Our People:   Executive Coaches

Here are the people from our team who specialise in the field of Executive Coaching.

Kate Burton: ICF Certified Executive and Career Coach 

Kate works with professionals in the business world who are hungry for change. 
Kate is a well respected, fully qualified international coach who challenges her clients to transform their personal effectiveness, leadership style and performance.  Her clients number many senior IT executives with a hearty appetite for development; people who value success, expect a high quality of life and measure the impact of coaching on their bottom line performance. Kate is a master practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and full member of the International Coach Federation heading towards her PCC accreditation.

 “The career coaching programme with Kate has been uplifting to the point where I’m now enthusing about my work ..., it’s been an eye-opener to step back, stop and think what I really want.” Mark Nutburn, IT Director

Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.com

Ron Irving: Director Coach, Experienced Executive Coach, Business Mentor  

Ron has been a management consultant for the last fifteen years working in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. His specialism is Board Level Executive Coaching and Mentoring.  Born in Glasgow, Ron was educated in Scotland, gaining a degree in Business Management from the Scottish Business School.

His focus is directed at helping individuals grow and develop within their business, through intense one to one sessions.  Ron assists the individual to set the agenda according to her or his own needs, so they are dealing with their real concerns and issues.

 His style is to partner with each client in setting goals and outcomes to ensure there is a direct impact on the performance and effectiveness of both the executive and the organisation.  So all aspects of work including relationship management, dealing with stress and balancing conflicts in lifestyle are open to examination.
Clients have included BT, the Virgin Group, the Reed Elsevier Group, Ernst and Young, Legal and General, Punch Taverns, Danone and Motability.

Peter Miller-Smith:
Rainmaker Performance Profiler certified Executive Coach and Business Mentor

Peter's passion is working with business leaders who really want to raise their game who want to improve their business performance, and take control of their lives.

Peter’s many years of experience running businesses and leading teams in the UK, Europe, and USA have shown him time and again what is possible when the best are encouraged to excel. He brings commercial awareness, challenge, and incisiveness, and a well-tried and proven approach.

Peter spent much of his career as an executive with 3M Corporation, with nine years in Brussels, the USA and The Netherlands running a number of different businesses.

A recent client said of working with Peter...   “he has that wonderful balance of knowing when to challenge and when to leave you be….He helps me to think the unthinkable, challenge my assumptions and givens, and really focus on what is holding me and my company back. His coaching has helped the business enormously in developing management skills, improving communication up and down in the organisation, but most of all reminding me to focus on what is really important."

John Gloster-Smith:Leadership Coach

John has been developing leaders in business for the last 15 years since he transformed his own career from being a senior manager in private-sector education. He’s been a management consultant to almost every business sector of international and FT 100 companies.

He’s worked at developing leaders, coaching 1-on-1, and facilitating teams at all levels to board level, as well as organisational development. This has been supported by his own extensive investment in personal growth and in training in Gestalt and other process methodologies for personal and business transformation.

His style is focused and results-orientated but informal, with a strong ability to ask exactly the right questions that pick up the key issues and get to the heart of the matter, and to work with process, both in individuals, reporting lines and teams to help organisations bring about the desired change.

Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.com

Lynne Copp: Work Life Balance Specialist and Management Coach

Is in business to support clients to create great places to work. She achieves this through her consulting, research, training, communication and coaching.
Her experience and passion for what she does, creates motivation and change in others.

She is empowering, creative and innovative. She is a very well regarded coach and keynote speaker.

She has appeared on the BBC Money programme, BBC Radio and is retained by many organisations as a regular speaker at events.

Lynne coaches leaders, managers and employees in the large and corporate business sector – both private and public.
She supports people to personally develop, to manage their work and life, manage their workload, improve their wellbeing, develop their communication skills and deal with personal issues related to work or relationships.

Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.com

Bella Mehta: Executive and Career Coach

An executive and career coach with a strong track record in business as well as a highly skilled facilitator of individual and team change. An engaging speaker on equality and diversity issues, as well as the co-author of a best-selling business handbook, Bella appears often as a business commentator on television and radio.

Bella has a Diploma in Advanced Change Management, Facilitation and Coaching from the Institute for the Development of Human Potential and trained in Transactional Analysis Counselling at the Metanoia Institute. Prior to launching her own company, she was a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting and a Project Manager for BBC News.

David Kelly: Leadership, Executive and Career Coach

David is an experienced coach, facilitator and change agent. For over 25 years he has worked with clients across the globe, often with multi-cultural teams. With Aventis Pharmaceuticals  for 18 years David held a variety of organisation development and people development roles. In 2003 he left Aventis to join a pharmaceutical consultancy to become their Head of Coaching & Development.

Feedback from those with whom he has worked includes ‘exceptionally good at leading groups of people through learning experiences while focusing on team motivation’ (General Manager) and ‘an excellent change agent and an asset to any organisation going through change.’ (Area Sales Manager)

David is a qualified NLP Master Practitioner, a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’ and a member of The Association for Coaching.’

Helen Chapman: York and London based

Executive and Management Coach and Personal Resiliency Specialist

 Helen Chapman is an accredited psychological coach and trainer . She is passionate about helping leaders and team to be more effective and resilient in creative and innovative ways. She also likes to keep things as simple and straight forward as possible and ideally fun!  Her first booklet 'Being Resilient' beautifully captures her attitude to life and business, 'if we could stand back more often and imagine what a child might say or do, we might cut through some of our business and personal complexity'

Helen has more than 22 years experience in large multinational organisations working in management and leadership roles in functions such as Research, Development, IT, Finance, Information and Knowledge management. She started her life as a bench chemist at Nicholas Laboratories, before moving to ICI and then GSK. She splits her time between Yorkshire and Hertfordshire enjoying the balance between the two and is currently working on her next booklet 'Being Effective'. 

Sally Prescott: North West of England and London Based
 Executive Coach, Learning and Development Specialist , Director Coach ICF Accredited Coach

Sally Prescott is a Learning & Development Specialist and ICF Accredited Coach - and has a real passion for life. With 22 years of energetic experience working in the service industry, Sally’s driving force lies in enabling people to reach their goals.

Over a 14 year period at Forte Hotels Sally led teams to success for the benefit of both the hotel and individual employees at all levels. During this time, she was inspired to pursue a career in Human Resources and Learning & Development, and is a CIPD graduate. She has also worked for The Savoy, Intercontinental and Jumeirah Hotels - making a significant difference over an 8 year period.  Sally has led hotel teams to be dedicated in delivering customer service excellence and profitable performance.

Coupled with her career, Sally has undertaken 18 years active volunteering for charity Radio Lollipop – providing care, comfort, play & entertainment to make seriously sick children’s stay in hospital a less painful experience. Dealing with worried and bereaved families has put life into perspective yet Sally still enjoys using her considerable skills to bring smiles to sad faces – she has a true zest for life.