Alice Ballantine Dykes
Accreditation Coach
Bristol

Alice trained with a PGCE in Primary education in 2000, and as an Advanced Skills Teacher has worked closely with many teachers, developing strong partnerships to bring about confidence and change in the classroom.

Happiest outside the box. since 2008, she has also been involved in a number of (unaccredited!) research projects with the likes of Human Scale Education and Explorium, to design experimental and ground breaking learning environments for young people.

Krista Elledge
Accreditation Coach
South West France

Krista is an ex primary headteacher who left teaching to start her own coaching and consultation business in 2019.  A year earlier she started the process of retraining with the Co-active Training Institute where she gained the CPCC qualification. She is accredited as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. 

Krista has an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. She values the power of relationships and bases her coaching on a strong foundation of trust and authenticity, ensuring that others feel safe and can therefore challenge themselves to move forwards.

Coaching has led Krista to take on many new professional and personal challenges herself, including a move to sunny south-west France last year, where she is now happily installed in an old French farmhouse requiring at least 2-3 years of renovation work!

Assunta Cucca, @AssuCucca
Accreditation Coach
London

Assunta is a certified professional coach (PCC) accredited by the ICF, who brings 20 years of international experience spanning from professional sports, to journalism and charity work in the UK, Latin America and Asia, teaching then coaching and holding senior positions as Head of culture and employee engagement for digital companies.

In the last 6 years, Assunta has focused on leadership coaching at all levels in organisations with Kokoro Consultancy.  She coaches high achievers who want to build resilience and a growth mindset, parents returning to work and navigating a new life and identity, people facing mental health challenges such as anxiety and moderate depression.

Her latest qualifications include Mental Health coaching, Neuroscience, Mindfulness coaching, Physical intelligence in coaching, Working with trauma in coaching and Compassion in coaching. 

Bryony Rowntree, @BryonyRowntree
Accreditation Coach
Leeds

Before coming to coaching, Bryony worked as a care worker, as a HLTA in a Pupil Referral Unit, gained a diploma in Antenatal Education and then worked with young families a Beechtree Steiner Initiative as the Safeguarding Lead and Parent and Child Group Leader.  She is now a Certified Professional Co-Active® Coach and has been coaching for two years.

Bryony coaches women around confidence, overwhelm and going well into their next chapter.  She also runs workshops at We Are Wellness in Leeds and for educational settings and other organisations on wellbeing and finding more connection and flow within the team.

Coaching people who do important work in society is of particular interest to her, as is recognising how parenthood adds so much value to what we can bring to our work.

Faye Kilgour-Neves
Associate Coach
London

Faye has experience training educators in coaching skills, delivering coaching programmes to undergraduate students and facilitating workshops to support professionals develop their leadership skills. 

She is certified by the Co-Active Training Institute, has studied BSc (Hons) Psychology, and is currently a Trainee Mental Health Worker for the NHS. 

Malarvilie Krishnasamy, @MalCPD
Accreditation Coach
Valencia, Spain

Malarvilie worked for a number of years as a History Teacher and Senior Leader in London before moving to Dorset after her second maternity leave where she qualified as a coach and founded ‘MalCPD Education Consultancy and Coaching‘.  In 2018 Mal received her ILM Level 7 in Coaching and Mentoring and is now an ILM recognised provider.

Malarvilie is a WomenEd Regional Lead for the South East, hosting networking events and CoachMeets in Dorset and Hampshire, and coaches as part of the DfE’s coaching pledge.  She has been a long term supporter of The MTPT Project and has helped to shape our Accreditation offer and coaching policy.

Malarvilie also continues to be an active member of a number of History Teacher communities across the UK.

Samantha Chesler
Associate Coach
Singapore

Samantha studied Law and Art History at UCL followed by a B.Ed. at Mcgill University. She is a CTI certified coach, a STRIDE and DISC trained Mentor and has worked in education as a head of department, teacher, coach and mentor in many international schools.

She has training in emotion coaching with the Gottman Institute, in Positive Intelligence with Shirzad Chamine, Breakthrough Coaching with Marcia Reynolds and The Power of Embodied Transformation with Coaches Rising.

A mother of two, Samantha supports The MTPT Project’s coaching team when we need additional pro-bono capacity. 

George McMillan
Associate Coach
London

George is an Executive Principal for the Harris Federation, a National Leader of Education (NLE), Senior Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and as part of his role in the Harris Federation Teaching School Alliance, he trains staff on the NPQ programmes. 

George is also trained in Time to Think (Nancy Kline) and is an accredited ORSC (Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching) facilitator.

As a father of three, George is a big believer in finding the balance between the different parts of our lives and living each one of them well.  He supports The MTPT Project’s coaching team when they need additional pro-bono capacity.