Heather Wilkinson is the founder of Figuring Out and Striding Out, a support service for entrepreneurs. Heather is an experienced freelance consultant in the world of enterprise, training and employment for government led and academic organisations, and she is also a trained NLP Practitioner and Coach. At the age of 23 she had career coaching and experienced the value of it as a tool to help people take the steps they need to make to achive their true potential. It helped her to release her values and that was to provide services to help others feel more confident in themselves.

Heather has a particular passion for social entrepreneurship and she is engaged in coaching a ethical entrepreneurs and individuals working in the sector. In 2006, she won the 'Social Enterprise Mentor of the Year' Award by Edge Upstarts, for her commitment to the sector, nominated by Social Enterprise London.

Heather is a trained NLP Practitioner Coach and a Full Member of the Association of Coaching.

Morton is a certified NLP Practitioner and SFEDI Adviser. His background is in IT having previously worked for Ernst and Young as a Technology Consultant. He has since gone on to set up a Talking Books company and trained as a Coach to help individuals to excel in their career. Morton is passionate about helping individuals and entrepreneurs to create effective stategies to help them achieve their goals and potential.

Dave's specialisation is in the field of coaching, particularly relating to students and recent graduates.
He works for Corporates such as LogicaCMG, a top twenty global IT services company, where he coaches internal graduate staff as a graduate recruiter. He works closely with university careers advisory services, and contributes time to university mentoring programs (such as West Focus's “Reach” program and the University of Manchester's “Manchester Gold” program).
David specialises in delivering career/life coaching services to Striding Out Members. He is a fulled qualified Pegasus (www.nlp-now.co.uk) Certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). He continues to explore the power of self reflection and personal development through physical activities and the medium of one of his main passions - skiing and its inspirational surroundings!"