
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.

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

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.
This is your moment.
Our next weekend course starts on Saturday 26th September 2026. Our next week day course starts on Friday 2nd October.
Lydia McDowall
Juliette Dyke
Salome Payn
Jose Rihan
Lydia McDowall
Karen Campbell
Salome Payn
Jose Rihan
Natalie Watkins
Natalie Watkins
Jose Rihan
Juliette Dyke
Juliette Dyke
Salome Payn
Karen Campbell
Lee Mollins
Lydia McDowall
Juliette Dyke
Jose Rihan
Natalie Watkins
Lee Mollins
Natalie Watkins
Lydia McDowall
Natalie Watkins
Natalie Watkins