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She was voted: “Mentoring Person of the Year 2011/12” by Coaching at Work magazine in the UK.

Her experience in mentoring programme design and development is now internationally acclaimed, with over 150 mentoring programmes to her name. Lis researches, writes and speaks about mentoring and coaching and this work also informs her practice as an executive coach and designer of programmes. She has written a mentoring column for Coaching at Work magazine since 2011. Her expertise and research is predominantly in the field of designing programmes with regard to talent management, coaching and mentoring women, supervision in mentoring and coaching and mentoring in a VUCA World.

Lis operates as a coach and consultant on a global basis and has over 30 years’ experience of working in cross-cultural environments. She lectures at Sheffield Business School on the MSc Coaching and Mentoring and on Coach Mentoring Ltd’s own Post Graduate Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring for Leadership in Organisations, in association with Leeds Business School.

She holds an MBA and an MSc in Coaching and Mentoring from Sheffield Business School. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Chartered Management Institute in the UK.

Linda’s expertise is about making a difference to organisational performance through people. She has worked extensively with individuals and teams to facilitate change through the design, implementation and management of a range of interventions: as well as coaching and mentoring these include to support culture change, brand development, people engagement, leadership development, talent management and performance management. Her coaching and mentoring experience includes individual support, scheme design and training/assessing coach/mentor trainers.

Linda has worked as an executive coach and consultant in coaching, mentoring and leadership development on a global basis for 10 years. Some of her recent clients include IHC Merwede, WWF, Abercrombie & Kent, Robert McBride Ltd, Irwin Mitchell LLP, BASF, MSF and Totemic Ltd. Recent assignments have included consultancy to review leadership needs/behaviours prior to introducing a leadership programme; developing bespoke 360° Feedback questionnaires as part of wider coaching and leadership development programmes; working with a team to improve their performance through facilitation and coaching.

Linda holds an MSc in Coaching and Mentoring (Sheffield Business School), Diploma in NLP, Level 4 NVQ in Human Resource Development and Certificate in Facilitating Learning in Organisations. She is a Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, Fellow of Institute of Consulting, Member of Chartered Management Institute and Associate of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Jacki has also been the lead partner for mentoring within several transnational partnerships funded through the European Social Fund, visiting Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium, Spain, France, and Germany to share European mentoring best practices. Her project management skills are highly utilised by Coach Mentoring Ltd in their mentoring and coaching programme delivery.

She truly believes in equality for all, and she especially enjoys the mentoring programmes where women have flourished, gained confidence and believed in their abilities as a result of being supported by a mentor. It is always exciting to receive an email or call from a mentee telling you that they have achieved their goal, or even exceeded it!

At Coach Mentoring Jacki also heads the ‘Virtual Programme Management’ team, assisting our clients in all aspects of running a mentoring programme from reviewing and updating mentoring resources, supporting and supervising mentors and mentees through their relationships, to delivering formative and summative evaluation and recommendations for future programmes. Clients she has worked with virtually in this role include Unilever, McBride, CIPD, University of Edinburgh and EBRD. Jacki’s prowess in mentoring evaluation is valued and respected by all our clients.

Following a start in a career in banking, Jacki’s career choices have all been customer and client focussed with a particular interest in supporting people in their self-development. She has worked for the TSB, GE Capital Financial Services, and particularly enjoyed working for the UKRC where she has supported many women in SET careers.

He has worked in many different industries including financial services, manufacturing, scientific, creative arts, education and health. Bob subscribes to the ‘repertoire’ approach to coaching and mentoring. He is also in demand internationally as a lively and engaging conference speaker. Bob is an experienced international webinar facilitator and has delivered webinars for a wide range of organisations including the International Mentoring Association and the National Institute for Health Research.

A client recently said about Bob in an unsolicited testimonial “He is someone multifaceted, who is creative, positive, pragmatic and professional: someone with a critical intelligence, plenty of ideas, rigor and challenge. Bob’s generosity, good humour, enthusiasm and ability to put people first are especially striking.”

Bob has a PhD in Mentoring from the University of Durham. He has published many papers and books on the practice of coaching and mentoring and is a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. In 2014 the magazine Coaching at Work honoured him with their ‘life time achievement award for mentoring’ and in the same year, the EMCC gave him the mentor award.

As a coach and mentor, he has worked with a range of coachees and mentees from the public, private and third sectors and with first line managers up to senior executives. As a teacher and people developer Paul was instrumental in setting up one of the first Masters courses in Coaching & Mentoring in 2002, as well as working on numerous leadership development programmes with clients such as Diageo, BP, Health Education England, Norgren, Sheffield City Council, South Yorkshire Police, Barnsley Hospital, Sheffield University and Robert McBride Ltd. He has co-written two best selling books on coaching & mentoring: Mentoring in Action (Kogan Page) and Coaching & Mentoring Theory & Practice (Sage) as well as several book chapters and journal articles

Janet also has much experience of facilitation in the areas of improving resilience, developing values and enhancing personal leadership skills using the extensive range of TMSDI profiling tools. She combines a natural enthusiasm with highly developed facilitation skills to bring about greater awareness and increased performance. She facilitates learning processes that are challenging and supportive, delivering great results for clients from a range of different backgrounds and cultures.

Janet has worked with global organisations in the pharmaceutical, construction, oil and gas, technology, banking and finance sectors, within both private and public organisations, as well as charities and SMEs.

Auriel is a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and is the Course Leader for the Masters in Coaching and Mentoring Programme there. She has a BSc. in Psychology from Durham University and a MSc. in Coaching and Mentoring from Sheffield Hallam University. She is an accredited Time to Think coach and has a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education.

Auriel is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), accredited at Senior Practitioner level, practising within the EMCC’s Code of Ethics.

Starting her working career as a Research Chemist, becoming a teacher, moving back into research to new start tech companies, Susan has continued to support the learning journey of her students through her work as a Yoga Therapist and Mentor. It is here that she has worked with individuals, groups and corporations to realise the benefits of an improved work/life balance that can be achieved through taking on disciplines and philosophies that are traditionally associated with yoga, such as mind-body synergy, meditation, Ikigai and physio-structural therapy. Susan has first-hand experience of the benefits of yoga practice in balancing the demands of everyday life and a high stress job.

During a successful career in R&D and new technology start-ups, supplying clients such as Apple, the US Military, and high-end sportswear companies, she relied heavily on her yoga practice and meditation to maintain her energy levels and personal perspective. She continued to deepen her practice and studies, becoming a BWY Dip TT, FCT, Forrest Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance and Structural Yoga Therapist, a British Wheel of Yoga Diploma teacher, and Yoga Therapist delivering Self Development Courses via the Foundation Level 1 & 2.

Susan takes the time to get to know the business, its products/services and its people and brings her own extensive experience to support and guide them through their change management and process improvement programs. She is currently a director of Enhanced Skills Training and owner of Naturally Twisted Yoga. Susan has a great interest in different philosophies across various cultures, including Ikigai, which resonate with individuals to facilitate finding one’s purpose in life. She also has an MBA focusing on International Marketing, Financial Strategy and Change Management and the Director of Enhanced Skills Training.

Sue is an experienced counsellor, coach and coach supervisor, and also a Mindfulness practitioner. She runs a successful private practice in Ilkley and Leeds. Her energetic and insightful approach to client work enables clients to resolve difficulties using their own qualities and strengths. Her coaching clients have been from both the NHS and the private sector.

Sue also works for Relate Bradford and has developed the psychosexual service, improved IT communication and fostered professional partnerships. She is also a qualified COSRT accredited psychosexual therapist and an IAPT Tavistock trained counsellor accredited through BSCPC.

Being both a coach and counsellor, Sue is able to adapt her contracts with clients who wish her to work as their personal consultant. She is a qualified supervisor, working with coaches, sex therapists, counsellors and couple counsellors.

Sue specialises in running programmes in Stress Management, Mindfulness, Emotional Management, Health and Well Being, Developing Resilience and Supervision Programmes for Coach Mentoring Ltd.