Laura Ashley-Timms is the Director of Coaching for Notion and the force behind the outstanding quality of Business Coaching that Notion offers. She is highly experienced, having coached for over 14 years, delivering dramatic results for her clients every time.

Her background is diverse and ranges from senior level corporate experience within Marks and Spencers, to working in the entertainment industry, in the high profile family business Ragdoll (makers of the Teletubbies).

During her decade in the retail sector she had bottom line budget responsibilities ranging from £90-£180m, managing teams of up to 80 people, and delivered year on year growth (turnover and profit) in every role for 10 consecutive years. Her career to date has been truly global in nature living and working in USA (twice), as well as Asia and Europe.

Exposed to coaching throughout her life, initially as a top level sportswoman and later in the Business arena, she is passionate about what coaching can do to accelerate performance and results. Her practical and direct approach is challenging whilst her sense of fun ensures that the overall coaching experience is very enjoyable.

Laura predominantly works with MD’s and Board of Directors in companies interested in significant growth. In addition to her excellent overall Business Coaching skills she also has specialist experience within the Retail, Manufacturing, Licensing, Branding and Marketing sectors.

Laura particularly enjoys working with entrepreneurs and as such has worked with an extensive number of MD's and Business Owners of SME's delivering top class coaching with a focus on business growth (she sets her clients high standards and has testimonials evidencing annual growth between 40-100%).

She also regularly designs and develops large scale coaching programmes including 1-to-1 Executive Coaching, Coach Training, Supervision and Group Mentoring programmes. Recent examples include programmes for Birmingham City Council, Invest NI, Enterprise4all and NWDA. These likewise typically achieve outstanding results.

Laura is passionate about raising the standard of Coaching throughout the industry and has designed a number of audio coaching programmes (in collaboration with her colleague Martin Goodyer). The first of these is designed to help both Business Owners develop their business and their skills as a leader, Business Success Strategies, the second programme, CPD for Coaches, is designed for Coaches, who work part time internally within their organisations or professional full time coaches to undertake continual professional development, and challenge themselves to further improve their skills.

Laura is a Licensed Business Practitioner of NLP, an accredited Coach with the Coaching Academy, MBTI trained, has an MA from Oxford, is a Columnist for Total Licensing, a Business Owner, Wife & Mother of 3, part time property developer and a real ‘Cockney’ by birth!