Our People

Lanre is passionate about empowering individuals to fulfil their aspirations and realise their inner ambitions. His engaging and collaborative approach allows others to excel and reach peak performance. His coaching and people development work has been recognised as inspirational, transformational and purposeful. Lanre’s strong commercial and financial background has been a key asset to a wide range of clients in stimulating business and personal performance improvement. His coaching and facilitation expertise has been founded on career experience at global firms Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Accenture where he had an outstanding record of designing and delivering people development programmes, managing organisational structure and people changes and improving capabilities through training and coaching.

Paul’s current role is with the Football Association where he leads on strategy and operations for the Men’s England teams. He previously chaired the Premier League’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Standard panel and led the creation of their No Room for Racism Action Plan. He has been a non-executive director in a variety of public sector bodies and charities including Metropolitan Police and Guys & St Thomas’ NHS Trust and for many years was a partner at PwC, the global professional services firm, where he served on the Boards of the firm in both the UK and in Africa. While at PwC, he provided corporate finance and consulting advice to clients across various industries and was subsequently recognised for his work in diversity and inclusion in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List.

Sunil Rajan, Managing Director for Axioma, leads their EMEA and APAC business and brings over 20 years of Leadership experience. Sunil’s expertise centres around capital markets, partnerships, distribution, and strategic development.Prior to joining Axioma, Sunil held leadership positions with S&P Global Markets, Thomson Reuters Trading & Risk, Misys and IBM Algorithmics. In Thomson Reuters Sunil led UKI advisory and financial software solutions across both banking and trading book, front office trading, middle office risk management, and back office settlement systems, prior to its acquisition by Vista Partners. Prior to that, he has also been part of the leadership team for other FinTech start-ups, one of which was successfully acquired by Misys. Sunil also led the regional growth across the UK, BeNeLux and Gulf regions for risk vendor Algorithmics. Most recently, in S&P, Sunil has been leading the Risk Solutions growth across new markets in Europe, Middle East & Africa. He earned a BSc in Maths & Finance from SBU London and undertook the McGrawHill Leadership Program at University of Michigan GB

Derek is a fully qualified (ICF ACC & Strengthscope accredited) personal/career development coach. He works with graduates, marketing professionals, entrepreneurs, aspiring and experienced business leaders, addressing work performance, career transition, relationships and well-being. Derek’s specialism is in one to one coaching and workshops for ‘rising stars’. High potential, high performing individuals who often want to progress into senior leadership roles. Corporate clients include WPP London media agency Maxus. Derek has a natural coaching style. He has an innate ability to quickly uncover clients’ values, limiting beliefs, strengths and weaknesses. Derek’s use of powerful, provocative questions and honest observations are combined with motivation and genuine support at all times. The process is strategic, yet organic, resulting in an actionable plan that achieves your goals.

Abigail is a Peak Performance Strategist and Coach. She delivers executive training and coaching internationally – across the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA. Abigail has delivered a wide range of management and leadership programmes for clients across sectors, from banking and professional services through to FMCG, luxury goods and hospitality. With an international background in banking, Abigail is well-versed in the dynamics and pressures of the corporate world. She has worked for major UK and Australian banking institutions in everything from front office private equity, acquisition finance, corporate banking and credit through to strategy, business management, M&A and wealth. Abigail has regularly worked alongside and advised C-suite executives on strategic and operational direction, sat on senior leadership teams and served as a Board Advisor

Rob Neil spent 35 years at the MoJ, holding roles including D&I lead, Head of Engagement Networks and first elected chair of the Civil Service Race Forum. The engagement network boasts over x1000 people across Courts, Tribunals, Prisons and the Legal Aid Agency. In 2016 Rob was included in the ‘New View 50’ which recognises influential Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) professionals in the public sector andwas chosen to lead the MoJ’s Race Project – an inward facing programme of work aimed at supporting the MoJ’s published Diversity & Inclusion objectives and turning the dial on race equality. Rob was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list for ‘Services to Race Equality in the workplace and the community’

Pauline Hughes is an Executive Coach and Strategic Communications Consultant. Pauline has coached CEOs, government ministers, celebrities and other high profile individuals to enhance their personal impact and make their mark. Previously Director of Communications at a children’s charity, and PR Director within central government, she draws on 15+ years experience to help individuals and companies navigate through the maze of modern-day communications and find their voice, their story, and their audience. Starting with a degree in Psychology, Pauline has always been fascinated by human behaviour and the neuroscience and psychology that underpins it. This has been at the heart of her work as a senior leader, building successful teams and delivering high performance that leads to better business results. Now, with a distinction level post graduate certificate in executive coaching, Pauline is passionate about helping individuals and teams to harness their strengths and build their confidence; and is on a mission to propel them to reach their highest ambitions. Pauline’s recent clients have included GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Arup, Thwaites Communications, Kaizo, Cotton USA, Third City PR, Become (formerly The Who Cares? Trust) and Sense

Grace Adelakun is a People & Culture Strategist withover 15 years’experienceasHR Practitioner. Grace holds deep expertise in people partnering at a senior and strategic level for global organisations, extending across abroad spectrum of industries such as Media,Education, Sports and Sectors including Private, Public, Government and Non-for-Profit. In addition to HR leadership, Grace is an experienced Facilitator, Trainer and an accredited Executive Coach and regularly partners with adiverserange c-suite and senior leaders supporting their commitments togrowthand transformation within their respective organisations. Grace ispassionate about organisational psychology and dedicated in supportingleaders to build healthy, high-performing teams as well as cultivating and fostering positive workplace cultures.

Maureen is an EMCC certified coach, leadership specialist, and trained Pharmacist. She partners with organisations todeliver high-impact professional coaching,design strategic learning solutions, and deliver facilitation of leadership training and organisational development workshops. Maureen is an insightful, action-oriented, personable leader and coach. She is skilled at stepping into different people’s maps of the world and combines her empathetic nature, deep understanding of how people work and highly analytical & problem-solving skillset in a way that equips clients to create desirable and sustainable change. Her focus as aconsultantis to enable her clients to achieve desired results by empowering them to unlock the potential within and find solutions aligned with their strengths and values whilst identifying ways tosuccessfully connect their outcomes with organizational purpose. Her coaching and facilitation style incorporate her authentic, supportive and goal-oriented nature-she uses an integrative approach, which isbased around clear and actionable development criteria, and tailors her training and experience to meet clients’ personal and professional development needs.

Grounding herself on 14 years in corporate business, including a decade as a HR leader,and 8 years’ experience as a Leadership Coach, Michèle acts as a catalyst to help herclients find the key to top performance and thriving teams. She is used to workingwithsenior leaders, developing managers and their teams.Having always worked with and for international audiences (EMEA, North America,Asia), Michèle is used to adapting her work to the individuals and teams she issupporting, for the strongest possible impact. Michèle is ICF certified and has delivered 480 hours of individual and team coaching. Asa trainer and facilitator, she has delivered 600+ virtual webinars and face-to-facetraining sessions globally.Her focus is leadership development and teamperformance. Michèle is recognized byher clients, especially female leaders, for her ability to instil confidence, her listeningskills and talent to quickly grasp technical concepts and make them accessible to theaudience.Michèle supports her clients both live and virtually, in French and English.