Managing Consultant & Coach

Martin is the Co-founder & Director of ProAction HR. He has 15 years’ experience working with senior management teams and a wide variety of commercial clients, in the UK and internationally.

Martin has a strong desire to place people at the forefront of a business’s success which enables him to focus on the people agenda and realize opportunities for efficiency and better practice.

A Prince 2 practitioner and qualified performance coach, Martin brings rigour and challenge to any client’s business to enable them to achieve their goals. Specialities: Values/Vision, Senior objectives and strategic goal alignment, Performance Coach, Change facilitator.

Leadership Consultant & Coach

Joanne is Co-founder and Director of ProAction HR. She is MSc qualified in Occupational Psychology who works to optimise; leadership and management skills, employee wellbeing, and individual differences. She is a licensed practitioner for Insights Discovery, DiSC and Myers Briggs Personality Type Inventory.

Joanne uses a variety of tools through training and coaching to help people reach their aspirations. She has a commercial focus on the bottom line and a proven ability to deliver customer needs at required costs.

After starting her career in psychology research for University College London & the British Psychological Society, Joanne applied these skills in financial services managing insurance products at The AA and ING banking. Specialities: individual differences, wellbeing, return to work, coaching, resilience, motivation & leadership development, imposter syndrome and neurodiversity.

Associate Director & Coach

Andy began his 30 year career with over 15 years’ retail management at Marks & Spencer & the John Lewis Partnership. Putting his customer service and commercial experience to good use he moved into HR, partnering with senior leaders in the Private, Public & Not for Profit sectors, helping to create and implementing their People strategies.

An accredited mediator, coach and counsellor, Andy has a passion for helping people achieve more, both in their professional and personal lives. Specialities include: Individual & Team Leadership & Management Development, 1-2-1 Executive Coaching, Group Coaching, Employee Engagement, Health & Wellbeing, Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity and Learning strategy creation & implementation.

HR Consultant

Camilla is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development with a breadth of experience across various business sectors ranging from small start-ups to large global organisations.

With over 14 years’ HR experience, she enjoys coaching, guiding and supporting both new and experienced managers on best practice.

A Certified Professional Behaviour (DISC) Analyst, Camilla has a real passion for recruitment and utilises her instinctive aptitude and knowledge to assist businesses in effectively hiring their most valuable asset, their people.

HR Co-ordinator

Beth has over 10 years of experience working in HR across both the public and private sectors. She began her HR career with a Local Authority before moving into the manufacturing industry, where she gained valuable experience in HR administration and coordination roles. 

Beth understands the important role HR plays in supporting both people and businesses. She enjoys working closely with organisations to help things run smoothly and to create positive working environments. She takes pride in providing practical support that enables teams and organisations to grow and thrive.

HR Consultant

Ria has over 20 years’ broad and extensive HR related experience, working with a variety of large and small businesses, start-up and global.

Commercially astute with strong business partnering skills and an understanding of what a business needs coupled with a ‘can do’ approach.

HR Consultant

Fiona is an experienced HR generalist and Fellow of the CIPD who enjoys working with organisations of all sizes, from large corporates to SMEs. She understands the real-world people challenges businesses face and focuses on solutions that work in practice, not just on paper.

Known for her honest and collaborative approach, Fiona believes in clear communication and supporting people to reach their full potential. She brings empathy and a calm, professional manner to everything she does, helped by her training as a Mental Health First Aider.

Her experience spans restructuring and redundancy, performance management, recruitment, apprenticeships, and everyday HR support across the employee life cycle.

HR Consultant

Mireille is a Chartered member of the CIPD, bringing nearly 3 decades of HR generalist experience, including roles at senior leadership level.

Mireille now specialises in conducting complex investigations across a broad mix of sectors including public, private, not for profit, and SME, bringing a pragmatic, down to earth approach, and the ability to engage sensitively and professionally with all parties.

Recruitment Consultant

Caroline has almost 20 years of industry experience, having worked in generalist HR management for global organisations before moving into a Recruitment specialism 8 years ago.

 She recruits across a variety of business functions including HR, IT, Marketing, Finance, Sales and Operations, for industries including manufacturing, retail, charities, property, leisure, and more!

 "My whole career has been about helping people find their perfect job and be the very best they can be at it. It's life-changing for people, and that's incredibly rewarding”

Training Consultant & Coach

Richard has over 16 years’ experience training others in leadership and management, in both the UK and internationally, as well as over 30 years’ experience in education and training. He moved from head of department for computing training in a university, where he also lectured in leadership for six years, to a corporate training position in Dubai. He has a strong focus on developing and expanding managers’ leadership competencies through knowledge, understanding and practice.

Over the past 10 years he has had the privilege of training and coaching several thousand managers in the UK and abroad to improve and develop their leadership and management knowledge and skills. He is now based in the UK. Specialities include: Developing Leadership and Management Skills, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Managing Change, Planning and Organising and Train the Trainer.

Training Consultant & Coach

Jane is a learning and development professional with 19 years’ industry experience. Specialising in leadership and management development she became a consultant in 2016 and has worked in 16 different countries across 4 continents, working with healthcare, finance, life sciences, IT, waste management and facilities management.

Jane has been a coach for over 10 years and has coached at all levels, from first-time supervisors to director and C-suit level executives. Whilst she is passionate and very serious about learning, she doesn’t take herself too seriously and likes to create a relaxed and informal setting where learners can truly be themselves and feel safe.

Executive Coach ‍

Adrian is an Executive Coach, having trained at the British School of Coaching and earned the Institute of Leadership & Management's top accreditation (Level 7).

With nearly two decades of Director-level experience in the Insurance, Legal, and Consultancy sectors, Adrian has led large teams and served on senior leadership boards in diverse and challenging organisations. The most rewarding part of his corporate career was developing his people, which made the transition to professional coaching a natural and exciting move.

Adrian’s coaching sessions are interactive and focused on creating solutions, and building actionable plans, challenging and pushing his clients to move forwards towards results.

Orgnisational Psychology & Coach

Sarah is an Organisational Psychologist and Coach who works with individuals and organisations to build confidence, clarity and direction across recruitment, talent development and career transition, including periods of career transition or significant professional and personal change.

Her work is coaching-led and grounded in evidence-based psychology, with a strong focus on practical business outcomes. Sarah supports organisations to make better, more consistent people decisions through strengths profiling for assessment, selection and development, alongside coaching that builds self-awareness, capability and confidence. This helps organisations improve hiring quality, reduce mis-hires, support fair and robust selection and have more effective development and performance conversations by understanding how strengths add value and where they may be underplayed or over-extended.

Sarah also brings a reflective, nature-based coaching style that encourages people to step outside, both literally and figuratively, to gain fresh perspective, challenge unhelpful patterns and reconnect with what motivates them, supporting sustainable individual performance and stronger organisational outcomes.

Leadership Consultant & Executive Coach

Lisa has worked in learning and development, social emotional wellbeing and been actively facilitating and coaching professionally and personally for over 25 years.

Experienced in managing relationships at C-Suite level within the private, public and not-for-profit sectors; Lisa is a trauma-informed executive and somatic coach, restorative practitioner and leadership development facilitator.  Qualified in coaching (OCM and Oxford Brookes) as well as psychotherapeutic counselling, NeuroLinguistic Programming and Dramatherapy; she provides a range of tools and techniques, honed over many years of practical application.

Her focus is on enabling individuals to move beyond their perceived limitations, leverage personal inner resources and realise greater potential in the process.

As an interpersonal communication specialist, she blends commercial knowledge and intuitive people skills to add value at organisation, team and individual level.

Learning and Development Consultant & Coach

Graham has provided coaching and Learning & Development services for over 15 years with individuals, teams and large corporates.

Graham delivers training in Leadership, people management, power skills, and is a certified Insights Practitioner.

Graham's style of coaching is empathetic and he always looks to create a safe space for the client to fully express their thoughts and emotions.

He has worked with many individuals over the years to review their career choices or to help them become unstuck. With a focus on active listening, Graham will look to support individuals through their thinking process and will then look to hold them accountable to make positive, progressive steps to move forward. 

Coach

Claire is a Member of the ICF (International Coaching Federation) with a Diploma in Transformational coaching with Animas Centre. With over 20 years’ experience in Australia and the UK, Claire has lead & managed teams, delivering projects & worked at all levels of organisations, in corporate and higher education. She is driven by helping people discover their strengths, gain clarity on goals and increase their confidence.

Consultant & Coach

Andrew has a career spanning 30+ years including sales, sales management & training, and his passion has always been personal development.

Andrew now focuses on uses his broad experience to coach others to reach their full potential. Whether that be building businesses, supporting personal development, or retirement planning.

Health & Safety and Sustainability Consultant

Alex, with over 30 years’ of experience gained both in the UK and overseas, is a highly experienced Health & Safety. He has worked across a range of diverse industries including oil and gas, manufacturing, commercial and construction in the UK and in the Middle East, Africa, and Australia.

Experienced in conducting risk assessments, developing and writing policies & procedures, developing customised training programmes, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Passionate about safeguarding both employees and organisational assets, Alex is dedicated to promoting a culture of safety and well-being in workplaces through proactive measures and effective communication. Ready to collaborate and support organisations in achieving their health and safety objectives.

Julie has over 25 years' experience working within HR both in the private and public sector and holds the FCIPD accreditation.  Juile's experience involves supporting SMEs through to Global organisations as a HR generalist, starting in HR as an administrator and working through to leading the UK HR team for an international corporation. 

Having spent years working with senior leaders she is able to balance both the immediate needs of the business alongside the future wants to find solutions.  

Julie is also a Board Trustee of Peterborough Rape Crisis Care Group and has been an accredited leadership coach for over 8 years and

Talent Attraction Consultant

Diane is a recruitment professional with 20 years’ experience helping shape the way organisations attract, hire and onboard their workforce. Her experience focusses on designing and implementing resourcing solutions for large and small organisations spanning the globe.

Diane has implemented resourcing solutions, at times with a blank canvas, in a number of organisations to improve overall efficiency and improve employer brand. Innovation & streamlined operating procedures have always been at the forefront of her planning and she has experience influencing key stakeholders, as well as designing & delivering the solution.

With an appetite for continuous professional development, Diane graduated in 2008 with a Masters in Business Administration specialising in developing business and is also a qualified Change Management Practitioner.