Our Team

  • Rupert Culme-Seymour

    Rupert progressed his 19 years in the Brewery sector through the mergers & acquisition of Courage to Heineken UK with a career spanning roles in supply chain, sales capability, and On-Trade sales leadership.

    Moving to the Hospitality Trade Association sector and as Chief Operating Officer he assisted the merger of The Association of Multiple Retailers (ALMR) and the British Hospitality Association (BHA) to form UKHospitality.

    Further commercial skills and experience were enhanced in the Occupational Health & Wellbeing sector whilst becoming an ILM-endorsed Leadership Coach & Institute of Hospitality Member & Mentor.

    He is the founder of Seeking out Solutions Ltd which offers a bespoke coaching and mentoring service to individuals and teams. Rupert is an affiliate member of the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches ™ as a Registered Corporate Coach™.

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  • Phil Parvin

    For 30 years, Phil has worked on trading floors in financial markets at Icap plc- a fast-paced, energetic, and high-octane environment with continual emotional highs and lows.

    He is a highly experienced, knowledgeable, proactive, and resourceful business leader with an outstanding track record in building and maintaining market-leading franchises. In his previous roles, he gained a reputation for taking a balanced, pragmatic, and measured approach that inspires others to improve their performance and achieve long-standing career goals. As an empathetic and focused senior manager, Phil learned to listen, connect, align, and harmonise teams of motivated but divergent personalities and to maximise individual and team performance.

    Since leaving the financial markets, Phil has become an EMCC Practitioner in Transformational Coaching and is trained in Team Coaching. He works with individuals and teams to focus on current challenges and future objectives. The desire to learn more about yourself or the teams you work with is vital to further achievements.

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  • Andy Mitchell

    For over 20 years Andy was a Marketer in global companies ranging from drinks and brewing to skincare and consumer electronics. It was during his time with Heineken that Andy became interested in personal and team development. His coaching career began in 2011 and that’s also when Andy first started using NLP techniques. These skills have been supplemented with studies in hypnosis and hypnotherapy to help bring about lasting change, quickly.

    Andy specialises in a brief, solution-focused approach. That means that together you will focus on problem-solving and your future, improving performance, and getting results rather than counseling, analysis, or exploration.

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  • Harry Hastings

    Harry has been in the world of education for 30 years and is currently Headteacher of Ardingly College Prep School, having been Head of Brighton College Prep prior to this. He has led departments in History, English and Sport. Harry is currently leading an extensive restructuring of his school. Alongside this, he has recently trained as a Level 7 Coach with the ILM and now specialises in supporting individuals in the world of education and the greater parameters of employment to transformational change and development in their habits at work and their personal lives.

    Harry has worked and lived in the UK, and Africa. He has always been a tutor to pupils from ages 8-13 as well as mentoring staff in his own school and maintaining links with other teachers in other schools who have sought his advice, guidance, and help. Harry will provide coaching for headteachers and leadership teams 1:1, in person, or virtually as appropriate.

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  • Nicky Owen

    For over 10 years, Nicky has worked within the NHS, charity sector, and corporate companies such as News UK and Collinson Group as a professional accredited psychotherapeutic Counsellor and coach. Combining a variety of psychological approaches to create a way of helping clients tackle difficulties, working upon the understanding that our ability to move forward is impacted by our past. Psychocoaching can help your employees improve their personal effectiveness and productivity and consolidate their sense of purpose and personal well-being, therefore transforming their experience of working life. People are unique and problems are complex, so all my work is underpinned by a deep understanding of human psychology, human behaviour, and coaching theory.

    Nicky’s process uses a range of best evidence-based tools and techniques, to enable individuals and organisations to move forwards towards a preferred future, whilst offering a strict code of confidentiality and standard ethics of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) and the Association of Coaching (AC).

  • Becky McKinlay

    Becky is an Executive Coach who has built her career working for market-leading businesses and brands in the marketing, communications, creative, and media industries.

    Becky’s professional reputation has been built on driving growth through culture, commercial and creative alignment. A dynamic challenger and cheerleader for her teams, Becky has held leadership positions in B2B and B2C focussed organisations such as News Corp, WPP, The Economist Group, and The FT, as well as having founded and run the award-winning agency, Ambition London.

    Becky has a particular interest in helping her clients build increased confidence and belief in their abilities, their assertiveness, and their awareness of their impact on others. Her work is focussed on 3 key areas:

    Confident Communication

    Working on communication styles, techniques, and approaches to build a personal brand, or team vision, to inspire growth and success.

    Connection & Collaboration

    Connecting on a human level, the application of critical thinking approaches and collaborative techniques, to help elevant reputation and performance.

    Creativity & Adaptability

    Using a solutions-focused, outside-in approach to bring new perspectives and remove the constraints of first or most obvious thoughts.

    Becky is a working mother of 3, Ad Week’s Future is Female Winner 2023, a board advisor, and Chair of Governors at Wimbledon High School.