Ali Ball

A qualified experienced personal and professional coach, Ali Ball is also a challenging trainer and skilled facilitator. Inspired by bringing applied coaching skills to frontline professionals in the UK, she is setting out with others to bring coaching skills to the heart of economic and social regeneration worldwide.

Ali has a background in small business, with 12 years practical business experience co-managing a printing co-operative (Rome and London), 10 years' experience coaching entrepreneurs in East London and two years' experience at senior corporate management level within Business Link. Success coaching a team of business advisers inspired Ali to develop professional skills and become a coach fulltime. Since 2000, she has worked as a freelance coach based in London and Norfolk. Ali is committed to working with others to free up naturally regenerative processes within themselves and their communities and has worked for the last six years coaching individuals, entrepreneurs and professionals involved at all levels in innovative economic development programmes.

Ali Ball is a qualified Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner, Hypnotherapist and Time Line therapist and during the last four years has become a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach trained by the Coaches Training Institute, recognised by the ICF. Drawing on a wholehearted belief in everyone's capacity for excellence, plus a generous passion for others' success, Ali works well with people committed to helping others succeed who also want fulfilment and adventure in their lives.

Mother of three children and stepmother of four, sharing her home with partner, Laurie, she enjoys friends and family, coaching, snorkelling, reading, music, traditional bread baking, rambling, tai chi, stories, and travelling.