Akasha Lonsdale-Deighton

Akasha is a highly effective and experienced executive coach, trainer, professional speaker, psychotherapist, Interfaith Minister and author of "How to do life: powerful pointers for powerful living" (2004) and "Do I Kneel or Do I Bow?: What you need to know when attending religious occasions" (2010). She is a specialist in Emotional Intelligence and Stress Management, with a background in senior HR management and wide business experience.

Her style is lively and stimulating. She is a strong, clear communicator, being both insightful, perceptive, empathic and supportive whilst remaining focused and direct. Her programmes and seminars are highly motivating and she has been effecting powerful change in people's lives for the past 30 years.  Akasha contributes to both local and National BBC Radio/TV, and she is a regular faith guest with Aled Jones on his BBC 2 "Good Morning Sunday" show.

John Gloster-Smith

John is a highly skilled and experienced life and executive coach, specialising in personal growth. He also delivers highly facilitative workshops, trains people nationally in the art of facilitating at emotionally challenging levels and delivers retreat centre personal development programmes. He is also author of "Connecting to Inner Peace (2010).

John has a background of 17 years in coaching, training and organisational consulting to senior levels and was previously in education to a senior level. He is an accredited coach with the Association for Coaching and a Master NLP Practitioner qualified in Neurological Repatterning. He also holds a BA Honours from Oxford University and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from the same university.