About Coaching Professionals

If you want a professional coach you can trust you're in the right place. Coaching Professionals brings you coaches and professional experts who share a common desire to enable you to grow, succeed and be fulfilled, in ways that are natural and sustainable for you. When you choose Coaching Professionals you get the friendly, professional support that helps you make the changes and get results you want. And you can be assured that Coaching Professionals team members adhere to International Coach Federation Code of Ethics. Dependable. Straightforward. And great to work with.

Neil Scotton

I'm Neil Scotton, Managing Director of Coaching Professionals. I'm dedicated to enabling people to build profitable, ethical, sustainable businesses, successful teams, and enjoyable, meaningful working lives. I care greatly about you receiving the highest professional standards of coaching in a powerful, challenging, supportive and sensitive way. I'm a credentialed coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF), a qualified NLP coach and an NLP Master Practitioner. I'm also President of the International Coach Federation in the UK (UK ICF). I give my time voluntarily to leading and developing the coaching profession, nationally and internationally, raising standards of excellence and helping coaching become more integral to society. I'm on the global ICF Ethics Committee, the UK Coaching Bodies Roundtable and was on the 2008 global judging panel for PRISM Best Practice awards in coaching. I've been awarded the Global ICF President's Award 2008 for my work as a leader in the profession and I speak and share learnings with leaders around the world. My approach enables sustainable change in ways that are natural for people. I excel at helping people find clarity about the right direction for themselves and their business, and addressing the 'inner game' issues so that they can then make their plans happen with confidence and ease. Clients describe me as positive, supportive, insightful, professional, effective, caring, able to create real breakthroughs and get tremendous results. Many have found that as a result of their coaching their relationships with people - and themselves - have improved greatly. I have worked with over 100 Chief Executives, Manager Directors, Senior Managers and Directors and Business Owners. I bring you 22 years of business experience including 5 years as a Director of EEF South, a manufacturing trade body, and 3 years on the board of the UK ICF. As Principle Consultant in a business consultancy I worked with companies to achieve World Class Performance. I'm a Chartered Engineer by first profession, having held significant management and technical roles. You can read some of my client's testimonials here.

Richard Fox

Richard Fox is a credentialed coach with the International Coach Federation and an NLP Master Practitioner. He is an experienced coach, facilitator and advisor with specialist skills in the key areas of developing people in line with strategy; collaborative leadership, talent development and building strategic alliances and partnerships. Richard has advised at least 100 start ups and early stage growth companies. He helps build and develop businesses and is retained as a non-executive director or executive coach by a number of local businesses. He is regarded for his breadth and depth of business knowledge, gained in his 30 years as a business improvement specialist. As an experienced facilitator, Richard works with organisations facilitating workshops on e.g. partnering for business success, building networking capability, visioning, strategic thinking, managing change, leadership, coaching and mentoring, organisational learning, team working, creativity and innovation. He is past president of the Guildford Chamber of Commerce and the founder of the Guildford Business Forum. Richard is also a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a member of the Institute of Management Consultants, and an associate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Claire Palmer

Claire coaches executives and professionals alongside supervising coaches and a vast number of other coach-related activities. She is a credentialed coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and also holds a Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching with the Institute of Executive Coaching, accredited with Middlesex University, London UK. She is MBTI® certified, along with a variety of other executive assessment tools. Her coaching style is empathic, pragmatic, down-to-earth, structured, action-oriented, and focused. She is naturally non-directive however when needed she is directive and will offer suggestions based on her experience. Her approach is flexible, each client is treated individually. Clients describe her as professional and results-oriented; maintaining high integrity; being reliable, trustworthy, supportive, caring, intuitive, enthusiastic, and positive; a good listener who really enjoys working one-to-one. Claire has a total of fourteen years’ coaching experience. Her focus is on all aspects of leadership skills – people management, achieving results, team development, project management, communication, and managing change. She has worked with executives, corporate leaders, professionals, and business owners in a variety of industries and countries. She is Immediate Past President for the UK International Coach Federation (ICF). She is a volunteer mentor for The Princes Trust. Claire was Vice President IT, Card Services Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), American Express: Global Travel, Financial and Network Services Provider. Here she was responsible for a major portfolio of successful technology investment

Julia Fry

Julia Fry is an ICF Associate Certified Coach, one of less than 150 ICF credentialed coaches working in the UK. She provides personal and group coaching to businesses. She specialises in overcoming fears and conflicts, within teams and individuals.Before becoming a coach, Julia worked in the insurance, engineering, rail, accounting and publishing industries giving her huge insights to organisations and their structures. In coaching, Julia's gift is an ability to challenge in a non challenging way so that the client welcomes new ways of looking at situations.You can read some of Julia's testimonials here..

Chris Carling

Chris Carling is a qualified Workplace Mediator and an ICF Professional Certified Coach, with over seven years coaching experience. She is Director at Large - Member Communications for the International Coach Federation in the UK. Chris has worked as a coach and/or facilitator with a wide range of individuals and organisations in sectors including finance, pharmaceuticals, theatre, education, construction and architecture. One of her niches is in improving relationships at work – she is particularly skilled at working with executives and staff with a technical or scientific background. Before becoming a coach she ran her own consultancy as a management training specialist and writer/developer of training materials. She is a script-writer of award winning videos, co-author of two books on communication and developer of a pack for trainers aimed at nurturing creativity in the commercial world. She has an MA and PhD from the Exeter University and an MPhil in Linguistics from Cambridge University. See her testimonials here.

David Gray

Professor David Gray is Chair in Management Learning at the University of Surrey School of Management. David led the Leadership Skills programme, a collaboration of the University, Surrey Chambers of Commerce and Surrey Business Link, which brought together a faculty of 20+ highly experienced and effective coaches to provide high quality coaching to over 200 leaders of small and medium sized enterprises. He brings expertise in the selection of coaches and coaching research. David leads the Management Learning Research Group which conducts research into the way in which learning, management training and change impact on business. David has provided consultancy services for the University in a range of areas from executive coaching to e-learning development for organisations including Toshiba, BP UK Oil, Total Fina, the OECD and the Civil Service. Previous career history includes being training development manager at the London Stock Exchange.

Lisa Wynn

Lisa Wynn has trained over 400 coaches up to and including advanced and mastery levels. She has worked with staff from organisations including BT, Post Office, LogicaCMG and Transport for London. Lisa has great expertise in working with Corporate Clients. She can train your staff to International Coaching Federation accredited standards, providing you with a superb and sustainable in-house resource to support the development of your people and business. Her work has appeared in magazines and journals. Her clients are international and varied and are generally looking to create profitable, fulfilling businesses and work. She has held the posts of Director of Membership and Director of Marketing for the International Coaching Federation in the UK. She is an Accredited Master Coach (ECI) and Master Certified Coach (ICF). Her clients describe her as challenging, stretching and funny.

Penny
Halfacre

Penny Halfacre is committed to business improvement through personal and team development. She specialises in supporting Small and Medium sized businesses. She helps clients improve sales and marketing, communication, team building and leadership. As a master practitioner in NLP she values the tools and techniques NLP offers in working with individuals and businesses to stimulate growth and improve performance. She brings an unusual combination of qualities - a practical gritty business acumen and a caring, empathetic nature. She has given guidance to more than 250 companies over the past 10 years. She has a track record of developing and leading tailored workshops for small groups (sales, marketing, communication, influencing skills and NLP). She can provide personality profiling (Belbin, CPP, MBTI) and 360’ feedback.

Karen Griffin

Karen helps people achieve their potential. Her clients describe her as “very easy to talk to”, “an excellent listener”, caring and warm, and “never judging”. She has over 15 years’ experience in the Training & Development field, working with Blue Chip companies and SME’s. Her experience includes work in the IT, Travel, and Finance sectors. She is a Certified NLP Coach (ICF accredited training) and an NLP Master Practitioner.You can read some of Karen's testimonials here.