Amanda Solomons
Amanda is Managing Director of NineteenMinutes and spent the majority of her corporate working life in retail banking, cumulating in operational senior management roles.  With this background and more recently as a mother, she has dedicated herself to helping other parents and employees who wish to juggle busy lives with doing the best they possibly can for their children and families and within their business life.  While her children were still young she decided to find out more about being a better parent, and following some extensive research she joined a local not-for-profit positive parenting organisation.

She became a facilitator of workshops for local parents and then took a much more active role leading over 20 facilitators and contributing to the development of programmes.  She is responsible for recruiting, training, managing and evaluating new coaches and workshop facilitators.  She also co-writes the material used in our workshops and coaching and is nationally accredited as a parenting facilitator and to work in major national projects such as strengthening families.

She enjoys helping people and has seen at first hand the difference that certain skills and techniques can make to the upbringing of children and to the quality of the parent/child relationship. 

In common with the other Directors, Amanda has a passionate interest in education and is chair of Governors at a local school.

 

Alan Denton
As Director of NineteenMInutes Alan brings extensive general management and board level experience in multi-disciplines; retail, automotive, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, IT, financial services, facilities management and the health sector.  Positions have included Chief Operating Officer at Itochu Corporation and Divisional and Regional Director at KF Holdings and Argos.

He founded the Results Centre in 1997 and has a track record of delivering exceptional results in difficult markets using powerful business and personal coaching skills.  He is now a proven and much sought after and highly effective executive coach, mentor and group transformation coach and facilitator.  He holds a post graduate qualification in business and executive coaching. 

As a father of four he understands the challenges involved in maximising life and is also community focused and chair of a school governing body.

 

Mark Solomons
Mark’s Board level experience enables him to bring wide ranging skills as Director of NineteenMinutes.  He began his career as a graduate management trainee at Halifax PLC, moving through to Retail Director at Sainsbury’s Bank, where he was accountable for the sales and distribution of financial services through their 800+ stores.  Mark’s high levels of achievement saw him move rapidly within the businesses in which he worked; from leading teams of several hundred people, start up projects and businesses to building from scratch a new sales force of over 300 people and achieving substantial targets.

He completed an MBA at Cranfield business school in 2001 and continues to take responsibility for his own development, undertaking a number of regular interventions to ensure he is able to deliver world class performance in the areas in which he now works.

He also works with Olympian Dr David Hemery CBE and Les Duggan in Developing Potential, a leading provider of individual, team and organisational development.  In 2007 he co-founded a charity with them 21st Century Legacy, which delivers a programme to secondary schools to inspire and empower young people and their teachers to ‘Be the Best they can Be.’

Mark’s other passions are his family, sport and education.  He is the Chair of the Billericay Education Trust, a trust Board representing fifteen Schools as well as being a Governor at two schools.

 

Caroline Henry
Caroline is passionate about promoting coaching programs which help people reach their potential in all areas of life. 

Since enrolling on the UK’s first university accredited Professional Business & Life Coaching course in 2003, Caroline has developed her expertise not only in coaching but in helping other coaches to provide fun, relevant training to those who are in need of guidance and support in their specific area.

With a proven track record of generating new business opportunities in competitive markets, Caroline opens doors with her down to earth, objective and practical approach. Having worked for the RAF Families Association, TWA and a number of other blue-chip companies, Caroline has established a portfolio of highly successful personal development training courses, including an 8-week Confidence and Communication Building package for YWCA Scotland. Amongst her list of achievements, Caroline also secured funding from the Scottish Europe Social Fund Partnership to design and deliver a series of motivational workshops to help unemployed teenagers get jobs.

As her experience shows, Caroline’s dedication makes things happen for people wherever she goes - and as a dedicated mum of twins and an enthusiastic, committed businesswoman, she fully understands the importance of achieving fantastic results both at home and at work.

 

Anna Golawski
Anna has over fifteen years experience working for Harrods, Rolls Royce and IBM.  She started coaching in 2003 as part of her MBA and has enabled numerous clients to achieve their goals and ambitions. 

In addition to completing her MBA at Henley in 2004 she holds a post graduate qualification in business and executive coaching.  She has written several coaching articles for magazines and is a business mentor for The Prince's Trust.

 

Agnes Bamford
Generating breakthroughs for clients, both personally and commercially is what draws Agnes to coaching. Individual coaching and group facilitation has been a natural progression from training executives in large financial corporations. Agnes specialises in work-life balance coaching and cross-cultural coaching and has worked with organisations such as FMC Technologies, General Electric, Petro-Canada, Oracle, Bloomberg, Skipton Building Society and Greenwich Council. Agnes has also been involved in a performance coaching programme for business students run by the charity Youth at Risk.

Agnes has a Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching, an MSc in Business Administration and a Conversion Diploma in Psychology.  She is also a trained teacher and is a member of the British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology.