Meet the Team

Suzanne Penny 

Suzanne has 20 years of experience across the recruitment and outplacement sectors, predominantly as a learning and development consultant and coach. She has worked as part of senior leadership teams, been a hiring manager, an in-house and agency recruiter and a lead outplacement consultant for global, market-leading organisations.

Suzanne is an ILM Level 7 executive coach and mentor,  an Associate for the CIPD and a qualified team coach. She is also an accredited FAIB for Mental Health and Well-Being training provider and a practitioner for Thomas PPA.  Suzanne loves designing and delivering learning and development that is fun, engaging and supportive, blending practical tools across leadership, mindset and resilience.

Sally Chesman

Sally takes the lead on bespoke team and leadership development, to tailor solutions to your requirements. She is an Insights Discoveries Practitioner and loves using this tool to enhance collaboration in teams. Sally is a qualified coach and team coach and has attained Global Individual (EIA) accredited status as Coach Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.

Sally has over 20 years of experience in the implementation of change, leadership skills development and improving team performance, collaboration and communication through her work as a facilitator, trainer and coach.  

Karen Birchmore

Karen is a career, confidence & change coach and mentor with over 6 years' experience coaching and mentoring within corporations and privately. Her background of over 20 years in the corporate world as a Global IT Programme Manager saw her leading global teams to deliver multimillion dollar programmes, where her core skills of communication, collaboration and empowerment were key.

Following redundancy during covid, Karen has formalised her coaching qualifications with certifications in Personal Performance Coaching, Confidence Coaching and Career Coaching, alongside becoming a Master NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Practitioner and EFT (emotional freedom technique) practitioner.

Emma Thompson

Inbox whizz, PA and support star, meaning the business runs smoothly. Emma has lots of experience in logistics and business support and is always calm, committed and organised.

Emma is also a certified dog trainer and loves splitting her time between Empowered Space and training furry friends.