Trusted Associates
Where appropriate, I recommend a small number of trusted associates for coaching, speaking or consulting. They are all individuals I have personally worked with, and rate highly. Click the email button to contact them directly and learn more about their services and prices. Please tell them I sent you!
Kate Faxen
Kate is a culture and leadership coach with decades of experience helping individuals and organisations build workplace environments where both people and purpose thrive. She specialises in helping clients unlock unconscious aspirations so they can move from feeling “stuck” to experiencing joy and fulfilment in their careers. A strong advocate for neurodivergent people, Kate supports them in navigating challenging moments, building self-awareness and confidence by creating safe spaces and introducing new ways of thinking. She also works with senior leaders, helping them rekindle their passion for their work, deepen authentic and empathetic leadership, and maximise their potential. Her coaching programmes are bespoke: each one is carefully tailored to match the unique challenges and goals of her clients. At her core are values of trust, altruism, fairness and joy – qualities she brings into all her work. Outside coaching, Kate is active in volunteering: she holds roles with organisations supporting SEND families, women in higher education, and neurodivergent parents and carers. She is also an Ambassador for GFS and one of the leaders of The Wonderful Women Movement.
Carrie Barber
Carrie is the founder of Work Wobble, a movement dedicated to helping people navigate life’s biggest career and identity shifts with clarity, confidence, and balance. With a C-Suite HR background and expertise in biology, psychology, and neuroscience, combined with years of leading organisational change she combines brain science with real-world strategies to help people get unstuck, rewire their thinking, and move forward. Known for her relatable and engaging style, Carrie breaks down complex ideas into practical, no-nonsense tools that actually work. Whether tackling self-doubt, decision paralysis, or the infamous inner critic, she brings a mix of humour, insight, and science-backed strategies to help people get out of their heads and into action. Her talks inspire audiences to rethink the way they approach work, life, and success – because if you’re feeling stuck, chances are your brain is playing a bigger role than you realise. Carrie spoke at one of The Wonderful Women Movement events.
Email: workwobbleteam@gmail.com
Niamh Cull
Niamh is a performance and professional development coach who works with individuals and organisations to enhance career clarity, confidence and capability. She has a background in senior HR roles and is great at supporting others to grow and succeed at work. She offers one-to-one and group coaching to help clients define their own version of career success, navigate progression barriers, and prepare for their next step, all while balancing professional and personal priorities. Her team coaching focuses on boosting collaboration, trust and performance, particularly in environments navigating complexity or change. She holds a Postgraduate qualification in Business and Personal Coaching and is an ACC-accredited member of the International Coaching Federation. She is also a Strengths Profile Practitioner. Her coaching is professional, energising, and perspective-shifting. She actively supports causes close to her heart, volunteering with charities including Pregnant Then Screwed, Young Women’s Trust and Tommy’s. We trained together at Barefoot Coaching and has been one of my own coaches since.
Email: niamh@niamhcull.com
Catherine Oliver
Catherine is a coach, mentor, advisor and speaker. She works with organisations from start-ups though to globally listed companies to help them support working parents and improve their gender balance. She the author of Amazon bestseller Working Parents-to-be. She has developed a highly successful programme to support the leave and return of working parents (pre, during and post parental leave) and their managers.
Prior to this, Catherine had a 20-year corporate career, most recently at Sky in Group Strategy. During her time there, she also became mum to a little girl and subsequently founded and ran Parents@Sky and co-founded Sky’s Women in Leadership initiative, alongside her “day job”. Sky won the 2016 Working Mum’s Overall Top Employer Award and made The Times Top 50 Employers for Women list in 2016, and every year since and was awarded first place in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers 2019/20 list.