From the outset, KoruInternational recognised that to deliver high quality programs on performance improvement and well-being required its people to have the appropriate qualifications, accreditations and experience, and share the passion for continually raising the bar on their own performance and well-being.
Simply put, our people ‘walk the talk’ and their enthusiasm and expertise help our clients to do so too. Having diversity across a multitude of related disciplines, experiences and personal backgrounds, KoruInternational people ensure that our clients benefit from appropriate diagnostics and solutions best suited to their individual needs.
Roddy Herbert CEO
Roddy’s overriding passion is to help organisations incorporate well-being and performance improvement into day-to-day practice at work. Having received an unwelcome ‘wake-up call’ from his company GP who reported high blood pressure due to stressful work practices some 10 years ago, Roddy is keen to show others how bespoke interventions using proven practices and techniques are directly related to improvements organisational performance and employee well-being.
As a successful executive coach, trainer and mentor in both the Public and Private sectors, Roddy’s specialist areas are in leadership development, wellbeing and corporate health. He is experienced in delivering stress management courses, stress audits, staff engagement initiatives and facilitating programs that maximise organisational performance during change. Previous executive roles held at board and senior management levels in the Corporate and SME sectors provide clients with valuable support from first hand experience which incorporate sound disciplines and business best practice. Roddy maintains a complementary well-being balance through his own personal development with an increasing range of qualifications, key learning’s and expertise from a fusion of key Western and Eastern disciplines.
Mandy Thomson – Program Design Director
Mandy specialises in the diagnostic, design and delivery of leadership development solutions, facilitating events for and coaching senior management teams. Recent projects have included a cross-cultural change programme with the executive and senior management team at a leading entertainment company, strategy development and leadership development at a silver circle UK based law firm, a change programme with the Environment Management team at an energy company, and senior management profiling and improving inter-departmental collaboration and communication at a major UK-based charity.
Qualifications in Psychology, NLP, and Emotional Intelligence, Mandy’s early career as a change management consultant exposed her to rewarding yet high-pressure working environments. It has since become an interest area to research the characteristics of leaders who excel under pressure as part of the KoruInternational ethos to deliver a balance between well-being and performance improvement. The findings of our research, and the latest research by others, is shared with our clients and if appropriate incorporated into our solutions.
Louise Raggett – Co Founder (Australia)
As an experienced business psychologist and accredited executive coach, Louise has worked in all aspects of human performance from preventing human error to maximising human potential. A Masters graduate in Human Factors and Applied Psychology, Louise has enjoyed a notable career helping people to reach their full potential and achieve personal and professional success.
Louise has worked as a behavioural expert in a range of industries such as Aviation, Rail, Energy and Media and has advised on several European bodies. With over 10 years experience, Louise has coached in many successful partnerships with large organizations (Qantas, Arthur D Little, Network Rail, ITV) specialising in cultural change, stress management and developing high performance teams.
Barbara Allen
Barbara is a highly experienced qualified coach, mentor and training professional who has led teams and headed up training functions in banking, and retail industries. In a successful career she has also held senior positions within HR and operations. Barbara’s style is open, honest and direct she can be sensitive and patient when required and believes that humour as well as trust is an important part of the coaching relationship.
Maite Baron (UK and Spain)
Fluent in Spanish, English and French, Maite is an excellent and enthusiastic communicator with extensive experience of coaching one-to-one, group coaching, designing and facilitating workshops. Her areas of expertise include building strong relationships in the business, creating effective teams, building bridges between cultures, sharing knowledge within the organisation, embracing cultural diversity and the importance of listening to understand.
Martin Boothe
Martin is a Transformational Speaker, Trainer and Coach. With qualifications in NLP, Sports Psychology, Counseling, Health and Fitness, Coaching and Dance he provides an in depth understanding of human physiology and the psychology necessary for well-being and performance improvement. An author of "The Power to Move for Success" he was previously Dance and Fitness Coach for Starlight Express in Germany. Working with emotion, co-ordination, rhythm, energy, agility and health, in addition to business clients, Martin has a personal celebrity list including Madonna, Emma Bunting and David Grant.
Sue Bottomley
Acknowledged as a leading executive coach, for over 15 years Sue has been transforming the working lives of the leaders of the UK’s largest businesses, an area she knows well from her previous life as a corporate banker. Sue coaches senior executives to identify and strengthen executive presence, influence and performance and has successfully worked with the main Boards of Multinational organisations, Senior Management and groups of identified career minded future leaders in fields from banking, research, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and engineering. Sue has, in addition, particular expertise supporting and developing graduates.
Gilli Craig
Drawing on her years of experience in HR, coaching, NLP and Kinesiology Gilli has had great success working with a diverse cross section of clients in business. Through successfully combining her skills in NLP and Kinesiology she helps them to realise their full potential both in terms of emotional and physical performance thus starting the process of bringing the body back into balance.
Janet Crowhurst
Janet has a unique mix of skills as both a Masters Degree level Ergonomist and qualified occupational therapist which enables her to competently identify areas of inefficiency and ill health in a workplace. She brings skills to assess the specific issues and designs measures to enhance the individual and the company’s state of wellbeing to increase overall performance. She believes passionately that the effect of environment is often overlooked and works with clients’ on proactive projects to actively promote employee health and well-being and prevent the onset of problems in the workplace.
Sheri Dixon
Sheri, a successful nutritionist, specialises in the area of metabolic typing, a process that recognises a persons biochemical individuality based on genetic heritage. This acknowledges that dietary needs are unique to the individual as a ‘one diet suits all’ approach has significant shortcomings. As a European trainer for metabolic typing she has certified more than 300 health and sports practitioners in this field. As part of a Koru program individuals receive a diagnostic with nutritional advice and guidance to achieve short and long term health goals.
Jane Emmanuel
As an experienced coach and facilitator Jane draws on 20 years of business development, sales and commercial management to support client facing managers and board directors to develop their personal and leadership potential. Jane has worked on the design and delivery of strategic coaching and development programmes, including, executive board succession planning – coaching country CEO’s, developing the commercial focus and potential of operational directors, transforming account managers into account directors, introducing a consultative selling mindset, and step change from management to leadership.
Arielle Essex
Arielle specialises in grooming executives for career advancement, enhancing communication, increasing credibility and gravitas, and improving state management. She is a sought after International Speaker on Coaching, Group Dynamics and NLP and a successful author on coaching techniques and styles. Arielle has been providing extraordinary coaching and NLP training for over 15 years, both in the UK and abroad, and with an ability to integrate the knowledge from her broad base of experience, she is also a trained Osteopath, Kinesiologist, Naturopath, makes for a truly holistic approach.
Jacinta Hargadon
Jacinta is an experienced business coach with a background in Psychology, Psychometrics and Stress Management. In addition she has considerable experience running Assessment Centres for large Corporate clients in the UK. Her work across the Asia specific region too gives her valuable knowledge of diverse nationalities and cultures when coaching. Jacinta has an earlier background in management consulting, market research and human resources, gained in the transport, telecommunications and media industries, bringing knowledge and skills from these market sectors
Robin Harwood
With 20 years experience in senior sales management in the telecommunications industry, Robin has complemented his deep understanding of the sales performance process with a range of training and executive coaching skills. Since becoming a certified trainer of NLP in the mid 90’s, he has completed numerous interim assignments and designed successful management development and coaching programmes focusing on performance improvement, conflict resolution, team-building, presentation skills, and career progression for companies in the UK and internationally in Europe, Russia and the USA.
John Joint
John is an internationally experienced consultant and executive coach. Previously HR Director level with PWC , John’s experience and strengths lie in his ability to work across boundaries and to bring new perspectives to problems. In particular he has considerable expertise and success in building international teams and networks of people working together effectively. He has lived and worked in many countries around the world and as a result he has a truly international perspective, working comfortably in different cultures and speaking Spanish, French, English and some German.
Claire Levey
Claire has won two National Awards for helping companies achieve superior business performance. She is a successful business coach and Investors In People specialist who develops and delivers coaching skills programmes for senior executives. Qualified at MBA level Claire has experience and a background in retail sales, training and development and business consultancy. As our key Investors in People specialist she also conducts assessments and reviews offering objective feedback on how organisations can deliver further improvements through their people.
Denise Parker
Denise is a respected coach, trainer, facilitator and author. In demand as a guest speaker she has spoken at a number of Institute of Director and corporate seminars. She has a wealth of experience coaching at manager and director levels in the Private and Public sectors, particularly in senior management development on the key leadership competences of Creativity and Diversity.
Peter Parkes
Peter has a structured style that is well suited for improving performance. He has board level experience delivering strategy through people and within the framework of Public Private Partnership has successfully created internal capability through effective knowledge transfer. With PhD, MBA, NLP, and Business Coaching qualifications, Peter, is also qualified in sports psychology which supports the balance between performance and wellbeing in our 1-2-1 sessions and events.
Hajo Schöne (Germany)
Hajo is a successful coach and accomplished management consultant offering over 20 years of business success in leadership roles on national and international levels. His skills in coaching leaders, managers and employees in organisational evolutions yielded in impressive success in business reorganisation, reengineering of innovation processes and marketing & sales management. As bilingual executive (German & English) Hajo provides experience in Australasia and the European Union. He offers highly diverse knowledge in cultures and mentalities as well as a propensity to initiate positive changes.
Jayne Storey
A celebrated author, Jayne has over 20 years training in Eastern philosophy and T’ai Chi. She is Europe’s premier instructor of T’ai Chi to Olympic athletes and professional golfers. Her T’ai Chi based programmes enable sports-people to enter what is know as ‘the zone’ or flow state, an experience of peak performance. In the business world Jayne coaches individuals and teams in organisations how to access ‘the zone’, a super-state of relaxed concentration, where creativity, innovation and the ability to think clearly under pressure is paramount.
Philip Woodford
Philip is a highly articulate business coach with a persuasive, curious and challenging style. He has considerable leadership coaching and training experience in both the Public and Private sectors, including government agencies, energy, finance, media, retail and technology companies. He has delivered coaching and training programs in Europe and Asia and his background as a barrister and professional actor ensures a lucid and flexible approach. In addition to executive coaching areas of expertise include creativity, negotiation skills, pressure management and teambuilding.