Hi, We're In Good Company
About Us
In Good Company was co-founded by us, Zoe Hawkins and Jo Wheatley, in 2011 and has become a global, world class, accredited coaching training organisation. The business is founded on courage, compassion and a drive to create a positive legacy through high quality coaching and coaching training.
We are both globally accredited, award winning and award nominated coaches, with the business also being nominated for multiple awards. We are accredited coach supervisors and experienced group coaches and trainers. We have undertaken a wealth of coaching training ourselves and continue to invest in ourselves so we can continue to learn and grow.
We have designed our respected and sought after coaching programmes for courageous and compassionate leaders who are committed to supporting themselves and others to create a positive legacy in the world. Our programmes are for people seeking to be an independent coach, or those seeking to develop their coaching approach as an exceptional leader or internal corporate coach.
Our coaching approach is deeply transformational, drawing on a range of evidence based coaching methodologies and we share the resources and mindset with our learners, helping them to discover who they are as coaches.
We designed our highly sought after accredited Emotions Coaching Practitioner Training as ethical and in depth CPD for qualified coaches seeking to set themselves apart as coaches. The feedback from participants on this programme demonstrates how life changing this programme is for coaches and their clients.
Our portfolio of coaching CPD also includes our highly popular Foundations of Group and Team coaching training which supports coaches to translate their 1:1 skills and create and facilitate transformational groups and team coaching experiences. A natural progression for coaches and brilliant way to expand your business. The perfect first CPD post qualification. This course is also available for in house L&D or HR professionals who are required to facilitate groups and team coaching sessions.
As the business has expanded we have expanded our team, to support you as the learner or organisation seeking to develop a coaching approach, with people who share our values, ethics and high focus on quality and impact.
Today, In Good Company is supported by Heather, our Head of Coachign Qualifications dn Gwen, our Head of Continued Professional Development. They are supported by a team of facilitators, markers and supervisors. Behind the scenes there are also a number of other important people who support us to to support you.
We are committed to excellence and are proud to have a team that are also dedicated to this.
Read on to learn a little more about the other important team members working together to provide a dedicated experience for you.
Heather Wright
Head of Coaching Qualifications
Gwen Jones
Head of Continued Professional Development
Gwen likes to be known as a notable neurodivergent and multi-passionate professional. She is a PCC coach, therapist and corporate facilitation specialist with a passion for focusing on allyship, neurodiversity and mental health & wellbeing in the workplace. Gwen is known internationally for her dynamic style and ability to hold space in a way that everyone feel empowered, safe and accepted. Her background is as a SEND which was a perfect place to pivot into working with how people relate to the many systems they are part of.
Gwen has a MSc in Occupational Psychology, a BSc in Psychology, a level 7 in Relationship Therapy, a level 7 in Coaching and as an AudHD woman with a specialised interest in learning about how people tick has more CPD’s than she can count. This allows her to tailor her pluralist approach to every client programme or learning programme she develops. Gwen’s passion is supporting people to exceed expectations and live authentic, fully realised lives.
Mirjam Berle
Course Facilitator
Mirjam is a qualified Executive Coach accredited by the EMCC at Senior Practitioner. She has extensive experience working with executives from different industries and cultures within the fields of crisis and change. Her main area of expertise is deep transformative coaching at executive and senior leader level, drawing on her experience in the international corporate world as a Director of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs. As a coach Mirjam, born and raised in Germany, focuses on challenging situations and important turning points in the lives of executives and organisations. Mirjam's coaching style is warm, yet challenging with depth, clarity, and focus. She supports her clients in recognising, and activating their strengths and values as levers to achieve their goals with ease, courage, and confidence. Who works with her will also experience the magic of reframing and metaphor.
Jo Jackson
Course Facilitator
Jo is a qualified Executive Coach, accredited by the EMCC at Senior Practitioner and an experienced training facilitator in both coaching and the art of sales and negotiation. She has comprehensive experience working with individuals across multiple sectors and from varied backgrounds. Her specialism is leadership and business coaching, drawing upon her extensive personal experience in the commercial and corporate worlds.
Jo Wong
Course Facilitator
Jo is a chartered occupational and chartered coaching psychologist within the British Psychological Society. She is also a qualified and experienced ILM7, EMCC Senior Practitioner accredited coach. Through her business "Mokita Consulting" Jo helps businesses from start-ups through to global organisations in fully supporting the talents and collective intelligence of their people. This involves leadership assessment, development and executive coaching, as well as working with individuals and teams to enable organisations as they grow and change. Jo works internationally developing and coaching leaders across sectors such as Professional Services, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Start Ups, Telecommunications, Leisure and Elite Sport. Across her career she has also worked with leaders across the EU, North America and Asia Pacific regions.
Anna Hewitt
Course Facilitator
Anna is a qualified Career and Leadership Coach, accredited by the EMCC at Senior Practitioner Level. Anna has founded her own coaching business and is an experienced coach and facilitator. Prior to training as a Coach, Anna worked as an HR Director for 15 years. She has experience in team leadership, coaching senior leaders, attracting and retaining talent and developing brilliant places to work. Anna holds the BPS qualifications for Level A and B and a trained practitioner in MBTI, Firo B, 16PF and Aptitude tests.
Anna’s works with a big heart, whose ethos is “challenge with care”. Her approach to coaching is to enable clients to experience transformation by supporting them to grow their self-awareness, understand how overcome obstacles and to build momentum and confidence to take action.
Jed Langdon
Course Facilitator
Jed is an Executive Coach and experienced leadership development facilitator who is passionate about helping people, teams and organisations grow, fulfil their potential and have a positive impact on the world. He has 15 years experience in supporting leaders to overcome a wide variety of the complex challenges and in leading L&D, employee engagement and OD projects at the Eden Project, where he is creating an internal coaching culture that puts formal and informal coaching at the heart of employee development.
As a coach Jed's style is supportive, enthusiastic and empathetic, yet challenging. Connection with nature plays a huge part in his life and work, and he loves spending time outdoors with individuals and groups, using the natural world as a guide for personal and leadership growth.
Amanda Sloan
Course Facilitator
Amanda is a Chartered Psychologist and ICF Accredited Leadership Coach and with over 20 years’ experience consulting, coaching and facilitating internationally across industry sectors. She is passionate about helping organisations retain and grow talent, while helping the individuals and teams feel more confident and collaborate more effectively, enabling them to perform and achieve at their highest level.
Amanda's work is about facilitating sustainable breakthroughs by challenging the stories and assumptions that impact how we view the world. Amanda works internationally developing and coaching leaders across sectors such as Professional services, Telecommunications, Financial services, Air traffic services, Start ups, Recruitment, Charity and Elite sport.
Jeremy Lewis
Coaching Supervisor
Jeremy is a qualified and accredited coaching supervisor with over 15 years’ experience in coaching, supervision, facilitation and OD consulting. Jeremy is also undertaking research into coaching supervision for a leading industry journal.
Jeremy's approach to supervision is based upon the consistent application of a set of fundamental skills, he also draws upon ideas from different areas including Transactional Analysis, Gestalt and many years of consulting and facilitating others’ learning, and I will apply appropriate supervision models, techniques and experiments where these add value to the supervisory relationship. My supervisees can expect high support and high challenge to affect their ways of doing and being in relation to the services they provide to their clients.
Brenda Routt
Coaching Supervisor
Brenda is a qualified and accredited coaching supervisor and runs her own consulting firm in the US. She has held executive operational roles for over 35 years and today she works with companies on such initiatives as CEO performance, strategic planning and executive, leadership and team coaching.
In her role as Coaching Supervisor she has worked with individual coaches and with small groups of coaches. Additionally, Brenda heads up the supervision programme for The Humanitarian Coaching Network which provides coaches to employees of the UN. Brenda supports these coaches with supervision.
As both an experienced coach and supervisor Brenda brings an unrivalled warmth and passion to supporting coaches around the world.
Ruth Sangale
Coaching Supervisor
Ruth describes herself as a creative leadership development facilitator, coach and supervisor. Her background before coming to coaching and supervision was in the NHS in HR and OD roles designing and delivering leadership programs.
Ruth has a passion for diversity and inclusion and has worked Internationally in Afghanistan, Brazil, Belize and India with a range of clients including UNICEF, Plan International, WYSE International NGO and more locally the NHS, MOD and Cabinet office facilitating groups and one to one coaching. Her passion is in designing creative experiences that enable people to think out of the box and have deep insight into what is stopping them from achieving their goals or expressing their leadership potential.
Sheela Hobden
Coaching Supervisor
Sam Pringle
Coaching Supervisor
Sam is an accredited supervisor who has also completed an advanced certificate in group supervision, which she enjoys facilitating. She is Master Coach with the EMCC and holds an MBA and a Masters in Coaching. Sam's experience is as a CEO, Board Chair and Head of Research. Previous to this she was also a trainer and regional manager in the pharmaceutical industry. Her wealth of experience enables her to be a versatile supervisor.
Her interests are in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion around neurodiversity (accredited ADHD coach), carers and parents providing coaching and supervision in the private and public sector. Sam enjoys supporting clients to make sense of their world and uses a range of methodologies to enable this.
Anushly Sithamparam
Coaching Supervisor
So... now that you've found us, here's how you can work with us
You can train as a coach with us.
You can join our Emotions Coaching Practitioner Programme
You can join our business lounge membership to support your coaching business development.