 Gladeana McMahon – AC UK Chair
Gladeana McMahon is one of the leading personal development and transformational coaches in the UK. An accredited Coach and Therapist she helped found the Association for Coaching, holding the positions of Fellow and Chair, Association for Coaching, UK. A Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Institute of Management Studies and Royal Society of Arts, she is an innovator and one of the UK founders of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching. An internationally published author with 18 books of a popular and academic nature on coaching and counselling to her name, she is Director of Professional Coaching Standards for Cedar™.
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 Amanda Bouch MBA, HMAC AC UK – Vice Chair
Amanda is a learning and change facilitator, providing services in leadership and management development as a trainer and coach, in organisational development and change as a consultant and facilitator, in strategy development as a top team facilitator as well as providing training in strategy and change, she also facilitates action learning sets and a creative thinking club. She has been working in people development and organisational change for 20 years, having started her working career in marketing. Amanda is an Accredited Coach with AC and joined the Council in 2003 as Head of Organisational Development, promoting coaching to organisations to raise awareness, acceptance and use. Amanda speaks and writes on leadership and management topics and is currently editing a book on implementing coaching in organisations. |
 Jeannette Marshall – AC UK Head of Operations
Jeannette Marshall is an AC Accredited Coach, has achieved accreditation with the Coaching Academy and has a Diploma in Business Performance Coaching. As Head of Coaching at Marshall Vere Associates, Co-founder of Purposeful Connections and through her work with the AC, she is passionate about crafting coaching programmes that bring about measurable changes in organisations. Jeannette excels in bringing groups together to focus on a common objective. Her delivery style is highly motivational, charismatic and energetic. Her clients find that their performance, self-motivation and enthusiasm for achieving their goals increases dramatically and often far exceeds their initial expectations.
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 Carol Wilson – AC UK Head of Professional Standards & Excellence
Carol Wilson is Managing Director of Performance Coach Training and Head of Professional Standards & Excellence at the Association for Coaching, overseeing Accreditation, Coaching Supervision and Course Recognition. A professional speaker, writer and broadcaster, Carol works with organisations all over the world, including IKEA, BBC, NCR, Arts Council England, and various schools and county councils, advising and implementing strategies to create a coaching culture and provides coach training for individuals in foundation and advanced skills. Carol was nominated for the AC Awards 'Influence in Coaching' and 'Impact in Coaching', writes a monthly column for Training Journal and is the author of 'Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations' (2007 Kogan Page). |
 Angela Dunbar – AC UK Head of Professional Forums
Angela is a qualified life and performance coach, accredited with the Association for Coaching. As MD of her own training & development consultancy since 1994, Angela coaches individuals on all aspects of their personal and professional lives, bringing an abundance of energy, commitment and belief to all assignments. In previous roles, Angela spent many years in senior marketing management within large organizations. Angela is also a Master NLP practitioner and her particular passion is using and teaching Clean Language and related Clean techniques to coaches. Angela's first book "Essential Life Coaching Skills" was published by Routledge in 2009.
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 Gill Smith – AC UK Head of Marketing
Gill is an accredited coach within the AC, working as a personal and an executive coach. She trained with AoEC. Gill is a qualified Master Practitioner in NLP, Action Learning Set facilitator, and she holds diplomas in Advanced Performance Coaching and Life Coaching. After a PPE degree at Oxford University, Gill's early career was in advertising, in London agencies which included J. Walter Thompson and Saatchi & Saatchi. She is a founder partner of Visionpoint, which helps brands and people to achieve more, through market research, consultancy, facilitation and coaching. Gill has extensive experience across many market sectors and sizes of organisation.
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 Annabel Harper BSc (Soc Sci), MA – AC UK Head of Communications
Annabel is a leadership and executive coach, accredited by the AC, with a successful career background in journalism and management at ITN, Channel Four News and the BBC. She therefore has a unique insight into the dynamics of business and the tensions involved in fast-paced and complex organisations. A creative communicator, Annabel is passionate about good leadership at all levels, from Board members to new and emerging leaders and has worked extensively with both UK and global clients. She has an MA in Coaching and Mentoring Practice, is accredited in various psychometric tools and also runs media training workshops.
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 François Moscovici – AC UK Head of Corporate Membership
François Moscovici is a Partner at White Water Strategies, a leadership consultancy and founding organisational member of the Association for Coaching. A strategy consultant by training he has advised companies around the world on 'the next big thing' for 20 years. He came to leadership development and executive coaching initially as a means for companies to gain long term competitive advantage. In addition to working with banks, manufacturers, law firms and third sector companies, François enjoys research and teaching: he tutors in Executive Education at the University of Oxford as well as at Master's level at the London School of Economics. His current focus is on Coaching Women to Lead - also the title of his latest book. He divides his time between London, Paris and Edinburgh where his clients are based. |
 Martha Simpson – AC Head of Scotland
Martha owns Martha Simpson Coaching, an Executive Coaching business coaching leaders and strategic teams. She also runs LadyLeader Retreats, a two day personal development event for women, and is Director of Harvey McMillan Associates Ltd. All of her business interests complement her business mission of "Creating Excellence from the inside out". Prior to running her own business, Martha worked for more than 20 years in senior roles. She is qualified to Masters Degree level, where her research was into the impact of coaching on women in senior roles. She is also an accredited NLP Practitioner. |
