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Phillippa Mole is a leading Performance Coach, the founder and CEO of Fresh Air Coaching and an associate of Renewal International. Phillippa is a highly acclaimed inspirational speaker and since founding Fresh Air Coaching in 2007, she has established herself as one of the leading performance coaches in the country. She delivers engaging, memorable, and informative talks, utilising her own experiences in sport, broadcasting, and the corporate world. She shares her insights and powerful stories with humility and humour.
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Steliana van de Rijt Economu is an award winning author, leadership coach, and inspirational speaker. Her first book, Mothers as Leaders (2019), won the WIN Conference Global Award and sparked a thriving international community. During the pandemic, she became a trusted voice for Employee Resource Groups at companies including Microsoft, Renault, Heineken, Shell, and Salesforce.
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Naysan has been a keynote speaker at international conferences on leadership and coaching and has contributed to a wide range of articles and thought pieces on these topics. He is passionate about how leadership evolves when people learn to work beyond the boundaries of their own teams, in service of customers, communities and wider stakeholder systems.
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Catherine is recognized for a psychological, systemic, and business approach to executive and team development. As the North American Lead for Resilience@Work, she helps leaders and teams build practical resilience and wellbeing while sustaining high performance in complex, high-demand environments.
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Dr. Ilka Dunne is a systems thinker, a seasoned leadership development expert and an organisational culture designer. With deep organisational experience from her many years working across multiple sectors and in interdisciplinary spaces and her years leading Leadership and Culture in FirstRand Bank she brings deep insight into the intersection of leadership, culture and strategy.
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Peter is one of the Global top 100 coaches and the international thought leader in systemic coaching, executive teams, and board development. He is an Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, Honorary President of the Association of Executive Coaching and Chairman of Renewal Associates and joint founder and Dean of the Global Team Coaching Institute.
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Phillippa Mole is a leading Performance Coach, the founder and CEO of Fresh Air Coaching and an associate of Renewal International. She has been described as a ‘secret weapon’ when partnering with clients to win bids, pitches, and investment. Phillippa is a highly acclaimed inspirational speaker and since founding Fresh Air Coaching in 2007, she has established herself as one of the leading performance coaches in the country. She delivers engaging, memorable, and informative talks, utilising her own experiences in sport, broadcasting, and the corporate world. She shares her insights and powerful stories with humility and humour.
A specialist in human behaviour, Phillippa studied Human Movement Sport, Dance and Art at St. John’s College York, followed by an MSc. Degree in Sports Science (Performance Psychology) from Loughborough University. Alongside her studies, Phillippa competed for Great Britain in Bobsleigh and South of England at Sprint Hurdles, gaining substantial experience on how to cope with the pressure to achieve peak performance. She then lectured at Manchester Metropolitan University in Coaching and Performance Psychology and later at Roehampton University in Television and Radio Presenting and Production.
Phillippa is a respected television presenter and reporter. Her television credits include the BBC’s Commonwealth Games, ITV’s GMTV, Northwest Tonight, West Country Live and Meridian Breakfast. Due to her vast knowledge of human behaviour and presentation, Phillippa was the co-host for Live TV’s flagship programme Lie Detector. She also wrote the New Frontiers column for the Sunday Telegraph sports pages for four years.
As a highly experienced speaker, presenter, and trainer, Phillippa has worked with leading organisations to achieve their goals on all media platforms. From fund investment pitches to c-suite presentations and TED talks promoting ideas and businesses, Phillippa personalises her sessions, investing her time to get to know her clients and create memorable interactions with actionable outcomes.
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Steliana van de Rijt Economu is an award winning author, leadership coach, and inspirational speaker. Her first book, Mothers as Leaders (2019), won the WIN Conference Global Award and sparked a thriving international community.
During the pandemic, she became a trusted voice for Employee Resource Groups at companies including Microsoft, Renault, Heineken, Shell, and Salesforce. These conversations deepened her belief in the family as a powerful leadership team and inspired her second book, Parentship.
As a writer, Steliana blends research with real-life stories. As a speaker, she brings energy, clarity, and relatable examples that stay with her audiences.
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Catherine is recognized for a psychological, systemic, and business approach to executive and team development. As the North American Lead for Resilience@Work, she helps leaders and teams build practical resilience and wellbeing while sustaining high performance in complex, high-demand environments.
She specializes in C-suite executive coaching, systemic team coaching, and team-of-teams coaching, supporting organizational transformation, transitions, interpersonal effectiveness, and cross-boundary collaboration. Catherine has now logged over 20,000+ coaching hours and supervises and mentors 100+ coaches and coaching teams each year as an Accredited Coach Supervisor.
She is senior faculty in systemic team coaching and coaching supervision, faculty with Royal Roads University, and co-author of High-Performance Team Coaching, 50 Tips for Terrific Teams, and Team of Teams Coaching: Using a Teaming Approach to Increase Business Impact (2025).
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Dr. Ilka Dunne is a systems thinker, a seasoned leadership development expert and an organisational culture designer. With deep organisational experience from her many years working across multiple sectors and in interdisciplinary spaces and her years leading Leadership and Culture in FirstRand Bank she brings deep insight into the intersection of leadership, culture and strategy. In a world faced with immense systemic issues, traditional models of leadership, organisational effectiveness and team development are rather blunt instruments. With a background in leadership identity transition and maturation, she inspires leaders to find their own answers to the questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I meant to do? And further Who are we? Why are we here? What are we meant to do? Building deeper awareness of their potential to impact the world for good and readiness to do the work that needs to be done. In this way she helps them to build organisations that build the world we want our children’s children to live in. Through her stories, reflections and real-life examples she shares practical insights attendees can apply to their own lives and organisations. Outside of work Ilka keeps connected to global leaders across the Commonwealth through her role as the Chair of the Commonwealth Study Conferences Global Alumni. She also coaches and mentors volunteers and not for profit organisations, keeps up to date with the latest research as a researcher with Henley Business School and grabs every opportunity to experience the big blue as a diver.
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Adrian is an experienced Executive Coach, Systemic Team Coach and Supervisor, based in Singapore.
Adrian has over 20 years of marketing and product management experience in the consumer electronics, telecommunications and IT solutions industries. He co-authored the book ‘Into the WILD – Creating a Coaching Culture at the Workplace’ in 2021.
Fluent in both Mandarin and English, Adrian has built, led and managed physical and virtual teams across the globe. He has also accumulated in-depth appreciation of global mindfulness, cultural diversity and international business practices in Asia and around the world.
Adrian is an ICF credentialed Professional Certified Coach (PCC), accredited and certified in Meta Team, GENOS Emotional Intelligence, Everything DiSC, Emergenetics, Design Thinking and LEGO® Serious Play.
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Paul has worked with Renewal Associates for over ten years, first as a client organisation and since then as an Associate. He is an experienced Leadership Development Practitioner, Executive Coach, Systemic Team Coach, Coach Supervisor and Change Consultant, based in Singapore.
His last corporate role was heading the leadership development centre in the Singapore public service and before that he was Regional Director / Managing Director with established consulting firms, working across Asia-Pacific. His clients value his depth and breadth of experience and his sensitivity to the cultural context of Asia, where he operates. He is fluent in English and Chinese, as well as dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien. He is also conversational in Bahasa Melayu.
Paul is an accredited coach and is certified in the use of a variety of assessment and profiling instruments such as: Hogan Leadership Series, MBTI, Conflict Dynamics, NLP, Bates Executive Presence and Leadership Team Performance, MBSR, Action Learning.
Pamela Maguire is an Executive Team coach and Supervisor. She uses a systemic eclectic approach to coaching supervision with individuals and with teams allowing the issue and solution to emerge through tapping into a range of models, theories, techniques, and processes choosing the most pertinent for the person, team, or issue.
In supervision, Pamela focuses on the needs of the team and the organization and takes into consideration the individual, the team, the organization’s stakeholders as well as the team coaches and their clients. She sees the function of the supervisor as Qualitative by helping the coach focus on what she/he is not seeing, not hearing, or not allowing themselves to feel or not saying; Developmental in that she helps the coach to develop her/his internal supervisor and reflective practitioner and resourcing by providing a supportive space for the coach to process what they have absorbed from the client and the clients’ system. She brings a blend of business acumen and human understanding and space of unconditional regard for her supervisees.
Hellen has been associated with Renewal Associates since 2020, building on a partner relationship with Peter since 2015. An ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), certified supervisor of coaches, mentors and consultants and facilitator in change leadership.
Hellen partners with individuals, teams and organisations navigating complex challenges in uncertain environments. Her intention is to enable conversations that matter and to create conditions for learning collectively for people and planet to thrive.
With an international corporate background and leadership experience in various sectors and countries, she works mostly with multinational organisations. She encourages embodied learning – connecting head, heart and body, ‘being rather than thinking the change’. Inviting stakeholders in the room, including the non-human ones, she challenges clients to show up as whole persons. Holding a deep curiosity and sensitivity for diversity, she believes in the power of community. Her style is described as warm with a strong, calm presence. She is known for her capacity to work with ethical dilemmas.
Peter Hawkins, Chairman of Renewal Associates, co-founder of the Global Team Coaching Institute, Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, and Senior Visiting Fellow, at Civil Service College (Singapore), is a leading consultant, coach, writer, and researcher in organizational strategy, leadership, culture change, team and board development, and coaching. He has worked with many leading organizations all over the world including Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South Africa, and America coaching Executive Teams and Boards and facilitating major change and organizational transformation projects. He has coached over 100 boards and senior executive teams, enabling them to develop their purpose, vision, values, collective leadership, and strategy for the future, in a wide range of international, large, and small commercial companies, government departments, NHS Trusts, professional services organizations, and charities.
Peter is an international thought leader in Systemic Coaching, Executive Teams, and Board Development, President of both the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (www.apecs.org); and the Academy of Executive Coaching (www.aoec.com) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Windsor Leadership Trust. He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences on learning organization, leadership, and executive coaching and teaches and leads masterclasses in over 50 different countries around the world.
Steliana van de Rijt-Economu(ICF PCC. ACTC certified) is an executive team coach with over 20 years of experience helping people and teams unlock their leadership potential.
Her professional background encompasses HR, organizational development, and leadership coaching and training for executives (E/VP, GM level) at Fortune 500 companies such as Shell, Vodafone, and Nike. With an academic foundation in Finance and Project Management, coupled with extensive practical experience in organizational and behavioral change and leader development, she excels in tackling complex challenges and seizing multifaceted opportunities within global matrix organizations.
She received the Global Women International Network award for her contribution to feminine leadership through her book: Mothers as Leaders
Jonathan is an experienced coach who has been supporting organizational leaders since 2004. With his extensive background in systemic team coaching, he has been a valuable member of Renewal Associates’ coaching faculty since 2001. While based in New York City, Jonathan has gained international exposure, having lived in various countries and worked fluently in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and English. Holding an MBA from INSEAD in France, he possesses a strong academic foundation.
Jonathan’s expertise lies in applying a systemic lens to help teams navigate the complexities of organizational and team dynamics, enhancing individual and collective performance. His focus includes assisting clients in evaluating their performance against stakeholder expectations, improving relationships, managing conflicts (both intercultural and within the same culture), and addressing blind spots and obstacles, including emotional management.
Certified as a coaching supervisor and having completed the Advanced Diploma in Systemic Team Coaching, Jonathan also holds certifications in various assessment tools and methodologies. His coaching experience spans diverse industries, including finance, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, automotive, luxury, and non-profit sectors. Presently, he leads a coaching initiative within a US government agency, overseeing 48 coaches and 24 teams.
As a board member of Coaching for Justice, Jonathan actively promotes the integration of a social justice lens in coaching engagements. Additionally, he continues to cultivate his linguistic skills and enjoys traveling whenever possible.
Dr. Hilary Lines, Executive and Team Coach, Supervisor, Touchpoint Leaders, coaches leadership teams in the UK and internationally, and has particular experience in helping senior teams lead transformational change and integrate cultures post-merger. She has co-authored Touchpoint Leadership: Creating collaborative energy across Teams and organizations (Kogan Page, 2013), which describes her work and philosophy of leadership as a relationship.
Hilary has been Lead Faculty in the design and delivery of the Systemic Team Coaching® Diploma for the past 11 years. Hilary was Global Head of Partner & Leadership Development at PwC Consulting and coached the VP and Board of IBM’s EMEA Business Consulting Business before establishing her own Leadership Consulting and Coaching business. Her doctoral research examined the organizational factors that create bridges and blocks to the integration and development of R&D scientists in industry. She is a Master Practitioner Coach with AoEC and ICF PCC accredited coach.
Dr Catherine Carr is a Professional Certified Coach, Master Corporate Executive Coach, Supervisor, Certified Master Team Coach, and Registered Clinical Counsellor with Carr Kline & Associates. She has a doctorate in executive coaching and leadership development and a Masters degree in counselling psychology. In 2012 Catherine won the Goulding Award for the most outstanding professional doctorate for her work on team coaching. She is the co-author of 50 Tips for Terrific Teams! and High Performance Team Coaching, several peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and magazine articles on team coaching.
Catherine trains and supervises coaches in Systemic Team Coaching. She is the Head of the Practitioner Program for the Global Team Coaching Institute and the North American lead for the international group, Resilience at Work. Catherine has expertise in public sector coaching, health, pharmaceutical, finance, IT, and environmental organizations. She is grateful to do work that supports people to be well, live well and to meaningfully contribute around them and to our world.