OUR TEAM

EMPOWERING YOU TO GROW AND SUCCEED

The Seeds of Change team is filled with dedicated and experienced mentors, coaches, and trainers who specialise in working with both adults and young adults. Each team member brings their unique skills and passion to their work, providing personalised support to help you achieve your goals. Learn more about them below.

Emma Linney

Director & Co-founder

Emma, a licensed Guidance Practitioner with 16+ years of coaching and mentoring experience, specialises in personal growth and empowerment. Beyond her professional role, she is also a skilled singer-songwriter.

Trina Roberts

Co-founder

Trina, a dynamic leader in business development and people management, serves as a Business & Enterprise Lecturer, driving successful change and growth. Described as inspirational and a life changer, her impact is evident.

Rosemary Hooper

Consultant/Trainer

With 20+ years in education, Rosemary focuses on supporting children in care and care leavers. Experienced in addressing diverse needs, including Special Educational Needs, she champions the positive impact of the Aspire program- a proactive, student-centred intervention- and looks forward to sharing how it can support your students.

Tina Peck

Business & Compliance Manager

With extensive experience in young people's services, Tina is passionate about promoting health and well-being through the positive impact of sports on mental and physical health. Professionally, Tina coaches adults one-on-one, creating training plans to help them reach their sporting potential.

Meg Dempsey

Operational Lead & Sales Support

Meg, currently a Business Management Student at University Centre Shrewsbury, joined us after positive work experience in her first year. Passionate about expanding our reach, she believes in the inspiring power of mentoring to benefit a wider audience through our programmes and resources.

Nick Herbert

Aspire Lead

Nick, with 30 years of experience in the Fire Service, transitioned into youth and community work after retirement. Dedicated to mentoring, he focuses on supporting young people through various projects, using positive activities like sports and volunteering to guide them away from potential challenges. Nick finds immense satisfaction in witnessing the significant progress that small steps represent for the young individuals he works with.

Anita Hunter

IAG Careers Advisor & Aspire Mentor

With over 30 years of experience in social care and community support, Anita's commitment is rooted in her direct experiences with young people facing overwhelming challenges. She focuses on supporting individuals to achieve full and thriving lives by presenting opportunities for bigger thinking, limitless potential, and exploring all possibilities. Anita, a professionally qualified counsellor and Integrated Attachment Theory Relationship Coach, believes that providing space for people to unravel their layers without limits leads to incredible outcomes and abundant options.

Nikki Ayton

Aspire Mentor

Nikki is an experienced and qualified Holistic Coach & Wellbeing Mentor with further qualifications in autism, death and dying. She has also developed her own range of Wellbeing Fidget Toys which were inspired by her creative emotions. Nikki also works in Business Development for the Health Tech sector; working with businesses that really want to make a difference. She believes that nearly every aspect of her work focuses on asking the right types of questions at the right time. She ensures the young people she works with feel relaxed and she enjoys building the trust and mutual respect to empower them to overcome challenges. It can be a very rewarding process for both the mentor and mentee and Nikki aspires to be the best mentor she can be to inspire those she works with.

Rob Clayton

Aspire Mentor

With over 20 years of experience, Rob is dedicated to empowering young people to "become the change they want to be." He sees this as an opportunity to positively impact those facing challenges and transitions after education. Alongside his work, Rob serves as a primary school counsellor and has a private practice, offering counselling to children, young people, and adults.

Andy Lawson

Advisor

Andy has worked in education for the past 25 years. As a senior tutor developing support for students, managing education in private sectors assessment centres. He is currently careers lead, teacher and manages alternative provision for a private school. He works with Seeds of Change to offer independent careers advice for a secondary school and is really passionate about supporting young people to widen their aspirations and develop their skills to reach their goals.

Vicky Wilkinson

IAG Adviser

Vicky qualified to teach in 2004, but had dreamt of teaching languages from the age of 10. She's loved every single experience that it has given me her and has felt privileged to have known exactly what she wanted to do with her life. So after taking a step back to focus on family, she's ready to re-enter the world of work, and after discovering the role of Careers Leader & Guidance at the school where she'd been covering staff absence, Vicky thought it was a tentative step towards somewhere that she could have a positive impact. Combining her love of education and wanting to support students to find the best route for themselves drove her to qualify in IAG. She finds it so rewarding to be able to either share in the plans of young people or support them in finding the best pathway for their future plans.

Kim Weston

Aspire Mentor & IAG Advisor

With over 25 years experience working with young people, Kim is a registered Careers Adviser who enjoys supporting young people to achieve their goals and see the best in themselves. She is easy to talk to, encouraging, and always happy to go that extra mile.

Becky Davies

Aspire Mentor

Becky has worked alongside young people in various roles, specialising in one-to-one support through changes in their lives - but also through group work and youth group settings.
Becky has had jobs in several different sectors including in a bank, for a national charity and in farm machinery sales. Having never had a clear career goal has highlighted the benefits of additional support through decision-making processes and transitional periods.
Becky aims to seek out and celebrate the best in individual young people and likes to work with their views as the focus of her tasks.
Becky lives in rural North Wales with her partner, kids, a dog, a cow, a duck and 100 sheep.