Meet our tutors

Rebecca Kaye is the founder and director of ChTC. Having worked in several commercial organisations, Rebecca moved into the UK police service, initially working in an operational role before being seconded to a project examining the causes of several high-profile employment tribunals. Following this work, she was appointed to establish and lead a new Employee Relations function. What began as a primarily reactive service quickly evolved into a broader organisational development function, providing a range of interventions to support organisational effectiveness and change.

Rebecca subsequently led the organisational response to the MacPherson Inquiry following the murder of Stephen Lawrence. She became portfolio lead for a number of EDI initiatives, acting as strategic advisor to the senior leadership team and contributing to regional and national projects. Her final role in the police service was as acting Head of EDI during the large-scale organisational change programme that followed the public spending cuts arising from the 2008 financial crisis.

During her time leading Employee Relations, Rebecca trained as a coach, became a Chartered MCIPD and completed an MSc in Leadership and Organisational Change. In 2011, she founded ChTC to provide executive and management coaching alongside high-quality coach and leadership development programmes.

Over the past 15 years, Rebecca and her team have delivered coaching and development programmes across the UK and internationally. She has extensive experience working with organisations across the corporate and public sectors, including the NHS, local authorities, policing, telecommunications, private healthcare, oil and gas, construction, legal, banking and finance, and aviation.

Michelle Brook is a highly qualified coach, trainer and teaching professional with extensive experience providing accredited training, learner support and psychological interventions to empower performance, wellbeing and success.

For almost 20 years, Michelle has worked with individuals and organisations to identify goals, achieve change and drive performance. As an executive coach, she offers a unique combination of skills, drawing on evidence-based psychological principles, effective learning and development methods, and strategic leadership theory and practice.

Michelle's grounding comes from over a decade in the public sector: providing front-line mental health provision in the NHS and working within offending behaviour and psychological services in HM Prison Service. She has also worked in higher education, training future therapists on an NHS-accredited postgraduate programme, and later ran her own organisational training company for a number of years.

Michelle is a Level 7 qualified Executive Coach, holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychological Therapies and Cognitive Behavioural Skills, and is a qualified Further Education Teacher.

Jess Roy is an Executive Coach, Coach and Mentor Trainer, and Leadership Development Facilitator with extensive experience supporting individuals and organisations to develop confident, reflective and effective leaders.

With a background in senior leadership spanning more than two decades, Jess brings a practical understanding of the challenges leaders face when navigating change, developing people and creating high-performing teams. Her leadership experience laid the foundations for a coaching-led approach that places curiosity, trust and meaningful conversation at the heart of personal and professional development.

Jess is an ILM Level 7 Executive Coach and Mentor and works with leaders, managers and professionals across a wide range of sectors, delivering accredited leadership, management, coaching and mentoring programmes. Alongside her training work, she provides executive coaching and one-to-one coaching, helping clients build confidence, strengthen leadership capability, navigate transitions and achieve sustainable growth.

Her coaching philosophy is grounded in a holistic, person-centred approach, recognising that effective leadership is shaped by both professional capability and personal wellbeing. Drawing on somatic coaching principles, trauma-informed practice and evidence-based coaching approaches, Jess creates reflective spaces where clients can think more deeply, challenge assumptions and develop practical strategies for lasting change.

Known for her warm, engaging and authentic facilitation style, Jess combines real-world leadership experience with skilled coaching practice to create learning experiences that are both thought-provoking and immediately applicable. She is passionate about empowering people to unlock their potential, lead with confidence and create positive impact within their organisations and beyond.

Kate is a successful, dynamic and trusted leader, organisational development consultant and executive coach. Kate began her career as an engineer in the chemical industry, but over time moved into roles that supported individual and organisational development, growth, and change, and transitioned into roles where she delivered both HR and OD strategies alongside significant cost savings. Kate has a wealth of experience, having operated in Higher Education, Engineering, Chemicals, Sports, and the Voluntary Sector. She was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to rowing, and in 2023 she was the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero for the Northeast and Cumbria. Kate also serves on several boards and is currently the President of Commonwealth Rowing.

Whilst working for ICI Kate was invited by IMD Business School to become a mentor to senior members of the global Sony Erickson programme which was designed to help senior technical leaders develop the ‘softer’ leadership skills. Kate then worked with David Clutterbuck to develop a recognised best-practice corporate mentoring scheme, a feat she replicated at the University of York after moving to the HE sector. Kate founded her coaching and consultancy business in 2016 and, since then, has worked as a coach with senior leaders, executives and NEDs throughout the UK and internationally.

After an early career in finance and senior roles within the consumer goods industry across the UK, Asia and Europe, Sebastian established his own consultancy in 2003, initially specialising in customer insight and organisational effectiveness. Through this work, Sebastian became increasingly interested in the role of coaching in translating insight into meaningful behavioural change. He trained as an Executive Coach and subsequently specialised in Team Coaching, supporting leaders and teams across a wide range of organisations to improve effectiveness, collaboration and collective performance. His research interests include presence in team coaching, reflexive practice and the conditions that enable productive team coaching conversations. He has published several articles on team coaching and reflexive practice and contributed a chapter to the Team Coaching Casebook.