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The Skynote Team

Our exceptional team offers a combined 80+ years of creativity, innovation and experience within their areas of specialism. We are dedicated to delivering an outstanding service through engaging development programmes.

Tamsin Martle
Founder & Managing Director

Carina Vials
Operations & Support

Mike Hurley
Coach & Facilitator

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Tamsin Martle

Founder & Managing Director

Tamsin is a professional Leadership Coach-Mentor with vision, vibrant energy, a sense of humour and a reputation for high standards. She has a non-directive approach to coaching and an inherent passion for motivating, developing and envisioning people and organisations.

Prior to founding Skynote Consulting, Tamsin was a Partner and Board Director of Lansons Communications where she had a high profile and award-winning career in financial marketing and communications. She had experience of working with many blue chip companies at senior level including Coutts, Direct Line, Foreign and Colonial, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and State Street Global Advisors.

Tamsin has a renowned history for her creativity and for designing and directing hard hitting campaigns, aimed at influencing consumer behaviour. She has won many awards for her work.

With non-executive and executive Board experience, Tamsin is a strategic thinker with positive energy, a pragmatic approach and a focus on ethics. As a Coach-Mentor she has a reputation for high standards and success in supporting individuals as they develop their leadership style and navigate their upward career progression.

Her working practice challenges and enlightens and, in doing so, builds a robust platform for individuals to feel empowered and fulfilled.

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Carina Vials

Operations Specialist

With an HR background and highly gifted at solving problems, Carina is a key day-to-day member of the Skynote team.  

Tamsin and Carina are great friends, have known each other for over two decades and their styles and skills complement each other beautifully.  

Known for her partnering approach and ‘can do’ solution focused style, Carina is skilled at working with senior management to devise and implement strategic HR solutions. She has extensive experience in the design and implementation of 360° feedback systems and all areas of performance management. 

Carina enjoys spending time in nature with her family, looking after various animals and being active.  She lives in Hertfordshire.

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Mike Hurley

Coach

Mike is a professional Executive Coach, Leadership Mentor and Coaching Supervisor. He has board level experience within the major corporate sector and has broad based coaching and mentoring experience within education (primary, secondary and tertiary and with pupils, teachers, support staff and leadership teams), financial services, legal, vehicle contracting, training and personal development and consultancy.
 
He has a holistic, non-directive philosophy of coaching, working with board members, fast track managers and partners in the professions. His principal coaching activity is with organisations, teams or individuals facing transition and supporting the development of multi-level leadership capabilities with a focus on high performance. He has also worked extensively with business owner-managers and Small and Medium Enterprises.
Mike has been a regular speaker at international conferences and seminars. As an accredited ILM trainer he developed and delivered Coaching and Mentoring Programmes at ILM Levels 3, 5 and 7 through Intuition Discovery and Development Ltd which is an Accredited ILM Centre.
 
He has been a Visiting Lecturer at Wolverhampton University Business School, supporting the MA in Coaching and Mentoring.
He is based in Shropshire where he lives with his wife Jackie. Their two daughters are making their way in the world, one based in Ross on Wye and the other in Perth, Australia. Mike and Jackie are frequent flyers with Emirates!
 
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