OUR FOUNDER

Helen Attridge

Hi, I’m Helen, the founder of ALCN, creator of the Conscious Change Coaching Method® and a Master Certified Coach.

I consider myself a global citizen and a lifelong learner. My personal mission is to grow, love and passionately contribute to the lives of others. I founded ALCN to create a world-class academy where coaching skills could be taught all over the globe in different cultural contexts and support people from all walks of life.

We are on a mission to create a more loving, connected and compassionate world, where people have the tools and skills to navigate and thrive in these changing times. We believe when people cultivate a deep connection to self and learn how to listen to their own inner wisdom and use their natural strengths and superpowers, they naturally have deeper and more meaningful connections with others and can effortlessly create profound transformations in both their personal and professional lives.

My journey has led me to training pioneers in the coaching field across 6 continents

I was one of the first 1% of master certified coaches trained in the first ICF accredited coach training programs in the United States. Over 3 decades I have had the honor to work with and alongside some of the most respected leaders in personal transformation as a coach, trainer, facilitator, director and as the founder of an internationally-acclaimed coach training organization.

I’ve coached a diverse range of clients including Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, educators, activists, young leaders and policy-makers to transform their lives and BE the change they want to see in the world, and  consulted with countless organizations on building coaching culture in teams, corporations, institutes and governments. I have facilitated international coach training programs globally and presented on NLP and Leadership at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Peking University Platform in Beijing. Today, I still work with a hand-selected group of coaching clients, social impact entrepreneurs and thought leaders, because as much as I love working with students, teams, and organizations, I strongly believe in the power of one-on-one and I LOVE seeing people transform their lives and supporting them along their journey. I believe full-heartedly in the coaching profession and the power it has to empower people to consciously change their lives from the inside out.

For those of you interested in how ALCN came into being and how our unique model was developed…

This unique coaching method has been developed

over many years study and practical experience in the field of human development.

I have had the privilege of working with esteemed experts and pioneers in personal transformation such as Landmark, the Hoffman Institute, Stephen Levine and Tony Robbins. Furthermore, I trained and worked alongside world-class authorities in NLP, including Tim & Kris Hallbom, Suzi Smith, Nick Leforce, and Robert Dilts. The foundation of this program stems from the work of Tim and Kris Halbom that they endowed me with.

In addition to drawing inspiration from these sources, our program has been enriched by the valuable insights and input from our diverse student body. Many of them have joined us as Teaching Assistants and Faculty, bringing their unique talents and perspectives to help shape and enhance the program’s development. I am sincerely grateful to everyone who has been part of this remarkable journey, including the thousands of coaches, leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs from various fields and backgrounds whom I’ve had the pleasure of assisting in achieving profound growth and transformative change.

The Conscious Change Coaching Method®

Is the culmination of my 30 years of experience.

And combines the ICF Model (the gold standard in the coaching field), with our Inner Alignment Map™ framework that supports clients to come into alignment with their mission & purpose and NLP Somatic Coaching Tools, that allow us to do the deep work and help create profound insights that transforms people’s lives from the inside out. These powerful techniques support clients in understanding, clarifying and embodying the changes they want to make in their own lives and in the world.

Where we are today

Students long requested an online training program accessible worldwide.

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted us to develop and pilot a successful ACTP program on Zoom, which received rave reviews. To make it more accessible for students in a variety of time zones, we decided to develop a self-paced online program creating a customized 1:1 learning journey combining coach training, mentorship, and professional coaching with an experienced NLP Somatic Coach.

Changing with the times, our online programs provide paths for ICF ACC & PCC accreditation, NLP Somatic abilities, and the fundamentals of our Conscious Change Coaching Method. ALCNs’ programs, which have over 7,500 global graduates, provide meaningful, individualized, and dynamic coach training experiences.

Transitioning online also enabled us to expand our team with associate coaches worldwide, furthering our mission and is allowing me to pass the torch to the next generation of ALCN change-makers.

Meet the associate coach team

Our associate coach team is truly multicultural. Each of them have been trained and mentored by our founder Helen Attridge in our 125-hour coach training and are PCC level. They’ve been hand-selected, have a variety of different backgrounds and coaching niches and collectively have more than 300+ years experience.

In addition to running their own successful coaching businesses, they work with students enrolled in our online ICF certification programs to provide personalized mentorship, coaching, and training. This has enabled us to provide a bigger selection of coaching specializations and niches, as well as a much broader worldwide reach, including the option to work with a coach in your own nation and complete the program in many languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Bulgarian, French, German, Russian and Hindi.

And the team is still growing!

Social impact

Because our programs attract those who are interested in creating positive societal change, we have been able to partner with different organizations around the world on social impact projects.

Our aim is to be a model for conscious business. We operate as a profit-for-purpose company, supporting social impact & environmental conservation globally by empowering young activists with coaching and leadership development in partnership with Youthtopia, and aiding a North Bali community to exemplify conscious change.

Our values

Cultural Diversity

ALCN classrooms over the years have been microcosms of our world, with people from all walks of life, varying in nationalities, age, religion, background, profession, with diverse values, beliefs and dreams.

Part of what makes ALCN so unique is our truly international community. It is the different experiences and perspectives that each person brings that makes our community and our trainings so unique and special.

Authenticity

We believe that radical acceptance and acknowledgement of what is currently happening in the here and now is the only way to truly move through and move forward.

We believe that accepting and acknowledging what is currently happening in the here and now allows us to begin to do the the deeper work to align with our Highest Selves. Vulnerability has enormous power, and when we commit to authenticity, we are actually able to be seen and heard in our entire humanity, as well as see others in theirs. When we truly accept the journey and all of its ups and downs, it becomes a part of our story, of who we are, and what we are meant to be.”

Lifelong Learning

As human beings, we have been blessed with an incredible opportunity to experience life on this beautiful planet we call home.

And it is important to remember and be thankful for this, daily. We can often get caught up in the busyness of life and work and can be so focused on our goals or challenges that we forget it’s a journey. As coaches, when we are committed to a life of learning and self-discovery, and accept the ups and the downs, the bitter and the sweet, we are better equipped to support our clients in embracing each and every experience on this journey of life. Appreciation for the journey and lifelong learning go hand-in-hand.

Conscious Connection

Now, more than ever, it is so important to cultivate conscious connection, with our own intuition, with our bodies, with our hearts, with each other and with the world around us.

To fully know ourselves at the deepest level and to connect with others from that place. This requires slowing down, stepping back, seeing, hearing, feeling and often finding time to be silence. To be able to answer the questions “Why am I here?”, “What am I being called to do?”, “What can I contribute?”. We have to consciously cultivate internal connection. We each have the answers inside of us. Sometimes it just takes turning down the noise to hear them.

Embodied Leadership

As leaders, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and those who have decided that their mission in life is to contribute to positive societal change, we salute you.

We see leadership as a way of BEING in the world, not just a long list of accomplishments, accolades, or awards. Who you ARE and how you make those around you FEEL speaks volumes about the work you do and the impact you have on the world. We believe true leadership is embodied and those that are truly making a positive difference in this world are living, breathing examples of the changes they are advocating. They embody those changes and it ripples out into everything they do.

Who we serve

Our programs are for both seasoned coaches and those new to the profession. We have a truly diverse global network of leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers from around the world. These skills are universal. They remind us of our shared humanity.

Our programs might be for you if you are:

  • An NLP practitioner who wants to learn how to blend NLP with somatic coaching skills and receive an ICF credential.
  • An experienced coach looking to add to their coaching toolbox
  • A new coach who wants a top quality coaching education and training experience that gives you a holistic approach and proven framework to start your coaching journey off strong
  • In transition and looking for a career in coaching with personalized support and mentorship unlike any other coach training company in the world
  • Wanting to use NLP somatic skills in your own life
  • A social business or impact entrepreneur, policy-maker or leader in an organization
  • A teacher, trainer, facilitator or educator
  • A healthcare practitioner or therapist who appreciates the science-backed approach of NLP & cognitive-behavioral therapy and wants to expand their skill set
  • An individual looking for next-level growth on your personal development journey
  • A young person looking to develop your skills & get clear on your mission & purpose

Module 1

Creating a Powerful Coaching Relationship

The Foundation of Coaching:

Getting to know your client, understanding where they currently are and where they want to be.

Outline

This module allows you to get to know your client, how their brain works, how connected they are currently to their body and understand through a variety of assessments, awareness-raising exercises and NLP Somatic tools, where they currently are in their life and where they want to be.

Explore what’s below the surface and learn how to establish a coaching partnership with your client.

  • Intro to ALCN’s Framework & Conscious Change Coaching Method, ICF’s Core Competencies and NLP Somatic coaching.
  • How to design a focus for ongoing work with a client and how core competencies create a simple, easy model for coaching sessions.
  • Understanding your client’s current internal and external environments and what needs to shift and change.
  • Identifying specific behaviors and patterns that are keeping the client from moving towards their vision.
  • Establishing the actions that are needed on a daily basis to support the embodiment of the vision.
  • Co-designing the support system the client needs to make their vision a reality & personal development books recommended by our global community to transform their organizations and company work environments.

WELCOME AND ALCN FRAMEWORK OVERVIEW

Whole Body Listening

The Reticular Activating System & Intention Setting

Life Balance Wheel

Safety vs. Risk

Powerful Questions

Universal Cycle of Change

The Six Human Needs

The Four Elements

Emotional States

Meta Outcome and Timeline

Intake & Well-formed Outcome

Future Self Visualization

Module 1 Assignment

Module 2

Adding nlp to Your Coaching Toolkit

The Mind-Body Connection:

Understanding emotional and social intelligence through NLP and mind-body connection.

Outline

The body and being inside of us were originally designed to work seamlessly together. The NLP Somatic Coaching skills in this module support clients in reconnecting to their innate wisdom and increasing their social and emotional intelligence.

  • Introduction to some powerful NLP concepts, tools and somatic coaching techniques.
  • Learning how to apply NLP coaching skills and techniques in a coaching context.
  • Exploring powerful ways NLP can help your clients create the outcomes and the life they want.

WELCOME AND ALCN FRAMEWORK OVERVIEW

Using NLP to Shift State & Transformational Vocabulary

Four Levels of Consciousness

Using NLP to Access Powerful States

Giving & Receiving Feedback

Mental Emotional Filters

Assumptions of NLP

Making Meanings that Work for You

Magnet Visualization

New Behaviour Generator

Perceptual Positions

Criteria – Defining Your Values

Accessing Mentors

Module 2 Assignment

Module 3

Mastering the Craft

Creating an effortless flow in coaching sessions combining the ICF Core Competencies with NLP Somatic techniques, deep listening and intuition.

Outline

The Conscious Change Coaching Method in Action.
Learn how NLP Somatic coaching skills, when mastered and combined with deep listening, powerful questioning, intuition and the backdrop of the ICF Model, create an effortless flow in coaching sessions.

  • The art and craft of coaching.
  • Honing your listening and intuition so that coaching becomes effortless and your client is able to access their deeper wisdom and intuition.
  • Learn how to structure a coaching session to create a powerful framework for results. You will also continue to hone your listening and intuition.

WELCOME AND ALCN FRAMEWORK OVERVIEW

Halfway Review

Working with the ICF Coaching Model

The Precision Model

Metaphors

The Craft of Coaching Skills: Working with Intuition

Life Journey Map

ICF Coaching Session combined with NLP Somatic Coaching

Coach as Sponsor

Module 3 Assignment

Module 4

Embodying The Vision

Inner Alignment for Creating Conscious Change.

Outline

Closing the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Change your internal story, change your life. Shift old limiting beliefs and learn the skills to align with your mission, embrace a new identity and embody your vision for your life.

  • Advanced NLP Somatic coaching techniques that support clients shifting on a belief and identity level.
  • How to apply these NLP Somatic coaching techniques in a variety of different coaching environments.
  • Getting to the root of what’s getting in the way of you designing the life you want.
  • Embodying the vision & moving into action.

WELCOME AND ALCN FRAMEWORK OVERVIEW

What are Beliefs?

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Eliciting Beliefs

Exploring Limiting Beliefs

Belief Clusters

Empowering Beliefs

Belief Change Process

Walt Disney Strategy

Big Dream

Your Coaching Journey & Well-formed outcome: an action plan for your I AM MAP

Closing Visualization to embody the vision

Anthony P. Narine

NLP Somatic Business, Executive & Leadership Development Coach | Trinidad and Tobago

Tony has the biggest heart. He lives and breathes a life of seva, (selfless service). He’s an advocate for social justice, particularly related to children, the elderly, migrants and refugee causes. He’s recently established a youth program and is using his NLP Somatic coach skills to empower young leaders.

He’s spent the past 20 years working in leadership roles across various multi-national corporations and is now the Founder of Human-Fluent – a boutique coaching business focusing on emerging leaders in career transitions, executives in navigating organizational complexity and youth leadership.

Tony holds an MBA and is certified in NLP and is a PCC level coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF). He has lectured at the UWI School of Business and Applied Studies, is a researcher and contributor to the Centre for Creative Leadership, has served on the Human Capital Executive Research Boards, and is a member Chief Learning Officer Business Intelligence Board.

Tony coaches in English and Spanish.

Rebecca Jade Hoole

NLP Somatic Life Coach | Surrey, United Kingdom

Rebecca is an ICF certified NLP Somatic Life Coach. She’s spent the past 4 years supporting clients who are ready to make changes to lead more fulfilling lives and careers. Using a holistic approach,  Rebecca works with her clients to design a way to live that more fully expresses their passions and authentic self, whilst building a solid foundation to maintain their wellbeing and life balance. She loves using NLP and somatic coaching to help her clients overcome the barriers that are getting in the way of them moving towards their goals with ease.

Rebecca lives in the beautiful Surrey Hills in the UK with her partner, their son and maltese pup. She has built a thriving coaching practice and loves supporting new coaches through the ALCN training. Becoming a coach enabled her to design a life based on her family centered values. She’s committed to her yoga and meditation practice daily and together with her NLP and Somatic coaching, she’s helped many clients in activating their mind-body connection. (Rebecca is currently on maternity leave.)

Rebecca coaches internationally and in English.

Swati Sharma

Executive & Life Coach | Corporate Trainer & Facilitator | Kolkata, India

Swati is on a journey and a mission. A journey to keep exploring this fascinating world within herself. And mission to help others discover deep self-love and that you have everything within, to be whoever you have yearned, imagined, daydreamed to be. Her own coaching journey has bestowed her with gratitude and grace. The very basis of how she wishes to live her life.

She is an NLP Somatic Coach and a PCC credentialed Coach from ICF. A level 1 Reiki Healer and Somatic Practitioner, she truly believes that our bodies never lie and in the power of intuition. An MBA and Engineer by qualification, she has worked with top international consulting & service firms for close to 10 years in various parts of the world and now works independently as an Executive and Life Coach.

She runs her own practice called MindScuba. Once a scuba-diver and forever a  a lover. And that’s the kind of experience she wishes to give people, where they feel like they’ve scuba-dived deep within themselves and emerge out harmonized – mind, body and soul.

Swati is also a theatre actor, learns the Urdu language and performs Dastangoi (an ancient storytelling art form). A mother to an ever curious little girl, they love to dance, sing, travel, read, perform and are also learning French together.

Swati coaches clients internationally. She coaches in English and Hindi.

Erlina Sidik

NLP Somatic Leadership and Life Coach, Corporate Facilitator, Trainer & Guide | Mauritius & Singapore

Erlina Sidik is an ICF Accredited PCC level coach, NLP Somatic Coach, corporate trainer, and facilitator. Her focus is on helping millennials become authentic and courageous leaders, working with individuals, teams, and leaders to develop intentional leadership styles using a holistic approach that incorporates NLP, somatic practices, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence.

After more than 15 years as a marketing professional in complex technical industries, Erlina left her corporate career in Singapore in 2020 to pursue her passion for coaching. She has a deep understanding of the challenges faced by leaders in today’s fast-paced business environment and is able to help her clients develop the skills and strategies needed to succeed. Erlina inspired her life partner Simon to join her on her coaching journey and now they get to work together as they design a life they love.

Besides her coaching practice, Erlina is also launching a training center in Mauritius focused on developing emotionally intelligent leaders. When she is not coaching, she enjoys scuba diving, hiking, and watching sunsets in her current home on the paradise island of Mauritius.

Erlina coaches in English.

Ivet Pavlova

Transformational NLP Somatic Business, Leadership & Life-balance Coach and Trainer | Sofia, Bulgaria

After 15 years of experience in banking & finance, business reorganization, expansion, and high-risk investment projects, Ivet yearned for what all our graduates yearn for- to pursue a life with more depth and passion. After the birth of her son she left her banking career to become an entrepreneur in the wellness and coaching profession. Ivet studied with ALCN and then as a pioneer in the coaching field in her country, she joined the ICF Bulgaria chapter and became a member of the board of directors supporting the growth of the coaching profession.

Over the past 9 years Ivet has coached clients interested in integrating business, leadership and life balance through holistic solutions. Her sweet spot is  helping business leaders navigate the challenges in these fast changing times. She currently coaches business owners, entrepreneurs and corporate leaders in different industries, and loves to support coaches around the world.

Ivet has a Masters Degree in Finance, is an NLP Somatic Coach, NLP Practitioner and just completed hours for her PCC. She has also studied coaching with systemic constellations, emotional healing and has a Reiki level 1 certification. She recently added the methodology of nonviolence communication to support clients to solve conflicts with love and empathy

In her personal time. Ivet loves skiing, hiking and living a balanced life.

Ivet coaches in English and Bulgarian.

Rossana Magaña Ruiz

NLP Somatic Leadership Development Coach | Guadalajara, Mexico

Rossana has more than 25 years of professional experience facilitating leadership programs, executive coaching, soft skills training, human development and organizational development in 13 countries in Latin America, the USA and Canada in Global Corporations.

She has a degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in NLP (ALCN); and is a Certified NLP Somatic Coach and Certified Executive and Team Coach by the European School of Coaching (EEC). Her international outlook and multicultural background is a valuable asset for our students.

Born in Guadalajara, México, Rossana has traveled extensively, visiting over 40 countries. She now resides in beautiful Lake Ajijic in Mexico with her Italian husband and is living the life she imagined when completing her coach training with ALCN.

Rossana coaches in Spanish, English and Italian.

Sonia Rao Lan

NLP Somatic Executive, Leadership and Women’s Leadership Coach | Shenzhen, China

Sonia works with executives from the automobile, finance, real estate, pharmaceutical, retail, manufacturing and information technology industries in China. Sonia began coaching in 2009, has a PCC and facilitates ALCNs Coaching Skills for Leadership and Life in China.

Having studied women in leadership she is passionate about coaching women who want to live a bold and fearless life, and integrates meditation and Qigong into her practice. Prior to coaching, Sonia held leadership positions in Fortune 500s including within financial services.

Sonia is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) of International Coach Federation (ICF), Certified NLP Executive Coach (ALCN), Certified Team Coach IECL (Institute of Executive Coaching & Leadership) Certified Satir Psychology Consultant and studied Gestalt Therapy Integration. She is also Associate Coach with CCL (Center for Creative Leadership) and a Mentor for the Post-MBA Program at Fudan University.

Sonia coaches in Mandarin.

Sonia Saini

Transformational Executive and NLP Somatic Leadership Coach | California, USA

Born with an intrinsic curiosity about what shapes people, transformational coaching was a natural calling for Sonia. Her company – Tickle Your Mind truly captures the essence of her coaching style: direct yet lighthearted. She’s on a mission to “keep the torch of hope alive” which is about empowering her clients and students to believe in themselves by gaining clarity and confidence, conquering challenges and drawing upon their own inner wisdom.

Sonia’s growing international presence has so far transformed client’s lives in Australia, China, India, Mauritius, France, Mexico and the U.S. She’s got 15+ years of professional experience ranging from being a popular radio jockey to holding roles in sales, marketing, talent acquisition at fast-paced Silicon Valley companies and big-4 consulting firms.

It’s her ambition to connect with many minds from around the world, and to positively empower people to create their own solutions. Sonia holds an MS in Mass Communication and Journalism from San Jose State University.

Sonia coaches in English and Hindi.

Surbhi Mittal

NLP Somatic Leadership and Life Coach | New York, USA

Born in India, Surbhi considers herself a “Global Citizen” and has lived and worked as an expat in Japan and the US and spent the majority of her career working with international teams. With 20+ years of experience in both entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 environments, her corporate journey always felt like something was missing. Coaching gave Surbhi the opportunity to combine the many facets of her diverse career in management, consulting and training, with the much-needed element of ‘staying in touch with your human side’. Through coaching, she helps clients get to the heart of the matter, bringing “spot on intuition” and wisdom, instilling confidence, inspiring courage, and infusing unconventional thinking with a sprinkle of playfulness and fun. She subscribes to the values of humanizing organizations, empathy, openness, truth, integrity, trust, learning, generosity, and most importantly fun and love.

Currently based in the US, Surbhi provides executive coaching, training and support to organizations considering or going through transformational change. Her experiences as an expat have also made her passionate about working with expat executives who want to make the next stage of their career more purposeful in their work and meaningful for themselves.

Surbhi is also spiritual journey devotee (following Himalayan tradition of meditation), Authentic Dance Movement Therapy enthusiast, Latin dancer (Salsa dancing is my first love always) and Reiki Healer.

Surbhi is based in the US and coaches in English and Hindi.

Trevor Torrance

NLP Somatic Transformation Coach | Sydney, Australia

Trevor’s passion to empower individuals and organizations to break through their barriers was fostered over four decades at the top of his career in professional sport and the corporate world. Retiring from professional sport in the late 90s, he moved to corporate. Having an intuitive understanding of what it takes to make a high performing team, he quickly moved into leadership roles in Australia and globally in finance, telco and academia.

His areas of expertise and passion in transformational coaching are within: leadership, personal growth, resilience and holistic wellbeing. His coaching approach is about people getting ‘unstuck’, overcoming the limiting beliefs and assumptions that hold them back from stepping into their greatest potential. He is also experienced in facilitation, ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy), hypnotherapy, emotional intelligence and mindfulness.

He believes that having a growth mindset is critical to having a positive impact personally, professionally and more broadly in our communities. Transformational coaching is a key component to that. Trevor has seen how somatic coaching can make a difference to self, our relationship to colleagues, to friends, within organizations and more broadly to peoples’ community, society and ultimately the planet.

Trevor coaches in English.

Kelly Nie

NLP Somatic Life & Women’s Coach | Portland, Oregon, USA

For Kelly, Life coaching is about hosting space to help grow a person’s unique capability. Once Kelly began to integrate NLP & Somatic practices into her life, everything shifted and she stepped into her calling. Today, she has her own business that encompasses coaching, ceremonial work and movement as pillars in the process of conscious change. Her mission is to help others remember the sacred within themselves to live life from a place of freedom, curiosity and love.

Kelly’s style of coaching is both compassionate and bold. From her education as an NLP Somatic Life Coach, an E-RYT 500hr Yoga Leader and her degree in Psychology, she holds space for clients to explore their most genuine desires, walking alongside them as a mirror to reflect back their highest self. Her training in Somatics and NLP gave her the tools to remember that the body holds the key. If you think of your body as an instrument: just as you tune the strings on a guitar, your mind and body deserve tuning as well. Kelly helps her clients shape their dreams into reality by identifying where they are off key and guiding them to find harmony within.

As a body-based practitioner, Kelly helps clients to sense, feel and drop into the body – and from this place, heal, re-wire and fall back in love with themselves, and re-emerge. The first step is remembering who you are. Kelly helps clients peel back the layers of self that have calloused over so they can feel what it’s like to begin again from a place of power, connection and expansion.
 Kelly is also an IAKP Kambo Practitioner and E-RYT 500hr Primal Vinyasa & Baptiste Certified Yoga Instructor.

Kelly is based in Portland, Oregon, a city surrounded by big trees, wild rivers and the beauty of Mother Nature. She coaches in English. ‍

Kelly coaches in English.

Natalie Legrand

NLP Somatic Leadership Coach, Social Impact Advisor, and Cultural Activist | Washington D.C., USA

Natalie is a global leadership coach, social impact advisor, and cultural activist working at the intersection of social justice and purpose-driven enterprises. She partners with Fortune 100 organizations, small businesses, and nonprofits to define and focus on the social and sustainable impact they aim to achieve and co-develops the strategies to transform these aims into realities. She also collectively designs, develops, and implements global strategies and programs for individuals and organizations to strategically engage in underserved communities. Natalie’s goal is to empower people to think about leading differently – through the lens of cultural and social consciousness.

Natalie is a multi ethnic, multi-passionate woman who loves working with individuals to go from being a force for good to a force for change. Her coaching supports changemakers in designing a life that allows them to be fully engaged and fully alive while they work for a better world. She specializes in supporting social and climate justice activists to strategize, maximize their impact and take their wellbeing seriously. She enjoys helping mid to senior-level professionals make brave personal and professional changes and map out their careers.

Natalie coaches in English, Spanish and Russian.

Lynn Goehner, BS, RN, PHN, PCC

NLP Somatic Life Transition, Health and Wellness Coach| California, USA

Lynn is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, and the founder of Healthy Living by Design, a coaching practice focused on empowering her clients as they transition through health, career, and life changes.  She guides her clients through transitions empowering them to design and live a life that aligns with who they want to be. 

Lynn’s mission is to be a change maker that makes a positive difference in the world.  She sold her successful medical practice of (20) years, to transition and realign her life. After completing the ALCN-NLP program in 2019 and selling her practice, she was inspired to change, and use transition coaching methods to create a new life focused on personal growth, self-care, coaching and helping those who do not have access to health or coaching resources.   

As a coach, she brings together her years of experience coaching, educating, and helping patients and families as they face the complex transition of late life aging.  This experience combined with her diverse corporate expertise managing large operation, training and marketing organizations gives her the wisdom, empathy and skills to guide clients as they gain clarity, go within, and transform their lives.

Lynn coaches in English.

Scott Lilich

Executive Coach & Trainer | San Francisco, California, USA

Scott Lillich is an Executive Coach and Management Trainer who specializes in helping small to mid-range businesses in transitioning to a more Conscious and Regenerative approach to both business and leadership. Having worked in the trenches of various managerial positions for over 15 years, culminating in running a mid-range business himself, Scott knows only too well the challenges and joys of leading both teams and companies. He is also a certified NLP Coach, a Master Practitioner of NLP and a long-time student of both Zen and Qigong. Scott’s approach to coaching focuses on the whole leader and his great passion is to support leaders in “growing bigger than their problems”.

Knowing what to DO is not only increasingly difficult in a rapidly changing world, it is no longer sufficient. Scott partners with people seeking new ways to BE leaders. Having spent 20 years leading diverse teams while simultaneously pursuing a deep passion for personal growth, development, and transformation, Scott is on a mission to support leaders in developing the skills that the world needs today. When not coaching or doing Zazen (Zen meditation), you will usually find Scott on a “nature adventure” with his wife and two kids.

Scott coaches in English.

Brenna Hindman

Somatic Coach | Seattle, USA

As a former professional soccer player and dedicated plant medicine and martial arts student, Brenna has been on a journey of self-development for over 17 years. Brenna previously toured through corporate across marketing, recruiting, and sales roles from early-stage startups to Amazon, until realizing her desire to pursue a life aligned with her values, beliefs, and dreams.

As a practical and spiritually grounded Somatic Coach, Brenna has skillfully supported 100s of clients worldwide through their most challenging internal and external roadblocks and transitions across work, home, and relationships with grace, ease, and joy. Clients value Brenna’s candid, trustworthy, and intuitive style that allows them to feel seen, heard, and held in the vision of their highest potential along their journey.

Brenna supports growth and integration through a powerful toolbox including coaching, Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), reiki, energy healing, meditation, movement, breathwork, and more.

Brenna coaches in English.

Cheryl Davenport

NLP Somatic Life and Business Coach | Mexico/Bali

With almost 30 years in the personal growth industry, getting accredited to become an NLP Somatic Coach with ALCN was a natural fit. In her previous career, Cheryl coached international teams to create their own successful businesses. Her entrepreneurial spirit has helped her to create multiple businesses and share those skills with others. Cheryl also has a background in sales and marketing, public speaking, global training and currently hosts women’s retreats in Bali along with being a Life and Business Coach. She is also an advanced Landmark graduate.

In 2017, Cheryl left the corporate world in the USA to pursue her dream of living and working in Bali, Indonesia. After completing ALCN she has built a global coaching and retreat company that allows her to live and work location-independent which has been a dream come true. Through coaching she has been able to create an extraordinary life filled with service to others, freedom and travel. Cheryl’s mission is to help others to gain clarity around their dreams, creating deep self awareness and to empower them to reach their highest potential. Her nurturing personality combined with creating a safe space for open communication has been a great asset in helping her clients to reach their goals.

Cheryl currently lives on the beach in Mexico and Bali and coaches in English.

Mads Bermes

NLP Somatic Intuition Coach | California, USA

Mads (short for Madeline) is an Intuition Coach and loves to support her clients to connect with—and trust—their intuition. She focuses on bringing about change by connecting with the inner instinct, or intuition, that we are all born with. The wise part of us that knows.

Mads supports clients in re-evaluating their lives in a way where they feel like they have access to their deepest creative resourcefulness and helps them discover and build a relationship with their intuition so they can have permanent access to this incredible resource they carry within.

She is a NLP Somatic Coach and is also a certified Akashic Records practitioner and provides readings in addition to coaching. Prior to coaching, she worked with leaders at all levels in Silicon Valley startups, non-profits, and the US Government. When she’s not coaching or enjoying time with her husband and son, she makes time to play with clay and create ceramic pieces. (Mads is currently on maternity leave)

Mads coaches in English.

Originally from Northern Ireland, I left Belfast at 17 and spent eight years working my way through Europe, Israel, Egypt, the East Coast of the US and Central America.

In 1990, I moved to Australia and began to put myself through college to become a social worker. While working in the social welfare field, I started taking a variety of personal development courses and became very passionate about the power that humans have to change the trajectory of their life.

Five years later, I moved to the US after receiving my green card in the lottery in my early thirties (a whole different story),  to the West Coast, San Francisco. After a year of working in treatment centers with adolescents, I was invited to sail across the Pacific on a 30ft boat and took off on the adventure of a lifetime. On returning to California eighteen months later, I decided to go through the Hoffman Process, a personal development program that had a worldwide reputation. A month after I completed their program, I started working at the Hoffman Institute as their Graduate Director and in-house coach, a position that I absolutely loved. While running a training program for their graduates someone asked me in a break if I was a life coach. I jokingly said “No, but I bet I would be a good one.” She affirmed back that I would indeed be a great life coach.

My “Aha!” Moment

Something about the name ‘life coach’ made me really curious and when I got home, I looked up the name of the school she had recommended and signed up for the first weekend of training.

I instantly resonated with the ICF coaching concept that the client is creative, resourceful and whole, that they have their own answers and the coach has the questions and the framework to help them access those answers. I experienced firsthand how a powerful question can change the trajectory of someone’s life and open doors they had never thought to open. I began to truly understand how incredibly transformational it can be to have someone fully listen to you, without having an agenda of their own. I was SOLD!

Six months later I completed my coach training and a year later I completed my certification process and went on to become a pioneer in the field. The idea that I could build a business to support the lifestyle I wanted while also traveling the world and having a positive impact strongly resonated with me.

Once I found coaching, doors just started opening up for me! When I finished my coach training program, I set the intention that within the year I would be earning ten times my hourly rate doing work that I loved… Well, that’s exactly what I did and it just kept on growing from there. It hasn’t always been an easy ride, but it has been an enlightening and rewarding one, that’s for certain.

How we’ve evolved over the years..

Discovering NLP

After a number of years of exploration in different niches in the coaching industry while building a successful coaching business of my own, I discovered the transformative power of NLP after being invited to be one of the first Master Coaches to be trained by Tony Robbins and join his team. This is where I entered the executive coaching market and began coaching C-level executives internationally.
After three years with the Tony Robbins company, I decided to study the roots of NLP and enrolled in an NLP Practitioner Training with the NLP Institute of California. This took me on a 18-month NLP Certification journey in learning all there is to learn about NLP and the inner workings of the brain.

For me, NLP was the missing piece from my original coach training. NLP skills supported clients to change sabotaging behavior patterns and release limiting beliefs that were preventing them from creating the life they wanted. NLP gave me the skills I needed to help clients create profound and lasting change. In my first 6 month training program, the owners of NLP Institute Tim and Kris Halbom asked me if I would join their coaching faculty and teach for them in China in 2006.

I went on to teach and train coaches in Mexico, China, Europe and in the US for the NLP Institute. Having had a lot of experience in the global marketplace, I realized how much I loved working internationally in new and developing markets. I also had the great privilege of developing mentor programs to help the first coaches in Asia and Central America get ICF credentialed, many of who now run their own coach training programs. It was through this experience that the foundation of ALCN and the Conscious Change Coaching Method® were formed.

The Academy Is Born

In 2009, Tim and Kris Halbom offered me the opportunity to build upon what they had created and develop a high-level ICF coaching program. I have been extremely fortunate to learn from some of the best in the field. The Academy of Leadership Coaching & NLP (ALCN) launched in 2009 and since then we have had the privilege of training coaches and leaders from around the world in all aspects of coaching, from life coaching to business coaching to executive and leadership coaching.

When I first started teaching in China, personal development was a burgeoning area, and while NLP Skills were powerful in creating a common language where people could feel seen, heard and understood, they often did not translate into other languages and other cultures. It was clear that the NLP material we had been teaching did not carry across cultures in a way that students could easily integrate into their personal and professional lives. This led to adapting the coaching approach, material and techniques to create a method that translated across cultures and could be taken anywhere in the world. The first step was creating a model that they could understand intellectually and translate into their culture.

The Inner Alignment Map™ was designed initially as a tool and a model that we used to support Chinese students to understand and begin to close the gap between where they were and where they wanted to be. It has since been adapted to support coaches and trainers in working with people from different backgrounds, cultures and professions to become who they need to BE to create the life they want in line with their mission and vision. It is a framework for understanding and working with the different levels that make up each individual’s unique map of the world; a framework for working with the whole human being.

The second step was to teach it in a way they could kinesthetically understand to embody the skills, so I began to incorporate simple breathing exercises, meditation and movement to support the NLP work. The combination of NLP and somatic techniques supported students in both learning the skills to develop new pathways in the brain while simultaneously understanding and experiencing the connection and wisdom of the body. Our translators who worked for several other large international coach training companies coined the ALCN training method as the ‘fine wine’ of coach training in the Chinese coaching market.

Our material has been adapted over the years with the support of our global faculty and the wide range of international students from diverse backgrounds that we would attract in our global classrooms who’ve given us incredible feedback on how to truly make the material even more powerful and relevant for different cultures.

Somatic Coaching – the missing piece…

As the pace and demand of modern life began to impact people’s mental health, wellbeing and sense of fulfillment in the western world, the tools we developed for the Chinese market became even more relevant in our global classrooms and for executives around the world. Despite all the ways in which technology seemed to be connecting us, it was clear that around the globe we were becoming increasingly disconnected – from our own intuition, from each other and from the world around us and that the missing link was the mind-body connection.

People come to coaching with an idea of success, or an idea of how their life ‘should be’, and often a complete lack of awareness of how their physical body was responding to the outcomes they were creating in their life – and this was getting in the way of them truly achieving happiness and fulfillment.

As we began to incorporate more somatic practices, breathwork techniques, mindfulness and whole body listening, the transformations that happened in our training rooms became even more powerful. Together with Teaching Assistants from around the globe and ALCN faculty members we began to design a number of coaching techniques, tools and exercises that cultivated connection to self through deep listening, accessing intuition, and somatic experiencing.

I believe the connection between our brain understanding new information and the skills to embody new ways of BEING is the missing piece in the coaching field today. There is a vast wisdom in the body and a sense of peace that comes from slowing down and listening inward. When we operate from this space, we can access answers that our logical mind often cannot. From here, we can truly create conscious change, and live a life where mind, body and spirit are in alignment. When coaches have these skills, they can support their clients at a much deeper level.