WE ARE THE PHYSICAL
INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE
The world’s leading expert resource and community of people interested in the development, sharing and application of Physical Intelligence.
A COMMUNITY
Pioneering, adventurous coaches and leaders – either practicing Physical Intelligence and/or learning how to apply the techniques and the theory of Physical Intelligence to their coaching and people transformation activities.
A PLACE TO SHARE
All of the best “how tos”, insights, research, technologies, practices, experiences, and resources, to continue to develop and share the Physical Intelligence pedagogy.
A PLACE TO CELEBRATE
Using the amazing ability of our bodies — to provoke thought, raise standards and leverage this work to help people achieve more, stress less and live more happily.
A COMMUNITY
Pioneering, adventurous coaches and leaders – either practicing Physical Intelligence and/or learning how to apply the techniques and the theory of Physical Intelligence to their coaching and people transformation activities.
A PLACE TO SHARE
All of the best “how tos”, insights, research, technologies, practices, experiences, and resources, to continue to develop and share the Physical Intelligence pedagogy.
A PLACE TO CELEBRATE
Using the amazing ability of our bodies — to provoke thought, raise standards and leverage this work to help people achieve more, stress less and live more happily.
Core Team
Movement specialist, leading exponent of Physical Intelligence, international speaker and co-author of the award-winning book Physical Intelligence, Claire successfully coaches, trains and consults to help individuals and teams achieve peak performance through Physical Intelligence.
With a background in contemporary dance, Claire led her own dance company to European critical acclaim during the 1990s representing Great Britain and creating works for Sir Paul McCartney, Alsop Architects, CandoCo and L’Oreal.
Claire began integrating Physical Intelligence into the world of business in 2002 when she founded Companies in Motion. Her highly charismatic coaching, facilitation and guest speaker skills have engaged individuals and training audiences at National Express, Sony, Bank of New York Mellon, BAE, SAGE, J.P.Morgan, Mars, Shell and AstraZeneca among many others.
As advisor to Nasreen Sheikh, Director of The Empowerment Collective, Claire is actively working to campaign for global human rights and an end to modern-day slavery.
Kevin is a highly experienced coach, consultant, trainer, communication specialist and business leader with significant commercial experience designing and delivering leadership and high-performance coaching. He has worked with clients including BP, Coors, Shell, HSBC, PwC, Aon and Jaguar Land Rover.
As managing director of RADA Business, Kevin built a market-leading performance brand in communication training and leadership impact, growing the business substantially over 5 years. This work included developing pioneering training for women in multiple countries to build confidence and presence at work.
He is highly valued for his expertise in storytelling, narrative, leadership performance and change management becoming a trusted advisor for leaders and leadership teams to manage through difficult periods of change or improve business reputation and performance.
Kevin holds a degree in Mathematical Statistics and Operations Research from Exeter University, an MBA and is a qualified coach. He is also a Trustee of the Comedy School and supporter of The Forgiveness Project.
Andrew is a commercially astute CFO with over two decades of experience across diverse sectors, including sports, entertainment, retail, and technology. A strategic financial mastermind, he has driven growth and navigated the complex financial landscapes of start-ups, SMEs, PLCs, and limited companies. With a track record of securing over £100 million in investment finance, Andrew has notably contributed to the success of numerous ventures, earning accolades such as the prestigious 2016 Little London Award for Best Boutique Retailer.
An accomplished board member, Andrew has led substantial teams through dynamic environments such as the Olympics and the worlds of technology, retail and music. His exceptional problem-solving skills and hands-on approach have been pivotal in developing business concepts, brand blueprints, and strategic financial and operational frameworks. Known for his strong communication abilities, Andrew effectively engages with both small groups and large audiences and is proficient in media interactions.
Dedicated to fostering the growth of start-ups and SMEs, Andrew’s extensive expertise and leadership prowess make him an invaluable asset to any endeavor, blending strategic insight with practical execution to achieve business objectives.
Chloe has an extensive background working as an Executive Assistant, Project, Event, and Marketing Manager, in management consultancy, film and media, travel, and the charitable sector. She’s an organisational wizard, loves problem-solving, and is a real team player.
Chloe has a passion for all things health and wellness. A certified habit change health coach and yoga teacher, on a personal journey to become the best version of herself, she has tapped into a number of modalities ranging from somatic work, breathwork, therapy, qi gong, dance, fasting, and detox, neuroscience, and meditation.
In her spare time, you will find Chloe off on an adventure to some far-flung destination, emersed in the local cultures, cooking up a storm in the kitchen or in nature meditating.
Meet Victoria, a dynamic individual whose professional journey weaves together diverse experiences and a fervent passion for unlocking human potential. After graduating from university, Victoria embarked on a solo adventure to Japan at the age of 22.
Her journey in Japan commenced as an English Tutor, immersing herself in the vibrant culture. Progressing through roles, Victoria transitioned to become a shop manager before creating her own real estate business. Faced with the choice to shape her career, she made a resolute decision – to become an ICF accredited coach.
Motivated by a desire to deepen her understanding of human performance, Victoria further honed her skills with training from The Physical Intelligence Institute. Today, she proudly holds the title of a certified performance coach, working with individuals and teams to guide them to live and perform at their natural best.
Beyond her coaching endeavors, Victoria’s passion for working with people extends to her role as the Customer Engagement Manager at The Physical Intelligence Institute. This multifaceted role allows her to actively foster connections and engagement within the institute.
What sets Victoria apart? Well, you won’t catch her sitting for long! Whether it’s parenting, traveling with her daughters, or relishing the outdoors through walks and swims, Victoria is always leveraging her physical intelligence to enhance every aspect of life.
Join Victoria on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, where the threads of experience, coaching expertise, and a zest for life converge to create meaningful transformations.
Dean is a seasoned technology professional with over a decade of experience in IT Infrastructure, Web Development, and Product Design. Renowned for his logical and systematic approach to solving complex technological challenges, Dean has served as a Senior IT Consultant, delivering high-level IT strategies and solutions for a diverse clientele, ranging from SMEs to large corporations and governmental organisations. He has played a critical role in implementing comprehensive IT solutions for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Barbados, as well as for notable companies such as Interserve.
Dean’s career is distinguished by several notable achievements that highlight his technical versatility and leadership. As the Technical Lead for the cybersecurity firm Uncloak’s Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in 2017, he played a pivotal role in raising approximately 700 ETH, equivalent to around $2.4 million USD in today’s market. In the realm of web development, Dean has designed and developed high-conversion websites for musical artists such as Kwengface, Young T & Bugsey, and Grammy-nominated reggae artist Chronixx. Additionally, he has utilised his technical skills to build and deploy a high-deliverability email relay service for a private Email Service Provider, currently processing over 250,000 emails per month.
These accomplishments reflect Dean’s self-proclaimed status as an IT polymath and his ability to architect and manage large-scale, mission-critical systems across various technological domains, establishing him as a well-rounded professional with a passion for innovation and problem-solving.
Outside of his professional life, Dean is a dedicated family man who values quality time with his loved ones. He has a keen passion for music production, and enjoys playing basketball and 8-ball pool during his downtime.
Collaborators and Advisors
Dubai based, Doug has 26 years of senior executive experience at Board level with a leading International Petroleum Company, having worked across many parts of the business with responsibilities held at global, regional and country levels. His responsibilities included numerous Board directorships and he held a wide range of executive positions across sales, marketing, finance and general management.
During the last fourteen years, Doug has had his own executive coaching practice with special focus in the Middle East, and in particular, the UAE, Oman, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, at senior executive and board level as well as with emerging leaders.
He has a proven executive coaching track record of successfully enabling senior executives to significantly improve their effectiveness and realize their full potential. Doug’s client base includes senior executives and Government officials at Chairman, Under Secretary, CEO, MD, Vice President, GM, Chief Officer and Director Levels across more than 70 public and private sector organizations, from main sectors such as Financial Services, Hospitality and Travel, Government, Corporate Services, Media, Real Estate, Legal, Retail & FMCG, Technology, Infrastructure, Oil & Gas and Energy, and Heavy Industry.
With a Bachelor of Accountancy degree and a MBA from the Graduate School of Business from Cape Town University, and certification in relationships, psychology, different coaching models, mentoring, organization & relationship systems coaching fundamentals with Centre for Right Relationships (team coaching approach), Hogan Assessment HPI, HDS and MVPI, Trait Emotional Intelligence, and Coaching with Physical Intelligence, Doug is a highly qualified and internationally accredited coach.
For clients, he leverages his extensive business and coaching experience, with an emphasis on accelerated development and fast tracking of senior executives in key positions. He places special attention on influencing and relationship building, strategic thinking, leadership capability, team effectiveness and sharp focus on performance on key business goals and issues. Reinforced with online videos on communication style, strategic thinking and what makes a good CEO his coaching engagements are well reinforced and impactful.
Dr. Kennedy holds the position as the professor of wellbeing neuroscience and organisational behaviour at UGSM-Monarch Business School, in Hagedorn, Zug, Switzerland.
He is the Ph.D. professor of applied neuroscience with Canterbury Christchurch University as well as with several other U. K. universities, like Middlesex and Chester University.
His academic work recently defined the model of ‘Organisational Wellbeing Neuroscience’ and is a chapter in the academic textbook: The Handbook of Organisational Wellbeing (SAGE). His academic research informs his consulting in psychological safety to organisations globally. His clinical practice licence is in neuro-behavioural analysis.
His consulting and coaching practice is informed by his research and is globally sought as a keynote speaker after his TEDx talk. He coaches and collaborates with Professional Ph.D. candidates as part of his personal goal toward ensuring effective application of brain-based protocols that emerge in collaboration with Ph.D. candidate’s research and other industry experts.
His book, Brain Re-Boot, is an overview of applied neuroscience which proposes various approaches to resilience from behavioural and social neuroscience, neuroeconomics, educational and health neuroscience. The book offers brain-based tools to hack one’s behaviour that build resilience to stress related pathology and improving cognitive performance.
Dr. Paul J. Zak is a Professor of economics, psychology, and management at Claremont Graduate University and is one of the most cited scientists with over 200 published papers and more than 20,000 citations to his research.
Paul’s two decades of research have taken him from the Pentagon to Fortune 50 boardrooms to the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. Along the way, he helped start several interdisciplinary fields including neuroeconomics, neuromanagement, and neuromarketing.
His other books include Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies and The Moral Molecule: How Trust Works.
Paul is also a four-time tech entrepreneur; his current company, Immersion Neuroscience, is a software platform that allows anyone to measure what the brain loves in real time to improve outcomes in entertainment, education and training, advertising, and live events.
He frequently appears in the media in such places as Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, Fox & Friends, ABC Evening News, and his work has been reported in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, The Economist, Scientific American, Fast Company, Forbes and many other publications.
Patricia Peyton
Adviser: PI Specialist
Nadine Benjamin
Adviser: Artistic connections
Fred Funck
Adviser: Future of leadership
Nayim Mahomade
Adviser: Physical recovery
Angela Keane
Learning supervision
Performance Coaches
Dr. Kath Burlinson is a professional theatre director and performer with extensive experience working in the corporate sector helping individuals to increase personal impact and companies and organisations to improve performance and envision their futures.
Her diverse list of clients includes Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Program, Pershing Ltd, Capgemini, Tata Consulting Services, Oxera, Avanade, The Home Office, Atos/Origin amongst others. She is currently one of the team of Business tutors for RADA Enterprises, and has worked for Gareth Bunn Consultancy, Inside Leadership, Morton Corporate Consulting, Andrena Cumella Consulting, Camille Nickson Associations and Steps.
From 1997-2002 Kath was co-director of the Weird Sisters Theatre company producing hit performances that toured nationally and internationally winning 5 international theatre awards. Kath has also been Associate Director of Youth Music Theatre UK, and has recently produced ‘The Mothers Bones’ and ‘Wolf’ with her artists collective. She has written sketches for BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends as well as a critical book on Christina Rosetti and a number of published essays.
She leads The Art of Being Heard, a professional development programme for DanceEast Ipswich and the Key Theatre Peterborough, which has attracted participants from Greene King, Gross & Co Solicitors, Norfolk Churches Trust, Wherry Housing Association and other private and public sector companies.
Kath’s doctorate is from London University and from 1989-1997 she was a lecturer in English and Drama at Southampton University.
Mairi is a specialist in people development, training and talent initiatives delivering across the Civil Service and private sector for the past 10 years. As a trained professional actress and BBC TV presenter, Mairi uses her skills to enable individuals and groups to communicate and present better, build confidence, increase visibility and align personal branding to organisational values. She is passionate about unlocking potential through teaching how the body and breath operate and how these can be developed to influence ourselves and others into achieving more positive outcomes.
She previously set up the award nominated Coaching Squared™ programme and is founder of the Houses of Parliament Women into Leadership (WIL) programme. Mairi’s style is dynamic and she firmly believes that a hands on experiential approach allows us to learn at a deeper level and understand how the practise of new skills can help us evolve. Previous clients include Coca Cola Enterprises, Ministry of Justice, PwC, Transport for London, Serco, BT, Environment Agency, The Met Police and many central government departments.
She is an associate trainer for Civil Service Learning through CAPITA and frequently works globally with PwC as a high level role player enabling executives to practise networking, influencing and sales skills. As part of the year-long core delivery team for the PwC/HMRC Module 48 programme, she led bespoke sessions on the highest scoring elective “Communicating Confidently with Customers and Advisors”.
As a sought after speaker, Mairi regularly speaks for women’s networks across the City with practical sessions on confidence and impact skills based on the work of Harvard social psychologist, Professor Amy Cuddy.
In 2014 Mairi was invited to be a judge on the BBC Apprentice Final as part of a team of business experts assessing the market potential of a key product and in 2016 was a judge for the WeAreTheCity Rising Stars awards for pipeline talent across the sectors. She is the mother of two young boys, a School Governor and occasionally dabbles in stand-up comedy.
Elissa works with clients who want to make profound change happen either individually, within their teams or their organisations. She helps leaders understand their talents and then helps them to create the next chapter, connecting them to their purpose, aligning their teams, cutting through complexity and prioritising their focus.
With 17 years of experience gained as a senior advisor at Deloitte, PA Consulting and Korn Ferry, and a background in psychology, she has designed and delivered leadership assessment and development programmes to help clients understand how they can better inspire and lead their organisations and their people. She is empathic and supportive but also prepared to help clients confront issues that block or inhibit their ability to be authentic, impactful and lead teams to perform.
In addition to consulting roles, Elissa has held a variety of senior in-house leadership roles (Head of HR Cash Services, RMG and HR Director New Zealand, ANZ Banking Group), which enables her to bring a deeper level of empathy and understanding to clients as she knows the challenges leaders face in navigating complex organisations from the inside.
Elissa contributed to the set-up of Kaisen Consulting within Deloitte, a practice offering Executive and Board level leadership assessment. She has designed and delivered leadership assessment programmes to support acquisitions, divestments and organisational transformation for organisations such as ANZ Banking Group, Kuwait National Petroleum Company, the British Army and CRH.
She co-led the set-up of the Culture Change and Talent Management propositions for Deloitte, which offer clients the insight, resources and tools to create the right context and support for high performance of people.
At PA Consulting, she led a team of consultants create the sixth generation “Investors in People” framework, which was designed to reflect the leadership and organisational context required for outperforming teams. The new framework received high praise from André de Waal and very senior stakeholders within government and industry.
As a partner at Korn Ferry, she was invited to join the Executive to Leader Institute™ (ELI) as a facilitator to support the delivery of deeply customised immersive experiences for Executives around the world. Participants described these programmes as “transformative,” “life-changing,” and “profound”, also “intense” and “demanding.”
Elissa has designed and facilitated global talent and leadership development programmes for clients within financial services, energy, construction, telecommunications and professional services. Clients include EA Games, Activision Blizzard, BBC Studios, Financial Times, ANZ Banking Group, Willis Towers Watson, BP, and IDEXX.
Paul King is an explorer of places inside and out. He is co-founder of The Beyond Partnership a leading-edge people development consultancy. He has been working as a coach and consultant for more than 35 years. He particularly known for his work with the body-mind and integral approaches, connecting personal development and wellbeing to larger system change. He currently delivers embodiment-based workshops and coaching across Europe. www.thebeyondpartnership.co.uk He previously worked for Deloittes and PwC but gave that up as a bad idea.
His coach training started with Sir John Whitmore and the Inner Game, followed by NLP. He is a Master Practitioner and certified trainer in NLP. He has also completed an Association for Coaching recognised coach training.
Paul was the first person in Europe to be certified to teach Wendy Palmer’s Leadership Embodiment work. He has studied with many other embodiment and somatic teachers, is qualified as a Feldenkrais Practitioner (movement re-education) and has extensive study in the Alexander Technique and neuroscience. Paul teaches tai chi and qigong as movement meditation and as a means of exploring our psycho-emotional worlds.
Paul prefers to work with groups of 12 or less to create an intimate and focussed experiential learning environment in the spirit of inquiry not fixing. He describes his work as supporting people to connect more to themselves in an embodied way and thereby create more connection with others and the natural world. Part of the process is how to find our centred presence enhancing what it is possible for us to say and do, balancing our conversational relationship with the feminine and masculine dynamics of yinyang, which are seriously out of balance in the westernised capitalist world.
Marcos has received the Teaching Excellence Award at the IE-Business School ten times and is a core member of the Center for Creative Leadership/Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania team that earned the prestigious Excellence in Practice Award from the European Foundation for Management Development. His workshop on Self-Compassion in Business was awarded the best workshop at the Spirituality and Creativity Management World Congress in 2015 at ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. His articles have been published in the Huffington Post, Stanford School of Medicine, and significant business journals. He has authored a chapter on Practical Wisdom in the Handbook of Personal and Organizational Transformation, which was published in 2019.
Corporate Experience
Marcos has 18 years of corporate experience, of which 14 years at the Ford Motor Company, leading the Leadership Excellence European Programme. He soon became Manager of Organizational Personal Planning Marketing Sales & Programmes Europe at the Ford European Headquarters in the UK, where he also led the European Talent Recruitment Initiative. Soon after, he became the youngest Iberian Region HR Ford Group Manager.
Since 2001, Marcos has coached 700+ senior executives, 28+ CEOs, and thousands of managers. He has also coached multidisciplinary teams in 32+ countries across four continents for 100+ companies in 17 industries: automotive, Agro-Chemical, Retail Banking, Private Banking, Supply and logistics, Health Supply, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Consumer Goods, Travel Services, Executive Education, PR, Telecommunications, Media, Advertising, Football, and Technology.
Marcos has helped individuals and teams improve results in companies such as ABN Amro Bank, Acciona, Amadeus, Alsa, Avon, Boston Consulting Group, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Clear Channel, Disney, Goodyear, Google, Grupo Prisa, GlaxoSmithKline, ING-Direct, Kellogg, Monsanto, Roche, Mazda, NH-Hotels Group, Aptar, Chep, Adidas, Sanofi, and many more.
Academic Credentials
Ed.D. (Honors) in Transformational Leadership, Insight University, New Mexico, NM (USA), nMsc. In Human Resources Strategic Management, Univ. Pontificia Salamanca, Madrid (Spain), MBA. (Honors) IE Business School, Madrid (Spain), B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Humanities, American College Switzerland, Leysin, (Switzerland), Polyvagal Informed Wellness & Performance Coach (Play Zone Pro), The Polyvagal Institute, Advanced Master in Trauma, National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine, Certified in Mindful Self-Compassion for Professionals, UC San Diego, School of Medicine, Certified in Embodying Safety: Integrating Yoga, Qigong & Polyvagal Theory. The Polyvagal Institute, Cognitive Fitness, Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School. Physical Intelligence Certified Coach, The Physical Intelligence Institute.
Senior Lead Faculty at The Center for Creative Leadership EMEA, October 2006 to present, Professor Executive Coaching at IE Business School, 2008 to present, Former Learning Director Wharton Executive Education (Spain), Leadership Development Trainer in Wharton Executive Education (USA), Ashridge Business School (UK), and Skolkovo Business School in Moscow, Russia, Associate Professor at the joint Brown University/ IE Business School, Madrid, Spain. 2015 to present, Adjunct Faculty at the Self-Leadership Programme: Empowering Human Performance and Growth. IE Centre for Health and Well-Being, 2024.
With a background that has roots in performance and theatre, Robert’s journey to life coaching, and training, has taken him along a path of varied experience and learning.
Having originally trained as an actor and mime artist, physical theatre was a big part of his early work. Specialising in theatre and education within schools, he worked collaboratively with a number of organisations such as Creative Partnerships and A New Direction, where he delivered training alongside Educational Consultant Mathilda Joubert, a collaboration that sparked his initial interest in coaching.
With a rich background prior to coaching, working with young people in schools and nurseries, he has also been involved with different aspects of higher education institutions. He has worked on degrees at several universities; running a module in Theatre and Education at Essex University, as well as contributing work to Anglia Ruskin’s Master’s in Education and the Arts.
He has been on an incredible journey of self-development and has consistently expanded both his training and coaching skill set. Initially training as an NLP Practitioner and hypnotherapist, and then going on to pass his Diploma in Transformational Coaching, before adding a number of other accredited coach training courses to his toolkit, including David Drake’s Narrative Coaching, and Simon Western’s Analytic Network Coaching, Peter Hawkins Advanced Coaching and Claire Dale’s Physical Intelligence program.
Accredited by the ICF he has held multiple training positions including Certificate in Group Coaching, Certificate in Youth Coaching, Diploma in Transformational Coaching course, and the Head of Coaching. Then onto Centre Director with Animas Centre for Coaching, before moving back into the world of freelance where he now works with Ivy House London, More Happi, Physical Intelligence Institute and Intention Centre for Leadership Coaching, as facilitator, trainer, coach and supervisor.
Corporate Partners
Marion is a senior leadership coach dedicated to gender-balanced leadership and women’s empowerment. She is deeply passionate about the transformative power of embodied self-compassion.
Rich of more than 30 years of experience, she created a step-by-step coaching programme, where women build their self-confidence, find their voice, even when it shakes, in order to embody their talk and fully take up the place they deserve. From Inner-Critic to Inner Wise Woman/Man.
She has been the Chief Learning Officer at Ideas on Stage, a Paris-based communication agency, coaching & training senior executives in leadership presence. Since 1992, she has been lecturing at EM Lyon, Cranfield School of Management, UK and more recently, HEC Paris. Marion has helped several hundreds of leaders from Fortune 500 companies to small startups and incubators making an impact with the power of communication across the world.
She works in English and French and is a TEDx Speaker and a TEDx speaker’s coach. She graduated from SKEMA Business School and holds a degree in Gender Studies, Sociology & Linguistics from Lyon 2 Lumière University.
She is accredited EIA practitioner by the EMCC, a Master NLP Coach and a certified equicoach.
She discovered Mindful Somatic Self Compassion after taking an MSC intensive with Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer in Amsterdam in 2019. Since then, she has been making baby steps progress into somatic self-compassion and slowly accepting she can trust her own source of knowledge and wisdom.
Marion lives in Beaujolais with her husband and 2 cats. They have 7 children and 4 grand-children!
Dr. Sandy Chen
Performance Coach
Dr. Sandy Chen is Brand Ambassador of Physical Intelligence program in China and Lead Facilitator for Physical Intelligence Chinese Application Class.
Sandy transitioned into an Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant in 2020. Before that, she had 16 years business development, commercial operation, strategic sourcing and supply chain management experiences in government and Fortune 500 companies covering home furnishing, fashion, and sports industries. Sandy is former APAC Sourcing Director at Nike, where she led 500-million$ scale global strategic projects and won twice Nike Global Innovation Maxim Award.
Sandy also served as Deputy Chair of APAC2022 International Coaching Conference, the largest scale coaching conference in Asia so far.
As a fitness enthusiast and veteran, at the age of 40, Sandy joined a nationwide bikini fitness competition in China the first time ever in her life. With 45 days’ intensive training, she won 2 gold medals and 2 bronze medals.
Sandy holds ACE Personal Trainer certificate. She is also a certified Zumba instructor.
Dr. Sandy Chen holds a PhD degree in Organisational Development & Change from Fielding Graduate University, and a Global EMBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).
Sandy is an ICF certified PCC coach with over 2500 hours’ coaching practice. She is also a certified consultant in Hogan, Everything DiSC, Belbin Team Roles, Lego® Serious Play®, and HCD ChangeMan.
Sandy’s business background as a corporate executive, combined with solid coaching professional practice, and evidence-based researches as a cross-cultural scholar practitioner, have enabled her to provide effective services to clients with strategic insights, deep level self-awareness generation, and transformational frameworks.
Kate is a seasoned leader, coach, and facilitator with extensive experience scaling global teams and operations in high-growth settings. She works with purpose-driven leaders and change-makers, with a particular focus on supporting female entrepreneurs and women who are “childless not by choice” (CNBC).
Her approach emphasises conscious, embodied leadership, emotional agility, resilience, and authentic self-expression. Trained in multiple coaching and facilitation modalities, Kate blends insights from disciplines such as neurobiology, systems thinking, and modern psychology. Currently, she is advancing her training in somatic coaching, breathwork, and wilderness guiding.
Through her business, The Rewilding Edge, Kate offers one-on-one coaching, experiential workshops, and retreats, as well as fractional People & Culture support for regenerative startups.
Professional Affiliate Coaches
Sanna is a qualified & accredited executive coach, and board advisor, with many years’ corporate experience from financial services and creative sector.
Her approach to performance is that growth is created from your edge. Sanna’s coaching method is Radical Candour for Radical Results; asking clients to bring their all. She facilitates results by stripping down the complexity and uncovering the simplicity of owning our actions and behaviours; creating choice.
Sanna’s straightforward approach combines observation, discovery, analysis, and neuroscience—giving you sustained results that you can feel and see on many levels.
Her Swedish upbringing brings a frankness to her delivery, and she often utilises nature as reference points for making sense of complex pictures. She demonstrates nature’s effectiveness by offering clients access to performance coaching outside the normal office setting; demonstrating that nature can fast-track your brain’s ability to reorganize and renew your neural pathways.
She is a certified Insights Discovery practitioner, and delivers workshops within communication, business planning, and Board Effectiveness.
She has worked with clients from FTSE 100 companies, PwC, Private Equity, Fund Managers, Investment Banking, and Architecture and Design.
A dedicated professional coach and facilitator with a background in the creative industry, Julia is passionate about empowering individuals and organisations to thrive.
After a ten years career in international fashion hubs, Julia opted for a new path in coaching, where she is dedicated to advocate for happiness and well-being.
She is now an ICF accredited coach, certified narrative practitioner and facilitator, bringing a unique, creative perspective and multidisciplinary expertise to her work.
Julia specialises in fostering emotional wellness, purpose and well-being, particularly in the work environment. She works closely with young managers and C-level executives in startups and more established organisations, helping them navigate leadership complexities with confidence and authenticity.
Through her international experience, having lived in five different countries and worked closely with many more, she has built the skill to quickly connect at a deep level with individuals from very different backgrounds, cultures and positions. She believes this is her super-power, as a coach and a human being.
In addition to coaching, Julia facilitates workshops on topics such as goal setting, stress management, leadership development, communication skills; as well as co-development peer groups.
Julia’s approach is influenced by her love for exploring new cultures and her decade-long yoga practice. She integrates mind-body awareness into her coaching, helping clients achieve holistic growth and balance.
Her coaching philosophy centers around Narrative Practices, as well as the wisdom and tools of Physical Intelligence, and is strongly grounded in the ICF framework; empowering individuals to create meaningful, purpose-driven lives.
With a creative background and outside-the-box thinking, Julia supports individuals in finding unique solutions aligned with their authentic selves, and is committed to being an agent of healthier workplace dynamics and lasting positive change.
“Inspired by his mother’s health issues, Cavan combines functional medicine and corporate acumen to advocate a new breed of ‘Corporate Athlete’ — promoting mental wellness through health optimization. As a dedicated Sleep & Performance Coach, he hopes to shed light on those who are lost in fatigue and the daily routine, guiding them towards a vibrant, high-performing, and joyful life.”
Cavan also provide 1-on-1 health & performance coaching (similar to executive coaching, but on cognitive performance from physiological perspective). People who he often works with are usually constantly tired, have headaches, are unmotivated or unable to focus, or have sleep disturbances (i.e., insomnia) at night. Many of them may have been to doctors and specialists, yet they have not been able to find effective solutions to make them feel better. His job is to help them identify the root cause behind all those symptoms and create a sustainable lifestyle modification strategy with clients.
Emily specialises in the Performance, Development and Wellbeing of Leaders. Emily understands what it takes to be a high performing and successful leader, having lead Sales and Recruitment teams in her early career to now coaching and developing leaders up to senior leadership level. For 22 years Emily worked in Global Fortune and FTSE 50 companies including Experian, Legal & General, Unilever, Lloyds Banking Group and HSBC and so can empathise with clients working in complex changing organisations and facing day-to-day leadership challenges. Emily passionately believes for anyone navigating a career in leadership they need a fit body and mind.
Emily graduated with Distinction in Occupational & Organisational Psychology, holds a Distinction in Physical Intelligence. She is also a qualified Leadership Coach and Fitness Instructor, holds memberships with International Coaching Federation and British Psychological Society and continues to develop professionally and personally through ongoing training.
Emily’s work includes coaching clients 1:1, in teams or groups. Emily also consults on the design and delivery of Talent, OD and Culture Transformation projects. Her clients include Laing O’Rourke, Sky, WaterAid and Legal & General. Combining Emily’s corporate experience, qualifications, coaching and consultancy skills she offers a unique holistic approach that is client centred, focussing on utilising client strengths to build confidence, capability and resilience to help achieve long term healthy, sustainable outcomes.
As well as managing a Coaching & Consultancy Business. Emily jointly runs a property business with her husband. Emily resides in Twickenham, London.
Cristina is a systemic coach working with individuals and teams, a leadership facilitator, EMCC Senior Mentor, ICF PCC, and a chapter advisory board member, with solid knowledge and experience in human engineering.
Every year she invests in her own learning around the knowledge of the human system: Neuroscience of Emotional Intelligence, Hypnotherapy, WPB5, Firo B, 360, Korn Ferry, Hogan, Organizational Constellations, Epigenetics, and Physical Intelligence.
As she soon realized the internal path needed to climb Maslow’s pyramid, she used herself as a guinea pig for her own investigation. The discipline made this possible and today she disseminates these learnings in a world Top Ranking executive education company.
Designs tailor-made programs, combining corporate, human nature, and nature languages with an alchemical approach, being bold and empathetic, bringing systemic learning, simplexity, and enabling people to better relate to the movement of life. Her main vision is to free people while observing life, without fear of punishment or need for rewards.
She has been leading Pro bono Coaching projects for 7 years, making coaching accessible to more citizens and thus contributing to a more conscious and equitably favored society.
At the beginning of her career, she dedicated 15 years to the Luxury Tourism and Hospitality Industry, having passed through several continents. She teaches Team Dynamics, Coaching, and Communication at two Universities in the city of Lisbon.
As a passionate and empathetic Founder & Confidence Coach, I am dedicated to empowering professionals, investors, and leaders to achieve peak performance by helping them rediscover self-awareness, realign their goals, and overcome obstacles created by misaligned ambitions. My coaching approach is rooted in creating bespoke strategies tailored to each client’s unique challenges, focusing on enhancing leadership skills and cultivating resilience. By integrating physical intelligence techniques and delivering insightful educational content, I guide my clients toward lasting transformation and renewed confidence. I am recognized for my ability to foster an inclusive and supportive environment where individuals feel valued and understood. My commitment to promoting flexibility, accountability, and a culture of internal freedom has enabled me to help clients resolve conflicts, regain focus, and unlock their full potential. My mission is to inspire others to believe in their own capabilities, navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity, and ultimately reach their personal and professional aspirations with renewed passion and purpose.
Susan specialises in international leadership development, executive coaching and team development. She has worked all over the world, from Beijing to Sao Paulo to home base Munich. She works with a broad range of premium global organisations including finance, reinsurance, automotive, pharmaceutical and IT companies.
Since qualifying as a PI coach in 2022 Susan has been incorporating PI theory and practises enthusiastically into her work with clients. The feedback has been resoundingly positive and this has motivated her to become a professional affiliate coach with the Institute.
Besides working internationally for over 30 years she has lived in different countries including many years in Spain and Japan, where she lectured in Intercultural Studies at the University in Tokyo and managed the international communications team for a leading Japanese industrial company. She also worked as an actor on a Japanese radio show. Susan now lives in Munich, Germany and has been working as an international leadership coach, trainer and facilitator since 2004.
Susan’s international and multicultural experience enable her to connect with a wide variety of people and establish rapport and trust quickly.
She is a certified Systemic Business Coach, Master in Neuro Linguistic Programming, certified PI coach, EMCC member and is certifed in a variety of psychometric instrumentss, inclsuing Myers Briggs Type Indicator , StrengthsFinder and Science of Happiness @ Work. She holds a Masters degree in European Languages and History and is a Certified crisis helpline counselor
Susan is an advocate of life-long learning, an avid reader, dog lover and endeavours to keep relatively fit!
Andrew is a highly experienced executive coach, team coach and coaching supervisor. Andrew has lived, worked, and led outside his native Scotland since 1988, in Tokyo, Japan for 10 years and in Munich, Germany, for over 20 years. Andrew has almost 25 years’ corporate experience in change management and leadership development in the shipping and automotive branches, latterly managing the International Leadership Development team at a premium German automotive manufacturer.
Andrew is a pragmatic, reflective, goal-focused systemic coach, comfortable at working at all levels of hierarchy from hi-potential junior leaders to top executives. Since qualifying as a business coach in 2009, he has conducted well over 3000 hours of coaching and team coaching in more than 30 countries (and once at sea!), primarily with executives and leadership teams in the Automotive, Financial Services and IT branches. Andrew is an EMCC accredited Senior Practitioner Coach and Senior Practitioner Team Coach and is also a certified Coaching Supervisor.
Andrew completed the PI Coach Certification in 2021 and is a proud PI Professional Affiliate Coach. He is a firm believer in the power of working with the somatic self and the importance of understanding embodiment in leadership, especially for senior executives and with senior leadership teams.
Andrew works in English, German and Japanese.
Liz Clayton-Jones
Learning facilitation
THE PHYSICAL
INTELLIGENCE BOOK
Harness your body’s untapped intelligence to achieve more, stress less and live more happily.
Also available in other languages.
AS SEEN IN
