
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.

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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.

Bettina Pickering
Bettina is an accredited Master Coach and Master Mentor with the International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring (IAPC&M), a coach supervisor in training and an international transformation leader with more than 20 years of experience supporting leaders, professionals and coaches through change.
Her coaching combines evidence based practice with trauma informed coaching, somatic coaching, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Energetic Neuro Linguistic Programming (ENLP) and reflective practice. She creates a compassionate, thought provoking and psychologically safe space where clients can deepen self-awareness, build resilience and create meaningful, lasting change.
Alongside her coaching practice, Bettina has led major transformation programmes for global organisations across Europe, giving her a unique perspective on leadership, complexity and the human side of change. Her own experience of rebuilding after long COVID and relocating from London to rural Ireland has reinforced her belief that life’s greatest challenges can become opportunities for growth and renewal.
Passionate about developing the coaching profession, Bettina sees coach supervision as a collaborative, reflective and restorative partnership that helps coaches deepen their practice, strengthen their confidence and maximise their impact. Her purpose is to help people reconnect with their strengths and create authentic, fulfilling and sustainable change.

Gill McKay
Gill McKay is a Sobriety Guide and Educator, coaching successful professionals to break free from the hold of drinking, find their alcohol-free voice and start living a life on their own terms – a life they don’t want to escape from. She also works with teams and organisations to open up the conversation around alcohol and stop the stigma around sobriety and sober curiosity.
Her 3-month “Sober Joy” programme gives clients the tools to replenish their nervous system so they can make different choices without endless willpower, cravings or doubts. Through a mixture of coaching and somatic nervous system work, alcohol becomes less important and eventually irrelevant in their lives.
With a background in neuroscience, Gill is also a mental health first aider, award-winning TEDx speaker, qualified Executive Coach and Group Facilitator and has worked with hundreds of clients to increase their confidence in communications and public speaking, to overcome imposter syndrome, become comfortable in their own skin, share their stories with a positive mindset and recognise that their voice matters.
As the best-selling author of “STUCK: Brain Smart Insights for Coaches”, and “Empowering Women to Rise”, she is currently writing her next book “Goodbye Hangover, Hello Life, Busting the Myths around Sobriety” which shares her own journey to happily ditching the booze for good and provides a framework for readers to use when they are ready to do the same.

Sara Awor Rizzo
An Italian certified and qualified coach in Collage as a Creative Coaching Tool. She works both in Italian and the English.
She is passionate about helping men and women who have lost their sense of self in this chaotic and fast paced world. She helps them to reconnect with their authentic selves through collage which allows an in-depth discovery of oneself.
This is your moment.
Our next weekend course starts on Saturday 26th September 2026. Our next week day course starts on Friday 2nd October.
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