Meet The Team.
Founder and Managing Director, Accredited Executive Coach
Phanella is a highly experienced Accredited Executive Coach, former City Lawyer and Fund Manager, successfully exited Entrepreneur, Author and Media Coach. Combining her personal career experience with deep coaching expertise, Phanella is an expert in helping leaders marry high performance for themselves and their teams with positive working cultures.
Alongside her coaching work, Phanella founded a direct-to-consumer coaching start-up, which she sold in 2019. Her first book, Step Up: Confidence, Success and Your Stellar Career in 10 Minutes a Day was published by Random House in 2016.
Associate Executive Coach
Louisa had a 15-year career working in the public and private sector, predominantly in Human Resources within the financial services industry. She then pursued her passion for coaching with an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change. She specialises in supporting individuals who are ready for or in transition such as a promotion, leading others, new challenges or returning to employment. Louisa is also a ‘Dare to LeadTM’ trained coach.
HR Consultant
Alice is a highly experienced, senior HR professional and has worked across a range of organisations, including Corona Energy, where she was Head of HR. In addition, alongside a wide range of human capital advisory work, she has established People functions for tech scale ups, Offr and Gobsmack.
In 2020, Alice launched Espresso, an HR magazine aimed at leaders and business owners. Alice’s vision and values align strongly with Up Rising’s and her expertise proves invaluable across our culture, inclusion and consultancy projects.
Associate Executive Coach
Nikki has 19 years of business experience, predominantly working in tax advisory (PwC & Deloitte). She has led teams serving a wide range of clients across the financial services sector and so understands the pressures and opportunities of working in high pressure environments. Influenced by her training in yoga, mindfulness and resilience, Nikki empowers her clients to respond rather than react to challenges.
Outdoor Executive Coach
Simon Hawtrey-Woore is an Outdoor Executive Coach passionate about developing senior leaders to create inclusive cultures where unique abilities can be respected, valued, and flourish. Through a 20-year marketing agency career, Simon built up extensive leadership and hands-on business management experience, knowing first-hand how easy it is to be sucked into the four walls of the day-to-day and lose sight of the bigger picture, meaning and purpose.
Simon first trained as a coach 18 years ago and transitioned away from his communication agency to start a coaching practice full-time ten years ago. Simon loves to work with purpose-driven leaders who want more influence within their organisation and create a more significant impact, helping them break through the barriers between potential and performance.
Psychotherapist and Executive Coach
Miles is an experienced psychotherapist, specialising in working with executives and leaders from professional, commercial & entrepreneurial environments, as well as an experienced executive coach. Miles’s passion for helping business leaders enhance their mental wellbeing, emotional development and relational skills, derives from his own business background. Before becoming a psychotherapist and coach, Miles had a professional and commercial career as a City lawyer and then as commercial director of a real estate developer.
He trained initially in well-grounded psychodynamic and attachment-oriented psychotherapy (including having a sub-specialism in relationship work). He has gone on to add an extensive suite of contemporary, proactive, neuro-informed psychotherapy modalities. He aims for depth transformation with an engaged coaching style.
