Workplace Wellbeing Academy

Coaching

Coaching

Real support, one conversation at a time

Sometimes what people need most isn’t a programme, it’s someone genuinely in their corner. Our coaches bring decades of professional expertise and, in many cases, their own living experience to help individuals, managers and teams navigate pressure, change and everyday challenges.

1:1 Coaching

Why 1:1 Coaching

Coaching sits alongside our consultancy, audits and training as one of the most powerful tools for lasting change,  because real transformation happens person by person.

Space to Think

A confidential, judgement-free space to step back, gain perspective and make clear decisions about what comes next.

Confidence & Resilience

Practical tools to manage pressure, build self-belief and sustain performance without losing yourself in the process.

Living Experience

Every coach in our network is chosen for the same reason: genuine care, backed by real expertise.

Meet our Coaches

Every coach in our network is chosen for the same reason: genuine care, backed by real expertise. Get in touch and we’ll match you with the right coach for your needs.

Iain Smith

Iain Smith

Director & Co-Founder · Leadership & Executive Coach

With more than 30 years in leadership and learning development, Iain creates a calm, unhurried space where clients can talk honestly about work and life; what they want next, and what’s getting in the way. His style is warm, human and quietly challenging: he listens closely, reflects back, and helps people turn insight into small, realistic and actionable steps. Iain is the chosen leadership facilitator for the Urban Transport Community and one of just two facilitators of Lead, the flagship Women in Transport leadership programme. As one client put it: “I felt more understood in one session with Iain than in a year of internal reviews.”

Shireen Ali-Khan

Shireen Ali-Khan

Behavioural Coach · Founder, Active Consulting & 12 Minute Hero

For twenty years, Shireen has worked inside complex organisations across transport, infrastructure and logistics,  sitting at the point where strategy meets how we actually behave. She coaches as a thinking partner at every career stage, helping people recentre on what matters and turn big pressures into small, repeatable actions that hold up under real life. Her belief: “The thing holding you back is rarely you.”

Kai-Nneka Townsend

Kai-Nneka Townsend

Executive Coach & Leadership Development Specialist

With more than 20 years across corporate, consulting and entrepreneurial environments, Kai-Nneka helps leaders recognise and respond to pressure before it affects their performance, confidence or relationships at work. Her coaching builds self-awareness, resilience and confidence,  focusing on the human side of leadership, so clients can make better decisions and perform at their best without losing themselves in the process.

Liza Patoux

Liza Patoux

Holistic Wellbeing Coach · Founder, Elizian Days

Drawing on more than 25 years in global media and television, Liza brings a business leader’s pragmatism and a practitioner’s care to organisations in high-pressure industries. Through her consultancy, Elizian Days, she helps people build lasting resilience through mindfulness, stress management, breathwork, movement and relaxation,  with real-world experience spanning construction, the charity sector and community wellbeing programmes.

Natalie Treacher

Natalie Treacher

Stress & Return-to-Work Coach

Natalie helps people adjust and thrive at work after a period of stress or a mental health setback; working with clients to identify their sources and signs of stress, and build a toolkit to address it early. A Professional Member of ISMA UK and RSPH, she also supports managers with stress management and successful returns to work, using a case-management approach that maps support around the individual to build resilience and sustainability in their role.

Tree Hall

Tree Hall

Neurodivergence and Inclusion Coach

Diagnosed as AuDHD (autistic and ADHD) at 48, Tree coaches from lived experience and expertise. After more than twenty years in senior charity leadership, including Asthma UK, The Outward Bound Trust, Action for Children and now as CEO of Charity IT Leaders (CITL), she also helps neurodivergent professionals replace years of masking and self-doubt with understanding, and helps their managers and neurotypical colleagues build workplaces where every kind of mind can do its best work. 

Gillian Burgis-Smith DFIFIP

Gillian Burgis-Smith DFIFIP

Neuroinclusive Design & Psycho-Sensory Coach

An inclusive design consultant and architect with lived experience, Gillian helps organisations create psychologically, physiologically and neuroinclusive environments. Spaces and practices that support accessibility, sensory regulation, belonging and genuine inclusion at work. As a certified Manse Method® practitioner, she also offers 1:1 psycho-sensory sessions that gently support emotional processing and nervous system reset, complementing wider wellbeing and leadership work.

Anita Lucas (ICF Associate Certified Coach)


Anita Lucas (ICF Associate Certified Coach)


Coach, Facilitator & Leadership/Management Development Specialist

With a 30-year career spent helping people learn, develop and grow, Anita creates a safe, confidential space where clients feel comfortable sharing openly, supporting them to get to the root of a challenge, so change is sustainable rather than superficial. She was most recently Head of Management and Leadership Development for the British Council, providing internal consultancy and change-readiness coaching for leaders through large-scale transformation, and leading the development of the organisation’s leadership behaviours framework. Anita’s coaching is grounded in the belief that we already hold the resources we need to find our own solutions: she listens, asks the right questions, challenges assumptions, and gives clients the space to find the course of action that’s right for them; whether they’re stepping into a new leadership role, wanting to lead more authentically, navigating organisational change, or simply feeling stuck and ready for what’s next.

Julie Stubbington

Julie Stubbington

Personal & Professional Development Coach

Julie is a qualified coach with more than 30 years’ experience across the private, charity and public sectors, passionate about helping people become their best selves and live their best lives. Her maturity and experience bring a calm, authentic and grounded presence to her coaching, and her client-focused approach means she meets people exactly where they are; creating a safe, supportive space for honest reflection and meaningful change. Coaching with Julie is a collaborative process: clients set the direction, and she walks alongside them, helping them explore what matters, build confidence and move forward with clarity. She works online or in person, in line with the Global Code of Ethics, and is glad to support anyone navigating change, seeking greater balance, or wanting to grow personally or professionally.

Ready to Start a Conversation?

Whether you’re looking for support for yourself, your team or your leaders, get in touch and we’ll help you find the right coach and the right kind of conversation. Because when people thrive, organisations thrive – and sometimes that starts with one honest conversation.

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