Team
We have a core team of coaches and an extensive international network of trusted associates in 27 countries that we employ for larger projects. All our coaches have strong business & executive coaching experience, have undergone extensive coach training and commit to their ongoing professional development and supervision.
Edward Dulson
Edward Dulson is founder and Managing Director of Blue Triangle Coaching Ltd. He has held senior positions in leading corporations and founded, grew and sold his 50% shareholding in a successful £1million plus turnover system integration business.
Based in London, Edward has been coaching individuals and teams internationally since 2000. His business and coaching experience, gained in over 20 countries in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the US, brings with it a deep understanding of working and coaching across cultures. He has lived and worked abroad in US and Japan, spending 5 years in Tokyo, and now speaks rusty Japanese.
He has a track record of enabling people to achieve their objectives by combining a research based approach and his business experience with the appropriate levels of challenge and support.
Lizzie Holden
Based in London UK, Lizzie Holden has twenty years experience working with senior managers and high potentials in the finance, pharmaceutical, and health care sectors.
Lizzie’s ten years coaching experience includes: five years coaching HSBC’s global talent pools in 22 countries; coaching NHS leaders to lead change projects and developing performance for senior managers at Novo Nordisk.
As well as a qualified coach, she is a qualified supervisor of coaches and a faculty member of The Academy of Executive Coaching.
Lizzie’s coaching is based on creating a generative environment where risks can be taken, and as a result real sustained change can take place at a personal and organisational level. Her style has been described as: insightful, intelligent, wise, warm, reflective, challenging and humorous.
Claire Palmer
Claire Palmer is a Coach with over 10 years coaching experience as well as 17 years corporate business experience which include extensive team leadership and project management both nationally and internationally.
Working with Inspirational Leaders who are present to peace and contentment, Claire takes a holistic approach to coaching focussing on all aspects of personal development and leadership skills.
Clients and colleagues describe Claire as professional and results-orientated, maintaining high integrity; pragmatic, supportive, intuitive, enthusiastic and positive with a special blend of lightness and energy.
Michele Pitts
Based in Sydney Australia, Michele Pitts has 20 years of high level marketing and business experience for top multinational companies such as Allied Domecq, L’Oreal and Sara Lee.
Michele’s unique mix of high level branded marketing experience, extensive corporate experience, understanding of the organisational context and people development track record combine to make her a unique and dynamic coach.
Michele’s skill set is highly developed and she approaches everything with a zest for life which ensures that her coaching approach is dynamic, grounded, results oriented and flexible.
Elizabeth Okada
Based in the Phillipines, Elizabeth Okada has 20+ years experience working in education, training and development. She has held a number of senior roles in the insurance and financial services industries. Elizabeth has also worked in the medical technologies and manufacturing industries.
Having lived and worked in France, Japan, China and now the Phillipines, Elizabeth has a strong understanding of what it takes to adapt and be successful in a cross cultural environment. Her approach to working with clients is both pragmatic and simple. She is passionate about helping individual’s to reach their potential and develop skills for life long learning.
Elizabeth has a B.Ed. and M.Ed. both from Leeds University. She holds a Certificate in Training Practice from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She also has an Advanced Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring Practice with the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring.

Paula Sugawara
Based in Tokyo Japan, Paula Sugawara has spent 13 years in the finance industry in Tokyo as an equity analyst during which she was ranked in the Nikkei’s Top 10 sector analysts as well as by the Institutional Investor Magazine.
Paula coaches executives in both foreign and Japanese companies, coaching in both English & Japanese language. Having lived in Japan for 17 years she is well attuned to the issues and trends in Japanese society and workplace.
Paula is fueled very much by her belief that anything is achievable, you just have to find the way to get there, and enjoys focusing on concrete goals.
For more information on Edward Dulson, Lizzie Holden, Claire Palmer, Elizabeth Okada, Paula Sugawara or our wider group of international coaches call +44(0)20 7099 2405
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