CORPORATE POTENTIAL - Key Persons


Adeyanju Olomola

Job Titles:
  • Associate Certified Coach
  • Certified Coach
Adeyanju Olomola, a Certified Coach, works with and supports Small Business Owners and individuals in corporate organisations who desire to or have made a leadership layer turn. Her niche is Business and Organisational Coaching. Prior to setting up her Coaching Practice, she worked in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry with over 18 years of diversified experience in Retail Sales, Service Delivery, Reputation Management, Community Relations, Incident Management & Crisis Resolution, Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. She has built a reputation for creating and capturing value for customers and organizations through optimized service delivery and process standardization. Whilst in the corporate world, she prioritized talent identification and development evidenced by associates who moved to higher leadership roles. She is an avid supporter and contributor to the education and well-being of less privileged Nigerian children and invests in their development working through and with various NGOs. Adeyanju is a graduate of Industrial Chemistry from University of Ibadan, Nigeria and holds an MBA from Centre for Technology Policy in affliction with Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. She has attended business and leadership programs at IMD, Lausanne; Lagos Business School; Chartered Institute of Public Relations, UK as well as a slew of technical and soft skills training within The Coca-Cola System. With an unwavering belief in the enormous potential within every individual, she supports her clients as they are transformed in form and function. She is the Lead Coach and CEO of The Source Coaching Ltd.

Annemarie van der Meer

Job Titles:
  • Master Certified Coach
Annemarie has a 30+ years successful track record of developing leaders, teams and individual contributors around the globe. She started her career in consulting and expanded her portfolio to include leadership development, training and facilitation of complex organizational transformations. She is the co-founder of CoachingSchool Amsterdam who provides state of the art coach training and resources in The Netherlands. Annemarie inspires by bringing focus, challenge and a deep understanding of her clients to her work with leaders. She works globally from her base in Utrecht/The Netherlands. Annemarie holds a Master's degree in Clinical & Industrial Psychology and a certificate in Rational Emotive Coaching and Counselling. She is an accredited Master Certified Coach (MCC) with ICF and a Master Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. She is co-author of a well received book about coaching: "The 11 coach competencies in word and image" (title translated from Dutch), published in October 2016. She is mentor-coach, international assessor with ICF and president of ICF Netherlands. Her working languages are English, Dutch and German.

Edyta Ponarad

Edyta started her coaching career in 2002 becoming the second in Poland ICF certified coach in February 2006. She combines her leadership experience from 11 years of corporate career in management roles for Unilever, PepsiCola International and Johnson&Johnson, with 17 years of executive coaching. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, team effectiveness and conflict management. In her coaching work she skilfully blends tools and methods from various schools (CoachU, CTI, NLP) to help her clients reach their potential in the most effective way. Her clients appreciate her ability to quickly adapt to various company cultures, her relentless desire to identify the most critical factors needed for triggering successful change in leadership style and her approach to skilfully bringing teams to the next level of operating, particularly during the times of vast changes. In her work she uses a variety of individual and team diagnostic tools helping her clients to discover unseen potential. For the past 6 years she has been developing coaches and preparing them to work successfully with groups/teams. She has been also invited to deliver in-company presentations and workshops on challenges of multi-cultural working environments and future trends in labor markets. She is a big fan of strategic games and business simulations which reflect the need for a systemic approach in the organizations and teach benefits and methods of working in self-managed and agile teams.

Karen Pepper

Job Titles:
  • Practice Manager
Karen is exactly the type of person you want at the head of any project - organised and efficient, but more importantly, warm, friendly and prepared to let the others feel they are in charge! She has been working in the coaching industry for over 10 years and almost as long for Corporate Potential. Her excellent organisational skills enable her to support Lisa and the rest of the team with the day to day running of the business but she has a far more important role than that. She is the glue that holds everything together, maintaining a clearsighted overview and being a welcoming and clarifying bridge between clients and the coaching team. Karen has extensive experience in Training, Event Organising & Management and HR - mainly gained in the Banking and Utilities sectors. She has great communication skills, a good eye for detail and loves new projects and challenges. So working for Corporate Potential is a perfect fit!

Kathi Hibbs

Job Titles:
  • Professional Certified Coach With the International Coaching Federation
Kathi is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and has a background in talent management, leadership development and business process improvement. Kathi has worked in companies such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Cummins, Eaton, and Honeywell. She has coached individuals at all levels: from individual contributor to CEO - and with teams - from production operators to C-suite leaders driving multi-billion dollar strategic plans. She specialises in helping her clients recognise the opportunities in change, challenge, and transition. She is particularly interested in building on her own experience living and working in eight countries on four continents to support her clients, and their families, to succeed in cross-cultural and international transitions. Clients appreciate Kathi as she "guides them through a process for breaking down large goals to achieve clarity, leading to tangible actions that truly impact their work and lives." She is fluent in English, Italian and Spanish and is based in Rome with her family.

Katie Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Professional Certified Coach With the International Coach Federation
Katie Harvey is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, an NLP practitioner, a qualified Coaching Supervisor and holds a BSc in Psychology. She has over 2500 hours of coaching experience both within corporations and with individuals and will be applying for Master Certified Coach accreditation in March of 2018. Katie trained with CoachU with whom she is now a designated Professional Mentor Coach, mentoring new students as they go through their training. She is passionate about standards in coaching and for that reason is on the Board of Directors for the UK ICF. Katie has worked with clients within companies such as Orange, BBC, Microsoft, Eaton, Honeywell, Forward Thinking Inc., LogicaCMG, Natmags, BT and Accenture. She has also worked with many individuals within the NHS and charities such as The Terence Higgins Trust and Care International. Clients describe working with Katie as "So professional that as a client I feel safe to explore and challenge myself much further than I would alone" and talk about her style as "insightful, warm and highly dedicated.

Linda Bonnar

Job Titles:
  • Professional Certified Coach
Linda is a Personal & Corporate Coach, Author, Trainer and Educational Wellbeing Consultant. Combining her coaching certifications, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) accreditations, and wealth of experience, Linda empowers business executives and future leaders across the globe, to overcome the challenges and complexities with regards to people-development, talent management and organizational success. Committed to excellence, Linda empowers her clients with a range of skills, tools, and techniques to overcome their challenges successfully, allowing them to move forward confidently in their lives and drive their own success.

Lisa Wynn

Job Titles:
  • Master
  • Coaching Supervisor
  • Director of Coaching on
  • Master Certified Coach
Lisa is a Master Certified Coach (International Coach Federation) and works with clients across the world to create lucrative, fulfilling businesses and companies. She has helped to train over 400 coaches and delivers advanced coach training programmes and coaching masterclass workshops. Lisa is a qualified Coaching Supervisor, an assessor for the ICF credential sytem and a Business Mentor for the Prince's Trust. As a coach, Lisa's strengths are her ability to see straight to the heart of the issue, her courage in asking the question that needs to be asked and her ability to generate creativity and a sense of possibility in the most difficult of circumstances. Her specialism is in partnering with organisations to create and build world class internal coaching services and sustainable supervision services for those coaches.

Sallyann Weston-Scales

Job Titles:
  • Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant
Sallyann has over 18 years experience of leadership coaching and culture change, she has supported well known global brands to create more inclusive cultures, and develop and retain their key talent. She has worked in a wide range of sectors from advertising and media, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and financial services. Sallyann enjoys supporting organisations to translate their values into behaviours which are clearly understood and embraced by their people. She designs and delivers leadership development, inclusive leadership and women's leadership programmes, incorporating 1-2-1 coaching to provide participants with the opportunity to focus on their own road blocks. Sallyann is passionate about enabling leaders to discover and follow their true purpose and provide them with the tools to support their people to exceed their potential. As a coach she blends traditional coaching skills with her experience as a Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner and knowledge of Emotional Intelligence.

Thomas Faast

Job Titles:
  • Professional Certified Coach
Thomas has been coaching and supporting Managers and teams across Europe for over 15 years, with a goal of maximizing their personal and professional potential. He enables individuals and teams to become more successful with increased well-being and able to achieve sustainable and measurable results. As well as running Corporate Potential training courses in Europe, Thomas also lectures in Leadership and Team Coaching at the University of Applied Sciences for Management in Vienna. He works with clients in English and German and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, Mentor Coach and Coaching Supervisor.

Vedat Erol

Job Titles:
  • Master Certified Coach
Vedat Erol completed his undergraduate studies in English Literature and Language department of Ankara University and earned a M.A. degree in Human Resources Management and Development from Marmara University. He also attended the Defense Institute of Texas, United States and upon his return to Turkey, he worked as an officer trainer in the Turkish Armed Forces. After his retirement he started to work in the private sector in high level managerial positions and as human resources coordinator. He works as a leadership trainer and executive leadership coach. Vedat Erol is the co-author of 5 books. Having a life goal of raising awareness in people through coaching, team coaching, trainings and conferences, Vedat Erol is deeply interested in human beings, human behavior, how people enrich and change their work and life outcomes, and how they can achieve greater success.