Harriman and Ustwo
Deborah also enjoys helping leaders at all levels build their skills and confidence in areas such as authentic leadership communication, courageous conversations, consulting, perception and impact, performance management, and diversity and inclusion to name a few. Using techniques from the theatre including Augusto Baol's Forum Theatre to help create fun, interactive and safe environments for people to challenge their assumptions and learn.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Organisational Development Consultant
Francesca is an experienced organisational development consultant and specialises in executive team coaching, leadership development programmes and large group interventions.
She is passionate about the power of developing the right culture and paying attention to leadership, engagement and team effectiveness in driving sustainable performance and improving organisational health - supporting leaders in getting the most out of themselves, their teams and their organisations. Francesca is committed to establishing trusted partnerships with her clients; her desire to understand their organisations, ambitions and challenges allows her to tune in quickly and create bespoke, often creative, solutions focussing on enhancing performance and productivity.
Francesca's sweet-spot is coaching teams and loves seeing the positive impact it has on organisations. Her approach is systemic; "future-back" and "outside-in" and through her own authentic, insightful and engaging style, Francesca advises on this challenging journey by enabling teams to maximise their collective talents and wisdom and create more effective collaboration to achieve the outcome that is needed. She has been coaching senior teams for ten years and has been certified to use to AoEC Team Coaching tool since 2017.
Gina Hayden is based in London and works around the world developing leaders through coaching, leadership programmes and team development. As well as in the UK she is experienced in working in the Middle East, in numerous countries across Africa and in South Africa.
Gina is a psychologist by training and a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. She is also a qualified Consciousness Coach. She is passionate about working with individuals and companies to get clear on what they want to create for themselves and get into action of achieving this, dissolving resistance and obstacles in the way. She enjoys facilitating the human-to-human connection in teams and between leaders and the people they lead, and she is dedicated to helping create a shift towards doing business in a way that is more conscious, sustainable, ethical and profitable.
Ian originally trained as an actor until, after a decade in theatre and television, he changed direction, and for the past eighteen years he has worked in training and learning and development. Ian is an experienced facilitator, coach, and actor/role-player.
Ian has worked for a wide range of clients across many corporate sectors including financial services, the oil industry, the building and construction industries and the media industry. Ian has also worked extensively with clients from the public sector, such as the NHS.
As a role-player, Ian enjoys the challenge of creating believable people with authentic behaviours, and he gets great satisfaction from working with participants, offering constructive, focused, evidential feedback as well as personal coaching, to reach those moments of self-awareness.
As a facilitator, Ian believes he has an inclusive and supportive style. He is always conscious of the fact that any group will include a wide range of skills, degrees of confidence and attitudes to learning. Ian focuses on establishing the necessary trust within the learning environment to enable clients to feel secure. From this position he then works with each individual to provide the appropriate level of challenge and support.
As a qualified executive coach, Ian has coached individuals and teams to senior management and board level. Ian adapts to challenges that may be different in every situation and works with clients on fulfilling personal and professional objectives - to help overcome frustrations and blocks and to facilitate individuals trying and experiencing new ways of communicating.
James Butcher is an experienced coach and facilitator specialising in appreciative learning - helping his clients to learn from their strengths and successes, and to do more of what they do well. James focuses on helping others develop team excellence, personal effectiveness, successful collaborative relationships, and resilient leadership. His work includes coaching individuals, designing and facilitating development programmes and team events, mediation, and advising on organisational and leadership development.
James is known as an insightful coach, a skilled facilitator, an energising trainer, and someone who brings rigour to the application of psychology to the world of work. He has worked with organisations in the public and private sectors, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Arup, Brighton & Hove Council, The Body Shop, Coca Cola, and Bristol City Council. As a long-standing associate with Practive James has worked with a wide variety of NHS organisations. Working with SOLACE Enterprises, James helped design and deliver the Academy of Executive Leadership, a programme for senior managers in local government, run in collaboration with Ashridge Business School, and Leaders in Partnership, a major development programme for local authorities across Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight.
James has a BA (Hons) in Psychology, a Diploma in Management Studies, a Diploma in Counselling, and has completed the Advanced Training in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy. He has trained in the use of Appreciative Inquiry, and recently completed an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology. As part of his MSc, James researched positive organisational cultures, to identify the conditions that help individuals to perform at their best. He presented his findings at the Canadian Positive Psychological Conference in 2012. In 2010 he contributed to a symposium on applying positive psychology to the world of work at the European Positive Psychology Conference in Copenhagen. He has lectured on the business applications of Appreciative Inquiry at the MSc in Applied Positive Psychology at University of East London, and has contributed case studies of his work to the recently-published book "Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations".
James has over 20 years' experience working as a role-player, facilitator and coach, in addition to a continuing career as an actor in film, theatre, television and radio.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Co - Founder
Jamie is a co-founder and Associate Director of Practive. He originally trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and worked for many years as a performer, writer and director in theatre, television and radio.
In 1993 he re-trained to become a facilitator, coach and workshop leader and he has now been working in this field for over 25 years. In 2002 he co-founded Practive with Philippa Williams.
His expertise lies in helping people to learn through experience, both at individual and group level and his interest is in enabling others to develop and sustain practical leadership skills. In the public, private and third sectors he has designed and delivered a wide range of leadership development events from small group sessions to large conferences and whole development centres. He has facilitated away-day session with Boards, Governing Bodies and System Leaders. He is also a highly experienced Action Learning Set facilitator and 1:1 coach and has worked with leaders at all levels and roles. Jamie is currently a faculty member of the NHS Leadership Academy.
As a writer, Jamie has written case studies and scripts for development centres, workshops and conferences and he writes and directs training videos. He is a co-editor and co-author of ‘How to be a nurse or midwife leader' published by Wiley.
Jamie is accredited to use the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the Strength Deployment Inventory and David Kantor's Structural Dynamics. He is also familiar with many other models and frameworks such as Thomas-Kilmann conflict mode instrument, Transactional Analysis, Appreciative Inquiry, Situational Leadership, GROW etc.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- ILM Registered Coach
Jason has over 20 years' experience in Learning and Development. He has worked as a role-player, facilitator and trainer in that time. Jason strongly believes that classroom-based training should have an element of application in the workplace and that delegates should leave the course feeling armed with skills they can use at work to improve themselves, or the teams they manage. Jason creates a fun and safe learning environment to help delegates try out new skills. He is a highly focused and high-energy individual and brings these qualities into the training room. Jason's aim within the coaching framework, whether in Health and Safety, Leadership, Negotiation, Influence, Coaching or Customer service, is to build both confidence and skills for the individual, to help them reach both their personal potential and businesses goals.
Jason is an ILM registered coach. His passion is in helping others discover the power of coaching. Jason's experience in L&D ranges from bespoke 1-2-1 sessions, Forum Theatre, Coaching (training groups or individual 1-2-1), giving feedback to related models and training outcomes, right up to designing and running whole events as facilitation lead.
Jeremy is a Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist with a background in corporate training and as a public speaking coach.
After a long career in the theatre, Jeremy transferred his skills to the corporate sector where he works as a presentation skills and personal development coach. Jeremy's experience as both a trainer and a performer give him a unique insight into what is needed to help client's build confidence and overcome anxiety issues.
Jeremy works with a wide range of private and corporate clients supporting them through a variety of public speaking obligations including conference speeches, select committees, business pitches and presentations, meetings and social events such as wedding speeches.
As well as facilitating and designing training courses for a number of public and private sector organisations, Jeremy has forged a career as a public speaking coach, combining the twin disciplines of the acting world and CBT.
Over the past seven years Jeremy has worked with a variety of senior management from government departments, including the MOD, HMRC, DEFRA, UKBA and the NHS.
Most recently Jeremy designed and delivered the Patient Service Programme for NHS Barking and Dagenham and NHS Brent incorporating forum theatre and personal development tools, and has facilitated coaching and mentoring programmes for a variety of clients.
Jeremy is also an Employability Skills Consultant at Kingston University, delivering communication and interview skills to graduates.
Jo became a part of Practive's leadership team in 2023, seizing the opportunity to step into the role of Chief Operating Officer and blend her practical experience and strategic vision to support Practive's mission. Her journey with Practive began as a client, drawn to the organisation's unique approach to developing others.
Jo has a background in Learning & Development, with a wealth of experience from standalone L&D roles and leadership of global teams across a variety of sectors. Jo is an accredited coach and has a real interest in impactful leadership development. Her genuine enthusiasm stems from witnessing the transformative 'aha!' moments that individuals experience throughout their learning journey.
Jodine manages Practive's day-to-day Finances.
With a background in the social care sector, she first qualified as an accounting technician before studying with the ACCA to complete her training as an accountant.
She has a wealth of experience working with a number of businesses within the service sector, and fully integrates with the team to provide the seamless financial support that helps everything at Practive run smoothly on a day to day basis.
Joel is a Director and co-owner of Practive. He has worked as a facilitator and coach since 2003. The majority of that work has been in the public sector, including local and national government and the NHS. As part of the Korn Ferry & KPMG consortiums he has designed and delivered programmes for Senior Civil Servants since 2016.
From 2015-2020 he led on the Inspiring Leaders programme for senior leaders at Cambridge Assessment - a 6-month global development programme for their top 250 leaders, which included action learning sets and 1-2-1 coaching for all participants.
He has coached senior leaders in a variety of organisations and sectors - often at times of change for them personally when they needed time to reflect on, for example, how to step into a new, more senior role.
John has been working as a role player, facilitator & coach for over ten years in the medical and corporate sector.
He trained at The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and has a BA hons from the University of Chester.
John has worked in TV, film and theatre, he is also a Playwright with several commissions under his belt.
John Hoggarth graduated in 1991 with a BA Hons in Theatre Arts developing a successful career as an actor, writer and director. John is a published playwright and an award winning director, he continues to produce work for the theatre, radio, television and film. He was Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre until 2008 and was recognised for his ability to inspire talented young people to unlock their potential. He believes all people, regardless of age, possess the capacity to change and has brought this belief to his work as a behavioural coach focusing on communication skills in the workplace. Over the last 13 years he has built a strong personal reputation as a facilitator and trainer ranging from large conferences to one-to-one development work. Clients include: Addidas, BBC, PWC, NHS, Rolls Royce, Sainsburys and Vodafone.
Joti is a psychology post-graduate who has worked at management level supporting Director level personnel within Learning & Development functions across the NHS and private sector. Additionally, Joti is a trained actress and presenter where her skills are often sought for crafting effective communication within business environments. In her capacity as either a Coach, Trainer or Consultant, Joti has supported clients in L&D to optimise their business performance. Joti also has a wealth of experience undertaking role play, forum theatre, facilitation and coaching for several well respected companies around the globe."
With an eclectic background, from British Airways to a successful acting career and communications coaching, Julia went onto complete her NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) journey from Practitioner level through to becoming an NLP Master Coach. She now coaches individuals and teams, combining this knowledge with other coaching models and her own authentic approach.
Over the last eighteen years, Julia has been using these skills working with businesses from start-ups through to SMEs and Corporate Organisations, more recently working with the senior leadership team at Barclays Bank, Blue Cross Charity and Cisco. She has worked across a wide variety of sectors including Pharmaceutical, Retail, Finance, Telecom, Manufacturing and within the NHS and Civil Service.
Julia has a persistent energy wrapped up with humility and humour that sees her clients ‘safely shake their worlds' in a space that is fully supported. Stepping out of the comfort zone, using energy, focus and an ability to ‘play' and be ‘in the moment' really sees Julia's approach to coaching and training come to life.
Julia's real passion lies in her ability to identify how leaders can be even more effective when it comes to delivering their messages with gravitas and impact. Through finding their voice and empowering them to communicate with confidence and presence, Julia's clients are therefore able to be their most authentic version of themselves. She is always looking to create a truly memorable and alternative approach in her coaching.
Julia works as a trainer, facilitator and coach as well as a role play actor. Other recent clients include: Red Cross, Astra Zeneca, Merck, Browns Clothing, Leading Sportswear Brand, UK Sport, Nandos, Warwick Business School, Wilson James and Recruit for Spouses.
Julia is an innovative, values-based Organisational Development practitioner with a genuine drive to liberate and realise the potential of leaders at all levels to drive complex change. As an experienced facilitator Julia has the ability to tune into her audience allowing her to constructively yet directly challenge them, which in turn enables them to reflect on their leadership behaviours and check out if they are congruent with their declared values. She creates an environment that empowers teams to step out of their roles and think creatively about future opportunities, developments and products in a way that encourages new thinking.
Julia's expertise is rooted in over 30 years clinical leadership experience, with six years working for the NHS Leadership Academy latterly as the Head of Leadership Development and Organisational Development.
Julia is equally effective operating at executive level as with emerging leaders. She works across all levels, from chief executives, executive teams, operational and frontline teams, through to frontline staff at ward level, to support them in making change they want to make in themselves. She has a proven track record in diagnosis, design, delivery and commissioning of high quality development and change interventions that meet strategic objectives. She flourishes working across systems and within fast-changing and complex environments. She thrives working with dialogic approaches and diversity as key components to new forms of change management.
Karen joined BP as a graduate trainee and spent several years in a variety of HR roles, studying for and gaining membership of the CIPD. In 1989 she joined Coopers and Lybrand (now PwC) in their HR consultancy division, initially in London and then in Manchester.
Karen now runs her own training and coaching consultancy business where she specialises in organisation development, cultural and behavioural change and coaching. She is an NLP Practitioner, is certified to use a wide variety of psychometric tests and has a level 7 qualification in coaching and mentoring with the CIPD. Karen has recently become qualified as a workplace mindfulness coach and is a member of the CIPD and the EMCC.
Karen has over twenty years' experience of working at a senior level in both the public and private sectors and first worked with the Practive team over ten years ago.
With a background in marketing across a diverse range of sectors, Kathryn puts her extensive experience in project administration and budget control to good use in supporting Katie and Jodine with the bookkeeping for Practive.
Katie qualified as an accountant in 2006 and heads up the finance team at Practive.
As a portfolio CFO she works with a number of businesses predominantly within service based sectors.
She enjoys the wide variety of her role and ensures that she knows her businesses inside out to provide the very best service, guidance and advice.
Lisa is an experienced Executive Coach, Group Facilitator, Learning Designer and Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with 20 years international experience. She aims to help people and organisations to attain high levels of self-awareness, giving greater opportunity for choice, flexibility, fulfilling relationships and conscious action. Her work spans primarily the areas of discovering and growing personal potential, leadership skills, relationship skills, communication, team effectiveness, intercultural effectiveness and diversity, collaborative conversations, innovation and creativity, and leading and understanding change.
Lisa speaks good French and German and conversational Greek, with English as mother tongue. She has a Master's degree in HR strategy, and an Honours degree in Modern Languages. She is a Chartered member of the CIPD and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Lisa is currently training as a Psychotherapist with the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London, and completing a Master's degree in Psychology at Middlesex University. She is also a member of visiting faculty at IMD international business school, Lausanne, Switzerland, where she coaches on a number of executive programmes.
Lucy is a writer, filmmaker & actor with over thirty years experience. Graduating from The Rose Bruford College of Speech & Drama in 1985 with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Arts. Lucy works extensively across stage and screen, has lectured/guest spoken at several drama schools, universities, directed and been commissioned to write for BA graduates. Lucy also speaks and advocates for the rights of transracial adoptees (Lucy bring one herself).
Beats.org is an advocacy group which lobbies for better nuanced representation of British East and South East Asians working in stage or screen industries; Lucy is one of its founding members. Lucy has worked for a variety of training organisations through the years bringing her specialist personal knowledge and communications skills to both private and corporate sectors. More recently Lucy knowledge and lived experience on the topics of diversification, decolonisation, cultural sensitivity, nuance, unconscious bias and inclusion particularly with reference to British East and South East Asian communities, are being sought after more frequently.
Lyn trained as an actress at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and has a corporate background in Client Relationship and Business Management. This combination of experience fuel her passion for facilitating and coaching using practical and experiential methods for personal development, enabling individuals to achieve their goals. She works globally as a trainer, coach and facilitator, working with the challenges of effective communication at all levels of leadership across the public and private sectors. With over 15 years of experience working with communication skills, Lyn focuses on the tangible techniques of strong leadership, and is passionate about people, their behaviours and drivers.
Lynden has been working in personal development since 1997 and with Practive since 2017. He is a graduate of Pembroke College and The Webber Douglas Academy from where he embarked on a career in theatre, a key area of his work today. Lynden has a passionate interest in the use of language and behaviour to achieve effective communications and is a strong advocate of experiential training as a means of lasting self-development. He is a regular guest lecturer at The University of the West of England and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Lynden lives with wife and daughter in the Kent Weald.
For the past twelve years Mark has worked extensively as a Role player for healthcare professionals working within The NHS (Cancer and End of Life Care) as well as The British Heart Foundation. This is aimed at helping individuals at all levels to improve their communication skills with patients, relatives and colleague's. His facilitation experience includes working with nurses at The Leadership Academy. As a classically trained actor, Mark continues to work in the industry and has appeared in numerous training videos centred around customer service, mental health, disability, trade and health & safety. He has also taken part in forum theatre around the Challenges of Dying which have been part of conferences supported by Frimley Health.
Maxine Finch trained at Dartington College of Arts, she has worked as an actor in film, television, and theatre for over thirty years.
Maxine has worked as a role player, facilitator, trainer and coach in many different sectors and ran assertiveness training courses for Derby Playhouse for a number of years.
"Anyone who has been coached by Mike individually or in a team recognises what a special gift he has. He quickly understands us below the surface level and has a unique and engaging way of helping us address the core issue" Alan O' Rourke- Director, PwC
Mike is a creative facilitator and coach who takes a strength - based approach to learning, helping clients learn from their achievements and what they do best. He has a Master's in Business Psychology and over twenty years' experience working with emerging leaders and middle management in leadership development in professional services, the public sector, banking and petrochemical industry.
Nichola is a highly experienced facilitator and coach who works with leaders to develop their business potential in the context of both their current and future work environments. She is a partner of Development Potential; an organisation focusing on developing leaders to work at their best.
Nichola has over 25 years' experience of working with organisations, has led her own HR and OD teams in a number of different business contexts and worked within a range of organisations and cultures. She has worked extensively at Partner level at one of the ‘Big 4' financial services organisations and within the Law Industry and also at a senior level within the NHS.
Olivia is an actress from Manchester and a new member of the Practive team. She has gained some experience over the last year in Forum Theatre at two universities. At Essex University addressing challenging student behaviour. This workshop looked at influencing and assertion. She also took part in a conference at NTU (Nottingham Trent University), where the scenario explored student mental well being with a group senior academics
She is also a IDTA trained dance teacher, (International Dance Teacher's Association) teaching adults and young people and has worked in schools all around Manchester for over 7 years.
More recently she has taken part in a coaching programme with Manchester City council to enable teachers in to deliver dance sessions more effectively.
Olivia is an actor, writer, facilitator and coach. She has trained with the National Youth Theatre REP Company, MOE Foundation and Year Here, running the latter's bi-annual nature connection retreat, 'Wildcamp', for five years.
In all her work there is a strong thread of listening and collaborating: be it in problem solving, script-writing, retreat designing or theatre making. Olivia is delighted to be a part of the Practive team.
Paul's recent corporate focus has been in writing, facilitating and role-playing in high-level, dynamic workshops for senior executives in a range of organizations from the NHS to the National Grid, which have focused largely on leadership and performance. He brings to the table vast experience drawn not only from his work in communication skills and performance development, but also his success in the worlds of acting and writing.
Paul is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter with a long list of credits in both disciplines, recent work being with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He is also active in education as a writer in schools, and a regular narrator for the National Geographic channel.
Peter is a facilitator, qualified coach, corporate role player and actor with over 15 years of experience. He brings energy, enthusiasm, encouragement, empathy, a sense of humour and a passion for increasing a person's impact on individuals and groups.
Phil Lowe helps leaders make small changes in their approach which make a big change in their overall impact and effectiveness. His work encompasses topics across the Personal and Leadership Development agenda including Impact and Influence, Effective Negotiation, Performance Management, Leading People and Team Dynamics. He is qualified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the FIRO measures, the Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI), Insights Discovery, and the EQ-i measure of Emotional Intelligence. He is a faculty member of London Business School, and a former faculty member of Henley Management College and Management Centre Europe.
Phil holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from London University, an MA in Screenwriting from the University of the Arts London, and an honours degree in English from Cambridge University. He has co-authored two books on management development, and was co-deviser and writer of seven series of the business-based panel game The Board Game for BBC Radio 4. He has featured as a pundit on BBC Breakfast (BBC1) Today (Radio 4) and Newstalk (Radio 5 Live) and has contributed as a writer to, among others, Business Life magazine and Fenman Training's Coach The Coach series. He is the author of two novels, and most recently wrote and directed the award winning short film The Driving Seat.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Co - Founder
- Co - Editor
Philippa is co-founder and Associate Director of Practive Ltd, a consultancy specialising in the practice of leadership. Philippa set up Practive with Jamie Ripman in 2002 with a vision of creating the best conditions for people to learn through experimentation and practice.
Philippa has over 20 years' experience of leadership development, including the design and delivery of whole programmes, individual workshops, small group and action learning set facilitation, Executive team development and one-to-one coaching. She also writes case studies and scripts for conferences.
She is a highly experienced facilitator and coach, working with senior leaders across the public and private sector, for example, team development with Executive and cross-system leadership teams, designing and facilitating leadership programmes, running workshops on specific topics and coaching individuals. In her coaching work she specialises in helping people to develop their influence and impact, working with them on how they communicate with others, to understand the impact they have, to build on their strengths and explore ways to extend their range in all situations. She often works with people at moments of transition, helping them to explore their leadership response to their evolving context.
She has been a member of the Faculty of the NHS Leadership Academy since 2011, co-designing and delivering many of their national leadership programmes including the Top Leaders programme, the Senior Operational Nursing and Midwifery Leadership Programme, the Chief Executive Development Network and the Nye Bevan programme.
She is accredited to work with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the Strength Deployment Inventory and the Healthcare Leadership Model and has knowledge and experience of working with many other frameworks and approaches.
Philippa is co-editor and author of ‘How to be a Nurse or Midwife Leader', published by Wiley in February 2017.
Pooja has been a professional actor for over 20 years but has been a role - player, facilitator and coach for the past 15 years. Her first professional acting job was in Bend it Like Beckham. She has been a regular on a variety of tv programs as well as having lots of theatrical experience.
All of this work has given her skills she is able to translate into the corporate world training. She is passionate about making a difference in people's lives and loves the different types of sessions she is involved in.
Based in London, she has been lucky enough to travel all over the world undertaking corporate training and development work.
Initially a TV actor, Pooja found her true passion is helping people to realise their full potential to be the best they can be in their chosen field. Pooja works as a business actor, facilitator, role - player and coach; she has worked at all levels - from shop floor through to board across a variety of public and private sectors. Pooja brings professionalism, skills, empathy and fun to all that she does and is a great addition to any team.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Leadership Consultant and Coach
- Specialist
Ralph is a specialist leadership consultant and coach with over 25 years of experience working with senior leaders in the public and private sectors. He designs and delivers programmes to develop leadership competencies. These include managing change, strategy and goal setting, performance management and people skills.
Ralph has extensive experience at helping clients deal with business challenges and organisational change. Starting with business issues sets a strategic context for individual challenges and underlies the coaching. His style can be directional and challenging especially when it comes to developing skills and setting action steps.
Ralph has worked on and led a number of global leadership programmes and extensively in Europe, USA, Asia and Africa. His clients have included Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Aegon Insurance, Dresdner Kleinwort, Credit Agricole, Memorex, BT, EMC, Unisys, Honeywell Bull, GSK, Eli Lily, AstraZeneca, Unilever, BDS, Danone, The Treasury, British Council, Whitehall in Industry Group, Top Management Programme, Benefits Agency.
He has written several books and many articles on leadership including co-editing a book on Servant-Leadership. He has an MA in Leadership Effectiveness and is qualified in using the MBTI and Elements questionnaires and has also developed his own leadership style questionnaires.
Ralph helps people connect with their drive, determination and passion to perform at their best and achieve their potential. His focus is very much on people's core strengths and capabilities and he helps clients develop their own unique solutions and skills. His client's value his wisdom and strong insight, his balance of intervention and directional guidance and his feedback and affirmation of their strengths.
Close Rez Kempton "Being a working actor, I can bring to life realistically any situation that you'd like to practice and improve. With over 15 years' experience in the business and corporate world I can also coach and guide you to making a better impact and achieve your desired results." Rez has over 15 years of experience working as a role-player, facilitator and trainer in the business arena. He has worked on a range of courses covering subjects such as management development, leadership, presentation skills, customer service, recruitment, disciplinary and grievance procedures, bullying and harassment, appraisal training, influencing and persuading, and diversity and inclusion. Rez is equally comfortable working in private and public sectors of business. He has extensive experience in both. For the NHS and the large professional services companies and numerous law firms; Rez works on ongoing programmes of assessment, leadership and development centres. Rez has experience of working in a number of different ways from one-to-one role-plays (improvised and pre-written) to forum theatre, which incorporates the skills of effective feedback, facilitation, analysis of verbal and non-verbal communication, personal impact and assessment and development. Having worked globally, Rez has experience, understanding and respect of different cultures and needs. Some of the clients Rez has worked with include: Ernst & Young, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, BDO, Shell, B.P., Pearson, BT, Suffolk County Council, British Airways, Royal Bank of Scotland, T-Mobile, London School of Economics, The Highways Agency, Marks & Spencer, UBS, GlaxoSmithKline, Barclays, Northern Trust, BG, RPC, Allen & Overy, Holman Fenwick Willan and Baker McKenzie. Rez studied at the prestigious Rose Bruford drama school and is currently pursuing acting in Los Angeles and London alongside his business and corporate work. He is a keen technology enthusiast. Hobbies include Formula 1, Football and Hiking.
Richard has over 20 years' experience working as a facilitator/coach and roleplayer within both the private and public sectors, using roleplay to practise those conversations that can develop and enhance communication within the workplace, and in our personal lives too.
An experienced educator, Rina is passionate about utilising her skills and experience as an actress to benefit and develop others in the teaching arena, understanding the importance of offering contextualised feedback which is evidence based and delivered in a constructive manner to best enable the growth of those in the training environment.
Since 1991 she has been an associate with numerous leading drama based learning and development training companies, in the UK and internationally, where she has provided role play, facilitation and coached in presentation skills.
She has recently finished studying for a Level 5 Coaching Diploma at the University of Warwick and will qualify in July 2017 with a special interest in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching. She is the founder of the PAVE! Coaching System - a personal impact and presentation skills coaching programme, which she delivers on a one to one or small group basis.
After graduating with an English and Drama degree, Ruth spent over 20 years working for the BBC across a variety of departments including Radio Drama, Station Sound, BBC Orchestras and BBC Radio 2. It was within Radio 2 that Ruth became part of the Specialist Music team, delivering high profile live music events in theatres, concert halls, national parks, castles, jazz clubs - and even beaches - across the country.
Having worked with many of her musical heroes, and thoroughly enjoyed her time with the BBC, a move out of London led Ruth to diversify and apply her project management and people skills as a freelancer in other arenas, in this case co-resourcing Practive's leadership development work, alongside her peerless job share partner, Abbi.
Sarah Sherborne is an experienced roleplayer, coach and faciliator. She has a Diploma in Performance Coaching and is an NLP Practitioner .She is a member of the Association of Coaching. She coaches individuals and team and specialises in communication skills and personal impact. She is also a voice over artist and this informs her coaching on voice production and delivery.
Sasha Behar studied Classics at Cambridge University and has twenty years of experience as a coach, facilitator and role player. She has worked one to one and in groups, designing and delivering material on creative behaviours, personal impact and effective communication, in both the private and public sector, with organisations as diverse as Barclays, Unilever, Sainsburys, Westminster City Council, Brixton Prison and the Institute for Social Studies. She also has a career as an actor working in TV, film and theatre and combines this background with her training as a coach and counselor, to address both the practical and psychological aspects of transformation. She takes particular pleasure in giving clients the confidence to really express themselves, with spontaneity and passion.
Stephanie is a highly experienced business coach and facilitator, who has worked exclusively over the last twenty years in the development of senior executives at a one to one and group level. She is a partner of Development Potential; a coaching organisation focusing on developing leaders to work at their best.
Stephanie has considerable business experience: as HR Director for Expocentric.com, as Senior HR Manager in PwC and as Area Personnel Manager with Hewlett Packard. The organisations she currently works for include: Blackrock; Ernst and Young; Legal & General; Herbert Smith LLP; Intercontinental Hotel Group; Centrica; The Post Office, the NHS and Save the Children Fund. She is a visiting tutor at Cranfield University where she has recently designed and delivered programmes on courageous conversations, creating confidence and resilience, stakeholder relationship management, and women in leadership.
For over 25 years, Steve has delivered world class design, facilitation, coaching and business role play services, globally, in the space of leadership development, including (but not limited to), leadership, management, sales, customer relationships, coaching, negotiation, change, conflict resolution, disciplinary management, presenta tion and personal impact. He has done this with participants, at all levels, in every industry sector, and has particular depth of experience in the health sector, from medical students right through to Trust Executives.
Along the way, Steve has picked up Masters degrees in Education, Management and Leadership Learning, and a Post-Graduate qualification in Counselling Psychology. Additionally, with 22 years as business owner and Director, Steve has direct experience of all aspects of enterprise and people management. Steve has prior professional experience in marketing, education, sales and IT. This is supplemented by the deep organisational learning he has gained from designing over 50 complex business simulations.
Steve is totally focused on helping every single person he works with reach their potential, build strong, enduring relationships, and attain wellbeing, to make a real difference to themselves, their organisations and their communities. He is an ardent advocate of Practive's tireless commitment to delivering high-quality, practical, individualised learning solutions.
Steve Tindall has been working in the personal development field for around fifteen years and has been a Practive Associate since the company's inception in 2002. Despite having wide experience in different sectors much of his work in the last ten years has been with the NHS, with whom Practive have a fantastic reputation, and this is work he greatly enjoys.
Stewart has worked as a facilitator, trainer and coach since 1992. He has experience of working in the Public and Private sector in a diverse range of industries including - Health - NHS, Consulting and finance - PWC, Construction - Aone +, Law - Pinsent Masons. Higher Education - University of Cambridge.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Performance Coach
Suzanne is a performance coach. Having worked as an actor and a communications trainer she draws from techniques acquired in both these areas. Her style is responsive and compassionate, driven to 'understanding you'.
She has designed and delivered events in 1:1 and group situations. With work spanning The Treasury to non-profits Suzanne co-facilitates on Leadership and diversity programmes across the globe.
Other related experience includes designing and delivering a number of courses on Personal Impact and Public Speaking for undergraduates at Hult University, London. She is a regular member of an organisation focusing on the excavation and telling of personal stories. Suzanne is a certified NLP practitioner, an accredited I.L.M. Level 7 Executive Coach (100 hours plus) and a regular volunteer with a number of organisations such as Parent Gym and the children's charity Scene & Heard.
Suzy has been helping people to have more successful conversations for the last 15 years through her work as an actor facilitator and business coach.
Her clients range from GB Olympic teams and ‘magic circle' law firms to A-level pupils and global retail brands. Alongside bespoke role-play, she delivers skills sessions on all aspects of performance management and personal impact.
Suzy trained as a professional actor and worked for many years writing and performing her own comedy before moving behind the camera as a freelance TV Production Manager (Channel 4, Discovery, National Geographic). In the training room she delivers with humour, creating a safe space to enable delegates to maximise existing talents and develop a ‘tool kit' of communication skills for immediate use in the workplace.
Tina is a Warwick University graduate with a 2:1 BA Hons in French and Drama and started her professional life as an actress.
She has been a member of the Practive team for over 10 years working as a Coach and Facilitator.
As a Coach her clients have included members of the senior management team at Breast Cancer Care, the head of talent and organisational management at Cambridge Assessment and several female senior leaders at Bloomberg.
She has been a Facilitator for Korn Ferry Hay Group since 2014, leading on several national programmes for them including The Frontline Programme for Nurses and Midwives and The Edward Jenner Programme.
As a mixed race woman Tina is passionate about diversity and inclusion. She is a co facilitator on the King's Fund Athena programme, the Women in Leadership programme at Bloomberg, the Leadership Academy's programme Coaching for Inclusion and the Ethical Mentoring programme.
As an actor and facilitator for Practive she currently works on many programmes for the Civil Service, the corporate banking sector and the NHS.
Vanessa has a BA Hons in Drama and English from Liverpool University where she awarded the Bradbury Prize for Drama for her final year Forum Theatre production with young Deaf people. She then trained as an actor at the L'Ecole Internationale de Jacques Lecoq, a movement based drama school, in Paris. She has worked as an actor for amongst others the RSC;the National Theatre; BBC and ITV and as an actor-facilitator for nearly 20 years. She is passionate about facilitating change in people. She works with individuals and groups within the corporate world and public services and has been part of many different teams delivering development centres in the UK and Europe. She also works under the umbrella collaboration Pennydrops (www.pennydrops.uk.com) currently delivering programmes on Unconscious Bias and Mental Health.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Expert
- Psychological Coach
Viraj is an expert Psychological Coach who has delivered outstanding results in a career that has spanned almost 20 years. His background is in psychology, and he trained as a coach applying an integrative approach to clients with motivational therapy, CBT, NLP and other principles. He has expertise across a broad range of sectors including NHS Primary and Secondary care, Banking, UK Parliament, Pharmaceuticals, Law, Education, Retail and Media.
Viraj pioneered the UK's first advocacy service in England for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship for patients and was instrumental in setting up one of the first UK education coaching services for Cambridge Education, enabling educators to deal with work-related stress, anxiety, chronic illness, performance, development and career progression. In addition, he has contributed as a panel member on ED&I conferences.
Viraj consulted for Big Brother for 4 years on group behaviour and was also the resident life doctor for Cambridge Radio providing live on-air advice and strategies, hosted and facilitated discussions with teenagers for the ‘Heritage' documentary which was released in Odeon Cinemas and has had numerous published articles in health, education, business, and lifestyle publications.
Vivian is an experienced Executive Coach & has been working in the field of Organisational Development for over 20 years, starting this stage of her career as L&D manager at the BAA.
She works mainly with senior executives, individually and/or with their teams and her recent and current client portfolio includes: EY, Linklaters, Nissan, Bird & Bird, Bank of England, IPC Europe, Diageo, Amnesty International, Primark, Hertfordshire County Council, NHS, Civil Service, Met Police, Hogan Lovells.
Vivian's coaching, leadership and team development work bring together her experience and interest in business and psychology. She believes in a holistic, systemic approach to the work and two main schools of psychology inform her work: Positive Psychology and Gestalt. She has an MA in Psychological Coaching from the Metanoia Institute and has trained to master practitioner level in NLP; she holds a diploma in Business Performance Coaching from Newcastle College. She is a member of APECS [Association for Professional Executive Coaching & Supervision] and the Association for Coaching and has held a joint Chair position for the Independent Consultants Forum/CIPD Wimbledon Branch for two years. She is an accredited Myers Briggs Type Indicator administrator, and an accredited trainer of the Penn Resiliency Programme, from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a visiting programme tutor and coach for Cranfield University for 20 years and is now on the coaching faculty at the London Business School.