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.
Elisabeth Goodman
MSc in Information Science
About Elisabeth
Elisabeth works with managers and individual team members in Life Science and other companies, large and small, to help them exercise choice and realise their potential in the workplace.
She and her clients work across four levels of awareness: what’s important to them, how they interact with others, how they go about their work, and how they relate to their environment.
Her advocacy for Neurodiversity comes from her personal and family experience of autism, and her insights gained from working with neurominorities.
Experiencing the pandemic in these last few years has brought Elisabeth closer to nature too, so that she is now looking for ways to actively care for our environment, as well as bring it into her coaching.
Elisabeth’s flexes her calm and reflective approach and the coaching tools she uses to match her clients’ learning styles and the topics they want to explore.
Gudrun Stolzenburg
About Gudrun
Gudrun has around 10 years experience in coaching. She is passionate about helping clients finding their own unique ways to overcome challenges and achieve their full potential. She has worked with a diverse range of clients, both on an individual basis as well as in groups. She loves Clean Language because the deep respect it affords clients and for the amazing solutions they come up with when they are enabled to.
Gudrun’s calm approach to coaching and her sense of humour make it easy to work with her and relax into the sessions.
Gudrun has had bouts of depression and anxiety, including post-natal anxieties and has experience in how hard these periods are and how much energy it costs to work your way out of them
Gwyn Thomas
Master’s degree in Leadership and Management
About Gwyn
Gwyn is professional Executive Coach & Coach Supervisor. He has considerable experience in Executive & Leadership Coaching in support of enhancing individual, team and organisational performance as well as being a practicing leadership trainer, mentor and management consultant.
He is passionate about people and believes that valuing each person’s uniqueness is fundamental to improving their individual and leadership performance and that coaching is a key tool in enabling people to be the very best they can be.
Gwyn has a particular interest in working with people, who would like to improve their personal leadership performance effectiveness, gain clear purpose in their life aspirations, and develop their self-confidence and self–esteem.
Helen Barnes
About Helen
Helen is a skilled and compassionate coach, coach supervisor and occupational therapist whose work is grounded in academic rigour and experience from working with a diverse range of clients. She has a deep curiosity and intuition about people and believes that a client’s narrative is the best way of getting to know them; where they are in the context of their lives and where they might be thinking about going.
Helen’s experience has been rich and varied working with all grades of staff across the European Commission in Brussels as part of their internal coaching programme, and more recently with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust on a project supporting adults with mental health conditions back into work. She continues to work with the NHS Leadership Academy as well as running her own coaching and therapy company.
Helen Jebb
ILM Level 7 Executive Coaching
About Helen
Helen is an experienced qualified coach supporting clients to see their potential and reach it. She has been enthusiastically working with neurodivergent clients in a wide range of employment settings with Genius Within since 2016.
She is passionate about professional development and personal achievement and has a real interest in difference and diversity. From a coaching perspective Helen is keen to develop ways of working which are client led and fit with their needs, focusing on strengths and using active reflective practice.
Clients describe the impact of coaching as “more capable, productive and happy than I was before” and having “made a massive impact on my life”!
Helen Johnson
PhD in the Social Psychological Process of Role Transition (Making Change) and Emotionally Intelligent Support and MSc in Public Policy
About Helen
Helen is an ICF credentialised coach to PCC level with 10 years coaching experience and an extensive background in coaching neurodiversity. She also has a Diploma in Integrated Energy Techniques (tapping and NLP) and offers ICF coach training for coaches, leaders, and change-makers.
Helen coaches by finding the hidden blocks to getting exactly where you want to be. She goes deep, but also focuses on making things lighter for you, creating more ease and enjoyment in what you are doing.
Helen has a wide range of knowledge and skills to bring to the table. Helen’s experience includes coaching and training executives, as well as working extensively with neurodivergent individuals to help them leverage their strengths while addressing their challenges.
