Meet Our Team

Anna Cornwallis

Seeing the opportunity to help SMEs by using big company discipline applied appropriately to smaller organisations, Anna joined Stratton HR in 2004. Working as a trusted adviser, Anna works alongside clients to understand their ambitions and identify the steps they need to take to achieve them. Whether it’s organisational change, management profiling, resourcing or talent development, Anna guides her clients through the process, becoming an integral part of their senior team.

Hands-on, direct and personable, Anna is highly valued by her clients for the business transformations she has helped them achieve. Her best ideas are often forged whilst walking her dogs on the Quantock Hills or rustling up a family roast. She also enjoys watching most sports, travelling the world and is partial to a spot of really good food and wine.

Hannah Langston

Hannah has worked for Stratton HR for over 10 years and now leads our HR Support service. She works with the team to help our clients successfully deliver their people strategy. Hannah has a strong generalist background, working across multiple sectors offering strategic and operational HR support. Having spent the last 10 years specifically working with growth SMEs, she is well known by clients for offering professional and pragmatic advice that is contextually and commercially relevant.

Passionate, driven and hugely practical she understands what needs to be done and how. What you see is what you get! With a football mad son, Hannah can mostly be found at the side of a football pitch cheering him on (whilst trying to pretend she’s not competitive!). If it’s not football, it’s quality time with family and friends – normally with food and drink involved!

Vicki Page

Vicki joined the team in 2022 as our Senior HR Business Partner, supporting our clients with both strategic and operational HR. With 20 years of experience, Vicki has gained experience working across multiple sectors including marketing, agriculture, technology, and non-profit.

She is well versed working in both established and emerging companies, both in the UK and in EMEA. She has strong expertise in complex ER, organisational design, recruitment, TUPE and developing policy D&I.  Outside the office Vicki loves to travel with her family, finding lots of adventures along the way.

Charlotte Sully

Charlotte joined the team in 2012 and often leads our HR diagnostic. Through the diagnostic she partners with clients to design people plans and works closely with those that need support setting up day to day HR operations. She is a great project manager and has experience delivering projects across HR systems, Reward & Recognition, Performance Management and Recruitment.

Charlotte also helps our flexible HR clients who need practical and timely advice on people issues. Charlotte loves her food and nothing more than a good catch up with friends over a tasting menu!

Lauren Aspel

Lauren is our HR Business Partner, having joined the team as HR Advisor in 2021. She plays a key role in supporting on day to day HR as well as project work. She’s practical, methodical and has a keen eye for detail and is a trusted pair of hands across many of our clients. Lauren is a HR and recruitment systems guru and is the go-to if you want to know anything in this regard!

Lauren is a keen baker, specifically baking sweet treats (although some may say she doesn’t make enough for the Team!). Following the foodie trend, Lauren spends her weekends either relaxing with a coffee in hand or trying out new restaurants and cuisines.

Harriet Coley

Following a successful placement year at Stratton HR, Harriet returned to the business as HR Assistant. As well as ad-hoc HR Support, Harriet supports clients with recruitment, ongoing project management, psychometric profiling and learning and development programmes.

Harriet continues her studies even now and when not studying, Harriet will likely be found out with her friends visiting new cities or reading a good book!

Courtney Burgess

Courtney joined Stratton in 2024 after 4 years’ experience as a HR Graduate after completing her International Business Management degree. She has worked across many industries including Waste, Operations, Manufacturing and Sales.

Courtney helps support her clients with anything from operational responsibilities to strategic priorities and functions as a true generalist. Solution-focussed and adaptable, Courtney is keen to support clients any way she can and like most of the Stratton HR team she has a soft spot for some really good food.

She also loves travelling the world seeing new places and meeting new people.

Imogen Ellis

Imogen rejoined Stratton as an HR Assistant after a year travelling across Asia and living in Australia. She previously worked with us as an HR and Marketing Intern, shortly after graduating from the University of Liverpool, where she studied Business and Sociology.

In her role, Imogen supports a range of HR activities and brings strong organisational skills and a positive and proactive approach to the team. She loves getting involved in any social activities at work.

Outside of work she enjoys staying active, particularly running, and is always working towards a new goal, having completed 3 half marathons! She also clearly has a passion for travel and loves exploring new destinations with friends and family, especially discovering local food and drink along the way.

Ileasha Matthews

Ileasha joined the team in 2025 as a HR Business Partner, having spent the majority of her career within the fast-paced Aviation industry. During her time in Aviation, Ileasha discovered a passion for supporting and training managers in all aspects of HR, particularly focused on strengthening leadership skills of management. Ileasha is very much a believer in the importance of effective leadership, strong organisational culture and its direct links to improving employee well-being and driving performance.
Ileasha is very much a HR generalist with experience in managing complex Employee Relations cases, organisational restructure, absence management and training and development.

On the weekends, Ileasha can be found spending time with her friends and family (particularly her labrador, Toby) and enjoying local restaurants and cafés. During the week, Ileasha can often be found at her local gym.

Katie Demain

Katie is Head of Learning & Development at Stratton where she works with client leadership teams and top talent individuals; typically in fast-paced, high growth, private-equity backed organisations.

She has been coaching individuals since 2007 when she was awarded a double distinction from The Coaching Academy. She went on to become an Accredited Professional Coach and an Accredited Professional Team Coach through the EMCC and is also an Accredited Professional Health & Medical Coach too, so that she can also help clients in organisations who are navigating their way through burnout, illness, injury, menopause or other health challenges. She has coached senior level individuals across most industries: private equity, financial services, banking, consulting, legal services, IT services, manufacturing, healthcare & NHS, project management, pharma, Biosciences, FMCG, automotive, construction, mining, social housing, sports, education, hospitality, retail and more. Her vast experience as a coach means that Katie is able to adeptly draw on coaching techniques from corporate and executive coaching, life coaching, as well as health and medical coaching. She has a warm style yet she is known for being able to challenge her coachees on their behaviours and performance and to give feedback on how they come across, fast-tracking their progress by making positive shifts in their leadership approach.

Katie has a dual business degree from the UK and France, and is currently completing her Masters in Occupational & Organisational Psychology. She is able to support clients with their Talent & Development Strategies and undertake comprehensive Learning Needs Analyses. She tutors Executive Presence, Strategic Communication and Coaching Skills at some of the world’s top business schools in the UK, USA, South Africa and UAE, including London Business School and Chicago Booth Business School. She also works with Senior Leadership Teams to guide them to optimal teaming performance.

Katie’s background is in journalism, producing special economic reports for publication in print media such as The Economist,  Newsweek, Sunday Times, USA Today, Investors’ Chronicle, etc. During these years, she travelled the world and interviewed thousands of leaders (Ministers, Prime Ministers, Presidents, heads of industry, entrepreneurs, etc.). This enables her to adeptly understand a leader’s style and be able to ask the right questions to facilitate change and breakthrough. Having lived and worked in 12 countries, her intercultural competence is her forte. She moved back to the UK 7 years ago, to her native county of Northumberland.

Katie has several psychometric profiling accreditations, including Insights Discovery, SOVA, Hogan Leadership, Culture in the Workplace, Science of Happiness at Work, CliftonStrengths and has completed British Psychology Society Levels A & B. She also has qualifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Neuroscience of Change, Neuroscience Coaching, Organisational & Relationship Systems at Work, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Google’s flagship programme ‘Search Inside Yourself’.

Anthony Manning

Anthony has developed and refined his coaching expertise, having gained extensive experience throughout his career. He is a trusted leadership advisor, providing support and executive coaching to C-Suite leaders and senior partners at Big Four firms. He is also an experienced and qualified international sports coach. ​Anthony has worked with Stratton as a coach since 2020.

Anthony is passionate about making a difference by supporting leaders in navigating the opportunities and challenges they face in an ever-evolving and often turbulent business context.  He is known for his dynamic and innovative coaching approach and for enabling leaders to tap into the resources they have in order to achieve high performance as individuals and in leading their teams.  ​

As an enthusiastic and life-long learner, Anthony has completed an MA in Management Studies and an MSc in Training and Development. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and completed a postgraduate coaching qualification at Henley Business School.  ​

Anthony draws on his experience as a senior HR Business Partner, Head of Learning and Development , OD Consultant and Executive Coach in two of the Big Four accounting firms.  

Anusha Parshotam

Anusha is a commercial, pragmatic and highly focussed executive coach and facilitator. She draws on sound psychological theories and her work experience, and balances this with practical interventions that are fit for purpose for organisations and individual clients. She continues to receive positive feedback for her ability to really understand a client, be relevant, and provide useful knowledge. Over the past year she has focussed on Diversity, Inclusion, Wellbeing, Resilience and Leadership, working with clients to understand their needs, designing appropriate workshops and facilitating them. Anusha has worked with Stratton as a coach since 2020.​

Anusha has over 15 years’ experience working in Senior Human Resources roles, working across different sectors (FMCG, Professional Services, Financial Services, Legal Services, Charities and Start Ups) and geographies (especially Southern Africa and UK). She has extensive experience working strategically with organisations, leaders and people to nurture talent, build high performance teams, facilitate change management, and encourage diversity, inclusion and wellbeing. Anusha has coached leaders, partners, managers and her own direct reports on various topics.​

Anusha holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology and is an accredited coach (ACC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She also has a Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching via Henley Business School and a Team Coaching Accreditation via Global Team Coaching Institute. She is a member of the Henley Centre for Coaching and ICF. She has Strengths Deployment Inventory and Voiceprint accreditations too.

Lesley Spencer

Lesley is an executive, business and team coach with a focus on leadership, organisational growth and team dynamics. She works with senior individuals and teams who are facing professional and or personal challenges and opportunities. Lesley has worked with Stratton as a coach since 2021.​

During Lesley’s 30+ year career (in professional services) at senior leadership and C Suite levels, she has honed a skillset that encourages and supports development and constructive change for business, teams and individuals. She has held positions of Managing Director, Projects and Acquisitions Director, Strategy Director, Chief Operations Officer and Chief Financial Officer and has led groups and teams through significant periods of change. She has faced most of the issues leaders find themselves faced with.​

Lesley is passionate about helping leaders to understand and develop their personal leadership style and the impact they have on the organisational dynamics and success of their team and business. She works with leaders and teams facing many different challenges, helping them to resolve their issues, improve their performance and relationships and find greater confidence and satisfaction in their work and personal lives. ​

Lesley is highly qualified as an ICF ACC Certified Coach, an EMCC Team Coaching Accredited Coach,  a Barefoot qualified coach, an accredited NLP practitioner and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Michael Ladd

Michael has more than twenty-five years of experience consulting the senior leadership of large, international firms in transformation initiatives, strategic marketing, talent management and organizational development.    Leveraging his broad experience, Michael is able to collaborate and communicate across functions and management levels, from younger, mid-level managers to the most senior executives.  Michael has worked with Stratton as a coach since 2023.​

His work includes large, global and smaller, local organizational transformation initiatives involving multiple management levels and functions. Michael’s background in strategy and marketing allows him adapt and focus his coaching support in alignment with the current business objectives and context of the organization. ​

Michael has strong interpersonal skills and a high level of cultural flexibility, having studied, lived and worked in an international environment for over 30 years.  In addition, Michael’s fluency in multiple languages allows him to connect quickly and establish a rapport with his international clientele.  ​​

Michael brings a high level of energy to each and every engagement.  His extreme attention to detail, combined with a constant eye on the big picture, allows him to connect the dots quickly and identify the root causes and drivers of any given situation.    ​

Michael is certified in the Level I Hogan Assessment and has used a variety of other psychometric tools – MBTI, CliftonStrengths, Insights Discovery, OPQ, Qi, and FiroB – as part of his coaching engagements.

Nina Berezowski

Originally from South Africa, Nina moved to the UK as a young adult, providing a fascinating insight into how different cultures work and what it takes to be successful in each. Nina spent 17 years in senior HR, talent, and change management positions within global companies in the consulting, financial services, telecommunications and retail sectors, before moving in to coaching and consulting. Nina has worked as a coach with Stratton since 2020.​

Supporting senior leaders through development transitions, Nina works with individuals to develop a deeper understanding of self to enable meaningful change. Nina specialises in system psychodynamics; an interdisciplinary field that integrates and applies influences from psychoanalysis, group relations theory and systems thinking. This offers an exploratory approach to understanding organisations and the behaviour of those who work within them. Whether it is working at the individual, team or organisational level, Nina focuses on uncovering underlying issues, rather than simply attending to surface symptoms or challenges.​

Nina’s qualifications (a masters degree in Organisational Psychology, Certificate in Systems Psychodynamic Coaching, and Senior Practitioner Accredited Coach, EMCC) combined with her commercial business experience, enable her to create challenging environments that give leaders the confidence to work at depth to uncover ‘what’s really going on’ and to tackle the hard to reach issues and patterns of behaviour that may be limiting their performance. Nina’s clients value her approach of combining psychological insight with the current realities of business and leadership.

Chadi Moussa

Chadi is a Coach and Facilitator at Stratton where he delivers Leadership Development and other learning initiatives for client organisations. ​

​Chadi is an experienced business psychologist, ex-HR Director and Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. ​

​Chadi has a passion for coaching Executive and Senior-level leaders, high potentials and individuals from minority groups. Additionally, Chadi works with player and coaches in elite sport. With an appreciation of the uniqueness and complexity of each individual and their context, his coaching is goal-orientated and often triangulated with line managers to ensure optimum challenge and support for the individual while retaining a focus on the needs of the organization. ​

​Chadi coaches on a wide range of topics and at different levels of the business as part of stand-alone coaching assignments or blended development programmes. ​

​With breadth and depth of professional experience across different cultures and industries, Chadi is a versatile professional who can merge his background in psychology with his interpersonal skills across an individual and team level in different business contexts. ​

​Chadi has significant experience of working internationally designing and delivering face-to-face and virtual assessment, change and development solutions to business leaders and high potentials for a diverse range of organisations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Americas. Chadi has experience working with a range of industries including Financial Services, Sports, Professional Services, Utilities, Oil and Gas, Food, Education, Local and Central Government, among others. ​

​Chadi holds a BSc. Social Sciences from the University of Southampton, Postgraduate Graduate Diploma in Psychology from the University of Nottingham, an MSc. Occupational and Organisational Psychology from the University of Surrey and a CIPD Level 7 Diploma from the University of West London. ​

​Chadi has psychometric profiling accreditations, including SOVA (formerly Talent Q), Hogan suite, NEO-PI-R, Positive Resilience Profiler, DISC, PsyCap Potential, and has completed British Psychological Society Levels A & B.

Gareth Williams

An experienced Leadership Coach and Consultant, Gareth empowers leaders to amplify their influence to deliver positive transformation. Through dynamic collaboration, clients harness their potential, strategize effectively, and ignite change. Backed by robust coaching tools and methodology, He facilitates measurable outcomes. He averages 4.9/5.0 for client satisfaction. 100% of his Executive Development learners achieved Distinctions with the CMI. He has facilitated developmental shifts in areas including confidence, communication, leadership, performance conversations, resilience, EQ and change management. He does this with great focus, balancing challenge with a sense of fun.​

​Prior to coaching and consulting, for more than 15 years he was Human Resources Director, leading People functions in blue chip organisations across Publishing, Engineering, Professional Services, Data Analytics, Management Consulting and SaaS. M&A, organisational Transformation, Leadership Development, culture change and employee engagement were areas of particular focus and success.​

His clients describe him as someone who puts them at ease by creating a calming, safe yet challenging thinking space where they can be at their best. He successfully helps clients bring all their senses to the issue at hand using focused questions to evoke different perspectives, stretch timeframes and feel different emotions so they can identify the way forward with renewed confidence.  ​

He is a Fellow of the CIPD, an Associate Certified member of the ICF, a qualified Health and Life Coach and Mental Health First Aider. He is certified to deliver Hogan (HDS, MVPI and HPI).​

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Gill Ellis

Gill is an experienced executive and personal coach. She works with both individuals and organisations to help people change their thinking, effect positive change and move forwards. She works across many levels in organisations but mainly with the executive and senior leadership to support individuals address their challenges to achieve their goals.​

​Gill has spent the majority of her 30+ year career working with people as an HR professional. She has worked across multiple sectors including hospitality, media, publishing, technology, financial services & fmcg. Gill has worked in People leadership roles where coaching and leadership development has been an particular interest and passion. Helping people to perform at their best, overcome barriers, address difficult decisions, make significant change and achieve their goals is a key focus. Gill is comfortable working with leaders in FTSE 100 companies as well as much smaller organisations as she has worked in many different environments. Gill is a strong people manager and team player and is comfortable working in complex environments. She enjoys working both strategically and operationally and has extensive international experience. Much of Gill’s recent work has been involved in major change and transformation programmes. Gill brings all this experience to her calm and considered approach to coaching and leadership development work for both teams and individuals.​

Gill is qualified as an ICF ACC Certified Coach, a Barefoot qualified coach and has a postgraduate certificate in Business and Personal coaching and an MBA from Warwick University.​

Louise Finlayson

Louise is a leadership consultant and executive coach with a background in Occupational and Performance Psychology. She focuses on leadership development and coaching. She has experience working across industries and cultures. She works with senior leaders and teams to connect insights and facilitate high performance. She specialises in assessment and development, team dynamics and creating highly engaged cultures.

With 18+ years of experience working with senior leaders, she blends the science of psychology and performance with real world experience and a commercial lens to support individuals, teams and businesses in the development of relevant and practical approaches to business and leadership challenges. During her career, she has built experience working with FTSE 100 companies, Private Equity, companies in rapid growth stages, and national sports teams. Her work has included designing and running leadership assessment and development programmes with senior executives, coaching (including at C-Suite), and consulting for a global business psychology consultancy. Her experience providing psychological expertise to pilots and business leaders at a world leading airline has also given her in-depth understanding of the challenges leaders face when the stakes are high. She was also Chief People Office at People’s Energy Company and was responsible for  developing and leading the people strategy for the business.

Louise has completed ICF accredited coach training and is a Hintsa Performance Certified Coach. She is also qualified in a number of psychometric tools, including the Hogan Suite, FIRO-B, OPQ32, Saville Wave, MBTI and Spotlight.

Marks Nobbs

Mark held senior positions in the corporate world (Finance sector) and now focuses his time as Chairman of iOpener Institute, facilitating leadership programmes globally and Exec Coaching. He recently held a two-year interim role as MD of Orion Property Group Ltd and turned this company, in financial difficulty, around. He is currently coaching several C-Suite leaders; in one of the ‘Big 4’ global business consultancies, at a global standards organisation and a Swiss bank, as well as in FMCG. He has experience working in the UK, Poland, India and USA, working with start-ups, and leading teams across several sectors including Financial, Consultancy, Education, Construction, Pharmaceutical and FMCG sectors.

In his role as Head of Learning & Development UK & Europe and parts of Asia, Mark led teams at Prudential plc and at Egg Bank. He provided executive coaching, mediation for workplace dispute resolution, leadership development, management development, and business skills development. He has held budget responsibility for £12.8 million. He also spearheaded the development of a high-quality learning technology provision and e-learning design. In 2010, he won the L&D Strategy of the year award at the HR Excellence Awards.

Mark works with organisations to develop the coaching capability of C-Suite leaders, using a top-down approach and, in parallel, a bottom-up approach with line managers to lay the foundation for a shift toward a more emotionally intelligent approach to leadership. He also teaches leadership skills on executive development programmes and MBAs at business schools in the UK and has worked in Chicago and Milan business schools in the past too.

Examples of coaching topics that frequently crop up at Chief Exec level are:

• Enabling them to get clarity on purpose, strategy and how to convert these into successful tactical implementation
• Accelerating the performance and effectiveness of themselves and their teams
• Building confidence, resilience, communication skills and personal impact
• Enabling them to perform at their best and to prepare for the next step in their careers

Mark gets fantastic feedback from his executive clients. One client recently wrote, “It’s been a great pleasure working with you, Mark. You are one of two people in my professional life who have impacted me the most – thank you for this”.

Michael Beck

Michael is an Executive Coach and Leadership Development specialist with over 25 years’ experience operating both strategically and operationally across international organisations. Drawing on a career that spans retail, technology, facilities management and hospitality, he brings deep commercial understanding and real-world leadership credibility to his coaching and development work.

Having held senior leadership roles within organisations including Tesco, Asda, Iceland, Apple and Haven, Michael has led large-scale, multi-site teams through growth, transformation and change. This hands-on leadership experience enables him to work in genuine partnership with senior leaders and managers, understanding first-hand the pressures, complexity and pace of modern organisational life.

Michael specialises in resilience, wellbeing and mental performance, helping leaders build the psychological strength, behavioural flexibility and self-awareness required to perform at their best. Known for his positive energy and grounded presence, he creates environments of trust and psychological safety where honest reflection, challenge and meaningful transformation can take place.

He works with organisations on leadership development programmes, culture change initiatives and growth strategies, integrating insights from neuroscience, emotional intelligence and behavioural science to drive sustainable performance and measurable commercial outcomes. His approach enables individuals and teams to remove the barriers that inhibit confidence and excellence, empowering them to lead with clarity, authenticity and impact.

Michael supports clients in aligning performance with purpose — helping them grow in ways that are congruent with their values, identity and long-term aspirations. His work consistently elevates leadership capability, strengthens team cohesion and enhances organisational effectiveness.

He is a Postgraduate qualified Executive Coach and ICF Accredited Coach, a Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner, and holds accreditations in Insights Discovery, EQ-i Emotional Intelligence, Situational Leadership, Hogan and Belbin. He also holds a certificate in Applied Neuroscience, is an Accredited Mediation Practitioner, and serves as an Instructor Trainer for Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England.