Education and qualifications:
Gill is one of the few facilitators or coaches in the UK to have a Doctorate in Team Coaching. She also has an MA in Coaching and Mentoring from Oxfors Brookes University, an MBA from Warwick University and a degree in English from Leeds University.
She is a fellow of the CIPD and was one of the first coaches in the country to be accredited as a master practitioner by the EMCC. Gill is also qualified to supervise coaches.
She is a NLP Master Practitioner and NLP Trainer and certified to use a range of psychometric instruments including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Emotional Competence Inventory and OPQ.
Work experience:
Formerly Human Resources Director for Europe and Asia of a US high tech company, Gill has extensive hands-on international human resources, organisational development, training and coaching experience, gained within multi-cultural, multi-national, fast-growing, rapidly changing environments.
Gill founded Iridium in May 2000 with a mission of helping companies develop their most important assets – their people.
Coaching experience:
Clients range in size from small, privately owned, to multi-national corporations and public sector organisations. Clients include for example; Vodafone, Mercedes Benz, the NHS, and the Suffolk Coaching Partnership. Gill’s work incorporates one-to-one and team coaching, facilitation and training.
The coaching ranges from one-off sessions to structured programmes extending over several months.
Areas of expertise:
- Delivering results to improve individual performance in line with the organisational requirements
- Developing action plans for achieving goals
- Removing barriers to success
- Realising potential
- Career development
- Transitioning to a new role
- Presentation skills
- Making change happen
- Coaching skills
- Relationship skills
- Leadership
- Difficult conversations
- Work/Life balance
- Facilitation of meetings
- Team Development
Level for coaching and facilitation:
Coaching approach:
- Creating well-formed outcomes for the coaching.
- Developing self-awareness.
- Working with the client to explore new ways of working
- Working with the client to embed the learning and take personal responsibility for ongoing development
Throughout the programme clients are provided with email and phone support. ‘Homework’ is agreed at the end of each session.
Tools and Models used: Self-discovery:
GROW model. NLP models: creating well-formed outcomes, perceptual positions, Meta model. Skill-building: Presenting Yourself With Impact, Transactional analysis, self-observation exercises, NLP models, coaching models.
References:
Gill’s clients particularly comment on her passion for her work and her ability to gain the trust and respect of all participants and, having done so, provide feedback in a challenging but non-threatening way. References are available and there are testimonials on our testimonial page.
See Gill's new book: Team Coaching With Impact at Work is available now on Amazon.
To discuss more, contact us now on 07881 636538 or contact us via email.