Carolyn Mumby
Carolyn Mumby is a qualified leadership coach, registered therapist, supervisor, trainer and team facilitator. She is a member of BACP and EMCC, with over 30 years in the field of developing people. Carolyn is a licensed Time to Think Coach, Facilitator, Thinking Partnership Teacher and Consultant. She is also a licensed MBTI Step 1 Assessor. Carolyn co-designed and facilitated EMCC Accredited Senior Practitioner Coaching training for therapists wishing to become coaches, which received the European Quality Award. Carolyn coaches leaders in corporate public and voluntary sector settings and coaches young entrepreneurs for the New Entrepreneurs Foundation in London. She was chair of bacp coaching division from 2019 - 2022 and a member of the Expert Reference Group developing competences for the integration of coaching and counselling in 2022-23. She is a founder member of the special interest group Coaching for Social Impact. Her work is also informed by Polyvagal Theory “The Science of feeling safe enough to fall in love with life and take the risks of living”. Carolyn connects with people with ease and genuine interest; to support them to identify strengths and areas of impasse, liberate their thinking and make real and sustainable changes in work and life. She has written extensively about the integration of coaching and therapy including guest authoring a chapter in “Personal Consultancy” and writing regularly for Coaching Today. She has a keen interest in life writing, painting and yoga. She lives in London with her partner and two young adult children and indulges her love of nature with a recently acquired local allotment where she tries to find a balance between great produce and spaces for wilder life.
Katherine Bassey
Katherine Bassey is an EMCC accredited Executive Coach, accredited Coaching Supervisor and licensed Time to Think facilitator. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management, with over 30 years in people management roles in the public and third sectors, Katherine specialises in organisational and leadership development, team and individual coaching and action learning. After completing her MA in Human Resource Management at theUniversity of Westminster, Katherine’s work has been strongly influenced by her training and practice in internal and external coaching, reflective practice in coaching supervision, creating thinking environments as a facilitator, supporting apprenticeships to promote engagement and workplace mediation. She also uses a range of psychometrics including MBTI, Belbin team types and DISC, designed to promote understanding of difference and to promote team cohesion. Katherine is committed to encouraging creativity, collaboration, and compassion in the workplace. She is a keen wildlife gardener and up-cycler of found objects, finding much in common across the worlds of work and nature.
Jacquie Hampton
Jacquie Hampton is a trainer, coach therapist and supervisor with over twenty years’ experience in leading large scale transformation programmes across a diverse range of organisations include both the public and corporate sectors. A Chartered Project Professional, Jacquie’s career has also included scientific research, teaching in a community college, developing and delivering technical and leadership training - and a spell investigating large businesses to identify tax evasion. Her current practice includes a mix of consultancy, coaching individuals as well as lecturing on a number of degree and diploma courses.
Jacquie’s work is strongly influenced by her own experiential learning as well as the principles of the Thinking Environment and she takes a Compassion Focused approach to personal and team development. She is passionate about working in partnership with others to co-create the skills and knowledge they need to engage with the challenges of leading in a complex, uncertain and ambiguous environment.
When not working Jacquie is still working on developing her walking mindfulness practice.
Karen Ledger
Karen has been in independent practice since 1995. All her work is underpinned by Person Centred philosophy and the importance of the relationship. Karen is also influenced by other writers and approaches such as Gestalt, Brene Brown, Rumi, Maya Angelou and Irvin Yalom. She is a qualified executive coach, supervisor and therapist and as well as working in those roles she works as a therapeutic coach. She is an accredited NHS executive coach.
Karen has been told that she creates an environment of acceptance, tenderness, respect and delight. Additionally she combines an empathic approach with a dynamic and straight forward attitude. She strongly believes that living a fulfilling personal and professional life should be available to everyone and works with people from varying situations and circumstances where this might be more challenging for some than for others.
Karen has a background of working and leading services for older people and has a social and political understanding of growing older and some of the challenges and freedoms the third act can bring.
Karen’s works outdoors as well as indoors to use nature as an additional resource for her clients and supervisees. Her coaching and organisational clients span the independent, third and public sectors. Until recently Karen was on the BACP executive coaching division and chaired the Special Interest Group in Supervision. At the beginning of 2024 she will be facilitating a co-supervision space for Association of Coaching Supervisors. Her company KSL Consulting has a contract with the NHS leadership Academy.