CY People
Coaching York’s membership includes professional coaches, people who use coaching in their work or vocation, or who are supporters of coaching methodology. We form a generous and supportive community with a focus on building connections, supporting personal development, and helping release potential in ourselves and those we work with.
We connect and share through a variety of formal and informal events, professional development opportunities and social media. We are an inclusive organisation - so please do join us!
Individual summary biography details of our members can be found below.
As a social enterprise, we have a Board of Directors and an Executive Committee who work with members to run and set the direction of the organisation.
Bob Garvey is one of Europe’s leading academic practitioners of coaching and mentoring. He is an experienced coach/mentor working with, for example, musicians, HR Managers, small business owners, young people, academics and executives.
Bob has great experience in a whole range of different types of organisations. These include large and small businesses, the public and private sector, voluntary organisation and NGOs. He has worked in many different industries including financial services, manufacturing, scientific, creative arts, education and health. Bob subscribes to the ‘repertoire’ approach to mentoring and coaching. He is in demand internationally as a keynote conference speaker.
Bob has a PhD from the University of Durham in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has published many books and papers on the practice of coaching and mentoring. He is a founding member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and Honorary President of Coaching York. In 2014, the EMCC presented him with the Mentor award for services to mentoring and also in 2014, he received a life time achievement award for contributions to mentoring.
There are three directors of the Coaching York which is a company limited by guarantee .
We are registered in England and our company number is 10797490
What inspires me as a coach is to work with individuals or groups to help them bring about positive and sustained change. I take a collaborative partnership approach to design the best intervention for each client’s specific needs. I provide support and challenge appropriate to each situation.
My career developed in finance with a global food manufacturer. I always loved people development and as I moved into leadership roles I was increasingly able to work on manager and leader development programmes. I set up my own coaching and consulting business in 2012.
I am a qualified NLP practitioner and have an ICF accredited coaching and neuroscience qualification.
I create safe spaces to address the key questions that open up new career opportunities and life choices.
I specialise in transition coaching - the inner journey that underpins eternal change. I create partnership with clients to identify the indicators that a transition is imminent, to navigate the process, maintain forward momentum, to finally setting in place the condition for successful ongoing change. My work helps people explore the person they are becoming as well as the destination to which they are heading.
With Coaching York I build relationships between businesses and charities matching professional expertise with opportunities for service.
Steve Gorton has been helping people enhance the quality of their thinking through his company Enabling Development (www.enablingdevelopment.com) from 1996. As a result you make a positive, interesting, significant and sustainable difference to your bottom line – however measured.
This is through assisting you to operate more strategically and holistically, be that in SMEs or large corporates across the sectors, in his role as an executive coach and confidential strategic counsel. Additionally he has tutored MBA strategy and other subjects and is particularly interested in helping people find their space to explore possibilities for growth.
In a nutshell I help people to start thinking again and bake bigger cakes.
Bryony works with people through confidence, overwhelm and going well into their next chapter. She enables people to be more self-aware, so that they have more choice and power; allowing them to live life with more flow. Her experience in education, healthcare and family support has built on her knowledge of how to hold space for individuals and groups, and to 'be with' people wherever they are at. She works as a personal Coach and through organisations, particularly those wanting to create a culture of wellbeing and those providing frontline services in society.
Bryony's clients reclaim their anchor, find space to breathe and choose who and how it is they really want to be so that they can show up more courageously in life. Her style has been described as intuitive, spacious, playful, wise and creative.
Bryony is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and is accredited through the ICF.
My name is Natasha Sinclair and I am a results-oriented Psychology postgraduate with a passion for People Development through Coaching. I have over 10 years of working with people understanding patterns of behaviour to support individuals to achieve their personal goals and aspirations. This is done through a combination of my extensive experience in Mental Health, my Performance Coaching experience and my skills as a Neuro Linguistic Practitioner.
I joined Coaching York in 2018 and I am also part of the Coaching Circle and enjoy being a part of a supportive network of Coaches in the York area.
Debbie Connors is one of a handful of coaches in the UK who is trained as a Generative coach. Generative coaching builds on traditional methods and includes leading edge practices developed over twenty years by Robert Dilts and Stephen Gilligan, who are leaders and pioneers in the field of personal development and change. Debbie is also a behavioural and communications specialist which means she can work with clients on a number of different levels to support them to achieve the changes they are looking for. She works with clients to get results which are evidenced through gaining tangible examples of ‘change' for the client and organisation.
Debbie has worked with people from employee to director/business owner level across different sectors including Financial, Health, Education, Police, Manufacturing and SME's and her focus is generally on increasing soft skills, emotional intelligence and personal impact. This translates into strengthening leadership, improving influencing and communication skills, higher levels of self confidence and increased understanding of self and others leading to healthier relationships at work.
Debbie has an Advanced Certificate in Business/Executive Coaching from Leeds Metropolitan University, a Diploma in Coaching and Influencing Skills using NLP, Licence to practice Generative Coaching, ILM qualification using Transactional Analysis (TA) for Leadership in Organisations. She is also a member of the CIPD, local Chamber of Commerce, the IAGC and is Co-Chair of Coaching York. For more information, go to www.hrschool.co.uk
I’m a freelance Coach based in Munich, Germany, with experience in coaching executives and organisations for over 30 years. My passion is to coach time- and structure-centred topics for anyone in business who wants to have enough time and space for people and activities that really matter to them. My clients tell me I’m an empathetic listener with a clarity of thought helping them to untangle their issues.
In times of virtual calls and having once facilitated a workshop for Coaching York about vision/mission and roles I’m very much interested in helping to support this wonderful community of coaches and their clients in any way I can.
Sarah has been supporting the development of individuals and organisations throughout her career.
She has experience working at all levels in the public and private sector, particularly with schools and charities.
Sarah’s approach to coaching is that people are their own best resource - real change happens when they are empowered to find their own solutions.
Working together, Sarah will create the space for you to do the thinking and support you to identify what you need to move forward, in a way that’s right for you.
Sarah is an experienced leader and teacher, and is working towards full ICF accreditation.
Biography
Jeremy offers authentic, insightful and impactful coaching for executives that focuses on their key challenges, helps them make better choices and increases their potency as leaders He typically works with directors and senior managers across the public and private sectors.
Jeremy also works with coaches a catalyst for their own development, offering individual and group supervision to help them solve dilemmas that arise, support them through the emotional challenges they face and provide fresh perspectives so they understand themselves more deeply, relate better to their clients and develop into the coach they want to be.
Emma works as a Leadership Coach with senior people across a variety of sectors. Emma’s aim is to co-create a trusting, supportive and effective partnership with clients, through which they can reflect, move towards greater clarity and ultimately achieve either personal or systemic change. With over twenty years of global commercial experience, Emma brings an understanding of both organisational development and the challenges leaders face.
Emma has worked with individuals and teams at multiple levels across a variety of business sizes including FTSE 100; she is currently qualifying with the AoEC on the Advanced Practitioner Programme.
Shirley is passionate about supporting newly promoted line managers transition into leadership.
Taking on the responsibility of managing others for the first time can be a stretch. Typically good people get promoted and often left to ‘get on with it’.
Shirley provides a confidential space for young leaders to reflect on what leadership means to them. She is accredited in the Harrison Assessment tool that evaluates behavioural preference around 12 paradoxical leadership capabilities.
With 20 years experience in the Pharmaceutical industry, Shirley has a sound understanding of the complexities of organisational systems, and the challenges that leaders face.
Steve Gorton has been helping people enhance the quality of their thinking through his company Enabling Development (www.enablingdevelopment.com) from 1996. As a result you make a positive, interesting, significant and sustainable difference to your bottom line – however measured.
This is through assisting you to operate more strategically and holistically, be that in SMEs or large corporates across the sectors, in his role as an executive coach and confidential strategic counsel. Additionally he has tutored MBA strategy and other subjects and is particularly interested in helping people find their space to explore possibilities for growth.
In a nutshell I help people to start thinking again and bake bigger cakes.
I am a qualified coach and counsellor (MSc Coaching Psychology; Grad Dip Counselling). I have been working with others in one-to-one helping relationships for over 15 years. I thrive on the unique and energising encounters I have with coachees. I cherish being a part of the life-changing, empowering transformations that are initiated in those settings. I work from a humanistic, developmental perspective and draw on the pluralistic approach. I am also a senior lecturer in Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring at York St John University. In that role I have trained hundreds of individuals to empower both themselves and others using those skills. I am currently researching a PhD on coaching.
Nita specialises in working with leaders and organisations to develop and improve their effectiveness and achieve outcomes. With a proven track record of working in senior leadership roles herself including being on an Executive Board, Nita comes with professional credibility, a pragmatic approach and energy for seeing others develop and attain their outcomes.
Working with integrity and with a partnering approach Nita builds strong relationships. She has an ability to balance creating a safe psychological space to explore and be supported whilst holding the broader business perspective to enable change to happen.
She is a qualified Executive Coach and has worked with significant numbers of senior leaders focusing on various outcomes.
I’m a resident of York since 1996. I’ve ten+ years’ experience as a freelance executive coach and supervisor. I’m also employed part-time as a faculty member of the Academy of Executive Coaching, teaching on their Certificate, Diploma and Senior coach training programmes; and I have a very part time role teaching leadership and management at the University of York’s Centre for Applied Human Rights. My coaching focuses particularly on leaders and leadership development, in the not-for-profit, private and public sectors; and I write frequently about the practice of coaching on my website and on LinkedIn.
I am working as a coach-therapist and supervisor in private practice, based in Sheriff Hutton, near York. In my work with clients I draw on many years as a coach, counsellor, supervisor, trainer, group facilitator and as a senior leader in two UK Universities. My current coaching clients include CEOs of SMEs in the commercial sector and those with development and leadership roles in the public sector. I supervise coaches, counsellors and pastoral leaders.
I endeavour to balance work with family life, sculpting, gardening and helping to manage our local village hall.
Justine is an independent Executive Coach based from Knaresborough.
Her coaching clients are People Professionals who work in HR, OD or L&D roles, and People Leaders who appreciate the responsibility that comes with leading and developing others. She understands the challenges that positions of responsibility can bring, and helps her clients to navigate their own pathway to success whilst positively impacting those around them.
Justine’s professional background is in Human Resources, Organisational Development and Leadership. She is a long-standing member of the CIPD, an ILM qualified Executive Coach and an accredited psychometric test practitioner specialising in professional personality profiling.
I am a theatre director with productions ranging from the Fringe First-award-winning The Container to operas in Selfridge’s shoe section. I now also use the skills I developed supporting and enabling artists in over 70 high-pressure projects as a coach (Relational Dynamics 1st accredited), communication and leadership skills trainer (ILM-qualified), and facilitator.
I am a core facilitator with Flying Cloud, the University of York’s Strategic Leadership Program and People Create. The common thread through all my work is the conviction that if we provide the right support and encouragement everyone can reveal their own inner wisdom and unique potential.
I create safe spaces to address the key questions that open up new career opportunities and life choices.
I specialise in transition coaching - the inner journey that underpins eternal change. I create partnership with clients to identify the indicators that a transition is imminent, to navigate the process, maintain forward momentum, to finally setting in place the condition for successful ongoing change. My work helps people explore the person they are becoming as well as the destination to which they are heading.
With Coaching York I build relationships between businesses and charities matching professional expertise with opportunities for service.
As a coach and trainer I am keen to help people address and act upon matters of importance, be it work, or non work, related. Coaching York is the vehicle through which much of this happens. I see our purpose being to extend the provision of coaching beyond the workplace and into communities, where the difference between productive and non productive outcomes is often determined by the quality of conversation. Coaches create great conversations!
I am an experienced communications coach and run Performance in English, which offers tailor-made coaching, using performance skills, embodied leadership, NLP, attentive listening, voice and presentation coaching, change management coaching where English is the lingua franca, job-oriented promotion coaching, negotiating, conflict management, cross-cultural communication, exam preparation and university academic coaching.
My background: designing, writing and delivering hundreds of successful outcomes-based courses in prestigious centres to professionals from all around the world; school management and mentoring, as HoD, DoS, and Centre Manager. Degree and Post-graduate teaching qualification, language teacher, sports coach, diplomas in NLP, Life Coaching, Hypnotherapy and Kinesics, with distinction.
As an experienced CIPD qualified HR practitioner and EMCC qualified business coach for more than 20 years, I can help you in the following areas:
– Developing and implementing your HR and coaching strategy
– Working with you to enable you to perform at your best
– Ensuring you and your teams make the most of the unique talents they have
My client base has included: BAA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Aviva, Bombardier, Siemens, Rolls Royce,Rugby Football League, Methodist Church, ICI, Sabic, DEFRA and Network Rail
I carry Professional Indemnity insurance
Shirley works as an Executive Coach with senior level people, helping them to be the best version of themselves on a daily basis. Her coaching approach is strengths-based and relational, and her personal style pragmatic, direct and empathetic. Able to challenge as well as support, she explores with clients how they perform in relation to colleagues, customers and stakeholders and holds them to account for the improvements they wish to make. Her aim is not only to address immediate issues but to develop her clients’ capacity to adapt and excel in the future.
I am an innovative, compassionate and values-driven Executive Coach and Organisational & People Development professional with 25 years of experience across the public (civil service and NHS) and private sector.
I provide an oasis in a busy world by creating a friendly and focussed space for you to move forward by tapping into your own unique set of values, beliefs and desired goals.
- ILM7 Leadership and Executive Coaching (Leeds Beckett 2019)
- MSc People and Organisational Development- Roffey Park (2015)
- Accredited to coach across Civil Service at executive level (Oxford Brookes University)
- Founder & Voluntary facilitator York Coaching Circle (2011-)
Joanne is a warm and intuitive coach with deep experience and understanding of how people work - plus a passion for growing new leaders. Her coaching philosophy is to be non-directive yet to offer her experience and challenge through the questions she asks and in what she notices. A former chief executive who has held a number of senior leadership roles, Joanne has worked as a qualified coach for 10 years. Her own specialist background was in communications/public affairs. She holds the ILM Level 7 qualification in coaching and is an executive committee member of Coaching York.
Communication and intercultural skills coach
I have a passion for all things virtual. I use my experience of working with remote teams to coach professionals through the transition from working face-to-face to remotely, challenging them to embrace virtual communication and leadership. I am now focused on SMEs and start-ups who are struggling to cope with the changes Covid-19 has brought about in remote working. I get immense satisfaction from helping people overcome their fear of technology and use it to their advantage. I am also an active member of the Digital Knowledge Exchange mentoring programme.
I am currently working towards the ILM Level 7 coaching qualification.
As a coach and facilitator, I support busy professionals, who face many competing demands on their time. I provide space to re-focus and find strategies to move forward with clarity, for increased effectiveness, reduced stress and a healthier balance in life.
Before starting my own coaching business, I worked in community development for 25 years. My professional experience has focused on supporting learning, skills development and increasing confidence. The common theme for me throughout has been about empowering people to move forward. It is about learning and development and making a difference in how we live our lives.
What inspires me as a coach is to work with individuals or groups to help them bring about positive and sustained change. I take a collaborative partnership approach to design the best intervention for each client’s specific needs. I provide support and challenge appropriate to each situation.
My career developed in finance with a global food manufacturer. I always loved people development and as I moved into leadership roles I was increasingly able to work on manager and leader development programmes. I set up my own coaching and consulting business in 2012.
I am a qualified NLP practitioner and have an ICF accredited coaching and neuroscience qualification.
Having left my HR and leadership career a few years ago, I am now fortunate to be able to pursue the things I love doing – coaching, volunteering, supporting people with learning difficulties, and some sporty stuff. My clients tell me I am a good listener, build rapport quickly and make them think for themselves. My aim is to release understanding and potential in individuals and teams. My beliefs fit well with those of non-directive coaching.
Chris specialises in executive development. Passionate about improving outcomes, he provides support that is tailored to the individual, the organisation and the situation. Having held senior leadership roles, he brings practical expertise to coaching others. He offers a sounding board, different perspectives and independent thinking. His experience adds value to a wide range of matters: from people to processes, projects to performance and the operational to the strategic. He enjoys working with those who are facing significant personal challenge - whether a new role, building influence or changing behaviour. His clients find him supportive, insightful and challenging.
I am an experienced manager having worked across a wide range of different roles within the engineering business of Scottish Power. During my 1st career spanning 34 years in this business, I have experienced significant change and understand the importance of lifelong learning and maintaining a positive approach.
Passionate about helping people develop and make the most of their potential, I am now developing a new career in coaching. I use a "solutions focused coaching approach" to provide a relaxed environment, where clients will have the best opportunity to achieve their goals.
What I love is to help launch or improve the sales & marketing of a new or existing technology product, especially if it has wheels, it floats, it fly’s or it’s large & industrial or if its small & innovative, complex & environmentally friendly, needs re-engineering or just a wider global presence.
Perhaps your company is just not growing to the potential it should be; the likelihood is that I can help to point you in the right direction, as this is what I have done for all my career.
Better still, I currently have a lot of spare energy.
I am an organisational and leadership development specialist with considerable experience of working in the public, not for profit and voluntary sectors. Currently I hold an Associate Professor role with Birmingham University where I work in leadership development with the NHS across the UK. And I have directed my own organisational consultancy and coaching business since 2010.
I specialise in helping individuals, organisations and teams to cope with the challenges they face in bringing about sustainable change. My coaching approach is open and intuitive, and I am passionate about making a difference. I am a writer and poet, and use writing and expressive arts in my coaching work.
NURTURING BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS. Developing, sustaining and challenging evolution. Improving performance & growth through new and better ways of doing things.
Tracey is an enthusiastic strategic business leader with a passion for nurturing, finding solutions and developing people and teams. She thrives in dynamic and challenging situations, works at Board and Director level and is commercially astute and driven to succeed.
A coach and mentor who challenges and motivates with a passion for nurturing individuals and businesses. Tracey can help people unravel challenges and encourage them to gain clarity on the pathway to successful outcomes and lasting growth and change.
With over 25 years of people, organisational and leadership development experience in a range of sectors, I’ve witnessed the difference my coaching has made to individuals and their businesses. Working with people to achieve their potential, my belief in the power of coaching to transform resulted in me starting my own coaching business.
My approach is client centred and is based on trust and integrity, adapted to meet the unique needs of each person. Although my style is non-directive, I draw on a wide range of tools from my experience in people and leadership development. I’ve coached people in all sectors and at all levels, including board level.
My purpose is to be the curious explorer forever seeking golden egg laying geese. I’m passionate about developing self-sustaining value.
What makes me unique as a Business Coach is my 20+ years experience in business analysis, collaborating with managers to transform and grow their businesses . I synthesise this experience with my coaching skills so that I can help business owners to create self-sustaining transformation and growth both within their businesses and themselves.
People say they are ‘amazed at the impact’ of my coaching. I’d love more people to experience this.
I am a member of the ICF and Association for Coaching demonstrating my experience, qualifications and ethics.
A qualified Business & Executive Coach, Margaret coaches at Senior Management & Board Level, in all sectors, and has a strong, diverse Business and Operational Management background.
Creating a safe and secure environment, Margaret uses a range of established Coaching models and has also developed her own successful and unique Coaching Model which has shown effective results.
Margaret is a firm believer that coaching shouldn't end when the coaching sessions do and that Coachees should leave sessions with new found self-coaching skills and confidence to continue their journey.
Margaret is a full member of the EMCC, Fellow of CMI and IRP.
The Authentic Spark was born out of my passion for supporting others including working with teams and individuals on visioning, creative collaborative thinking, skills development and personal growth. As The Authentic Spark, I harness my ability to see the bigger picture, to make connections and to enable others to reflect and utilise their own resources.
My background is in the heritage sector but I coaching with people from all walks of life. I love to use creative techniques and tools to encourage reflection. My super power is to help coachees find their SPARK, of creativity, of passion, of energy and motivation.
With over 25 years’ experience as a senior executive, I have worked with many individuals going through (often challenging) transitions, in their career, their leadership aspirations or the direction of their life. My starting point is ‘What choices are you making and how is this impacting on how you behave and feel?’ I then support you to make small, but significant, changes in your approach to explore other choices and challenge your assumptions. I believe the key to development is self-awareness, and that ultimately you know yourself better than anyone. I listen: and give you the space to hear yourself.
I’m an accredited coach (Relational Dynamics 1st), trainer, facilitator and consultant based in York and working nationally mainly with non-profits on organisational and individual learning. I’m also an experienced Action Learning facilitator. I train and supervise coaches, and train a wide range of people in coaching skills and leadership for Relational Dynamics 1st: a specialist training company working mainly in the arts/ non-profits. My particular passion is in enabling others to create ‘coaching cultures’ in their workplaces and supporting a coaching-style of leadership.
Tamsin worked as a physiotherapist for 10 years before retraining as a coach, trainer and workshop facilitator. She has always been drawn to using metaphor in her work, and when a friend introduced her to Clean Language it wasn’t long before she was hooked. Here was a respectful way of working with the metaphors that is both resourceful and richly creative.
She is author of the book, The Listening Space: A New Path to Personal Discovery. This book gives you tools to change the way you listen by combining the principles of mindfulness with exploration through metaphor using a simple set of Clean questions.
Tamsin is due to publish her second book, Captured Moments: Poems Inspired by a Listening Space, in May 2019. This book of heartfelt poems includes a simple and fun activity that invites the reader to discover that source of creativity which surprises us again and again when we tap into it using Clean questions.
Jan is an executive coach, coach supervisor and facilitator with an interest in working with those in transition and supporting the building of resilience, mindfulness and compassion.
Her coaching clients are often executives, leaders or individuals who are looking for new meaning and purpose in their professional or personal lives, who want to stretch themselves or who need some space to work through significant issues that range from career transition to managing their own wellbeing. Her supervision clients value the light touch combination of safety, support and challenge that allow for a robust exploration of their own client work.
I help extraordinary people maximise their potential
I specialise in taking creative and passionate individuals who want to make a difference to their next level of success.
I love watching people grow and from my extensive career in the higher education sector, I have gained an in-depth understanding of how people learn, develop and connect, and what makes them step up and be seen.
I truly believe we are all capable of achieving so much more than we allow ourselves to. So often we are held back by our own self-limiting beliefs and the fear of failure. But these boundaries we create for ourselves can be challenged and demolished - and I can show you how.
For more info visit: www.waynecullen.com
Meg is an ILM qualified Executive Coach, Leadership Coach and Career Coach/Mentor. With over 15 years experience in leadership development and over 7 years as an independent coach Meg has worked with many clients from senior leaders through to school leavers and graduates to help them find a job they love or perform brilliantly in the one they’re in.
Working closely with clients Meg supports individuals to help them fulfil their potential at work. She has supported people through career changes including; promotions, career moves, redundancy, retirement as well as navigating various challenges faced in the working environment. From being a neutral sounding board and listening ear, Meg uses a warm and supportive coaching approach whilst challenging people to raise aspirations and be at their best in their life and work.
Meg is fascinated by people and motivated by helping people achieve their goals. She enjoys enabling people to see new possibilities, tap into their true potential and find fulfilment or confidence to pursue their goals.
Meg is a member of the CIPD and EMCC, a qualified practitioner in MBTI, Thomas PPA, SDI.
| HR & Lead Coach at Out of The Box Operational Solutions LTD
Most of my background focuses on Skill Transfer, Resilience and Career Coaching. I want to be there and help others figure out what they want out of their own career and own personal/professional development. I have also briefly looked into Coaching and the Psychological contract. Since graduating from Northumbria University and becoming CIPD accredited, I have been given the opportunity to develop my practical coaching knowledge. I coach a range of clients, including people who face barriers to employment Ex-Offenders, Ex-Forces and people who have left their jobs due to childcare, career change or further education. |
I am a freelance Executive Coach and Mentor located in Harrogate and until Nov 20 was employed as a training delivery manager for a national military veterans charity. In this role I also delivered coaching workshops and training for aspiring coaches to equip them with their own coaching tool kit.
My passion is for supporting armed forces personnel and veterans through the challenges of transition from the armed forces and onward in to a second career in civilian life. On a voluntary basis, I have also supported the Yorkshire Accord programme that provides both coaching and mentoring training and one-to-one support opportunities for clients from a broad range of public sector partner organisations across the county.
With a background in operations and training, within both the public and private sectors, I also provide mentoring support to leaders and managers within developing businesses.
My particular interests and skills as a coach lie in a developmental approach that draws on my work over many years as a counsellor-psychotherapist and trainer of practitioners. Experience has taught me that lasting change can sometimes require us to better understand the ways in which our present mode of living and sense of self have been shaped by relationships and experiences from childhood onwards.
Without such awareness, working and personal life can be unnecessarily angst-ridden and tiring, and the changes that result from coaching can prove to be less enduring. This form of coaching differs from therapy in that its fundamental purpose is not to heal distress, but to enable people to grow into more complete versions of themselves, to live more fully and effectively. I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Counselling and Mental Health at York St John University, where I have worked as a teacher and trainer since 2007.
I hold a MA (with Distinction) in Coaching and Mentoring Practice and a Professional Certificate for the Advanced Study of Coaching Supervision, both from Oxford Brookes Business School. I also hold a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from Leeds Metropolitan University and am a BACP-accredited and registered counsellor-psychotherapist.
I am an experienced and qualified coach who specialises in personal and team development.
Clients regularly testify to my ability to support and challenge them in exploring their outer reality and inner world.
This enables them to more confidently and realistically set, or reset, their goals and ambitions.
Clients value how I adapt my approach and questions to what works best in the moment and for the topic we are coaching on.
I always learn from my clients and never lose the sense of privilege of serving others so they can in turn serve themselves more fully.
For several years I have supported Coaching York in its development ambitions and am now delighted to be a member of the Executive Committee.
I have been a Transformative Coach for over 10 years and have worked with clients nationally and internationally, helping them to see more clearly the simple nature of the human experience and how through thought and awareness we can be wonderfully innovative with all of life’s problems.
My main focus is the creative potential of each human being, helping them find space where they can connect with their inner wisdom, find clarity and wander through life with more ease and inspiration.
I love my work!
"Being a member of CY comes with both interesting opportunities to contribute and the responsibility to play a part in helping with local community development. I value occasions to meet with like-minded people. Knowing that there is a ‘local tribe’ you can belong to certainly makes a difference."
Dr Ira Laketic-Ljubojevic from I Realised Coaching and Consulting Ltd