I love listening to people!
As an experienced executive coach I have had the privilege of working with individuals in a coaching capacity since 2012. I have been employed as a senior leader in the Health Service in Northern Ireland since 2007 and have extensive leadership experience as well as a range of postgraduate qualifications in leadership, management, change management, organisational analysis and coaching. I don’t want my qualifications to define me but as well as two Masters degrees in Divinity and Theology I hold an MSc. In Healthcare Leadership, a Postgrad Diploma in Leadership for Quality Improvement and a Postgrad Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring.
Here are some of the principles of how I work:
I seek to listen deeply: I offer observations, notice patterns and pay careful attention to what clients are saying and how they are saying things.
I’m interested in the whole person: hopes, dreams, career journeys, life stories, courageous goals.
I believe organisations and workplaces are complex, living organisms and if I am working with a client in their role in an organisation I will explore organisational dynamics and culture if that’s relevant to the client’s goals.
I practice well-timed challenge. I believe that the coaching space is one of growth and development.
I believe that our assumptions and the frame for how we see the world can both help and limit us and I’m interested in ways that these assumptions can be examined.
I’m informed by poetry, theology, leadership theory, organisational theory, coaching models
Feedback is very important to me, and I’m keen to hear from clients regularly about how they feel our work is benefitting them, as well as formal evaluation when we finish our work. I also have a coaching supervisor who guides the careful review of my work.
