Who We Are

A team that draws from a diverse background, committed to delivering an amazing personal experience, whether through workshops, one-on-one coaching, or meeting facilitation.

Our story

Clarity Leadership was founded in 2009 by man and wife team, Phil and Lorraine Rose. Their unwavering mission since day one has been to empower teams and cultivate exceptional leaders.

It’s hugely important to us that everything that Clarity does is underpinned by our values of being inspiring, pragmatic, challenging and personal. Our ultimate aim is for you to enjoy your work and thrive in your role. If you’re curious to learn more about us, we invite you to attend one of our events or schedule a call with us.

We’re excited to hear from you and share more about what we’re all about!

 

Meet our team

David Bevan
Business Coach, Facilitator and Talent Development
David Bevan
Business Coach, Facilitator and Talent Development

David’s passion is leadership and enabling teams and individuals to solve complex people and business challenges that they face every day.  He has over 30 years of successes and expertise in team leadership, transformation, change initiatives, commercialisation, product launches, partnership, commercial excellence and capability building.

He has led many diverse cross-cultural teams within complex diverse organisations. His extensive global, European and UK business and commercial experience includes many years of senior and C-suite roles; most recently CEO, Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma and Chief Marketing Officer, Vifor, in Zurich.  Prior to that Otsuka, Pfizer and Sanofi. 

David also works with and supports both the Princes Trust and McPin Foundation as a mentor.  He loves to keep fit, enjoys a healthy lifestyle and has a microbusiness on the side growing and creating chilli products.

Tim Bilton
Business Psychologist, Senior Coach, Executive Development & Assessment
Tim Bilton
Business Psychologist, Senior Coach, Executive Development & Assessment

Tim provides insight and perspective to enable growth in others. He applies knowledge and skill from the world of Business Psychology to address challenges faced by Individuals, Teams and Organisations.

As an Accredited Coach Trainer, he helps to build “coaching cultures’ within organisations. As well as training others he coaches Leaders and Teams, employing coaching and facilitation techniques to create significant and sustainable change.

He is a recognised expert in the field of Executive Assessment. From designing and running Development Centres to individual Executive Assessments, Tim has significant experience of accurately understanding potential.

Tim has a MSc in Applied Psychology from Cranfield University, and has lived and worked all over the world, supporting leaders and businesses across Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East from a wide range of industry sectors. He embraces challenge, as his solo charity cycle ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End demonstrates.

Sam Bishop
Performance Psychologist and Executive Coach
Sam Bishop
Performance Psychologist and Executive Coach

Sam is an Executive Coach, a Performance Psychologist, an Accredited Psychotherapist and a Consultative Supervisor. 

He has spent 10 years working with professional athletes - predominantly professional footballers and rugby players. The footballers and athletes he works with perform at the highest levels of sport, internationally and in the English Premier League. In recent years he has also coached high-performing senior executives, business owners and business leaders. These clients come from across the globe - the UK, America, Australia and Asia. 

Sam's an enthusiastic, energetic and vibrant professional with a passion for people. He recognises that we are all individuals – each of us has our strengths, and each of us has our own challenges. His passion is to identify those strengths and challenges and to develop the potential that undoubtedly lies within each one of us. 

But of course, unique individuals make unique teams. Sam will also use his passion and energy to identify the dynamics within teams – to spot where these can be enhanced, and all-round performance improved.

Sam also attends as a keynote speaker for companies such as Hewlett Packard, Nestlé, Citibank and MBDA. 

Lorraine Buckle
Operations Manager
Lorraine Buckle
Operations Manager

Managing the administrative and organisational needs of our busy team of business coaches is no mean feat. Lorraine rises to this challenge on a daily basis, ensuring that business coaches are in the right place, at the right time and with the right materials. Her communication and administration skills are second to none; giving our client companies the confidence that every aspect of their programme, from the initial proposal to the follow-up, is managed with care and professionalism. 

If you have a question about any aspect of your Clarity programme, or you need to get in touch with your Clarity Business Coach, please contact Lorraine.

Jo Cammell
Business Psychologist, Senior Coach, Executive Development & Assessment
Jo Cammell
Business Psychologist, Senior Coach, Executive Development & Assessment

Jo is a lively, intuitive coach who supports clients in getting to the heart of issues. Qualified to an advanced level, she has spent over 20 years coaching and consulting as a Chartered Psychologist. In her coaching, Jo challenges people to discover how they are holding themselves back and how they can drive themselves forward. She is recognised for the safe space she creates for clients to work at depth, and this leads to profound and sustainable change. Jo works flexibly, drawing on the approach that best serves the client and integrating psychological models and tools. She is accredited in a range of reputable psychometric tools which can be used to deepen client awareness around their preferences and impact, for example to enhance emotional intelligence. 

Working internationally, Jo has extensive experience with clients ranging from newly promoted managers to the c-suite, in varied sectors including finance, legal, energy, technology, professional services, pharmaceuticals, insurance and the public sector. In addition to coaching, she specialises in leadership development and assessment activities, creating robust approaches that incorporate current research to help organisations select, grow and retain talented people. She has particular expertise in providing psychometrically-informed individual assessments. 

Outside work, Jo loves travel, spending time with her family and the odd spot of gardening. She also harbours an ambition to play the harmonica – a work in progress!

Laura Hart
Voice and Speaking Skills Coach
Laura Hart
Voice and Speaking Skills Coach

Laura is a Voice and Speaking Skills Coach who supports individuals and teams to improve their verbal communication in the workplace. 

She works with aspirational, talented individuals and senior business leaders. She devises and runs bespoke workshops for teams and coaches individuals to feel more confident, look more authoritative and sound more compelling when delivering their business messages online or in person. 

Over three decades she has amassed significant experience of working with mid-to-large sized UK and global organisations across many services and industries, including BP, GSK, Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, Baxter, Deliveroo, Glassmoon Services, Baker Tilly Accountancy, PWC, Zurich Financial Services, Microsoft, Bright Horizons, Mark Warner Holidays, Disney and the University and Colleges Union.

Beyond the business community Laura offers Voice and Dialect Coaching for actors in film, theatre and TV roles. Recently this has included working with actors such as Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan and Josh O’Connor in award winning independent films ‘God’s Own Country’ and ‘Ammonite’; BBC drama ‘Life After Life’ and ‘Sexy Beast’ a new drama series for Paramount Plus.

Ruth HoulihanSmith
Finance Manager
Ruth HoulihanSmith
Finance Manager

Meet Ruth, the adept overseer of the Finance function at Clarity Leadership. With a decade of experience as a qualified management accountant in the insurance industry, Ruth has seamlessly navigated roles in both Bermuda and Dublin. Beyond her professional achievements, Ruth takes on the role of chauffeur for her three energetic children and indulges in her passion for travel. She also dedicates her time to community service as a Governor for a local primary school.

For any inquiries regarding invoicing, feel free to reach out to Ruth

Priya Hunt
Executive Coach
Priya Hunt
Executive Coach


Priya is passionate about people development and creativity and brings a great deal of energy, emotional intelligence as well as 30 years of corporate leadership experience into her coaching and facilitation. She adopts an eclectic approach, drawing upon a variety of tools that would resonate most with the individual and the situation and helps her clients clarify and crystallise their own values and goals and use these as a guiding light towards any solutions they seek.

Her global experience across 84 countries spans 3 different industries (Airlines, Telecommunications and Utilities) which has enabled her to learn practically through senior management roles to lead inclusively across different cultures, drive complex organisational transformation and culture change and operate at board level. She has two decades of experience as an internal coach and facilitator alongside her leadership role in organisations like British Airways, British Telecommunications and Thames Water. She is a highly experienced mentor and has participated in several programmes to encourage more female leaders into STEM and worked with MBA students on topics like career progression, industry and career transitions and organisational/personal change. She is also a non-executive director on the board of an NHS Acute Trust.

Her passion drew her towards a career in coaching, having certified as an executive coach, with an MSc. from Henley Business School where she’s continuing her academic journey with a PhD in Leadership, Organisation and Behaviour. She is particularly drawn towards positive psychology and the topic of psychological Flow, which is her area of research in her master’s degree, and she is planning to continue this research in her PhD, starting Sep 2023. She is also accredited as an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation.

Her interest in Flow stems from her previous experience as a professional Indian Classical dancer. While she doesn’t dance professionally anymore, she continues to let her creative juices flow through writing (fiction and non-fiction) and cookery. She is a student of Yoga and mindfulness which she uses to centre herself and is interested in exploring how she can use coaching in support of the wider environment and the world in general.

Chris Lewis
Business Coach, Facilitator & Keynote Speaker
Chris Lewis
Business Coach, Facilitator & Keynote Speaker

Chris draws on more than 30 years of business experience, 25 of which were spent with Microsoft, climbing through the ranks to become senior Vice President. His most high-profile and demanding leadership role was leading the Interactive Entertainment Division, driving the Xbox and all related business threads across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

During this time Chris led the Sales, Marketing, Digital and Operational functions for a £2.5bn P&L; leading three Xbox launches and regional expansion into Russia and Central and Eastern Europe. He was the lead spokesperson throughout this period for print, digital and Broadcast Media including regular slots on BBC, ITV, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Sky News and Radio 4’s Today Programme.

Before taking this role, Chris was Regional Vice President, Retail Sales and Marketing EMEA, driving the sales and marketing of all Microsoft products through Retail.

Chris is a skilled leader and influencer and has successfully managed operational change programmes, sales channel optimization, B2B and corporate sales. He is well respected within his field and has proven a valuable addition to the Clarity portfolio of business coaches and facilitators, enjoying success not only in IT but also in pharma and communications.

Dr. Cameron Nichol
Senior Coach
Dr. Cameron Nichol
Senior Coach

Dr. Cameron Nichol is a medical doctor, two-time world silver medalist, former Olympic rower, and founder of RowingWOD, a company dedicated to inspiring and empowering athletes to master rowing. 

Cam started rowing at medical school, quickly climbing the ranks to the Great Britain Rowing Team. He was invited into the Olympic squad just three years after first picking up an oar. Cam went on to win two World Championship silver medals in the men's eight and was selected into Team GB for London 2012 in the spare men's pair.

Since the Olympics, Cam qualified as a doctor and has been practising in the NHS since 2015. His passion for elite performance, both individuals and teams, has catalysed his work in the startup scene where he's founded his own venture, RowingWOD, and advises others in the health, fitness and fit-tech scene.

Other notable projects include his work as an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, coach to the UK's first team to reach the CrossFit Games and is an accredited International Olympic Committee sports physician, recently attending the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as part of the medical team.

Cam has worked with many elite sportspeople, executives, armed forces personnel and regular gym-goers to overcome challenges and solve problems. His knowledge from time as an Olympic athlete, medical doctor, coach and entrepreneur gives him a unique perspective for individuals and teams aiming to succeed in their chosen field.

Sarah Perugia
Business Coach, Facilitator & Talent Development
Sarah Perugia
Business Coach, Facilitator & Talent Development

Sarah is an energetic, insightful coach and facilitator who brings a wealth of experience to her work. With an instinct for the subtleties of communication, Sarah enables her clients to operate at their best, fulfilling their potential as leaders. She has a successful track-record in helping people to flourish at work and achieve great success. Sarah’s work has taken her worldwide into a wide range of organisations including Vodafone, Pfizer, Bayer, Royal Bank of Scotland, Axa PPP, the National Audit Office and PepsiCo.

Sarah uses the  unique insight and skills from her previous career as a professional actor to guide her clients to express themselves with confidence and passion; sharing her knowledge of how to use voice, non-verbal communication and powerful language to best effect.

Sarah is an accredited Executive Coach, NLP Practitioner and a keen advocate of positive psychology. Her work is focused on giving clients practical tools, techniques and insights that they can use immediately in order to create positive change for themselves and their organisation.  Sarah has a passion for supporting organisations committed to creating diverse senior teams. She is a highly experienced Women in Leadership coach.

Outside work Sarah loves yoga and has a daily mindfulness meditation practice. In a previous incarnation, she was a scuba dive master, leading dives all over Asia. Nowadays she enjoys adventures with her family.

David Pilbeam
Business Coach, Facilitator
David Pilbeam
Business Coach, Facilitator

A specialist in enabling individual and organisational change, David asks tough questions that allow people to evaluate options with regard to the challenges they face in their work and build the confidence to deliver on their goals. David began his working life overseas teaching Physical Education in International Schools.  A period in the health and leisure business in Hong Kong taught him about the demands of leadership in a radically different culture and results-driven environment. Back in the UK, David became Operations Director for a health and leisure club start-up. Over five years the business was created, developed and sold with 6 operating Clubs and over 300 staff.

Over the last eight years, he has worked on worldwide projects for both large and small organisations, such as Texas Instruments, Rolls-Royce, Applied Biosystems, Orange, M&S, Cybex International, Nautilus, CPP and Experian.  David has a Masters in Coaching and Mentoring Practice, is an accredited Master Facilitator of The Leadership Challenge Workshop and is a Member of the Association for Coaching. He is a published author, co-writing Leader iD with colleague Dr. Glenn Wallis.  David is a sports fanatic, although these days a young family and a dodgy back restrict participation to running and triathlon events and the occasional game of golf!

Rachel Power
Business Coach, Facilitator & Programme Manager
Rachel Power
Business Coach, Facilitator & Programme Manager

Driven by the belief that all humans have infinite potential, Rachel is on a mission to help business leaders and their teams deliver more value in their roles without sacrificing their lives outside of the workplace.

With over 20 years of experience working in business, Rachel has led numerous cross-functional teams in organisations from different industries including Pharma (GlaxoSmithKline), FMCG (Tetley) and Heavy Manufacturing (Formally British Steel) and this vast and varied experience has given Rachel a great appreciation and understanding for how things “work” within both large and small organisations.

What makes Rachel truly unique is her combined knowledge and expertise in problem-solving, human-centric design, and personal development. Alongside her natural curiosity for making processes and systems more efficient, Rachel is also a natural connector with people, and she enjoys nothing more than helping others to deliver value and solve business challenges.

Lorraine Grace Rose
Co-Founder and Brand Development
Lorraine Grace Rose
Co-Founder and Brand Development


As Co-Founder and Director of Clarity, Lorraine is involved strategic development of new services and sharing the Clarity brand through events and workshops.   Her career background is sales, training and recruitment,  she is motivated by enabling forward thinking and productive working environments and colleague relationships that enable individuals to operate at their best. In her spare time, Lorraine competes in Triathlon and enjoys the challenge and variation that this sport offers.

Phil Rose
CEO, Business Coach & Keynote Speaker
Phil Rose
CEO, Business Coach & Keynote Speaker

As CEO of Clarity Leadership, Phil stays true to the company’s vision of “developing leaders to inspire teams who drive performance”. Phil coaches top-level management worldwide to be better leaders; to provide clarity, model conviction and to enable their teams to exceed their business goals. His inspirational, challenging, pragmatic and personal approach has brought success to many senior executives.

His team development programmes have delivered dramatic results;  Phil knows the value of action and brings a sense of adventure and challenge to his programmes that stems from a belief that everyone has choice. By making this choice, leaders and teams can define their destination and clearly define the route to achieve their goal. Phil worked for Microsoft for ten years initially in a Training role and latterly in Enterprise Sales. Through experiencing different leadership styles and managing teams he recognised that success came from those teams who possessed clarity and alignment of a compelling goal coupled with the dedication and rigour to execute a plan. Phil founded Clarity Leadership in 2009. This same motivation which inspired Phil to set up his own business, is evident in other areas of his life. He has a passion for adventure and endurance sports which has led him to climb Mont Blanc and Mt Kilimanjaro, complete the Arctic Circle Race in Greenland, compete in Cape Epic 1000km mountain bike race in South Africa, ski mountaineer the Alps Haute Route and run 3 marathons in 3 days.

Robert Taylor
Business Coach, Facilitator & Talent Development
Robert Taylor
Business Coach, Facilitator & Talent Development

Rob is a founder member of the Clarity team and a trusted adviser and business coach to many clients. His strength lies in his ability to ask the right questions and facilitate change in individuals and their teams. Rob believes in and demonstrates authentic leadership, enabling others to become better communicators and in turn, more successful leaders and managers.

His role takes him all over the world, working with different cultures and business sectors. Rob has enjoyed particular success within the pharmaceutical industry - this has grown organically through professional recommendations rather than a particular preference; Rob will be the first to agree that the challenges faced by leaders transcends industries and he is equally at home working in telecoms, IT and retail.

Rob is a dynamic, energetic and inspirational speaker; facilitating team meetings for our clients and getting results where stagnation and frustration once lie. He is a highly creative and intuitive individual who traded a music career for a career in performance coaching and training 20 years ago and has never looked back. Previous roles have included presenting a motor sport programme on the Discovery Channel and facilitating global conferences.

His personal interest in psychotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming brings enormous benefit to the people that he coaches, sharing skills and methodologies, that in turn enable them to be better mentors and leaders to their own teams.

Lexi Tinkler
Marketing and Comms Manager
Lexi Tinkler
Marketing and Comms Manager

Lexi is responsible for all marketing and communications.  

With 17 years of experience, working across London's top media agencies and sales houses, Lexi is no stranger to the demands of a fast-paced, ever-evolving industry. Working with some of the UK’s highest-spending advertisers, Lexi has an accomplished track record in leading teams and creating innovative media campaigns in order to break new ground and exceed sales targets. With a career built on being creative, dedicated, people-orientated and positive, Lexi is well-placed to meet the demands of this role with ease and enthusiasm.  

Outside of work, Lexi loves Yoga, running and paddle boarding. She is also a trained samaritan. 

Graduating with a BSC in Psychology, Lexi is also returning to this and is in her second year of a diploma in Positive Psychology and coaching. 

If you have a question about a Clarity event or anything marketing-related, please contact Lexi. 

Sally Walker
Senior Coach, Experienced Change Leader
Sally Walker
Senior Coach, Experienced Change Leader

Sally is a highly experienced leader in executive and non executive roles, operating at board level within the national security community for nearly 2 decades, and now a board chair in local government. She is an active and enthusiastic diversity champion and works with organisations to deliver strategic and values driven change, and to ensure every voice is heard.

Following training as a change programme director by the Oxford Business School, she was responsible for investment in the UK’s cyber capability including the national strategy to build a capable workforce across defence and industry. 

Sally’s coaching is focused on individual talent development and team effectiveness; her passion is people and their unrealised potential. She is challenging, thought provoking and insightful on the importance of organisational culture and unconscious barriers to performance. 

With a Cambridge degree in experimental psychology and a long career of digital transformation work with technical specialists, Sally enjoys exploring the linkages between artificial and human intelligence, and the challenges and opportunities of a big data world for commercial organisations. Sally has recently spoken at international business and academic conferences on the societal impacts of technology. 

Other interests include the renovation of a large, uncontrolled and time consuming garden, 3 dogs, 3 boys and a dozen hens (to have at least some diversity balance in the household!). Winner fo the mayor’s award for individual contribution to Cheltenham through Covid, it appears the instinct to look out for the wider team goes well beyond the work environment.


 

Kevin Watson
Business Coach, Facilitator & Talent Development
Kevin Watson
Business Coach, Facilitator & Talent Development

Kevin is a highly-experienced coach and facilitator, designing and delivering high impact transformation programmes for senior leaders and their teams. He also acts as consultant to several boards of global organisations as well as local business owners.

He’s passionate about making a difference in today’s organisations by enabling, encouraging and challenging leaders who want to create and sustain meaningful change. His expertise covers leadership coaching, developing high performance teams and organisational design.

Kevin combines a supportive, results focussed approach with the practical tools he has acquired throughout his career. His industry experience spans over thirty years in retail, notably as part of the senior team responsible for the transformation of Selfridge to the iconic retailer it is today. 

A qualified coach and Master Practitioner in NLP, Kevin quickly assimilates concepts, ideas and information in a complex and ambiguous environment giving him the ability to work with a diverse range of organisations, functions and people.

Kevin also gets involved with fund raising activities for several charities, specifically as a business mentor for the Prince’s Trust. He’s well-travelled and reached a life-long ambition in 2007, sitting with mountain gorillas in Rwanda with his daughter.

Sarah Winckless MBE
Senior Business Coach
Sarah Winckless MBE
Senior Business Coach

Sarah Winckless is a highly experienced executive coach, working globally with both individuals and teams to drive a sustainable competitive advantage for their organisations. She looks to enable each individual in a team to deliver their potential, whilst contributing to and supporting the overall results of the group. Challenging, warm and perceptive, she has supported many senior executives to unlock their own and their teams performance often through maximising strengths and removing barriers. She aims to balance her work in mentoring and leadership with her own leadership roles. Sarah was most recently Chef de Mission for Team England, leading the most diverse Commonwealth Games Team that has ever left these shores to the Gold Coast in April 2018. She also sits on the UK Anti-Doping Board.   

Sarah still stays involved in her own sport, being an active participant on the water, a Henley Steward and a Boat Race Umpire. She loves being outside, whether participating in some physical activity or growing plants on her allotment. An important part of her extracurricular activities also surrounds the Huntington’s community, she is Patron of the SHA and particular loves supporting the young carers on their annual summer camp. She was awarded her MBE in 2013 for services to sport and young people. 

Mark Wyatt
Senior Business Coach
Mark Wyatt
Senior Business Coach


Mark’s passion is helping clients who want to achieve professional and personal change. He supports people and organisations to make empowered and meaningful choices and decisions.

He is an accredited member of the International Coaching Federation. His coaching experience includes executive and leadership coaching, career transition support, team and cultural development, and strategic and operational improvement.

Mark’s 28-year corporate career was in Consumer Goods and Global Brands where he worked in Senior Leadership roles leading EMEA teams. His expertise lies in supporting organisations to deliver high levels of performance through periods of change. He believes in the creation of collaborative and effective environments where teams can thrive, be empowered and deliver exceptional results.

Mark is driven to help Leaders realise their potential and achieve their goals with confidence, to express themselves with passion and energy and to influence those around them with their authenticity and enthusiasm.