Meet our Coaches

Wales Coaching Centre

USW have been at the centre of great coaching and mentoring practice in Wales for over 20 years, advocating for a recognition of coaching and mentoring as a measured profession.  We have a set of quality standards that our coaches work to that ensuring you receive a service with the best quality assured coaches available.

All of the coaches you will work with via the USW Coaching Centre have been competency assessed by having attained the ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching & Leadership Mentoring (or an equivalent qualification at the same level). The coaches are actively undertaking CPD within the coaching area to ensure that they are as up to date as possible with current trends in coaching and have significant experience at working with clients from all sectors. They are quality assessed every year providing evidence of CPD, supervision and practice.

USW actively promotes CPD and the sharing of best practice through its Coaching Support Peer Group; an active monthly network.

Mair Barron

A qualified and experienced leadership coach, Mair’s client portfolio sits within the heart of middle management and C-suite leaders who are already steering organisations, or about to step up to this responsibility. Mair supports leaders to delicately balance challenging goals and organisational change at a time when traditional boundaries are changing at pace. Passionate about people, Mair inspires confidence, helping individuals to be the best version of themselves, and achieve their goals and career aspirations.

Sally Crompton

Being successful in our endeavours is not only about clarity of goals and actions; problem solving and building effective relationships; it also requires that we understand ourselves – our motivations, beliefs, strengths and weaknesses: I utilise techniques from the world of NLP to help you uncover these and develop a positive and useful mind-set. I support you to meet and overcome your challenges

by facilitating an honest conversation with yourself in which I pose questions and utilise effective coaching tools to generate deep reflection and insight along with workable strategies that will meet your needs and goals.

Ian Duggan

A Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel & Development, I am currently employed as Head of HR Management and Strategy at Perthyn and have been in this position since November 2023. I have 26 years’ experience covering the Care, Housing, University and Public Sectors in a variety of roles from Head of HR, Head of Service, HR Business Partner, HR Specialist and HR Project Manager.

To formalise and validate my extensive experience I am ILM Level 7 qualified in Coaching & Mentoring and Coaching Supervision Trained and Qualified, ILM endorsed, 2021.

I offer 'choice-based coaching' for enhanced performance, leadership development and personal transformation. My coaching approach is integrative and is influenced by Sir John Whitmore's GROWTH model and also client-centred and solution-focused approaches. I also draw on my many years of HR experience. CHALLENGE, INSPIRE AND ACHIEVE!!!

Marie Edwards

Marie is an experienced facilitator, executive coach and coach supervisor, with over 20 years' experience supporting leaders working within large, complex organisations.

Having completed her MSc in Executive Coaching and Development, Marie has a deep interest in behavioural science and continues to expand her knowledge in this area with the aim of helping her clients achieve greater clarity, success and ultimately well-being. In addition to this, she is qualified in a range of psychometric tools to assist in personal and professional development

Her coaching style is underpinned by the belief that people already have all the resources they need to find the right solutions for them. Favouring a high trust / high challenge approach, Marie offers a supportive, confidential & non-judgemental environment – giving clients the space and time they need to confidently identify goals and explore solutions

Pam Heneberry

My passion is working with Women in Leadership, delivering Well Being and Resilience training programmes and one to one coaching.

I have worked as a coach for the last 10 years and I have clients in both the public and private sector. As a coach I draw from many models and theories, taking a flexible and eclectic approach depending on the needs of the client. My aim in 1:1 coaching is to create a space that allows clients to critically reflect on their issues and explore a variety of options and perspectives.

Miles Huckle

As a coach, I specialise in working with professionals who feel ‘stuck’—whether that’s due to unhelpful team dynamics, difficulties managing others, imposter syndrome, or simply the need for a trusted sounding board. I hold the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and support clients across the UK and internationally.

My coaching provides a safe, trusting environment where individuals feel empowered to explore new perspectives and shift unhelpful patterns of behaviour. Clients often highlight my calm presence, patience, and ability to facilitate meaningful insights and change. I work with individuals, teams, and groups and I’m frequently invited to support wider organisational development—always drawing on a coaching approach to unlock potential and enable progress.

Mary Hughes

The act of coaching reaches more widely than the person being coached, which is why I am so committed to the Profession - it fits so well with today’s connected and networked knowledge economy. I take a relational approach as a consequence, one that is about thinking widely and deeply about connections - all sorts of connections - and I am fascinated by the way these are evoked by my clients. I hear about characters, situations, ideas, objects and feelings woven together as stories providing a perfect structure to sense-make and search for meaning. I have a creative skill-set which

I use to excite curiosity and inquiry. My promise is to listen deeply so I can challenge because this is how I can help clients not only find their own solutions but become more empowered.

Dr Judith Ingram

Extensive experience of working in the Welsh public sector, mainly at a senior strategic level, has given me first-hand understanding of the value, benefits and insights of coaching to individuals, teams and organisations. Since achieving an ILM coaching qualification in 2011, I have coached colleagues across the public and voluntary sectors in Wales, worked as part of the Welsh Government’s Coaching Network and delivered a range of coaching-related training and tutoring. In 2017, I became a full-time Coaching Practitioner to promote well-being in the broadest sense through individual and organisational development.

I enjoy working with coachees to offer coaching that is flexible, person-centred, creative and responsive to individual needs. I am open and honest, providing space and support for coachees to reflect on and review their issues from new perspectives and achieve their goals.

Gaynor Lewis

With a passion for enabling people to grow, develop and reach their full potential – Gaynor believes coaching is a key ingredient to achieving personal and organisational success. Providing the ‘scaffolding’ to make effective change happen in the workplace, and critical in embedding new approaches.

Gaynor has extensive experience in coaching individuals at every stage of their career, with an appreciation of the tension and challenges encountered at the strategic level.

Amanda Morgan

Accredited executive coach and coach supervisor with over 30 years of experience in international HR, leadership development, and organisational change. Extensive background supporting senior leaders, emerging talent, and individuals navigating growth, transition, and transformation. Known for a relational, integrative approach to both coaching and supervision—grounded in psychological

insight and practical business experience. Creates reflective, challenging, and supportive spaces that enable deep insight, increased confidence, and meaningful change.

Since 2003, has led a successful consultancy practice, delivering coaching, HR, and OD services across the UK, Europe, and the US. Work spans private, public, and voluntary sectors, with a strong emphasis on leadership impact and organisational culture. Fellow of the CIPD and the Institute of Leadership and Management. Holds postgraduate and master’s degrees in HR, the US-based Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation, and qualifications in Hogan assessment and workplace mediation.

Martyn Rogers

Martyn is an Executive Coach with over twenty-five years of practical coaching experience helping front line staff to senior board members.

Martyn now specialises in coaching following redundancy or if you are contemplating a major career change. Having been made redundant six times in his career he empathises with these life changing events and uses academic theory in the design of a range of practical tools, techniques and activities to help you find a new positive direction.

With a very practical and easy-going coaching style he is branded as ‘The Redundant Coach’ where Martyn brings you empowerment at a time where confidence may be low and in need of a friendly guide.

Helen Sandford-Taylor

Helen is an experienced and qualified coach (ILM Level 7) with a background in strategy, leadership and business consulting. Having worked with Senior Managers and C-suite executives throughout her career she understands the issues and challenges faced by leaders and ensures that positive psychology forms part of the coaching to ensure the wellbeing of her clients.

Helen also works with people on challenging their own limiting beliefs that sometimes hold them back from achieving their full potential. By utilising innovative coaching models and techniques combined with reflective practice, Helen will work with you to identify personal and professional goals to ensure you become the confident inspirational strategic leader that you are meant to be.

Dr Dave Tee

David is a Visiting Fellow and 'Coaching and Mentoring Lead’ for the University of South Wales. He also holds teaching and research roles in coaching and business psychology at Cambridge and Hong Kong. With a background in operational and HR management in the private sector, David has thirty years experience as a coach and is co-editor of the Wiley book ‘Coaching Practiced’.

A coaching consultant, supervisor and trainer, David has over thirty published research articles and book chapters. David is a chartered psychologist, proud to serve on the British Psychological Society’s ‘Division of Coaching Psychology’ committee and is the host of ’The Coaching and Mentoring Podcast’. Keen to promote a proven, practical approach to coaching that delivers real benefits, David has played his role in making USW the leading University partner for the coaching profession in Wales.

Dr Arthur Turner

Arthur is a leadership specialist working as an independent consultant in a wide variety of settings, both in the private and public sector organisations. Arthur has had particular success as a coach, mentor, action learning facilitator, researcher and programme designer with emphasis on experiential variety as a sound trigger for learning.

Arthur has based his practice firmly within an organisation setting; his specialist areas are Leadership Development, Action Learning Facilitation and development and Executive Coaching. Innovative and open-minded, Arthur tends to take an unorthodox approach to his coaching clients by considering alternative solutions and situations in which to explore the client need.