Our Faculty
Steve HAMILTON-CLARK - Chief Coaching Officer
PCC, CPCC
Steve’s successful CEO as Coach track record is because early on he leveraged the power of coaching to enable his teams to step up to their full potential and deliver constant business growth, and growth is fun! Today, Steve coaches high-performance leaders to go that extra mile to deliver winning experiences; for themselves, their teams, and their clients.
Described as resourceful, supportive and transformational, Steve’s style is like that of an insightful and skilful guide. He guides clients on how to step back, see the bigger picture and their role in it, challenges their belief systems, and encourages the adoption of new leadership behaviours to navigate their environment towards healthy, collaborative growth.
Steve is a certified coach through the International Coach Federation (PCC) and the Coaches Training Institute (CPCC), a Conversational Intelligence® Coach, a Coach to the United Nations Humanitarian Coaching Network, and has a B. Comm. in Marketing & International Business.
Rachel TREECE - CEO
PCC, CPCC
Rachel Treece is the CEO of The Henka Institute™. She formerly worked at the Executive Management level within the global financial services sector and has vast experience in managing multicultural teams for FTSE and Fortune 100 companies. She is a certified PCC and CPCC coach.
Rachel is a thought leader in personal branding, communication and engagement, combining her unique strategic marketing and human resources background. She is an expert who helps business leaders innovate, adapt and communicate in the age of disruption in which massive yet hard-to-predict upheavals are expected. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, as well as a certified coach with the Coach Training Institute. Furthermore, she is passionate about improving communication in organisations to strengthen organisational health and engagement.
Lindsey BRAIK
PCC, CPHM, ACIL
Lindsey is a PCC-credentialed Executive Coach with the ICF and Facilitator of Leadership Development. She firmly believes that all individuals are talented and that everyone can learn new skill sets and develop their behavioural competencies with the support of coaching and empathetic leadership.
Lindsey has spent over 35 years in Human Resources and Talent Development, where she has held executive roles at a European level in various industries. She has extensive experience in the areas of organizational development, change management, competency development and performance management.
Her skills cover everything from coaching, talent sourcing, management and executive development, to the design, training, and facilitation of learning programs tailored to the needs of businesses, both in the financial and the industrial, medical and service sectors.
Lindsey is bilingual and has dual French and British nationality. She holds two degrees in languages and human resources and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. Married and mother of two children, she also helps her husband in the management of his cake design business in France. She also enjoys travelling and attending cultural events.
Naomi BEARCROFT
PCC
Naomi is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) & has a Master’s degree from one of the Top 10 Business Schools in Europe. Her professional background is in the corporate world, having been an Executive in Business & Marketing for an International Sports Brand for the first decade of her career.
Today, Naomi delivers Coaching & Leadership Programs as well as actively coaching both private & corporate clients, individuals and teams, across Europe.
Naomi is considered someone who is authentic, positive, loyal, brave and fun. Her coaching & training style is direct yet empathetic. Her love of people and her never failing to believe in their potential make her extremely grateful to be able to dedicate her work to guiding, supporting and challenging individuals looking to make the next step along their professional and personal journeys.
Naomi is English, but has been living in France for almost 20 years. She also speaks fluent Spanish & a few words of Mandarin.
Tracey FORSYTH
PCC, CPCC
Tracy Forsyth is a professionally certified Executive Coach (CPCC, PCC) and Career Consultant. Her focus is on Career Confidence, Fearless Leadership & Executive Resilience.
Described by clients as ‘life & game-changing, an empowering force, transformational and revelatory, warm and inspiring. Working for corporate companies, and private individuals and as a strategic and business consultant for founders of SMEs, her motto is to ‘enlighten, empower and enhance’ lives and careers.
Tracy is a specialist in empowering high-potential talent to develop into courageous, confident leaders and to attain clarity and direction in a truly purpose-led career. She believes in a holistic approach, enabling the person to become enlightened about their true self (values, purpose, vision) and then empowered with skills like self-marketing, thought leadership and effective networking.
As the Director of the renowned Women in Film & TV Mentoring Schemes for Mid-Career Women, Tracy oversees a 6-month annual programme in the UK which enables 40 women across the creative industries to reach greater heights of career and impact. Having had a successful 25-year career in television, now a board member of various independent production companies in the UK.
She now sits on the Channel 4 Indie Growth Fund board, advising on company investments and then working with founders to grow their companies. A passionate advocate of the power of good physical and mental well-being and its effects on confidence and leadership, she took time to become a professionally qualified Advanced Yoga Teacher (500 RYT) and create the innovative and impactful corporate well-being workshop ‘Yoga in the Boardroom.’
Anne Bryant
PCC
Anne is a PCC credentialed coach with the ICF and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Wellbeing Workshop Designer and Facilitator. She has broad-ranging commercial experience, leading and coaching teams over 19 years with two global FMCG companies.
Her workshops and coaching provide individuals and teams with the knowledge, tools, and coaching to transform their well-being and their potential, and give team leaders the tools to support their people with theirs.
Having lived experience of overcoming chronic health conditions through self-development and coaching, Anne specializes in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and is a qualified Well-being coach.
She is passionate about Stress Resilience, well-being and reconnecting with yourself and is involved as an Associate Therapist in companies supporting employees with their mental health.
In her work, Anne leverages the latest research on how our brains work, and how we can change our mindset, heart-set and behaviour through conscious awareness, choice and consistent practice.
Chris Coward
MCC
Christine “Chris” is a credentialed Executive Coach and Facilitator of Leadership Development. She partners with individuals and teams in both large and small organizations, using her strengths-based approach to improve their communication, productivity, leadership presence, and relationship management.
Chris has spent over 20 years in leadership positions in a variety of non-profit settings as well as entrepreneurial start-up companies, holding leadership positions in Operations and Executive Management. She is currently the VP of Coaching Services for Apollo Health.
In the past thirteen years, she has focused much of her Executive Coaching and Facilitation career on serving non-profits, government organizations, universities, the financial service industry, and healthcare industries. Chris has additional training in team coaching and supports teams in organisations to improve their relationships (increasing their positivity) and improve their productivity.
Chris co-created a 125-hour coach training program with the International Coach Federation called Habit Change Coach Training which has been implemented in the university setting, virtually and with the Denver Department of Human Services.
Chris is the current President of ICF Colorado and is credentialed at the MCC level. She relocated to Denver in 2015 with her husband and dog from Philadelphia. She loves the outdoors and also plays bass guitar in a local band.
Rachel Walden
MSC IN COACHING & BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE
Rachel holds an MSC in Coaching and Behavioural Change from Henley Business School. She is Hogan certified, is a member of the ICF and is pending her PCC qualification.
She is an influential and collaborative Talent Manager and Leadership Effectiveness Coach. Her passion and expertise lie in helping leaders realise their potential, in the context of the wider team, organisational system and succession management strategy.
Her 25 years of international leadership and talent management experience spans diverse industries ranging from Banking, Telecoms, Oil and Gas, Professional Services, Construction, and Housing Associations to Not for Profit. She has had the privilege of living and working internationally in the USA, Asia-Pac, Europe, MENA, and Latin America, which brings a diverse perspective to life and work.
Her coaching and facilitation style is business focused, engaging, pragmatic and challenging, whilst drawing on her studies and interest in Neuroscience and its impact on behaviour.
Building individual, leadership and organisational capability can often feel intangible, particularly in times of dramatic change. Her guiding principles are:
Is it empowering? Is it sustainable? Is it the right thing now and for the future?