Our Team
At MCW we work with a model that gives us the flexibility to tailor our teams on a client and project basis giving you the benefit of the most appropriate and skilled resource. Our team enables us to draw on 'best practice' from many diverse industries from the world of confectionery to the armed forces.
All our associates in addition to bringing their own individual skill set and sectors of experience have certain attributes in common; professional, successful, and versatile.
The result? Due to our associate model, we only get the people who really want to work on a project, as they are passionate and commited to making a difference to that organisation.
Jonathan Pilgrim: Jonathan is an Executive Coach, a professional facilitator and Law Society accredited mediator and arbitrator. He is a highly experienced, MCIPD qualified, change management professional with well-defined lateral thinking skills. As a Master Practitioner of NLP and coach, he is sensitive to the human dynamics of change and regularly runs workshops for people and organisations going through change processes striving for success, with particular experience with Middle Eastern cultures.
Barbara Capstick: Barbara is an experienced qualified coach, HR professional, and NLP practitioner. For more than 20 years she has worked within the legal market and has become a highly regarded mentor and coach to partners, lawyers and managers alike. Barbara was the first graduate of Meyler Campbell's Business Coach programme, which is the only coaching programme accredited by the Law Society. A Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. Barbara has worked with the Law Society and well known law firms e.g. Paisner & C, Russell Jones & Walker and KSB Law.
Piers Thurston: Piers is an established Personal and Business coach, NLP Trainer, and Facilitator. He also designs and facilitates global corporate workshops in ideation, strategy alignment, and soft skills. Clients include Unilever, Nestle, Ford, CPW, Coca-Cola, NTDA and Masterfoods. He is a skilled trainer in coaching skills.After reading Law at Durham University, Piers worked in sales and marketing with large FMCG companies (including Mars, and Diageo), before running his own team building company. He has studied person centre counselling, Transactional Analysis, NLP and Hypnotherapy.He is a NLP Trainer,an accredited Personal Development Coach, and Hypnotherapist.
Jackie Sewell Jackie Sewell specializes in assessing and developing organization structure and management behaviours. She specialises in retail and consumer markets and in the public sector in education, she also has experience of the IT sector, the retail banking sector. Her background includes business systems analysis, and 5 years at KPMG. Jackie is an accredited Human Synergistics International (HSI) practitioner to analyse and design organisational culture (OCI), individual thinking styles, group behaviour, and leadership. Her clients include DfES, and Coca Cola.
Peter Strachan: Peter was a Wg Cdr in the RAF and is a
vastly experienced trainer.He is a Trainer of NLP; Instructor in Hypnosis is Master Trainer of Time Line Therapy and a Master Life Coach. His clients include the MOD, the UK Hydrographic Office and the Dubai Police.
Joanne Wood: Joanne is a highly qualified and experienced professional with a high level of experience working with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams and believes in always focusing on empowering individuals to achieve what they want in life. She is a certified Trainer of Hypnosis (as recognised by American Board of Hypnotherapy), a Master Practitioner of NLP and a Master Time Line Therapist. She also has attended coach training programmes in areas such as gestalt facilitation. To date Joanne has coached teams and stakeholders through hundreds of workshops ranging across the project lifecycle from requirements elicitation to creative problem solving, building a business strategy and delivery. Clients have included Home Office, DVLA, HMRC and Unilever. She has also worked with individuals and teams from small businesses and particularly legal professionals.
Helen Blatchly: Before establishing herself as a Corporate and Executive Coach, Helen spent 11 years in the City working closely with senior management in Investment Banking at JP Morgan. Helen's role as Head of Strategy has armed her with invaluable experience in the formulation, communication and implementation of strategy, coupled with organisational and people performance measurement. Helen is passionate about getting the best out of people, working with them to remove the obstacles and to creating exciting and effective futures. Helen is a NLP practitioner and accredited executive coach with the Coaching Academy and CMI.
