2020 Speakers

Dr Emily Grossman is an internationally acclaimed science author, public speaker, science communicator and TV personality. She is an expert in molecular biology and genetics, with a Double First in Natural Sciences from Queens’ College Cambridge and a PhD in cancer research. Emily has also trained and worked as an actress and singer, and as a maths and science teacher. She now combines these skills in her role as a science broadcaster, writer, educator and trainer. She is co-founder of the Group Scientists for Extinction Rebellion and has given dozens of talks and media interviews on this subject.

Emily was recently named as the second Honorary STEM Ambassador (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), alongside astronaut Tim Peake, for her pioneering work in STEM education and as a role model to young people. She was a member of the Bank of England Expert Advisory Panel, who were responsible for selecting Alan Turing to be the face of the new polymer £50 note and is the author of “Brain-Fizzing Facts: Awesome Science Questions Answered”, published by Bloomsbury in August 2019.

04-05-2020 12:15 - 13:15
The New Reality: Fulfilling your Purpose on a Changing Planet
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Dr Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey is a globally recognised authority on Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace. He has a PhD from the London School of Economics and understands the science behind inclusive behaviour. He is the host of The Element of Inclusion; a weekly podcast in its third year of informing and educating using applied research and thought leadership. He contributed to the McGregor Smith Report and worked with the Cabinet Office and organisations including Aviva Insurance, KPMG and CIPD and the ICF. Jonathan combines professional expertise with academic rigour to drive change using applied research and a growth mindset. He believes that people are the most important part of any organisation and is currently writing a book to support his mission to help one million people around the world to make the workplace inclusive.

07-05-2020 14:45 - 15:30
Why Coaching Needs To Embrace an Inclusive Approach In Order To Grow in the 21st Century
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Claudia has a degree in Maths and Computer Science and a passion for psychology. She creates technologies that deliver high impact and produce meaningful change. With more than 12 years of technology industry experience, Claudia founded Marmot Labs on the belief that training, and coaching can suit every individual’s natural learning pace. Passionate about technology’s transformative power, Claudia loves pushing the boundaries of what is possible, and constantly challenges the people around her to do the same.

06-05-2020 13:30 - 14:45
Coach Bot
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Rachel Bamber, PCC, is an expert in using powerful, brain-friendly strategies to deliver peak performance. She helps people all over the world to work with their brain to get what they want – faster and with zero stress. Among the pioneering adventurers who have worked with her include people in the public eye, corporate leaders, coaches and super-ambitious small business owners.

Rachel’s clients become skilled at working and leading with their brain, rather than against it! Rachel is renowned for her bold and intuitive coaching and supervision, creating a motivating and powerful transformative experience which is also sustainable and fun! In addition, through her company, Brighter Thinking Limited, Rachel has trained and assessed thousands of corporate professionals in brain-based coaching skills located on six continents. Antarctica TBC…

A nominee for the GLE Rising Star Award in business, Rachel is the first person in the world to be awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in the Neuroscience of Leadership.

06-05-2020 13:30 - 14:45
The Rise of The Coaching Machines
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Paul J Barbour is an executive and team coach. Paul’s interest in the psychology of teams began during a successful 20-year career as a senior leader in Kerry Group PLC.

An award-winning student on the Henley MSc in Coaching & Behavioural Change, Paul was also awarded ‘Best Newcomer’ to Personal Construct Psychology at the 14th Biennial European Personal Construct Association Conference.

Paul and his co-presenter Lucy Widdowson, are co-authoring a book on team coaching to be published in 2020.

05-05-2020 15:15 - 16:30
Team Coaching - Getting Ready for the New Reality
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Jenny Bird, MCC, is an executive coach, working with senior leaders since 2000 and a coach supervisor. Her coaching consultancy partners with organisations to create unique interventions for development and direction. Jenny has contributed to numerous master classes and conferences across the world. She is co-author, with her co-presenter Sarah Gornall, PCC, of the highly acclaimed “The Art of Coaching: A Handbook of Tips and Tools” and “How to Work with People… and Enjoy It”.

06-05-2020 16:30 - 17:45

MCC Demo, Trust in Unknowing (will not be recorded and there is limited availability)
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Bill has been a performance coach with Maynard Leigh Associates since 2004, following 20 years as an actor, then a film and television director. He has coached a huge number of people to improve their presentation skills, including many senior executives. An obstacle that comes up repeatedly for clients is overcoming nerves in front of audiences and creating impact at meetings. Bill sees huge immediate potential in virtual reality to give clients the opportunity to rehearse new techniques and practise dealing with nerves in a no-consequence environment.

06-05-2020 13:30 - 14:45
Coach Bot
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Charly is the Founder of the Climate Change Coaches. As a PCC, her 2400 hours of coaching experience includes supporting humanitarian leaders during the Ebola outbreak of 2014 and again now during coronavirus. Charly believes coaches can play not just a soothing role but an energising one in helping our world to transform. The Climate Change Coaches help people to change their mindset around the environment, and show how coaching skills can be applied to support people and organisations to change rapidly for the planet. The team are hands-on, practical and positive about the potential for coaching to make a big difference to the big challenges facing us.

07-05-2020 12:00 - 13:00
Coaching in the Paradigm Shift
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Dominic Curran is headteacher of St Bede’s Catholic Primary School in Washington, Tyne and Wear. He is passionate about a balanced and holistic approach to education. He has delivered coaching to school leaders and teachers and is working alongside Chancery Multi Academy Trust to develop coaching practice in leadership further.

Dominic and his co-presenters Helen Morris and Louise Gohr are all trained and practising coaches.

06-05-2020 13:30 - 14:15
Power of Coaching in Education: Case Study
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Julie Flower is a leadership and team development consultant and coach. Her special interest lies in helping clients develop spontaneity, adaptability and flexibility of thinking in complex and uncertain systems environments. She runs a leadership and team development practice, The Specialist Generalist Ltd, working with clients as diverse as IE Business School (Madrid), Transport Scotland and GlaxoSmithKline. Her approach is playful, yet professional and purposeful. She is also a regular improv performer in the UK and at international festivals, including with London-based group Classic Andy and female comedy duo Twinprov.

Julie has wide-ranging leadership and consultancy experience in the public, private and third sectors, with particular expertise in the NHS. She is currently completing the Henley MSc in Coaching and Behaviour Change and intends to conduct research on the role of improvisation skills in coaching.

06-05-2020 14:45 - 16:00
Agility in an Uncertain World - Using Improvisation in Coaching
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Known as the “Capability 4.0 Reskilling Architect” Józefa describes herself as a ‘learning disruptor’ aiming to improve creative thinking and innovative practice in the workplace during periods of transformational change and achieves this through effective learning, training and reskilling, She’s a regular assessor of business excellence in HR and Executive Leadership for the Government of the UAE (2017, 2018, 2020) and a former UK project partner for the European Commission, responsible for creating capability frameworks, digital literacy courses and project management learning games.

Józefa’s learning and training interventions not only support the WEF Reskilling Revolution but also the UN’s SDG #4: Quality Education, which she uses as a sustainability benchmark. She has four HR, L&D and Academic Teaching Excellence awards (2009-2019) and has earned three unique CPD badges of quality.

With extensive experience from over 38 years of international advisory, consulting, learning project, training delivery and academic work in 36 countries on five continents across 15 different industries, Józefa is able to hold in balance cross-cultural and virtual team working whilst remaining focused on outcomes that achieve increased team, stakeholder and executive engagement – all of which support and improve business performance during periods of uncertainty and change.

07-05-2020 16:00 - 17:00
The New Reality: Collective Perspective
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Carole is an award-winning speaker, highly-acclaimed coach and author of global best-sellers “Transform Your Life - 10 Steps to Real Results” and “Your Pocket Life Coach”, in addition to two specialist books, “Full Potential Leadership - A Provocative Call to Make a Dramatic Difference” and “Full Potential Coach - Transforming People’s Potential into Results”.

Founding Full Potential Group in 1998, she specialises in coaching executive teams, creating agile culture change, transformational leadership and team development. Carole is a Master Certified Practitioner in Neuro-agility and Motivational Maps. A cancer survivor, she is passionate about well-being and performance, activating new potential in leaders, teams and organisations to make a greater difference in the world.

07-05-2020 13:30 - 14:15
Modelling Coaching with True Alignment in a Chaotic World
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Louise Gohr is a Headteacher in a thriving primary school in Cheshire East. Louise is passionate about learning and believes that regular and honest self-reflection is the key to this. Special Interests are supporting senior leaders and middle leaders.

Louise and her co-presenters Dominic Curran and Helen Morris are all trained and practising coaches.

06-05-2020 13:30 - 14:15
Power of Coaching in Education: Case Study
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Sarah Gornall, PCC, is an experienced executive coach and coach supervisor, described by clients as wise and inspirational. She is co-author of the highly acclaimed “The Art of Coaching: A Handbook of Tips and Tools” and “How to Work with People… and Enjoy It” and also of “Coaching and Learning in Schools”. Sarah has been a Board member of several organisations; President of UK ICF 2018-19. She runs workshops in the UK and internationally.

06-05-2020 16:30 - 17:45

MCC Demo, Trust in Unknowing (will not be recorded and there is limited availability)
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Prior to becoming President of the UK ICF Chapter for 2020, Felicity joined the Board in January 2019 with a remit for Coach Members Experience, Chapter Governance and responsibility for the partnership with the UK ICF Operations team.

To mark 10 years of coaching, she is motivated to volunteer on the Board as a way of demonstrating her commitment to the coaching profession. At this time of growth in the UK Chapter, she is excited to bring her leadership skills to shape and structure the organisation to deliver an enhanced member experience.

Felicity has 20 years of leadership experience within the food and retail industry, putting her strong organisational, strategic and commercial skills to deliver improved benefits to customers, colleagues and shareholders.

04-05-2020 12:00 - 12:15
Welcome Message

07-05-2020 17:00 - 17:15
Week Close

Sam is an executive coach and coach supervisor with a background in leadership of technology assurance. He now leads the coaching services client offering for Grant Thornton, which employs more accredited coaches than any other coaching provider, delivering coach development and coaching governance advisory to a range of organisations. He is Chair of the trailblazer group that has developed the new Coaching Professional apprenticeship, comprising over 100 organisations, and sits on the advisory board for the ICF for Organisations. In addition to drawing on his eclectic knowledge and experience to deliver executive coaching and accredited coach development programmes, his time is spent advising organisations on good practice coaching governance and management, ranging from drafting good practice policies, procedures and processes to developing quality assured pools of internal and external coaches, and ultimately to implementing coaching platforms and return on investment metrics. He has been quoted in the press, including Coaching at Work magazine and The Telegraph, on the topics of future-fit leadership, coaching and digital culture. Outside of work, he has four children aged 2-8 and has written an Amazon #1 bestseller.

07-05-2020 16:00 - 17:00
The New Reality: Collective Perspective
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Dr Barbara is a medical doctor, with a background in psychiatry and public health, an author, experienced public speaker and event leader. She now works with organisations to bring the “how to do it” of wellbeing into the workplace. As a thought leader in her field, her engaging and inspiring events delve into making the most of our most precious shared resource, human energy.

Grounded in science, her down to earth approach has found wide appeal with professionals and companies large and small. Clients include MGOMD, McKinsey, Field Fisher, Randstad, Ares Management, EMSO, SMEG, AEG, and Kobalt. As well as her book, “The Mindfulness Playbook”, she co-authored “Leading with Presence,” and “The Kindness Habit - transforming our relationship to addictive behaviours.”

She also appeared at Glastonbury three years in a row and has three kids, now grown up, who were more than delighted to accompany her to these events!

04-05-2020 13:45 - 14:30
If Covid 19 is the canary in the coal mine, what is it telling us?
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Helen Morris was a Principal in a successful Primary Academy in Cheshire East for seven years. She has now set up Windmill Coaching and Consultancy, and mainly works with clients in the education sector. Her special interests include leadership, career crossroads, and employee wellbeing.

Helen and her co-presenters Dominic Curran and Louise Gohr are all trained and practising coaches.

06-05-2020 13:30 - 14:15
Power of Coaching in Education: Case Study
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Fraser Murray is Global Head of Leadership Faculty for GP Strategies supporting HSBC worldwide. He also runs a global coaching business called Rock The Boat, which employs a network of coaches in 4 continents. As well as being a C-Suite coach himself, he is also the inventor of Coach Connector, the world’s leading coaching platform for Matching, Managing and Measuring the effectiveness of your coaching programs, using the latest ROI technology.

Fraser has worked in 30 countries and spent the last 6 years living in Hong Kong during one of the most turbulent phases of the history of China/HK relations.

Coaching executives and supporting organisations within this stressful climate has mirrored the challenges he has experienced whilst working in China, India, Myanmar, Japan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, UK, USA and many more.

05-05-2020 12:00 - 13:00
The New Reality - Being Brave Honest & Prepared: Business Building Focus
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Christine Paulus is M. Sc. Psychologist, certified Integral Coach and jazz saxophonist.

Since work and organisational psychology is her field of expertise, her scientific focus is on leadership, personality, and team dynamics. She thrives in applying the key factors for stimulating innovation, enhancing performance of individuals, teams and organisations, and creating a fulfilling interaction between work and private life.

As a longtime musician and saxophonist she discovered inspiring similarities between music, business and human development. These findings are the core of her jazz metaphor, whose ideas are captured in her Integral Jazzy Coaching Model.

As a certified Integral Coach and Business Coach and member of the International Coach Federation Christine provides one-on-one online coaching for personal and professional development. She presented her unique jazzy approach in her TEDx Talk “Coaching and All That Jazz”.

06-05-2020 14:45 - 16:00
A Jazzy Mindset to Innovate and Explore Creative Dimensions in Uncertainty
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A former IT Director with a successful 16-year corporate career, Ingrid experienced the negative impact too much ‘mind clutter’ has on productivity and how it gets in the way of objective decision-making. She works with senior leaders, executives and teams who operate in highly complex environments, who are overworked and are constantly juggling between getting the tasks done versus looking after their people. And in the process, they have lost the focus of what is important and needs attention - quite often themselves.

She is a highly experienced multi-lingual and multi-cultural executive coach, both within a corporate environment and elsewhere, holds an ICF ACC credential, is a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and contributes to the Future of Coaching Collaboration (FCC) on how technology is disrupting the coaching industry and its impact on ethics.

04-05-2020 16:15 - 17:00
De-Cluttering: Creating Space for a New Reality
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Liz is a freelance learning and performance improvement specialist with over 25 years’ experience in consulting, leadership development, coaching and team coaching. Liz is an expert in driving sustainable performance improvement and large-scale cultural change programmes, with extensive experience of heading up leadership, management and organisational development programmes that have delivered exceptional results. She is a ICF UK Chapter board member, leading on team coaching, and faculty director for Heidrick’s ICF accredited Team Accelerator Coaching programme.

A highly skilled team coach, Liz has held senior positions, focusing on operational and people development, in both consulting roles and in industry at Ford and Sky and co-founded Bluesky Performance Improvement.

Liz’s distinctive skill is her extensive experience of enabling sustainable change, working with every level in the organisation to embed growth learning cultures. Known for her commerciality, creativity and fresh thinking in her design, she helps teams find clarity and transparency to have the conversations they need to have to accelerate performance.

06-05-2020 12:00 - 13:00
How is ICF for Organisations supporting its members in this time of crisis?
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Aboodi Shabi is Lecturer in Coaching and Behavioural Change at Henley Business School.

He has been working in executive coaching and coach training since the mid 1990s and has several years of international coaching, training and leadership development experience. He has delivered coach-training programmes and worked with executives and teams all over the world, in sectors ranging from NGOs to financial services, pharmaceuticals and media.

He is a regular speaker on the international coaching circuit, and a popular international speaker and has also been invited as guest tutor on mastery in coaching at several European coaching schools.

He has been on the ICF global coaching board, and was founding co-President of the UK ICF Chapter.

He is currently on the editorial board of Coaching at Work magazine.

04-05-2020 15:00 - 15:45
Resilience Not Endurance – Ready for the Challenges Ahead
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Lucy Widdowson is an accredited coach and team coach and Director of Performance Edge Partners Ltd. Lucy has worked at board level as an HR director and led award-winning teams. A graduate of the Henley MSc Coaching & Behavioural Change, Lucy conducted her masters research on the impact of team coaching.

She has been a pivotal contributor to the International Coach Federation global research on team coaching competencies and the UK Chapter lead for team coaching.

Lucy and her co presenter Paul J Barbour, are co-authoring a book on team coaching to be published in 2020.

05-05-2020 15:15 - 16:30
Team Coaching - Getting Ready for the New Reality
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Eleanor is the founder of Foresightfully, a consulting disruptor whose mission is to help business leaders to act with foresight. In other words, to understand the pace and scale of external change and to develop (and implement) strategies in response. She is an experienced speaker, facilitator and consultant. Prior to founding Foresightfully, Eleanor was Director and Head of the Future Institute at KPMG in the UK.

Over the past ten years Eleanor has worked with the leadership teams of some of the world’s largest organisations – bringing change to life, facilitating debate and inspiring action. Her clients include British Airways, JLL, Hiscox, KPMG, Airbus, The Grosvenor Estate, the National Housing Federation and many more.

07-05-2020 16:00 - 17:00
The New Reality: Collective Perspective
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John Welsh is an executive coach, an expert on the impact of technology in coaching, a subject he write about as a contributor to Forbes.com.

He left corporate life in 2017 to set up both a solo coaching practice and work with Aim Higher Leadership, a partnership of coaches, where his client base is the founders of startups, those leaders in corporates tackling transformation and accelerators.

Previously he worked for UBM (now Informa), a FTSE 250 global media company, first as an award-winning editor of magazines, then an EMEA division board member, with his own P&L, leading teams, both in the US and Europe, experimenting with technology to make readers and visitors have a better experience.

07-05-2020 16:00 - 17:00
The New Reality: Collective Perspective
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