Meyler Campbell brings together a core Faculty of world-class Tutors, together with guest lecturers who are global leaders in their field. Our Chief Supervisor is Professor Carol Kauffman of Harvard University. Faculty and clients alike are in turn supported by a dedicated and highly experienced office team.
Daniel Burke
Daniel Burke was a senior Partner at KPMG, working with Global Chairman Lord Sharman on firm-wide strategy issues. He co-founded the successful executive coaching business The Alliance as well as becoming one of the first Meyler Campbell Faculty Members. In 2007 Daniel’s ground-breaking research on motivation in coaching was published in the International Coaching Psychology Review.
Juan Coto
A strategy (M&A) specialist, Juan had a number of global leadership roles in strategy and general management before switching to the people side as European HR Director, responsible for 4,000 employees in eight countries, for major engineering consultant CH2M Hill. Juan was a top Spanish Junior tennis player and played briefly in the professional ATP tour, and most recently had a world ranking of 79 in the over 40s. He has throughout his business career kept up and developed his specialism in mental toughness, both in elite sport and in the Boardroom, and is now a professional business coach and a mental trainer for elite athletes.
Helen Duguid
Helen was Head of Great Leaders for Microsoft, is a distinguished global leadership coach, and one of the world’s leading experts on applying the Gallup Strengthsfinder in the Boardroom. A seasoned MBTI practitioner, and worldwide trainer and advocate of the Oshry’s Power & Systems methodology, Helen is qualified in countless other leading edge tools including Lominger Inc.’s Learning Architect; Hay Group’s ESCI 360 etc, and works across cultures and geographies with a rich and diverse portfolio of companies.
High-energy, fun, and ever-alert to the latest approaches, Helen distils them into highly experiential strengths-based development work with leaders and teams which clients find energising, even thrilling. She gives clients and friends a mental workout, so you feel stretched and stimulated to be the best you can be whilst playing to your strengths. She is passionate about enabling people to see systems, see the part they play, and embrace their yearning to make a difference.
Liz Gooster
Currently enjoying a flourishing portfolio career as an active partner of The Alliance; a Meyler Campbell Faculty member; and a publishing consultant to selected business authors, Liz previously spent 15 years in publishing. As Publisher for Pearson’s market-leading business book list, one of her titles was FT Guide to Business Coaching, which transformed her life in many ways! Thriving on change herself, Liz’s aim is to help others change for the better, taking a positive, supportive approach, warmly seasoned with challenge, energy and humour. She enjoys travelling, writing, coffee and keeping fit. See also www.lizgooster.com and @lizgooster. For more on Liz Gooster…
Des O’Connell
Des is himself a Graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme, taught on the MBA in Legal Practice Management at Nottingham Law School, and is also trained in the Nancy Kline Time to Think approach. Originally a solicitor, he spent nearly 20 years with one City of London law firm (Biddle’s), latterly as Managing Partner. He then became a senior Executive at Barclays Bank where, as Projects & Operations Director, he provided support to the bank’s Global Legal Function. For the past 11 years he has been a coach, facilitator and consultant with Sherwood PSF Consulting. Des is one of longest standing members of the Meyler Campbell community.
Ann Orton
Ann Orton is one of Europe’s leading business coaches with 20+ years of international experience with consultancy Kepner-Tregoe in the USA and Europe, leading teams and coaching on strategy, change management and process thinking. As well as being a Meyler Campbell Faculty Member she is also a founding member of The Alliance, and coaches pro bono and chairs Boards in music, theatre, and the fine arts.
Eyal Pavell
Eyal Pavell PhD combines his expertise as a Psychologist with 15 years of leadership development and coaching experience, helping many of the world’s most successful companies identify and develop key managers and executives. Eyal held senior roles in a leading global leadership development consultancy prior to starting his own coaching and leadership development practice, where he works with companies across industries and geographies. He is also an adjunct Executive Coach for senior executive programmes at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland and a published author and invited speaker on coaching and organisational issues.
Alice Perkins, CB
Alice was Group HR Director in the Cabinet Office between 2001 and 2005 where she was responsible, among other things, for the development of Permanent Secretaries and their successors. Alice is Chairman of Post Office Limited, a Director of the BBC, and held Non-Executive Director roles on the boards of Littlewoods, BAA and Taylor Nelson Sofres plc. Alice is an external member of the Oxford University Council and a partner at the JCA Group with extensive experience coaching Chief Executives and high fliers and developing top teams.
Anna Phillips
Anna Phillips was Global Director of Executive Development for the insurance giant Royal Sun Alliance, with particular responsibility for the development of the top 250 worldwide. Since becoming an independent, Anna has built a highly successful practice in the financial, media, pharmaceutical and education sectors, and even in that toughest of all environments, global investment banks.
Anne Scoular
Managing Director of Meyler Campbell, Anne was in 2009 one of the five leading experts invited by Harvard Business Review to comment in their Executive Coaching special issue. She has served many of coaching's major bodies worldwide including WABC; BPS/SGCP; AC and ICF; and is the author of the Financial Times Guide to Business Coaching. She has received the rare honour for a non-medic, of being made a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM). For more on Anne Scoular…
Jon Stokes
Jon brings both great depth in psychodynamically-based coaching, and twenty years of experience coaching at CEO/Main Board level across Europe. He is a Director of the leadership and management development firm Stokes & Jolly; Founder of the Consulting Service at the famous Tavistock Clinic he is also a clinical psychologist; an Associate Fellow at Oxford University Said Business School; visiting Professor at Strathclyde University Graduate Business School; and an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Government. See also: stokesjolly.co.uk
Dick Tyler
Dick is an executive coach and business consultant to professional service organisations and their leaders. He was Senior Partner of City law firm CMS Cameron McKenna LLP from 2011 to 2014. While Managing Partner there, the firm’s turnover and profits increased by 75% and 150%, it featured in ‘The Sunday Times’ Top 100 Employers four times and it was the first UK law firm to report publicly on its performance against its client service and people management targets. In 2008, the firm won ‘The Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers Award for innovation in management and Dick was shortlisted as Managing Partner/Senior Partner of the Year. His special interests as a Faculty Member are coaching in the legal and professional services sector, and leadership coaching as a means of facilitating change. See also: dicktyler.com.
Mary Watts
Mary Watts is Meyler Campbell’s Programme Director, leading on accreditation and quality issues. Mary’s PhD subject was Professional Education, Ideology and Learning. She is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and formerly Pro-Vice Chancellor, and Dean of the Health School, at City University, London; Chaired the British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology (BPS SGCP); and has 30 years’ experience in thought leadership, supervision, and the development of new professional pathways and their related accreditation, in health, counselling, and coaching psychology. Read Mary’s Reflections of Coaching Psychologist here.
Katie Driver – Director of Community Engagement
A graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme, Katie Driver enjoys a portfolio career combining coaching, training and consultancy with voluntary work and marathon running. Previously a Senior Civil Servant, Katie spent over 20 years leading education policy development and building Civil Service professionalism. Working with public and private sector clients, Katie’s goal is to help emerging and middle leaders achieve the powerful thinking which leads to real impact at work. See more at the Thinking Alliance website.
Ian Florance – Editor
He spent much of his career at NFER-NELSON, the pioneer of clinical, educational and business psychological testing in the UK, and was Managing Director of ASE, the business consultancy and publisher.
Ian set up Only Connect in 2002. He has worked as a journalist and ghost wrote ‘The Ecological Manager’ a study of business cycles using new sciences with Dr Peter Robertson. Ian is secretary of the European Test Publishers Group which he founded and which now comprises 26 publishers from around Europe. He was visiting lecturer at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. Ian has been a panelist and delivered papers at a number of international psychological conferences. He was used as an expert on psychology, creativity and leadership by Radio Five and Capital Radio.
He has published a number of books and has just published the novel ‘A Glass Rope’.
Charles Glass – Career Coaching
Charles is co-founder and Director of PCP, a specialist career consultancy. Over the last 25 years he has focused on the career field, principally in the financial and legal sectors. Charles specialises in coaching organisations and individuals in achieving career and performance change, and in aligning corporate and individual goals to produce the best outcome for both parties.
Isabel Poensgen – Mentoring
Isabel Poensgen is a German and Swiss-qualified organisational psychologist and founding partner of Bernotat & Cie.GmbH, focussing on C-level mentoring. She serves as adjunct member of the faculty to the World Economic Forum’s Master of Global Leadership and trains Authentic Leadership at Harvard Business School. In the past she has worked with BCG building their career services and internal coaching program. Current coaching mandates include business leaders in DAX 30 companies as well as professional services and law firms.
Stephen Mayson is a professor at the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Faculty of Laws at University College London. He also serves as a non-executive director of a number of law-related businesses, and in an advisory capacity with the Legal Services Board. Stephen is a graduate of the Business Coach Programme and has undertaken coaching engagements at senior commercial and military levels.
Carol Kauffman, PhD PCC – Chief Supervisor, Psychology
Meyler Campbell's Chief Supervisor in Europe Dr Carol Kauffman is Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard University and Founder & Director of its Institute of Coaching. Dr. Kauffman is also Chair of the annual Harvard Coaching Conference and International Coaching Research Forum, and Editor in Chief of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice. She has logged over 38,000 hours as a psychotherapist, coach, coach educator, and coaching Supervisor.
Professor Adrian Furnham – External Assessor
Adrian is both a pre-eminent academic, and a practising business/leadership coach in constant lively contact with the real world of senior business through his consultancy, research, lecturing, and writing. He was educated at the London School of Economics and Oxford University. Previously a lecturer in Psychology at Pembroke College, Oxford, he has been Professor of Psychology at University College London since 1992. He has lectured widely abroad and held scholarships and visiting professorships at, amongst others, the University of New South Wales, the University of the West Indies, the University of Hong Kong and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Management at Henley Management College. He has recently been appointed Adjunct Professor of Management at the Norwegian School of Management. He has written over 700 scientific papers and 57 books and, like Noel Coward, believes work is more fun than fun and considers himself to be a well-adjusted workaholic. www.adrianfurnham.com
Catherine Devitt, CEO
Originally from Dublin, Catherine is a senior HR/OD/L&D practitioner who has held executive roles in Europe and North America in diverse sectors from corporate/financial services (Lloyds; HBOS) to non-profit (Breakthrough Breast Cancer).
Herself a Graduate of the Business Coach Programme in 2007, Catherine is passionate about the ability of coaching to bring about sustained behaviour change. She is a consummate relationship builder and problem solver and an advocate of the power of real business partnerships to effect change. She is excited to bring those skills to support the continued growth and development of the Meyler Campbell brand.
Based in London and Gloucestershire, when not at work Catherine loves to explore and learn about new places, people and ideas. She also makes no apology for the fact that she is a long-standing Manchester United fan.
Claire Maidana, Programme Manager
Claire joined Meyler Campbell in 2008, having spent the previous 5 years in ‘overalls and steel toe-capped boots’ property developing in Kent. Prior to that she worked at the BBC in the Radio Drama and Arts, Science and Features departments. Not surprisingly, Claire’s twin passions are musical theatre and building/renovation projects. Claire’s responsibilities include the management of the Business Coach and The Leader Programme, all CPD events and Graduation; she also manages Anne’s diary.
Jean Chalcraft, Accounts Manager
Jean has extensive finance experience having managed the accounts and held bookkeeping roles in many companies over the years. Prior to this she was instrumental in setting up and running a successful security business. Jean has two pet rabbits and a penchant for beautiful shoes. Jean manages the day to day financial affairs of the company and also assists with CPD event bookings.
Hannah Patrick, Project Manager – Business Development
Hannah joined Meyler Campbell in 2014 as an intern having recently graduated from The University of Exeter with BA Hons in English Literature. She is now a permanent member of the team, assisting Catherine with all Business Development Projects, as well as dealing with CPD, client care, social media and practice clients. In her spare time Hannah plays a Dutch sport named Korfball for the Bromley Senior team, and is Chairman of the club.
Rosie Mackenzie, Administrative Assistant
Rosie joined the Meyler Campbell team in August having graduated from the University of Bristol with a BSc in Geography. She has a keen interest in music, playing both the clarinet and saxophone in her free time. Rosie will be assisting Claire with Programme and CPD administration and assisting Mary with accreditation.
