OUR TEAM

Fiona’s passion is to enable people to find their purpose and be true to themselves. She is motivated by seeing individuals grow and teams excel.

With over 30 years senior management and leadership experience in various roles, Fiona has managed large teams, complex projects and experienced the demands faced by leaders operating in dynamic environments. This includes leadership of ‘virtual’ teams with team members in different locations globally.

A Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMgr FCMI), Fiona holds a non-profit management MSc. from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), is an International Coach Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC), European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Accredited Coach/Mentor at Senior Practitioner level, and a Time to Think Coach.

Certified, professional coach with 25+ years of leadership experience in multicultural settings helping clients to gain clarity, act purposefully and enjoy themselves more.

During my 25-year leadership career, I’ve been drawn to helping people collaborate better with themselves, their peers, and their clients. With a degree in engineering, my interest in systems quickly developed into an interest in how people at all levels can improve themselves, their teams and their organisations.

From my time as a first-line manager to my role as a Global COO, coaching and being coached has always been central to my leadership approach. I further developed my skills, gaining a diploma in professional coaching practice and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) status with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

I have worked in multiple sectors including data and insights businesses, manufacturing, higher education, banking, media, local government, social enterprise, and the charity sector. I work with people at all stages in their careers from recent graduates to C-suite executives. Typical challenges my clients have include: stepping into a line management role, hi-potential leaders, leading through change, return to work, career transition and developing a coaching culture.

Mary believes that work should be fun, and with fun comes improved productivity, motivation, and success.

A Chartered Accountant and MBA, Mary has >20 years of international corporate experience based in UK, NL and USA. She built her career by challenging the status quo and finding creative solutions to complex and perennial problems.  Leading large global teams and managing 9 figure budgets, Mary has worked in finance, tax, IT, digital, projects and operations roles. Mary completed her corporate career as sector CIO Refineries and Chemical Plants for Shell plc.

The common thread throughout her career is Mary’s passion for people and the many careers and lives she was able impact positively through coaching and mentoring.

Mary is now an accredited coach with European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), the Physical Intelligence Institute and is a Time to Think Group Facilitator.

Kaemorine Prendergast is an experienced organisational psychologist and executive coach with a strong track record of utilising psychology to deliver exceptional results. Using a range of coaching tools and techniques she supports mid and senior-level professionals, to improve their well-being and maximise their performance. Through the skillful delivery of individual and group coaching, she helps to create awareness of core strengths, areas for development as well as potential career derailers.

Kaemorine is known for her passion in championing equity, diversity, and inclusion and provides specific coaching and training aimed at BME, Neurodiverse, and LGBT+ professionals, helping them show up more authentically at work, navigate workplace micro-aggressions and discrimination; and communicate confidently. She is highly insightful and analytical, quickly discerning the core issues individuals and businesses face; working collaboratively to develop strategies and create solutions that enhance people and business performance. She provides evidence-based solutions grounded in psychology and is trained in psychological approaches to coaching including, Person Centered, CBT, Transpersonal, Solution- Focused and behavioural approaches. She also practices Clean Language and integrates a wide variety of tools and techniques from across the various coaching models that enables clients to achieve more in their careers and their lives. She has also managed and delivered projects for large digital telco’s’ and welfare to work providers, designing group coaching, recruitment and training processes within these organisations, making them fairer for Black, Asian, ethnic minorities, LGBT+ and neuro-diverse (dyslexia, DLD, ADHD, Autism) individuals.

MSc Occupational and Organizational Psychology
• Psychometric qualifications: Lumina Spark, WAVE, Talent Q and 15FQ+
• Certificate of Competence in Occupational & Personality Testing Level A & B
• PG Cert Coaching Psychology
• British Psychological Society – CPD in Business Coaching
• Member of the International Coaching Federation
• BSc Hons. Applied Psychology

Kaemorine has worked with both the public and private sectors within the UK as well as cross-culturally with a range of clients including The National Theatre, Balfour Beatty, The Civil Service UK, RBS, Vodafone Group, BNP Parabis, The NHS, Energiser APAC, Shangri La Hotels (UAE), Saudi Arabia University, The Abu Dhabi Government, The National Offender Management Service (NOMS), Ixion, The Shaw Trust and Ingeus Ltd. Her core values are authenticity, integrity, fairness and honesty and these underpin everything she does.

Navjeet brings into coaching, her experience of working in multi-cultural environments across different geographies. Her exposure to global markets and multi-cultural environments helps her understand the challenges clients face performing their role in complex business environments.  Moreover, she can understand her client’s need to effectively translate and communicate these challenges to lead and engage their teams and various stakeholders for sustainable growth of the organisation. Her deep passion to understand the psychology, philosophy and neuroscience behind human behaviour helps her connect with her clients to form a transformational coaching relationship.  

Her experience of working with a diverse group of people helps her understand the challenges faced by the clients who feel underrepresented in the Organisations. She applies proven leadership frameworks and tools to help the leaders to activate their inclusive leadership. Her clients find her coaching developmental and transformational. Navjeet coaches C-suite, leaders, executives, and functional heads, facilitates and develops coaching and leadership training programs. 

She specialises in applying psychology, philosophy and Neuroscience to Leadership development,  Supporting people through change, Emotional awareness and management, Building mental strength and resilience, Effective decision-making skills, Vertical leadership Development,  Presenting live with confidence, Team development. 

She also has experience of developing and delivering level 5 coaching apprenticeship programme for one of the biggest charities in the UK. This experience has been beneficial in honing her ability to design a scheme of work and training for teachers, managers, and leaders to develop a coaching mindset and skills to motivate aand engage their teams to be more productive. 

Some of her clients are working with companies like Shaw trust, Football beyond borders, Reckitt  & Benckiser, Augentius UK, Mimecast UK, NHS, Charlotte Tilbury, IBM, ACE Drivewise,  Deshbhagat University India, Innovation Science and Economic Development of Canada. 

Qualifications and volunteering: She feels her training as an executive coach is an ongoing process. Her qualifications include MBA, B.Sc, CAM (Communications & Marketing), MA in  Psychological Coaching. Training includes Group facilitation Course (Gestalt Center UK), Vertical  Leadership Development Training (Harthill, UK). I have worked as a volunteer for young offenders in UK, I also provide volunteer coaching for unemployed people through Shaw Trust in UK.

We are pleased to introduce Jo Trimarco (MCIPD) founder and director of JT HRConsultancy Ltd. Jo is on hand for SMC to provide external consulting advice to individual clients and companies.

Jo has over 20 years of HR experience specialising in small to mid-size companies including, construction, recruitment, manufacturing, IT software, leisure, international consultancy, accountants, corporate workwear, commercial cleaning, and charity.

Jo provides businesses with a wide range of human resource services and solutions to fit their business needs including audits, full cycle recruiting, HR law, compliance advice, employee relations, conflict management, training & development and developing contracts, handbooks & policies plus much more.

Jo’s greatest achievement was in setting up a complete HR function for a start-up company and helped to grow the business from 5 to 130+ employees.

David has over 30 years of experience in business where he has worked as an HR consultant and coach. As a HR consultant, he grew successful international teams with leading consulting firms including Mercer and IBM. He now specialises in coaching and has a track record of helping clients find ways to improve their performance, overcome obstacles and achieve positive outcomes.

As a coach David combines a warm, personal style with clear, practical thinking. His goal is to provide a supportive environment for clients to explore their unique goals and feelings about work and life. He helps clients develop insight into their current situation and find options for the future. He makes this process thought-provoking and fulfilling so that clients are confident in their decisions and willing to experiment with new ways of tackling the challenges they face.

For people who are new to coaching David’s simple explanation is that it helps in three areas: Do, Learn, Become.

Do – increase your effectiveness, make plans and decisions and stick to them!

Learn – find new approaches to work and problem solving and unlearn old habits that no longer serve you

Become – explore new goals to help you achieve personal growth and reach your full potential.

David has a masters degree in psychology and trained as an Executive Coach in 2009 at Ashridge, part of Hult International Business School.  He is an accredited Senior Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). In addition to his coaching work, David volunteers for the mental health charity The Listening Place.

In his consulting career David worked with a cross-section of clients including FTSE 100 businesses, Whitehall Departments and the voluntary sector. These include: Barratt Developments, EY, Maersk, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Philips Electronics, Richemont Group.

Richard has worked supporting, mentoring, and developing people for most of his career. He set up Copper Bottom Mentoring after returning to the UK from Australia in September 2014. The business’s vision was to provide mentoring, coaching and executive development services to board members, senior and middle management, and those with potential to be tomorrow’s leaders.

Richard acts as Chair of the Advisory Board for Storm McQueen. He supports the Team to deliver mentoring and specialised soft skills training to our clients,.

Richard is well known in the FS industry and has worked in the UK, Australia, Europe and North America. After many years in the banking industry, having led global functions and front-line businesses, and senior roles with the consulting industry, Richard is well placed to advise boards and executive teams on the broad range of challenges facing businesses today.