Meet Our Team of Coach Educators

ACE is led by practising coaches and experienced coach educators, working alongside a carefully chosen group of researchers, thought-leaders, organisational consultants, and coach educators who all share our standards.

We carefully curate who we work with and only partner with people we've worked with directly or learnt from ourselves. We trust them to meet the bar we hold ourselves to.

We build lasting faculty relationships to make sure you always receive ACE training from leading experts in coaching.

Founded by Practitioners for Practitioners

Verity Hannell and Holly Andrews met at Henley Business School, where together they led their suite of coaching programmes, including the flagship triple-accredited executive coaching certificate and MSc programme.

During this time, they oversaw the delivery of coach education to over 500 coaches each year.

They are now bringing that same executive education approach to coach CPD.

They are passionate about designing learning that challenges knowledge, stretches skills and develops self-awareness.

Holly Andrews PhD, PCC

Holly combines over 20 years in academia with extensive coaching experience. A part-time Lecturer in Coaching Psychology at the University of Leicester, she specialises in workplace toxicity. Passionate about evidence-based coaching, she is dedicated to developing skilled, research-informed coaches through ACE.

Verity Hannell MSc, PCC

Verity has over 15 years' experience coaching and developing coaches across leadership, organisational development and executive education. An award-winning ICF Professional Certified Coach, she champions ethical, reflective practice and creating learning environments that support coaches' ongoing professional growth.

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Jude Fairweather, ICF PCC
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Prof. Rebecca Jones, ICF PCC
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Rebecca brings extensive experience and deep expertise to her work facilitating learning with leaders and professionals across a wide range of roles, sectors, career stages, and cultural contexts. Her approach is highly adaptable, grounded in a strong evidence base, and carefully shaped around the goals, challenges, and realities of those she works with.

Those who work with Rebecca value her ability to create thoughtful, psychologically safe learning spaces that invite honest reflection, dialogue, and deep self awareness. She combines academic rigour with real world relevance, offering supportive challenge while remaining approachable and grounded in her style. Her facilitation is characterised by curiosity and humility, enabling participants to engage openly with complex issues without feeling judged or directed.

Rebecca is particularly skilled at guiding individuals and groups to notice patterns in their thinking, behaviour, and interactions that are often taken for granted. By helping people slow down and make sense of their experiences, she supports meaningful insight and learning that can be translated into purposeful action and sustained change.

Rebecca is a Professor in Coaching and Behaviour Change and is internationally recognised for her research on learning and development in coaching and leadership contexts. She has published extensively in leading academic journals on coaching effectiveness, alongside a second stream of research focused on equality, diversity, and inclusion, including inclusive leadership, group based learning for women in leadership, and menopause at work.

She is the author of three books, Coaching with Research in Mind, Key Topics in Coaching Psychology, and Simplifying Inclusive Leadership, which translate research evidence into practical insight for leaders, practitioners, and organisations. Outside work, Rebecca enjoys countryside walks, weightlifting, and time with her two sons. She also serves on the Advisory Board of a non profit CIC dedicated to making high quality coaching and development accessible to all.