Meet Team Coachable
Our team includes executive coaches, facilitators, learning designers, psychologists and neuroscientists. All with a shared belief that coaching is truly a superpower. We’re incredibly proud of the breadth of experience our team brings, both from their commercial experience in-house to the awards they’ve won as coaches.
Our Story
Liz Whitney and Ally Jones (our co-founders) first met in March 2021 while collaborating on a global leadership programme for Checkout.com.
Neither knew it at the time, but that partnership would spark something special. By November 2022, both were eager to keep building together. They’d seen firsthand the impact of great coaching (both as executive coaches and having been coached), as well as the cost of poor leadership.
And so, Coachable was born.
Since then we've begun to redefine leadership development, blending coaching, neuroscience and experiential design to take on a big mission: to rid the world of shitty bosses and replace them with Coachable leaders.

Here’s our small, but pretty damn mighty team:
Co-founder at Coachable
Multi-award winning coach, facilitator and learning experience designer.
Multi-award winning coach, facilitator and learning experience designer with 12 years of leadership experience. Now partnering with leaders from tech, fintech and creative industries. Exhausted parent. Wine drinker.
Co-founder at Coachable
Executive Coach, Forbes Coaches Council member, Board advisor and facilitator.
Executive Coach, Forbes Coaches Council member, Board advisor and facilitator with 22 years of experience in leadership and strategy roles. Coach to the c-suite of some of Europe's fastest-growing tech companies. Design lover. Loves a G&T.
Executive Coach & Neuroscientist
Applied Organisational Neuroscientist. C-suite Executive Coaching Partner.
Global Business Director and executive coach with over 20 years experience, and one of only two people worldwide to hold an MSc in ‘Applied Neuroscience in Organisations’. Research champ. Brain-based science aficionado.
Executive Coach
Executive Coach. PCC ICF Trained. Change and Transformation specialist.
Melissa coaches people through periods of transition or challenge and supports leaders to grow in confidence and influence. She has 20 years experience working in policy and corporate roles in the Civil Service, at senior leadership and Board-level positions. She use that experience to support people to find an approach that allows them to thrive and grow in high pressured environments and incorporates mindful practices into her coaching. In 2021, she was awarded a CBE in the Jubilee Honours List for services to the public and voluntary sector. She’s a member of the International Federation of Coaches, and hold an ICF PCC accreditation. Melissa coaches senior leaders at HSBC, BBC, Mews and Premier Foods.
Leadership Coach
ICF certified Executive coach, 18+ years in People & Culture, DE&I mentor
Liz is an experienced ICF certified Executive Coach with over 18+ years of experience in the People & Culture domain within tech start-up and scale-up environments. As an experienced People leader herself, she is passionate about coaching leaders and founders on developing effective and high performance teams, while fostering empathetic leadership approaches. Clients appreciate Liz’s supportive, kind yet pragmatic approach that brings self awareness and transformation. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion, Liz is also committed to supporting aspiring diverse People leaders, providing coaching and mentorship to enable them to thrive in their professional roles. Liz has worked with leaders within venture debt, fintech, healthtech, edtech and pharm.
Executive Coach - Product
Executive Coach for Tech Leaders. 18yrs in product across Fintech and Edtech. Helped scale 2 unicorns. ICF trained.
Emma is an Executive Coach and advisor to leaders in tech. She spent 18 years in UK fintech and edtech scaling from Series A to unicorn. Emma typically works with the most senior product leader in a company, whatever their title: Heads of Product, VPs, CPOs and CPTOs, as well as their leadership teams. She works especially well with leaders in high-growth environments, those new to their role, and those from non-traditional product backgrounds.
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Executive Coach & Facilitator
Executive and Team Coach, 30yrs of commercial experience in EdTech. Ex-Google and Lego. ACC qualified.
Executive and team Coach, Liz brings 30 years' of leading successful teams for mega brands such as Lego, Google and Pearson across business development, sales, product development and research. Liz's USP as a leader was her capacity to continually exceed financial results whilst at the same time build high performing and psychologically safe teams. She believes all leaders can do the same. London based.
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Executive Coach - Product
Executive Coach with 25yrs as a Product and Design Specialist. ICF Trained. Accredited Resilience Coach
Alison is an Executive Coach who combines 25 years of tech leadership experience with a background in human-centred design and applied cognitive psychology. Having built and led UX and product teams in both scrappy scale-ups and more traditional corporates, Alison brings an operator’s perspective to her coaching. Often brought in to support large-scale change initiatives, she has helped organisations mature their design practices and embed product operations, giving her first-hand insight into the realities of the role, and the constant need to deliver. She enjoys working with a wide range of individuals: anyone from high-potentials and those new to management, to individual tech company leaders and members of global leadership teams.
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Leadership Coach & Facilitator
ACC qualified Executive Coach. Board level experience in media and advertising. Ibiza based.
Executive coach and facilitator. ACC qualified. Richard brings global board level experience and acumen to his clients that love his practical and positive style. Following a 20+ year career in the advertising industry, Richard followed his heart and retrained as a coach 6 years ago. Working predominantly with fast growing tech businesses, Richard is on a mission to allow all leaders to realise their true potential by understanding that leadership is an ‘inside-out’ job. His facilitation style is outcome focused and working on genuine, ‘real life’ challenges. Richard has worked with leaders at WPP, Dentsu, Rothchilds, Channel 4 and TikTok. Based in Ibiza and gets more vitamin D than the rest of us combined.
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