Christoffer DeGraal
About Christoffer
Christoffer has built his career in helping people from all walks of life discover, understand and implement best practice changes. He is a coach, facilitator and musician with over 20 years experience in both personal development and group coaching, with qualifications in relational dynamics coaching.
Christoffer has experience in banking, professional services, defence, education, NHS and homelessness. Christoffer has lived experience of neurodivergence, managing long covid and supporting those seeking to destigmatise mental health. Christoffer has long been a proponent of the social model of disability, from his days creating art projects as a form of inclusive activism, touring Europe and South America. Christoffer uses creative tools to facilitate coaching conversations, as well as technology.
Christoffer believes we can all work at our best, but it sometimes requires a mind-set shift and strategies that are a close match with how we think. He also believes we need to be able to navigate and discuss the often unspoken limiting rules, behaviours and environment we may face in today’s workplace. When Christoffer is coaching at his best, he is like a terrier, friendly but rigorous about making sure people know what they are doing and why they are doing it, checking and tweaking to make sure that outcomes are making a difference.
Claire Jackson
About Claire
Claire discovered a lot about herself on the journey she took with her neurodivergent son and received her own dyslexia diagnosis later in life. She has learned to truly value and play to her strengths and, as such, is passionate about supporting neurodifferences in the workplace.
Claire values whole-person and strengths-based coaching approaches to help her clients achieve their full potential. She facilitates space for her clients to reflect, discovers new perspectives, develops strategies, builds confidence and create new opportunities. Claire has a calm, empathetic, and reflective coaching style and uses various coaching tools that complement her clients’ learning styles and development needs.
Prior to setting up her private coaching practice, Claire gained extensive experience in leadership and management roles within large and complex organisations, where coaching became core to her leadership style.
Claire Rostance
ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring (Clean Language)
About Claire
As an experienced accredited coach and NLP Practitioner, Claire is passionate about enabling people to be their best and achieve their full potential. Creating a safe space for clients to share their experiences and challenges and enabling them to find the answers. She uses a strengths-based approach empowering clients to create their own personalised strategies.
Clare Broadhurst
MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and in Coaching Psychology
About Clare
Clare is an EMCC Accredited Coach. Clare uses her knowledge from her MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology to help individuals, teams, and organisations flourish.
She has a warm and flexible approach to her coaching and helps her clients uncover their strengths to build effective strategies to flourish and thrive at work and at home.
Clare has over 25 years of working in the education sector as a teacher and a senior leader. During this time Clare coached a wide variety of individuals and supported organisations to develop a coaching culture.
Clients describe Clare as a compassionate and kind coach who creates a safe space for them to think and reflect.
David Rendle
Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring
About David
David is a qualified executive coach, and he had a long career in secondary teaching and subsequently in teacher training and school improvement.
David has coached with Genius Within for three years. He has his own coaching business and has coached teachers and other professionals, and he delivers academic coaching to younger students.
David has had a long experience of supporting neurodivergent students through his teaching and he has enhanced these skills and awareness through his coach training and subsequent CPD. His approach is caring and empathetic and he aims to provide his clients with a balance of support and challenge.
Dr. Jane Freeman-Hunt
About Dr. Jane
Jane has got a vast majority of experience in coaching. She has got a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Doctorate in Coaching. She is an accredited coach with the Association of Coaching and with the Association of Executive Coaching.
Jane started coaching when she was working in IT sector as a head of operations for Nokia Enterprise Architecture Team. In this role she was heading up for 200 autistic people. Jane has worked with a range of clients all the way up to board members and executives from different industries such as Health, IT, Finance, Public Sector and Consultancies. Jane herself also worked for lots of big corporate companies at a board level therefore she can relate to anyone wherever they might be on the ladder.
Jane is autistic and she has lived experience of neurodiversity in her family.
When Jane is coaching at her best she is creative, lively, chatty and engaged. She is good at coming up with new solutions using her creativity. She really enjoys making a difference and, in some cases, changing people’s lives.
Emma Wee
About Emma
Emma champions the resilience and self-reliance that understanding one’s own neurodiversity can bring an individual, and has seen many clients find a new sense of purpose by being able to embrace fully who they are, rather than being defined by a label. Her own neurodiversity has allowed her to thrive on different spheres because of the way her brain works, not in spite of it.
She is also keen to support women who are peri and post menopausal in giving them strategies and a space to be heard at a time of both physical and mental upheaval.
When Emma is coaching at her best…..She is like a spaghetti sorting device; able to untangle the different strands of clients’ conditions , circumstances and personality traits to unknot problems and streamline their working process and emotional resilience.
Ermine Benjamin
About Ermine
Ermine is also a teacher and she has been teaching dyslexic children for many years. When she is working with them, she uses her active listening skills to really hear what they are saying and adjust her teaching style according to their learning styles. Ermine also worked with individuals from the health and finance sector as well as education.
What Ermine likes about coaching is supporting people to move towards their goals, seeing those special moments when people get an insight that helps them to move forward in their journey and giving people the opportunity to set their own agendas. But most importantly, it’s the forward focus where clients are not dwelling on the past where things have gone wrong, they focus on their strengths to move forward.
When Ermine is coaching at her best she gives her clients her undivided attention, she is an active listener, asks questions that will encourage them to look more deeply at the issues they are discussing, feedbacks on what she has heard so she is sure of her understanding and they are reassured that they are being heard.
