Our Coaches


The Total Awareness Coaching network includes a wide range of affiliated coaches, trainers and facilitators working across the UK, Europe and in China. For more information about any of our coaches or our services, please click CONTACT US.


David Thompson, Director
Certified Trainer of NLP; Certified Master Coach; Member, International Trainers Academy of NLP; Trainer Member ANLP; Member, International Coaching Federation; Associate, International Positive Psychology Association


David helps people communicate more clearly, perform more effectively and make the most of the opportunities in their work. David formed Total Awareness Coaching in 2004 to provide coaching and training services for businesses and not-for-profit organisations.


David trained with and is certified as a trainer of NLP by Dr. John Grinder (the co-creator of NLP), Carmen Bostic St. Clair and Michael Carroll. David trained as a coach with the Coaching Academy, and received Master Coach Certification through the Behavioural Coaching Institute.


Drawing upon 15 years of experience in public relations, corporate communications and business management, David helps his clients harness their personal and professional resources for peak performance. David began his career with Ketchum in Washington D.C., and he joined the company's office in Munich in 1995. At the agency's European headquarters in London, David was a Director of the Corporate Practice Group. He later led a sponsorship consultancy, helping clients make the most of their engagement with arts and educational institutions.

In addition to his work as a coach, trainer and facilitator, David is an experienced actor and director of Shakespeare's plays. He holds an MA from the University of Essex in Shakespearean Theatre, and he is currently at work on a book exploring patterns of thought in Shakespeare's plays.


Using a combination of NLP and coaching techniques, David specialises in addressing communications challenges - helping people connect more effectively with colleagues, staff, the media - and, most importantly, themselves.


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Kate Hammer, PhD, Communications Consultant


Kate Hammer Kate is a communicator with nearly two decades experience ranging across commerce, the arts, academia and the third sector. As a marketeer and PR, she has helped both blue chip companies and technology start-ups break new ground. Whether launching a new product, entering a market or developing a bigger profile, the imperative is to tangibly connect an organisation with the people who matter most to it. In Kate's experience, profitable conversations and sustainable relationships are crucial to business success. Blending commercial consulting with ethnography, storytelling and theatre improvisation, Kate works with leaders and teams on creating fresh stories and new ways of interacting with key audiences. For more information about Kate's work, see: http://www.throughline.co.uk


Vicky Stoakes, Coach, NLP Practitioner & Communications Consultant, MCIPR


Vicky is a highly respected senior communications professional, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. She has worked with the some of the UK's biggest brands to develop communications strategies and has received a number of industry awards. Vicky's experience highlighted the need within companies to invest in the development of their staff as much as their external public image. Vicky believes that a truly dedicated and efficient team is a company's best asset. A qualified corporate coach and NLP practitioner, Vicky brings a fresh approach to people development and challenges people at all levels to look at their way of working. She is firmly committed to the empowerment of individuals and the development of human potential. Vicky, along with Karina Aguirre (see above) is a director of coaching and communications firm Indigo Cow. For more information, please see: http://www.indigocow.com


Karina Aguirre, Coach and NLP Practitioner


Karina is a skilled communicator and negotiator, who is bilingual in Spanish and English. She has worked as an interpreter and translator for the BBC in Latin America and as a public relations consultant to a number blue chip firms, running award winning PR campaigns. Karina's forte is awareness raising within the corporate arena and her enthusiasm has led her to work within a number of companies challenging staff behaviours and patterns. She works with her clients to identify how these seemingly inbuilt behaviours can be challenged to bring awareness and choice to ways of working and interacting more efficiently. Karina also uses her experience as a PR consultant to a number of industries to provide further insights to an organisation. Karina, along with Vicky Stoakes (see below) is a director of coaching and communications firm Indigo Cow. For more information, please see: http://www.indigocow.com


Dalida Turkovic, Certified Master Coach, NLP Master Practitioner


Dalida has lived and worked in Asia since 1993. She has delivered Vision, Values & Goals, Leadership and Teambuilding programs for various multinational companies and not-for-profit organizations in China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Taiwan and Thailand. In 2002 Dalida founded Small Steps (China) Ltd. to work with corporate and non-profit sector helping individuals and teams to achieve high performing results. In coaching Dalida's aim is to help individuals increase cross-cultural awareness and achieve work-life balance. Dalida is based in Beijing, and she is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese and Serbian. In her spare time, Dalida practices internal martial arts. For more information about Dalida's work in China, please see: http://www.small-steps-coaching.com


Lorraine Airey, Coach, Trainer, NLP Practitioner & Communication Skills Consultant


Lorraine has fifteen years of experience consulting with organisations across both the private and public sectors to improve organisational effectiveness through people. Communication skills are enhanced and embedded in the workplace through the design, implementation and project management of development programme solutions that promote effective interpersonal communications and skills within organisations and supports organisation culture and long term goals. Lorraine is an experienced trainer in the use of information technology, business communication, business finance and interpersonal skills. She is also experienced and very passionate about improving self management and internal organisation communication through coaching management, individuals and teams. For more information about Lorraine's training and coaching services, please click: http://www.lma-solutions.com


 



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