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The Executive Coaching Consultancy (ECC) is a London-based executive coaching firm, founded in 1994, with coaches in the UK and overseas.
It coaches senior leaders, women in leadership and working parents, and runs inclusive leadership programmes for organisations. A standard executive coaching programme runs over 6 to 9 months, with about 10 hours of one-to-one coaching in sessions of 60 to 90 minutes and three-way meetings with the leader's manager at the start and end. Its parental transition coaching supports employees before, during and after parental leave, with options for long and short leave. Coaching is delivered in person or virtually, and group coaching is also offered.
Prices are not published and are quoted after an initial conversation. ECC states that its coaches are certified by coaching bodies, naming the Association for Coaching (AC), the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and it reports more than 90 coaches worldwide. It has been a certified B Corporation (B Corp) since 2021. Founder Geraldine Gallacher is chair, and the firm is run by co-chief executives Emma Spitz and Michelle Weston.
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.
MTD Training is the trading name of Management Training & Development Ltd, a Coventry-based management training company founded in 2001.
It runs management, leadership and soft skills training for team leaders through to senior managers, as in-house courses, open courses and online learning. Open courses last two days and run in hotels in London, Manchester, Bristol, Coventry and Reading. In-house courses take place at the client's site or a chosen venue, and management development programmes run for 3 to 18 months as workshops or blended learning. It also offers 360-degree feedback, DISC (dominance, influence, steadiness and conscientiousness) profiling and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessments.
Open courses cost £495 to £695 plus value added tax (VAT) per person, depending on the course and whether the optional Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) certificate is taken. A self-paced ILM Assured online course of 16 short sessions costs £97 plus VAT. Courses carry continuing professional development (CPD) certification. The company states it has worked with more than 9,000 organisations, and lists awards from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Personnel Today.
Personality and behaviour, 360-degree feedbackRecruitment and selection, Coaching and developmentPractitioner-led
Change Formation is a people development and training company based in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, led by managing director Rob McWilliam.
It offers leadership development, management skills, communication and client relationship training, team development and executive coaching, with separate programmes for graduates, line managers and project managers. Its catalogue includes masterclasses and workshops on change, coaching skills, feedback and hybrid working. Executive coaching is open to anyone from junior managers to senior leaders and usually runs as up to six sessions over six to nine months, drawing on Insights Discovery and Appraisal 360. All services can be delivered in person or online.
Prices are not published, and a free 15-minute consultation call is offered. It states that it is an Approved Centre for the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and offers the ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership and Management. Its website also displays the logo of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). Published case studies include work for Paxton, Ericsson, CGG and Siemens PSE.
Personality and behaviour, Team roles and dynamicsCoaching and development, Team buildingPractitioner-led
Burgess Hill, West Sussex, UKNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Thomas International is a psychometric assessment publisher based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, founded in 1981.
Its assessments cover behaviour (the Thomas DISC assessment, also known as the Personal Profile Analysis or PPA), aptitude (the General Intelligence Assessment), personality (the High Potential Trait Indicator), emotional intelligence and 360-degree feedback. Organisations use them for recruitment, onboarding, development and team work. All are taken online. The behaviour and personality assessments take under 10 minutes and the aptitude test 30 to 40 minutes.
Pricing is per employee per month, with separate plans for managers and teams, HR professionals and accredited practitioners. It has offices in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Australia and South Africa.
Personality and behaviour, Team roles and dynamicsRecruitment and selection, Coaching and development
Beckett McInroy Consultancy (BMC) is a coach training and coaching firm with a registered address in Manchester, run by founder Dr Clare Beckett-McInroy.
Its CoachME coach training runs from Level 1 to Level 7. The levels cover core coaching skills, then executive, team, board and systems coaching, mentor coaching and coaching supervision, with a separate Team Coaching Certificate. The Levels 1 to 6 programme gives 127.5 hours of blended learning, taught live online in groups of up to 12, and sessions are recorded. Some training also runs face to face. BMC provides executive, team, board and career coaching, coaching for educators and law partnerships, and diagnostic tools. Training is offered in several languages, including English and Arabic.
The CoachME Levels 1 to 6 programme is priced from $2,995 to $5,950 in United States dollars, depending on the package chosen. BMC states that its programmes are accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) at Levels 1, 2 and 3 and approved by the Association for Coaching (AC). Its team page lists eight coaches holding the ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential. Dr Beckett-McInroy is also listed as a European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Master Practitioner. Named clients include LEGO, Citi, DHL and Saudi Aramco.
Peoplewise is a business psychology consultancy with its head office in Hammersmith, London, and is the development partner of The LCap Group.
It works with organisations in five areas: assessment, development, organisational performance, coaching and sales training informed by psychology. Assessment covers psychometric tools, 360-degree surveys and assessment centres. One-to-one and team coaching is offered to people moving into bigger roles, executives joining the C-suite for the first time, high-potential employees and board members. Development work includes leadership and team programmes, a leadership transition model and its own apps for behavioural tracking, pulse surveys and talent management. Programme lengths are not published.
Prices are not published. It states that it has more than 60 psychologists and coaches working across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia, and that its coaches are certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the British Psychological Society (BPS) or similar bodies. It says it can deliver in more than 20 languages.
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
t-three is a leadership and culture change consultancy with offices in Birmingham, London and Manchester, incorporated as a company in 2000.
It designs leadership, management and team development and culture change programmes for organisations, built around its Provoke, Plant, Practise method for behaviour change. Programmes are co-designed with each client and delivered in person or virtually, for audiences from senior leaders to aspiring managers. Its tools include the Facet5 personality profile, 360-degree feedback and Truth Teller, its own named feedback tool that can be completed in about 4 minutes. A typical coaching programme has a chemistry session, a Facet5 assessment, objective setting, four coaching sessions and a final review. For organisations building in-house coaching, it runs Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) qualifications at Level 3 or Level 5.
Prices are not published. t-three states that it is accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), and its site displays an ISO/IEC 27001 information security certificate from SGS. Client stories include Transport for London, Jaguar Land Rover, Sainsbury's, the BBC and EDF. It states it is part of Gateley, and t-three Consulting Limited (company number 03959623) is registered in Birmingham.
Common Purpose is a not-for-profit leadership development organisation based in London, founded as a charity in 1989 and now working in 10 countries.
Its programmes bring together people from different sectors and backgrounds to build the skills to lead across boundaries of sector, culture and organisation. Open programmes in the UK include Lighthouse for senior leaders, Arena for high-potential and senior leaders, Beacon for high-potential leaders and Legacy for people aged 18 to 25. Lighthouse in the UK runs for 45 hours over 7 months, with in-person sessions in London, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh and one online session. It also designs programmes for employers and universities on change leadership, equity, diversity and inclusion, and women in leadership.
Lighthouse in the UK costs £6,000 plus value added tax (VAT), and a limited bursary scheme is available. Prices for other programmes are not published. The parent body, The Common Purpose Charitable Trust, is a company limited by guarantee (number 02832875) and a registered charity (number 1023384). It reports more than 144,000 alumni and work with 22,000 organisations, with hubs in cities including London, Berlin, Johannesburg, Singapore and Chicago.
Pearn Kandola is a firm of business psychologists based in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, founded in 1984 by Michael Pearn and Binna Kandola.
Its work covers talent assessment, talent development and inclusive workplace cultures. Its business psychologists provide one-to-one executive coaching for senior leaders, run development centres and design programmes for emerging leaders. Assessment work includes recruitment assessment centres and executive assessments for senior hires. Inclusion training is delivered in person, live online or through self-paced learning, and live workshops last 2 to 3 hours.
Coaching prices are not published. As a guide, it states that an in-person inclusion workshop for up to 25 people may cost in the region of £3,500 to £7,500. No accreditations are listed on its website. Its People page names 45 staff across the UK, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Co-founder Professor Binna Kandola, the firm's senior partner, was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008 for services to diversity.
Lumina Learning is a psychometrics and people development company based in Reading, Berkshire, founded in 2009 by Dr Stewart Desson.
Its main product, Lumina Spark, measures 72 personality qualities without sorting people into types. Alongside it sit Lumina Leader, Lumina Team, Lumina Emotion, Lumina Sales and Lumina Select, which is used in recruitment. Organisations use the tools for selection, coaching, and leadership and team development, at every level from new recruits to chief executives. Coaches, trainers and in-house staff qualify as Lumina practitioners through its qualification programmes, which mix group classes, self-paced online modules and one-to-one coaching. Qualifications run throughout the year, either fully online or with in-person classes.
Prices are not published. Lumina Learning displays figures of more than 10,000 practitioners in over 40 countries, and it has regional partners across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. It states that its Lumina Spark, Lumina Emotion and Lumina Leader qualifications carry Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Clients named on its website include adidas, Pfizer, Deloitte and the National Health Service (NHS).
Personality and behaviour, Team roles and dynamicsRecruitment and selection, Coaching and development
Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Edgecumbe Consulting Group is a Bristol business psychology consultancy, incorporated in 1995, that works on leadership, engagement and performance.
Its business psychologists run executive leadership assessment, one-to-one and group leadership coaching, leadership team development and leadership programmes run with business schools. It also carries out employee engagement surveys, culture and values reviews, 360-degree feedback, competency frameworks and people analytics, for staff from the C-suite to new joiners. Coaching begins with psychometrics and 360-degree feedback, and the number of sessions, format and pace are agreed with each client. Much of the work rests on its own Primary Colours Leadership Model.
Coaching and consultancy fees are not published. Practitioner accreditation in the Primary Colours toolkit and HUCAMA personality assessments costs £650 plus value added tax (VAT) per participant per day on open online courses, £1,200 plus VAT for a one-to-one online day and £2,500 plus VAT per day for in-house groups of up to six. Its co-founders, Dr Jenny King and Dr David Pendleton, are now special advisers. Several consultants state they are Chartered Psychologists with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and case studies cover BSI, BAE Systems, Bunzl, Hargreaves Lansdown and ICA Gruppen.
