Marian Way
Director
A highly skilled facilitator and trainer, Marian, who founded Clean Learning in 2001, has developed and delivered training across the world. She is the author of Clean Approaches for Coaches, co-author, with James Lawley, of Insights in Space and co-author, with Caitlin Walker of So you want to be ... #DramaFree.
Marian is an expert Clean facilitator, an adept modeller, a programme writer and an inspirational trainer. She has a natural ability to model existing structures, find the connections between them and design new ways for people to learn.
Marian was a leading innovator within the Weight Watchers organisation, which included developing the “points” strategy, a local idea that went on to become a global innovation. She is a director of both Clean Learning and Training Attention CIC, world leaders in clean applications for corporate, educational and community development.
She designs our programmes and workbooks, leads workshops and teaches on all our courses. She’s trained people in Great Britain, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Japan and the USA. Marian has a Level 5 qualification in coaching and mentoring from the ILM, is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the ICF (International Coaching Federation) and is a recognised Clean Assessor.
Upcoming events
Clean for Teams February 2026 - Mornings
- Places available
- Online via Zoom
- Thursdays 12, 19, 26 February and 5 March, 9am to 1pm GMT each day
Northern Taste of Clean 2026
- Places available
- The Practice
- Saturday 18 to Sunday 19 July 2026, 9:30am to 5:30pm BST each day
Blog posts
How Metaphor can Evoke Awareness in Coaching
26th Sep 2024
9 Reasons to Learn and Use Clean Space
14th Apr 2019
How do you remember?
28th Mar 2019
Testimonials
I have always found Marian's teaching and feedback focussed and extremely helpful. She is one of the best teachers I know. The teaching on each course was always layered so that we learned and experienced everything in tandem, with plenty of relevant examples from her experience. Being encouraged to have specific learning goals and getting focussed feedback afterwards was very helpful. Supported self-feedback was always encouraged and is a useful skill to learn. The quality of feedback was always excellent as Marian always pays exquisite attention and knows exactly where a landscape unravelled or a more helpful direction could have been chosen. This clarity enhanced my learning journey and has given me a voice in my ear when I find myself in similar situations now.
Alison Flanagan
Marian has a warm, charming, funny and encouraging style to make the complexity of clean modelling seem achievable to everyone's ability level.
Cheryl
I have attended two online courses with Marian - Clean for Team and Clean Approaches for Coaches. I appreciate Marian’s teaching very much. First, she delivers the theory part very clear and succinct, second, she uses examples and demo to illustrate the application in practice. Thirdly, she is very attentive to our questions, she gives clear and convincing answers based on her rich experience and solid understanding of the theory. She is a role model for Clean Language. She has inspired me to further study Clean Language as an important approach within my coaching practice.
Julie Feng, Executive Coach, Positive Change Practitioners Center, Philippines