Our Team

Our Business Mentor and Coach team

Our Business Coach and Mentor team, based in North West England, have a strong collective experience of running their own SME businesses and have developed a broad range of skills working in and with national and global companies. They have worked through and supported businesses through economic recession, have innovated and changed to adapt in times of crisis and have created growth.

We’ve experienced major commercial success and we’ve also hit business, professional and personal barriers along the way.

That’s how we know we can support you… because we’ve been there too.

Paul Aisthorpe

Business Mentor, Coach and Facilitator
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I am an empowering Business Coach and Mentor creating value with clients from the very start of the relationship.

Tony Openshaw

Client Engagement Manager and Mentor/Coach

I am an experienced business support professional helping businesses perform better and achieve results. By bringing clarity to business thinking, exploring solutions to achieve goals, I enjoy helping business owners move forward and get results.

Ruth Wilkinson

Business Mentor and Coach
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Ruth established award-winning marketing and social media management agency The Consult Centre

Mark Booker

Coach and Facilitator
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Mark now supports businesses through coaching and mentoring

Lorraine Birch

Business Coach and Mentor Associate

I am an experienced business owner having started, owned and run a successful business for 18 years until final sale. I am now using this broad experience – some good, some bad – to coach/mentor in the Lancashire area, providing support for aspirational leaders of small to medium organisations.

Collette Butterworth

Project Manager and Coach/Mentor

Passionate about people, processes, and systems, I have a knack for spotting opportunities to drive efficiency and improve operations.

Sarah Lavelle Bowden

Business Coach and Mentor Associate

I am an experienced business owner and entrepreneur and currently Managing Director and Owner of two successful businesses based in Lancashire.

Kate Wright

Employability Coach and Facilitator

Our Associate Team

Rachel Westerbeek

Employability Coach and Consultant specialising in Neurodiversity

Carl Bradshaw

Business Mentor and Coach

Carl really likes to help business owners and key staff get the most reward from their time.

Kate Houlden

Mentor and Coach

Dave Leack

CODE Facilitator

Vahe Agababian

CODE Programme Designer and Facilitator

Jamie East

CODE Facilitator

CODE Skills Bootcamp Team

Caitlin Bourne

Programme Success Manager
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Caitlin loves working with people and gets plenty of chance to do that while overseeing the design and delivery of the CODE Programmes.

Hollie Newton

Programme Success Support

Hollie was a graduate of CODE Lancashire Cohort 4

Our Key Partners

As we work with you to create growth solutions, we also create new outcomes such as more customers, increased sales, greater profits, larger teams, new brands and new products. We therefore work with a team of experts to offer you a range of skills, knowledge and experience that you may not have in your organisation in an holistic and stress-free solution to your business needs.

Two Stories

Based in the North-West, Two Stories are an independent brand consultancy and design studio.

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Nutshell Training

Karen established Nutshell Training over 14 years ago. Passionate about delivering meaningful training which has a positive impact on her clients and their culture, Karen is our go-to person for compliance and wellbeing training. Karen’s business Nutshell Training has delivered Health & Safety, Food Safety and First Aid training to her clients for 14 years and more recently has added […]