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Since its inception, the AoEC has been committed to maintaining the highest professional standards, becoming one of a few European coach training companies to be accredited by the three top professional bodies, the International Coaching Federation (ICF), European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the Association for Coaching (AC). We can therefore offer you professional credentials that will be recognised internationally.
Our People
Ali English UK
Ali English
Ali is an ICF PCC-accredited executive coach who works with individuals and teams. Having spent 25 years in a FTSE 100 pharmaceutical company, her breadth of senior business expertise covered significant line and matrix roles. Drawing on this corporate leadership experience, Ali uses her curiosity, creativity, humour and non-judgemental style to ask powerful questions that challenge and support those she works with. She supports leaders and teams to explore their assumption sets, maps of reality and unconscious biases to create new insight, awareness and enable lasting change.
Anne Archer UK
Anne Archer
My passion is to shift perspective in mental health at work. We all deserve to thrive, and my approach is whole person whole life. I have a unique portfolio where I can address people in deep crisis to execs who want a bit more capacity in a full and rich life. This perspective is enabling in how I work with my clients. I’m a trusted companion, advocate, and critical friend. To facilitate a shift, I am a crisis volunteer for Shout; a Mental Health First Aid Instructor, Resilience Coach, Global Exec and Team Coach and facilitate changing perspective workshops. My greatest satisfactions come from seeing individuals grow in their capacity to thrive in life and for organisations to create the environment where to thrive is normal. Anne Archer MSc Psychology of Well-being; PCC, Accredited Resilience Coach, Advanced Diploma Exec Coaching (AoEC), Certified Supervisor of Coaches and Trusted Coach Directory member.
Kate Freedman UK
Kate Freedman
Kate is independent capability consultant, accredited Executive Leadership and Team coach and experienced facilitator, who has helped hundreds of managers and leaders improve their coaching and leadership capabilities. Kate has 20+ years’ commercial experience in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Retailing and Manufacturing roles. Prior to setting up her own business, Kate led Unilever UK’s commercial capability programme and was an internal executive and career coach. She is also an experienced and accomplished skills trainer and delivered the in-house coaching skills programme at Unilever. Kate has worked on numerous change programmes and leadership interventions in her learning and development role at Unilever. Kate has worked with numerous supplier proposals to design and deploy training that creates a behaviour change and she understands how to make learning stick in organisations. Kate has been trained as a coach through the AoEC, from Skills Certificate to Advanced programme and understands how the quality of the training can enhance individuals, teams and organisation cultures. Kate’s independent coaching practice retains clients from Unilever and has added clients from Financial Services, Hospitality, and Pharmaceuticals and Technology through Kate’s strong network and associate work. Credentials • Diploma in Executive Coaching (AoEC) • Advanced Practitioner Diploma (AoEC) • Diploma in Supervision • Certified Systemic Team Coach EMCC • Accredited PCC Coach with the ICF (International Coach Federation) • Diploma in Careers Guidance and Development • BSc Food Science and Nutrition and Retail Management
Kate Sirrell UK
Kate Sirrell
Kate is an experienced executive coach, team coach, facilitator, coach supervisor and mentor, with global experience gained over the last 25 years. She is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation and frequently supports other coaches to have extraordinary impact and partners with them on their credentialing process. Kate has worked with CEOs, leaders and senior managers within organisations ranging from entrepreneurial SME organisations to large multinationals, in a variety of sectors including banking, FMCG, professional services, oil and gas and luxury fashion. She has worked with teams at all stages, helping them to develop psychological safety and trust, foster healthy collaborative dialogue and strengthen commitment and accountability across the organisation.
Kay Young Scotland
Kay Young
Kay has a deep interest in Awareness IQ; and how awareness supports a more relational, embodied, creative way of learning, living, and leading. She’s deeply committed to supporting clients through the inner journey of leadership: deepening quality of presence; noticing energy/resistance to change; using creative experimenting to support new choices; and change. Her practice is gestalt orientated. Kay has extensive senior management experience, including: working at NHS Board Director level. She has been professionally coaching since 2003 and is currently a member of the Faculty Team for the AoEC, facilitating the Coaching Skills Certificate, and Practitioner Diploma Programmes, in Edinburgh. She is also an ICF Evaluator and Assessor, on the AoEC’s Advanced Practitioner Diploma. She has achieved the Advanced Practitioner Diploma and the Master Practitioner Diploma, with the AoEC. She is a highly experienced, ICF accredited coach. More recently, she completed her training in gestalt psychotherapy with the Edinburgh Gestalt Institute.
Lizzie Holden UK
Lizzie Holden
Lizzie has over 4,500 hours of coaching experience from working with middle management to board level in over twenty countries. She is a qualified coach supervisor. Her coaching practice is primarily in financial services, universities, technology and the NHS. Her leadership work is entirely focused on coaching, her other work is as a shamanic healer and a poet.
Lizzie Pawsey UK
Lizzie Pawsey
Lizzie Pawsey is an ICF accredited coach (PCC level) coach, facilitator, coach supervisor and consultant. She thrives on creating a space where leaders can create personal insights that transform their lives and work. She brings 20 years’ work experience in several global organisations, including Diageo, Britvic and Pernod Ricard, where she worked in a number of senior marketing and HR leadership roles. Lizzie has over 1300 hours of coaching experience and works with board, executive and senior management levels both one to one and in groups. Her clients are drawn from 15+ business sectors in the UK and globally. Lizzie is an experienced facilitator and has worked on global leadership development programmes with several clients. Outside of work Lizzie lives with her family in Twickenham and enjoys running, ski-ing, good wine and travel. She has recently embarked upon a project to complete all the parkruns in Greater London.
Louise Larbey UK
Louise Larbey
Louise joined the AoEC in December 2023 as Programme Manager for our Advanced Practitioner Diploma and Consultancy Coaching Programmes. She brings over 15 years experience in both HR and People Development, most recently working within a banking group focussing on Leadership and Management Skills Development.
Nick Kitchen UK
Nick Kitchen
‘I am passionate about developing the craft and profession of coaching to support and help individuals and organisations more effectively respond and flourish in the face of increasing volatility and complexity – the world needs great coaches more than ever!’ Previously new business director of international advertising agency TBWA, Nick is an experienced senior executive and team coach, trainer, facilitator, coach supervisor and engaging event speaker, with more than twenty five years’ experience in supporting the development and success of organisations and leaders throughout many parts of the world. His clients have ranged from SME entrepreneurial organisations to large multinationals across many sectors including automotive, financial services and banking, IT, media and creative, pharmaceutical, industrial, oil exploration, public sector and charities. He has been developing coaches for over twenty years, drawing particularly on his development of Somatic Cognitive coaching and facilitation which enables coaches and leaders to engage with their deeper embodied experience and thereby impact more effectively that of their groups and wider systems. He has been a member of faculty with the AoEC since 2009, principally on the Advanced Diploma in Executive Coaching and the Systemic Team Coaching Diploma. Nick’s professional qualifications include: · Developer of Somatic Cognitive Coaching and facilitation · Developer of IIMAC© sales process · AoEC Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching (Distinction) · ICF Professional Certified Coach Accredited · Accredited NLP Trainer
Paul Van Geyt Belgium
Paul Van Geyt
Paul is an ICF accredited Master Certified Coach and a trained ICF assessor. For the past 15 years, Paul has been coaching clients across all levels of seniority in a variety of industries, including professional services, FMCG, banking, energy distribution, real estate and industrial production. During a quality audit, the following characteristics are pointed out about Paul: “patient, honest, listening and understanding. His empathic ability is considered to be a remarkable quality”. Further coaching strengths that are mentioned by clients are expertise, knowledge and analytical capacity. Paul can operate comfortably in the heart of a group and is adept at building teams, integrating groups and creating consistency and alignment.
Sabine Stanley UK
Sabine Stanley
Sabine has an exceptional track record of working with leaders in complex organisations, creating momentum for organisational development and change. As a coach and consultant, she specialises in executive coaching, bespoke leadership development and team effectiveness. Drawing on many years of senior-level experience in a FTSE100 global organisation, Sabine combines organisational insight with interpersonal sensitivity and a cross-cultural/global perspective to help her clients develop themselves and their business. Focused on outcomes, she brings a practical emphasis to all she does and is an ICF accredited coach (PCC level).
Sarah Carrington UK
Sarah Carrington
Sarah is our Head of Education and is an ICF Accredited Executive Coach, working with leaders and leadership teams to strengthen their performance and achieve competitive advantage for them, for their stakeholders and for their organisation. She has extensive experience of leading teams in complex, dynamic environments from many years at one of the top FTSE 100 companies. Sarah is a member of Faculty for the Advanced Practitioner Diploma and a coach supervisor. She supports and challenges people to discover how they are holding themselves back and how they can drive themselves forward. Sarah’s coaching qualifications include the Master Practitioner Diploma in Systemic Team Coaching and the Advanced Diploma in Executive Coaching.