John is proud to be the Founder and CEO of the Academy, having worked with his team to rapidly develop the organisation into a prestigious brand with International accreditation and University recognition. Prior to that he was MD of Gestalt Centre Ltd growing the business fourfold in eight years and receiving a Company Director diploma with the Institute of Directors.

As a result, he has the expertise as a coach to focus on improving business capability and in coaching executives/managers/partners on how to develop their personal competence to lead their businesses more successfully.

He is an experienced coach trainer and supervisor and an accredited coach with Association of Professional Executive Coaches & Supervisors (APECS) and the Association for Coaching (AC).

Gina Lodge is an experienced Manager with a business career of over 20 years primarily in a multinational Petrochemical company working with global operating companies and suppliers in International Logistics and IT, Quality Management and Business Process Re-engineering.

Gina is an AoEC Director and has been with the AoEC since 2008. She is inspired by the transformational changes that executive coaching can bring to individuals and organisations. She believes coaching provides the opportunity for truly fulfilling careers while creating the potential to improve the financial bottom line and ultimately creating great companies.

Richard has been operating at Director level for the last 14 years. This has included Director of Consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Executive Vice President of a Global CRM consultancy, Managing Director of ACTIONCoach and Managing Director of the AoEC Corporate. Richard has a broad business experience across many industries, including FTSE and Fortune 100 companies, small private businesses and the public sector.

Richard’s experience and curiosity has led him into a study of high-performance and how talent is developed within the Corporate World. This has resulted in operation as a leadership coach working with talent programmes and senior executives.

Peter has over fifteen years experience working as a senior executive coach and motivational consultant to a number of highly successful high growth, innovative and global world class institutions particularly in the financial sector, advising executives at all levels on individual and corporate strategies for success.

Peter combines hard business skills with powerful motivational insights, which blend to form a unique perspective on how to combine organisational excellence through individual's performance.

He is also a trained coach supervisor, a member of the Faculty and a graduate of the AoEC.

Over the last 25 years Drew has held senior management positions in the Public, Private and Not-for- Profit sectors. His experience covers large medium and small companies in areas such as human resource management, commercial management, engineering and general management and he has worked as a consultant in Asia and Europe.

Drew has a Masters Degree in Change Management with a special interest in the impact of change on organisational performance at the team and individual levels.

He is also a trained executive coach and a graduate of the AOEC.

Jeremy Keeley is an experienced facilitator and executive coach with a passion for helping individuals, teams, communities and organisations develop their self-sufficiency, confidence and resilience.  His work focuses on developing leaders to lead change, grow their people and make key decisions collaboratively.  He has run his own consultancy business since 1995 before which he was a management consultant with KPMG for over 3 years, following 11 years as a finance line professional.  He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

Jeremy also co-founded the not-for-profit organisation Sadler Heath which brings people together on their long term development and thought leadership.  Jeremy believes a crucial skill in leadership is the ability to coach and has been associated with AoEC since our very first cohort.  He works with leaders and teams in about 60 different organisations across the sectors.