About Us

Chris is an experienced Leader, Facilitator and PEC-Accredited Executive Coach, who is qualified to postgraduate level in both Executive Coaching and Strategic Leadership.

His coaching and facilitation approach is pragmatic, commercially grounded and thought-provoking. Drawing on his experience as both a lawyer and business leader, he works alongside leaders and teams as a trusted thinking partner - supporting them to redefine success, navigate ambiguity and competing demands, as well as work through live leadership and organisational challenges.

Chris began his career at the Competition Directorate of the European Commission in Brussels before training and qualifying as a commercial lawyer with Blake Morgan. Whilst in practice, he became increasingly interested in the leadership, people and commercial aspects of his work. He went on to combine a client-facing role developing lawyers and other professionals with a senior management position at national legal professional development provider, altior. Following its acquisition by Kaplan, he was appointed Managing Director and later held a further senior leadership role in the professional services sector before fulfilling a long-held ambition to set up Sweetmans and Partners.

Kate has over 20 years of experience, working predominantly within Financial Services, spending 5 years at AXA UK, before a further 13 years at Morgan Stanley, where she was responsible for increasing leadership capability through 1:1 coaching, team and group coaching and high potential leadership and management development programmes.

She was later asked to lead the Equity HR team, where she sat on the European Equity Operating Committee, learning first-hand the challenges senior managers face in leading and growing a competitive and fast paced business, managing multiple stakeholder relationships at different levels, whilst still bringing their people with them. Some four year later, she returned to a talent and leadership development role, to set up an internal coaching practice for senior managers, as well as leading the design and facilitation of high potential leadership programmes and team coaching interventions.

Here her focus was on developing clear vision and strategy, increasing team/group capability and communication.

She is also a qualified Executive Coach and a qualified Hogan, MBTI and Strengths Deployment Inventory Psychometric Practitioner.

Through her pragmatic and commercial approach and use of practical tools, Kate creates an environment that supports sustainable change and growth.

Catriona is a leadership coach who works with individuals and organisations to build capability, clarity and effectiveness. For over 10 years, she has coached leaders in purpose-led organisations at executive, senior and middle management level, as well as private clients working in social innovation.

Her work focuses on helping clients grow self-awareness, build capacity and create meaningful change. She supports them to pause, reflect, realign and choose how to move forward with intention.

Catriona’s approach is informed by a strong grounding in both coaching practice and leadership development. She is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and an iEQ9 Accredited Enneagram Practitioner, and has also trained in coaching grief and loss and climate change coaching. She is a supervisor on coaching programmes for changemakers and has worked as a lead trainer and assessor, supporting the development of coaches, as well as designing and delivering coaching skills training.

She holds a BA in Human Sciences from the University of Oxford and an MA in Humanitarian Assistance from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Before coaching, she spent a decade working in the UK and internationally with non-profits and social enterprises, supporting leaders and organisations to strengthen performance and deliver impact.

Lucy has over 20 years' senior management experience in the healthcare sector, including 15 working specifically in development and behavioural change. She works closely with Board level leaders, senior managers and professionals to support them to become more effective, as individuals, and to forge new partnerships.

She has a wealth of experience working with clients regarding: identifying and embracing their authentic leadership style; self-confidence and imposter syndrome; work life balance (and/or feelings of overwhelm); making important decisions; having courageous conversations; and improving team relationships and performance.

Clients describe her as curious, compassionate, thought-provoking, asking powerful questions, non-judgmental, able to help the client identify connections and create a climate in which they can speak openly. Her style is practical, outcome focused and challenging, whilst grounded with compassion, authenticity and humour. She is a Myers Briggs Type Indicator Step I and II practitioner and uses a wide range of tools and techniques to inform her sessions. Lucy is also an accredited (AOEC) and (ICF) Associate Coach.