Woodthorpe Wright

+971 4 3902321 Dubai, UAE | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | Egypt | Kuwait | Bahrain

Our Coaches

Consisting of a strong and experienced group of professionals, who are expert Management Coaches and Trainers in their own right, our team is positioned to serve the Middle East and North Africa region.

The diversity within our team gives us immense possibilities in providing specific Executive Coaching, expert Team Coaching and other professional coaching solutions to suit your organisation.


Our Associates:

Nic Woodthorpe-Wright, PCC, CPCC, MBA
Location: Dubai

Nic Woodthorpe-Wright is the Managing Director of Woodthorpe Wright Associates. He is a qualified executive coach with Charles Bentley Associates (UK) and Coaches Training Institute (US), Nic has trained in Unitive, Co-Active and TGROW models of coaching through his continued association with these organisations and Coaching & Mentoring Int’l (UK)...View Full Profile


Affie Hussein PCC MBA FCCA CPA
Location: Dubai

Affie is an established thought leader and highly respected practitioner in leadership development, change management and performance improvement through Executive Coaching....View Full Profile



Louisa Coates
Location: Dubai

Louisa Coates qualified as a coach in the UK and has a Masters in Strategic Management from Bristol University. She is well equipped to help organisations in the turmoil of hectic growth as well as individuals trying to deal with ever-expanding roles, highly multi-cultural workforces and no work-life balance...View Full Profile


Kevin S Craig – PCC, CPCC, ORSC
Location: Manama

Kevin is a senior level executive, team and organisational coach, entrepreneur and businessman with exceptional outstanding abilities enabling both teams & individuals to maximise their full potential; an outstanding communicator able to develop knowledge...View Full Profile



Gulsun Zeytinoglu, PhD, MCC, CPCC, ORSCC
Location: Istanbul

Gulsun is an experienced international coach, mentor and trainer working with executives and teams. As a pioneer in introducing coaching in Turkey, her work is creatively based on ORSC (Relationship Systems Intelligence), Co-activity, NLP, systems thinking, hypnosis, expressive arts and related fields. ...View Full Profile



Jackie Allinson ACC, CPCC, BSc
Location: Dubai

Jackie Allinson is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC) having studied with the Coaches Training Institute (US), one of the strongest and longest standing coaching organisations. She is also an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF)...View Full Profile



Tom Young BA Hons, MA, ORSCC
Location: Dubai

Tom is a Dubai-based leadership coach, consultant and presenter who is equally effective when delivering rousing motivational sessions for large audiences, facilitating strategic planning sessions with board members or catalyzing personal growth in the intimacy of the executive coaching environment... View Full Profile



Polly Archer, BA Hons, MA
Location: Dubai

Polly Archer, a UAE based Executive Coach and Human Resources Consultant, provides individual and team coaching as well as strategic consultancy with focus on human resources, leadership and management...View Full Profile



Sabine Chachati ACC, CPCC
Location: AbuDhabi

Sabine is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC) from the Coach Training Institute and a graduate of the Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) from the Center for Right Relationship...View Full Profile



Mohammad N. Alanzi, CPCC, JCDC MBA, B.Pharm
Location: Kuwait

Mohammad Alanzi has 10 years of professional experience in the healthcare sector spanning retail, generic industry and biomedical investments. Alanzi earned his Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from Sunderland University, Northern England...View Full Profile



Roula Saba Mouhanna MBA, CUCG
Location: Beirut

Roula Saba Mouhanna is one of the leaders in coaching in the Levant region. Running a successful coaching practice from Beirut in Lebanon she is member of the ICF, has coached extensively over the last 4 years at senior corporate levels...View Full Profile



Mark Garrod BCA, CPCC
Location: Dubai

Mark Garrod is a qualified Co-active coach who combines 15 years of corporate business experience with the likes of BP Oil and Leo Burnett Global Advertising Agency to assist people in their careers and professional development...View Full Profile


From The Blog

04 Oct 2011
The Leadership Challenge

The action of challenge has been a recurring theme for me in recent days. I had forgotten how important it is to be challenged and to challenge others. Growth is dependent on this dynamic and as leaders we can forget that this is a powerful way to motivate, excite, engage, intensify and wake-up the talent around us. As leaders we must expand our range of styles in this domain of challenge.  

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11 Sep 2011
‘Space’… The Final Frontier

Busyness and action are the bywords of our current lives. There is no room for space/emptiness/quietness/nothingness. These seem to be the enemy that no one is prepared to succumb to, so we fight it off by always being on the go, most of it in the name of productivity. 

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20 Jul 2011
(Video) The Power of Self-Belief (A Personal Story)

Sir John Whitmore shares a true story of a key moment of awakening that created a positive powerful engagement of his true capabilities. Speaking here at the recent ICF European Conference 2011, Sir John is considered one of the founders of the modern coaching industry. 

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14 Jul 2011
Coaching Moves to Self-Regulate - Breaking News

In a joint initiative aimed at self-regulation, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the International Coach Federation (ICF) today file with the European Union a common Code of Conduct as the benchmark standard for the coaching and mentoring industry.

 

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13 Jul 2011
(Video) Adapting Leadership to the Middle East

Our interview today gives great insight into the challenge faced by all leaders in the Middle East namely, ‘how to adapt our leadership style to this specific market with specific nuances’.  

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16 Jun 2011
(Video) Key Lessons in Leadership

The ‘Executive Next Level’ interview this week is with a top US executive coach. The content is about leadership and the challenges being faced by those people leading organisations in the US as well as thoughts on the key steps we can and should take in stepping up in our leadership of self and others. 

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12 Jun 2011
84.2% want a career change

This is the percentage of Middle East Professionals who are looking for a change in career. The recent poll by Bayt.com has highlighted the large gap that exists between employees and their engagement or commitment in their current organisations. 

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08 Jun 2011
DIFC HR Forum

Yesterday we were invited to speak at the Dubai Financial HR Forum. As people that are passionate about coaching it is great to be able to engage with this high level of HR experience in global organisations and see that coaching has a critical role to play.  

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06 Jun 2011
European ICF Conference 2011

Following a fantastic event in Paris last year I will be attending the ICF conference in Madrid this year.  This is where the leading coaches in Europe convene to talk about and share coaching practices and thinking. 

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29 May 2011
The 1st Middle East Coaching Conference

31st May-1st June 2011
For the first time in the Middle East a conference dedicated solely to Coaching is being run in Kuwait. Woodthorpe Wright Associates have been invited to speak at the conference due to our extensive regional experience in this arena. 

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