Board and Executive Coaches

Jonathan Perks MBE
Jonathan is Managing Director of Board & Executive Coaching at Penna, and focuses on high performance leaders and teams. He is a business entrepreneur, passionate Board-Level Leadership Coach and Inspirational Leadership speaker. Jonathan's life purpose is to help other leaders achieve inspiring performance in their organisations. He is a fully accredited coach with both the ICF & AC and is a Fellow of the RSA.

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Sally Baxter
Sally is Head of Executive Coaching for Penna. She has held regional headship positions in Penna for over 5 years combining her passion for client service excellence with personal delivery as a coach and change consultant across a wide range of sectors. She has recently designed Penna's unique proposition around Managed Service for Coaching.

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Paul Gregory
Paul is Head of Leadership Development for Penna in London.  He is an experienced coach and has worked with executives across the globe. Paul is passionate about helping people achieve their true potential and is totally committed to his clients achieving the results they want.

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Katherine Tulpa
Katherine is a board-level Executive Coach, Leadership Consultant and Facilitator who challenges and motivates senior managers and teams to be high performing leaders. She is Chair of the Association for Coaching and Senior Master Coach for Penna, with a successful track record leading and engaging multi-cultural teams and businesses across the UK, US and Europe.

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Georgina Woudstra
Georgina Woudstra is a masterful leadership, team and executive coach & facilitator. Her leadership experience dates back to her teens, when she started her first business. By her twenties, she was a serial entrepreneur who discovered a natural talent for helping others attain their best performance.

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Catherine De Wulf
My business management activities have provided me with invaluable experience across a range of business organisations. Initially recruiting, training and managing sales teams for an American company in France and later becoming the manager/part-owner of five retail stores in California gave me the basis for developing human and organisational management and multicultural skills.

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Anna-Karin von Hofsten
Anna-Karin specialises in executive coaching and career coaching. Over the past eight years she has coached a considerable number of individuals, at all levels, to develop personal leadership and/or to a new career. She has almost 30 years work experience in a variety of sectors but mainly insurance, IT, banking, new business start ups as well as restructuring, downsizing and outsourcing in roles from KAM to HR Manager.

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Oliver Johnston
Oliver specialises in leadership, change consulting and executive coaching. Over the last three years he has pioneered Inspirational Leadership, an approach to leadership embraced by global corporations and major public sector bodies.

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Eva Borgert Palm
Eva joined Penna in November 2004. After her University degree in International economics she has held different positions within finance and marketing for companies such as GMAC, Krupp Widia and Munters.  Eva has worked in HR consulting, change management and coaching since 1991. In her former company she managed a Change management consultancy team of 7 and was responsible for all activities and development within Sweden as well as being a part of the Nordic Management Team.

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Roger Wyn-Jones
Roger's reputation is based on supporting clients and working with them rather than 'doing it to them.' His style mixes coaching and consulting disicplines to achieve the right balance of support, challenge and inspiration for each individual.

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Alistair Nee
Alistair specialises in coaching for accelerated performance and works with executives, leadership teams and high potentials who want to expand their capabilities, resolve contemporary business issues and generate sustainable corporate and personal growth.

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Allard de Jong
Allard is Penna’s Regional Head of Leadership Services for Spain and an experienced Leadership Coach. His work focuses on re-imagining leadership success, specifically by supporting “Emotionally Intelligent Leadership” and ardently campaigning for the “Leader As Coach” approach across borders and cultures.

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Fiona Marshall
Fiona joined Penna with 20 years management training & development experience in high profile, private and public sector organisations such as Marks & Spencer and the National Museums of Scotland, where she built a reputation as a highly motivating, passionate and successful developer of people.

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Elaine Patterson
Elaine is a Leadership Coach helping people and teams to achieve their goals and to realise their potential. Elaine has over 20 years experience of working in a wide range of leading edge director, policy and general management roles in the NHS, Civil Service and Voluntary Sector.

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Alison Ringrow
Alison has over 20 years experience in HR and consultancy, working with organisations in both the public and private sectors, specialising in the financial services sector.

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Kevin Greenleaves
Kevin specialises in leadership transformation for individuals and organisations. His work is informed by a successful executive track record where he constantly challenged the boundaries of what could be achieved. Used to working in a global environment, he has particular insight into the challenges of large organisations and the major roles within them.

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Deborah Haskew
Deborah has extensive commercial experience providing coaching, mentoring and consulting at senior levels. As a consultant she has lead and delivered a wide range of organisational change and management development projects. Her approach as a coach is holistic, pragmatic and results oriented.

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John Singleton
John uses a challenging but non-judgemental style to coach directors, executives and business leaders to aid their development and/or performance.  Over the last seven years he has enjoyed spending over 2000 hours with over 100 successful executives, as they developed.

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Annie Bennett
Annie’s career combines practical business experience with a lifelong interest in learning and development. She started by teaching languages to adults and teenagers, before moving into the engineering sector to build a successful career in HR and Management Development.

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Martin Carver
Martin started his career in Finance, becoming Head of Management Accounts for Norwich Union before moving into Training and Leadership development.  He worked as a Management Consultant for various clients in the UK, Asia and South Africa. He joined Prudential where he used his MBA experience in an organisational development capability as University Manager.

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Meg Goodwin
Throughout her extensive career in marketing, human resources and corporate communications, Meg has coached individuals to deliver business objectives at individual, team and corporate level. As an executive coach, Meg is committed to helping individuals & teams in the public & private sectors enhance their business relationships through supportive & challenging coaching.

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Catherine Besse
Whatever the means of intervention, be it consulting, training or coaching, Catherine’s forté lies in helping her clients clarify the issues they are facing and help to implement new options for change. An intervention, oriented towards the long-term is always balanced between achievement of results, respect of internal and external clients and recognition of colleagues.

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Peter Callender
Peter’s passion is to improve the quality of leadership in organisations.  Using Jim Collin’s research in “Good to Great”, Peter’s coaching is based on the assumption that by improving the quality of leadership there is a direct impact on the culture of the organisation and it’s performance.

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Ruth Smith
Ruth Smith has extensive experience of coaching and mentoring high performing executives since 1990.  She has coached approximately 80 executives/managers and therefore offers organisations the skills and experience to coach high performing clients with a diverse and complex range of development requirements.

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Caroline Montagu
Caroline has diverse senior commercial experience which she combines with a passion for developing senior executives to their full potential. She provides executive coaching with an emphasis on developing high performance, leadership, team management and sales performance.

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Carolyn Free-Pearce
Carolyn is a seasoned Master Coach and Facilitator with over 10 years of coaching experience.  She holds a Master Certified Coach certification from the International Coach Federation, the most rigorous independent international professional organisation for coaches and coach training programmes.  She has an international practice and has worked with individuals from 18 countries worldwide. 

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Jane Adshead-Grant
Jane is a business coach who combines her experience and passion for facilitating the development of others through releasing their potential and unique capabilities. Jane has a successful track record with over 20 years experience within International Law and Financial Services in US and European Investment Banks.

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Sarah Sparks
Sarah Sparks started her career as an accountant with Arthur Andersen and then spent more than ten years working in Investment Banking with Goldman Sachs before becoming a partner of a small corporate finance boutique. Since 2001 she has worked as an independent accredited Coach.

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Kevin Caulfield
Kevin has over 20 years of experience in leadership and coaching roles, primarily in the corporate sector. He brings broad professional experience including 15 years as a Corporate and Investment Banker at JPMorgan Chase.

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Oona Collins
Oona specialises in executive coaching, leadership development, and team building for high performance. She has a business background at Board level in operational sales and management, and over 10 years experience in training and development.

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Ray Lamb
Ray Lamb has more than 12 years of experience as a global coach, consultant, and trainer. Ray is passionate about coaching business leaders and developing a new leadership behaviour based on collaboration, connection, and community.

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Tanya Yazdanpanahi
Tanya began her career consulting in the field of Occupational Psychology after attaining her Masters from the University of Manchester’s School of Business. She progressed to working in-house for a number of International organisations including Citigroup and Gateway Computers in both OD and HR roles.

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Linda Sykes
Linda Sykes specialises in personal development NLP training and coaching, covering all types of communication skills, including developing stronger, more influential personal impact and projection; enhancing and growing coaching and selling skills; powerful presentation skills; delivering effective performance management and appraisal reviews; progressive team development and inspirational leadership.

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Michael Thorley
Michael is an experienced and professionally qualified executive coach, change leader and expert facilitator. He has 17 years international line management and management consultancy experience in both the private and public sectors.

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Martin Longdon
Martin is a board and senior executive level Coach and Facilitator, who inspires and enables his clients to enhance their performance and improve their results. He has a wealth of personal director-level experience, gained both in the UK and the USA, of developing, motivating and coaching high performing teams and individuals to exceed their goals.

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Brian Birchall
Brian is a Leadership Coach who uses his wide experience and passion for people development to help clients improve their Leadership options based on their own style. He believes in supporting leaders to achieve a balance which enables and inspires others, and gives real personal benefits to the leader.

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Tracy Cleghorn
Tracy has 20 years business experience, 16 years of which have been in business consulting.  As a consultant, facilitator, business and leadership coach she works with individuals and teams towards the achievement of their corporate and personal goals.  Tracy works in partnership with clients and continuously demonstrates her ability to develop effective solutions, which contribute to lasting change.

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Antje Croseck
Antje is an accomplished Management Consultant and before moving into consultancy she worked as a line manager in Commodity Buying and as a HR Manager for over ten years. She now specialises in one to one and team coaching, training and consulting for professional and personal development. She has worked for many years facilitating learning on an individual and team basis.

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Euan Cowie
Euan is highly skilled as an Executive Coach and Organisational Development Consultant with extensive International and UK experience. He is expert in the facilitation of change through one-to-one coaching and organisational consultancy, and in the design and facilitation of learning and development programmes.  He has in-depth business and cultural understanding accumulated during fourteen years in International Human Resource Management.

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Christina Breene
Christina has worked in both the public and private sectors before becoming a Management Coach in 1988. Her clients, receiving personal coaching, individual and group development plus training, are based in Europe, the US and Australia. She has a BSc Hons in Applied Psychology and since she is a firm believer in practicing what she preaches, continues to learn and train.

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Lesley Naylor
Lesley is a Senior Learning and Development professional with over 15 years experience in organisational and people development. Her expertise is in the area of employee engagement achieved through a range of interventions.

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