Jane is excellent at making me face and deal with the issues at hand by challenging the received wisdoms and accepted norms to bring about a step change in attitudes/practices. Jane is very good at walking the line between being challenging and having a fine sense of humanity, knowing when to press just a little further or adopt a different style or approach.
(Regional Director: Benelux, Nordic & UK (MD))
With significant knowledge and experience as a coach and educator, and a comprehensive psychological understanding, Jane works with an eclectic mix of skills, models, and methodologies, shifting within the coaching conversation between facilitative and directive styles according to need, to ensure her clients get the best possible outcome. She achieves coaching success by balancing the conversation to incorporate both the business and human aspects of work, by being ruthless and compassionate, caring and courageous, and by creating a light touch, mingling humour with authority.
Jane’s client list includes:
ABN AMRO; Allen and Overy; Ashurst; Bain Capital; BOX; BNP Paribas; Expedia; Hewlett Packard; McKinsey; Novartis; NHS; Santander and Vodafone.
Jane coaches clients on a wide variety of topics including:
Jane was the first faculty member of the School of Coaching, the initial provider of a university-accredited programme for executive coaches in the UK. She was the founding director of a boutique consultancy, Meyler Campbell, that develops bespoke coach training and conducts research into the academic understanding of the evolving profession of coaching.
Her career as a coach, counsellor and consultant has led to many interesting projects including: presenting at a national conference entitled ‘Having the Courage to Coach’; developing a coaching culture in fast-moving industries in Central and Eastern Europe; designing a coaching assessment centre, and more recently playing a small part in the evolving neuroscientific understanding of the brain and the application to coaching. In 2016 Jane combined her two passions of coaching and horses, and qualified as an Equine Facilitator. Her work provides an opportunity to explore leadership impact and develop self-awareness working ‘on the ground’ with horses.
Dorothy possesses insatiable curiosity and people are her primary subjects. An interviewer at heart, she questions, listens, considers, feeds back and above all, quickly hones in to understand an issue and develop shared strategies for dealing with it. She enabled me to ‘get off the treadmill’, pause, reflect, redefine how I wanted to work – and how, most importantly, to achieve balance and alignment between the professional, the creative and the social aspects of my life.
(Managing Director – International Risk Consultancy Firm)
With a certification in organisation and relationship systems coaching (ORSCC), Dorothy has a particular interest in ‘systems’ and ‘systems thinking’, and applies this to help her clients navigate the challenges of the wider organisational and relationship systems they are part of. She works with senior leaders and teams on issues such as managing and communicating change, consciously creating culture, aligning around values, purpose and vision, handling diversity and complexity and resolving conflicts.
She works with leaders to improve their relationships with their teams and peers, as well as ‘manage up’ and respond to pressure from internal and external stakeholders. Many of her clients are driven achievers with private concerns about confidence or ‘imposter syndrome’. She also commonly finds herself working with executives on personal resilience, work/life balance and avoiding burnout.
In addition to her executive and team coaching, Dorothy is a supervisor of other coaches. She is accredited with the Coaching Supervision Academy (CSA), where she has been part of the international faculty for 6 years.
Dorothy’s client list includes:
Google; BNP Paribas; Universal Music Group; Salesforce; BBC Media Action; Greenpeace; Oxfam; Comic Relief; HM Revenue & Customs; NHS and the Foreign Office. She also works with leaders of media, arts and cultural institutions; community interest companies; small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Dorothy’s particular areas of focus and expertise include:
Originally from New York, Dorothy feels just as much a Londoner, having lived in the UK since 1998.
After a 25-year career with senior team-leader roles in media and communications, she began her coach training with the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in 2007 and found the career she was made for: developing people, and contributing toward more effective relationships and communication between them, and in the workplace.
I have worked with three other coaches before with varying degrees of success. I find Cathy's ability to cut straight to the heart of the matter impressive. It's what I need - some challenge and honesty which helps me to see things from a different perspective.
(Partner - Risk Assurance)
Cathy combines her knowledge of organisations and organisational dynamics with experience from the more therapeutic setting of counselling and psychotherapy and emerging discoveries from the neuroscientific community. For example, applying her experience of transactional analysis to her coaching work, helping leaders improve the quality of their relating: how they relate both internally (with themselves) and externally (with those around them). Her style is said to be both challenging and pragmatic. She has an ability to quickly cut through issues, getting to the heart of the matter. Clients consistently value the insights she brings and her pragmatic approach.
Cathy has worked with a range of senior executive clients on a variety of leadership challenges, many of which focus on leading change plus building relationships and influencing key stakeholders both internally and externally. This work often requires working from the ‘inside-out’ (looking at underlying beliefs and patterns) as much as looking at external factors and systems.
Cathy’s clients have included:
PricewaterhouseCoopers; ICAP; Nex Group; Barclays Capital; S&P Global; ARUP; Mayer Brown LLP; Withersworldwide LLP; University of London; University of Middlesex; The Arts Council; the Royal Institute of British Architects; The BBC; The BG Group; The Energy Industries Council; The International Transport Workers Federation and Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Cathy draws upon a wide range of disciplines and thinking when working with groups and individuals. Cathy has extensive experience in the following areas:
Cathy has a background in consulting and has worked for PwC in both client facing and internal roles. She made the transition to becoming an independent consultant more than 20 years ago and has since run her own successful organisational development practice.
In her work as a coaching supervisor she supervises coaches in a variety of locations globally. She has presented at the International Supervision Conference and co-authored an article in Coaching Today that discusses her group’s research into different modes of coaching supervision.
Cathy also runs a private psychotherapy practice. Her clinical placement during her 5-year training was with South London and the Maudsley NHS Trust working with both individuals and groups.
Leanne not only brings a tremendous skill set in terms of coaching group dynamics and fostering behavioural change to support highly effective business performance, but she does so with huge personal integrity and commitment and manages to balance high standards with deep care for her colleagues, her clients and above all the delegates within her remit. I have learnt a great deal from watching Leanne handle her material - and I have thoroughly enjoyed her collaborative and creative approach. She has been an absolute gift to the programme and one integral part of the great results we see for the participants and the organisation.
(Head of Central Talent, Resourcing & Organisational Development Team)
Leanne's approach is eclectic and integrative, due to her 30 years of studying and working in adult development and human potential. She is both pragmatic and intuitive in her approach, recognising the opportunities and challenges of working in times of exponential change and focusing on getting to the bottom line – she attributes this to her antipodean roots.
Leanne’s clients include:
Amazon; BBVA; BNP Paribas; HSBC; Merrill Lynch; Microsoft; Cisco; AstraZenca; SapientNitro; Pinterest; Cigna; British Gas Business; Gazprom; Sackers LLB; CapGemini; Bespoke Foods Ltd; Ceroc UK; Bupa; The Metropolitan Police; Ministry of Defence; Greenpeace; RAPt; LVSC and Hope Worldwide.
Leanne is Head of Delivery Excellence for Axialent in the North America region. During her corporate career, Leanne held a variety of jobs including banking and consultancy for Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank, Senior Media Planner for McCann Erickson and Faulds Advertising, and qualitative researcher for The Planning Partnership. In the voluntary sector, Leanne worked in organisational development, learning and development and talent development for various charities and consulted for a range of organisations such as London Voluntary Services Council, Hope Worldwide, Greenpeace and The Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust, before bringing all this together in the corporate sector.
Leanne is also an accredited coaching supervisor and is the Asia Pacific Director of one of the leading coaching supervision training organisations, the Coaching Supervision Academy. She works with them to set standards and good practice in coaching and facilitation across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.
Leanne is originally from New Zealand, has lived and worked in NZ, Australia, Germany, England, Scotland and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
Whilst it was only a small audience, I felt so much more relaxed and confident and there was plenty of engagement! All great – thank you for unlocking SOMETHING! I have found your coaching experience so uplifting and thought provoking!
(Director)
Dan works as an impact coach for senior managers and executives in both public and private sector organisations. The aim of this type of coaching is to help the coachee find their own level of skill and comfort to achieve their goal: finding ways to tackle challenges and self-generated doubts. The first phase involves introducing the coachee to another way of looking at their ‘challenge’ using drama exercises as a means of connecting with their own strengths. The second phase gives the coachee tools and techniques to help them better understand how to handle this ‘challenge’.
Dan’s client list includes:
PricewaterhouseCoopers (a current global role covering both in-house facilitation and impact coaching); Dentons; Baker McKenzie; Clyde & Co; Osborne Clarke; Allen & Overy; Simmons & Simmons; HFW; HSF; Wiggin; Clarke Willmott; Bond Dickinson; A&L; Goodbody and Trowers & Hamlins.
Dan can work with an executive coach and their client, complementing their existing coaching relationship by creating an appropriate simulation of the coachee’s challenge. This is a valuable intervention which has great benefit for the coaching relationship allowing the executive coach to see the client ‘in action’ and share the moment where a behaviour has been revealed, allowing for further exploration of the coaching client’s challenge and their related behaviour.
Dan’s experience comes from a combination of 12 years as a professional actor working in TV and film, 5 years as a consultant and manager in the field of arts management (one role being Director of PMG Films Ltd) followed by 20 years of applying that knowledge in the context of training and development for commercial and public sector organisations.
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