andy
farenden
Fueled by tea and a desire to change the world Andy Farenden is a transdisciplinary designer, coach and educator who specialises in working with teams to build community. A member of the Association for Coaching, he's an accomplished events manager, curator and leadership consultant who helps people tell their stories to create impact.
He's worked with the Home Office on hate crime, Festival800 celebrating the freedoms of the Magna Carta, the Cultural Olympiad to showcase modern fables at Latitude Festival, and Bishop Grosseteste University to coach the next generation of entrepreneurs and leaders. Andy also specialises in coaching for the LGBT+ community.
Work with Andy if you want to explore your creativity and see where your natural curiosity can take you. Expect a warm and open approach with you at the centre. He'll challenge you to become the best person you can be.
katy Baggott
A creative spirit and ‘corporate rebel’ Katy Baggott isn’t your run-of-the-mill ‘executive coach’. She’s an experienced leadership development coach, personal brand mentor, certified NLP practitioner and hypnotherapist, BACP registered person/centred therapeutic counsellor, speaker, radio broadcaster, podcaster and theatrical singer.
She has judged on various high-profile public speaking panels around the UK, as well regularly being invited to speak on stages, podcasts and BBC radio shows about integrating coaching and counselling, well-being, impostor syndrome, mental toughness, the power of self-belief and empathic and creative coaching approaches.
Expect a progressive, tolerant and irreverent approach to coaching; with warmth, deep awareness, intense loyalty, passionate encouragement, a comfortable environment, relating theory to real-life situations with pragmatism and an imaginative lexicon of metaphors and similes.
richard
askam
Fond of telling ‘taller tales’ than most (something to do with being 6ft 5") Rich grew up in the storytelling industry that is the Wine business, unable to sell even one bottle of wine without weaving a wonderful story that best described it!
Unsurprisingly, since establishing a full-time career as a successful and captivating International Public Speaker in 2016 and a speaker coach in 2017, with an easy charm Rich will encourage you to develop your own storytelling skills.
A TEDx talker, Rich has a unique ability to share insights based on his lived experience of standing on stages all over the world, engaging the audiences he speaks to from some of the world's largest businesses with warmth, charisma and poise.