Dr Anthony M Grant is recognised as a key pioneer of Coaching Psychology and evidence-based approaches to coaching. He is the founder and Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the University of Sydney, and a Visiting Professor at the International Centre for Coaching and Leadership Development, Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has written six books on evidence-based coaching and has over sixty coaching-related publications in the peer-reviewed and professional press, including six randomised controlled coaching outcome studies. In 2007 Anthony was awarded the British Psychological Society Award for outstanding professional and scientific contribution to Coaching Psychology (Special Group in Coaching Psychology), and in 2009 he was awarded the “Vision of Excellence Award” from Harvard University (McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School) for his pioneering work in helping to develop a scientific foundation to coaching. He is a practitioner, a teacher and a researcher. He was the main presenter and the coaching psychologist in the ground-breaking 2010 ABC TV series “Making Australia Happy”. He plays rather loud, but not very good blues guitar.

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD FAC is Founder Director of the Centre for Coaching, London and Founder Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at City University London. He is a Chartered Psychologist, an HPC registered Health Psychologist, an APECS Accredited Executive Coach and APECS Accredited Executive Coach Supervisor, a Society for Coaching Psychology Accredited Coaching Psychologist, and an IABMCP Diplomate in Professional Coaching.

He is Honorary President of the Society for Coaching Psychology and was the first Honorary President of the Association for Coaching, and the first Chair of the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology. He was a Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee during 2004-2005. In his 2004 BBC 1 television series, The Stress Test, he demonstrated cognitive coaching and cognitive therapy.

He is the Executive Editor of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice and the UK Coordinating Co-Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review. He has authored or edited 35 books including The Handbook of Coaching Psychology (with Whybrow, Routledge, 2007), The Coaching Relationship: Putting People First (with McDowall, 2010) and Developmental Coaching: Life Transitions and Generational Perspectives (with Panchal, 2011).

In 2008 the British Psychological Society, Special Group in Coaching Psychology gave him the 'Lifetime Achievement Award in Recognition of Distinguished contribution to coaching psychology'. His interests include jazz, astronomy, coastal walking, writing and art.

Tim Anstiss is a physician, teacher, coach and coach trainer. He has trained thousands of health and social care professionals in motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural approaches, and has worked with a range of organisational clients on behaviour change issues including the Department of Health, the Welsh Assembly Government, NHS London, Boots the Chemist and GSK. Tim is a former international pole vaulter and Gladiators contender, and was one of the ‘Slough 50’ in the BBC documentary ‘Making Slough Happy’. He has been interested in Stoic Philosophy and Buddhism for over 20 years.

Peter Hawkins, Chairman Renewal Associates, Emeritus Chairman Bath Consultancy Group, and Professor of Leadership at Henley Management College, is a leading coach, writer and researcher in Leadership, Team Coaching and Board development.  He has worked with many leading organisations in many parts of the world including Europe, South Africa, America and the Far East as organisational consultant, executive team and board coach and coach to senior leaders.

Peter is a thought leader in Executive Coaching and Team Coaching, President of the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS). He leads the international modular training programme in the Supervision of Coaches, Mentors and Consultants through Bath Consultancy Group and works with a number of organisations helping them maximise the learning and value they achieve from their coaching activity. 

He is the author of many books and papers including Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision and Development McGraw-Hill 2006 ; The Wise Fool’s Guide to Leadership O Books 2005; Leadership Team Coaching Kogan Page April 2011 and Coaching Strategy: Steps to creating a Coaching Culture. McGraw-Hill December 2011.

Christian is a highly sought-after executive coach, researcher and educational consultant with significant leadership experience in the public sector. He has held senior marketing and business development roles in the Middle East and in the UK. Christian has a portfolio career, currently dividing his time between three roles: Senior Lecturer of Coaching at UEL, Chief Executive of the International Centre for Coaching in Education and executive coach and peer supervisor for the West Midlands Coaching Pool.

Christian is an acknowledged expert in the field of coaching in education. He is a reflective and thoughtful coach, delivering executive coaching to senior leaders in major organisations in the UK, providing consultancy to schools and colleges and training others to become executive coaches. He is particularly interested in building coaching cultures in organisations and the implications of cross-cultural coaching.

His book Coaching in Education is due to be published in September 2011.

email: chrisvn@uel.ac.uk
twitter: @ChristianvN

Dr Chris Johnstone has been a pioneer of resilience training and coaching for more than twenty years. In 1989, he made international headlines campaigning against the long hours of junior doctors. What didn't make the news was his teaching of resilience skills to help colleagues survive. Working as a GP, he set up resilience training groups to help patients tackle stress. As an addictions specialist, he developed a strengths-building programme to promote relapse prevention. He has worked with the Transition movement in developing community resilience and staff groups to strengthen organisational resilience. For organising the Bristol Happiness Lectures, which promote resilience training for preventing depression, he was recognised in the Independent On Sunday's Happy List of people contributing to wellbeing in the UK. He is author of Find Your Power – a toolkit for resilience and positive change (2nd Ed, Permanent Publications 2010) and co-presenter of The Happiness Training Plan CD.

Professor David A Lane is Director of Professional Development Foundation and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University and contributes to leading edge research in coaching as well as supervising leading coaches undertaking Masters and Doctoral studies. His work with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council has been concerned with Codes of Conduct and Standards and kite marking of coach training. Working with the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches he has researched and developed the standards for the Certified Master Business Coach award.

David.Lane@pdf.net

Michael Chaskalson has a masters degree with distinction in the clinical applications of mindfulness and more than thirty five years of personal practice of mindfulness and related disciplines.

He is an honorary lecturer at Bangor University, where he teaches a masters module in the Department of Psychology. He is a member of the core team at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice in Bangor. Drawing on the latest scientific research, including studies from the field of brain science, his approach fuses that with the ancient art of meditative practice.

Michael has trained a number of the UK's leading business coaches in mindfulness skills and, as a coach and mindfulness trainer, has worked with people from many of the UK's most successful companies. His book, the "Mindful Workplace", is being published by Wiley in August.

michael@mbsr.co.uk
www.mindfulness-works.com

Roy Childs is Managing Director of Team Focus and a Chartered Psychologist.  He works as a coach, facilitator and trainer and his main focus is building sustainable relationships that enhance well-being and performance.  His reputation of challenging orthodox thinking has been applied to developing an innovative range of psychometric instruments (the Profiling for Success range) including the Resilience Scales Questionnaire.  These break the mould of just focussing on the individual and recognise the importance of the context in which we operate in order to help people develop and grow.  This philosophy runs through all the Team Focus qualifying courses in psychometrics (the widest range in the UK).  His publications include "the Psychometric Minefield"; "So you want to be an ENFJ"; "Emotional Intelligence and Leadership" and "Coaching using FIRO Element B" and "Action Learning Supervision".

Arielle Essex inspires people with her hard earned wisdom and unique combination of NLP and practical psychology. She has over 15 years experience providing professional Coaching in both the business and private sectors. As a certified NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, she opened the Practical Miracles Training School in 1995, teaching in-depth NLP for 16 years. A walking testimony of how well these tools work, her personal journey of healing a brain tumour was recently filmed in 'The Living Matrix' documentary. She is committed to helping people turn life's obstacles into gifts, empowering them to find their own solutions and reach their full potential. Originally from the USA, Arielle incorporates her background experience in complementary medicine, art, advertising, design and writing into enriching her current training & coaching work. Arielle's books include: Compassionate Coaching, Make the Juice Worth the Squeeze, The 8 Factors of Healing, and NLP & the Living Matrix.

Jane Keep. Working philosophically, Jane is a practitioner on the processes of strategic, organisational and personal change. Her primary focus is to bring true well being and harmony back into the workplace and to individuals in every setting.  She has during the last 20 years studied, researched, presented, and practised  organisational and leadership development and health and well being at work, working with people at all levels in organisations in many settings. She currently runs a coaching and healing practice in Bristol.  She has coached many organisational or independent coaches and facilitators, as well as offering 1:1 supervision, and group supervision for coaches. She also works with CIHM at Leeds University Business School on a range of projects, including running a coaching faculty there, and running leadership and management programmes. She has in the last 20 years undertaken a number of research projects, and published in journals and books, and is in the write up phase of a 5 year phd study on coaching.'

Kate Burton (PCC) is passionate about professionals owning their well-being and creating sustainable careers and working lives. A well respected, fully qualified master NLP coach, author and workshop leader, she challenges her clients to transform their personal effectiveness, leadership style and performance. She's actively supports both the AC and the ICF and is a Fellow of the RSA.

Kate has authored five popular books published by John Wiley translated into many languages: 'Live Life. Love Work;' 'NLP for Dummies'; ' NLP for Dummies Workbook'; 'Building Self-Confidence for Dummies' and the latest 'Coaching with NLP for Dummies'. (see www.kateburton.co.uk)

Kate's came to coaching from 30 years in corporate communication and training. Today her clients number senior corporate executives and entrepreneurs with a hearty appetite for development; people who measure bottom line performance and value their health. Her prime sector focus has been on hi-tech businesses, global corporations and professional services organisations.