Coaches

Laura is the Director of Business Coaching for Notion and the force behind the outstanding quality of Business Coaching that Notion offers. She is highly experienced, having coached for over 14 years, delivering dramatic results for her clients every time.  She is passionate about what coaching can do to accelerate performance and results, particularly around business growth for SME's and dramatic and commercial organisational improvements for larger corporates . Her practical and direct approach is challenging whilst her sense of fun ensures that the overall coaching experience is very enjoyable. Read more

As well as a professionally trained coach, Carol McLachlan is also a chartered accountant, who spent nearly 20 years with top four international accountants, Ernst & Young where she became Director of Resources. She now works in partnership with individuals and organisations - quite simply - helping them to be the very best they can be.  Carol combines board level strategic experience with creative innovative thinking, along with a sophisticated financial skill set. The result is collaboration of the highest order: understanding and anticipating client needs, finding and implementing tailored solutions and exceeding expectations with added value. Read more

Peter is a specialist Business Coach and career development expert with over 20 years business experience. Peter has a deep understanding of the skills required for entrepreneurs to start, run and grow businesses successfully and is an expert in combining the science of business management with the art of business growth.  His expertise in the Corporate sector is in developing excellent people management and communication skills in managers. This ranges from ensuring success for senior managers in a new role/promotion, on-boarding new executives for their first 100 days as well as improving both recruitment and retention. Read more

Cathy is a highly experienced Business Coach and personal development specialist with over 15 years experience as a senior coach. She works with people to enhance business and personal performance through a process of supported self-awareness and self-development. A dually qualified chartered accountant (USA and England) and MBA, Cathy has worked extensively as a Coach to many businesses. Read more

Catherine Fennell has been coaching and facilitating business leaders and their teams for 20 years. Cathy brings a rare mix of coal-face business experience coupled with Management Development, Business Change and Personal Skills expertise. Her style of delivery is insightful and challenging whilst remaining pragmatic and empathetic.Cathy’s business background stretches from being a Retail Sales Manager to Finance, Global IT Outsourcing and HR Consultancy. This includes 13 years within IBM, where Cathy was an international coach and lead consultant on strategic change and leadership development with EMEA and Global Executives. Read more

  Martin is a Business Coach of outstanding quality. He has more than 25 years of combined business management, consulting, coaching & mentoring experience and is an expert in helping clients achieve significant improvements in performance and profitability.  His unique background includes the General Management of international hotels, chairing and facilitation of board level projects both commercially and as a director of a Training & Enterprise Council and Change Management Consulting within the Education, Private & Public Sectors. He delivers a deep message with a light touch; being coached by him is both challenging and a fun experience.   Read more

Bill is an enthusiastic and experienced Business Coach with an impressive 15 year track record of success. He has a pragmatic and common sense approach to business and believes, absolutely, that the potential for growth and development is within everyone for as long as they choose to pursue it.  He started his career with the Police Force then moved to management in a Utilities company before privatisation. From there Bill joined the Regional Press, eventually becoming Sales and Marketing Director with a major UK Group.  Understanding people is one of Bill’s strengths and this is complemented by a thorough knowledge of business and management and what it takes to succeed in today’s market. These ideals, combined with his passion for training and developing people, led to his decision to focus on coaching and training full time over twenty years ago. Read more

Sue Stockdale is a highly experienced Business Coach, facilitator and consultant. She works with clients across a wide range of industry sectors, typically at senior management or board level. Her career prior to full time coaching has ranged from corporate training and development in a UK Utility to quality improvement at the United Nations. She has also started up, grown and sold a business and therefore understands the challenges that corporate leaders and entrepreneurs can experience. Read more

Peter is a dynamic business coach with over 8 years experience managing his own company and over 20 years senior and middle leadership and management experience. His background ranges from managing large cultural and organisational change projects to working with major companies such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, Highlands and Islands, Sytner Car Group and Scottish Water, as well as a variety of SME companies across the UK.  Coaching has been the primary Leadership and Management style Peter has used throughout his extensive career to date, and he is passionate about the outcomes that his clients experience when working with him. His direct, and hands on approach ensures his clients are challenged whilst his sense of humour ensures lots of enjoyment along the way. Read more

Stephanie Greasley is a leading business coach with a proven record as a senior corporate and coaching professional. With over 25 years experience (10 of them at director level) she has used coaching as a primary tool in her corporate life, building teams, motivating them and delivering outstanding team and financial performance.  Her most recent corporate position was Managing Director of Europe’s largest and fastest growing Mobile Computing Distributor where she was responsible for the start-up of the business from scratch to its leading position in Europe.
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 Karen Skehel is a business coach who brings over 25 years of business and personal development experience to coaching. Her background spans advertising, sales and marketing; commercial radio and sales promotion. She founded and ran her own successful marketing agency, is an expert group facilitator and leads personal development workshops in a number of areas including stress managements and emotional intelligence. Read more

Polly is an experienced and intuitive Business Coach with extensive business experience and a talent for making sense of what is really happening.  She started her career as a lawyer before moving to a commercial role as the MD of a manufacturing and distribution company. When she took over as MD, the business turned over £60k and was making a loss. She turned around the company and grew it to a highly profitable multi million pound organisation. Read more

Dominic is the Managing Director of Notion, established in 1999 to help business clients move their businesses forward.  He is a seasoned management consultant with over 15 years of client work behind him across a number of sectors including Manufacturing, Retail, Oil and the Financial Services sectors. Dominic is also a highly sought after national and international Trainer developing and delivering global training programmes for Senior Managers from the likes of Oracle, Reckitt Benckiser, EDS and Nestlé   Read more