Michael Brooke

PSYCHOLOGIST, PEOPLE DEVELOPER AND COACH (CPsychol, AFBPsS)

Specialising in new methods for developing talented individuals, Michael is a vastly experienced psychologist, consultant, coach, and learning professional. He is an expert on the psychology of high performance, drawing on his experience of consulting in elite sport and with many talented corporate ‘performers’.

Michael has held various senior corporate roles including the lead Talent/Learning specialist for BNP Paribas and his highly commercial views on market trends, meaningful development paths for senior executives, and genuine return on investment for organisations is highly sort after. As well as regularly addressing large audiences including sharing a stage with Dame Kelly Holmes, he has recently been quoted in the Financial Times and People Management magazine, and written a chapter on confidence in a best-selling book.

Tim Forman

An experienced Management Consultant, Project and Business Relationship Manager, Facilitator, Qualified and accomplished Trainer and Level 7 Coach who set up on his own 17 years ago full time working with a range of clients in the public and private sectors and charities.

Tim has gained extensive Needs Analysis, Intervention, Leadership, Management, Team, Relationship Management, Sales, People Development and Communication knowledge and skills and is qualified to level 4 in Financial Planning and is a GDPR Practitioner.

He has become expert at working online and engaging with clients through Zoom and Teams and this will broaden his capacity when face to face activities become an option again in the future.

Originally qualified as a Teacher and then spent 20 years in employed Sales, Management and Senior National Management roles working with Legal and General, Frizzell and Liverpool Victoria reporting up to Board level before moving into his current independent role working successfully both directly with businesses and as an Associate of a number of other organisations over the last 17 years.

Tim is an Associate of MatchFit® and has worked with clients including The National Probation Service, Quilter Cheviot, Santander, Coaching Academy, Barclays, Marsh, Business Link Yorkshire, CBT Clinics, Lloyds, Lookahead Housing and Care, Capita and the Chartered Management Institute.

He is also a motivational speaker, a regular speaker at dinners and events and his speaking skills have been utilised extensively in delivering talks virtually during the pandemic.

Sheila Panchal

Sheila is a business psychologist with twenty years of cross-sector consultancy and coaching experience, across investment banking, professional services and local government.

As a consultant, Sheila advises on a variety of diversity and culture change initiatives. As a coach, she enables senior leaders to negotiate key transitions such as new roles, promotions and international moves. She helps them to reflect on their interpersonal style, brand, wellbeing and career direction.

Her published work includes ‘Developmental Coaching: Life Transitions and Generational Perspectives’ (co-edited with Stephen Palmer) and ‘Turning 30: How to get the life you really want’ (co-authored with Ellen Jackson).

Sheila has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Leeds University (First Class), and a MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology from UMIST (Distinction). She is chartered by the British Psychological Society. She holds a Professional Development Certificate in Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney, and Level A and B (Intermediate) Certificates in Psychometric Testing. She is both accredited by, and a Director of, the International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP).

Emily Courtney

Emily has 20 years’ experience in HR and Operations and has worked with clients across varied industry sectors, including IT, digital, media and training. She takes a hands-on approach to HR partnering and is used to communicating with individuals at all levels within an organisation.

As a CIPD qualified HR specialist, Emily has supported senior management teams across the range of HR issues, from employee relations and organisational development, to the day-to-day management of people.

Emily’s operational and board level experience makes her well placed to understand the wider commercial and operational issues faced by business managers and supports her in developing services and client delivery.

Julie Chapple

Julie has 20 years’ experience working as a Personal Assistant to senior leaders in several organisations and as an Event Manager. She is detail orientated with excellent organisation and communication skills, self-motivated and able to work well under pressure in a calm and efficient manner. Completing tasks and meeting strict deadlines, easing the burden for the leaders she supports.

Much of her success is based on her strong administration and being able to work on her own initiative and in collaboration with team members. Her combined experience of both managing large conferences and events of over 100 people, from conception through to completion and post follow-up, and supporting senior leaders in P.A. roles, places her in a good position to support and improve the smooth operations of the organisation.

Adele Hawkes

Adele Hawkes is a positive psychology coach and consultant, who empowers people to capitalise on their strengths, build emotional intelligence and fulfil their potential, personally and professionally. With the insight gained from a 20-year career in corporate communications, workplace wellbeing is one of her areas of expertise and she specialises in tackling imposter syndrome. She draws on behavioural psychology research, neuroscience and evidence-based interventions to facilitate a wide range of programmes based on how to flourish – from large-scale, all-employee corporate workshops and talks to specialist leadership training to bespoke one-to-one coaching.

Graduating from UEL’s MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology with Distinction, Adele is also passionate about addressing young people’s self-confidence and resilience. Her commitment to raising awareness of how those of all ages can learn happiness habits that build psychological capital, help them cope with life’s ups and downs, and keep them mentally healthy in the long and short term means that she’s a frequent guest on radio, podcasts and at conferences.

Patrick Haywood

Patrick is a highly experienced Learning & Development practitioner, executive coach and business consultant with a strong track record of delivering operational and strategic learning & development consultancy within the higher education, retail, charity, public and housing sectors, across multi-site organisations. Patrick specialises in the planning and implementation of management, leadership and communication development, designing programmes to support organizational change, helping to build learning cultures and successfully mediating complex employee relations issues.

Patrick is a Senior PRISM Brain Mapping practitioner focussing on using neuroscience to help people understand and view human behaviour, and is accredited to deliver Sociomapping team collaboration workshops for executive teams.

He has worked with many thousands of employees across all sectors.  Examples of some recent work and clients (2018-2020) include:

– London School of Economics – Managing Remote Teams; Unconscious Bias; Stress, Resilience & Mental Health; Time Management

– LSE IGC – senior leadership consultancy

– East Sussex County Council – Personal Impact & Assertiveness; Continuous Process Improvement; Time Management, Managing Remote Teams

– The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts – Line Management Development; Leadership Development; Managing Remote Teams, Facilitating Virtual Meetings

– Canadian High Commission – Leading Change workshops, Management Development

– Sony Interactive Entertainment – Management Development

– Cabinet Office – MatchFit intervention consultant

Qualifications and Accreditations

• Certified Coach with Results Coaching Systems (and accredited with the ICF)
• Member of the Association for Coaching
• PRISM Brain Mapping Senior Practitioner
• Sociomapping Accredited Practitioner