The Mission Performance team

Chris McLeod

For the last 25 years and as a founding director of Mission Performance, I’ve developed close collaborative relationships with clients from a wide range of industries helping them deliver their strategy and to transform their internal leadership and management capability.

Rob Lewis

Rob holds a degree in Development Economics and Development Studies and began his career teaching English, Geography and Physical Education in secondary schools.

Gerry Devries

Since leaving the Marines in the early 90s and taking his MBA at London Business School, Gerry de Vries has become a specialist in turning businesses around.

Matt Burgess

An actor by trade, Matt has worked extensively in theatre, television and film, starring in productions such as; War Horse, Prometheus and Black Mirror.

Alex Murray

Alex has two Masters’ degrees: Defence Studies from King’s College London and Applied Leadership from Leeds Trinity University, which he gained while working full-time for 2 years as a Prison Officer.

Alison Griffin

Alison is a critically acclaimed actor, comedian, writer and director.

Andrea Pelaez

Andrea is an award-winning performer, director, and movement specialist, born in Bogotá, Colombia, and a British citizen.

Andy Fieldhouse

Andy Fieldhouse is man on a mission – to help teams perform to their true potential.

Brendan Hall

Brendan skippered a racing yacht in the ultimate long-distance challenge, The Clipper Round the World Yacht race – a 35,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts.

Carolina Varón

Passionate about learning and teaching.

Chris Milliner

Chris is a dynamic business change and transformation consultant and coach.

Clare Plested

Clare Plested is a critically acclaimed actor, writer and director.

Colette Barratt

In 2001, Colette fulfilled a long-term ambition to join the army and attend the world renowned leadership course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Dan Hipkiss

Dan works with Mission Performance to help teams and leaders turn ideas into consistent, effective behaviour.

Dave Pearce

Dave Pearce spent 24 years as a British Commando, seeing operations across the globe and serving in many elite arms of the services, becoming adept in survival within all environments as well as an expert in mountain, arctic, jungle and desert warfare.

David Mugridge

David joined Mission Performance after 15 years of working globally in the energy sector.

Don Evans

A former Royal Air Force Wing Commander and fast jet aviator, Don Evans has over 20 years’ experience leading a wide range of complex and demanding operations in hostile conditions within an international context.

Dr Catherine Lavers

I am a Senior Practitioner Coach with the EMCC and have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.

Dr Julia Carden

Julia’s coaching work focuses on working with individuals and teams to take off their blinkers to expand and deepen self-awareness, to identify existing strengths, new options, and choices.

Dr Kit Potter

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Ed Hughes

Ed has established himself as one of the UK’s and Latin America’s most versatile actors, onstage and screen, in both English and Spanish.

Emma Kilbey

Emma Kilbey combines facilitating, directing and theatre-making with singing, script-writing, voiceover and corporate coaching.

Emma Turner

Emma is an Internal Communications and Engagement specialist, with 25 years’ experience working in-house in global organisations in the Energy and Maritime industries.

Gary Wakefield

A former Naval Officer and Fleet Air Arm pilot, Gary Wakefield served in the Royal Navy for 21 years.

George Hopkins

George Hopkins is an experienced mechanical engineer working across a variety of sectors including automotive, defence and construction; having successfully undertaken roles spanning from operational support to research and development George has moved from high volume automotive production to cutting edge metal 3D printing.

Gordon Mackenzie

Gordon’s early career was as an Officer in the Royal Marines Commandos, this was cut short through injury but not before serving on deployments around the Globe as an operational leader and Staff Intelligence officer to the Naval Commander throughout the first Gulf War.

Jade Burnett

Jade Burnett has been with Mission Performance since October 2012.

Jamie Honeybourne

Jamie Honeybourne is an accredited EMCC (Global) coach.

Janine Lane

In 2009, Janine re-branded to Liquid Friday, and in 2011, they were honoured to be recognised by The Times 100 Fast Track list as the UK’s 22nd Fastest Growing company and again as the 31st fastest growing in 2012.

Jennifer Tollady

Jennifer works with individuals and teams all over the world, helping people find their voice and learn to communicate their message in a way that gets them noticed.

Justin Cunningham

Justin Cunningham had an 18-year career in the Royal Marines, having joined from Liverpool University where he studied Law, during which time undertaking a variety of challenging leadership appointments from frontline operational service to programme director roles in the Ministry of Defence.

Justin Featherstone

Justin Featherstone is a leadership consultant and expedition leader.

Kathie Knell

Curiosity, a taste for adventure and enterprise has shaped Kathie’s career.

Mandy Hickson

Mandy Hickson was one of the first female pilots on a front-line Tornado GR4 squadron.

Mark Bouch

Mark gained experience in turning strategy into results during a 20-year career as an Army logistics officer, including strategic planning roles in the Ministry of Defence, operational tours of duty as a bomb disposal officer in Northern Ireland and in a staff role with NATO in the former Yugoslavia.

Mason Phillips

Mason has worked extensively in over twenty years as a Facilitator, Coach, Actor and Writer.

Nicola Hearn

Nicola has worked in internal communications for over 20 years and in that time has supported a broad range of organisations with strategic internal communications and employee engagement.

Ollie Dimsdale

Ollie Dimsdale is an actor for stage, television and film including leading roles for the BBC, ITV and Sky, as well as stage plays at theatres such as The National Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company.

Paul Chequer

Paul is a Senior Associate at Mission Performance, with 20 years’ experience in Executive Learning and Development.

Paul Helmore

Paul Helmore is a career commercial leader and business strategist with over 30 years of experience in sales and marketing optimisation, commercial negotiations, team building, mentoring, and addressing organisational challenges.

Paul Mattin

Following an exciting 25 year career as a Royal Marines Officer, Paul Mattin has spent the last 15 years working with teams and leaders within professional sport, business and in extreme expedition scenarios.

Pooja Middleton

Pooja has been a professional actor for over 25 years but has been a role-player, facilitator and coach for the past 20 years.

Richard Tarran

I have noticed through coaching, people discover that there is more in them than they thought.

Rick Charlton

Rick has an extensive background spanning over 30 years.

Ross Preston

Ross is a seasoned facilitator and coach, working in commercial, not for profit, and government sectors.

Simon Coleman

Simon brings together three decades of experience as a professional actor, facilitator and learning & development specialist.

Steve Booker

Steve Booker lives in South Wales with his wife and two sons.

Toby Wilsher

Toby Wilsher has been a theatre director for 28 years, with an international reputation.

Tom Battye

Tom Battye is a perceptive person with strong listening and empathy skills.

Tony Underwood

Tony Underwood was one of the stars of the popular England rugby side of the 1990s.

Tyson Bridger

Tyson helps companies and leaders maximise their commercial potential to the full by combining his broad range of experience in both the corporate and start-up worlds, with his ability to teach and coach the requisite skills.

Vicky Ellis

Vicky Ellis is a former history-making, round the world yacht race skipper.

Victor Grove

Will Mitchell

A business psychologist specialising in leadership assessment, development and resilience.

William Tasho

Will is an experienced executive coach, senior talent development professional and a business psychologist by training, with 25 years of combined consulting and in-house experience.