About Us

Her mission is to help raise the consciousness and effectiveness of leaders with global impact, linking purpose, values and the power of integrity. She loves co-creating to find emergent solutions for the leadership and cultural challenges of our increasing VUCA world, supporting leaders to re-connect with their social contract as part of re-instilling societal trust.

Deborah has lived, studied or worked in the US, Canada, Switzerland, France, Spain, Brazil, South Africa and the UK. She is fluent in French and Spanish and speaks basic Portuguese.

Sample corporate clients include: Accel, AP Moeller Maersk, Bayer Diagnostics, BNP Paribas, BP, Citibank, CPPIB, European Investment Bank, European Stability Mechanism, ibm.com, Lehman Brothers, Lloyds TSB, McDonald’s, l’Oreal, QBE, SABMiller, Save the Children and 3i.

Deborah has a BA in French and Spanish from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and an MBA from the Ivey School at the University of Western Ontario. Following her studies, she worked as a Research Associate with IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland for 2 years.

In her spare time, she enjoys skiing, sailing, tennis, golf, entertaining, theatre and opera. She also enjoys connecting with cousins in an extended family that is spread over six continents.

He developed his knowledge and skills in strategy and performance improvement – as an Officer in the Royal Marines in his twenties, as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in his early thirties, and through serving these clients:

PVH Corp (Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger), adidas, Coca-Cola, SAB Miller, DuPont, BNP Paribas, Old Mutual, USAID, DFID, Anglo-American, Sasol, Zain, Philips, 3i (Private Equity), Royal Mail, European Investment Bank, Harmony Gold, Skandia, Engen, Nedbank, African Bank, First National Bank, Telkom, Spoornet, Transnet, Portnet, City of Johannesburg, United Bank of Africa, Gula Puti Mataram Sumatra, De Lage Landen, Pongola Game Reserve, Triangle Zimbabwe, Global Water Project, Standard Bank, Abellio, TechnoTrouble, Urenco, Westpac Group, CSC, and McKinsey & Company.

He holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Geology from the University of Wales and an MSc (Dist) in Environmental Technology (Business and the Environment) from Imperial College, London.

Antony is from the UK (where he now lives) and has lived and worked in many countries including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Her work involved embedding and aligning a high-performing values driven culture to an ambitious strategy and vision that placed the customer at the heart of the organisation’s purpose. Faiza acted as the trusted advisor for senior leaders across the Group, coaching them to lead authentically, navigate ambiguity, and collaborate across complex matrix structures.

The Old Mutual Story has been recognised as a best practice case study by the Barrett Values Centre and the Financial Reporting Council.

Faiza regularly works with organisations in the areas of: Leading cultural change, team alignment, developing values and visioning, strategic story-telling, engaging employees, building effective teams, selecting and retaining talent, motivating employees, handling difficult conversations, transformational leadership, diversity and inclusion, communication and influencing skills, understanding power dynamics and developing coaching skills.

Faiza has a BSc (Hons) in Psychological Sciences, an MSc in Occupational Psychology, and is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society and Health and Care Professionals Council. She is also studying for an MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy at the Gestalt Centre, London.

She is qualified in the Barrett Culture Transformation Tools, MBTI Step 1 and 2, FIRO-B. 16PF, California Psychological Inventory, Time to Think: Thinking Partnership (Nancy Kline), Systemic Constellations, Action Learning, World Work and Process Psychology for applications in conflict resolution, solving complex problems and facilitating teams, organisations and communities (Facilitation for Leaders, CFOR).

In her spare time Faiza loves being drawn into her children’s imaginative and creative playtimes. She enjoys painting and being inspired by art, different cultures and anything colourful. Faiza also offers her time to providing therapy at a London based charity supporting marginalised women.

Christophe has developed this expertise over the last more than 20 years, first as a McKinsey leader of strategic and cultural transformation projects for more than 9 years, and then as a professional coach and facilitator, working with more than 150 teams and 250 executives across more than 12 sectors. 

His clients have included companies such as Roche, 3i, Ferrero, L’Oréal, Lesaffre, Orange Group, GDF Suez, Adeo, Pfizer, BNP Paribas Fortis, McKinsey, Philips, British Gas, Century 21, Michael Page, Group Lhoist, Maggotteaux, Amgen, Biotech Quality Group, Base, Seaters, Roularta Media Group, Electrolux, Softbank Robotics, Groupe La Poste, Vajra, and two major European institutions.

Christophe enjoys developing highly effective coaching teams, and designing high impact coaching architectures.

He holds an MA in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from the Vlerick Leuven Management School. 

He is a Professional Certified Coach with ICF, and holds advanced degrees in executive and team coaching from the Academy of Executive Coaching. He holds a degree in Organisation Coaching from HEC Paris, and is a certified coach supervisor. 

He is a passionate learner, and an experienced practitioner in multiple coaching approaches including gestalt/ humanistic, systemic coaching, NLP, Human Element, Organization Workshop, appreciative inquiry, transpersonal coaching, stakeholder-centered coaching, and dialogic OD, among others.

Christophe is from Belgium, and is bilingual in French and English, and coaches in both languages. He has lived, worked, and studied, in several countries including France, the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. He is at home in multicultural environments.

She has 20 years of consulting experience with organisational clients including: Fujitsu, Computacenter, BNP Paribas, Department of Health, Amazon, and various Primary Care Trusts.

She is trained in Appreciative Inquiry methodology for group facilitation and the Barrett Values Assessment tool for Culture Change and 360 Leadership Assessment. Judith has studied a range of counselling and personal development approaches including NLP, Imagework, counselling and coaching skills.

Judith’s early career was spent with Marks and Spencer as a personnel manager in stores and then in HR strategy in its Head Office. There she gained experience of management recruitment, including chairing selection centres, leadership development, creating new appraisal systems, and facilitating strategic team offsites.

After M&S, Judith joined KPMG as a management consultant where she coached people from a variety of sectors and disciplines to help them manage their careers in the changing cultures.  She also helped a number of international banks manage complex change programmes.

She ran team facilitation days, revised the career assessments manuals and co-created a course called “Visioning” to support people accessing their intuition to create a template for a future they would love to have. After four years she moved to be Director of Programmes at MCD as part of a team which developed a career management consultancy until it was sold by its parent company Hambros.

Judith’s first degree is in Geography from Nottingham University. She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel from University College of Wales, Cardiff. She also has a Masters Degree in Wisdom Spirituality. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management and has been a yoga and meditation teacher.

Judith is Welsh and spends part of the year there. She has been interested in the theatre and music for many years, is part of an osprey project, and likes walking in North Wales.

Businesses served include: Lloyds Banking Group, TSB, Barclays, HSBC, RBS, Co-op, Three, Vodafone, La Salle Investment Management, TUI, Mandarin Oriental Hotels Group, Savoy Hotel, Deloitte, Simmons & Simmons, Save the Children and Carbon Leapfrog (Charities).

Julian draws from accreditations as a Chartered Accountant (KPMG), INSEAD strategic development programmes, Coach (ICF), Cultural Transformation Tools (BVC), Team Management Profiling (TMSDI), Axialent Conscious Business, NLP Master Practitioner, Mastering Group Dynamics and Leadership Body Language, Time to Think: Thinking Partnership (Nancy Kline).

Prior to leadership development, he enjoyed a 20 year career in corporate finance, strategy and commercial development, of which 10 years were spent with the FTSE 100 Compass Group PLC. Whilst there, he held divisional and operating company directorships in the UK, France and Scandinavia.

Before leadership development, he briefly returned to Corporate Finance to be the Group Transition Project Director responsible for the completion and post separation project management of the £2 billion divisional sale to Private Equity.