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NEW CPD COURSE FOR COACHES: Break through the Blocks
Those of us in the business of helping others achieve their potential are aware of the difficulties people often face in making the changes in their behaviour or lives that are necessary to more forward in a positive way. If you want to take your coaching and counselling skills to another level, and learn how to facilitate those “breakthrough” moments then this workshop is for you
New one day Training Course in Career Coaching for trained coaches
A practical tools day for in-house trained coaches who are being asked to deal with career issues, and want to have some successful ways of responding to coachees
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Developing Career Resilience
A new workshop for organisations to help staff stay resilient in turbulent times
Career Coaching Programme Discounts
We are offering a special career coaching programme for appointments made in July and August - three meetings of 1.5 hours for just £500. Call the CCS office for further details.
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Robert Nathan
BSc, MSc, MA, DipCouns, CertSystConsult, CPsychol
Managing Director
Robert has been career coaching and counselling people at all stages of their career since 1978. He has led over two hundred workshops in career coaching, teambuilding and managing organisational change. He supervises the work of professional career coaches and counsellors, and is a Chartered Psychologist. Robert has co-authored the text book 'Career Counselling' ( R Nathan & L Hill, Sage, 2006) and continues to write on coaching related topics. He regularly runs workshops for professional groups, such as the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology.
Relevant Qualifications / Training
- Chartered Occupational Psychologist (1974)
- Diploma in Counselling (1980)
- Certificate in Systemic Coaching(2000)
- Training in Solution Focussed Coaching (2002)
- Qualified in Level A and B (eg Myers Briggs, 360 degree feedback)
- Masters in Creative Writing & Personal Development (2009)
Publications Include
- Career Counselling (co-authored with Linda Hill,) Sage, 2nd edition 2006)
- How to Survive Unemployment: Creative Alternatives (CIPD/IPM, 1982)
- Numerous career-counselling and coaching related articles, including:
"Coaching with Open Ears" (People Management, May 2003)
Work Experience Relevant to Career Counselling
- Trained over 2000 people in Career Counsellling
- Run a CPD-focussed Alumni association for trained Career Counsellors, which provides further training for about 80 people per annum
- Provided expert input on new Career Counselling Postgraduate Certificate in Managing Medical Careers at the University of Brighton
- Provided career counselling and coaching for over 5000 individuals, including senior managers anticipating, and moving into, new roles
- Awarded National Training Award for training some 100 career coaches in the BBC
- Provided coaching and/or training for the following organisations:
- The Audit Commission: training of internal career coaches (ongoing)
- Bank of England: team development; training of career coaches, coaching senior team, training managers in supporting staff through change (ongoing)
- BBC: designed and developed training programme for over 100 internal career coaches. Awarded National Training Award (2002-2006)
- Boots Plc: trained career coaches and ran career workshops for managers and graduates (2002)
- BT: ran career workshop for High Potential, early Potential, sales and HR staff; ran career coaching training – over 8 years period (1994-2002)
- Ernst & Young: provided career coaching and training (ongoing)
- Hillingdon NHS Trust: ran career coaching training for HR staff (2001)
- Home Office: career coaching training for internal team of 12 development staff (2008-9)
- The Housing Corporation: two year contract to provide career support for all staff (500) (ongoing)
- IESE, University of Barcelona: training MBA Careers Advisers (2009)
- Metropolitan Police: career workshops for Fast stream (2008-9)
- Ministry of Defence: trained full complement (9) of internal Careers Guidance team (ongoing)
- OECD, Paris: awarded 3 year contract to provide career support & training (ongoing)
- Oxfordshire County Council: awarded two year contract to provide career counselling training, and workshops for the Council (ongoing)
- Pfizer International, Ireland: trained 16 L & D and HR staff in career coaching (2007-8)
- Shell International: trained staff providing career coaching for partners of ex-pats relocating to the Netherlands (ongoing)
- UNHCR, Geneva: trained HR team in career counselling (ongoing)
- The Audit Commission: training of internal career coaches (ongoing)
- Coached middle to senior managers in developing their change management skills
- Conducted team building workshops, and individual transition coaching, with one of the most senior teams (newly formed) in the Bank of England, in the face of significant technology-led change.
Gillian Freedman
BA, MLitt, DipPsychCouns
Senior Career Coach
Senior career coach and trainer with CCS for 15 years, providing career coaching to managers and staff in public and private organisations. Wide experience of training over 2000 HR staff in career management skills and coaching skills, and running change management and career and personal development workshops. Supervises the work of career coaches. Consistently excellent feedback and referrals over 14 years.
Worked on successful CCS bid and won National Training Award for career coaching skills training for the BBC.
Author of CCS Networking Companion and Job Search Guide.
Gilly is a qualified coach (Solution focussed and Systemic Consultation) and counsellor.
Consultancy Experience
- Career and personal development programmes : workshops and individual career coaching for all levels of staff in the Housing Corporation, the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police
- Training of career coaches in the Audit Commission & the BBC
- Workshops for women returners with individual coaching sessions for each participant; 50% gained employment after 6 months whilst sorting out work life issues
- Written publications: a handbook of networking; teach yourself career break (ongoing).
- Online: developing an online career development programme for senior women
- British Council: assistant director in Poland and Italy, teaching English and English Literature
- Core Career Counselling skills course: five day public courses for HR professionals and independent consultants, part of Kingston university
- PwC: 4 months coaching senior managers in the career management centre
- Cable & Wireless: 6 months developing material and career counselling staff in the career centre
- London Business School: design and run job search workshops
- One day workshops designed and delivered for senior women in the City addressing the glass ceiling and diversity issues
- Workshops for career coaching skills for managers: BBC
- Supporting Directors in times of change: three day workshop for the Board at major advertising company and top team at Bank of England.
- PG certificate in Career Coaching and Talent Management; participants gain greatly increased skill and confidence in dealing with career issues
- Workshops run at CCS alumni events for previous students of courses
- Nomura: Training Manager, 1987-92
Karin Dean
BAPsych, MSc, CPsychol.
Karin joined CCS in 2006. She worked in IT and management consultancy for over 20 years before taking a career break to undertake an MSc in Organisational Psychology and is now a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. She works primarily in the areas of career counselling, executive coaching and management development, with special interests in stress management and coping with life changes. Karin holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy and is certified as an NLP trainer.
Odette Beris
BA, MSc, C.Psychol
Odette Beris is a Chartered Psychologist, Coach and Associate at CCS. She is the Founder of EnormousYes, a coaching practice specialising in the creative and media industries. Odette has spent most of her career working within media environments including working at the BBC as an Organisational Psychologist, where she also worked as a BBC coach.
Much of her work has involved profiling candidates for jobs and for career development purposes. She has a bank of experience in designing and delivering assessment and development centres and is trained to use a wide variety of personality profiling tools. Odette has also run her own career coaching consultancy and head-hunted journalists for the publishing and new media industry.
Outside of psychology, she pursues her creative endeavours by writing and recording music, having released an EP in 2009.
Odette is energised by working in a collaborative partnership with clients to encourage them to map out and create a vision of their future path that leads to meaningful change!
- Chartered Psychologist, registered with the British Psychological Society
- MSc in Organisational Psychology (City University) (Distinction)
- Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Distinction)
- Founder member of the Special Group in Coaching Psychology
- Certificate in Coaching (Centre for Coaching)
- BBC-trained Coach
- Level A and B in Occupational Testing: trained on a variety of personality questionnaires including:
Strengthscope, WAVE, OPQ, MBTI, 16PF, HPI. - Foundation Course in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Regent’s College)
- B.A. Creative Arts
Tutors and Coaches
Eric Decker
MSc, MA. CPsychol.
As an Associate of CCS, Eric has led many workshops on Career Management, Supporting Staff through Change and Team Development. He also provides Transition Coaching for senior staff moving to new roles. Eric is also an Associate of Ashridge Management College, where he works as a coach on leadership development programmes.
Eric has worked within the arena of Executive Coaching and Leadership Development for over 17 years, and is an accredited coach with Ashridge Management College. He is a Business Psychologist, and a member of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. After training in Organisational & Occupational Psychology in 1987, Eric worked for British Telecom, within their Business Psychology Group, contributing to BT's major leadership and culture change programmes. In 1992, he set up as an independent consultant adding both depth and breadth to his experience, particularly in such areas as: leadership coaching/training & personal, career, and management development.
At Ashridge, he has worked as a leadership coach on the Ashridge Leadership Process (ALP), its 'flagship' leadership development programme, for the past 11 years. In addition, he provides on-going individual coaching on a number of 'tailored' Ashridge management development programmes. His experience extends to working with all levels of managers within organisations, from junior & middle managers to the executive board. As the current Head of Coach Development for the ALP, he monitors the progress of new coaches, and organises activities for the continuous professional development of an existing team of 25 coaches. His client base stretches across sectors, organisations, and international borders.
As a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, Eric has certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing - Levels A & B. He is qualified and registered to use a wide range of personality tests, including the MBTI (Steps I & II), 16PF, OPQ, FIRO-B etc. and 360 degree instruments, such as PDI’s Profilor. Eric regularly provides psychometric feedback, to delegates on a range of Leadership Programmes, as well as in his capacity as a career development coach.
Cathy Brown
MSc, MBA
As a qualified career coach, Cathy works with clients to address their career questions whether this involve reinventing a new career direction or looking at ways of enhancing their current work.
As an occupational psychologist, Cathy has well over a decade of experience in business and HR consulting. Cathy has a Masters of Business Administration from the European School of Management, Paris, and has a Masters in Occupational Psychology with Birkbeck College, University of London.
She works as a business coach with the Prince's Trust to help new business start-ups. She also is a guest lecturer on the general and executive MBA programme at Nottingham University. Cathy is the founder of evolve enterprise and the designer of Testing the Water questionnaire. Together with Rob Nathan, she has developed the Testing the Water Coaching Toolkit, which has helped many people consider their suitability for self employment. Organisations using Testing the Water include the BBC, Boots, Loughborough University and Shell International.
Seren Trewavas
MA, MSc, Dip HRM, MCIPD
Seren is a personal development specialist and Occupational Psychologist with 16 years experience in the field of learning and development within both public and private sectors in particular media and retail. Seren brings to CCS experience in training design and delivery, workshop and event facilitation, and executive and career coaching.
Seren’s current designations include Head of Management Development at ITV and Programme Director at the London Business School.
Seren contributes to the CCS CPD programme for Career Counsellor and Coaches. In 2010 she has run two workshops for CCS accredited Career Coaches in Second Order Change.
Recent key assignments
- Designed and led delivery of Just Imagine and Big Conversation sessions in Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo as part of BBC’s Making It Happen Initiative.
- Designed and led Arab Leadership programme for senior figures in the Middle East.
- Designed and delivered Strategic Sales Programme for ITV (winner of a National Training award)
- Designed and delivered leadership programmes at junior, middle and senior level for ITV
- Designed and led a master class for experienced Careers coaches on “Second Order Change”
- Designed and led a workshop on “Creating an Adaptive Culture” for the management team of Polka theatre group
- Co-facilitated on the BBC/Ashridge Leadership programme
- Led sessions to introduce and embed new Values and Behaviours for Senior teams in BBC Worldwide
Qualifications and Accreditations
- MA (Hons) Psychology
- MSc Occupational Psychology
- Diploma in Human Resource Management
- Graduate Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- BPS chartership level 2
- Ashridge accreditation in Executive coaching (EMCC kitemarked)
- NLP Practitioner
- BPS Level A and B
- MBTI step 1 and 2
- SDI (Strengths Deployment Inventory)
- OPQ (Occupational Personality Questionnaire)
- Belbin (accredited with merit)
- LSI (Leadership Styles Inventory)
- ECI (Emotional competence inventory)
Jean Floyed
BA, CPsychol.
Jean is a psychologist and psychotherapist who joined CCS in 1990, having previously worked as a consultant with Saville & Holdsworth. Co-author of the CCS Self Assesment and Job Search Guides, she has led many Career and Personal Development Workshops. In addition Jean has extensive experience of working with individuals at times of change. She is particularly interested in using creative approaches to facilitate and manage change.
Jean works on CCS training programmes aimed at Health practitioners, in particular with GP Registrars, whom she trains in ways of facilitating change in patients.
Alliance Partner
Anton Fishman is a long time alliance partner of CCS where he has contributed to several Alumni workshops over the last few years. He has 25 years experience as a strategic HR consultant working with a wide cross section of UK and international businesses such as BP, LloydsTSB, PowerGen, The AA and Ernst & Young to effect significant and lasting change through their people. A Cranfield MBA, Anton was practice leader at Hay Group in the late ‘80s establishing its McBer Management Competencies practice and then leading the Performance Management practice working with clients in the transformation of ‘Personnel’ to HR. He subsequently established and ran the successful change management consultancy Regenesis and joined the Board of Boyden Interim Management in 2006 where he supported the rapid growth of the business, now Alium Partners. Anton has recently returned to consulting co-founding strategic HR consulting firm Crowne Finch.
Administrators
Alex joined CCS in 2008 and has a rather varied background. Born and raised in Vienna where she went to the Lycee Francais and took her baccalaureat she later went to Lausanne to do a degree in Hotel Management. She lived and worked in several European countries and speaks German, French and Italian fluently.
Alex has often changed direction in her professional life, always following her intuition and what life had to offer at that moment. She is a true “Lebenskuenstler” (life artist) and adapts easily to new situations. Life means constant development and we never stop learning – that concept and her love of people has brought her to CCS, where she, together with Danit, tries to organise Rob, Gilly and the other consultants and carries out the daily administrative tasks to run the operation.