The Real Clear Team
LISA READ
Leader, Lisa Read, is an award winning professionally accredited coach, a qualified teacher, a coaching trainer and senior leader and SENDCo.
She has led a successful coaching practice since 2006 and is a Licenced DISC trainer, Mental Fitness coach and HeartMath practitioner. Lisa holds qualifications in neuroscience, emotional intelligence and even nutrition!
She is a mum of three children and a cat. According to the team, everyone likes Lisa.
She has coached and run training courses internationally, including a world champion, thousands of school leaders, staff teams of Members of the European Parliament, and more than 70 MPs and their teams. Lisa has worked extensively with all of the major UK trade unions running a variety of coaching and training courses for them, including the Trade Union Official Apprenticeship.
She volunteers as Vice Chair of Governors for a large secondary school and for nearly ten years she led the continuing professional development group for all coaching professionals in South Yorkshire. She loves yoga and family time and is currently learning Thai!
ANDY BELFIELD
Andy Belfield helped to co-found Real Clear in 2015 and is a qualified coach, HeartMath coach and award winning organiser and campaigner. Andy was an active leader at Real Clear until 2023 when he took a step back to work on other projects. He is a huge part of the reason why we have been successful. Thank you Andy!
MANDY MANNERS
Our Associate coach, Mandy Manners, is a published author, trainer and sought after coach.
She is proud to carry on the legacy of her grandfather, a prominent Trade Unionist as a passionate advocate for tolerance, equality and supportive community initiatives.
She is fluent in French having lived in France for the past 17 years. Mum of two bilingual children and two bilingual pets and often marvels at how well ignored she is in both languages. She works internationally and online.
A specialist in habit change and holistic wellbeing, as well as life and career coaching, she has coached on stress management, confidence, behavioural health, business strategy and everything in between. She holds far too many certificates according to her husband! A qualified DISC personality profiler and a trauma-informed practitioner she works with clients to support their goals with a compassionate and reflective mindset. A qualified teacher with 10 years’ experience teaching at Bachelor to Master’s level she has a background in business, marketing, the arts and social sciences .
She loves to read, travel and is always strategising on how to get more sunshine in her life.
HELEN BLACK
Our Associate coach, Helen Black is a qualified coach and mediator. She has a degree in sociology and has worked in the public, private and voluntary sectors, with over 25 years in senior leadership and management within the trade union movement.
Helen is good at building relationships and teams and really enjoys working with people to achieve their objectives - both personal and/or organisational. She loves the transformative power of coaching. Mum to two children and an elderly dog, she likes to dabble in the occasional house renovation project, spends a fair deal of time keeping fit and somewhat less time learning piano. She also volunteers at a local Social Action Project and as an Independent Monitor within the Home Office’s Immigration Estate.
If you haven’t gathered it already, Helen likes variety!
RHIAN READ
Our admin assistant Rhian, who is also Lisa’s daughter, is a graduate of Leeds Arts University where she studied Fashion Branding with Communication.
Rhian is incredibly organised and often leaves Lisa wondering which of the two of them is the Mum!
As well as supporting Real Clear with admin work and finances, she runs a successful branding and design business which she adores.
She is extremely passionate about helping young people to pursue creative careers and recently visited her former secondary school to talk to the students about her business and how she got to where she is. Outside of work Rhian loves fitness and being out in nature. One of her biggest passions is travel and she is often heading off to somewhere exciting (Thailand and Morocco being the most recent trips!).
