Board and Team Effectiveness
Coaching for Companies
Coach training and holistic coaching solutions for your organisation
Unlocking leadership potential with coaching skills training
Developing your leaders and managers through coaching skills training has the potential to transform your organisation and people.
We are proud to say we have helped some of the world’s largest and most innovative organisations, over the last 25 years, to build their internal corporate coaching capabilities, helping to create alignment with each organisation’s culture.
Why Coaching Skills Matter for Leaders:
Investing in coaching skills for your managers equips your leaders with a growth mindset and the essential abilities of active listening, questioning, reflecting and summarising. This empowers them to set goals, provide effective feedback, and better manage team development and performance.
Leadership and coaching are moving ever closer together and the qualities, competencies and behaviours that are pivotal in business agility, are the same as those which define a coaching style of leading or managing others.
How can AoEC support your organisation?
By partnering with you to develop coaching skills within your organisation, we can help you in:
- Setting a strategic coaching framework
- Training and qualifying internal coaches
- Assessing coach competencies against professional standards
- Optimising coach deployment
- Offering pathways for ongoing professional development
- Providing a coach matching and data collection service to evaluate the performance of coaching
We always consider your organisational context, and align coaching skills with your organisation’s specific needs.
Want to learn more? Book a call with our Head of Consultancy, Karen Smart here.
Organisations we have supported include:
Find out how we can partner with your organisation
Our expertise is to support coaching in companies
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We have partnered with more than 53 organisations, globally, across a wide range of industry sectors, including both private and public sectors.
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Supported 4 NHS Trusts to develop coaching skills for Line Managers and helped to implement the Coaching Through Covid programme.
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Served more than 10 Professional Services Organisations, including FTSE 100 organisations, global banks, Investment Management, Legal and leading Management Consultancy firms.
We have plenty of experience to share with you. A conversation would be a great starting point.
Meet the team
Karen Smart Head of Consultancy Head of Consultancy
Karen Smart Head of Consultancy
Karen is an ICF accredited and experienced executive coach, coach trainer, mentor coach, supervisor and faculty member for the AoEC. She is pivotal in building, connecting, and maintaining effective authentic relationships both internally and externally.
As AoEC Head of Consultancy, Karen is responsible for meeting all executive coaching needs for our organisation-based clients. She works with leaders and senior decision makers across all sectors including financial services, professional services, entertainment, not-for-profit, and the public sector.
Karen sits on the Senior Leadership Team feeding into the AoEC strategy and business objectives. In addition to this, she manages an internal team to seek out opportunities and serve clients effectively. Karen is accountable for the budget for the organisations part of the business.
Prior to joining the AoEC, Karen enjoyed a successful commercial career in the pharmaceutical industry, latterly holding a global responsibility for strategy implementation and launch preparedness for a billion-a-year dollar brand across forty-four different countries. Karen has a broad-based sales and marketing experience in a variety of settings, including a two-year stint as Strategic Planning and Market Research Manager in Mexico City.
In her spare time, Karen likes spending time with her family and three rescue dogs, staying fit and learning music
Kim Wrighton Client Relationship Manager
Kim Wrighton Client Relationship Manager
Kim works with the organisations team managing processes, governance, projects, contract issuing and coach matching. She has come from the banking sector with the majority of her career in HR working for a FTSE 100 company. She has built on her coaching skills having qualified as an executive coach on the AoEC Practitioner Diploma, prior to joining the AoEC in 2019. She is known for her practical, logical and structured approach along with the ability to listen to what is needed to find a way of getting the best possible solution for all involved.
Our team of Coach Consultants exist to help organisations maximise your potential, overcome obstacles, and achieve your goals. You can read more about the team here.
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