WE DRAW ON THE STRENGTH AND EXPERTISE OF OUR PARTNERS AROUND THE WORLD TO DELIVER THE BEST SOLUTION FOR OUR CLIENTS.
AMY MCKEOWN, HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING CONSULTANT
Amy is an award-winning Mental Health, Health & Wellbeing and Women’s Health consultant with more than 20 years of unparalleled experience. She coaches organisations of all sizes, putting into place evidence based, measurable and sustainable strategies which are as innovative as they are effective. She has created and implemented strategies in organisations of all sizes from international parliaments, big 4 accountancy firms and global strategies for FTSE 100s, to SMEs and start-ups. She was also a Non-Executive Director of Mental Health First Aid England.
Amy’s niche is that she has the ability to design strategic programmes as well as the skills and experience to implement them. Her mission is to work collaboratively and creatively with organisations to create programmes which truly make a difference to the wellbeing of employees on the ground or ‘shop floor’.
Amy has a unique approach to her work, combining a clinical background with a wealth of experience and finely tuned intuition. With an MSc in Health Informatics, the use of data is integral to the way she works, creating systemic and measurable change to businesses.
Alongside partnering with Beingworks, Amy runs ‘Amy McKeown’, her thriving B2B consultancy. She also launched ‘Business of Being a Woman’ (BBW) in February 2021. BBW was the first digital conference combining Women’s Health, Mental Health and Business, and received outstanding praise; “it was life changing”. Attended by professional women from all walks of life, Amy is planning the next edition by demand which will cover topics of menstruality, motherhood, business leadership, health and mental health.
A pioneer for Women’s Health, Amy is increasingly helping organisations to implement programmes specifically designed to help female employees. This can be done either through wider Health & Mental Health strategies, or as a standalone body of work.
Amy is also a respected thought leader. Her original content sparks much discussion and progressive debates with her peers. Always ahead of the curve, Amy is frequently invited to speak at events providing her insightful, straight-to-the-point opinions on different topics - including how the industry needs to evolve.
PAULA LEACH (FCIPD,MBA) EXECUTIVE COACH, AUTHOR & HR EXPERT
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Paula has developed a lifelong interest in the way people work, individually and collaboratively in organisations, to the best of their potential. In particular, Paula believes in the value of positive, human centred, intentional leadership as the key enabler for individuals and teams to thrive. Over 25 years, Paula has built her experience across global multinational, large public sector and entrepreneurial growth organisations, holding the positions of Chief People Officer at the Home Office and Global Chief People Officer at FDM Group. She holds an MBA from Henley Business School and is a Fellow of the CIPD. She has had a wide ranging career partnering with leaders to bring out the best in their people. Paula has coached, advised and mentored at the very highest levels and is passionate about the potential of each and every one of us, and is highly skilled at providing solutions to help leaders and therefore the people in their organisations, thrive.
Paula’s pragmatic approach gets to the heart of any leader's challenge, providing solutions, re-framing situations and co-creating valuable outcomes.
Alongside partnering with Beingworks, Paula runs her own business, Vantage Points Consulting, specialising in her passion for unlocking the potential in people and organisations through coaching and business consulting. She launched the Vantage Points Foundation in 2021 to support and mentor young women launching their dream careers. Paula is also a published author and has written ‘Vantage Points: How To Create A Culture Where Employees Thrive,’ which was shortlisted for the Leadership Business Book of The Year 2022 by the Business Book Awards.
ANDREW SHERIDAN, EXECUTIVE COACH (MCC, CPCC)
Andrew is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), who received his coach training with The Coactive Training Institute (CTI). He holds the Master Certified Coach (MCC) designation through the International Coach Federation (ICF), and is a founder, past (and once again current) President of the ICF Luxembourg Chapter. Andrew is founding partner of several international firms specialising in organisational development and change management, with a strong focus on leadership impact, emotional intelligence, and effective communication. Andrew’s expertise in leadership coaching has been strengthened by his own focus on professional development. In 2007, his commitment to his profession saw him leave the corporate world and undertake in-depth study and research in the fields of social science, psychology and management theory at the Australian College of Applied Psychology in Brisbane. He further strengthened his skills within the coaching arena by pursuing professional accreditation at the highest industry standards, and is also a certified Process Communication Coach, using the tools of transactional analysis to help develop client awareness regarding impact and behaviour. Andrew is also certified in the use of the Leadership Circle 360 Profile as well as being a Team Diagnostic Assessment Facilitator for Team Coaching International. Andrew is a current senior member of the CTI faculty, delivering coach training programs globally in both English and French, in public and organisational forums. He also carries out Certification, Supervisory and Examiner roles for students undergoing professional accreditation. Andrew is also part of Google’s Internal Mastery Faculty Team, delivering online and in-person events to their global community. Andrew’s early career was in international banking, where he spent 10 years working as a sales and relationship manager in the securities divisions of Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank. Managing a portfolio of institutional clients including ABN Amro Bank, Bank of England and Barclays among others, Andrew went on to become Vice President of Sales for Benelux. Andrew’s career has spanned 25 years in a range of disciplines including finance, adult education and coaching/leadership-development. In recent years, Andrew has worked extensively with General Managers, Country Managers and Executive Committees in a wide range of industries. Both a Luxembourgish and British national, Andrew has lived in Luxembourg, Germany, Australia, the UK and Malaysia. His central European upbringing coupled with an extensive work focus in Asia Pacific have shaped his strong interest in cultural diversity. Fluent in French and with strong working knowledge of German, Andrew is currently based in both Luxembourg and Malaysia
DUNCAN SKELTON, EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COACH (PCC, CPCC) & PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY PRACTITIONER
Duncan is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), who received his coach training with The Coactive Training Institute (CTI). He holds the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation through the International Coach Federation (ICF). Duncan also sits on the Forbes Coaches Council.
Duncan spent 25 years in the tech sector creating and launching leading edge technologies. He worked in startups, experienced an acquisition and built large engineering groups from the ground up inside Google in New York. For 6 years he led engineering teams, alternating working remotely 1 week from home, then 1 week in the office 250 miles away. His passion project at Google was as a front of room leader on their flagship internal leadership development program "EDGE", an intense 3-day experiential offsite for emerging leaders.
Duncan's work as a tech leader and since 2018 as a full time executive coach, is informed by his experiences of 25 years as a rock climber, including leading on a year-long overland climbing expedition across South America and North America.
Success in today's world asks leaders to create the conditions in which everyone feels safe giving voice to their best thinking; synthesizing the best ways to face our increasingly complex challenges.
Modern leadership and workplace wellbeing & mental health is about the challenging and important work of building psychological safety within teams. If you want to create healthy cultures and high performing teams, you first need to build psychological safety.
Duncan is a Psychological Safety (PS) Practitioner and partners with Beingworks to offer our clients PS assessments for intact teams. These produce reliable measures of psychological safety - the PSI - psychological safety index. Like all assessments, this starts the conversation through a facilitated debrief of results. We then put a plan in place for coaching and training to help build psychological safety.
VERITY SYMCOX, AWARD WINNING MENTAL HEALTH COACH, CONSULTANT & DOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Verity an award winning mental health & wellbeing coach, consultant & doctoral researcher who works with individuals, teams & entire organisations on anything related to mental health & wellbeing.
She has over 10 years experience of training, researching and working within the field of mental health, including counselling. Prior to this, Verity spent 10 years as an retail entrepreneur, setting up and running multiple fashion stores in the South West where she won several awards for her business acumen and services to the local high street.
Verity has always been interested in mental health, & her passion is to facilitate growth, creating sustained changes by supporting clients to link positive wellbeing to high performance & impactful leadership. Her deep understanding of mental illness and it’s affects on employees comes from her ongoing doctoral research & underpins her coaching & consultancy work. This mean if required she is comfortable coaching ethically & close to the intersection of coaching & therapy.
Verity holds a MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change with distinction from Henley Business School, where her seminal research into how coaches make sense of mental health gained international spotlight after she shared her findings at the International Coaching Federation (ICF), 2019 Converge in Prague. The ICF consider her a thought leader in this field and she is regularly invited to speak publicly to large & small audiences and facilitate interactive workshops. Her research is used to educate coaches and businesses about mental health, being incorporated into coach training schools and independent training alike. Her doctoral research is in the field of organizational psychology, exploring employee experiences of mental health and mental illness at work.
As a coach with over 500 hours of private client work, Verity uses coaching psychology to help her clients to explore their mental health, developing an understanding of how mental wellbeing challenges can impact growth, performance and potential. Clients are often burnout, stressed, & emotionally struggling when they start coaching with Verity, and her work with teams & organisations is often to restore positive and productive group dynamics after periods of intense stress, poor mental health and illness, and even suicide.
Verity always works ethically & inline with coaching boundaries (ICF & EMCC) & if needed alongside other mental health professionals, using bespoke coaching techniques that combine her research, deep professional understanding of mental health & therapy with proven coaching tools to help increase mental wellbeing and maximise potential. She is highly experienced at working with people & teams in positions of power to create mental healthy leadership in environments where the stigma of mental health can be hugely problematic.
Verity also supports other coaches to be mental health aware, providing trainings which ensures their coaching practice is mentally prepared & ethical.
DR SARAH TAYLOR (PhD), EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP WELLBEING COACH
Sarah is on a mission to help people thrive, rather than just survive, amidst the demands and pace of 21st century life and work. As an experienced Organisational Development professional, Sarah has a deep understanding of the challenges and complexities faced by leaders today. Her PhD research found that being well is essential for leading well and that we need to address the systemic root causes of stress, overwhelm and burnout to create a genuine culture of wellbeing at work. She has put her findings into practice through the design and delivery of outstanding leadership development programmes and workshops.
Sarah is an accredited Executive Coach with additional certifications in Positive Intelligence and HeartMath coaching. This powerful blend enables her to take a holistic approach that helps leaders develop powerful new mindsets and habits, overcome self-sabotage, build personal resilience and learn practical ways to recharge their energy levels and reduce fatigue to be at their best more of the time. She has coached leaders and executives in a range of sectors including the NHS, colleges and universities, local government, private healthcare and tech.
Another core area of expertise Sarah brings is in creating thriving, collaborative and energised teams. She is a certified 6 Teams Conditions practitioner which she uses to help teams diagnose where teams are stuck and create root level processes and ways of working that lead to team effectiveness, high performance and wellbeing. She is trained in participative methodologies such as Open Space, World Café and Design for Wiser Action and has a wealth of experience using these approaches to engage all stakeholders in transformational change.
On a personal level, Sarah believes that challenging life events can be catalysts for profound growth and positive change. Her own experiences have led to a lifelong quest to learn about human flourishing, enabling her to draw from a diverse source of inspiration to share with clients.