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Moira Halliday

Moira Halliday
Director of Training

Moira joined the AoEC in January 2009 as a Programme Facilitator and became our Director of Training in October 2009. For over twenty years she successfully combined organisational consultancy, executive coaching and psychotherapy and in her own business, working with CEOs, senior managers, leaders and leadership teams and focusing on developing effective leadership skills, organizational learning, managing change and enhancing personal effectiveness. Moira is trained in Humanistic Psychology and Process Oriented Psychology as well as being a trained mediator, experienced in conflict resolution and developing mediator training programmes.

In addition to delivering across AoEC open programmes, Moira also has responsibility for design, quality assurance, faculty development and supervision.

Being a member of the AoEC team provides Moira with an opportunity to feed her passion for realising potential for people and organisations. Moira is also committed to her own theoretical and experiential learning.

Sarah Cashin

Sarah Cashin
Faculty

Sarah has been an Executive Coach since 2007 after graduating from the AoEC Practitioner Diploma course and is now also a member of the Faculty for the Certificate and Practitioner courses.
As an Executive Coach, Sarah specializes in leadership through change. She brings senior management experience from a number of commercial roles in the FMCG global market including strategy development and delivery, project leadership, customer development and business operations.
Sarah has also been interested for many years in the field of personal development and is fascinated by the power of the mind in both holding people back and driving them forward. She is an NLP Practitioner and has trained in Gestalt coaching.

Lizzie Pawsey

Lizzie Pawsey
Faculty

Lizzie graduated from the AoEC Advanced Practitioner course in 2008 and is a member of the Faculty for the Certificate and Practitioner courses.

Lizzie is an experienced business leader, coach and facilitator. She thrives on supporting executives to make the most of their unique capabilities and talents and achieve tangible results for themselves, their team and their organisation.

Lizzie brings to the AoEC 20 years of corporate experience, having worked for several global businesses in HR and marketing leadership roles. She now works with teams and leaders across a broad range of areas including building effective business relationships, developing leadership style, coping with change, and managing career/role transition.
 

Marion Gillie

Marion Gillie
Academic Programme Director and Associate Faculty

Marion is a highly experienced consultant and an Accredited Coach who has worked with leaders and teams since 1983. Her background in organisational psychology, her organisation and business experience, plus her Gestalt psychotherapeutic training give her a rare and powerful combination of skills that enable her to work with systemic organisation–level issues and at considerable depth with individuals and teams. Marion is a Programme Director of the UK Postgraduate Advanced Practitioner Diploma and the Master Practitioner Diploma programmes at the AoEC. She is a Chartered Occupational and Counselling Psychologist, has Masters degrees in Organisation Psychology and Gestalt Psychotherapy, and is an APECS Accredited Coach and Coach Supervisor.

Marjorie Shackleton

Marjorie Shackleton
Programme Director and Associate Faculty

Marjorie is an experienced coach and coach supervisor with extensive experience developing individuals and teams in organisations in the UK, US and Canada. Her executive coach practice is with senior executives and high potential managers in a wide range of sectors including professional services, finance and consumer goods, who use the reflective space offered to explore the ‘being’ as well as the ‘doing’ of leadership, She is particularly interested in the duality of business and personal objectives as a means to bring about sustainable organisational change.

Her early interest in supervision came from her first career as a mental health clinician where supervision was always a reflective space which offered challenge, support and new learning.Marjorie obtained her coach supervision training through the AoEC and Bath Consultancy Group and her supervision style is underpinned by systemic, Gestalt and psychodynamic thinking.

Marjorie has undertaken advanced Gestalt training in the UK and the USA including The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and The Gestalt International Study Center in Cape Cod. As a model of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’, she continues to be drawn to it’s focus on immediacy and optimism.

Marjorie is a Programme Director for the Psychology of Coaching Gestalt Coaching and Supervision programmes at the AoEC. She is an APECS accredited coach and coach supervisor

Hazel Valentine

Hazel Valentine
Associate Faculty

With a Consultancy/Organisational HRD background working with clients in the UK, Middle East, Europe and Eastern Europe, Hazel as an Advanced Coach draws on a wealth of knowledge and wisdom from many business sectors such as financial services, manufacturing, retail, local authorities and entrepreneurial projects.

Hazel is author and designer of a number of accredited developmental programmes in not only coaching, but the wider field of leadership and management.

She has a Masters Degree in HR Strategy and HRD and is AoEC Faculty for the Advanced Practitioner Diploma, Practitioner Diploma and Corporate programmes for Leader and Manager as Coach.

Nick Kitchen

Nick Kitchen
Associate Faculty

Nick is an inspirational trainer, conference speaker and consultant who has worked with both small and large British and multinational organisations over the last sixteen years, helping create new ways of working and sustainable change. He is also a senior executive coach, his style working particularly well with dynamic senior people and “high potentials”

Nick was previously New Business Director of international advertising agency TBWA, following a successful career in advertising, sales and marketing. Nick still does a lot of work internationally and this business and customer-focus background still informs much of his work.

As well as classic business approaches, in his work Nick integrates a diverse range of qualifications, models and experience including dynamic creativity and lateral thinking approaches, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Gestalt psychotherapy, Bodywork, transactional analysis and systemic and field theory.

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