Organisation Development & Coaching
As an OD practitioner and coach, my approach is steeped in Gestalt. Stemming from a humanistic psychology, Gestalt has at its heart the belief in self-organisation and growth and that emergence and newness stems from heightening awareness in the client.
I am an accredited GPO (Gestalt Practitioner in Organisations) with EAGT (European Association of Gestalt Therapy), as well as an Ashridge Accredited Coach and Supervisor. I work with key associates in organisations to deliver bespoke work that meets the needs of each client.
Developing Leaders to Work with Emergence and Complexity
Developing leaders is the primary task of any successful organisation. With increasingly complex work situations, competence is not enough. Leaders of the future need to have the ability to manage relationships and be responsive to others and their situation. I believe that leadership presence and resilience are essential attributes for leaders to know how to work with emergence and complexity.
Executive and Team Coaching
Whether one to one or in teams, coaching provides an invaluable space for personal development as well as an effective organisational wide intervention. Research into coaching has demonstrated the ripple effect of such interventions (be it on individuals or teams) on wellbeing, transformational leadership and goal attainment for those coached.
Large and Small Group Facilitation
Facilitation is a skill that serves a group purpose. This may be in service of learning (as for Action Learning Sets), or to support a team respond to internal or situational challenges. When team dynamics are difficult and/or when stakes are high, it is helpful to have an external person to support a group moving forward towards their desired objective. Fostering dialogue is often a fundamental part of this process.
Organisational Development (OD) & Change
I view OD and change work as tapping into the need of the organisation and engaging the various stakeholders around a coherent figure of the change required. As a Gestalt relational practitioner, I believe organisations behave as relational living systems with the capacity to self-organise, to evolve, and emerge in response to changes in their environment and in constant relationship with themselves and their environment.
My task would be therefore to help the organisation gain clarity around its strategy and priorities, support stakeholder engagement for action and, ensure that learning and therefore change is sustained within the client system.
When we surrender to dialogue, the conversation we intend is
always different from the conversation that happens.– Lynne Jacobs (2016)