About
Someone who has been in the room with founders for years.
forefront was built by Mike Lane-Evans. His background is acting and performance, then coaching and applied psychology, and years spent working with founders and fast-growing companies, including inside leading accelerator programmes. He has coached leaders and founders across banking, retail, tech and healthcare, amongst others, and he has watched what makes a founder compelling in the room, and what makes even a brilliant one freeze.
That is where the frameworks came from. Hero to Horizon, FRONT, FORE and the rest aren't borrowed theory. They were built and designed by forefront, refined in the room with real founders and teams.
The approach is always the same. Get inside the real situation. Practise it safely. Build the habit. Make it hold.
The team.
The forefront coaches are ex-professional actors. They know how to hold a room, and they bring that craft to how founders communicate.
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Will Pretsell
Associate Coach
An actor before moving into training and facilitation. A decade with major professional services firms and banks, and a hand in creating the Skills Builder Framework used around the world.
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Lizzie Twells
Associate Coach
Trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, fifteen years in theatre, TV and film alongside coaching across the public, private and charity sectors. Specialises in difficult conversations.
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Rachel Winters
Associate Coach
Trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe and the BBC. Fifteen years as an education practitioner.