Hi, We're In Good Company

About Us

In Good Company was co-founded by us, Zoe Hawkins and Jo Wheatley, in 2011 and has become a global, world class, accredited coaching training organisation. The business is founded on courage, compassion and a drive to create a positive legacy through high quality coaching and coaching training. 

We are both globally accredited, award winning and award nominated coaches, with the business also being nominated for multiple awards. We are accredited coach supervisors and experienced group coaches and trainers. We have undertaken a wealth of coaching training ourselves and continue to invest in ourselves so we can continue to learn and grow.

We have designed our respected and sought after coaching programmes for courageous and compassionate leaders who are committed to supporting themselves and others to create a positive legacy in the world. Our programmes are for people seeking to be an independent coach, or those seeking to develop their coaching approach as an exceptional leader or internal corporate coach.

Our coaching approach is deeply transformational, drawing on a range of evidence based coaching methodologies and we share the resources and mindset with our learners, helping them to discover who they are as coaches. You can hear more from us on The Coaching Crowd Podcast cohosted by us every week.

We designed our highly sought after accredited Emotions Coaching Practitioner Training as ethical and in depth CPD for qualified coaches seeking to set themselves apart as coaches. The feedback from participants on this programme demonstrates how life changing this programme is for coaches and their clients.

Our portfolio of coaching CPD also includes our highly popular Foundations of Group and Team coaching training which supports coaches to translate their 1:1 skills and create and facilitate transformational groups and team coaching experiences. A natural progression for coaches and brilliant way to expand your business. The perfect first CPD post qualification. This course is also available for in house L&D or HR professionals who are required to facilitate groups and team coaching sessions.

Our Neurodivergent Inclusive Coaching programme is our accredited CPD for coaches committed to creating and facilitating inclusive spaces for their clients. It is extremely popular and offers a deeply grounded learning experience.

As the business has expanded we have expanded our team, to support you as the learner or organisation seeking to develop a coaching approach, with people who share our values, ethics and high focus on quality and impact. 

Today, In Good Company is supported by a number of qualified and accredited coaches and coach supervisors, all bringing their unique skillset and compassion for supporting others.  Behind the scenes there are also a number of other important people who support us to to support you. 

We are committed to excellence and are proud to have a team that are also dedicated to this.

Read on to learn a little more about the other important team members working together to provide a dedicated experience for you.

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Mirjam Berle

Course Facilitator

Mirjam is a qualified Executive Coach accredited by the EMCC at Senior Practitioner.  She has extensive experience working with executives from different industries and cultures within the fields of crisis and change. Her main area of expertise is deep transformative coaching at executive and senior leader level, drawing on her experience in the international corporate world as a Director of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs. 

As a coach Mirjam, born and raised in Germany, focuses on challenging situations and important turning points in the lives of executives and organisations. Mirjam's coaching style is warm, yet challenging with depth, clarity, and focus.  She supports her clients in recognising, and activating their  strengths and values as levers to achieve their goals with ease, courage, and confidence. 

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Jo Jackson

Course Facilitator

Jo is a qualified Executive Coach, accredited by the EMCC at Senior Practitioner and an experienced trainer and facilitator in both coaching and the art of sales and negotiation. She has comprehensive corporate experience working with individuals across multiple sectors and from varied backgrounds. 

Jo's specialism is leadership and business coaching, drawing upon her extensive personal experience in the commercial and corporate worlds.  Prior to her career pivot into coaching, Jo was a Commercial Director; leading teams across multiple multinational organisations including Mars Inc, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Johnson & Johnson. Jo specialised in the creation of high performing teams, building and leveraging productive customer relationships and in the art of selling and negotiation. 

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Jo Wong

Course Facilitator

Jo is a chartered occupational and chartered coaching  psychologist within the British Psychological Society. She is also a qualified and experienced ILM7, EMCC Senior Practitioner accredited coach. Through her business "Mokita Consulting" Jo helps businesses from start-ups through to global organisations in fully supporting the talents and collective intelligence of their people. This involves  leadership development and executive coaching, as well as working with individuals and teams to enable organisations as they grow and change. 

Jo works internationally developing and coaching leaders across sectors such as Professional Services, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Start Ups, Telecommunications, Leisure and Elite Sport. Across her career she has also worked with leaders across the EU, North America and APAC regions.

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Amanda Sloan

Course Facilitator

Amanda is a Chartered Psychologist and ICF Accredited Leadership Coach and with over 20 years’ experience consulting, coaching and facilitating internationally across industry sectors. She is passionate about helping organisations retain and grow talent, while helping the individuals and teams feel more confident and collaborate more effectively, enabling them to perform and achieve at their highest level.

Amanda's work is about facilitating sustainable breakthroughs by challenging the stories and assumptions that impact how we view the world. Amanda works internationally developing and coaching leaders across sectors such as Professional services, Telecommunications, Financial services, Air traffic services, Start ups, Recruitment, Charity and Elite sport. 

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Heather Wright

Course Facilitator & Assignment Support
Heather is a qualified executive coach, passionate about the power of working outdoors to accelerate clear thinking, problem-solving and creativity. Accredited by the EMCC at Senior Practitioner level, her extensive experience includes a particular focus on nature-based coaching, both with individuals and groups. She also has expertise in supporting neurodivergent people to grow and thrive in the workplace. 
 
Her background is in IT senior leadership, working for 20 years in the corporate world, leading international teams across service, project and business relationship management. With strong people skills Heather became involved in coaching, mentoring and other personal development programmes across the organisation. 
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Gwen Jones

Course Facilitator & Supervisor 

Gwen is a AudHD neurodivergent multi-passionate professional.  She is a PCC coach, therapist and corporate facilitation specialist with a passion for focusing on allyship, neurodiversity and mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.  Gwen has a MSc in Occupational Psychology, a BSc in Psychology, a L7 in Relationship Therapy, a L7 in Coaching. With a special interest in human behaviour Gwen invests heavily in her CPD.

With over 20 years professional experience Gwen brings both lived experience and a deep understanding of human behaviour to her facilitation and supervision role.  Gwen’s passion is supporting people to exceed expectations and live authentic, fully realised lives in all the roles she inhabits. 

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Anna Hewitt

Course Facilitator

Anna is a qualified Career and Leadership Coach, accredited by the EMCC at Senior Practitioner Level. Anna has founded her own coaching business and is an experienced coach and facilitator. Prior to training as a Coach, Anna worked as an HR Director for 15 years. She has experience in team leadership, coaching senior leaders, attracting and retaining talent and developing brilliant places to work. Anna holds the BPS qualifications for Level  A and B and a trained practitioner in MBTI, Firo B, 16PF and Aptitude tests.

Anna’s works with a big heart, whose ethos is “challenge with care”. Her approach to coaching is to enable clients to experience transformation by supporting them to grow their self-awareness, understand how overcome obstacles and to build momentum and confidence to take action.

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Jed  Langdon

Course Facilitator

Jed is an Executive Coach and experienced leadership development facilitator who is passionate about helping people, teams and organisations grow, fulfil their potential and have a positive impact on the world. He has 15 years experience in supporting leaders to overcome a wide variety of the complex challenges and in leading L&D, employee engagement and OD projects at the Eden Project, where he is creating an internal coaching culture that puts formal and informal coaching at the heart of employee development.

As a coach Jed's style is supportive, enthusiastic and empathetic, yet challenging. Connection with nature plays a huge part in his life and work, and he loves spending time outdoors with individuals and groups, using the natural world as a guide for personal and leadership growth.

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Jeremy Lewis

Coaching Supervisor

Jeremy is a qualified and accredited coaching supervisor with over 15 years’ experience in coaching, supervision, facilitation and OD consulting. Jeremy is also undertaking research into coaching supervision for a leading industry journal and is actively contributing to the profession. Jeremy's approach to supervision is based upon the consistent application of fundamental skills, he also draws upon ideas from different areas including Transactional Analysis, Gestalt and many years of consulting and facilitating.

Jeremy applies appropriate supervision models, techniques and experiments where these add value to the supervisory relationship and his supervisees can expect high support and high challenge to affect their ways of doing and being in relation to the services they provide to their clients.

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Brenda Routt

Coaching Supervisor

Brenda is a qualified and accredited coaching supervisor and runs her own consulting firm in the US. She has held executive operational roles for over 35 years and today she works with companies on such initiatives as CEO performance, strategic planning and executive, leadership and team coaching.

In her role as Coaching Supervisor she has worked with individual coaches and with small groups of coaches.  Additionally, Brenda heads up the supervision programme for The Humanitarian Coaching Network which provides coaches to employees of the UN. Brenda supports these coaches with supervision. As both an experienced coach and supervisor Brenda brings an unrivalled warmth and passion to supporting coaches around the world.  

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Ruth Sangale

Coaching Supervisor

Ruth describes herself as a creative leadership development facilitator, coach and supervisor. Her  background before coming to coaching and supervision was in the NHS in HR and OD roles designing and delivering leadership programs.

Ruth has a passion for diversity and inclusion and has worked Internationally in Afghanistan, Brazil, Belize and India with a range of clients including UNICEF, Plan International, WYSE International NGO and more locally the NHS, MOD and Cabinet office facilitating groups and one to one coaching. Her passion is in designing creative experiences that enable people to think out of the box and have deep insight into what is stopping them from achieving their goals or expressing their leadership potential.

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Sheela Hobden

Coaching Supervisor 
Sheela is a qualified and accredited coach supervisor and ICF coach mentor. In 2009 Sheela took a sabbatical from her Corporate Career and has never looked back. Today Sheela works as an Executive Coach and Supervisor, where her passion for creativity comes alive. She believes that so much awareness and learning can emerge from play and this runs through her supervision style  Every creative activity is built in the moment, not based on any specific model.
 
Sheela loves facilitating deep personal and professional learning whilst creating safe spaces for challenge and exploration. She enjoys supporting learner coaches at the beginning of their journey as well as those who are on their accreditation or re-accreditation pathway. 
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Sam Pringle

Coaching Supervisor

Sam is an accredited supervisor who has also completed an advanced certificate in group supervision, which she enjoys facilitating. She is Master Coach with the EMCC and holds an MBA and a Masters in Coaching. Sam's experience is as a CEO, Board Chair and Head of Research. Previous to this she was also a trainer and regional manager in the pharmaceutical industry. Her wealth of experience enables her to be a versatile supervisor. 

Her interests are in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion around neurodiversity (accredited ADHD coach), carers and parents providing coaching and supervision in the private and public sector. Sam enjoys supporting clients to make sense of their world and uses a range of methodologies to enable this.  

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Anushly Sithamparam

Coaching Supervisor 
Anushly is a qualified and accredited coach supervisor and ICF Mentor Coach bringing over 20 years of international working experience in the coaching industry  across a wide range of industries.  Anushly has a passion for supporting groups and teams in their development and believes in growing together. She enjoys co creating spaces that enable people to learn and grow to fulfil their own unique purpose. 
 
Anushly sees herself as an instrument for amplifying human potential, where she works with her supervisees and coachees to co create new and creative possibilities in this complex VUCA world. Her focus is to collectively solve problems that matters to human tribe, nature and its consciousness. 
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Frank Irawo

Assignment Support Team - Marker

Frank is an Executive Coach, Consultant & Published Poet with over 30 years' experience leading teams in the Retail, Entertainment, Financial Services, Criminal Justice & Not-For-Profit sectors. He has coached Entrepreneurs, VP's, C-Suite Executives & Senior Managers in companies like Morgan Stanley, Sainsburys & Warner Bros Discovery Inc. He believes transformational leadership begins from within.

Frank brings the best of psychology, neuroscience, & mindfulness to engage the whole self, supporting leaders in maximising their inherent potential, identifying & removing mental blocks, giving them access to innovative thinking that delivers results quicker, without compromising wellbeing.  

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Lisa Nunn

Assignment Support Team - Marker

Lisa is an Executive, Qualified, EMCC Senior Practitioner Coach who's passionate about purpose and helping people and teams truly thrive. She works with MD's, Senior and Emerging Leaders and Business Owners and has vast experience as an internal mentor and coach in the corporate world. Lisa spent 30 years in corporate leadership, culminating as Partner in a Commercial Strategy team in global real estate.

Lisa's business, TruetoSelf Success, specialises in values-led coaching for purpose, clarity and connection. She works with seasoned professionals and teams navigating transitions and seeking greater meaning. By blending warmth and empathy with practical challenge, and bringing lived experience and evidence-based frameworks, she creates space for meaningful change and joy.

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Sally Chapman

Assignment Support Team - Marker

Sally  is the founder of Shine Coaching and an Executive & Senior Leadership Coach dedicated to helping leaders lead with clarity, confidence and heart. Before training as a coach, Sally built a successful career in HR and OD, supporting people and culture initiatives. She helps professionals at all levels - from navigating organisational change to deepening emotional intelligence and accessing their most authentic leadership.

An EMCC Senior Practitioner, Insights Practitioner, Emotions and neurodiversity-trained coach, she has a strong record of working with organisations committed to inclusion, accessibility, and meaningful growth. Sally co-designs and delivers leadership programmes focused on empowering people to thrive so they can lead others with clarity, confidence, and impact.

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So... now that you've found us, here's how you can work with us

You can train as a coach with us.

You can join our Emotions Coaching Practitioner Programme

You can join our business lounge membership to support your coaching business development.