Meet the Team

Rob Cooper – Director

‘’Helping people to make a significant contribution to improve their lives as well as the lives of others is his ‘why’. As a CIPD qualified HR professional and an accredited EMCC coach, Rob helps people to become the best they can be.’’

He has worked in Executive and career coaching for the last 20 years both in the UK and overseas. Much of his focus in this time has been with Senior Managers and Directors from a range of different sectors and backgrounds but with specific experience in Insurance, Financial Services and Transport.

Many of the people he has worked with have gone on to permanent roles as well as creating successful Interim Management and Consultancy careers. He has also worked with many others who have moved on to NED and Trustee roles as well as those who have developed effective Portfolio careers.

Rob has been a Board Chair and is currently a NED and a Trustee.

Rob’s experience is with professionals in a range of companies including:
• BAA
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Bombardier
• Siemens
• Rolls Royce
• Rugby Football League
• Coty
• Sabic
• Lloyds Banking Group
• Network Rail
• Yorkshire Bank
• Aviva

Pat O’Kane – Associate Director

Patrick is a highly successful Career Consultant who helps professionals get market-ready for roles, particularly within Financial Services, Insurance and Transportation.

Patrick has had considerable success working in blue chip companies – both within the UK and overseas. He has over 25 years expertise working as a career coach – in partnership with executives and senior leaders.

He builds strong relationships, credibility and trust with his clients and helps senior leaders secure roles, advance their careers, and realise their true potential and desire.

Patrick has developed his expertise as a career coach working in a wide variety of sectors – and his client base includes:
• Allianz Insurance
• Marsh & McLennan Companies UK
• Aviva
• Accenture UK Ltd
• American Express
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Centrica
• Lloyds Banking Group
• Santander
• Yorkshire Bank
• General Electric
• Pinsent Masons
• Cisco
• FedEx
• William Hill
• Virgin Media
• NHS
• Carlsberg
• BAE Systems

He has also held the position of Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Financial Services, tutoring at degree level with UK and overseas students.

Karen Moore – Associate

‘An instigator and creator of positive change with a strong to desire to help people and to leave a positive legacy.’  Karen is former CEO and practicing Interim CEO, a people focused leader of change, equipped with strong emotional intelligence, commercial acumen and intuitive problem-solving capabilities.

Her experiences span business functions and include driving culture changes, strategic planning, starting and closing business operations, establishing Boards and achieving excellence in governance. As a certified Executive Coach and Mentor Karen helps people to achieve where they want to go.

She has worked in Executive and career coaching for the last 4 years. Much of her focus in this time has been with Senior Managers and Directors from a range of different sectors and backgrounds but with specific experience in Insurance, Financial Services and Transport.

Many of the people she has worked with have gone on to permanent roles as well as creating successful Interim Management and Consultancy careers. She has also worked with many others who have moved on to NED and Trustee roles as well as those who have developed effective Portfolio careers.

Karen is a Chair of an organisation and has served as a NED and Trustee.

Karen’s experience is with professionals in a range of companies including:
• Deutsche Bank
• BAA
• Goldman Sachs
• Network Rail
• Partnership Assurance Ltd
• Saga Group
• EON UK
• HSBC
• Legal & General
• Scottish Widows
• Co-Op Insurance
• EDF Energy

Richard Wade -Associate

Richard is an established coach with 20+ years’ experience supporting senior leaders with their career development.

He has worked with a wide range of individuals on an independent basis and as part of in-house talent development programmes. He has hired and on-boarded external talent and had responsibility for the whole employee life cycle during his time spent as Head of HR for a UK Bank.

Richard builds strong relationships and develops trust with his clients enabling them to develop pragmatic plans to fulfil their career aspirations.

Richard has worked with a wide range of individuals from the following organisations:

• Lloyds Banking Group
• NHS
• Cambridge University
• Transport for London
• Breast Cancer Now
• Scottish Widows
• Brewin Dolphin
• E Value
• London & Country Mortgages
. Airbus
. BT Group
. Credit Suisse
. British Airways
. BP
. Centrica

Qualifications & Accreditations

Kate O’Sullivan – Associate

Kate is passionate about helping individuals, teams, communities and organisations to deliver their aspirations. She has worked with some outstanding global organisations and draws upon her 35 years of experience of the engineering, higher education, learning and development, governance and sport coaching sectors, to help those she works with to:

• Clarify their aspirations.
• Assess where they are today.
• Develop strategies to enable them to achieve their aspirations.

Kate has over 25 years of executive, developmental, career and rowing coaching. Kate is a coach educator and has established a number of organisational coaching and mentoring programmes.
In recent years most of her work has been with Senior Managers and Directors from a range of different sectors and backgrounds who are looking to succeed in new roles, transition their careers to expand their career portfolio and secure non-executive positions. To formalise her knowledge and expertise, Kate is currently working towards her ILM 7 Executive Coaching qualification.

Kate has held Senior Management positions in the Chemicals and Higher Education Sector and is currently Deputy Chair of British Rowing.

Kate’s experience is with professionals in a range of companies including:
• Huntsman Petrochemicals
• World Rowing
• Great Britain Rowing Team
• UK Sport
• University of York, University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University, Regent’s University London, University of Gloucestershire, University of Westminster, University of Teesside.