A practice built across the region, continuing in a new form.

Janet CropperFounder

Janet founded NoLimits in Singapore in 2006 to bring high-quality leadership development and executive coaching to the multinational client base operating across Asia Pacific. She lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia for over twenty-one years before returning to the UK in 2021, and she continues to deliver coaching and learning programmes across the region from the UK base.

She is the originator of the frameworks that anchor the firm's work, including RAPID, T-GROW, COIN, REAL Dialogue and MENTEES. Her first book, The Hamster who Danced with the Giant: Success in your work, career and life, will be published later this year.

She is a qualified coach through Corporate Coach U, an International Certified Trainer and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and an accredited psychometric assessor across MBTI, Extended Disc, FIRO-B and OPQ. She is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Her earlier career included ten years in Diageo's Central London HR function and five years with DBM, the global career management consultancy, in Hong Kong and Singapore. She holds an MSc in Training and Performance Management and a degree in European Business Studies with German.

In 2021 she co-founded OwnMentor with Martin to bring AI-powered skills support into the leadership development work she had been delivering for two decades.

Martin CropperCEO

Martin leads the strategy for NoLimits across Asia and Europe, and for OwnMentor in the UK. Across thirty years of corporate and consulting experience, he has designed and delivered leadership development and skills programmes for over fifteen thousand leaders and managers across the UK, Europe and Asia.

His earlier career was in finance and management consulting: Chief Financial Officer at American Express, Finance Director at Diageo, and a management consultant with Prime Strategy. He combines that commercial background with the leadership development practice, which lends a different perspective when working with senior leaders on the business questions behind the people questions.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, an accredited NoLimits Executive Coach, and a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He holds a degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Sussex. With Janet, he is co-author of The RAPID Coach, forthcoming. Martin also leads the OwnMentor AI tool development work, which is now a core part of how the firm delivers.