Our Training Faculty
Training Team
Mentors & Supervisors
Training Team
Marta Abramska PCC
Coach Trainer
Prior to setting up her own leadership and career coaching practice in 2018, Marta spent 15 years in the City, including working in a Big Four consultancy where she led projects for dozens of financial services firms around the globe, working for and closely with C-suite leaders.
Lilian Flynn PCC
Coach Trainer
Lilian is a reflective and relational trainer with a narrative and systemic lens. She specialises in identity, leadership, and meaning-making, guiding learners into deeper presence and expanded awareness through philosophical inquiry and embodied facilitation.
Bronwyn Nash PCC
Coach Trainer
Bronwyn brings a warm, psychologically rich approach to coaching and training, specialising in self-awareness, relational depth, and emergent transformation. She creates safe, stretching spaces where learners grow through reflection, complexity, and deep personal insight.
Nishe Patel PCC
Coach Trainer
Nishe is a multi-layered coach, trainer, and supervisor whose practice spans business, leadership, and wellbeing. She brings clarity, flexibility, and deep systems thinking, creating reflective spaces where learners feel safe to explore, challenge, and evolve.
Marcus Stone PCC
Coach Trainer
Marcus is an experienced coach and supervisor working at the intersection of leadership, personal change, and human development. His steady, emotionally attuned presence helps learners deepen their self-awareness and develop meaningful, grounded coaching practices.
Nick Thorpe PCC
Coach Trainer
Nick brings a narrative, archetypal, and somatic lens to coaching and training. A midlife transition specialist, he holds space with warmth, humour, and depth, guiding learners into insight through poetic inquiry and systemic exploration.
Nisha Vyas PCC
Coach Trainer
Nisha is a dynamic leadership and confidence coach with extensive experience in sport and corporate development. Her facilitation combines relational depth with vibrant energy, supporting learners to access authentic confidence and transformative presence.
Lucy Higgins PCC
Coach Trainer
Lucy specialises in matrescence, identity transitions, and career transformation. Her facilitation blends psychological depth, warmth, and social insight, creating calm, emotionally intelligent spaces where learners feel seen, heard, and empowered to grow.
Mentors & Supervisors
Ken Kelling PCC
Group Supervisor
Ken is an ICF credentialed coach and makes up an important part of our Coach Mentoring Team. Graduating with Animas in 2014, and with his 25-year professional background in corporate communications and events, Ken now enjoys combining public relations consultancy with his own executive coaching practice.
Michele Kingston-Malone PCC
Coach Mentor
Michele is an experienced ICF accredited coach and is part of our Animas coach mentor team. She actually had her first taste of coach training using the GROW model in 1998, during a stint of more than twenty years working in the public sector.
Laure Polidori PCC
Coach Mentor
Laure is an ICF PCC accredited qualified transformational life coach, mentor and coach supervisor.
Following her studies in international trade and working for an import/export company, Laure realised this was not meant for her.
Nathalie Roth PCC
Coach Mentor
Nathalie is an ICF credentialed coach and is part of our Coach Mentoring Team. She trained and qualified with Animas in 2015.
With a 20-year professional background in Corporate communications and events, Nathalie arrived at a point where she felt that her path was not resonating with her anymore.
Hattie Voelcker PCC
Group Supervisor
Hattie is an ICF accredited coach who trained with Animas in 2015 and has run her own coaching business since then.
Prior to retraining as a coach, Hattie was a barrister for 10 years, specialising in Family Law.
Beatrice Zornek
Group Supervisor
Guided by an interest in human behaviour and emotions, Beatrice obtained a degree in psychology back in Romania where she is originally from.
Niki Misokefalou PCC
Coach Mentor
Niki is a qualified coaching supervisor and coach and runs many of the Coaching Cafe observed coaching sessions which support newer coaches in developing their confidence.
Todd Roache PCC
Group Mentor
Todd is an ICF certified coach (PCC) and supervisor, with a rich background in music, mental health, energy work, and leadership development. He facilitates the Group Mentoring sessions alongside the trainer in the final module of our Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching.
Johnny Hammond
Group Mentor
Johnny is an an ICF certified coach (PCC) and EMCC Certified Team Coach, guiding leaders, and teams to reach their potential and boost business growth. He facilitates the Group Mentoring sessions alongside the trainer in the final module of our Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching.