Coach Supervision

• My approach to coaching supervision

  I offer group and individual coaching supervision for practising professional coaches and internal coaches. Sessions are typically driven by individual needs but will often include:

  • Discussion of practice and questions arising – for example ethical dilemmas, conflicts of interest, boundary problems etc.
  • Resourcing the coach with new tools, techniques or models
  • Mapping client systems to reveal underlying dynamics
  • Co-coaching sessions with practice feedback
  • Development planning to ensure coaches continue to grow their practice capabilities

  While my approach to coaching is informed by Gestalt, Systems & Complexity Perspectives and Positive Psychology, I am happy to work with coaches using different modalities. While group supervision is offered face to face, individual supervision is also available via Skype/Facetime/Zoom.

• Coaching Supervision Expertise

  • Accredited coaching supervisor (Association of  Coaching Supervisors)
  • Post-graduate certificate in Coaching Supervision at Oxford Brookes University (with distinction)
  • PhD in use of feedback in leader development.
  • MA in Coaching and Mentoring at Oxford Brookes University (with distinction).
  • AC Accredited Master Professional Coach
  • Member of the coach supervision team on the MA in Coaching and Mentoring Practice at Oxford Brookes University
  • Qualified in psychometric type and trait assessment including MBTI (Step I and II), FIRO-B, TKI and experienced in use of 360 feedback systems, and ‘strengths’ tools such as StrengthsFinder, Strengths Deployment Inventory and Realise 2. Accredited in the use of emotional intelligence instruments – EQ-i 2.0 and the EQ-i 360
  • Recently published in the ‘Coaching: An international journal of theory, research and practice’, the International Journal of Evidence-based Coaching and Mentoring, and the International Coaching Psychology Review. ‘Supervising the internal coach’ has recently been published by the Open University

  “Alison has designed and delivered a number of coaching and team building related activities for me over the years – the first was in 2005; the last in 2010. She is quite simply my first go-to person in this field and I suspect always will be.”

  IS Director, International Hedge Fund

• Coaching Supervision Experience

  Examples of supervision assignments include:

  • Group supervision of internal coaches within the Civil Service
  • Providing one-one supervision for coaches attending the MA in Coaching and Mentoring Practice at Oxford Brookes University
  • Provision of ‘train the coach’ programmes in a variety of multi-national organisations
  • One-one telephone supervision for designated internal coaches within international finance organisation

• Career Overview

  35 years+ experience with blue-chip organisations, working with manufacturing, nationalised industry, pharmaceuticals, travel, financial services, as well as the retail sector. Career experience includes information systems, operations, training & development, organisation development, change management and coaching. Specialism in use of feedback for leader development.