Michele Aptman is another wonderful addition to our international team and comes with a wealth of experience from organisations such as Google.

She is based in New York, USA, and works with clients in the US and across Europe.

2023 continues to be an exciting year for Motion Learning, with another new member to introduce.

Helen Brooks is based in Melbourne, Australia, and balances a busy professional life with some deep thinking, unofficial taxi driving and wine tasting!

As our business has grown, so has our team, and we’re delighted to say that we now have coaches in more than one time zone!

Amy Funkhouser Watkins is based in Seattle, USA, but provides coaching across time zones, and often joins us for meetings in a brilliantly positive mood at a time that others might consider way too early!

Lucy James has been a member of the Motion coaching team since 2019, but we’ve only just had a chance to catch up and find out what’s going on in her world.

There are good reasons she’s been so busy, as you’ll see in this interview

Rakhee is another amazing member of our team who manages to juggle family life, house building (!) and coaching and consultancy work in her busy schedule.

With her background in HR, she’s at home working with senior leaders and high potential talent, and is also part of our team of parental transition specialists.

Bert Stemarthe is the latest member of the Motion team. He’s an aficionado of music, food and travel and a highly experienced and skilled therapist and coach.

Bert takes an holistic approach to his work, and indeed his life - there’s always a multitude of things going on!

Direct, no nonsense and action focused - that’s Gayle, who we’re delighted to have as part of the Motion team. She believes you can achieve pretty much anything you want if you put your mind to it.

Gayle brings all her retail and learning and development experience to bear when she’s supporting her clients to achieve their goals.

Long standing colleague and more recently coach at Motion, we’re delighted to have Sophia as part of our team.

With a wealth of experience in management and HR, which she’s always too modest about, Sophia brings warmth and humour, along with genuine empathy and interest to her work with her clients.

What links executive coaching, business ownership, strategic planning and motherhood?

They are all part of Motion partner Rachel Morris’ hectic life. Remarkably she manages to balance it all whilst maintaining a serene focus on her clients and a smile on her face.

We're delighted to have Rob Olorenshaw join our team of highly experienced associates this year.

With years and many hundred's of hours of coaching executives and managers under his belt, he bring's a calm approach and a great deal of wisdom, as well as a wry sense of humour!

We all know there are times where having someone objective to talk to helps tremendously. Those moments when, through skilled conversation, complications and confusions begin to become crystal clear.

How do you know when you’re at one of those moments?

How do you choose an executive coach? How do you know the fit is right?

Rachel Morris, executive coach and partner at Motion Learning, shares her views on the signs of potential for a good coaching relationship and reveals some of the key qualities of any great coach.