Nicky Spode Executive Leadership Coach
(Founder of Instar Leadership Coaching)
PGC, MAC, MBTI Practitioner, AC Accredited
With 20 years of leadership roles in television production management, Nicky brings to her coaching practice the experience and stories of building and leading teams within a complex and rapidly changing creative media environment.
Originally trained as a leadership coach on the award winning BBC Coach Foundation Course, she specialises in working with leaders who are challenged by team dynamics and the ambiguity that can come about during complex organisational change. During her time at the BBC she coached a wide range of staff from script writers and directors to senior broadcast journalists and television producers and presenters. Working in partnership with their coach, clients are facilitated to identify their specific goals and unique personal strengths, and to think differently about ways of achieving successful and far-reaching outcomes.
In her previous role as Production Executive at the world famous BBC Natural History Unit, Nicky headed up the team that provides logistical and financial support to natural history film makers across the globe. She now runs Instar Leadership Coaching, working with a diverse range of clients in both the private and public sector, including the NHS, the RCN, the BBC, the education sector and third sector organisations.
In 2007, Nicky achieved a Post Graduate Certificate in Coaching Practice with Middlesex University and has been awarded the Association for Coaching and BBC Ashridge Business School Coaching accreditations. She is also a qualified Myers Briggs practitioner. Always seeking to maintain high standards and a fresh perspective on her coaching, Nicky successfully launched the first Association for Coaching Co-coaching group in Wales and has subsequently hosted a variety of high profile AC events in S. Wales. Her research focus is on the factors in coaching programmes that sustain positive change.
Charlotte Hitchings Executive Coach
Charlotte Hitchings is an experienced executive coach providing individual and team development for middle and senior managers, executives, business owners and professionals. With nearly 20 years of leadership and management experience in marketing, business development, strategy and social responsibility in the corporate sector, Charlotte's most recent roles were Group Community Investment Manager and Vice President of International Services with BT Cellnet and O2 Plc.
Charlotte's coaching focuses on bringing out the best in people so they can achieve to their fullest potential. She enables her clients to develop clarity around what they want, recognise their strengths, remove blocks to their personal effectiveness and take action to achieve their aims. Outcomes reported by clients include enhanced decision making and focus, new strategies for success and increased confidence and motivation.
Charlotte has worked with clients in both the private and public sectors, providing individual coaching and group development programmes in, for example, leadership, managing people, effective communication, strategy, teamwork, workplace coaching, mentoring and influencing skills.
Charlotte is professionally trained and certified as an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation (ICF), holds a Certificate in Gestalt Coaching Skills from the Academy of Executive Coaching and is also a Certified NLP Master Practitioner. She holds an MA from Oxford University and Certified Diplomas in Marketing (CIM) and Accounting and Finance (ACCA). As a founder member of the Voice of Wales Speakers Club (Toastmasters International) she has held various club offices including President and Vice President Education. She is a member of the Institute of Directors, the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the ICF, the Association of NLP and the Association for Coaching.
