Meet The Innate Coach Team
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Who is The Innate Coach?
The Innate Coach is a company, founded by Dr Helen May and Andrea Morrison, building on several years of collaborative delivery, programme design, and strategic development, as well as 30+ years of combined experience of working with businesses.
Many organisations want to create cultures that are genuinely compassionate, inclusive, and capable of bringing out the best in their people. Senior leaders can feel overwhelmed and unsupported, caught between strategic demands and disengaged teams. Traditional leadership training and coaching models focus on performance and behaviour, but rarely address the deeper human dynamics that sustain meaningful change. The Innate Coach offers an alternative: a psychologically grounded, insight-led approach that helps leaders create nurturing, resilient workplace cultures. Through our accredited training and leadership programmes, we will equip leaders to help build environments where people feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential.
The Innate Coach is an accredited online coaching and mentoring training provider, providing a fresh, psychology-led alternative to traditional coach training models. Based in York but providing easily accessible, live, online training that combines cutting-edge psychological understanding, robust coaching competencies, and commercial relevance. The Innate Coach equips leaders and managers to transform their business culture through coaching and mentoring.  It inspires confidence and clarity through better conversations to enable individuals, teams and organisations to thrive and grow.
Proud winners of the...
One to Watch Award
University of York, Enterprise Works (2026)Â Â
Dr Helen May
Director/Co-Founder
Helen is a coach, national consultant, researcher and teacher educator, with over 30 years’ experience in education, leadership development and strategic change.  Her work focuses on fostering inclusive and collaborative practice, and shaping strategic agendas that lead to meaningful, impactful and sustainable cultural change. She has advanced teaching qualifications (Ed.D., M.Ed., BA(QTS) Hons) and over a decade of coaching and mentoring experience.  Helen is also the founding director of Helen May Consultancy Ltd, working with senior leaders to enhance and evaluate the customer experience, and has facilitated high-impact transformation with individuals, across teams, departments, and organisations. Her expertise is grounded in both practice and research. She has led projects focused on curriculum reform, organisational strategy, leadership capacity-building, and system-wide improvement.
To this Conversations 4 Change programme, Helen brings significant professional expertise in inclusion, cultural change, as well as of training facilitation, assessment and evaluation.Â
Andrea Morrison
Director/Co-Founder
Andrea is a transformational coach and psychologist. She has over 10 years’ experience as a coach and has successfully coached and mentored individuals, business owners and senior leaders supporting them to create compassionate, inclusive and healthy workplaces. She founded Andrea Morrison Coaching in 2015, is the Co-Director of Your Small Business Board providing peer to peer programmes to small businesses and is regularly funded by the York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub to deliver one to one and group coaching programmes to local businesses. She is also Regional Chair for Yorkshire, The Humber and The North East for the Federation of Small Businesses. Her professional career began as a successful Employment Law Barrister giving her an added dimension to her understanding of workplace dynamics.
To the Conversations 4 Change Programmes, she brings significant practical experience, coaching expertise and a relaxed, engaging approach grounded in practical psychology.
Bryony Nelson
Student Support AdministratorÂ
Bryony works as part of the Innate Coach team, providing dedicated support throughout the students' learning journey. She helps students feel welcomed, informed and confident as they progress through their programmes. From onboarding and programme access to answering queries, sharing resources and tracking key milestones, she works closely with students to ensure they have a smooth, engaging and well-supported experience.
With more than 15 years of experience as an Executive Assistant supporting senior leaders, entrepreneurs and organisations, Bryony brings a strong foundation in communication, organisation and relationship management to this role. As the founder of her own virtual executive support business, she understands the importance of creating efficient systems, maintaining clear communication and delivering a personalised, people-centred experience. Her background in managing complex schedules, coordinating multiple stakeholders enables her to provide reliable, professional support that helps students stay focused, connected and successful throughout their training journey.
