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Developed jointly with Barton’s IT Services Limited

Certification:

PMI qualified project manager.

An accredited life coach with The Coaching Academy,
the largest coaching training company in Europe.
For more details please visit www.the-coaching-academy.com.

Member of the International Coaching Federation.

NLP practitioner.

Experiences:

Over 30 years working for IBM Development, leaving in 2005. (Some group-coaching of project managers before leaving.)

Running own coaching business since 2005: quite a learning curve from large corporate!

Clients usually highly intelligent technical people who're feeling overloaded, putting something off or stuck in a rut. Focussing on You identifies truly desired goals, your will and develops your self-analytical ability to review progress honestly.

Job history at IBM

• Project manager in Voice Response software 2000-2005
• Test specialist in Voice Response software 1997-2000
• Requirements planning 1992-1997
• Planner; organised stand at Voice ’92 exhibition, London
• PA to ‘Voice Response’ transfer manager 1991-1992
• Scientific Centre Manager  1989-1991

          - parallel processing (including hardware development)

          - data visualisation

          - speech recognition

• Technical planning 1986-1988
• VLSI chip design using software tools 1982-1986
• Engineering design tools: logic entry, simulation, test pattern generation  1978-1982
• Hardware logic design 1974-1978

Beliefs:

 Everyone is a unique individual, with unique experience and unique ways to impose self-limitations!  Together with a desire for continuous personal development, a supportive coach can help anyone to make desired changes they truly want to make.

 Motivation is the power in our life

 We all have skills we can utilise e.g. cooking can be complex project management. (Project management is a skill we should all learn – or realise we know – how to do things in parallel (juggle), plan (to hit a deadline))

 We can all learn new skills

 Knowing how one learns is really important, to being able to develop

Other passions (apart from tennis!):

Active with local Toastmaster International groups in Dorset and Hampshire, which provide a 'learn-by-doing' and fun environment to improve public speaking in an enjoyable way.

Active with local Chamber and networking group (Ferndown, Dorset)