Coaching and facilitation that drives performance and growth in founder-led and private equity backed businesses
Our small team use their commercial backgrounds in private equity, global leadership and c-suite positions blended with a deep coaching practice to support the individuals and teams we work with.
We combine coaching, training and mentoring to develop our clients’ leadership skills, bolster their courage and ignite their teams to thrive.
Through coaching with us our clients say they make better decisions, build stronger teams, enable healthier cultures and run happier, more successful businesses. Most importantly, they say working with us is fun.
The core of our philosophy is to help individuals and teams to feel energised and understand more about how they can perform at their best. We adopt a holistic approach to each client and develop sessions and workshops in a bespoke manner.
We support our clients in two main areas:
Personal success
For example: Leadership development, communication and collaboration, confidence and presence, courage and wellbeing, decision making and handling challenging conversations
Organisational success
For example: Clarifying and connecting to vision, values and purpose, organisational culture, working with a board, exit planning, working as co-founders and managing investors / fundraising
Meet our team
Our team have had senior level careers prior to becoming coaches. As a team we bring; global business experience, founder and co-founder understanding, private equity knowledge, entrepreneurial energy and deep leadership expertise.
Our coaches have a minimum of 5 years coaching experience and all are EMCC and ICF accredited. We all continue to engage in our own professional development in the coaching arena and we have a current focus on team coaching.
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Natalie Thwaites
FOUNDER
Prior to coaching, Natalie spent 10 years at leading private equity firm Piper, working on commercial due diligence for investments in founder-led, consumer branded businesses.
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David Bottomley
ASSOCIATE COACH
Prior to coaching, Dave worked to board level, in the healthcare and retail sectors, in the UK and Europe, within blue-chip organisations such as Specsavers and Boots.
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Andy Stoker
ASSOCIATE COACH
Prior to coaching, Andy built a successful leadership career as a director in one of the world’s most successful IT businesses, Cisco, where he built and led diverse teams globally.
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Claire Twigden
ASSOCIATE COACH
Prior to coaching, Claire held senior leadership roles, working for Fortune 500 companies where she led the design and creation of hundreds of large-scale consumer and employee engagement programmes for brands at LVMH, Esprit, Fisher Price, P&G, Coty, Novartis and JTI.
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Ruth Biddlecombe
SALES MANAGER
Prior to coaching, Ruth worked in mental health, as a family and systemic psychotherapist and as an occupational therapist. Ruth supports our clients when concerns arise in coaching that may require more therapeutic exploration.
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Miriam Rayman
ASSOCIATE COACH
Prior to working as an executive coach Miriam worked as a cultural strategist advising Mars, Coca-Cola, ITV, Google, Vodafone and Unilever brands.
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Katie Pekacar
ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER
Katie has over twenty years of experience as a market researcher. She is an expert in qualitative and quantitative methodologies and carries out research for our private equity clients including commercial due diligence and reputation management studies.
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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Our Services
Individual coaching
Coaching individuals from board to executive level, supporting them to achieve results for their organisations and themselves.
Working with teams
Coaching sessions and facilitated workshops to support the productivity, happiness, energy and performance of groups and teams.
Advisory support
Consultancy for investment and commercial due diligence as well as advisory, non-exec and mentoring services for scale ups.