We began Generate to support people who feel as strongly as we do about making the world a better place. We are a small partnership, bringing in trusted associates where needed, to get the job done.

A bit more about each of us:

Lisa Westbury, Founding Partner

Lisa Westbury Lisa holds an incubator-like space for people to play to their talents and make more of a difference at work. She brings a warm and incisive style, encouraging people to fully use their creative potential, improve relationships, feel more motivated and purpose led.

As your a team coach and facilitator she aims to bring greater focus, open up choices, build positivity and collaborative action. Working one to one, she helps illuminate your motivations and talents, build new self awareness and supports you to engage better with others.

Lisa’s background is in Corporate Communications where she spent several years leading staff engagement campaigns for major Government change programmes. She is a professional credentialed coach with the International Coaching Federation (PCC), an experienced maternity and career coach, and a certified systemic coach (ORSCC) and accredited Lumina Learning (psychometric) Practitioner.

Emma Haughton, Founding Partner

Emma is an accredited coach, facilitator, and trainer with over 25 years experience supporting individuals and organisations in the creative and social sectors to realise their vision and potential. She brings her diversity of experience, curiosity and tenacity to facilitate creative solutions to enable organisations and individuals to navigate change and uncertainty and to develop themselves and their work with purpose.

Emma is co-founder of Generate Partnership, a company of coaches and facilitators with a strong belief in the power of human relationships to improve individual and organisational purpose and impact.  Emma’s qualifications include Accredited Relational Dynamics 1st Coach; Time to Think Coach certificate, Advanced Gestalt Coaching, Certificate in Gestalt Group Work and Facilitation; Certificate in Team and Organisational Systemic Coaching and Constellations. She is a coach and regular contributor/partner to Clore Leadership programmes and a coach for climate coaching programme ‘Coaching in the Movement’. She is a Member of the Association for Coaching and an RSA Fellow.

Isabel Mortimer, Partner

Isabel is an experienced performance coach, focussed on getting positive results for clients. She specialises in leadership development, cultural change, and enabling positive team dynamics.  

She is an established leader, having been Resident Director for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Dance Company. She has created a portfolio of coaching and leadership programmes and has supported cultural exchange and team development work across a range of high profile organisations.  She is a fellow of the prestigious Clore Leadership Programme and supports Clore fellows in developing as transformational leaders.

 Isabel is an RD1st Accredited Coach and Lead Trainer, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, and an Organisational Relationship and Systems Coach (both endorsed by the International Coaching Federation, ICF). Isabel is the Director of Coaching for the Dancers Career Development.

Generate Associates:

Richard Beecham

Richard is a Newcastle-born, London-based freelance theatre director, facilitator and personal/executive coach. Common to all his work is a deep interest in human psychology and behaviour. He is passionate about curating and holding spaces in which people can create, discover and flourish, whether that be working with actors in a rehearsal process, participants in a workshop or with individuals in one-to-one coaching.

Richard is a Fellow and Associate Facilitator of Clore Leadership; an RD1st accredited coach; an Associate Artist of Wilton’s Music Hall in East London; a Trustee of Brixton House performing arts hub in South London; and a Listening Volunteer for the mental health charity Samaritans. He has a special interest in mentoring young and emerging theatre-makers.

Crystal Nicholls

Crystal is a performance and holistic health coach, supporting individuals and organisations in the creative industries and arts and culture sector.

Crystal started her career as a performer, working across stage and screen for over 10 years. She spent six years at the Lyceum Theatre in the West End production of The Lion King as an ensemble dancer and Sarabi cover. She uses this experience, along with a creative and dynamic coaching style, to support individuals and groups to explore how tapping into their humanity can create real change in the workplace, help them become better leaders, improve their relationships, and help them achieve the results that they want.

Crystal is a member of the UK & International Health Coaching Association, a coach for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, and a consultant and coach for Applause For Thought. She is the pastoral care lead at The Dang Academy, where she coaches both students and staff.

Graham Russell

Graham Russell, Associate

Graham has been coaching and facilitating for over ten years and his style has been described as having integrity, creativity and holding a focus which allows clients the space to explore and discover their personal leadership. He blends an intuitive wisdom with his coaching to help with conscious communication and relationship skills to support a clients effective potential.

Graham has worked with executives in both the non-profit and corporate sectors where he takes an encompassing and holistic approach to each client’s life and purpose. Graham is a professionally certified coach with the International Coaches Federation and Coaches Training Institute. Prior to coaching Graham worked as an Art Director in television – a highly stressful and creative industry which has brought an insight to the realities of executives today. Alongside coaching Graham is also a keen screenwriter.

Prince Taylor

Prince qualified as a Relational Dynamics 1st coach in 2023 although coaching has been a fundamental element of his work for the most part of his career. Prince’s focus on co-creating environments that nurture both guided and self directed exploration is a practice that has been ever present through all of his work.

An example of the nonlinear nature of self discovery many of experience through life, Prince has facilitated the development of Amateur Boxers, Retail Managers, Youth Leaders from underrepresented communities, International cohorts of Creative Producers, Inclusion Strategies for Film companies, Culture Sector  Organisations and  Creative Tech Hubs.

What we believe

Everyone is creative – we blend approaches from coaching, psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness and organisational development to help you tap into your creative problem solving abilities

The power of three – by building positivity and understanding in relationships – you, your colleagues, your team relationships –   you can build a strong, high performing culture.

Sustainability through skills transfer – we show you practical exercises that develop your skills, increase response-ability, resilience, confidence and ownership

Collaboration delivers results – we ask for your input into session/programme design and support you in finding the answers that meet your needs

Openness and rigour – we aim for an effective, transparent, flexible process. A firm basis for a confidential and rigorous space in which to learn and develop, sustainably

More than the sum of the parts – by supporting people to think well for themselves and to welcome different contributions you can have better ideas and more impact, together.

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