Championing your growth and success through coaching

Our goal is to empower you to become a catalyst for positive change.

We can achieve this through our bespoke leadership training workshop and DISC assessment workshops, which inspires a change in how leaders manage their teams.

Through our 1-2-1 coaching and team coaching, we provide the experience to empower individuals and groups to take initiative and ownership within their organisation and their own lives. We can help you cultivate adaptable, resilient and agile people -prepared for the future and thriving in the present.

Our mission is to cultivate a growth mindset and positive change in individuals and organisations. We have 35 years’ experience working across multiple including including financial services, education, engineering, music, non-profit organisations and advertising.

About Us

  • Duncan Butters

    Founder & Director

    I have always loved working with people and seeing them succeed, both in their professional and personal lives. Enabling others to fulfil their potential, by facilitating those ‘light bulb’ moments of understanding their strengths and aspirations, drives my passion.

    About Duncan

  • Dr Julia Corkindale

    Director

    A lifetime’s career in learning and development continues to drive my understanding of how to help others succeed. Knowing how we learn - and appreciating values, emotions and beliefs which underpin our capacity for personal growth is at the heart of my practice.

    About Julia

Our Services

  • 1-2-1 Coaching

    Our primary area of focus is performance and professional development, tailoring your needs with that of your organisation. We are facilitators of growth and change, but YOU identify the areas of your professional life where you feel coaching will help. This is your journey; the purpose of coaching is to support and empower you to make the key changes to fulfil your potential.

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  • Teams Coaching

    Team coaching is built on a mixture of coaching and advisory work that helps individuals thrive, addresses the core team dynamics, and looks at the right processes and infrastructure for the team to work effectively and deliver impact.

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  • Leadership Coaching Training

    Using our management assessment tool, we create a bespoke training course to help build and improve your teams leadership; bringing more of a coaching style to your business, proven to improve employee performance.

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  • DISC Flow Assessment

    We run DISC Flow workshops to help individuals understand their optimal working style, managers grasp their impact on team members, and colleagues communicate more effectively to build stronger relationships.

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    Manager Self Assessment

    Understanding where managers may requre improvement is best provided by the managers themselves. Our FREE self assessment analysis is set against 4 key pillars of coaching and is the very basis for building our bespoke leadeship workshops and provides a foundation for 1-2-1 coaching.

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Here are a few of our client testimonials

  • “Duncan provided a safe space for me to discuss anything that I want to work on or that might be bothering me, he challenged my thought processes to help me delve deeper into why I might be encountering certain issues and overall I found the sessions very cathartic and beneficial.”

    Lucy Wood

    Consultant, ProjectiveGroup

  • "Julia’s understanding and application of the coaching process has accelerated my professional development and given me access to ideas and opportunities I would never have previously thought possible. I felt supported, stimulated, challenged and energised."

    Rob Green

    Dentsu

  • "Duncan is a fantastic coach – everything is self-lead which gives you a lot of control which makes the conversation feel easy and flows. Highly recommend for both career driven and personal aspects. "

    Georgina Sipiere

    Consultant, ProjectiveGroup

  • "The one-to-one sessions with Julia provided time and space for me to concentrate solely on myself in a way that is rare in a busy working environment. This gave me the chance to clarify and articulate my own ideas on how to develop the life and career I want rather than that which I have fallen into by circumstance. Julia really enabled me to own the journey of my career development and helped me to see where sub-conscious behaviours were sabotaging my own best interests."

    Anna Robertson

    Management Consultant

  • "Ever since our very first coaching session, Duncan has helped me to become more confident in myself and my decision making., in such a short period of time. I've noticed a significant (positive) change in my outlook on various aspects of my life. The tools and techniques Duncan has proved me to help me in my daily life are invaluable. I can't thank Duncan enough for all his help."

    Preena Desai

    Consultant, Capco UK

  • "Duncan was great to work with for coaching. He does an amazing job of actively listening which allowed me to reach solutions I didn’t know I had within. Really appreciate his work!"

    Connor McClure

    Consultant, ProjectveGroup

  • "Duncan has a natural approach to coaching and ensures that he maintains the coaching - mentoring boundary. His professionalism comes in abundance whilst making you feel at ease and instilling a sense of trust from the outset."

    Fee Ellis

    Senior Consultant, ProjectiveGroup

  • "My coaching sessions with Julia were truly eye opening. She adapted her approach to my unique situation and provided a safe space, which allowed me to reflect on myself, my career and my needs honestly. She challenged me and asked the right questions, making me consider different avenues and arming me with all the tools I needed to move forward professionally."

    Andy F

    Focusrite

  • "People Champions are a pleasure to work with. They provided coaching support within our organisation which has helped us, and continues to help us, grow both individually and collectively into a more confident and effective team. As well as offering one to one coaching, they have contributed positively to our team building days. The coaching intervention surpassed all our expectations and I have no hesitation in recommending them."

    Richard Davis

    Co-Founder & CEO, 51toCarbonZero

  • "We’ve had a great experience working with People Champions. Duncan and Julia were keen to understand our landscape and tailored a workshop to meet our needs. Our team thoroughly enjoyed the in-person training day, and the follow up coaching sessions mean there’s continued support after the initial training to help them embed their learnings which we’ve found really valuable. I would gladly recommend their Leadership Coaching programme."

    Anna Tydeman

    Head of People & Culture, Walking with the Wounded

  • “At Winefi we have developed a high-performance culture that allowed us to scale from £0 to 7 figures in the course of 9 months. After hitting a plateau, we decided to invest in leadership coaching from People Champions to unlock the potential of our team The results have been transformative, and we now have every member of the leadership team speaking to either Julia or Duncan on a weekly basis. There is no doubt that we have gone further, faster with the help of PCC”

    Callum Woodcock

    CEO, Winefi

Our Current Partnerships

Please get in touch with us directly if you have any questions, we’re happy to help!