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 woman solicitor 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 setting up my own business.

I enjoy keeping up to date with what is happening in the world of corporate law and using my experience to help others with their professional development.

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.

Coaching and training qualifications
I am an 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 worked a broad range of corporate, commercial and banking transactions. In 1987 I joined Slaughter and May and gained experience of public listed company transactions. 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 also gained substantial experience of US/UK cross border transactions.

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.