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Jayne is a coach, author and burnout retreat organiser and host. She is also the author of Burnout to Brilliance and the Co-Founder of Balanceology , specialising in the prevention and recovery of workplace burnout. With 15 years experience specialising in burnout prevention, recovery and culture change consultancy, Jayne is a fellow recovering burnee (is that a word?).  She experienced burn out h...

Frances Lee-Rogers is the founder of Butterfly Development, a professional coaching organisation. She's spent the best part of 18 years working in HR for large corporate companies across several industries, including Professional Services, Aerospace, Logistics and the Public Sector. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in HR and Employment Law, and is qualified in Psychometric and Personality Tes...

Jon is a self-styled agile coach who works with teams, organisations and leaders so they can understand themselves better and improve the ways they work together. Offering 1 to 1 coaching, team coaching and facilitation, Jon is a professionally certified coach (ICF PCC) . He is also a passionate advocate of Agile Software Delivery, with substantial practical experience as a lead developer, Scrum M...

Joy Cosgrove a retail training consultant and coach. Based in Ireland Joy started off studying psychology, mentored by Dr Sharon Lambert - then did her PhD in Edinburgh before ending up in retail for major brands like Harrods and Selfridges.  Sharon encouraged Joy to stop, listen and question - which led her to an addiction to coaching and opened so many doors. She is so thankful for that moment....

With a background in additional support needs spanning 20 years, Jasmine Miller has first-hand knowledge, understanding and application of supporting neurodivergent children, young people and adults in an educational and community settings. She is a Barefoot Coaching Trained Coach and recently led a two-day workshop for Barefoot that I attended at the end of November.  Over the two sessions we dev...

After a little break from doing this podcast, I thought I'd change tack and start a new 'season' of episodes by speaking to someone I've had the pleasure of actually coaching. I find the process of interviewing people an opportunity to reflect and learn about the benefits of coaching people, not just for them but for me as a coach.  Tony lives in Bentonville in NW Arkansas, so...

When I was a senior director at Asda (mid management position with a US job title) I was fortunate enough to realise I was entitled to executive coaching.  I seized the opportunity and after selecting three potential coaches from a long list of ten, I picked Jonathan Bowman-Perks. After an initial chemistry call with JBP and my then boss Chris McDonough I then embarked on a journey that helped cha...

Dr Anne Gregory has been Professor of Corporate Communication at the University of Huddersfield since September 2014. She joined the University from Leeds Beckett University where she was Director of the Centre for Public Relations Studies. While at Leeds Beckett, she also completed a three year term as Pro Vice Chancellor. Anne was one of the tutors and course leaders at Leeds Beckett (formerly L...

Gal Shivtiel is MD at Great Ideas Group, he's an entrepreneur, ex-retailer, and a wanabe vet.  He started his career while on a year out from school working for The Yorkshire Post in ad sales, but with a focus on retail. He got his first company car, and a taste for the working life and decided to stick at it. Which eventually led him on to Asda, where he started in marketing but moved into t...

Emma Fox is CEO at Berry Bros. & Rudd, Britain's oldest wine and spirit merchant, having traded from the same shop since 1698. Today the company has offices in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong, a Wine School and an exclusive fine wine and dining venue in London's St James's, and they hold two Royal Warrants for H.M. The Queen and H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. However Emma's car...

Dom Smales is an entrepreneur and social media pioneer having founded a talent management agency called Gleam Futures that spotted and developed YouTubers to become brands in their own right. He started his career in media sales, selling ad space in magazines and on radio - learning the value of media. He also got a taste for talent management.  Following a health issue he chose to start his own b...

Sorrel Roberts is a professionally and academically accredited coach, passionate about harnessing the benefits of coaching to assist organisations and individuals in realising their potential. Her work focuses on three key areas: Coaching for professional development Coaching skills development Supporting working parents In this podcast we both reflect on a Barefoot training course we attended tog...

Amanda's career began on the Marks & Spencer's graduate scheme, where she worked for 10 years before moving to Asda. Starting at Asda as a Store Manager, Amanda progressed over the next 15 years to Vice President - People. She joined Dunelm in March 2015 and is currently the Stores and People Director on the executive board. She didn't plan to work in HR or personnel as it used...

Over the past 20 years Kevin has worked with top leaders in many different organisations, as a trusted adviser and coach. He helped them develop their personal leadership styles, build on their strengths and become even more self-aware. By doing so they understand their own abilities, their motivations, and their limitations. He considers achieving deep self awareness as 'money in the bank&ap...

Having just completed the Barefoot Coach Training Course for Business and Personal Coaching , it was a real privilege to speak to the founder of the organisation herself - Kim Morgan. Kim is CEO of Barefoot Coaching, one of the most successful and fastest growing coaching and coach training businesses in the UK.  She was one of the UK’s first executive business and personal coaches and pioneered t...

Katherine has been Customer Director at Hobbycraft for eight and a half years and is accountable for marketing and brand, the Hobbycraft Club and its ecommerce business.  She studied at Glasgow Uni, where she intended to study English, but came out with an economics and management degree - which is a story of her career.  He first role was at Mars, Pedigree Masterfoods, where she did a rotation of...

Nick was appointed CEO of Joules in 2019.  He has over 25 years’ experience in developing retail brands and strategy. He started his career at Marks & Spencer where he held a number of senior and director roles.  Prior to joining Joules, he was SVP-Commercial at Asda and a member of the Executive Board, having previously been Managing Director of George.  During his time at Asda, Nick was resp...

As an ex-England International table tennis athlete, former National Coach and current Head Coach at British Para Table Tennis , Greg has successfully competed and worked in elite sport performance leadership and management positions for over 20 years. A fellow Barefoot graduate he is also an internationally recognised Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF...

Stephen is a professional advisor to agencies and communication teams, an author and teacher,  He has a track record of founding, growing and managing change within creative agencies.  We met many moons ago when we were colleagues on the CIPR social media panel - considered to be quite ahead of its time back then with an amazing group of people around the table.  Founded in April 2010 the panel wa...

Aimee is a passionate, dynamic and pioneering brand communications specialist with 20 years experience - providing senior executives at some of the world's biggest global brands with strategic communications advice and counsel, with a particular focus on entertainment partnerships to help brands tell impactful stories.  From early on in her career she knew she wanted to get into the film indu...

Diane is co founder of The Drum. She describes herself as an avid consumer of business education, having stupidly not bothered in her early career.  She also engages in mastermind coaching and business training and loves reading business books (currently on the go is The Win Without Pitching Manifesto by Blair Enns).  This appetite for learning has helped her make fundamental changes to the busine...

Marissa is a fellow Barefooter, but who is on a different cohort of the training. We met on the Barefoot Taster Session back in January, but started the course at different times, as I wanted to learn during work time (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and Marissa wanted to go to college at weekends. She specialises in delivering learning consulting and professional facilitation services, having spent 19 y...

For anyone that has worked with Andy Clarke over the years, he obviously needs no introduction. The former CEO of Asda where he was in charge for six years - a longer tenure than most chiefs. He left school with one O'level in English having spent too much time on the sports field - where he captained the rugby team and water polo team.  Only hanging up his rugby boots when he was 50 having s...

In this episode I caught up with Mav Wynn, an amazing leader who decided to leave the world of investor relations in the city of London to become a pilates instructor in Costa Rica. A career spanning 20 years, enabling listed companies to communicate with shareholders more effectively.  But she felt that something was missing.  She was helping companies better articulate their purpose but she wasn...

Claire Foy is a fellow student on the Barefoot Coaching course - in this podcast we reflect on reaching half way, and review our 'performance' in the first half.  It's strange to think two months ago we'd never met one another as a group, and just how far we've come as coaches and students of coaching in that short space of time. We are already good enough, more resourcefu...