Trafalgar Personal Development Ltd are a successful, highly focused and growing organisation that specialises in delivering systemic team and individual coaching. We also focus on designing and delivering bespoke coaching-led executive development programmes for private and public organisations in the UK and EU.
We have built a strong reputation for first class delivery and commitment that has enabled us to establish collaborative and successful relationships with key international clients in Brussels, London, Milan, Cambridge and The Hague.
MEET OUR TEAM
Jacqui Fairbrass
Founder, Head of Design and Coaching
Jacqui is a vastly experienced executive leadership coach, facilitator and trainer who brings warmth, vitality and attentiveness to all her clients. She helps leaders and their teams think differently and provides them with the skills to engage and align people around them to drive business performance.
Sue Macmillan
Lead Coach / Trainer
Sue is a narrative coach, facilitator and trainer who specialises in using neuroscience to help leaders better understand themselves and others. She focuses on improving communication and behavioural change to enhance their own performance and that of the teams they lead.
Kim Foster
Lead Coach / Trainer
A talented coach and trainer with extensive experience in running management and leadership programmes, Kim works with leadership teams in organisations to develop mindset and capability, and focuses on the leadership and management culture across the organisation.
John Fairbrass
Managing Director
John is Managing Director of TrafalgarPD. He has spent 30+ years in the Royal Navy and telecoms industry, delivering some of the most time critical telecom programmes in Western Europe. He specialises in coaching in high-pressure situations; focusing on building resilience and belief.
Manley Hopkinson
Advisor & Key Note Speaker
Manley Hopkinson is a global keynote speaker, senior advisor for McKinsey & Company, leadership consultant, author of Compassionate Leadership (Piatkus 2014) and founder of The Compassionate Leadership Academy. His strength is in creating and developing the transformational leadership behaviours for people to perform at a high level consistently.
Laurence Berlie
Lead Coach / Trainer
Laurence is a passionate and experienced trainer and facilitator, integrating neuroscience, emotional intelligence and management science to help leaders and teams optimize their individual and collective potentials. Based in Nice, she has an extensive international background, and can support teams in English, French and Spanish.
Richard Tarran
Lead Coach / Trainer
An exceptionally experienced coach who has enhanced performance in senior teams and leaders globally for over 20 years. He is a registered European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Senior Practitioner, a certified Coach Practitioner (INLPTA), an NLP Master Practitioner and a Professional of The Institute for Outdoor Learning.
James Macmillan
Executive Coach
James has 30+ years of business experience, as a senior portfolio manager with the largest global asset management firm, leading teams and interacting with the top management teams of global businesses. He works primarily at executive level on a 1:1 basis and enjoys bringing challenge and insight.
Robin Kermode
Communication & Impact Coach
Robin is a popular keynote speaker and one of Europe’s leading communication coaches, working globally with senior executives, politicians and media personalities. He helps clients find their natural, authentic voice so they speak with energy, clarity and humanity for maximum impact and influence.
Helen Mundy
Executive Coach
Helen is an insightful, energising coach who puts her client’s unique needs at the heart of her work. She has deep expertise in enabling behavioural change in pursuit of individual and team performance. She coaches individuals and teams to develop high quality working relationships.
Alex Firmin
Accreditation Tutor
An organisational psychologist, leadership trainer and executive coach. Alex has 20 years’ experience of designing and delivering leadership programmes in the public and private sectors. He lectures on a variety of international MBA and Psychology programmes. He is TrafalgarPD’s Accreditation Tutor.
Cecile Guinnebault
Lead Coach / Trainer
Cecile is a warm, engaging and highly experienced executive coach, facilitator and trainer who helps leaders and their teams maximise their personal and organisational influence. Based in Paris, Cecile runs our French programmes but is equally capable of delivering and coaching in English.
Carrie Birmingham
Executive Coach
Carrie is a coach and facilitator who excels at providing both a high degree of challenge and support. With a background as a HR Director, she enables clients to set stretching goals for themselves and their teams, and experiment with new ways of working.
Jenny Denyer
Executive Coach
Jenny is an APECs Accredited Master Executive Coach. A former world-class sportswoman (squash) with a Ph.D. in Performance Psychology and over 15 years’ experience of coaching, consulting and supervising across a range of organisations and sectors. Jenny brings a wealth of insight, rigour and dynamism to her work. She builds strong and enduring developmental relationships with her clients who are often operating in high-pressure environments.
Amy Peters
Lead Coach / Trainer
Amy is an experienced facilitator and trainer who works with evidenced based theory and methodology to enable individuals, teams and organisations to achieve their potential. She is passionate about ensuring learning and development is interactive, engaging and relevant to the needs of those she works with. With a background in NHS management, Amy focusses on supporting people to meet the demands of their roles within ever changing and advancing workplace environments.
Berit Lewis
Mindfulness Coach
Berit is an accredited MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) Teacher. Based in the Netherlands, she is experienced and pragmatic, and fully understands the importance mindfulness practice can bring to leaders in busy, demanding roles. She is passionate about bringing together her mindfulness training with evidence based Western psychology.