stillness sets the tone for discovery, creating the space leaders rarely give themselves.
Randolph Partnership works as a small, trusted collective.
Each coach brings a significant first career and a mature coaching practice, with a shared commitment to how we work together.
For more than two decades, Randolph Partnership has supported senior leaders, their teams, and the organisations they shape across sectors including finance, FMCG, retail, healthcare, tech, academia, and the public sector. Alison’s commercial leadership background sits alongside the distinct expertise of colleagues who understand how people and organisations think, adapt, and perform.
Together, the collective brings both the human and organisational lens to the work — helping leaders and teams find clarity, navigate transition, and make grounded, confident choices.
Alison Lucas - founder, coach, author
With more than twenty years’ experience helping senior leaders navigate complexity, lead with clarity, and achieve more at less personal cost, and a first career in commercial leadership, Alison brings sharp business insight together with deep coaching and systemic practice.
Known for her warm, humorous, and incisive style, she creates space for honest reflection while offering purposeful challenge and unwavering support. Her work focuses on leadership transition, legacy, personal impact, mental fitness, and the practices that sustain high performance over time.
Alison is the co-author of Good Bye: Leading Change by Attending to Endings, a practical guide to making endings work better so beginnings can flourish.
Kelly Holland - business manager
Kelly looks after the operational heart of Randolph Partnership, supporting coaches and clients across finance, administration, and project flow. She is often the first point of contact and ensures everything is straightforward and well organised.
With a background in hospitality, consulting, and financial management — and training as a coach — Kelly understands the detail of the work. She brings care, clarity, and consistency to everything behind the scenes..
Lizzie Bentley Bowers PCC - executive coach
Lizzie brings a significant first career in education, having worked as a senior leader in complex organisational settings. That experience shapes her coaching, particularly her understanding of leadership impact, systems, and the realities of day-to-day decision-making.
As a coach, Lizzie works with senior leaders and leadership teams, offering warmth alongside challenge. She brings particular expertise in ADHD coaching and positive psychology, and is co-author of Good Bye, supporting leaders to navigate transition and lead sustainably.
Jess Meyer-Rassow ACC - coach, client projects
Jess supports global coaching and leadership development programmes across Randolph Partnership. With 15 years’ experience, she works in close partnership with clients and coaches to keep programmes aligned, purposeful, and running smoothly.
With a varied background spanning the technology sector, international education, and professional training, Jess brings a broad, cross-cultural perspective to her work. She has supported senior leaders and global teams across multiple regions, combining a strong understanding of organisational dynamics with a practical, delivery-focused mindset.
A trained coach, she blends a thoughtful coaching presence with strong operational expertise. Jess has designed and led programme evaluation processes, coordinated complex global engagements, and ensured clients feel supported in the day-to-day delivery of programmes. She is known for creating clarity, building trusted relationships, and keeping the work connected to meaningful outcomes.
Caroline Hall PCC - executive coach
Caroline brings a significant first career in the creative industries, where she was an award-winning theatre director and script producer in TV drama. As a senior leader, she built high-performing teams in fast-paced, high-pressure environments, learning the importance of trust, energy management, and resilience.
As a coach, Caroline works with leaders and leadership teams, bringing a strong focus on presence, communication, and impact. She draws on her creative background to help leaders connect, lead with clarity, and build momentum through confident leadership.
Rakhee Patel PCC - executive coach
Rakhee brings a significant first career in human resources, having worked at senior levels leading people strategy, organisational change, and leadership development. Her background gives her coaching a strong grounding in organisational reality and culture.
As a coach, Rakhee works with senior leaders and teams, combining her HR expertise with a pragmatic coaching presence. She supports leaders to navigate change with confidence and align personal purpose with organisational priorities.
Mary Farebrother PCC - executive coach
Mary began her career in leadership and organisational consulting across industry and business schools, before building a long-standing senior coaching practice.
Known for her depth of insight and thoughtful presence, she helps leaders develop the self-awareness that drives sustainable change. She encourages clients to align head, heart and gut, building confidence and clarity from the inside out.
Through supervision, Mary offers coaches a safe, rigorous space to reflect on their practice.
Within Randolph Partnership, Mary brings reflection and wisdom, supporting leaders to think clearly and act with care.
Rob Olorenshaw PCC - executive coach
Rob brings a significant business career in operational and change management, customer service and HR. Having worked as an Executive in a range of roles and in complex, change-driven environments, he has experience leading large teams and acquiring and integrating businesses, giving him strong commercial and organisational insight.
As someone who has coached for over a decade, Rob supports senior leaders and teams to think clearly, act with purpose, and build sustainable momentum. He brings a grounded, facilitative style that helps leaders navigate challenge and make confident decisions. In particular he enjoys working alongside leaders as they prepare for critical events in their work and career, as they transition to new roles, create and sustain high performance and manage stressful workloads.
working together
Every coaching relationship at Randolph Partnership follows a simple, disciplined structure: Discover – Design – Deliver. It’s a way of working that creates clarity, shapes intention, and supports meaningful progress , developed over many years of working closely with senior leaders and teams
Our methodology is brought to life through five core values that shape every stage of the work. They are not abstract ideas; they are the lived qualities of the coaching experience.
These values shape every stage of the work. They are not abstract ideas; they are the lived qualities of the coaching experience.
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The disciplined pause that allows leaders to step out of noise and into perspective. It creates the conditions for clear thinking, grounded judgment, and honest reflection.
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Insight sharpened into something practical and usable. We help leaders see what matters, what’s in the way, and what needs to change in order to move forward wisely.
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The inner resolve required to make deliberate choices, hold important conversations, and lead with intention. Courage fuels accountability and purposeful action.
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The daily behaviours, boundaries, and habits that turn insight into sustainable leadership. Practice embeds learning, builds capacity, and strengthens resilience over time.
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The forward pull that follows clarity and commitment. We help leaders accelerate progress, maintain focus, and move towards meaningful outcomes with confidence and pace.