CTC - About us

Our standards
The standards that you can expect from CTC coaches and trainers are:

Integrity - honesty, authenticity, being true to our own values
Respect - working in partnership with our clients to enhance their personal and professional development
Professionalism - a commitment to providing an excellent service

About CTC's founder Angela Morgan

My background
My background is that I spent almost 20 years working as a lawyer in the City of London. I was the first female specialising in corporate finance law to be appointed a partner at my law firm (Theodore Goddard, as it then was, now Addleshaw Goddard).

Having achieved my goals led me to reflect on what was next, and to re-assess my work life balance. My firm generously gave me a sabbatical during which I travelled the world from Bolivia to Sri Lanka. A period of reflection eventually led me to decide to take on a new challenge by becoming a coach and trainer.

I now split my time between professional development coaching and training and presenting seminars on corporate finance law, for lawyers and other professionals.

I have always been committed to my own learning and development and during the course of my career I have taken many courses to develop my skills. I came across NLP in the early nineties and found it offered a really useful way of improving my communication skills. I am now a qualified NLP coach and trainer (having studied with Robert Dilts, one of the developers of NLP, amongst others).

I have also been committed for many years to creating more equal opportunities for women. When I started out on my legal career women were very much in the minority. Today this is no longer the case, although they are still very much a minority of equity partners in most law firms. I have been a member for many years of the Association of Women Solicitors, of which I was Chairwoman in 1999.

What matters to me
The things that are most important to me are learning, fairness and being true to myself. I want people to be able to fulfil their potential and to be appreciated for who they are and what they contribute.

My approach
My style of coaching is to be direct, forthright, to reflect back what I hear and to empower you to find your own answers.

Coaching and training qualifications
I am a qualified NLP coach, NLP trainer and NLP master practitioner. I trained as an NLP coach with ITS in 2002, on an ICF accredited coaching course presented by Ian McDermott and Jan Elfline. I qualified as an NLP trainer in 2002 on the trainers' training course run by Robert Dilts in California. I continue to attend courses to update and improve my skills.

Legal experience

I qualified as a solicitor at Edge Ellison (now Hammonds) in 1983 and then joined Norton Rose in 1985. There I gained experience of a broad range of corporate, commercial and banking transactions including private company and asset acquisitions, asset finance, joint ventures and MBOs. In 1987 I joined Slaughter and May and gained further experience of public company transactions including rights issues, placings and debenture stock issues. I joined Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaw Goddard) in 1989. I was responsible for transactions for listed companies and investment banks with particular expertise in structuring complex debt and equity issues. I advised on takeovers and mergers, bond restructurings, IPOs, scrip dividend issues, joint ventures and shareholder agreements, share and asset sales, employee share schemes, insider dealing, placings, rights issues and open offers, debenture and loan stock issues, purchases of own shares, returns of capital to shareholders, issues of convertible, redeemable and preference shares, schemes of arrangement and reductions of capital. I also gained substantial experience of US/UK cross border transactions. I was the lead corporate partner on the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan by a scheme of arrangement to form Diageo plc and also devised the successful equity restructuring for Signet Group plc.

While at Theodore Goddard I also presented training seminars, both internally and for clients, on many corporate finance topics.

Between 2002 and 2004 I was a visiting part time lecturer on the legal practice course at London Metropolitan University, responsible for the Corporate Finance Elective.

I am a contributor to Tolley’s Company Law Handbook.