About Denise

Before establishing her coaching practice, Denise was an award-winning corporate manager known for leading high-performing teams.

Denise’s passion for people development led her to found Barceidillo Ltd, where she designed and delivered wellbeing programmes focused on stress management and building leadership resilience. It was a humbling accolade when the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) used her work with QVC as a best-practise case study.

Denise found her true calling in coaching. She qualified as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and founded her practice, Denise Chilton Ltd in 2010.

She has since delivered over 2500 coaching hours, supporting and developing managers, leaders and teams in organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in the UK and internationally to develop people and drive growth and organisational change.

For over 10 years, Denise has also worked with the University of Liverpool, delivering management training and coaching. She also joined the award-winning Prosper programme, where she supports postdoctoral researchers career development.

Denise’s commitment to championing others earned her a Northern Power Women Mentor of the Year award for her work supporting women leaders.

Alongside running her own practice, Denise works as an associate coach and facilitator. She has been delivering NHS England leadership development initiatives since 2015. She was also part of the elite coaching team to the award winning NHS “Looking After You Too” service introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic to support the wellbeing and resilience of healthcare professionals.

Ultimately, Denise lives her life aligned to her values and making a difference to the lives of others. She is passionate and committed to helping others gain clarity and purpose in their own lives and support them through the change.

Denise adopts the Co-Active Model in her coaching relationships which simply means ‘being in action…together’. She believes in helping people to build upon their strengths and recognises her clients’ natural resourcefulness. By staying curious and asking the right questions, she trusts that her clients will find the answers to their own questions.

With an innate ability to motivate people, Denise connects and engages with people at all levels. Her clients are stretched to raise their levels of self-awareness, to look at things from new or different perspectives, and to gain a greater understanding as to what’s going on “beneath the surface” so they can move forward.

Coaching is a process of self-discovery and Denise offers a safe and non-judgemental space where clients can identify, explore and overcome the barriers that hold them back from making the changes they want and achieving their full potential. Her guidance helps clients to understand what is really important to them and supports them to create a fulfilling life for themselves in which they fully show up.

The agenda for the coaching sessions comes from the client which means that the coaching is focused on getting the result that the client wants – not what anyone else wants for them!