Zoltán Ardai

Zoltan is an accredited Senior Practioner coach/mentor and international accreditation assessor with more than 15 years of professional experience. He finds joy in leaders’ growth, in accompanying them on a piece of their roads to mastery – individually and in groups. He coaches in Hungarian and English.

Vonnie Alexander

With 15 years of experience holding Board positions and a decade in coaching, Vonnie’s sessions are dynamic, energising, and, above all, results-driven. She uses her rich business background, entrepreneurial spirit, and unerring interest in people to challenge and champion in equal measure. Driven by her commitment to bring about lasting change, she offers inspiring coaching sessions to individuals, teams and Boards across a wide range of sectors.

Yana Blackwelder

Yana Blackwelder is a global leadership advisor and executive coach. Yana blends two decades of international experience with deep expertise in cross-cultural leadership and organizational psychology. Her evidence-based approach supports leaders in achieving clarity, confidence, and sustainable impact.

Yana Blackwelder is an INSEAD-trained executive coach, Vistage CEO peer advisory chair, and award-winning Learning & Development executive with over 20 years of international experience advising senior leaders and their teams. She has worked with more than 500 executives across financial services, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, technology, NGOs, and academia.

Her career includes senior roles such as Talent Development Executive at Bank of America, founder of the Global Coach Institute, Adjunct Professor at NYU, and coach for INSEAD programs at global organizations.

Jean Bonneau

Jean Bonneau is an accredited Executive Coach with over a decade of experience working with senior Leaders and leadership teams across multiple sectors. Prior to coaching, Jean had a successful professional career working at executive team and Board level in the energy sector, and in international consulting. He was also a chief negotiator at the UN (United Nations) for roaming rights of nomads in Africa.

Lynne Chambers

With over 30 years of leadership experience in global businesses, Lynne has an empathetic and practical coaching approach, focused on achieving measurable outcomes for her clients. She applies her own experience of leadership in complex organisations to enable her clients to achieve sustainable growth. Clients praise Lynne for her stretching, supportive & insightful coaching style.

Mark Cahalane

Mary Curtis

Ed Dulson

Bringing experience within global technology firms and founding a tech business, Ed particularly enjoys working with leaders in international roles who are taking on bigger challenges. Coaching for 25 years and having lived and worked in Asia for 5 years, Ed has a deep understanding of leaders working across cultures.

Hilary Douglas

Hilary has wide experience of coaching leaders and teams in public and private organisations. Her coaching approach constantly adapts to the individual’s needs, personality and environment. She has written extensively about leadership, drawing on her own experience as an executive and non-executive Board member.

Caroline Fattal Fakhoury

Caroline Fattal Fakhoury empowers leaders to break free from limitations and unlock their true potential in the most demanding environments. As Chairwoman of Fattal Group, Founder of Stand for Women, and a certified executive coach, she is recognised for guiding organisations and decision-makers through volatility with clarity, courage, and conviction. Her work bridges governance, resilient leadership, and economic empowerment – particularly across the MENA region.

Caroline brings more than 25 years of international leadership experience spanning multinational corporations, family enterprise, and nonprofit entrepreneurship. She began her career with Unilever in Europe and Latin America before joining her fourth-generation family business, Fattal Group, in 2003 as the first woman of her generation to assume an executive leadership role.

She later served as Chief Operating Officer and now Chairs the Group, guiding governance reform, intergenerational alignment, and sustainable growth across diverse and complex markets. In 2017, she founded Stand for Women, advancing women’s economic empowerment and supporting more than 500 women-led SM Es through periods of regional crisis.

Alistair Forbes

Alistair has over 30 years Leadership experience with 20 years as MD/CEO of International technology businesses. Following completing a Masters Degree in Executive Coaching, Alistair has spent the last 12 years as a Praesta Coach. His preferred approach to coaching is Problem/Solution focused with a challenging yet supportive style.

Pete Freeman

Pete is a highly experienced Coach and Board Reviewer.  With a background as a Chartered Banker, a Derivatives trader and a Business owner, Pete creates an environment that allows you to question and explore your assumptions and thinking from different perspectives fostering well considered decisions and better outcomes.

Júlia Galántai

After almost twenty years in the multinational automotive industry as a senior executive in IT, change management and HR, she has been working for almost ten years as an integrative coach and mentor with leaders and their teams from different sectors, supporting them in their professional careers and on their journey to leadership excellence.

Leslie Goldenberg

Exploring unspoken or seemingly-unspeakable questions about life and leadership, and finding courageous ways to address these dilemmas, is the essence of Leslie’s work. She offers an invitation to slow down and reflect: What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who are you becoming while you do it? What is it doing to you?

Leslie specialises in executive transitions enabling leaders to more effectively move into new organisations, new roles and new life chapters

Joy Harcup

With a commercial dispute resolution background, Joy also brings board-level experience of strategic reviews and change programmes. She coaches senior leaders in blue-chip multinationals to start-ups, public and third-sector organisations. She has co-written The Secret Life of Boards and is a former President of the UK Board of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the largest global coaching professional body.

Nigel Holland

Nigel’s coaching is informed by his extensive senior international leadership experience at the highest organisational levels. As a trusted sounding board to executives, teams, and Boards across a wide variety of business sectors, he is renowned for warmly offering a fresh point of view that quickly helps leaders discover new possibilities to move forward.

Julia Holloway

With more than a decade of experience coaching senior executives and their teams, Julia brings a distinctive combination of business acumen, empathy and psychological insight into her work. She has partnered with leaders across sectors including technology, private equity, financial services, higher education, and the nonprofit world – among them Harvard Business School, Bain Capital, Google, JP Morgan, Toyota, Saks Global and the U.S Navy SEALs.

Before coaching, Julia spent 25 years in business management and law, building and leading companies in both public and private settings. This foundation enables her to connect quickly with the realities of executive life while inviting clients to broaden perspective and integrate new ways of leading.

Known for her grounded presence and intellectual curiosity, Julia blends critical thinking with embodied and creative practices to help clients access insight, resilience, and authentic impact. She holds an MCC credential with the International Coaching Federation, is a certified coaching supervisor, and has trained with both the Hudson and Strozzi Institutes.

Cathy Johnson

As a seasoned executive coach, Cathy helps leaders think clearly, act courageously, and have the conversations that matter. Her work blends deep insight with practical application, enabling leaders to become more authentic and effective in how they lead.

Cathy has lived in Asia for 27 years and possesses strong insight into both eastern and western cultures. With 31 years of international corporate coaching experience, she understands challenges faced by global leaders as well as specific ways to develop their competencies.

Prior to coaching, Cathy was head of marketing at Global Sources (NASDAQ: GSOL, now acquired by Blackstone), a business-to-business media company, where she focused on coaching individuals and teams while working in online marketing, project management, IT and publishing.

Eugene McCague

Colm Murphy

David Ng

Coaching is seen by David as a valuable investment by supportive sponsors that believe nuanced understanding of situational realities enables next-level performance development in individuals and teams.

David has been an executive coach since 2010 and enjoys working with leaders to explore performance possibilities. By combining his depth of international experience with continued operational work as a fractional CFO, academic and angel investor, he draws on a cross-domain foundation.

His breadth of corporate experience has encompassed global and regional C-level roles where he has been resident in Singapore, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Australia.

Una O’Brien

Una’s practice focuses on leaders across the UK Government, the National Health Service, the UK Parliament and regulatory bodies.  A former top Civil Servant herself, Una brings to coaching a contextual understanding of high-consequence political environments with the pressures of ethical decision making, difficult trade-offs and public accountability.

Toy Odiakosa

With over 2-decades as a coaching psychologist and executive coach, Toy aims to co-create proactive, optimistic, person-centred and results focused spaces. Drawing on 14 years’ City of London legal experience, she gets tremendous satisfaction supporting senior and emerging leaders dealing with unrelenting business and personal pressures to achieve their full potential while being their authentic selves.

Pat O’Doherty

Jo Olsen

Jo has over 20 years’ experience in senior leadership, managing large, complex teams and client portfolios at board level. She began her career in advertising and communications but found her greatest fulfilment in developing leaders and strengthening the conditions for people to excel. She specialises in creating high-performance cultures, where individuals and organisations thrive together.

She partners with C-suite and senior leaders across a range of sectors including retail, hospitality, financial services, technology and creative industries, operating in high-pressure and high-growth settings – often individuals with profound subject-matter mastery who now need to broaden range, influence, and stakeholder capability. Drawing on neuroscience and organisational psychology, she helps clients strengthen psychological safety, build resilience under pressure, and make values-aligned decisions that enable them to navigate complexity and drive impact.

Jo holds the Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) credential, is a certified Emotional Intelligence practitioner, and an active member of the International Coach Federation with PCC status.

Barbara Patton

Mark Powell

Mark specialises in working with socially diverse leaders across Asia Pacific and beyond. He has been coaching since 2008 and has worked with over 400 leaders across 15 countries. He brings his own lived experience as a “socially different” leader and is EMCC credentialled as a senior practitioner level coach.

Mark has extensive experience and credentials in leadership facilitation, team coaching, executive coaching, and leadership assessment. He brings to coaching, senior level business experience in Banking & Hospitality, as well as a strong entrepreneurial spirit having started 4 businesses in 3 different countries.

Mark also brings deep lived experience in 3 key areas of social difference –cross-cultural diversity, LGBTQ issues, and the challenges of family mental health. He is currently a 5th year student of experiential psychotherapy and is a former international rugby referee.

Kate Quane

Janet Rubin

Drawing on her 30-year career as a Human Resources Director and her extensive non-executive career, Janet brings a rich level of experience to her coaching. She has coached CEOs, COOs, and senior Directors in over 30 organisations. She is also a Partner at Praesta UK, where she co-leads the Board Performance Practice.

Peter Shaw

Louise Sheppard

Louise is a highly experienced coach who has worked with more than 100 organisations around the world.  She is known for being direct, calm, supportive, challenging and inspiring.  Louise has held leadership roles in Unilever Plc and a management consultancy and has been a trustee of a national charity.

Ian Slattery

Jane Upton

Based in Spain, Jane is also part of the UK team.  She is an accredited Master Executive Coach with more than 20 years of coaching experience.  She works with leaders and teams, focusing on enhancing their ability to lead effectively in complex situations.  Jane coaches in English and Spanish.

Hande Yaşargil

Drawing from her extensive experience working with executives across various countries and cultures, Hande offers a nuanced approach to leadership development that integrates diverse perspectives. She is also deeply committed to advancing female representation on corporate boards, designing mentoring programs, and coaching senior female executives to enhance their leadership impact in governance.

Hande’s approach combines intellectual rigor with a deep understanding of the human side of leadership and company life. As an Organisational Clinical Psychologist, she works with clients to explore the deeper psychological and systemic dynamics that shape leadership behaviour and organisational effectiveness. Bringing a coaching style that is both reflective and direct, she encourages leaders to confront challenges head-on while fostering deeper self-awareness and resilience in the face of complexity.

Hande’s work is informed by a lifelong dedication to learning. She regularly engages in advanced studies at institutions such as INSEAD, Harvard Kennedy School of Governance and The Tavistock Institute.