Our People:   Executive Management Coaches

Here are the people from our team who specialise in the field of Executive Coaching.

Kate Burton: ICF Certified Executive Coach 

Kate works with professionals in the business world who are hungry for change. 
Kate is a well respected, fully qualified international coach who challenges her clients to transform their personal effectiveness, leadership style and performance.  Her clients number many senior IT executives with a hearty appetite for development; people who value success, expect a high quality of life and measure the impact of coaching on their bottom line performance. Kate is a master practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and full member of the International Coach Federation heading towards her PCC accreditation.

 “The coaching programme with Kate has been uplifting to the point where I’m now enthusing about my work ..., it’s been an eye-opener to step back, stop and think what I really want.” Mark Nutburn, IT Director

Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.com

Andy Gannon: International Coach Federation Certified Executive Director Coach

Andy has managed a number of international businesses and teams, both in his executive leadership roles during a distinguished 19-year career within Hewlett Packard, and since.

Over the last decade alone, Andy has managed businesses ranging from 10 employees to thousands, and with turnovers from £1.5 million to £1.5 billion.

He has a reputation as a talented change manager and organisational designer, and has led several breakthrough projects leading to the repositioning of entire businesses – and resulting in significant improvements in their growth and profitability.

Over the last five years he has also adopted a number of Directorships both Executive and Non-Executive, complemented by pro-bono work in the charity and not-for–profit sector along with advisory, mentoring and coaching roles. His roles have included Group CEO of a fast growing Aim listed plc, Non-Exec Chairman of a consulting business and Chairman of a charity – The Talent Foundation.

Building on his consulting and mentoring track record, Andy has been operating as a coach for some five years, working with main board level executives from predominantly FTSE-100 and FTSE-250 clients across all disciplines and markets. Member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF)  

Peter Miller-Smith: Rainmaker Performance Profiler certified Executive Coach

Peter's passion is working with business leaders who really want to raise their game who want to improve their business performance, and take control of their lives.

Peter’s many years of experience running businesses and leading teams in the UK, Europe, and USA have shown him time and again what is possible when the best are encouraged to excel. He brings commercial awareness, challenge, and incisiveness, and a well-tried and proven approach.

Peter spent much of his career as an executive with 3M Corporation, with nine years in Brussels, the USA and The Netherlands running a number of different businesses.

A recent client said of working with Peter...   “he has that wonderful balance of knowing when to challenge and when to leave you be….He helps me to think the unthinkable, challenge my assumptions and givens, and really focus on what is holding me and my company back. His coaching has helped the business enormously in developing management skills, improving communication up and down in the organisation, but most of all reminding me to focus on what is really important."

John Gloster-Smith: Executive Coach

John has been developing leaders in business for the last 15 years since he transformed his own career from being a senior manager in private-sector education. He’s been a management consultant to almost every business sector of international and FT 100 companies.

He’s worked at developing leaders, coaching 1-on-1, and facilitating teams at all levels to board level, as well as organisational development. This has been supported by his own extensive investment in personal growth and in training in Gestalt and other process methodologies for personal and business transformation.

His style is focused and results-orientated but informal, with a strong ability to ask exactly the right questions that pick up the key issues and get to the heart of the matter, and to work with process, both in individuals, reporting lines and teams to help organisations bring about the desired change.

Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.com

Amanda Street : Executive Coach

Amanda’s vision is to help individuals and teams access and use their true potential to enhance personal and organisational performance.

In many instances this involves working with individuals to help them identify and create their vision, develop goals (personally, and professionally) to make the best possible decisions and choices.

Amanda has over 25 years senior management experience in Marketing, Sales and HR working for US multi-nationals such as Hewlett Packard, and IBM (Lotus Software) in the UK, EMEA and South America. Her last role in HP was internal coach to the whole of the EMEA $Multi Bn Consumer products leadership team

Amanda often works with clients at a time of change, typically when they have been promoted to a new role within their organisation, have joined a new organisation, or are going through a transformational change within the business.  She provides one-on-one leadership coaching, focusing on the forming and managing of business relationships, building strategies and action plans to ensure clients are effective, confident and well equipped to deal with the issues at hand.  

Her coaching is based upon Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), an applied psychology, sometimes described as the ‘study of excellence’. She’s a qualified Master Practioner having trained with John Seymour, and Sue Knight, both recognised leaders in the field of NLP in Business.  She also holds a Degree in Business Studies.
Here is what some of her clients say about her.....

Amanda is an insightful coach who brings to bear her experience of working at the very highest senior levels in fast-paced corporate environments to everything she does. Absolutely inspirational!

Through Amanda’s coaching I have gained confidence in my interactions with senior stakeholders. I am better able to navigate politics at Director-level. My levels of influence have increased as a result of our sessions and I have become more strategic in my career planning.

I have worked with Amanda for over 20 years and I would actively endorse her ability to add significant and meaningful value to both the individual and the organisation.

Helen Chapman: York and London based

Executive and Management Coach and Personal Resiliency Specialist

 Helen Chapman is an accredited psychological coach and trainer . She is passionate about helping leaders and team to be more effective and resilient in creative and innovative ways. She also likes to keep things as simple and straight forward as possible and ideally fun!  Her first booklet 'Being Resilient' beautifully captures her attitude to life and business, 'if we could stand back more often and imagine what a child might say or do, we might cut through some of our business and personal complexity'

Helen has more than 22 years experience in large multinational organisations working in management and leadership roles in functions such as Research, Development, IT, Finance, Information and Knowledge management. She started her life as a bench chemist at Nicholas Laboratories, before moving to ICI and then GSK. She splits her time between Yorkshire and Hertfordshire enjoying the balance between the two and is currently working on her next booklet 'Being Effective'. 

Sally Prescott: North West of England and London Based
 Executive Coach, Learning and Development Specialist , Director Coach, ICF Accredited Coach

Sally Prescott is a Learning & Development Specialist and ICF Accredited Coach - and has a real passion for life. With 22 years of energetic experience working in the service industry, Sally’s driving force lies in enabling people to reach their goals.

Over a 14 year period at Forte Hotels Sally led teams to success for the benefit of both the hotel and individual employees at all levels. During this time, she was inspired to pursue a career in Human Resources and Learning & Development, and is a CIPD graduate. She has also worked for The Savoy, Intercontinental and Jumeirah Hotels - making a significant difference over an 8 year period.  Sally has led hotel teams to be dedicated in delivering customer service excellence and profitable performance.

Coupled with her career, Sally has undertaken 18 years active volunteering for charity Radio Lollipop – providing care, comfort, play & entertainment to make seriously sick children’s stay in hospital a less painful experience. Dealing with worried and bereaved families has put life into perspective yet Sally still enjoys using her considerable skills to bring smiles to sad faces – she has a true zest for life.