Coaches
The Mind Gym workouts are run by qualified Coaches with a wide range of experience and interests ranging from conflict resolution in Sierra Leone to writing feature films.
All our solutions and services are delivered by our global network of qualified coaches. Wherever your business, whatever your need, we'll provide a coach to suit your company's style.
Here's a selection of coaches from the global network. Contact us to find out more.
Anisha Kaul
After completing her Master's in Organizational Psychology, Anisha started her career as a Management Consultant with Accenture. Now based in Singapore, Anisha works as a corporate trainer, executive coach and learning and development consultant, traveling around in Asia Pacific. She and has worked with individuals and groups from organizations as diverse as Merrill Lynch, Cisco and The Singapore Ministry of Defense.
Anisha is an ICF-Certified Executive Coach and has accreditations in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, DISC, the Belbin Team Role Inventory and Dale Carnegie.
Anisha is a graduate of the first Mind Gym Academy held in Asia, in 2006 and has run workouts for Deutsche Bank and Shell.
Jessica Chivers
Jessica has worked for Waterstones, Whitbread and Barclays in people and culture development within a marketing and communications setting. She has a first class degree in psychology from Stirling University and often contemplates going back to university to do a PhD in buyer behaviour. Jessica is a professionally trained distinction-level life coach and now runs her own coaching practice.
Jessica came on board with The Mind Gym in February 2004 and has since delivered workouts for Ofcom, Pfizer, M&S, GSK, Lever Faberge, and the BBC.
Karen Sigalas
Karen comes from a 7 year background in Management Consultancy in Change Management, working with clients such as British Aerospace, Hay Management Consultants, Syntegra and Capita Consutling. She has recently set up her own practise as a professional coach, working with investment bankers, Group Finance Directors, Recruitment Directors and PhD students to improve performance, build confidence, or even summon up the courage to run the next marathon.
Karen qualified as a Coach with The Mind Gym in August 2004 and has since run international programmes with Merrill Lynch and GSK. Her other clients include Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Rothschild, Virgin, Barclays and Accenture.
Simon Rollings
Prior to working with The Mind Gym, Simon held the position of Senior Consultant with an HR consultancy, working closely with many household names (such as Hamleys). Simon previously had a successful career in corporate procurement, working in senior purchasing positions within Sears Clothing Ltd, Thomson Holidays and Scholl Group plc.
Since qualifying as a Coach in February 2004, Simon's clients with The Mind Gym have included Diageo, BT, Barclays, Pfizer, MTV, M&S, Fujitsu and Virgin.
Tom Blaisse
Tom has over 20 years experience as an organizational consultant and program facilitator working for companies such as NASA, Merrill Lynch, Pfizer, AOL and Caterpillar. He was Director of Training and Development for HERCO (Hershey Entertainment & Resort Company). Tom holds a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from Rider University, NJ. He is a published poet, singer and songwriter.
Tom qualified as a The Mind Gym Coach in November 2004, delighting clients such as Merrill Lynch, GSK and Diageo across the US.
Chirag Jain (CJ)
Chirag achieved an MBA from Oxford, a First Class Honours degree in Commerce from the University of Delhi and a First Class Post-Graduate Diploma in Sales and Marketing from the National Institute of Sales in India. He also ranked in the top fifty in the all-India Chartered Accountancy Foundation Examination.
As a management consultant with IBM, Chirag has worked in the IT, Leisure, Telecoms, Wealth Management and Financial Services sectors. His experience with Coca-Cola and Unilever in Sales and Marketing roles has given him added insight into the Retail Sector.
CJ is a very successful professional stand-up comedian. He is also fluent in Hindi.
Jose M Ruperez
Jose is a native Spanish speaker and a business development consultant, with over 22 years of experience with large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He graduated from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and received an Executive MBA from the Institute for Executive Development in Madrid.
Jose delivers workouts with The Mind Gym in Spanish and since qualifying as a Coach in October 2003 has worked with United Biscuits International, Hewlett Packard and Deutsche Bank.
Noel Woodgate
Noel's 18 year career at Xerox saw him leading UK and European teams in Sales, Marketing and Customer Service. In addition to spending time in North America, Noel also worked in Athens helping to set up the infrastructure for the Olympic Games in 2004. A rugby enthusiast, Noel has been playing the game since 1965, coaches a youth team and referees midweek games at Cambridge University.
Noel qualified to work as a Coach with the Mind Gym in October 2005 and has delighted participants at BT, Curry's, Royal Mail, Whitbread and Pfizer.
Stephanie Hopper
For the last 13 years Stephanie has worked for Reuters latterly as a Fixed Income Liquidity Sales Specialist. During this time Stephanie has developed strong relationships with the buy and sell side communities in London, Switzerland and Greece. In the past two years Stephanie has worked to build a strong network within UBS Zurich and London to support the customer relationship team. She has played a key role in the launch of Reuters Fixed Income Trading as well as contributed to the improvement of the client onboarding process and product enhancements. In 2005 Stephanie went to Sri Lanka with Habitat for Humanity to help with rebuilding houses and managed to raise single handedly just under £12,000 for the Sri Lanka Tsunami appeal.
Stephanie qualified as a Mind Gym coach in 2007.
Tracy Gunn
Tracy's most recent role was Head of Leadership Development for Marks & Spencer. She has over eight years experience in the retail industry, having held senior positions in commercial management, customer relations and learning & development. Tracy graduated with a first class degree in Business Studies and has gone on to become a qualified MBTI practitioner.
Since qualifying as a Mind Gym coach in January 2005, Tracy has already worked with clients including Invesco, Merrill Lynch, Ofcom, the BBC and Arcadia.