Lizzie Pawsey is supported by a team of experienced coaches, coach supervisors and facilitators with whom she has partnered for many years. As a team, they have extensive first-hand experience across a variety of industries ensuring that, as a result, The Light Room Consultancy’s approach is firmly rooted in the commercial world.

If you would like to connect to any of our team please contact us.

 

Lizzie Pawsey

With 20 years of experience in senior marketing and HR leadership roles at global companies including Diageo, Britvic, and Pernod Ricard, Lizzie is an accomplished business leader, coach, coaching supervisor, and facilitator who thrives on empowering her clients to become exceptional leaders. With this deep understanding of the challenges faced in global, cross-cultural organizations, she understands the challenges of leading teams of people through change and delivering against a business plan.

Over the course of her 2000+ hours of coaching experience, Lizzie has worked with board, executive, senior leaders and their teams across a range of areas to support them to lead themselves, lead others and lead their business. She has also gained thousands of hours of facilitation experience through her work on global leadership development programmes and as a faculty member for the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) on their Coaching Skills Certificate and Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching. Lizzie also works as a coachg supervisor and mentor coaching both with groups and one-to-one. She works with new and experienced coaches and offers a reflective space where they reflect on and develop their coaching skills, review their practice and build their resourcefulness.

Lizzie builds trusting, supportive relationships with her clients, creating a safe space for them to explore their thinking, feelings and behaviours. With a warm yet tenacious approach, she challenges her clients to achieve their goals and create lasting change. She draws on her extensive experience incorporating models such as Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioral Coaching, Gestalt therapy, Solutions Focus, and neuroscience.

Lizzie prioritizes her professional development and works regularly with a coach supervisor. This commitment to ongoing reflection and learning enhances her coaching practice and ensures she stays current with industry best practices. She holds the Advanced Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching (Academy of Executive Coaching) and an MSc in Organisational Psychology amongst other relevant qualifications.

Margaret Allen

Margaret has over 15 years experience as a coach and development practitioner operating in a commercial, service and manufacturing environments. Her background is in HR and sport where she was HR Director for Anheuser Busch Europe and in her youth played hockey at international level.

Educated at Girton College, Cambridge University, where she gained an MA (Honours) in Geography and a PGCE, Margaret has a passion for learning and development and has gained experience of small and large organizations in FMCG, pharmaceutical, education and service sectors. Margaret is also a Non-Executive Director of Davy’s Wine Bars and Restaurants. Margaret is a member of Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and a trained facilitator with Stephen Covey and Zenger Miller. She is qualified to administer and interpret MBTI Steps I and II; Strength Deployment Inventory and a variety of 360-degree feedback processes.

One of Margaret’s other passions is sport. Having played competitive hockey for many years she now enjoy playing tennis and finds there are many similarities between the sporting and business arenas which she is able to apply to her work assignments.

Leila Rezaiguia

Leila is a highly sought-after multi-lingual Executive, Systemic Team Coach, Accredited CSA Supervisor, CSA Faculty, EMCC ESIA accredited coach, mentor/ supervisor, AC Fellow member, ICF PCC Marker Assessor and ICF Mentor Coach with over 25 years, in public and private sectors, working with leading organisations, business schools and individuals to enhance productivity, maximise performance, and accelerate sustainable growth across 5 continents.

She is renowned for her high energy, enthusiasm, passion, fun-loving nature, and her love for building connections, empowering and working with people from diverse cultures.

She is passionate about 1:1 & Systemic Team Coaching, Coach Education, Coaching Supervision and Women in Leadership serving her clients across Algeria, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Asia Pac & Turkey.

Leila is the UAE Global Partner of the Academy of Executive Coaching and has been a Faculty member since 2018 delivering the Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching, Professional Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching, Team Coaching Fundamentals and Coaching Skills Certificate programmes.

Leila believes that everyone is resourceful, unique, has top strengths and can achieve whatever they want in their lives as long as they have the self-awareness to help them tap into their hidden talents. She sees coaching as the dance between our ‘Being and Doing’, as the dance between the Coachee and the Coach in the systemic context.

Leila has an amazing energy, balance of coaching presence, curiosity, and intuition. She co-creates safe, courageous and daring environments for her clients where they feel connected with her from the start of the session. Leila’s approach to building trust and rapport, asking permission, excellent placement on goal setting, how the coaching process works, evoking awareness and appreciation, enable her to challenge, support and work with her clients to see different perspectives, develop new insights to unlock their hidden potentials. Leila is flexible in her coaching approach; she helps her clients align mind, body, soul and spirit as she believes that everyone requires a customised engagement.

Kay Young

Kay is an experienced and accredited executive coach and coach supervisor, based in Scotland.

She runs her own coaching/coaching supervision business alongside her gestalt therapy practice. She also works as an Associate with the AoEC, supporting their coach training programmes. Kay has worked across private, public and voluntary sectors and has extensive senior line management experience, including as an NHS Executive Board Director. She tutored for 15 years on a range of MBA programmes for the OU Business School and has worked internationally.

Kay works in a relational, embodied, and creative way, deepening awareness, exploring choices. She believes that safe, effective and ethical practice is made more possible through the presence and support of another, including within the coaching supervision relationship. Her coaching & coaching supervision practice is gestalt orientated; and psychologically / trauma informed.

Kay appreciates that engaging in coaching supervision requires commitment and courage and can feel exposing at times. She is deeply committed to playing her part and staying alongside throughout the journey together.

As part of her practice, Kay continues to seek ways to integrate her personal interests into her therapeutic practice including walking in wild places, health & well-being, reflective writing and poetry, yoga and meditation.

Professional Education, Memberships and Accreditations:

AoEC Master Coach Practitioner Programme
AoEC Accredited Professional Executive Coach
Gestalt Psychotherapist
MBA; BA
APECS Master Supervisor of Executive Coaches
APECS Master Coach
ICF PCC Credentialled Coach

Kelly L. Ross

Kelly is a leadership coach, learning and talent strategist, facilitator, coach supervisor and mentor coach with global experience. She works with individuals in one-on-one coaching, mentor coaching and supervision engagements; with teams to clarify goals and increase effectiveness and with organizations to build and implement learning strategies. Kelly brings experience working in more than 25 countries, with individuals and organizations across industries and sectors, and nearly a decade of experience at McKinsey & Company.

Kelly’s broad understanding of business needs, cultural differences, and the global marketplace aids her in developing great coaches, leaders and teams. Her accreditations include:

MS Learning and Organizational Change, Northwestern University
Coaching certification and Master Coach certification, Hudson Institute
Professional Certified Coach (PCC) accreditation, International Coach Federation
Accredited Coaching Supervisor, Coaching Supervision Academy
Certification in several assessments including Leadership Circle Profile 360, Hogan
Assessment System, Emotional Intelligence EQ-i 2.0, Myers-Briggs (MBTI), Integrative
Enneagram IEQ9, Creatrix (innovation assessment), Conflict Dynamics Profile, VOICES
360, PDI Profilor 360, and Team Coaching International’s Team Diagnostic

Kelly loves being outside hiking, cycling, skiing, travel and photography.