Our Steering Group
We are a group of volunteers dedicated to furthering the field of coaching for social impact. We bring a diverse range of experience and expertise and are passionate about the value of this work. This is an important but emerging field of coaching and we want to be one of the driving forces furthering the coaching for social impact agenda more widely.
Join our steering group!
If you are also interested in coaching for social impact and have a couple of hours a month available to contribute to your community, then we would love to hear from you. Your attitude and energy are more important to us than any particular skills or background. You might be coach, student, manager, researcher, funder or someone who has received coaching yourself. We strive to be a diverse and inclusive community and would like for this to be reflected in our steering group.
What we ask of you
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Attendance at the steering group meeting for an hour and a half every 8 weeks
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Participation on one of subgroups, working with colleagues for a short amount of time between meetings (such as the podcast group, the comms team, or the peer forum group)
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To be included in the group roles rota including note taking, chairing and secretary. You will be given training for these roles (and can ask for exemption from the rota if there are aspects of any role which you would find especially challenging or stressful).
What you will gain
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To be part of a supportive community of like-minded people
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If you are a coach- to counteract the isolation that can often accompany this work
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Great networking opportunities
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A chance to be part of a pioneering field within coaching
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Opportunity to gain new skills and experience
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Opportunities to contribute to articles for Coaching Today magazine, and to be involved with other possible future ventures such as books and workshops
How to join
When roles become available we will share this via the subscriber mailing list.

Carolyn Mumby
Podcast Host
Carolyn Mumby is a founder member of the Coaching for Social Impact group, with a keen interest in bringing people together to strengthen their work in this area. She is a coach, facilitator and consultant who works with individuals and organisations to create positive and sustainable change. Carolyn draws on her previous training and experience as a therapist to offer an integrated approach, which is further supported by The Thinking Environment and Polyvagal Theory. Carolyn also supports people entering their Third Act of life, making endings in terms of full-time work and creative beginnings in their next stage of life.

Ana Paula Nacif
Founding Member
Ana is an experienced executive and group coach, facilitator and consultant with expertise in wellbeing, inclusion and leadership. In the social sector, Ana has delivered various projects, working in partnership with National Lottery Community Fund, NHS, The Young Foundation, Department for Work and Pensions, among others. She is also an academic and researcher, and the co-editor of the Philosophy of Coaching Journal.

Dr Suzanne Triggs
Founding Member
Dr Suzanne Triggs is a senior Personal Development Coach, coaching trainer and lecturer, and registered social worker. Her research documents the empowering and transformational effect of social workers’ use of coaching skills. In 2021 she received international recognition for her research and trail blazing coaching work with social workers and was presented with the inaugural award for ‘Coaching for the Social Good’ from Harvard’s Institute of Coaching (IOC).

Katharine Collins
Chair
Katharine is a qualified coach and therapist specialising in working with LGBTQ+ people, neurodiversity, consensual non-monogamy and unpaid carers. She co-founded Coaching for Unpaid Carers in 2019 with Catherine Macadam and is passionate about democratising coaching. She has written about her work and presented at conferences and events.
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Catherine Macadam
Founding Member
Catherine has been coaching unpaid carers for 13 years and is co-founder of Coaching for Unpaid Carers, a social enterprise which aims to make coaching more widely available to unpaid carers. She has written about her work in publications such as Coaching Today and Coaching at Work and has spoken at events and conferences. She's been been an independent coach since 2007, having previously worked in local government for 20 years.

Ana-Maria Lefterache
Steering Group Member
Ana-Maria Lefterache is an experienced executive and agile coach, coaching psychologist and facilitator who works with individuals, teams and organisations to embed growth and transformation and to build agility and resilience when faced with change. Ana-Maria has experience in performance, leadership, agility and well-being working primarily with IT, Financial Services and Higher Education sectors.

Jane Hamilton
Steering Group Member
Jane Hamilton is a senior HR professional with over 20 years of experience working within the not-for-profit and private sectors. She is also a qualified Coach and an experienced Mentoring Programme Manager with a particular interest in how mentoring and coaching can be used for social impact.

Zelah Riley
Steering Group Member
For over 20 years, Zelah Riley has worked with children and young adults in health, education and social care.
Zelah coaches Children’s Services practitioners and care experienced young people. She also facilitates learning in relation to coaching skills, communication and neurodiversity.
The coaching is offered outdoors in nature and incorporates opportunities for mindful movement and somatic awareness.
Prior to coaching, Zelah provided advocacy for children in care and in child protection and led the non-instructed advocacy service for children with disabilities in care in Norfolk.

Croia Loughnane
Steering Group Member
Croía is a qualified health coach with a background in psychology. She works with at-risk communities in Ireland to develop sustainable and accessible health and well-being supports. Her interests include community-based participatory research and exploring how coaching can empower communities from the ground up. Recently, she was awarded funding by the Irish Research Council to pursue a PhD at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland examining the feasibility of delivering community-based positive health coaching through digital platforms Her research also examines whether digital technology enhances accessibility to health and well-being supports for at-risk communities or creates additional barriers to access.

Rob Haines
Steering Group Member
Rob Haines is a Senior Healthcare leader of 10 years working within the not-for-profit sector, and with 20 years of prior experience working in the Retail Sector
He is also a qualified Coach, and an experienced facilitator, in particular with regard to the development of coaching led approaches to leadership.
Rob has a particular interest in the enablement of wider democratised access to the value of coaching both within Healthcare and for those identifying as as an unpaid Carer
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