Training and Accreditation - Key Players
Eric Parsloe is the Director of the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring
and the author of several books on maximising individual potential and
performance. In the 1970's he founded the Epic Group, an employee
communication and multimedia company (now the largest multimedia learning
production company in the UK). He was Chairman of the multimedia industry
body BIMA and was founder Chairman of the Centre for International Debate
and Communication Training at the English Speaking Union. He is also a
qualified rugby coach.
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Myles Downey is a coach, consultant and lecturer whose aim is to help others
create work so that it is productive, fulfilling and a joy. He has worked
with some of the most successful organisations in the Western hemisphere,
across Europe, North and South America and in the former Soviet Union, and
in a variety of businesses from professional service firms, banking,
manufacturing, oil and gas, brewing and distilling, retailing and
information technology.
Myles is Director of Studies at The School of Coaching, which he established
in the UK in association with the Industrial Society, with the aim of
"developing great coaches who can transform the performance of of
individuals and teams in organisations". Myles is the author of 'Effective
Coaching' published by Orion in June 1999.
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Julie Hay is Chief Executive of training consultancy A D International. She
has over 40 years managerial and consultancy experience in the public and
private sectors, holds post graduate qualifications in management and for
research into the characteristics of effective managers, and is
internationally accredited as a trainer in both transactional analysis and
NLP. Julie is the author of numerous articles and books on people skills and
organisational cultures, including: Transformational Mentoring - Creating
Developmental Alliances for Changing Organizational Cultures McGraw-Hill
1995 and Action Mentoring - Creating your own Developmental Alliance
Sherwood 1997. She also co-ordinates two mentoring networks: one for HR
professionals who meet quarterly to exchange ideas; the other for AMED
(Assoc for Mgt Educ & Devp) for members wishing to be mentors, mentees or
supervisors.
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David Clutterbuck is an international authority on mentoring and learning at
work, with most mentoring schemes in Europe being based on his writings and
concepts. A founder of The European Mentoring Centre, he is author of some
40 books, including Everyone needs a mentor, Mentoring in Action, Learning
Alliances and Mentoring executives and directors. He is currently working on
yet another book, Mentoring for diversity. David consults widely around the
world on mentoring and leads a team of associate trainers and consultants,
designing and implementing mentoring and coaching schemes. His approaches
are licensed in some 35 countries. He undertakes a constant stream of
research projects into aspects of mentoring and is an active mentor himself.
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John is founding director of the Academy of Executive Coaching.
As Master Executive Coach, John works with many executives in major companies
and firms as well as training and supervising senior internal and independent
coaches. It is the experience of reaching this level after 15 years in the
profession that has led him to provide a direct route for others to develop the
coaching mastery.
Therapy/Psychology Background:
John is a UKCP registered psychotherapist with a background of 25 years as a
Gestalt therapist working with a wide range of people and conditions.
He taught for 15 years on the Masters in psychotherapy course at the Gestalt
Centre London and as a senior professional, presented papers at international
conferences and appeared on radio and television.
Business Background:
Having set up and run a couple of small businesses, John became Managing
Director of the Gestalt Centre in 1989. He has been responsible for steering
through professional registration and MA University accreditation as well as the
financial, marketing and strategic growth of the Company to achieve
international recognition.
Over the last two years, due to radically changing market conditions, he has
been leading the Board through a major strategic change initiative. The support
of external consultants, a business coach and undertaking the IoD Diploma in
Company Direction have been significant to its on-going success. John is in the
process of preparing this work to achieve Chartered Director status through the
IoD.
Performance Coaching Background:
His first experience of having to coach was in 1975 with violent adolescent
boys as a woodwork teacher. John created an innovative wood carving programme to
help each boy develop confidence in their capability. Later, as a trainer and
supervisor of counsellors and therapists, John developed a fine art in coaching
to hone practitioner skills. In 1994 he created a Gestalt in Organisations
course for experienced consultants to learn Gestalt process consulting skills.
This is an experiential programme with a coaching model of learning that is very
highly regarded. He is currently involved in a major Partner development
programme in Eastern Europe that is based on action learning and coaching.
Personal background:
As with other executives and coaches, John's family is a great support and
influence in his professional life. His wife Judith is also an experienced
executive coach working in Western Europe, Africa & Far East. She is now a
Director in 'Great Place to Work UK' an annual employee survey that identifies
the best companies to work for, sponsored by the DTI and published by the Sunday
Times.
His eldest daughter is an account executive in PR and an accomplished folk
violinist, his youngest doing GCSEs, with a passion for performing arts. They
reflect his love of music and people. John's also a keen gardener and enjoys the
pace and challenge of golf.
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Coaching and mentoring - Key Players
Donald is not only one of the leading Occupational Psychologists in the United
Kingdom, he is also probably one of the best known. Having enjoyed a professional career which saw
him operate as the Chief Psychologist to the Civil Service Commission and as one of the leading
consultants at Ashridge, Donald has represented his profession in numerous international fora.
Donald's preparation, however, started much earlier and well before he decided to study psychology.
In his early life Donald worked with Cable and Wireless and as a technician spent many a happy hour in
the furthest flung reaches of the globe. The difficulties of communication intrigued Donald as did
leadership across cultural boundaries and both came together to provide one or two early challenges as
Donald moved through the Caribbean and South America.
Donald returned to the United Kingdom, to a degree in psychology and an eventual Doctorate at Brunel
University, thus adding academic spice to a leadership mix developed well and truly in the international arena.
For the clients of the Change Partnership Donald is both Occupational Psychologist and executive coach,
bringing his extensive practical and academic wisdom to bear. For the Change Partnership, Donald is the
internal coach: the expert who keeps the business coaches on their toes.
He is active in the British Psychological Society, having chaired the committee on test standards,
and is an external examiner and mentor for those seeking chartered psychologist status.
Donald is a highly accomplished musician and, with his wife and family, a committed francophile.
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