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Starbuck & Associates is a Lincolnshire-based coaching and leadership development firm, winner of the National Coaching Awards Coaching Business of the Year 2025 and a certified B Corp.
Their team of ICF Master Certified Coaches (MCCs), placing them in the top 4% of coaches globally, delivers CEO and executive coaching, team coaching, NED coaching, and accelerating women in leadership programmes.
ICF accredited coach training is delivered under The Coaching Craft brand, with ACC (ICF Level 1) and PCC (ICF Level 2) routes and an MCC route on a waiting list. ELCAS funding is available for service leavers.
Rated Excellent on Trustpilot, with ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification.
C-suite, Boards, Senior leadersOrganisations and individualsTeam coaching
The Resilience Development Company is a UK training provider specialising in practical resilience for individuals, teams and leaders, with the stated aim of helping people manage pressure and avoid burnout. It delivers workshops, programmes and train-the-trainer options for organisations, in person and online, and has won industry awards for its resilience training.
Jersey, Channel IslandsNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Careerminds UK, formerly Renovo, is an outplacement and career transition provider in Altrincham, Cheshire, owned by the Careerminds Group.
Its outplacement runs as Advantage Programmes, which combine career coaching with careers technology and skills learning for employees at any level, and Executive Programmes for senior managers up to the C-suite. It describes its model as one coach per person, delivered at a distance. It also offers career development, leadership development, one-to-one executive coaching over 6, 9 or 12 months, and Career Frameworks, a skills-based platform that maps career pathways. Through Careerminds, support is available in more than 100 countries and over 80 languages, with about 1,000 coaches worldwide.
Prices are not published and are given on request. Careerminds announced its acquisition of Renovo on 18 November 2025. The UK company, number 05066794, changed its name from Renovo Employment Group Limited to Careerminds UK Limited on 11 May 2026, and the website says it will move to careerminds.co.uk in late October. It says it works with hundreds of organisations in the private, public and third sectors.
Optimus Coach Academy is a coach training school based in London, set up in 2019 and run by Kudzi Coaching & Training Ltd.
It runs two coaching diplomas, both taught live online over Zoom with recordings, and neither needs previous coaching experience. The Associate Coach Diploma has 85 hours of training over four months, with weekly three-hour sessions and 10 hours of mentor coaching. The Professional Coach Diploma has 175 hours of training over about eight months, in groups of up to 14, also with 10 hours of mentor coaching. It also offers an Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching, with monthly four-hour sessions over 9 to 10 months for up to 12 people, and shorter certifications in mentoring and in neurodiversity in coaching.
The Associate Coach Diploma costs £4,740 including value added tax (VAT), or six payments of £801.60. The Professional Coach Diploma costs £7,140 including VAT, or 12 monthly payments of £630, and the team coaching programme is £2,000 plus VAT. Optimus states that both diplomas are accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), at Level 1 and Level 2 respectively, by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and by the Association for Coaching (AC). EMCC Global has announced a Practitioner-level EMCC Global Quality Award (EQA) for the Professional Coach Diploma. Its founder and course director, Ruth Kudzi, states she holds the ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential.
Senior leaders, Mid-levelOrganisations and individualsTeam coaching
Evolution Coaching Academy is a coach training school based in Malvern, founded by Lilith Joanna Flanagan.
It runs three courses accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), each linked to an ICF credential. The Birth of a Coach at Level 1 is for the Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Intuitive Coach at Level 2 for the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and EcoSystem Master Coach at Level 3 for the Master Certified Coach (MCC). Courses are taught live on Zoom in small groups, in modules of two or three days held every few weeks over several months, and The Birth of a Coach is also run in Italian. The Level 1 course gives 83 ICF contact hours. It also sells one-to-one coaching, mentor coaching for coaches seeking a credential and coaching supervision.
Published prices are £2,790 to £2,990 for The Birth of a Coach, £2,990 for Intuitive Coach with early booking and £3,750 for EcoSystem Master Coach with early booking. One-to-one coaching costs £200 an hour, or £500 an hour for business coaching, and MCC mentoring costs £500 an hour. Lilith Flanagan is listed as an ICF Master Certified Coach and states that she has served as an ICF assessor for more than a decade. The academy names five other coach educators, each holding the ICF PCC or MCC credential.
EZRA is a digital coaching platform set up in 2019 and now part of LHH and The Adecco Group, with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago and Toronto.
It sells one-to-one coaching to employers through three programmes. EZRA Edge, for mid-level to senior leaders, gives unlimited coaching with coaches holding the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential, and runs for 6 months as standard with 3, 9 and 12-month options. Focus by EZRA is an 8-week programme of three coaching sessions for managers and individual contributors, supported between sessions by Cai, an artificial intelligence (AI) coaching assistant. EZRAx is unlimited executive coaching for senior leaders and C-suite executives with Professional Certified Coach (PCC) coaches, in sessions of 30, 60 or 90 minutes. Coaching is virtual, and progress is tracked with its EZRA Measure assessments.
Prices are not published and depend on the programme, number of participants and duration. EZRA states that it has more than 2,000 ICF-accredited coaches and that its EZRA Academy is ICF accredited for Level 1 and Level 2 coach training. Its site reports a Guinness World Records title, shared with Microsoft, for the most people to complete a business coaching programme in one year, after coaching 4,816 Microsoft employees. Published case studies include Kraft Heinz, McDonald's and Nestlé.
All levelsOrganisations
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Shape Talent is a London gender equity consultancy founded in 2017 by Sharon Peake, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist.
It works with large organisations to remove the barriers to women's progression, using its Three Barriers Model of societal, personal and organisational barriers. Consulting starts with a Three Barriers Diagnostic survey, focus groups and a review of talent processes for bias. Its talent accelerator programmes include Breaking Barriers for women and under-represented groups, Connected Leadership for technical specialists moving into people management, and Tailored to Lead for mid-level and senior leaders. Coaching ranges from three one-to-one Spotlight sessions to 12 hours of Acceleration Coaching, and Spotlight Coaching Circles bring 6 to 8 people together for five sessions.
Several of its coaches state International Coaching Federation (ICF) credentials at Professional Certified Coach (PCC) or Associate Certified Coach (ACC) level. It displays a Women Owned logo, states that it has signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge and describes itself as research partner to the LEAD Network. It states that more than 1,200 people have completed its programmes, and its client logos include Microsoft, Marks & Spencer, BT Openreach and Pearson.
