LIFE SUN LIMITED

Who we are

Dr Anna Duckworth, Director

Dr Anna Duckworth holds an Advanced Diploma in Professional Coaching and Mentoring and is a member of the International Coach Federation, the American Board of NLP and the Association for Project Management.

She has been coaching professionally since 2000 and has coached over a hundred clients in a wide range of organisations, including British Nuclear Group, Norwich Union, John Lewis, Spirit Group, Bank of Scotland, Yorkshire Water, ACAS and VEGA.

As a Faculty Coach Mentor with theOCM (previously the Oxford School of Coaching & Mentoring), she also participates in delivery of OCM and CIPD coaching qualifications and in-company coaching programmes.

She is a qualified practitioner of NLP, Time Line TherapyTM and Hypnosis and is also an MBTI practitioner. She is a trained coaching supervisor and is absolutely passionate about the delivery of high quality coaching. With a Cambridge degree and a PhD in Laser Physics behind her, she also has twenty years of experience in the corporate arena in Research, Engineering, Project Management, Programme Management and Change Management.

She is an enthusiast of wild sports such as skiing, snowboarding, sailing and windsurfing and finds energy and inspiration in such environments. She also loves jazz piano, painting and salsa dancing and believes that creativity can be a source of lasting change. Finally, she is a mum and believes wholly in achieving and maintaining the right balance between the important things in life!

Heather Wicks,
Associate of LIFE SUN LIMITED

Heather has worked as a professional coach since 2002, interlinked with a career in the National Health Service, following graduation from the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring.

She has provided personal development coaching to a large number of individuals within the public and private sectors and has worked with Oxford City and Cherwell District Councils, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Hampshire Primary Care Trust and Oxford City Primary Care Trust.

As a member of the faculty of the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring, Heather contributes to the delivery of a range of qualification programmes, including those offered by the CIPD and was previously Lead Assessor for the School.

This is coupled with involvement as a visiting lecturer and coach supervisor to students on the Masters Degree in Coaching and Mentoring at Oxford Brookes University.

Having personally experienced the life changing power of coaching and been privileged enough to facilitate this in others, Heather is almost evangelical about the impact that coaching can have and completely of the belief that this power is within all individuals – it sometimes requires the catalyst of coaching to draw it out!

Over the course of a diverse career, Heather has been a clinical eye specialist, manager of quality assurance and governance in healthcare and currently is a commissioner of health services within the National Health Service.

She enjoys travelling to far flung places and living life by the principle of ‘should there ever be regret, it is better to regret the things that you do rather than those you don’t’!

Emily Hutchinson,
Associate of LIFE SUN LIMITED

Emily Hutchinson is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist.

She has over 10 years experience of working in a range of industries, including insurance, IT, nuclear, construction, defence and aviation, and in January 2004 she was featured in the Independent on Sunday as one of Britain’s 10 leading Occupational Psychologists.

Emily works at both the organisational level and with individuals to help them to work better – a coaching approach empowers and enables people to develop.

She is a member of the British Psychological Society’s Special Group of Coaching Psychologists, and currently coaches around 10 individuals a month. She is qualified in a number of psychometric tools, both aptitude testing, and personality questionnaires (OPQ, MBTI, 16 PF, FIRO Element B).

Emily believes that helping people to enjoy work is beneficial for all – people who are happier at work and fulfilling their potential are more productive, make fewer mistakes and have better health and general well being. Now, that can’t be bad…..

She has an open, honest and friendly approach that instantly makes you at ease. Emily has knowledge of a wide range of processes that could be successfully applied to a vast array of situations.