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Meet Our Guest Speakers

Meet Our
Guest Speakers

One of the things that makes Pure Coaching Academy a little bit different is who you’ll learn from. Alongside Carole Ann and Natalie, every course features a series of specialist guest speakers, each brought in to share their expertise on a particular area of building a successful coaching business.

Over the 8 weeks you’ll hear from experts covering everything from social media strategy and how to niche your coaching offer, to the practical (and often overlooked) admin side of running your own business, right through to more creative approaches like coaching with collage. It’s our way of making sure you don’t just graduate as a brilliant coach, but as someone genuinely equipped to build a thriving business around it.

Meet some of our guest speakers below.

Ryan Edwards.

Andréa Watts

Andréa Watts founded her creative coaching business UnglueYou® in 2012. As the developer of the Collage Coaching Technique™ (CCT), she is widely recognised as a pioneer in arts-based coaching.

To share her expertise, Andréa authored Collage as a Creative Coaching Tool and contributed a chapter to Arts-Based Coaching, both published by Routledge. Inspired by the experience of reclaiming her identity, her passion is helping coaches reconnect with their intuitive inner wisdom as a path to an aligned, authentic, and creative professional and personal life.

As an advocate for coaching with collage Andréa provides ICF and AC accredited training for coaches in the CCT and has lectured on Coach Psychology programmes. Including at City St George’s, UEL, Cambridge, Sussex, and Birkbeck University. To further her reach, she also holds positions as an Associate coach.

As an experienced coach, facilitator, trainer, and speaker, Andréa works with a diverse range of clients. In addition to her 1:1 coaching, her clients include Google Health, Imperial College London, Moët Hennessy, and the United States Air Force. 

Mike Roberts

Mike Roberts is the founder of Making Digital Real and a trusted digital growth partner for coaches, consultants, trainers and business owners who want to build their visibility and impact online.

Combining expertise in LinkedIn, podcasting, personal branding, marketing automation, websites and business technology, Mike helps entrepreneurs turn ideas into practical systems that support growth without the overwhelm.

Known for his friendly, jargon-free approach, Mike has worked with hundreds of professionals across the UK and internationally, helping them launch podcasts, strengthen their online presence, generate leads and make better use of technology to grow their businesses.

As a speaker, trainer and podcast host, Mike is passionate about showing people that technology doesn’t need to be complicated. His mission is simple: help great people get their message into the world and build businesses that work smarter, not harder.

Eimear Draper

Eimear Draper, known as The Straight Talking Dating Coach, empowers singles to be confident daters, truly open to letting love in and armed with positive habits to put them in the driving seat rather than waiting for things to happen to them.
 
She is passionate about getting people unstuck in their romantic lives by igniting their confidence with a deep-rooted belief that they will find their person. Empowering them with positive actions to get to their happy healthy relationship.

Caroline Mathews

Caroline Mathews is a virtual assistant who specialises in supporting life coaches, helping them get unstuck from the side of running a business so they can focus on what they do best – coaching their clients.

Since 2014 she has worked alongside coaches at every stage of their journey, helping newly qualified coaches set up their businesses from scratch right through to building and maintaining professional websites that actually bring in clients. She also created the free Life Coach Business Set-Up Guide, designed to take the overwhelm out of those crucial early decisions.

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Project Co-Ordinator (museums)
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Landscape Architect, Milan
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Natalie Watkins

Landscape Architect, Milan
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Utility Warehouse agent
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Salome Payn

Project Manager
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Marketing Manager
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Project Co-Ordinator (museums)
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Utility Warehouse agent
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Landscape Architect, Milan
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Data Analysis Director – Financial Services
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Natalie Watkins

Landscape Architect, Milan
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Project Co-Ordinator (museums)
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Landscape Architect, Milan
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Natalie Watkins

Landscape Architect, Milan

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