Supervision

John Leary-Joyce
CEO

John had a successful 25-year career in Gestalt as a practitioner, teacher and trainer at Masters level with appearances on radio and television. Becoming MD of the Gestalt institute in London triggered his entrepreneurial spirit and took him into the business world.



As Founder and CEO, the AoEC is the culmination of his 30 years in the field of training and people development. The AoEC model and structure draws on his academic research and wide experience of Business Leadership, Executive Coaching and Psychotherapy. His passion is the pursuit of learning to help others to grow professionally and personally.

Marjorie Shackleton
Programme Director
With a psychotherapeutic and advanced coach training background, well honed through extensive experience developing individuals and teams in the US, Canada and the UK, Marjorie works with senior executives in a wide range of organisations with experience across many sectors including professional services, finance and consumer goods. Marjorie is also a trained Coach Supervisor working with individuals and teams in organisations. Marjorie is AoEC Faculty for the Pyschology and the Advanced Diploma programmes and a graduate of the AoEC.

Marion Gillie
Programme Director
A consultant and coach agent since 1983, Marion is a highly experienced business psychologist - with great in-depth understanding of the complexities of human behaviour in the business setting. She has worked with a wide range of organisations and has extensive experience in the finance sector, retail, IT and manufacturing. Marion is co-founder of The Gillie Partnership and prior to this was a Partner in Sheppard Moscow Ltd, specialists in OD. Marion is Programme Director of the Advanced Diploma and the Master Practitioner Programmes with the AoEC. She is a Chartered Occupational andCounselling Psychologist and has a Masters degree in Organisational Psychology and Gestalt Psychotherapy. She is an APECS Accredited Executive Coach and Supervisor, and has diplomas in Advanced Executive Coaching and in Coach Supervision with the AoEC.

Peter Burditt

Peter is dedicated to supporting people to reach their full potential. He works as a senior executive coach and motivational consultant to a number of highly successful investment banking teams and other high-growth, innovative, global world-class institutions advising executives at all levels on individual and corporate strategies for success.

Peter has held a number of line and strategic positions with leading organisations as well as having developed a number of internationally recognised motivational techniques and models.

He has been the architect of and catalyst for, a number of fundamental business culture change programmes, including privatisations in Australia and the Far East, mega-mergers and floatations which required deep facilitation and re-orientation techniques to support executives in the navigation of the turbulence caused by the cultural changes necessitated.

Peter combines hard business skills with powerful motivational insights, which blend to form a unique perspective on how to combine organisational excellence through individual’s performance.

Post qualifying as an accountant in the 70’s, he became assistant group treasurer of P&O, and he has been a financial adviser to Burmah Oil. In addition, he has advised a number of governments and multinationals on privatisations and financing strategies while heading up energy and project finance teams for Citicorp and Barclays Bank.

In the late 80’s as a main board director for a leading merchant bank, he groomed a number of chief executives and companies for stock exchange flotation, MBO or sale to larger organisations. As head of strategy for BZW, he successfully welded together the diverse cultures of fixed income, derivatives and the treasury operations of Barclays Bank.

Peter has combined a successful career as a corporate financier with a deep interest in motivational development. He has undertaken a number of intensive courses in the field of human potential. Peter has two grown-up children, who keep him young and in touch with what is important.