Meet the team

Sue is passionate about embedding coaching in the NHS. Her style of coaching is of empowerment to explore transformational change so people can achieve their full potential. She has ILM Level 7 Diploma in Mentoring and Executive Coaching with over 500 hours of coaching experience. She has coached doctors at all stages of their careers and other professionals across the NHS, Civil Service and industry.

Sue supervises other coaches (both 1:1 and in small groups) and has the certificate in coaching supervision with the Centre for Supervision, Training and Development at Bath. She also works as a trainer in coaching skills.

Sue’s background is in Elderly Care Medicine. She developed a portfolio career representing the UK at the European Medicines Agency’s Scientific Advice Working Party and for the BMJ. She currently works as a coach, trainer and appraiser which she enjoys enormously.

Sue has two daughters; one is an academic at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the other is a FY2 doctor.

Jan is a passionate leadership development coach who believes she facilitates people to “Be the best they can be”. Her coaching experience blends her 40 years of NHS sector history with her passion for leadership development. Her experience as a former NHS nurse executive and board member across Primary Care, acute hospitals and NHS regional organisations has proven beneficial for coaching and supervising established and aspirant executive team members. As an independent coach and healthcare consultant, she has delivered thousands of coaching and coaching supervision hours to people working in the NHS, Police Service, Civil Service and Education utilising a range of coaching models to meet client needs. Her client base in the NHS consists predominately of clinicians, consultants and GP’s working in clinical leadership roles. She also facilitates action learning sets working with teams across NHS, Police, Education and charity sector organisations.

Nick trained in General Practice and was a partner in a training practice in Wiltshire for 9 years before moving to West London to work in Sexual Health and HIV. He now has a portfolio career including medical education and coaching. Nick found that having coaching at ‘crossroads’ in his life was such a valuable experience, clarifying personal values, priorities, direction and strengths, that he was motivated to train as a coach himself.

At a time of ever-changing priorities and increasing pressures in people’s lives, Nick sees coaching as a powerful tool to clarify issues and provide support to enable people to find ways to help them through and to come out with more direction, more confidence and more control in resolving conflicts and dilemmas. He has a Level 7 Certificate in Coaching/Mentoring with the Institute of Leadership and Management.

Quen is an experienced mentor and coach, a Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) and Honorary Associate Professor in UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

She has been mentoring medical and nursing colleagues since her consultant appointment, realising the benefits of having a skilled mentor in her career. She has also mentored International Medical Graduates in their career development and understanding issues associated with progression in the UK National Health Service.

Quen attended formal mentor training in the hospital in 2003 and has been a coach/mentor to senior colleagues in GOSH since. Her Mentoring and Coaching skills training was formalised with the London Deanery Mentoring Programme provided by Management Futures in 2009. She has maintained her mentoring skills, CPD and supervision, being a member of the Faculty of Medical Coaches.

She has been Mentoring lead for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health since 2016.

Helen has had more than 20 years’ experience in senior clinical, educational and leadership roles in the NHS. She has worked as a coach since 2009 and has had more than 500 hours experience coaching NHS doctors and other senior NHS staff. She also facilitates coaching courses for NHS staff. During her clinical career Helen has supported a wide range of NHS staff in their personal and career development and has found it immensely satisfying to see people flourish and reach their potential. Coaching has given Helen more specific skills to facilitate an individual’s development. She is a good listener and creates a safe space to enable the coachee to explore what they want to achieve and what might be stopping them reaching their goals. She firmly believes that coaching can be transformational, if the coachee really wants to make positive changes in their lives. Helen has the ILM 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring and is accredited as a facilitator for the Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI).

Kate started coaching for London Deanery in 2013 and completed the ILM 7 certificate in 2017. She is a founding member of FMC. She has been a GP partner in a North London Practice for over 30 years with a special interest in family (systemic) therapy. Her other roles include GP trainer and educational supervisor, and she convenes her local trainers’ group. She is also a GP appraiser, and is delighted that the recent focus on appraisals has been more supportive and open to coaching conversations.

Kate’s interest in education and teaching led her to coaching, and she gets great pleasure from helping both patients and clients to make positive changes in their lives. She appreciates how the coaching process allows people to establish and realise their goals, and to fulfil their potential through their own resourcefulness. During recent difficult times for healthcare professionals, she has been able to offer coaching support to colleagues to help them to find ways of improving their working lives.

Tonia recently retired as senior partner of a large GP training partner and is an experienced GP appraiser. She was elected CCG Clinical Director for six years from 2014-2020 representing the CCG at board level with Performance & Quality, Finance & Planning and GP communication portfolios. Her role included working with hospital and community colleagues on QI initiatives and sitting on the Local Authority Health and Wellbeing Board. She continues as Clinical Lead for Children and Young People including Mental Health. She has been an NHS leadership coach since 2017 and holds the EMCC Coach Practitioner qualification. She looked for coaching for herself during a difficult transition to her CCG board role where politics sometimes seemed to conflict with core values. She found coaching so valuable and eye-opening that she decided to pursue training to offer support to other NHS clinicians and senior managers etc.

David is a retired GP, GP trainer and Training Programme Director. He still works as a seminar leader for King’s College Medical students and as a facilitator member of the Association of Narrative Practitioners in Healthcare (ANPH) that promotes the practice of a supervision model known as ‘Conversations Inviting Change”. He holds the ILM level 7 certificate for executive coaching having trained in both the “Egan” and “Coaching Positively” models of coaching and mentoring and uses these models very flexibly.

He enjoyed the mentoring role of being a GP trainer, the one-to-one conversations that enables personal and professional development of each trainee, a model of training that is prized highly in General Practice. Beyond this supportive training environment, however, there is an increasing need for coaching and mentoring support for colleagues all across the NHS, hence David's wish to be available to you as a coach or mentor.

Mandy is an experienced GP and has developed a portfolio career over more than 30 years. She has had various roles in clinical leadership and education. She is a Foundation Training Programme Director and educational supervisor. She has held roles in clinical leadership including GP Director on a CCG board and most recently Clinical Director for a PCN. She is also an experienced appraiser. She started coaching in 2008 through the London Deanery and achieved the ILM Level 7 Certificate in 2013. She has coached colleagues from many specialties both in medicine and nursing and at various stages in their careers. She has learnt the power of facilitating discussions on career transitions as well as enabling personal reflection and professional development. She also recognises the value of using the coaching approach with patients and appraisees. She particularly enjoys helping clients use their resourcefulness to grow towards their potential.

Jan is a clinical leader, executive coach and educator with a passion for making a positive impact. Working with executives through to people who have experienced trauma she has facilitated professional and personal development through learning in action.
Jan has a reputation for being a good listener who attends to surface issues while also sensitively exploring deeper influences, mindful of developmental and systemic perspectives. Her personally tailored approach applies expertise in developmental psychotherapy to assist you in expanding your reach while drawing on individual, team and systemic models to enable sustainable impact. She is Fellow and Specialist Advisor in coaching and mentoring to the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Dr Nike Arowobusoye is a coach and mentor with over 10 year’s successful experience and a public health consultant with over 25 years’ experience. Nike coaches to achieve mastery over setbacks and skilfully navigate complexity, including the facilitation of continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development (PDP).  Nike believes in enabling professionals to access their inner resourcefulness and creativity and tap into their leadership, power, courage, compassion, and joy (for their resilience and growth).   Nike brings her experience of public health, healthcare delivery and an understanding of culture and relationships at community and executive levels to support individuals to thrive in public health and other roles, and flourish whist embracing difference. Nike shares the concept of enhancing one’s “vhaalubank” (resilience). Nike enjoys dancing and scenic walks.  Nike is minded that we can achieve almost everything if we are willing to try a few times and look for solutions.

Dr. Penny Neild MD FRCP is a Consultant Gastroenterologist, who developed her interest in coaching, through her experience in teaching and training, including medical undergraduates and postgraduate trainees through her role as training programme director. Having increasingly recognised the power and value of active listening and facilitation of self-awareness and decision making, she has used coaching techniques across all professional settings Penny is an accredited Executive coach and Leadership mentor since 2014, having initially trained through the London Deanery. More recently she was instrumental in helping to establish a coaching and mentoring scheme for the members of the British Society of Gastroenterology, and has also developed increasing experience in group coaching. She offers her mentees time and mental space to consider, reflect and make decisions about specific issues important to them, and contributes questioning, challenge and appropriate coaching tools to facilitate this process.

Dr Rosalind Ramsay MA MBBS FRCPsych is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Deputy Medical Director for the medical workforce, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and a founding member of the Faculty of Medical Coaches. She holds the ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring. She co-authored guidelines on mentoring and coaching for the RCPsych and has been the London Division rep for coaching and mentoring.

She was a founder member and previous chair of the Women in Psychiatry Special Interest Group at the RCPsych. She has also been on the exec team at Medical Women’s Federation. Both groups aim to support women doctors and their development. She has been the Trust champion for LTFT trainees and has worked in the Trust Counselling and Well-being service.

Her other roles include lead doctor advisor for the Psychiatrists’ Support Service; a case manager in the Professional Support Unit in the London Deanery; an NCAS assessor and a GMC health examiner and medical supervisor.

Her values include fairness, transparency, and patient centred care. In her coaching practice the coachees/clients and their goals are the centre of her attention.