About Us

Eve Turner

Eve works as a coach, mentor, facilitator and trainer for individuals and organisations in the private and public sectors with companies ranging from the BBC, the simplyhealth group, the Learning & Skills Improvement Service, Lane Clark & Peacock to the NHS.   She has successfully coached executives from those starting on their managerial career to members of the Board to achieve their and their organisation’s goals.  Eve is both supportive and challenging as a coach and rather than adopt any one approach will listen to the client and the situation.  She has had considerable experience of working with senior women and with people from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures as both a coach and a leader.  Eve has also done facilitation for Boards.

In August 2009 Eve was appointed as a coach for the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement after a three-stage process that culminated in an assessment centre involving videoed one-to-one coaching and group work.  From 1100 expressions of interest, 25 coaches were appointed to work in England.

Until autumn 2007 Eve worked as a senior BBC leader heading up one of the corporation’s multi-million pound regional operations, responsible for 250 staff working in local radio, television and online services.  Eve’s focus has always been on motivating and supporting staff so they deliver the best for the business.  She has considerable experience of dealing with widescale change and believes strong communication is essential.  Eve has helped introduce step changes in working practices and has also overseen redundancy programmes.

Eve’s areas of expertise include:

• Leadership development for high potentials.
• Emotional intelligence – enhancing interpersonal understanding and personal effectiveness.
• Supporting clients in leading teams and dealing with members who may be considered challenging; this includes talent management.
• Coaching to increase awareness and responsibility for change.
• Project management.
• Managing change.
• Work/life balance.
• Enhanced self-awareness (possibly using psychometric questionnaires).
• Improved self-belief and confidence.
• Creative thinking to generate options and ensure high standards.
• Career/redundancy coaching.
• Team coaching and Action Learning facilitation to enable individuals and teams to find solutions.

Eve completed an MSc in Coaching and Development from Portsmouth University and Performance Consultants in June 2008, gaining a distinction. She is currently studying for a Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision for Coaching and Mentoring at Oxford Brookes University. Eve won the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology’s Research Award for 2008 for her Master’s research and presented her findings to their European conference in December that year. In June 2009 she also won the Association for Coaching’s (AC) Student Award for outstanding contribution to research in Coaching and in November 2009 presented a workshop at the European Mentoring and Coaching Council’s (EMCC) international conference. Eve also has an MBA.

Eve has trained as a career counsellor, in action learning, in the use of appreciative inquiry to support organisational change and in Level A and Level B psychometric testing, using the MBTI, Firo B and 16PF tools among others.  She is a licentiate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and is a member of, and subscribes to the code of ethics of, the EMCC and the AC which accredits her: http://www.associationforcoaching.com/dir/acc.htm  She works extensively as a volunteer for the AC.

Eve has written for the Association for Coaching’s quarterly Bulletin, for People Management and for Coaching at Work. Please click the links below.

Turner, E. (2007).  Does a picture paint a thousand words?  The use of imagery in coaching in AC Bulletin Spring, pp6-9

Turner, E (2007).  Does meaning matter in coaching? in AC Bulletin Autumn, pp5-8

Turner, E. (2007).  Can dual roles create effective role models? in Coaching at Work Vol. 2 (6), p8

Turner, E. (2008).  Picture perfect in Coaching at Work, Vol. 3 (1), pp36-39

Turner, E. (2008).  Meant To Be in Coaching at Work Vol 3 (6), pp25-27

Turner, E. (2008).  Get It Together in Coaching at Work Vol 3 (6), pp. 44-46

Turner, E. (2009).  Going Deeper in Coaching at Work Vol 4 (6), pp. 34-38

Nick Chapman

Nick’s principal focus is on performance coaching for senior executives and those with high potential.  His coaching goal is to achieve significant and sustained improvement of the individual to the ultimate benefit of the business. 

A coaching client wrote: “Life may still be a jungle.  But coaching, and Nick in particular, gives a path through it.”  To support his ongoing learning, he is completing a post- graduate certificate in coaching to build on his business experience and his initial degree in industrial psychology and sociology.  Nick is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and abides by their coaching code.  He is also a mentor, facilitator, team builder and provides HR strategic consultancy. He has delivered to a range of clients in the private and public sector such as BP, Manpower, Motability Operations, NSK, ifs School of Finance, Standard Chartered Bank, The Metropolitan Police Service and the Office of Government Commerce. 

Although Nick is a business focussed professional, throughout his career he has always valued achieving results by, with and through people.  His extensive experience covers the spectrum from corporate to entrepreneurial businesses. Nick established his own HR services company in 2004 and previously, he was European Business Development Director for the international HR outsourcing company Black Mountain Group.  He has held a range of senior management positions in industry over the years, including Managing Director of Hogg Robinson Skillbase, General Manager Human Resources for Crosby Financial Holdings that became part of Societe Generale and European Chief Manager of Human Resources for the leading Australian bank, Westpac.  In addition he had a wide range of human resources and public affairs executive roles in the UK and overseas for Esso Petroleum. 

Lorenza Clifford

Lorenza works as a Coach and a Consultant in the area of Personal and Team Effectiveness. She facilitates skills courses on influencing, communication, management and coaching. She works systemically with large groups around management and team themes. She coaches clients around their careers, engaging meaningfully in their work and achieving their personal potential.

Lorenza has a Masters degree in Occupational Psychology and background experience in human resources and management consultancy. Alongside Account Management, the bulk of her work was design and use of competency frameworks and 360° feedback, psychometrics, assessment and development centres.

Working independently since 1999, she became increasingly interested in the ‘so what’ factor, that follows assessments and feedback and trained as a coach to understand the development journey in greater depth. Lorenza has trained in Cognitive Behavioural and Gestalt, which are her core modes of coaching. She also draws on Appreciative Inquiry, Systemic and Constructionist principles and Clean Language in her Coaching Practice.

Clients find her collaborative, insightful and gently challenging. She is passionate about catalysing development journeys: exploration so the client can find their way forwards, making applying learning easier, the path ahead satisfying, meaningful, smooth, and long lasting!

She holds a Level B Certificate and is trained in MBTI Step I and II, CPI, Assessor, Facet 5 and 16PF. She is trained in Action Learning Facilitation and has been a member of the Association for Coaching since June 2004.

Lorenza has worked as a Senior Consultant and Coach at Pricewaterhouse Coopers since April 2007, when she joined as an interim member of the Personal & Team Effectiveness Centre of Excellence within SS Learning and Development. She quickly got involved in two major design projects – Signature: Senior Manager benchmarking and development planning event and Manager Experience: systemic event for managers, and has been a major contributor to the working group looking into how we work with teams.

Lorenza has been Lead Consultant for Communications & Presentations, SmartWisdom Knowledge Management and Writing Skills. She facilitates on the PwC Business Diploma accredited by London Business School, including Modules on Self Awareness and Self Management, Influencing and Coaching Skills, as well as some advanced modules.

“She is a very experienced person and a real joy to work with.”
Tim Richardson, Director Leadership Development and Talent Management, Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

Lorenza is Author of:
Survive Bullying at Work, A&C Black, May 2006
Interview Others, A&C Black, May 2006

She also contributed to:
Balance your life & work, Steps to Success, Bloomsbury, 2005
Work well from home, Steps to Success, Bloomsbury, 2005
Get the best from a career break, Steps to Success, Bloomsbury, 2005
Make it Happen: how to get ahead & be happy at work, Bloomsbury, 2004

Sarah Fenwick

The majority of Sarah’s work is leadership and talent development through development centres, workshops, one to one and team coaching. Sarah believes in using an integrative mix of coaching tools and techniques that best match the client’s needs. She loves working with clients who really do want to maximise their potential and achieve their goals and will challenge, encourage and support them to think out of the box and step beyond and expand their comfort zone.

Sarah’s business background is in sales, marketing and public relations. She has worked at executive management and director level, as an employee and in self-employment, as well as in a variety of highly responsible voluntary positions. She has wide range of experience coupled with excellent business and interpersonal skills.

Over the last 18 years Sarah has developed her strong interest in personal development and performance psychology into a second career and has experience coaching a wide range of clients in public and private sector, sport and personal environments including O2, HSBC, KPMG, British Sugar, Cable and Wireless, Alfred McAlpine, Kleinwort Benson, RBS, Yell, Neopost, UGS, Gurit, United Kingdom Sailing Academy and the Department of Work and Pensions.

Sarah is a Chartered Psychologist specialising in Coaching Psychology, Sport Psychology and Positive Psychology. She is an accredited professional coach and has been coaching since 2001. She is a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach programme, consultant in the Schroder Model of High Performance Leadership Behaviours and has Level A and B in Psychometric testing. She is a member of the British Psychological Society, Association for Business Psychologists and British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, and a Founding Member of the Association for Coaching and the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology.

Worthy of note, is that Sarah ‘walks the talk’, not only has she been successful in business, she has also successfully competed in various team and individual sports, notably at international level in paragliding, including medals at World and European Championships and three World records. This combined with her business experience and academic qualifications gives her an excellent understanding of performance psychology from the theoretical, practical and personal experience perspectives.

"I had the rare privilege of observing Sarah coaching a CEO when she came to us for an advanced coaching refresher. It was fascinating to watch: she seamlessly wove together all three of her "lives" as a strategic coach, trained sports psychologist and high-performance sportswoman herself, drawing on all of them to help and challenge and egg on her client to higher achievement. This obviously makes her perfectly suited to coaching high achievers, especially those who are proud of having a coach who has herself (literally!) flown higher and further than anyone else. But having known Sarah know for almost a year, I think it would be a mistake to pigeon hole her as just a coach for "alpha males"; her sensitivity and kindness give her coaching much greater range." Anne Scoular, Managing Director, Meyler Campbell.

Adrienne Marsden

After a career in front line management in the retail sector, Adrienne identified that her passion and innate talent lay with working with people. Initially pursuing a training career, this soon led to a broader interest in the areas of learning and development and coaching.

Adrienne has extensive experience of corporate environments within the financial services and healthcare sectors from both in the operational and HR and L&D functions. Her work has included performance management of staff across the UK, and project managing a Europe wide graduate recruitment programme. Her expertise centres around learning and development activities such as leadership development, programme design and delivery and performance management processes.

Having run her own coaching and consultancy practice since 2004, Adrienne has gained extensive experience across a broad range of organisations. She has specialised in the design and delivery of corporate training programmes and coaches senior managers through their development challenges. Adrienne also leads personal development workshops in the UK and South Africa and has a passion for helping people achieve their potential and realise their purpose.

Adrienne is a qualified CIPD trainer and gained her Coaching Diploma at the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring (OSCM) studying under Eric Parsloe. Adrienne is currently studying for her Masters degree in Coaching and Mentoring at the highly regarded Oxford Brookes University. She is a member of the Association for Coaching and subscribes to its code of ethics.

“The objectives which were set were all met and I can honestly say that after each session
I left feeling much happier, empowered and confident than
at the start. I feel I have got
back control of my life.”

Michael,
Deputy Director of Finance

“By supporting, encouraging and believing in my ability Eve helped me increase my effectiveness to achieve my objectives, develop more strategic vision, become more confident and see things from different angles.”

Jane Buxton,
simplyhealth group

“Eve is a very gifted coach and facilitator with uncompromisingly high standards of practice and delivery who truly works to the client’s agenda”.

RJ, NHS