seasoned practitioners

Claire’s professional background is in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Technology Services, the Finance industry and the Not-For-Profit sector.

Sophie brings 20 years of experience in leadership, insight and marketing at TalkTalk, Playtex, British Airways, Yves Saint Laurent and Danone.

With a predominately events and operations management background with added experience in internal communications, Sian has a wealth of knowledge to bring to Coode Associates.

Alice is a resilience and leadership specialist who heads up Coode Associates’ Leadership Explorations.  Alice deployed across the globe with the British Army for over 20 years, and now does so as a coach and consultant.  Her passion is developing high performance leaders and teams that thrive in complex environments.  This often involves helping businesses grow their profitability and performance, despite tough market conditions.

One of the favourite aspects of her role is leadership expeditions; be that in Europe, the Arctic, Africa, Jordan, India and or the Antarctic; helping clients put the Awe-factor back into business development.  Her passion is creating highly profitable, sustainable business, that both thrive financially, and help protect our planet and those around them at the same time.

Alice is the UK Ambassador for the Black Mambas; the first female anti-poaching unit in the globe, who have received awards from the UN, Greenpeace and were part of the Apple 2020 International Women’s Day campaign due to their contribution to protecting the Rhino, and countering Wildlife Crime.   She is also on the Advisory Council for Dream Tank, a US NGO helping youth solve the SDGs, the International Advisory council for Athena Business School in Mumbai, India; and Advisory council for TinyG; an international counter-terrorism network.  She is also part of the Alumni for the Harvard NPLI (National Preparedness Leadership Initiative) Programme.  Since leaving the Army, Alice has become a lifetime Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Royal Society of Arts; passionate about being at the forefront of encouraging disruptive thinking to help find modern and innovative solutions to todays wicked problems.

Richard came from BP where he was hired, in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, to help drive safe and reliable operations as part of the newly created Culture, Capability and Competency team.

After graduating in International Relations from Virginia Tech USA, Janet was recruited by the US State Department and had postings to Brazzaville Congo, USA and Haiti before moving to the UK 20 years ago.

Charlie’s professional background spans the military, manufacturing, financial services and consulting.

Julian is a seasoned business leader and company director with a substantive track record of setting up, building and ultimately floating businesses.

Claire has diverse experience in coaching both SMEs and senior executives in large corporations in the UK and overseas.

Alexandra has a wealth of experience in highly regulated sectors including Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services and Oil & Gas.

Ginny has an extensive background working with CEOs and their teams across a wide-range of industries including Industrial, Financial, Healthcare, Technology Services and Consumer Products.

Mike brings to Coode more than 25 years’ experience in leadership roles, spanning Investment Banking, Chartered Accountancy, and more recently as Co-Founder and CEO of a city-based consultancy.

Cath has over 20 years’ account management experience in the service industry and previously worked as a commercial Account Director at Hays, RR Donnelley and Yodel.

Ellen started her career at KPMG in the Netherlands, where she worked on European and global transformation projects.

Charlie brings to Coode more than 30 years’ experience in various leadership and Non-Executive Director roles, spanning a range of industries including Financial Services, Not for Profit and Consultancy.

Louise’s expertise lies in shaping and leading cultural transformation and engagement programmes for high-growth organisations, both in the UK and internationally.

Sarah Owusu is an Organisation Development practitioner and facilitator with over 10 years experience in leading transformational change and enabling inclusive leadership.

Mike’s wide-ranging career in senior general management and commercial positions has spanned the Agribusiness, Consumer Packaged Goods and Information Technology industries.

Jonny has a unique breadth of experience in a variety of industries, giving him over 25 years of diverse and comprehensive insight.

Major General Nick Caplin was commissioned into the UK Army Air Corps in 1980.

Torie combines the creative flair of a TV producer with the rigour of a tech entrepreneur.

Having been an advisor to Coode since its inception in 2012, Tania joined as a team member in 2018.

Marc Jantzen built and sold an award winning, £10m consulting and training business and now he advises consulting entrepreneurs how to accelerate growth.

Guy had a full career in senior leadership positions in the public and private sectors.

Jim has had a broad and successful career as a senior executive, serving on the main boards of Peek, Tomkins, and James Burrough, among others.

Tim retired from full-time executive life in June 2015; his last executive role was as Chief Financial Officer of ARM Holdings for 13 years.

The Blades are a world renowned close-formation aerobatic display team

Four Points are change management experts

Hedley May is a specialist executive search firm

Paddle Group is a media consultancy