Adeola is an experienced GP in South East London, a GP appraiser, and a qualified trainer. She has been coaching since 2008 and holds the ILM Level 7 Certificate in Leadership Mentoring and Executive Coaching.

Her coaching practice supports doctors and other professionals to manage transitions in their lives and careers, grow as leaders, find work–life balance, and achieve their goals while avoiding burnout. Clients consistently value her warm, non-judgemental style, genuine curiosity, empathy, and ability to listen deeply.

Alongside her coaching work, Adeola is a matcher with the Faculty of Medical Coaches, welcoming new applicants and helping connect them with the right coach. She balances her professional commitments with her love of swimming and gardening.

Deborah was a Consultant Community Paediatrician in London for over 30 years and retired in 2022. She started coach training in 2017 to coach NHS staff knowing the stresses and rewards of working in a changing and challenging environment. She coaches regularly and participates in regular CPD and supervision. As an FMC member, she contributes to the training programmes.

Her experience includes coaching a range of NHS clients:- clinical directors, consultants, trainees, GPs, managers, nurses and professionals allied to medicine. Themes include:- career development, leadership, work life balance, time management, team relationships and intercultural difficulties.  

Her clients feel comfortable and reassured and she is supportive and non-judgmental. She likes to be flexible and offer clear, focused and goal orientated sessions. Her empathy facilitates her intuitive reading of the client leading to a positive relationship and successful outcome that is reflected in their feedback.  

She also has time to continue with her many interests that include:- swimming, cycling, pottery and travel.

Harriet Nicholls is a retired consultant obstetric anaesthetist who held posts of Clinical Director of Anaesthetics, Clinical Chair of the Surgical Division and Associate Medical Director of Organisational Development.

Her interest in coaching came from when she was leading departmental cultural change and realised how powerful coaching was in developing and enabling others. She believes that life is to be enjoyed yet fulfilling and sees coaching as a wonderful way of empowering others to live lives that are right for them. With over 500 hours of coaching experience gained through coaching individuals in health care from many disciplines and levels of seniority, she has a particular interest in coaching for transition to a new role and leadership development. Harriet creates a safe space and base of support to enable constructive challenge and growth using solution and future focussed techniques.

Harriet is married with three adult children and is either enjoying work, family or the great outdoors.

Helen has had more than 20 years’ experience in senior clinical, educational and leadership roles in the NHS. She has worked as a coach since 2009 and has had more than 500 hours experience coaching NHS doctors and other senior NHS staff. She also facilitates coaching courses for NHS staff. During her clinical career Helen has supported a wide range of NHS staff in their personal and career development and has found it immensely satisfying to see people flourish and reach their potential.

Coaching has given Helen more specific skills to facilitate an individual’s development. She is a good listener and creates a safe space to enable the coachee to explore what they want to achieve and what might be stopping them reaching their goals. She firmly believes that coaching can be transformational, if the coachee really wants to make positive changes in their lives. Helen has the ILM 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring.

Jan is a passionate leadership development coach who believes she facilitates people to “Be the best they can be”. Her coaching experience blends her 40 years of NHS sector history with her passion for leadership development. Her experience as a former NHS nurse executive and board member across Primary Care, acute hospitals and NHS regional organisations has proven beneficial for coaching and supervising established and aspirant executive team members.

As an independent coach and healthcare consultant, she has delivered thousands of coaching and coaching supervision hours to people working in the NHS, Police Service, Civil Service and Education utilising a range of coaching models to meet client needs. Her client base in the NHS consists predominately of clinicians, consultants and GP’s working in clinical leadership roles. She also facilitates action learning sets working with teams across NHS, Police, Education and charity sector organisations.

Jan is a clinical leader, executive coach and educator with a passion for making a positive impact. Working with executives through to people who have experienced trauma she has facilitated professional and personal development through learning in action.

Jan has a reputation for being a good listener who attends to surface issues while also sensitively exploring deeper influences, mindful of developmental and systemic perspectives. Her personally tailored approach applies expertise in developmental psychotherapy to assist you in expanding your reach while drawing on individual, team and systemic models to enable sustainable impact. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was a Specialist Advisor in coaching and mentoring.

Jenny is an International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Coach who has conducted 1:1 coaching conversations with hundreds of doctors and other health care professionals. This coaching can assist people to clarify and follow the life directions that are right for them. It can support them to deal with challenges along the way and to develop their personal strengths and resourcefulness. In written feedback on Jenny's coaching, people have highlighted the value of supportive yet challenging conversations, the benefit of being asked ‘the right’ questions, the opportunity to clarify thinking and the chance to establish priorities/make plans in a non-judgmental setting.

In addition to her coaching work with doctors and others, Jenny used coaching approaches extensively in her clinical work as a consultant psychiatrist over many years. Jenny has held varied roles in Medical Education and was previously a Clinical Lecturer in Developmental Psychiatry at The University of Cambridge. She has developed and delivered a variety of development programmes for doctors. She wrote a well-received book about coaching, published in 2022 by McGraw Hill.

Kate began coaching for the London Deanery in 2013 and completed the ILM 7 certificate in 2017. She is a founding member of FMC. Until recently, she was a GP partner in a North London practice for over 30 years, with a special interest in family (systemic) therapy. Her other roles included GP trainer and educational supervisor. She remains a GP mentor and appraiser, and is pleased that the recent focus on appraisals has become more supportive and open to coaching conversations.

Kate’s interest in education and teaching led her to coaching, and she gets great pleasure from helping clients make positive changes in their lives. She values how the coaching process enables people to establish and realise their goals, and to fulfil their potential through their own resourcefulness. During recent challenging times for healthcare professionals, she has been able to offer coaching support to colleagues to help them find ways to improve their working lives.

Mandy trained as a coach in 2008 through the London Deanery and achieved the ILM Level 7 Certificate in 2013. She has been a GP working in South East London  and developed a portfolio career over more than 30 years. She has had various roles in clinical leadership and education. This has included leadership roles in Foundation Training, CCG and PCNs. She is also an experienced appraiser and educational supervisor.

Mandy has coached colleagues from many specialties both in medicine and nursing and at various stages in their careers. She has learnt the power of facilitating discussions on career transitions as well as enabling personal reflection and professional development. She also recognises the value of using the coaching approach with patients and appraisees. She particularly enjoys helping clients use their resourcefulness to grow towards their potential.

Nick trained in General Practice and was a partner in a training practice in Wiltshire for 9 years before moving to West London to work in Sexual Health and HIV. He now has a portfolio career including medical education and coaching. Nick found that having coaching at ‘crossroads’ in his life was such a valuable experience, clarifying personal values, priorities, direction and strengths, that he was motivated to train as a coach himself.

At a time of ever-changing priorities and increasing pressures in people’s lives, Nick sees coaching as a powerful tool to clarify issues and provide support to enable people to find ways to help them through and to come out with more direction, more confidence and more control in resolving conflicts and dilemmas. He has a Level 7 Certificate in Coaching/Mentoring with the Institute of Leadership and Management.

Nike is a coach and mentor with over 10 year’s successful experience and a public health consultant with over 25 years’ experience. Nike coaches to achieve mastery over setbacks and skilfully navigate complexity, including the facilitation of continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development (PDP).  Nike believes in enabling professionals to access their inner resourcefulness and creativity and tap into their leadership, power, courage, compassion, and joy (for their resilience and growth).  

Nike brings her experience of public health, healthcare delivery and an understanding of culture and relationships at community and executive levels to support individuals to thrive in public health and other roles, and flourish whist embracing difference. Nike shares the concept of enhancing one’s “vhaalubank” (resilience). Nike enjoys dancing and scenic walks.  Nike is minded that we can achieve almost everything if we are willing to try a few times and look for solutions.

Penny is a Consultant Gastroenterologist, who developed her interest in coaching, through her experience in teaching and training, including medical undergraduates and postgraduate trainees through her role as training programme director. Having increasingly recognised the power and value of active listening and facilitation of self-awareness and decision making, she has used coaching techniques across all professional settings

Penny is an accredited Executive coach and Leadership mentor since 2014, having initially trained through the London Deanery. More recently she was instrumental in helping to establish a coaching and mentoring scheme for the members of the British Society of Gastroenterology, and has also developed experience in group coaching. She offers her mentees time and mental space to consider, reflect and make decisions about specific issues important to them, and contributes questioning, challenge and appropriate coaching tools to facilitate this process.

Ros is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Deputy Chief Medical Officer/Responsible Officer at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and a founding member of the Faculty of Medical Coaches. She holds the ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring. She co-authored guidelines on mentoring and coaching for the RCPsych and has been the London Division rep for coaching and mentoring.

She was a founding member and previous chair of the Women in Psychiatry Special Interest Group at the RCPsych. She has also been on the exec team for the Medical Women’s Federation. Both groups aim to support women doctors and their development. She has been the Trust champion for LTFT residents and worked in the Trust Counselling and Well-being service.

Her other roles have included lead doctor advisor for the Psychiatrists’ Support Service; a case manager in the London Deanery Professional Support Unit (PSU); an assessor for Practitioner Performance Advice (PPA, formerly NCAS) and a GMC health examiner and medical supervisor. Her values include fairness, transparency, and patient centred care. In her coaching practice the coachees/clients and their goals are the centre of her attention.

Sue is passionate about embedding coaching in the NHS. Her style of coaching is of empowerment to explore transformational change so people can achieve their full potential. She has ILM Level 7 Diploma in Mentoring and Executive Coaching with over 500 hours of coaching experience. She has coached doctors at all stages of their careers and other professionals across the NHS, Civil Service and industry.

Sue supervises other coaches (both 1:1 and in small groups) and has the certificate in coaching supervision with the Centre for Supervision, Training and Development at Bath. She also works as a trainer in coaching skills.

Sue’s background is in Elderly Care Medicine. She developed a portfolio career representing the UK at the European Medicines Agency’s Scientific Advice Working Party and for the BMJ. She currently works as a coach, trainer and appraiser.

Tonia recently retired as senior partner and is an experienced GP appraiser. She was CCG Clinical Director between 2014 and 2020 representing the CCG at board level with Performance & Quality, Finance & Planning and GP communication portfolios. Her role included working with hospital and community colleagues on QI initiatives and sitting on the Local Authority Health and Wellbeing Board. She continues as Clinical Lead for Children and Young People including Mental Health.

Tonia has been an NHS leadership coach since 2017 and holds the EMCC Coach Practitioner qualification. She looked for coaching for herself during a difficult transition to her CCG board role where politics sometimes seemed to conflict with core values. She found coaching so valuable and eye-opening that she decided to pursue training to offer support to other NHS clinicians and senior managers etc.

Tonia now coaches consultants, GPs and NHS managers at all stages of their careers.  She is a Senior GP appraiser and also facilitates Action Learning Sets for GP appraisers and Aspiring Medical Leaders for NHS England.