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:
Ally Jones
Co-founder at Coachable
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.
Liz Whitney
Co-founder at Coachable
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.
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Ian D
Executive Coach
Executive Coach
Author & Charted Coaching Psychologist. 20yrs experience working with c-suite leaders
Ian is a highly skilled leadership coach with 20+ years’ experience working with C-suite leaders and senior teams in complex, high-pressure environments. He specialises in 1:1 executive coaching, team development, and helping leaders set and achieve transformational goals. Ian has coached senior leaders at organisations including Jaguar Land Rover, E.ON, L’Oréal, Centrica, and the Department for Transport, as well as working internationally across Europe, the US, and Asia Pacific. His background spans senior HR leadership roles, consultancy, and academia as Associate Professor and Course Director at the University of Warwick. A Chartered Coaching Psychologist and Fellow of the CIPD, Ian brings both deep psychological insight and practical business acumen to his work. Whether supporting a leader through a critical transition, aligning senior teams, or preparing for high-stakes challenges, Ian combines rigour, warmth, and proven expertise to create lasting impact.
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Liz S
Executive Coach & Facilitator
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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Soraya S
Executive Coach & Neuroscientist
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.
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Liz A
Leadership Coach
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.
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Richard S
Leadership Coach & Facilitator
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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