Katharine St John-Brooks, Jeremy Gomm and Cheryl Cooper discuss the challenges faced by internal coaches, including limited opportunities for coaching, the need for coaching maturity in organisations, and ethical dilemmas. Cheryl also explores power dynamics in organisations, particularly in hierarchical and international settings.

Katharine St John-Brooks is the author of the first book to focus exclusively on internal coaches, Internal Coaching – The Inside Story, published in 2014 and currently being updated for a second edition.

She is a speaker, contributor to numerous books on coaching and now a fiction author having written a thriller whose main character is a coach. Previously she worked in the UK Government (where her first thriller is set) and later set up her own management consultancy and executive coaching business.

Jeremy Gomm is an ILM Level 7 qualified supervisor and a practising supervisor, coach and mentor, largely for clients in organisations.

He was a voluntary director of EMCC UK for more than eight years during which he developed corporate membership and began a keen interest in internal coaching. This led to him setting up the first international conference exclusively for internal coaches, the International Internal Coaching Conference, in partnership with internal coaching associations in France, Belgium and Holland.

Cheryl Cooper is an accredited Senior Executive Coach, Team Coach and Coach Supervisor and was one of the first personal development coaches in the UK. She founded Applied Wisdom in 2007 after a career at the British Council, the European Commission and in the UK civil service.

A Brit based in Brussels, she is Vice President of EMCC Belgium and has trained, mentored and developed coaches and supervisors in more than 20 countries since 1995.