ActionCOACH celebrates its franchisees’ successes at its awards ceremony

Last year, ActionCOACH, a business-coaching firm, welcomed 40 franchise partners to its team and the momentum is still growing. To celebrate the network of more than 100 franchisees, ActionCOACH commended its partners with local, national and international awards. The annual black-tie event in Staverton Park Hotel, Northamptonshire, recognised the success of its coaches and their impact on the business.

The Best Client Results 2016 prize is awarded for the best client testimonial video or letter. This year’s regional winners included:

West Midlands – Andy Hemming
Central Midlands – Mark Jennings
South West – Steve Gaskell
North East and Cumbria – Julie McLaughlin
North West – Paul Whitfield
East Anglia – Roger Pemberton
London – Gil Devlin
South East – Lucy Cameron
Yorkshire & Lincolnshire – Mandy Hildred
South Central – Rob Pickering

Suj Legha received UK Best Client Results 2016 and one of his clients, Gary McMillan from The Horizon Group, explained why: “The service he provides not only changes the lives of the people he works with, but also their families and work colleagues. When we started working with Suj less than two years ago we had no direction, no plan, no profits and wouldn’t have been able to ‘give the business away’. We had the business valued in March 2015 at £4.5million!”

The Coach of the Year 2016 prize is awarded to the coach who has the best performing coaching business. This year’s regional winners included:

Scotland – Tony Hoskins
North West – Paul Whitfield
South Central – Kevin Stansfield
West Midlands – Andy Hemming
South East – Marco Soares
Central Midlands – John Cottrell
South West – Rob Carter
East Anglia – Peter Boolkah

Pam Featherstone and Shweta Jhajharia were both awarded for UK Coach of Year 2016, when both surpassed £1million in personal client income for the 12-month period. James Akin-Smith was awarded UK Best Growth Coach 2016, recognising his achievement of growing his business by the greatest proportion of any franchise partner during 2015. He says: “I started my ActionCOACH business on 1 February 2014 and had just seen Pam Featherstone win Rookie of the Year. I said that I wanted to take that trophy from her and exactly two years on that’s what I did!”

Gary Mullins and Steve Mullins received the UK Brand Ambassadors 2016 award for their efforts to grow the ActionCOACH brand. UK Co-founder of ActionCOACH, Julie Wagstaff explains: “The father and son team had the foresight three years ago to invest their own time and money to bring the global founder of ActionCOACH, Brad Sugars, to their home town for a seminar to local business owners.

“The seminar was so popular that it was rolled out nationwide and it is down to Gary and Steve and their business partners in the venture, Kevin Stansfield and Colin Harding, that we have a sold-out tour each year with Brad educating business owners and promoting our brand.

“Gary and Steve pipped Kevin and Colin to the post in the prestigious Brand Ambassadors award through also having the vision to pioneer the employee ActionCOACH business model in the UK, a model which is key to increasing ActionCOACH’s brand coverage.”