2008 Conference Biographies

James Brook

James is managing director of Titan Talent Ltd, a management consulting firm providing strengths-based leadership development, coaching and talent management solutions. He has over 15 years experience in people development and talent management, having worked in consulting and corporate roles both locally and internationally. James is also a director of the Strengths Partnership Ltd and co-authored ©Strengthscope (www.strengthscope.com ), an innovative assessment tool designed to help individuals and teams optimise their strengths and talents at work. James is an accomplished speaker on strengths-focused talent management and has contributed several recent publications in the area. He has a Masters Degree in Industrial & Organisational Psychology and a MBA.

Heather Cooper

Heather Cooper leads the coaching team at Gordon Cooper Associates, a management development and executive coaching consultancy and is Director of Executive Coaching Tools, a company that provides 360 degree analysis for coaches and consultants. Both companies strive to achieve coaching excellence in their work with coachees and in their provision of coaching tools. Their clients are mostly city based, such as consultancies, banking, insurance, media and professional service firms working in various locations across Europe and the US.

Stephen Daltrey

Stephen Daltrey is an International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with over 16 years experience working 1:1 with people, enabling them to achieve their goals. His coaching style utilises his signature presence to offer challenge and support to leaders, raising their awareness of themselves and their impact on relationships and the wider organisational system.

Myles Downey

Myles is an internationally respected coach having been working with top executives for the past twenty years in Europe, Asia and across the American continent. An architect in Dublin in the early ‘80s, Myles moved to California where he became inspired by Tim Gallwey’s radically new approach ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’. He trained and later began to work as a coach, initially in sport and later in business. He moved to London, where he was a founding member of one of the first coaching/consultancy firms. Then in 1997 Myles founded The School of Coaching and continues as it’s CEO. He is the author of Effective Coaching a seminal text in the coaching profession.

Erik de Hann

Erik de Haan is the director of Ashridge's Centre for Coaching, senior OD consultant, programme leader of the Ashridge MSc in executive coaching, supervisor and accreditor of coaches.He specializes in the interpersonal and emotional aspects of working in groups and organisations. Before becoming an organisational development consultant in 1994, he studied theoretical physics and gained his PhD in psychophysics, with research into learning and decision-making processes in perception.

His previous books in English include The Consulting Process as Drama - King Lear for Consultants and Managers (2003), Learning with Colleagues (2005), Coaching with Colleagues (2005), Fearless Consulting (2006) and Relational Coaching (2008). Erik is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Philosophy of Management, the Tijdschrift voor Coaching and the independent board of assessors of coach accreditation of the Coach Foundation in the Netherlands. Erik can be contacted at erik.dehaan@ashridge.org.uk

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John Leary-Joyce

John is passionately involved in learning Tango and a great friend of Myles hence the delight of this working partnership and this topic. He is highly regarded round Europe as an innovative coach trainer and presenter. He founded the AoEC in 2000 and led it to its current top quality academic & professional brand. John is also a successful executive coach and his initial career as Gestalt therapist and trainer means he can quickly coach leaders to develop their self-awareness and impact in relation to their people.

Ann Lewis

Ann Lewis, author of 'Getting Back on Track' – regaining your confidence and presence at work, is an AoEC accredited leadership coach working with Chief Executives, Directors and Senior Managers. Her clients include charities, membership organisations, private companies and the public sector. After an early HR career in pharmaceuticals, Ann spent 16 years in the Third Sector. She was Director of HR for ChildLine and for the Peabody Trust.

Jaana Lindström

Jaana Lindström is the founder and CEO of 4Colours, a company that trains, develops and coaches individuals, teams and organisations towards results, creative collaboration and a coaching approach. Jaana is a results-oriented entrepreneur and was awarded the silver medal at the 2006 Swedish Coaching Championship. In 2007 she received, in addition to the bronze medal, the award “The Coolest Coach in Sweden”.

Jaana has extensive experience from working with leadership and team development, executive coaching, creativity consulting and art therapy. She completed her coach training at Coachutbildning Sverige in Sweden and graduate of the AoEC Advanced Diploma. In addition, Jaana has an MBA at Henley Management College in England.

Penny Millar

Penny Millar has been a renowned portrait photographer of children and families for over 30 years, earning a reputation as someone who shoots honest photographs that show more than simply ‘what people look like’. She has a gift for putting people at their ease, so they show her a range of natural expressions.
Trained as a special needs teacher, Penny has always been passionate about ‘how people tick’ and how they interact with the world and has regularly participated in and run self-awareness workshops, in the UK and the USA. Penny is currently gaining accreditation as an Executive coach at the Academy of Executive Coaching.

Penny always enjoys a challenge. Her work has taken her to Ukraine where she was awarded a humanitarian award for using her photos of children and families affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for fund-raising and awareness-raising. More recently she ‘photovoyaged’ an entire village of 68 people in rural France! www.photoVoyage.co.uk

Peninah Thomson

Peninah has a particular interest in women’s leadership having co-founded in 2003 Women Directors on Boards, a consortium in partnership with government, academia and business to address the lack of women directors in FTSE 100 companies. She also co-founded the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme and has published four books and several refereed articles on leadership, corporate governance, business ethics and organisational change and is an experienced conference speaker.

Peninah’s career began in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Based in Paris, she worked direct to the Board of National Delegates of NATO. After Doctoral studies at Oxford she joined PwC and for 9 years worked at Cabinet Office level in the UK and in 14 countries. After 2 years seconded to the UK Cabinet Office she became a Director in the Corporate Transformation Practice, consulting at Board level in FTSE 100 companies. For the last 8 years Peninah has worked exclusively as a Board level executive coach now through the Praesta Partnership.

Razia Aziz

Razia Aziz is an executive coach, organisational consultant, creative & healing practitioner whose work holds equality in diversity as a core value. A dozen years of working with organisations developmentally around equality and diversity issues has enriched and informed her life and work in all other areas. Razia's concern is the true nature of the person, and how that can be unfolded in the learning experience, revealing potential and releasing new energy to realise that potential.

She has worked with developmentally people at every level in organisations, as well as private individuals and groups. Razia seeks to strike a dynamic balance between the work, family, social, creative and spiritual dimensions of her life, and, while focusing upon their work, recognises the indivisibility of the person and supports her clients to find their own unique way of knitting the whole of themselves together.

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