We live in a world full of ill formed, vague, and messy social problems that need leadership that can process complexity and make progress in spite of these conditions. This workshop provides coaches with a process for leveraging a client’s developmental readiness and building his/her vertical leadership capacity. It is greater capacity and support that clients seek from coaching. We will introduce a framework that combines the timeless path of mastery with the latest research on metacognition and integrated experiential development.

This workshop is your destination if you or your coaching clients struggle with social complexity, face wicked problems with no clear solution, feel overwhelmed or think reacting is character building for a leader.

Bring your challenges and we will provide a clear structure for coaching vertical development, a trilogy-action framework for experiential learning and 5 exercises you can use with your coaching clients to help them reflect, learn and develop their leadership craft.

Our workshop will blend fun, active learning and your wisdom to address the important challenges your coaching clients face. We coach to potential first and help develop leaders who are at least equal to the complexities their organisations face.

@Redquadrant  Deborah Jones is a change management consultant and coach who works with Local Authorities across the UK, mainly with Children’s and Adults Social Care professionals.  She holds an MSc in Consulting & Coaching for Change with HEC Paris and the University of Oxford and is a member of the Neuroleadership Institute.

Rick Torseth is a Seattle based leadership coach who works in the global health and development sector in the US. His work is focused on developing leadership capacity. He has an MSc degree in Coaching and Consulting for Change from the University of Oxford and HEC in Paris.

No Stone Unturned
Kim Morgan

“Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul” (Jung).

It has taken our clients a lot of time and energy to form the beliefs which keep them where they are. Don’t just reach for the toolkit – our clients deserve more than a process-centred approach which will deliver merely transactional solutions and the appearance of mobility. Work with a framework which will enable your client to choose, for themselves, to go to each of the different territories they will need to explore to free themselves from the repeating habits of the past and to map a different future for themselves.  Where it all began, the false assumptions, the stories whose endings the client has already written.

You can have the courage to create a space where your client can recognise alternatives and can create new beliefs about themselves and about their futures. Your client will commit to change and to finding the evidence of their achievements for themselves.

Take away a framework which is based on Kim Morgan’s many years’ practical experience and reflection on transformational coaching which you can apply immediately to develop your own coaching practice.

@BarefootCoaches Kim Morgan is MD of Barefoot Coaching, one of the most successful coach training businesses in the UK. Kim was a pioneer in the development of university accredited coach training and has over 25 years’ experience in the training and development of coaches.

Kim holds a Masters in Coaching and Coaching Development and is a Visiting Research Fellow of the University of Chester.

Kim has been Coaching at Work’s peer-nominated “Coach of the Year” and is an ICF Master Certified Coach. Kim is author of the best-selling Coach’s Casebook and a monthly columnist in Psychologies Magazine.

Jean Crawford and Colin Russell, Mango CLC

We learn so much from other’s experience and their stories. Talking with someone we come to respect can challenge us and give us confidence to be more than we imagined. With the constant movement of employees in an out of organisations, and more people being asked to take on greater responsibility utilising questioning and listening skills, as well as knowing how and when to share your experiences can have a powerful impact.

In this session we’ll explore and share what true mutuality really means in a mentoring partnership and how it generates a powerful relationship. Through the lenses of different models, including reverse mentoring we’ll discover some key “how to’s” in creating it and what can get in the way of it.  We build on our collective experiences working cross culturally and with difference [however it shows up] such that the relationship is a truly rich, alive, exploratory, meaningful one for both participants; where they can share their stories to bring their wisdom and curiosity, hopes and fears as well as their expertise and skills.

Jean Crawford and Colin Russell are colleagues who, through learning and working together, have become friends and family.  Both are now at a time where rich experiences have gelled into a desire to share, challenge and support the people who will continue to be torch bearers for what is vital in sustaining the vitality of potent coaching and mentoring.    Each enjoys the sense of eldership whilst being surrounded by the innocents and youth in their friends and families. Both continue to learn and explore separately and together, love to laugh and love to work together, preferably in the same room! Their clients tell them that they are real, honest, inspirational and deeply trusted because they are willing to be in the difficult conversations with them as well as supporting them to make appropriate and sustainable changes.

Jean spoke at the 2015 conference on the 5 Generational Workforce, following excellent feedback we were pleased to invite her back to share more of her wisdom.

This is a highly experiential, playful, deeply thought-provoking session, which can fundamentally change the quality of your connections with others.

We have brought together theories of energy, neuroscience and process and created a powerful Masterclass. You will have an opportunity to come into deep presence with yourself, letting go of the need to rush, drive or control. You will learn about the energy field around you, and how this is influenced by your thoughts and feelings. You will have an opportunity to bring this new learning into practice, and experience for yourself how you can create a more powerful thinking space for another.

We ask of you that you come into the session with curiosity, compassion and a willingness to stretch your current thinking. Beyond tools and techniques, we bring ourselves into every conversation. We are our own best resource.

This Masterclass enables you to harness the power of the resource that is ‘you’, and by doing so enhance the work that you do with others.

@IC4RP Jo Birch’s leadership has evolved from practice – demonstrating love and compassion for people, alongside deft, clear decision-making and a grounded presence in holding space. Initially specialising in Child Psychiatry (RSCN/RGN), Jo became a counsellor / psychotherapist over 20 years ago – achieving her MA Couns in 2000 through original research and is also now Director: Corporate Development at the Coaching Supervision Academy and International Centre for Reflective Practice. Jo’s interest in community mental health, and passion for creating a just world, brought her to live and work in inner city Manchester. Jo flourished in a number of strategic roles, including charity CEO, leading complex organisations, multi-sector partnerships and large programmes addressing inequalities – engaging diverse communities and key strategic decision-makers through her inclusive, open leadership style and commitment to collaboration.

Read more about Jo at http://coachingsupervisionacademy.com/jo-birch/

@elaineLftF Elaine Patterson is an international Master Executive Coach, Accredited Coaching Supervisor, and Writer and is also Director: Creative Development at the Coaching Supervision Academy and International Centre for Reflective Practice.

Elaine’s passion is to bring the energizing, creative and humanizing powers of coaching super-Vision to leaders, people professionals and development practitioners everywhere for courageous, compassionate, and ethical practice. Elaine’s vision is to bring our sense of our shared humanity and what it means to be human to every role, work conversation, consulting room or Boardroom to help connect to what truly matters, to create anew at the edge of continual change and to act with integrity in the world. Elaine uniquely focuses on both the practitioners’ own personal and professional development with the simultaneous human, cultural and strategic development of their teams, systems and organisations.

Conversational Wisdom (O)
Sara Hope, The Conversation Space

If businesses want to attract the best people and retain them through genuine, magnetic engagement, we need to be changing the experience of how we have conversations.

This session will share and build on the findings from our latest research on “Mastering Conversation – The Key Ingredient to Successful Leadership” which won first prize in this year’s Roffey Park/HR Magazine research competition. The judges said the topic is a key issue being faced by organisations globally, and provides fresh thinking on how to approach it.

Our philosophy is simple.  If you change the conversation, you can change the culture.  One conversation at a time.

@convospace Sara Hope is co-founder of The Conversation Space and her career spans 25 years both in consultancy and industry roles. Her passion for building a culture of courageous, honest and skilful conversations began in EY across all aspects of leadership development, talent management and coaching.  From Vodafone she moved to KPMG where she co-created and grew a market leading internal coaching faculty, which continues to thrive.

Sara has worked with thousands of leaders to bring more candour and human approach to their interactions with clients, customers and colleagues.  Sara believes that teaching the value of growing conversational muscle strengthens employee engagement and reinforces connectivity.

Coaching and mentoring has become a popular response for organisations to support their staff through volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous settings at work. It now appears in different shapes, sizes, styles, at different levels of organisations, and there is an ongoing trend towards a ‘coaching culture’. Yet experience tells us that organisations can struggle to ensure that these different images of coaching and mentoring are appropriate and joined up for optimal organisational performance.

This session proposes that purposively designing coaching and mentoring interventions within the frame of an Organizational Development (OD) approach provides a connected and effective approach to achieving organisational outcomes. Employing a whole systems approach requires a link between individual activity, departments, and other organisational groups towards explicit OD outcomes. Such a planned approach can assist organisational improvement through and with employees.

This session will explore the images of coaching and mentoring that can be utilised through a planned OD intervention, and share practical strategies to organise, coordinate, reinforce, or introduce appropriate images of coaching and mentoring as part of a successful OD intervention. It is argued that such a coordinated approach can make a lasting difference to an individual, team and organisational performance, through interrogating what we really want to achieve.

@RachelRobins16 Dr. Rachel Robins is a practicing Leadership and Behavioural coach, mentor and mediator with a background as a Director of HR, Organisational Development and Improvement in the public sector. Her doctoral research area was in executive coaching in Local Government and she continues to research into the personal development of professionals. She is a Fellow of CIPD, CIPD Book author and lectures on CIPD undergraduate and post-graduate programmes on O D, leadership, development, strategic HRM, HR professional practice.