Take control of your development
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A safe and supportive space
Coaching provides a confidential and non-judgmental space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings about your role. This can be particularly important for individuals who may be dealing with difficult situations on a regular basis. -
Skill development
Coaching can help you develop new skills and approaches to working in homelessness, such as communication skills, conflict resolution, and self-care techniques. This can enhance your effectiveness in your role and increase your job satisfaction. -
Confidence and resilience
Working in homelessness can be emotionally challenging and demanding. Coaching can help you build confidence, resilience, and a sense of purpose, which can enable you to cope better with stress and setbacks. -
Goal setting and achievement
Coaching can help you identify your goals, both personal and professional, and work towards achieving them. This can give you a sense of direction and motivation, which can improve your performance and job satisfaction.
Coaching for individuals
Leadership coaching
Suitable for leaders with all levels of experience. Our coaches can support you to work through a wide range of issues such as leadership style, values, conflict resolution, self-awareness and career development.
Find out moreConfidence coaching
Confidence coaching is designed to help you challenge any limiting beliefs that you have about yourself, boost your self-esteem and build a strong self-image.
Find out moreCommunication coaching
Our coaches can help you communicate better and help you to get your ideas across more clearly at work, and in your personal life.
Find out moreCareer coaching
Career coaching can help you to establish professional goals, feel more fulfilled in your current job, or make a career change.
Find out moreCoaching for teams and groups
Coaching for teams
Coaching sessions for existing teams who are looking to work together on the same goal. Coaching for teams can help you to improve team dynamics and communication between colleagues.
Find out moreGroup Coaching
Group together with other people (in your organisation or different organisations) to share the cost of a coach. Unlike in Team Coaching, individuals in the group do not need to achieve the same goal, but have in common a theme all of them want to develop.
Find out moreMeet our coaches!
Ensuring a good match with your coach is essential to build a trusting relationship that allows for open conversations. So we work with a network of qualified and experienced coaches to help you find the best match.
Our coaches bring a strong understanding of the sector in which we work and offer different coaching styles so you can find approaches to suit you.
Below is a list of our current coaches: you can request a specific coach or we can match you with someone based on your needs.
For more information on our coaches, view their full Coaching Profiles
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Amanda Tooth
Amanda has over thirty years’ experience of working in the criminal justice and homelessness field. Amanda draws on a number of effective disciplines and many years of experience, to provide Progressive Coaching. -
Beth Coyne
Beth has worked extensively in homelessness and related fields of mental health, criminal justice and employment services, including in senior leadership. Using a Transformational Coaching approach, she combines coaching techniques and an acute understanding the challenges of working in the homelessness sector to support coachees to achieve their goals. -
Carmen Clarke
With a wealth of experience in business and social justice sectors, including senior leadership in refugee advocacy, Carmen fosters trust and mutual respect in coaching. Her holistic, culturally sensitive approach, addressing trauma and intersectional identities, utilises diverse coaching methods to explore realities, provide fresh insights, and find a way forward. -
Daniela Corallo
Daniela is a Learning and Development practitioner and a coach with a passion for helping clients reach their full potential. An area Daniela is particularly passionate about is supporting women through work and life transitions: from becoming a new parent or approaching menopause, getting a promotion, or when no longer inspired in their career. -
Emma Ulysses
Emma worked in the charity sector and NHS for over sixteen years. Using the Co Active coaching model, Emma’s coaching style is solution focused ensuring clarity of the issue the coachee would like to work on. -
Fran Borg Wheeler
As a former charity CEO, Fran is a strong believer in the transformational power of leadership coaching for third sector leaders and managers. Fran focuses on two key objectives: supporting charity leaders to a) boost their impact and b) thrive. Clients have described Fran’s coaching style as “empathic and supportive” as well as incorporating “kind challenge and accountability”. -
Joanna Roberts
An ICF-accredited coach, Joanna has over 30 years’ experience working as a lawyer, commissioner and leader in the public and third sector in a range of areas including homelessness and youth services. She uses a blend of approaches and is particularly influenced by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). -
Julia Brown
Julia is a clinician by background with more than 40 years’ experience in leading, developing and coaching multi-disciplinary teams and individuals across health, social care, charitable and business sectors. Julia takes a holistic approach to coaching that helps individuals or teams with achievable solutions that lead to long-lasting change and happier, more fulfilled life. -
Katie Duckworth
Through her 1-1 coaching, Katie helps CEOs and purpose-driven leaders love their work and thrive in their leadership. Katie has been described as an “infectiously enthusiastic” coach, trainer and workshop leader and has worked in the non-profit sector for over 30 years. -
Malcolm Smith
Malcolm combines his 18 years experience of working in the voluntary sector and active listening approach to help individuals identify the answers to their own questions, agree solutions and then provide accountability. -
Mike Findlay
Mike has had a twenty-year career in Communications in health, social justice and education. Mike is a Transformational Coach and brings his leadership experience into his coaching practice to support to people in their work and personal lives. -
Milla Gregor
Milla has worked in the voluntary sector since 2003, specialising in research, evaluation, and wellbeing. She noticed burnout and stress in charities and now supports others through embodied coaching. This approach treats the body as integral, unlocking sensitivity, intelligence, and creativity through practices like movement and body awareness. -
Petra Salva
Petra is a dedicated professional with over 28 years of experience managing large-scale teams and projects tackling rough sleeping and homelessness. As an accredited Strategic Intervention Coach, she empowers individuals and teams to achieve results and transform the world around them. She specialises in leadership coaching and brings extensive sector experience. -
Sonali Kumarakulasinghe
Sonali, a Leadership Coach with 20+ years in HR and governance, uses an informal, focused style. Passionate about fostering courageous, empathetic leadership, she excels in culture change, leadership development, and promoting employee engagement for transformative results. -
Steph Papapavlou
Steph is a mediator, trainer, coach and facilitator specialising in communication and conflict management. With over 20 years in leadership, management, and program design, as a coach she guides individuals, using curiosity, creativity, and confidence, to explore solutions through questions and conversations and make decisions aligned with their goals. -
Steve Sylvan
With over a decade of experience, Steve is a person-centred coach specialising in homelessness and neurodiversity. His warm and informal approach creates a safe space for exploring 'stuckness,' while his adeptness at building relationships ensures a supportive atmosphere. -
Sue Orwin
Sue specialises in Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) based coaching. She has over twenty years management experience and offers a bespoke, transformational coaching experience that is; safe, non-judgemental, trauma informed, compassionate and effective. -
Syane Findlay
Syane has a passion to support and empower organisations, teams, and individuals to experience positive transformation and achieve goals through mindset and behaviour change. -
Tanya English
Tanya brings twenty years of third sector leadership experience, including over a decade within homelessness, to her coaching. She’s worked across service provision, policy, fundraising, communications and campaigning – for organisations small and large. Integrating a suite of proven coaching theories and methods means she can find approaches to suit you.
Learn more about our coaches
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Coaching Spotlight: Tanya English
Finding the right guidance and support can make all the difference when leading an organisation. In this interview, we sat down with Homeless Link coach, Tanya English, to dive into her coaching style, what drives her, and how she helps leaders in the homelessness sector overcome challenges and reach their goals.
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Coaching Spotlight: Steve Sylvan
We sat down with Homeless Link coach, Steve Sylvan, to dive into his coaching style, what drives him, and how he helps people working in the homelessness sector be heard and improve their wellbeing.
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Coaching Spotlight: Katie Duckworth
Getting honest feedback as a leader can be really challenging, Coach Katie Duckworth shares how she acts as a critical friend and helps purpose-driven leaders in the homelessnesss sector to thrive in their roles.
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Why are you passionate about coaching?
To mark International Coaching Week, we caught up with some of our fantastic Homeless Link Coaches. They shared why they're so passionate about coaching and how it can make a real difference for those working in homelessness.