Management

Lynne-Marie Eccleston | Managing Director

Lynne-Marie is the Managing Director of The School of Coaching and specialises in enabling businesses to achieve strategic business transformation. She has extensive knowledge of customer management, operation design, process integration and alignment, project management as well as organisation design, assessment centre design and implementation, training and development within the Energy, Retail, Information and Communications industry sectors.

Lynne-Marie is a Leadership Coach and has worked with public sector organisations coaching senior leaders in the oil and gas industry and leaders with HMRC. She has coached over 20 leaders in the past two years in team management skills and has trained many more to be able to coach their teams.

Myles Downey | Founder

Myles Downey is co-founder and Director of Studies at The School of Coaching. He is one of Europe's foremost business coaches and his extensive experience spans over 20 years. He coaches senior executives and leadership teams and develops coaching skills in line managers and professional coaches.

Myles has worked all over the world with major organisations, in business sectors ranging from professional service firms, financial services, manufacturing and process industries, to retailing and information technology.Myles is the author of Effective Coaching (Texere) 1999, which is widely regarded as one of the seminal works on performance coaching.

Prior to establishing The School of Coaching, he was a founding member of a coaching and consulting firm, which The Economist Intelligence Unit acknowledged in '93 and '95 as "the leading provider of Executive Coaching in the UK".

John Grisby | Faculty

John is an Executive Coach in Performance – helping individuals and teams to achieve pre-identified outcomes in organisations. His coaching assets are a result of a multi-disciplined background of over 12 years as a director of global business strategy and development, and more than 10 years active in competitive sport.

John has extensive experience working with serial entrepreneurs and senior managers identifying opportunities and building key relationships, alliances and joint ventures in markets across Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East and the US. Tri-lingual (Spanish, Italian and English), he has worked around the world in diverse sectors including strategic communications, media, corporate services, technology and publishing for companies in start-up, high-growth, pre-IPO and M&A environments.

His areas of expertise are in developing high potential senior managers, New Role/Job Transition, functional roles in business development/commercial sales and 'On-pitch'/'Off-pitch' coaching performance in professional sport.

Helen Atkinson | Faculty

Helen is an executive coach with over 20 years of HR and operational experience within large organisations. She has worked as a senior HR Business Partner working strategically with both individuals and senior leadership teams to drive performance and enable individuals and teams to reach their potential. Helen has a particular interest in embedding coaching into organisations.

Rebecca Highley | Event & Programme Manager

Rebecca is a programme manager and is responsible for managing bespoke programmes for a number of public and private sector clients including BSkyB, the NHS and EDF Energy. She also shares responsibility with the other programme managers for The School of Coaching's open programmes and alumni events.

Rebecca has a degree in Italian and Geography and a diploma in event management. Before joining The School of Coaching in 2007 she worked as a project manager in the localisation industry and managed several European Union and UN translation contracts.

Labina Basit | Programme Manager

Labina is mainly responsible for project managing bespoke programmes with a number of UK clients in diverse business sectors, including The NHS Institute, EDF Energy and Link To Life, as well as Beeline in Russia.

Labina is a graduate of Computer Science and Management and has worked in both IT as an analyst and in the charity sector.