LEONIE HURRELL
Founder & Lead Coach
I have always had a passion for learning and supporting others to achieve personal and professional success. As a former Headteacher, I know the tremendous expectations that can be placed upon schools and their staff. I embraced my Headship with enthusiasm and ambition though at times I often felt isolated, insecure and exhausted.
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to invest in coaching as part of my leadership development. It was transformational. Coaching enabled me to improve professionally and create positive change for others.
Working with my own coach, I learnt how to work effectively, manage change and remove or overcome any barriers that were holding me back. I became able to balance the demands of an intensive job with a young family and feel far more confident and energized.
As a direct result of my experience I wanted to ensure all educators had the opportunity to experience coaching and build their leadership skills to create success for themselves and inspire their teams and school community. Feeling the experience of coaching for myself and seeing the positive impact it has on others is the reason I became a qualified coach.
I know leadership can be tough, but I also believe it can be the most enjoyable and rewarding role you will ever have. Coaching reminds us of what we value and why we love what we do. Whatever challenges you face as a leader, I can assure you investing in a coach is the best decision you will ever make.
KIM GAMMON
Associate Coach
I have always had a passion for teaching and I have worked in Secondary Schools as a Subject Leader for the past 15 years. I understand the challenges that teachers and leaders face and believe in the importance of being authentic and true to yourself. I invested in coaching three years ago and have found it invaluable in making me more confident, able to successfully manage my role as a mum and teacher, learn how to prioritise and manage my workload efficiently as well as get the most out of myself and my team. I have implemented and led coaching practice across our school by providing quality CPD for staff and through coaching middle leaders. I have competed my ilm approved Advanced Coaching Programme and I am about to start studying for my ILM Level 5 certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring. I love how empowering coaching can be and I am looking forward to developing and inspiring fellow educators through coaching conversations.
RACHEL HINGSTON
Associate Coach
Rachel has always been motivated by developing people and workplace teams. She believes this approach is at the heart of enabling both organisations to flourish, and people to realise their fullest professional and personal growth.
Rachel is a School Business Improvement Leader and experienced Executive School Business Manager. After over a decade of leading in the education sector, she understands the challenges and complexities this journey can bring.
Rachel has received coaching as part of her own leadership development and found it to be an inspired process, and one that facilitated extensive positive and lasting change. Having completed the Advanced Coaching Programme, she now holds the ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring Practice and believes that coaching is one of the greatest transformative steps you can ever choose to take.
Julian Churchill
Associate Coach
Julian is a Headteacher of a large primary School in Poole, Dorset and a Specialist leader of Education for behaviour and attitudes. He has worked in very diverse and challenging settings which have offered a variety of opportunities to gain a deeper understanding of pedagogy, cognition and how young people in particular, behave.
Julian has always been a very strong advocate of the self-improving system and empowering those within the organisation to maximise effectiveness and achieve positive outcomes. The improvement has often been successful through the use coaching as a tool for change. Julian has worked to establish coaching cultures in his own settings and across a MAT of thirteen schools. He has enjoyed the challenge of deepening his understanding of how best to help those around him to be solution focussed. Julian has been accredited through the ILM coaching programme and through securing a masters in professional studies from Kingston University which majored in coaching and mentoring.
Investing in time with a coach was the best thing we ever did, and continue to do. Many of the best Headteachers, senior leaders and teachers have the self-awareness to know that they cannot go it alone and need a great coach to grow and succeed.
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