About Our Training Team

Our Team

We’re passionate about providing coach training with it’s foundations in Psychology for individuals and organisations supporting professional and personal growth.

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How are we different

Industry Experience

We have significant industry experience: every coach and mentor has an established coaching business and knows what it takes to build and grow that business and come from varied backgrounds from Corporate to Public Sector to SMEs.

Psychology focus

We teach a wide variety of approaches that have strong foundations in Psychology and Neuroscience helping you to be a confident and competent coach. The courses have been designed by Psychology specialists with decades of experience.

High Standards

Our trainers are all experienced coaches with at least 1000 hours of coaching experience and ICF PCC accreditation or equivalent. All of our trainers have had prior experience teaching / training and have a robust training and developmental plan to maintain standards.

Our team

Our team are dedicated to developing and supporting you throughout the courses. 

Ruth Kudzi

MCC Coach, Lead Trainer, Founder, CEO
Ruth is the course director and founder of Optimus Coach Academy. She is a well respected and successful coach who has worked across sectors including leadership, career and more recently business and mindset with over 10,000 coaching hours. She has been a MCC level coach with the ICF since 2020

Emily Walker

MCC Coach, Trainer, Mentor, Assessor,
Emily is an ICF-accredited MCC coach, supervisor, facilitator and mentor with over 20 years experience working in the well-being industry. For the past decade Emily has been training coaches and is deeply passionate about developing confident, intuitive and skilled practitioners.

Crystal Small

PCC Coach, Trainer, Mentor, Assessor
Crystal is a PCC accredited coach, mentor and supervisor with decades of experience supporting individuals and teams through coaching approaches.

Fay Blakey

PCC Coach, Trainer, Mentor, Assessor
Fay is a PCC accredited coach, mentor and supervisor who focuses on working with leaders to develop a coaching approach to their work.

Merrisa Gordon

PCC Coach, Trainer, Mentor,Assessor
Merrisha is a PCC accredited coach and mentor with over 15 years experience. She runs her own coaching business developing emerging leaders in the workplace.

Michael Haigh

PCC Coach, Trainer, Assessor
Michael is an ICF accredited PCC coach and ICF Board Member for the North West in the UK. He’s got a corporate background in banking and automotive sales management and a history of building businesses within businesses.

Donna Edwards

PCC Coach, Trainer, Mentor, Assessor
Donna is a PCC accredited coach with over 18 years of coaching experience working as a life and connection coach with women who want to consciously create a positive relationship with themselves.

Phyllis Woodfine

PCC Coach, Supervisor, Trainer, Mentor
Phyllis is a PCC accredited coach, mentor and supervisor with over 30 years of diverse experience including running her own Osteopathic practice, lecturing at university, coaching and supervising.

Jackie Lawrence

PCC Coach, Trainer, Mentor
Jackie is an experienced PCC level coach and mentor who specialises in working with emerging leaders as a performance coach. Jackie left a highly successful career as a banking lawyer in 2019 to set up her coaching business.

Sharron Richards

ACC Coach, Training Administrator
Sharron is our Coach Training Administrator and an accredited ICF coach. She brings a wide range of experience from a background in criminal law alongside her own natural hair care business.

Christian Kudzi

Marketing Director
Christian has 30 years experience working in Advertising and Marketing and is responsible for the marketing strategy and implementation at Optimus Coach Academy.

Emma Keefe

PA to Ruth Kudzi
Emma is the PA to Ruth Kudzi with over 25 years experience supporting C-suite executives across a variety of sectors, notably in startups and education she brings a lot of experience to the role.

Cherry Abante

Administrator
Cherry is a seasoned virtual assistant with over 10 years experience in customer service, project coordination, quality assurance and administrative operations across global companies. She is our Training Support Administrator at Optimus Coach Academy and helps to ensure students are on track and have all the resources they need.

Looking for more information?

Download our course brochure for a further breakdown and overview of our best in class, accredited (ICF, AC) training programmes