The Team

Prior to coaching, she started her career as a marketeer with leading non-profits such as Cancer Research UK, Oxfam, Unicef Australia. She subsequently worked agency-side as a strategic planner in both London and Sydney.  

She became increasingly fascinated by human behaviour and how people can be their best selves at work. She qualified as a Senior Executive Coach with the International Coaching Federation in 2008, and her love affair with coaching began.   

Alison supports people to enjoy their work more. She believes joy at work comes from purpose, connection and growth. So she helps individuals and teams to connect to their purpose and values; to work well together; to grow and learn. She has a gift for seeing the strengths and talents in other people and helping to bring these to the fore. 

From her own professional experience, Alison understands both organisational dynamics and individual motivations. Her coaching combines warmth and support with challenge, to ensure a focus on her client’s goals.   

She is a qualified Practitioner for psychometric profiling tool, INSIGHTS DISCOVERY. 

Licenses & Certifications 

Insights Discovery Client practitioner (Insights) 

Certificate of Professional Development in Executive Coaching (UK ICF) 

Alison has extensive experience in selection and assessment methodology and is an accomplished coach. RQTU registered with the British Psychological Society, she is qualified to use a wide range of psychometric and 360 instruments.  

She is a member of the BPS Division of Coaching Psychology and Division of Occupational Psychology, a Certified Principal Business Psychologist with the Association for Business Psychology and an Associate member of the International Society for Coaching Psychology.   

Earlier in her career, she worked in corporate HR with an Asset Management company where she led selection campaigns, leadership development and talent management initiatives. As a consultant she has worked with both public and private sector clients on bespoke leadership assessment and development projects.    Private sector clients include those from the Global Health Care sector, Financial Services, Investment Banking, Pharma, IT, Telecommunications, Construction, Manufacturing, Global Packaging, Engineering and Professional Services. 

She has significant experience of working with Central Government Departments, as well as a wide range of Local Authorities, independent public bodies and regulatory institutions. Alison has worked with executives in the UK, across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.   

Purposeful, pragmatic and insightful, Alison’s integrated approach is informed by techniques from positive psychology and cognitive behavioural and solution-focused coaching. She works alongside clients to identify factors that help or hinder optimum performance and promotes insights through high quality inquiry and reflection.  Her style encourages clients to effect change that enhances their impact, performance and contribution to organizational goals. 

A committed advocate of personal growth through coaching, she has a special interest in the psychology of resilience, supporting clients to sustain their wellbeing and become more effective in their response to challenging situations.

Areas of expertise include corporate and online journalism, speech writing, presentations, press releases, media coaching and profiles, as well as coaching in journalism and public relations skills. 

Prior employment includes various senior corporate communications roles, reporter and news editor on a national newspaper, newswire and trade newspaper journalist. 

Her focus is on ensuring the individual has the technique, timing and confidence to give their best presentation, performance or vocal delivery. Adapting to each client’s level of experience and required performances, Milly supports their progression to peak execution through positive and informed guidance, building physical and mental skills and personal belief. 

Her teaching also includes assisting the many people now required to perform and present at their best in the digital world, over video conferencing and pre-recorded online media.  

Milly provides services to clients in a variety of forms, including ongoing coaching, short courses over a number of sessions, general skills improvement and knowledge, or one-off classes focused on specific needs or events. These can be virtual where required. She has also held group seminars and shared activities for team building events. Milly also supports several charities and educational establishments for young actors.  

Nic coaches professional athletes and senior execs on optimal performance, and consults for organisations on human potential – which not only supports high functioning leaders, but drives next generation products and services, as well as healthy/well, productive and purposeful organisations that are genuinely supportive of a thriving society. 

Before coaching, Nic’s background spans over a decade in and around tech, including roles leading customer success and consulting on innovation and culture change. Clients ranged from UK supermarkets to international financial services and FTE100. She now coaches high performers, whether professional athletes, C suit or future leaders from boutique organisations and emergent market leaders to FTSE100, as well as consulting at the organisational level for start-ups to political orgs. 

Nic helps you remember your power and use it well! Build the capability to overcome obstacles effortlessly and expand beyond fear and comfort zones to develop deep self trust, discernment, better decision making, and relational dynamics for optimal performance. 

This can include tools for creativity, insight, deep focus and flow states; faster learning and better in the moment decisions; spotting and removing self limiters; or building tolerance to meet and confidently metabolise unpredictable and high stress environments with ease, skill… and even joy!  

Nic’s approach – a force of nature able to subtly nurture or passionately ignite, she builds deep connections and finds approaches specifically suited to each individual, as well as providing simple yet powerfully effective tools for organisations. 

Qualified in English, Philosophy, Law, Meditation and Yoga, in addition to her experience, Nic has a unique depth of knowledge to understand human potential – she is a leader in her field, connecting the human, commercial and societal dots. 

Passionate about taking an innate approach to human potential in an AI/Web3 world, Nic’s work is all about human centricity, so much so that she has been nicknamed Sarah Connor!  

Nic also speaks, including a TEDx, is a regular expert and ‘dragon’ for Informa Innovation Academy mini MBA, and writes, with a book on the way. 

He has been responsible for the customer facing aspect of a number of major launches of new products and services in the telecommunications industry, with multi-million strong customer bases and 1,000+ employee operational teams. 

Improving customer focus and satisfaction, operational efficiency and process design have been fundamental to his success in large organisations or on large projects, with specific expertise on use of new channels and technology. Balancing the achievement of significant cost reductions while ensuring improved customer experience alongside employee satisfaction has also been a key achievement on multiple challenging projects. 

High profile clients and employers have included Orange Mobile, EE, Digicel, TalkTalk, Santander, Freeserve and BSkyB.  

In his various roles, he has always ensured his senior managers are coached and supported in enhancing their skillsets and developing their careers even while achieving challenging targets.