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.

Bob Fleck

An altruistic coach displaying moderate behaviours whilst working for the client’s success. I work with detail whilst in balance stepping away to be in the moment within a business and organisational context. I utilise an easy-going, goal-orientated constructive coaching approach until my client requires a ‘chameleonesc’ adaptation in me.

I’m able to access coaching skills that aid motor skill development for the client and support active rehearsal of transferable skills into the workplace or sports arena. My sporting exposure provides a breadth of questioning and facilitative skills with ability to span pedagogic to andragogic learning methods especially appropriate in the context of transactional analysis.

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 tend to work with professionals who are stuck in some way. Example situations include unhelpful team dynamics, difficulty managing others, suffering imposter syndrome, or leaders needing an independent ‘sounding wall’ to challenge and support. I am accredited with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and support professionals in numerous organisations in the UK and overseas.

I enjoy working with people in the process of change and am able to build strong relationships. Feedback I’ve received from coaching clients consistently states an appreciation of the trusting environment I help generate, providing the space and patience necessary to help unlock current patterns of perspective and behaviour. I coach individuals, groups and teams and am often asked to help facilitate in organisations which inevitably draws on my coaching approach.

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.

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 on a personal level and 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

Amanda's workplace coaching takes a results-based approach, creating an alliance based on trust and linking to business results. Amanda's coaching conversations aim to provide an environment where people can grow.

Amanda's guiding principles are around being in the moment; listening to understand; exploring options and challenging thinking. She asks the questions that will help individuals create their own answer; reframe situations affording the opportunity to see a more balanced view of things; and assess positive impact of changing behaviour.

Martyn Rogers

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

Martyn believes that coaching is all about empowerment, with the coach's role being to help people remove blockages to their own thinking, creativity and problem solving. He has collected and developed a wide range of tools, techniques and framework models to share with his clients to allow them to view their world from a different perspective.

With a deep understanding of organisational cultures and structures, he has a passion for working with clients to grow and liberate the talent of every individual so that both they and their business can be at their very best to thrive in any environment.

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 the Coaching and Mentoring Lead for the University of South Wales. Having been a senior lecturer in occupational psychology at USW for many years Dave is a Fellow of the University and the Director of the USW Coaching Centre. With a background in operational and HR management in the private sector, he is also a chartered psychologist, and is proud to serve on the British Psychological Society’s ‘Special Group in Coaching Psychology’ committee and chairs the annual Welsh Coaching Conference.

Keen to promote evidence-based practice within coaching, David has played his role in making USW the leading University partner for the coaching profession in Wales, establishing the Coaching Unit, delivering a range of coaching programmes and qualifications and hosting the Association of Coaching South Wales co-coaching forum.

David’s research interests focus on the factors that make executives ‘coachable’ and he has twenty years of experience as a coach and coaching supervisor.

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.