Find a Coach
At South West Coaching we are lucky to have access to highly trained, professional and experienced coaches who get results for their clients. Have a look at the profiles below and if you cant find what you are looking for then please email us and we will be able to connect you with the best coach for your needs. See Biographies below.
Supervision
We have coaches trained in Supervision with the Bath Consultancy, and Mentorship who can offer this service. As a coach its paramount that you are gaining regular supervision to constantly develop your own learning, insight and skills. If you are looking for a supervisor or a mentor in the field of coaching then please email your requirements and we will recommend an appropriate person to suit you. All of our Associates access regular supervision. We can offer face to face, phone or group supervision. Also we run a local coaching community meeting, the Professional Coaching Association where you can access free informal peer group supervision. Email info@southwestcoaching.co.uk for details.
Formal professional Group Supervision running quarterly from April 2011. The sessions will be overseen by a qualified supervisor, an agreed contract and will be run using the Hawkins & Shohet 7 eyed model. There are limited numbers so please email your interest and details will be sent out to you.
Dee is one of the most respected and sought after coaches within the NHS. She has gained this reputation based on her professionalism, credability, integrity and ability to connect with her clients.
Her expertise is in coaching GP's in primary care. Within the NHS she also coaches consultants, executive directors, senior managers and team leaders.
Dee has a remarkable ability to remain the calm in the centre of any storm. Her clients success lies in her intuition along with balancing their needs. Her strengths lie in quickly building rapport and trust to enable effective challenge to take place. This then develops the clients ability to deepen self awareness and generate choice. Her style is one of common sense, being grounded, alongside empathy, understanding and natural ability.
Dee is fully accredited in the use of:
- Team Management Systems (tmsdi)
- ACE Achieving Communication Excellence (ACE)
- Pi Reflector 360 degree feedback
- DISC profiling
Along with coaching Dee is a trained mediator, supervisor and coach supervisor. She is a member of the EMCC European Mentoring & Coaching Council.
Dee holds Diplomas in Personal Performance, Positive Impact Coaching and Corporate & Executive Coaching.
She lives in the beautiful surroundings of Dartmoor with her family. Contact via dee@southwestcoaching.co.uk.
Caroline Winter - Business & Executive Coaching
Caroline is a qualified Executive Coach. She provides her clients with support for personal and strategic issues including planning for success, career moves, change, workplace relationships and many other matters.
A Police Officer for 30 years, Caroline was the first woman in her force to achieve the rank of Assistant Chief Constable. She has coached and mentored police officers and police staff from first line supervisors up to and including Chief Superintendents over the last 10 years.
Caroline is happy to coach face to face or by telephone. All discussions are in total confidence. She is also a qualified teacher, facilitator and has experience as a management consultant.
“ I was approached about 2 years ago to help a police inspector prepare for a promotion interview. She had tried preparing by herself but had not succeeded in overcoming her nerves to present herself in the best possible way. We worked together on this project; I created relevant questions for a mock interview and my client worked hard to marshal her evidence. I gave her some structure to her answers and honest feedback on how she came across. In the actual interview my client was the most successful candidate of all.
Over my career in the police service I had seen so many excellent people almost fall to pieces at the interview stage of the selection process and, of course, I had had plenty of experience myself of being interviewed and as a member of the selection panel. My motivation has been to work with my clients so they may have the confidence to be the best they can be and I am now in a position to devote my working life to this end.”
Based in Devon, Caroline is happy to travel throughout the UK to meet clients. Caroline is a sole trader. Registered Company
Carolyn Hooker - Leadership & Executive Coaching
FCIPD, FRSA, MPhil, MICF
In an ideal world we would all be natural leaders, each uniquely talented, a tower of strength with a depth and breadth beyond imagination, so why is it that in our working lives our power is reduced until we shrink inside ourselves and struggle to realise our full potential? When we spend most of our waking hours developing our careers, professions and organisations why do we find them such complicated beasts which seek to outwit even the best of us? Ask yourself what could you lose by changing through coaching, but then ask yourself an even bigger question - what would you not gain?
As someone who enjoys a challenge, is forever out of her ‘comfort zone’ and seeks change at every turn, Carolyn’s spirit in her coaching is irrepressible. Having come to coaching after two successful careers, one in delivering high impact learning and the other in the performing arts, Carolyn was trained by the Coaches Training Institute in London by master coaches from Canada and the USA in 2004. After this life changing experience she has brought together hundreds of hours of personal experience from talking to managers about how they cope and thrive and has developed an approach which uses the very best of theory and practice to put our individual humanity centre stage. She believes there is truly a way to manage and lead enterprises with a human face.
Carolyn has a warm and empathy to match her extensive knowledge and experience. They are a potent blend. As a result she can reach the parts other coaches cannot reach; working with her is not only fun but an uplifting experience as well.
Carolyn spent ten years with two internationally renowned Business Schools and another five delivering learning for a well-known educational company but has never forgotten beginning her career with some amazingly creative people. She has a background in leadership and management development, training and HR. She is an Affiliate of the Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University Business School, a member of the International Coaching Federation and a Fellow of CIPD; she is also a business coach and mentor. She loves joining professional organisations but is at heart a free spirit and feels her biggest achievement to date is raising her two children to take their own place in the world.
Ann Buckingham - Speaker & Life Coach
BSc, PGCE, FCMI, Speaker & Coach
Ann is a Speaker & Life Coach & helps inspire people to move forward in an area of their life.
Ann has been fortunate to have enjoyed many rich experiences in her life & has always had a passion for personal development. She has held many senior executive positions in the corporate world, but it was events in her personal life however, in her 40’s, that led her into coaching after her husband was involved in a road accident & acquired brain injuries. She had to find ways to cope better with both the sudden changes in her life & also in balancing her roles of carer, new mother & career. She discovered so much new knowledge & skills which helped her with these challenges. She became fascinated by the power of our mind & wanted to share this with others & therefore trained to become a Life Coach
Some themes she includes in her talks & coaching are:
Look at your values & beliefs & replace any limiting beliefs that may be holding you back?
Be able to change how you feel and manage your emotions?
Deal with stressful situations even better & choose your reaction to events?
Be able to change the thoughts that come into your mind?
Become more aware of your mind & body connections?
Manage your energy better & attract more of what you would like into your life?
Explore the choices you have in the present & future?
Coaching Experience
Ann became part of the Tony Robbins Leadership team and qualified as a Masters Results Coach, a Trainer and Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming and a Master in Hypnosis. These qualifications have added, not only variety to Ann's coaching approaches, but also made it possible for her clients to find solutions in their lives, which can be life changing, in a surprisingly short period of time .To view some background about Ann’s speaking & coaching, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbNoDA32h48.
Corporate Positions
College Principal, Consultant with Henley Management College, Consultant with the National College of School Leadership, President of British Junior Chamber of Commerce, Judge of the National Training Awards & has also lectured in leadership internationally
Mark Robertson - Team Coaching & Development
Mark Robertson is a skilled facilitator with deep experience across the public and voluntary sector, and in an international role. He believes that 'no-one is perfect but a team can be' and is passionate about focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses, and using difference to drive performance.
He is qualified to use the Myers Briggs instrument and Margerison McCann Team Management System. As well as being an associate of South West Coaching he runs his own business, focusing on enhancing the performance of leaders, teams and organisations.
Erica Lewis- Life Coaching & NLP
Erica works with people who are feeling stuck, stressed, unsure and perhaps not yet making the difference they would love to in the world. Erica enables you to recognise you already have innate wisdom, calm, creativity and resilience so there is nothing to ‘fix’. When you start to see that your insecure feelings are only a result of treating your habitual thoughts as real, you have insights that mean old stresses and stuck feelings begin to fade away. Erica supports you to get really clear about what's important and achieve fulfilment while retaining balance in your life. Erica has 30 years experience managing voluntary and organisations in the health and social care sector and is qualified as an NLP Master Coach. As a qualified NLP Trainer she also delivers training in coaching, presentations and communication
Tony Everett - Business Coach
Tony Everett bought his own business at the age of 23. Since then he has built up a number of businesses and established a good reputation as an adviser to many entrepreneurs and main boards. He won the best business adviser of the year award from the CBI and is on the board of UKRD which recently won the Sunday Times best business to work for award. He has wide experience of raising funds for growth and developing strategies to succeed. In addition he was deeply involved in establishing a portfolio of companies in turnaround stages and also innovation from universities. He was a founder of a Venture capital company in London and is on the board of several companies in the UK.