Dave Cosgrove
BSc Hons
About Dave
With nearly 30 years’ experience in leadership and performance coaching roles, Dave brings a wealth of practical experience. His coaching provides a confidential and challenging ear, encouraging clients to explore their ideas and challenges from different perspectives. The approach is action based, the techniques allowing a deeper understanding and behaviour change.
Dave spent the bulk of his professional career in the pharmaceutical industry in commercial leadership and coaching roles. He currently works as a trainer and coach with a range of clients, both in the UK and internationally.
David Rendle
Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring
About David
David is an Association for Coaching accredited executive coach and a qualified coach supervisor. He had a long career in secondary teaching and subsequently in teacher training and school improvement.
David has coached with Genius Within for six 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.
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 in different worlds of work’ 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.
Gemma Drinkall
About Gemma
Gemma’s coaching begins with the principle of “Unconditional Positive Regard”. She knows that you are an amazing individual and tailors coaching to you; what you need and wish to move forward in your working life. Gemma empowers you to learn more about yourself, enabling you to develop strategies for time management, focus, organisation and more, so that you have the confidence and self-belief to thrive in your career.
Gemma North
PhD in Social Work, MA in Social Work, and MSc in Social Research Methods
About Gemma
Gemma takes a strength based and person-centred approach to coaching. With expertise in neurodiversity and emotional wellbeing Gemma draws upon evidence-informed approaches including trauma informed practice and theories of change.
With a sensitive and creative style, Gemma also bringing humour and lightness to coaching sessions. Clients may leave feeling calmer and more clear thinking about how to progress with their goals.
Gemma has a background in social work and academia. Previous roles include lecturer, researcher, social worker, and substance misuse practitioner.
Gill Rudge
MSc in Organisational Psychology
About Gill
Gill joined Genius Within in 2011 as an associate coach. Gill has an MSc in Organisational Behaviour through Birkbeck College and is accredited in Level A and B Psychometric testing, and is trained in using Clean Language. Gill has more than 20+ years of HR experience at a senior level. She was previously Head of HR for the Corporate functions in Marks and Spencer, and through this role she has coached many individuals at all levels up to and including Board members.
Gill has worked with a wide range of clients from different industries including Finance, Law and Property, the retail industry and the Public Sector.
Gill describes her role as a coach as being key to her identity of wanting to help others. She uses her experience to help people navigate through their current challenges. She loves to help people reach their potential and deal with the change that is inevitable in today’s world.
When Gill is coaching at her best, she is warm, friendly, encouraging and good at getting people to reflect on what works for them. She is keen on enabling people to move forward by holding them to account and following up on their targets, using her strong organisational skills to keep them on track.
