

Karen is an accomplished Executive Leadership Coach and Mentor with over 30 years’ senior management experience across the Retail, Consumer, and professional services sectors. She is a member of the ICF and a Fellow of the Association for Coaching.
Following her own career transition, Karen developed a deep passion for emotional intelligence and its impact on leadership performance. She founded Uniquely Global in 2014 to use emotional intelligence as a catalyst to embolden leaders, enhance the culture of the workplace and accelerate the achievement of business goals.
Karen believes that a high-performing, sustainable culture is an organisation’s greatest source of competitive advantage, shaping how people act, perform, and succeed.

As a coach, you are a privileged professional confidant and sounding board, often working in close partnership with the CEO, helping them as individuals, and with their senior teams to develop and establish a behaviours-led performance culture within their organisation.

Anna Lockwood
Client & Operations Partner
Anna acts as a trusted point of connection for our clients while underpinning the day-to-day running of Uniquely Global. She ensures everything behind the scenes runs smoothly — from finance and operations through to people, systems, and delivery — bringing a calm, well-structured approach to everything she does. Her career spans roles across retail merchandising, programme management, facilitation, event delivery, and executive support, across both commercial and charitable organisations. This breadth enables her to combine structure with flexibility, ensuring our clients and the business are consistently supported to perform at their best.

Andy Webber
Senior Training Specialist
Andy is a learning and development professional with over twenty years’ experience focussing on leadership and associated topics. He has a developed a deep cultural awareness through extensive international travel (50+ countries and 5 continents) which complements his natural ability to work with diverse groups, establish credibility and build rapport. Operating across a range of sectors he works closely with clients to identify and understand their objectives and then design and deliver learning solutions that meet their needs.

Ruth Sloss
Executive Coach
Ruth is an Executive Coach with a background of commercial senior leadership positions in FTSE 100 companies, including BT and WPP. Whilst at BT she studied for the Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching at Henley Business School and gained International Coaching Federation accreditation. For several years she wore a second hat as an internal coach at BT in addition to her leadership roles, giving her a multi-faceted perspective and deep understanding of the challenges her clients face, through working simultaneously as a senior commercial leader, people manager and coach. She is a supportive, empathetic and challenging coach who helps individuals enhance their leadership skills and progress their careers. Ruth holds an MA in Arts Criticism and sits on the boards of two charities in the Arts & Heritage sectors.

André Morris
Mentor & Coach
André’s background in news journalism brings a different focus to his coaching and how he helps leaders develop themselves and better engage with the work they do. His start with The Economist Newspaper and then regional television, led to more than 25 years in HR consulting, including executive search, leadership development/coaching and career transition, working at senior executive and Board level across both public and private sectors in the UK, US and Republic of Ireland. During this time he successfully led a business within a business; designing and implementing people focussed solutions to organisational problems via multi-disciplinary teams. Clients included Nike and Amazon, the BBC, Sky and both the home and international branches of the security services, MI5 and MI6. Delivering major projects, he has brought clarity to people strategies in large organisations. Digital technology and increasingly AI has been a major component of these transformation programmes . A proven leader of people and change, he now works as a mentor and leadership development coach, supporting and guiding individuals to fulfil their aspirations.

Rachel Ellsmore
Training Specialist
Specialising in helping individuals and teams improve their performance through skills and behavioural training.

Charlotte Kenny
Speaker & Educator
A leading Authority in Commercial Strategy, Innovation in Sports and Esports.

Tom Bell
Executive Coach
Tom works with professionals who have a commitment to their personal growth and the growth of their company. He brings a unique background of understanding both the operational and people side of the company. He helps executives to thrive in the workplace and has been a corporate executive for 20+ years, serving in roles such as Chief Strategy Officer, Chief People Officer, and Head of Customer Service in manufacturing, finance, distribution and technology companies. Tom has had responsibilities in publicly traded companies, privately held businesses, and family-owned firms with operations functioning in the United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, Japan, Mexico, and Brazil. Tom has experience working with all levels of employees in various industries and his passion is in helping to make a positive, lasting impact on individual’s lives and an organisation’s culture and performance. Tom is a certified Executive Coach through the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and graduate in ‘Business and Executive Coaching’ at the University College of Dublin in Ireland.

Anusha Parshotum
Executive Coach
Anusha is a commercial, pragmatic and highly focussed executive coach and facilitator. She draws on psychological background, her extensive HR experience and balances this with using practical interventions that are fit for purpose for organisations, teams and individuals. She continues to receive positive feedback for her ability to understand a client, being relevant, her style of support and challenge and ability to bring different perspectives. She has worked across multiple industries and geographies. She is an accredited coach with the ICF.
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Katrice Boland
Executive Coach
Katrice is an executive coach who works with leaders to help them tap into their full potential. She was trained at Queens University of Charlotte and is credentialed through the International Coaching Federation. With a deep belief that it's never too late to grow or change, Katrice brings experience, insight, and a growth mindset to every coaching relationship. She empowers clients to identify strengths, improve communication, and achieve meaningful goals. Drawing from her own journey of reinvention, Katrice understands the courage it takes to step outside your comfort zone—and she inspires her clients to do the same.

Chris Hewitt
Finance Specialist
Chris has been training and coaching clients in financial and professional skills all over the world for 15 years. He has worked with some of the world’s largest companies, including BBC, Tesco, Black Rock, Citi, Bank Of America, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and M&G. After qualifying as an ACA Chartered Accountant at Deloitte and completing the CFA Claritas Certificate, Chris started his financial training career helping people to pass financial examinations. His passion for working with individuals led him into professional skills training in Europe, Asia, The Americas and Oceania.

Ben Bengougam
NED, Advisor & Mentor
A senior leader for over 35 years at global CHRO/SVP HR level in large multinationals as well as with SMEs.

Robert Upright
Public Speaking Specialist
A leading authority in public speaking, communcation and presentation skills.

Glenda Marchant
Executive Coach
25 years of business experience, and an on-going NED role, means that Glenda has no illusions about the corporate world. Combine this understanding, with the skills she gained studying for her Coaching qualifications, and you have a formidable Coach and Mentor. A member of the Association for Coaches Glenda has worked with a variety of Blue-Chip clients including The Estee Lauder Group of Companies, Resolver, and Marks and Spencer.

Harry Rich
Executive Coach
Harry is an Executive Coach, board chair, non-executive director and advisor and brings thirty years’ experience of developing organisations and people in the commercial, public and non-profit sectors. Alongside his executive coaching, Harry is non-executive Chair of the UK Intellectual Property Office and sits on the board of the Glasgow School of Art. He is a non-practising solicitor, Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Harry was Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists, Chief Executive of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a board member of the UK government’s Creative Industries Council and the US-based Design Management Institute.

Aislinn Dilworth
Social & Content Partner
Aislinn works closely with the Uniquely Global team to shape and strengthen how the business shows up externally, with a particular focus on LinkedIn and leadership visibility. She supports the development of clear, consistent and engaging content, translating insight and client work into messaging that resonates with our audience. From shaping themes through to execution, she ensures the team’s voice is aligned, credible and impactful. Working in partnership with the team, she brings structure and direction to content, helping to build meaningful connections and support the wider goals of the business.

Ali Parandeh
AI Developer & Specialist
Ali is a Chartered Engineer with the UK Engineering Council, and a certified developer and data scientist with Microsoft and Google. He has led engineering teams at both multi-national consultancies and at tech startups across various markets to build and deploy AI-enabled software. He has also authored a book on productionising generative AI "Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI" (O'Reilly, 2025) As an AI advocate, Ali regularly delivers corporate AI training for executives and practitioners through professional institutions and training partners. Ali also started London's Beginners Machine Learning meetup in 2018 to help people break into data and AI careers through hands-on workshops and community events. With a passion for education, he has also taught multiple software engineering bootcamps for Code First Girls, empowering more women to establish their tech and AI careers.

Tom Fehley
Senior Mentor
A senior leader and entrepreneur specialising in change, transformation and scaling businesses.

Melissa Lund
Image Coach
Working with senior business people to improve impact through image.
Our Partners

CAPSTAR
Specialists in Communication

Chimp Management
Understanding the neuroscience of the human mind.

Neil Phillips
US-Based Speaker
& Educator

Mary Lou Andre
Speaker & Author; The Art of Leading & Living Well

