Martin Hogg (Chair – LW Consortium)

Martin Hogg is the founder and Director of Birmingham based Social Enterprises Citizen Coaching CIC and Birmingham Counselling Services.

Martin leads a team of over 40 counsellors and therapists who deliver more than 8000 counselling sessions a year to people in Birmingham.

A counsellor and coach himself, Martin founded Citizen Coaching in 2005 to redress the lack of affordable counselling options in the city and to provide early stage anger management interventions to adults and young people whose anger is causing them problems in their lives.

In his spare time Martin enjoys travel, particularly in Scandinavia, and has a known weakness for ice-cream.