This module provides participants with a critical understanding of the theory of and principles of coach contracting and coaching models. On completion of the module participants should be able to describe and critically evaluate key theories and principles of coaching, contract skillfully with clients and apply the theories of coaching. 

This module addresses the psychological dimension of coaching, what it is, why it is important in coaching, and the coaching key skills required to work at a psychological level. On completion of the module, students should be able to describe and critically evaluate the theories and concepts in the application of a psychological approach to coaching to particular subject areas. 

The module equips participants to incorporate creative approaches into their developing coaching practices. It presents a variety of creative approaches. On completion of the module participants should be familiar with three or more creative approaches and have applied at least one of these approaches in practice. 

This module provides participants with an introduction to the coaching psychology of Gestalt and to behavioral change models to support their coaching sessions. On completing the module participants will be familiar with Gestalt coaching and with a number of change models and how they can be used in coaching. 

This module provides participants with a full day of applying leadership theory to coaching. This module also provides participants with a full group coaching supervision session as well as coach practice. On completion of this module participants should be able to apply their learning and skills to senior leaders, manage complex organisational dynamics and be fully engaged with coaching supervision. 

The module equips students to apply the theory of coaching to the workplace. It presents approaches to key issues of practice, such as contracting, supervision, organisational dynamics and ethics. On completion of the module, students should be able to manage contracting in organisational settings, manage complex organisational dynamics, understand and work appropriately with ethical issues and with issues of difference and diversity.

In addition there will be 3 x 1 hour group conference call 'check-ins' scheduled to assist with the completion of the 90 hours of coaching programme requirement.

Pamela is an executive coach, coach tutor and coach supervisor.

Pamela has worked as a coach tutor and coach supervisor since 2014 and has practiced as a coach since 2008. Pamela works with clients across a diverse range of industry sectors in Ireland and the UK.

Prior to working as a coach, Pamela was business performance manager with Diageo Ireland and started career as a project manager with Bord Bia (The Irish Food Board).

Pamela hold a Masters in Executive Coaching and an Advanced Diploma in Organisational Supervision from Ashridge Business School in the UK as well as a Masters in International Marketing and a BA in Business.

Pamela is accredited by the EMCC (Senior Practitioner Level) as a coach and as a coach supervisor.

Eileen is a qualified Executive and Leadership Coach with passion for working with Leaders and their teams to enhance their leadership capabilities, and assist them in building high performing teams.  

With a psychology background and 20 + years of experience working in the Financial Services, thereafter establishing and running a successful Property Company, she brings a style of originality, professionalism and curiosity to her Coaching.  

Education:

• Postgraduate Diploma in the Psychology of Executive Coaching, Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Business and Executive Coaching, Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin.
• NLP ( Neuro Linguistic program), - practitioner level.
• B.A. Hons. Pure Psychology (2:1). University College Dublin
• Certified in the Emotional Intelligence ‘MSCEIT’ assessment model.
• Certified in the ‘Rocket Model’, team coaching assessment in building high performance teams
• Certified by the British Psychological Society in Psychometric testing Level A & B.
• ‘Coaching uncertainty Transition and Change’ workshop by Creative Expansion.
• ‘Coaching with Mindfulness and Presence’ workshop by Doug Silsbee.

Membership:

• Member of Association of Coaching and European Mentor Coaching Council.
• Member of Institute of Coaching (IoC), McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Anna Rowan is an executive coach and facilitator with over 15 years’ experience.  Anna works with middle to senior management from all sectors and is described by clients as supportive, direct, clear, empowering and challenging.

Anna has always had a keen interest in psychology. She began in career as a social care worker before joining Aer Lingus in 1989. She left Aer Lingus in 2002 with 13 years’ experience of cabin crew and leadership development training.

Today, Anna runs her own company that provides coaching and facilitation to organisations in Ireland and the UK including Accenture, UCD, Aircraft Leasing and SMEs. 

Education

Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching, Smurfit Business College, UCD (2015)

Team Coaching, Ashridge College (2018)

MSc in Occupational Psychology, University of Leicester (2009)

BSc (Hons) Psychology, Open University (2006)

Certificate in Adult Training and Continuing Education, NUI (1999)

Certificate in Advanced Facilitation Skills, Meithal (1997)

Certificate in Business Management, DCU (2001)

MBTI Qualified OPP, Oxford (2015)

EQI 2.0 Qualification (2015)

Membership

Member of Association of Coaching and European Mentor Coaching Council.

Member of British Psychological Society

Member of Psychological Society of Ireland

Brendan Murphy

Brendan is an executive coach, coach tutor and professional trainer.  He works with individuals to create positive change. He has been working independently since 2018 at www.bmcservices.ie

Prior to that Brendan worked for 17 years in the voluntary sector. He managed homeless projects including emergency hostels, as well as a variety of high-support housing projects. There, he continually focused on building skills within his staff teams and creating learning opportunities which helped people break the cycle of homelessness. He began training on communication and management topics in 2016 and further information can be found at https:www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-murphy-3b170435/

Coaching Approach:

Brendan's distinctiveness as a coach is centered on his ability to rapidly build trust; to understand and then articulate the issues and the options for success. Brendan is known for his support, his positive and challenging approach, and his ability to help people through personal and professional transitions. He builds self-awareness in his clients, and this awareness leads to natural and lasting change.

Academic Qualifications:

Brendan is studying for qualification in delivery of the Emotional Capital ECR 360 process (completion date May 2019). Prior qualifications include:

• Accredited Feedback Facilitator - Healthcare Leadership Model 360 (NHS) 2018
• Graduate Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching 2012
• Advanced Training Qualification (QQI 7) 2015
• Higher Diploma in Education 1995
• A. in English. 1994

Professional Membership

European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)

Glenn Treacy works as a leadership and executive coach across a broad spectrum of organisations. For almost 20 years, he worked in research and development in the asset management industry before training as a somatic psychotherapist with the Institute of Biosynthesis in Switzerland. He trained in personality and developmental psychology with master coach Sandy Cotter in the UK and holds a Graduate Diploma in Executive Coaching at UCD Michael Smurfit School.  He is currently engaged in intensive Gestalt training with the Irish Gestalt Centre. 

In recent years he has chosen to focus on communication as the primary lever of our professional and personal lives. Working with the provocatively titled Nonviolent Communication paradigm of Marshall Rosenberg, Glenn has developed deep insights into the blockers and enablers to effective communication at all levels within the organisation.

His methodology is a hybrid of tried and tested techniques from some of the global experts in this field namely John Kinyon, Gina Lawrie, Martin Van Der Meulen and Sandy Cotter who operate at a deeper level to support meaningful change for the individual and the organisation. 

Glenn provides bespoke training, coaching and support in organisations and is one of the founders of a European network (INVCC) promoting communication training as a catalyst for organisational change and excellence. He has recently launched a programme called Pathways to Freedom in the Netherlands with a Dutch colleague which takes a novel approach to developing emotional intelligence. 

Colette is an Executive Coach and Facilitator who is passionate about working with individuals and teams to support positive and sustainable change.  

Her approach is built on over 15 years’ experience coupled with psychological research. Prior to setting up her own company she spent ten years working in HR Manager roles with teams, so they could achieve both personal and organisational goals.

Colette is an accredited Senior Practitioner Executive Coach with the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC). She has been a Coach Practice Tutor on the Diploma for Executive Coaching since 2015

Academic Qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Business and Executive Coaching, Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin.
• TA 101 (Transactional Analysis) International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• Integral Facilitator, Ten Directions
• Certificate in Systemic Coaching and Facilitation, Coaching Constellations
• Somatic Coach (SISC) Certification Strozzi Institute (SI)
• Action Learning -World Institute for Action Learning’s coach certification
• BA. Hons. Psychology, Dublin Business School
• BA. Hons. Philosophy and Classics, University College Dublin

Professional Membership

• Member of Association of Coaching and European Mentor Coaching Council.
• World Institute for Action Learning (WIAL)
• Psychological Society of Ireland

Aileen is an executive and team coach, who is qualified to master’s level. She is passionate about enabling real and sustainable transformational change with her clients. Her fundamental belief is that her role as coach, is to facilitate her clients to find their own solutions. In her coaching practice, Aileen marries a wealth of business and leadership experience along with her coaching acumen.

Background

Aileen has over 25+ years business and leadership experience, in supply chain management, consulting and operations across Europe. She started her career in Germany, working for Guinness GmbH and then Celerant Consulting GmbH. Returning to Ireland she successfully led large international geographically dispersed teams in Microsoft. She set up her own coaching practice in 2016.  Her LinkedIn profile is here www.linkedin.com/in/aileengleeson

Coaching Approach

Aileen’s coaching approach is grounded in psychological principles, systemic thinking, and focused on enabling personal and professional change. She builds strong and effective client relationships quickly, which allows her to facilitate, support and challenge clients to achieve their agreed goals.  Aileen creates a very safe supportive space for her clients to explore and learn. She works organically with what comes up in the session, dipping into her toolkit to offer creative/different ways of working on the topic.

Qualifications:

• MSc in Business & Executive Coaching, Smurfit Business School, UCD.
• (Postgraduate Diploma’s in Executive & Business coaching/ Advanced Psychology of Coaching & Team Coaching.)
• Certificate in Systemic Coaching & Constellations (John Whittington, 2019).
• Neuro Linguistic programmer (NLP) Practitioner Level.
• EQi 2.0 accredited Emotional Intelligence assessor
• Qualified in Team psychometric assessment tools: Team diagnostic system (TDS) and Rocket Model

Memberships:

• Aileen is accredited at Practitioner level with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council
• Aileen is a member of the Institute of Directors

John is a purpose driven, authentic coach with a passion for people development delivering impactful coaching in a partnership style with a wide variety of clients. John’s coaching practice, Fifth Story, specialises in delivering coaching and consultancy to senior executives in organisations to support them to find their true purpose. John came into the coaching industry with significant leadership experience in both commercial and social sectors. 

Before launching his coaching career, John was the CEO of award winning charity and social enterprise Camara Education providing technology into education in Ireland and Africa delivering much improved educational outcomes. In his eight years leadership, John grew the organisation five fold with his contribution personally recognised by President Michael D. Higgins. Previously, John worked in a number successful commercial organisations in a variety of project and business management roles in Ireland, UK and Africa.

John has a Postgradate Diploma In Business and Executive Coaching as well as a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) both from UCD Smurfit building on his undergraduate of a Degree in Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin. In addition John is a TEDx speaker and has extensive media experience.

Mary is an executive coach and team coach. She has been working as a coach since 2018 and prior to this worked in various senior roles in television predominantly in RTÉ but also in UTV Ireland and Virgin Media. Her LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-curtis-830b8b52/

Coaching Approach:

Mary’s coaching is grounded in psychological principles of the Gestalt process, client centered, and focused on enabling personal and professional change. Her approach is supportive and challenging underpinned by her relevant experience which facilitates a creative working style. She has a passion for working with clients to enable them to be more effective. Mary also works with leaders, executives and organisations to help them communicate clearly and authentically to external and internal audiences.

Academic Qualifications:

• 2021 MSc in Business and Executive Coaching, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School
• 2019 Diploma in Organisational Change and Transformation, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School
• 2019 Certificate in the Fundamentals Part I & II, Coaching Constellations.
• 2020 Certified Team Diagnostic Survey, Advanced Practitioner Level 2, 6 Team Conditions

Membership and Accreditations

• Accredited Practitioner in EQ-i 2.0/ EQ360,(MHS)
• Accredited Facet 5 Personality Profiling.
• Accredited Coach by the EMCC (at Senior Practitioner Level)
• Member of the ICF, EMCC, AOC.

 

Barry O’Sullivan has been a professional executive coach for over 11 years. He is an experienced senior executive with a background in financial services. He brings his hands-on leadership experience to bear on his practice. He builds trusting relationships, impacts on individual and team performance, and supports development through partnership and challenge.

Experience/Background 

Barry O’Sullivan has been a professional executive coach and facilitator since 2010. He is an experienced senior executive of over 25 years in financial services, in various business development and operations roles to Director level. As an internal coach to peers and his own teams he was inspired by the effectiveness of a coaching approach to leadership. His passion for coaching practice led to professional development with Smurfit Graduate Business School and his practice as an executive and team coach and facilitator.

Barry was Head of Brokerage Operations for Irish Life until 2009, He led the merger of the distribution business in 2000. He was a Regional Director with Prudential, a non-executive Director of Assurelink and Money Advice CRM. As Group Director Financial Planning and Employee Benefits at Arachas, he restructured and developed the financial services and wealth management business in preparation for sale in 2018.

Working closely with senior leadership, he has natural coaching style that draws on his training and experience in applying practical approaches to working with change agendas for individuals. His approach aims to build awareness, achieves personal growth and deliver changes in outlook, attitudes, and behaviours.

He partners with senior leadership teams to address the factors that impact on team effectiveness in the context of their systems, while aiming to develop their capacity to develop further as a team.

Recent Sectors: Professional Services, I.T., Law, Food, Retail, Utilities and Engineering including KPMG, PWC, AXA, ESB, Ervia, NTMA, Bank of Ireland, Permanent TSB, Aldi, Fyffes, Trinity MBA.

Professional Qualifications
Internal Coach Programme, Clutterbuck & Assoc.
Professional Diploma in Business & Executive Coaching, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
Professional Diploma in Team Coaching, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
Professional Diploma in Advanced Executive Coaching, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
MSc Coaching, UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School.
Bachelor Business Studies, Dublin City University.
IMI Advanced Management Programme.
Professional Diploma in Financial Planning QFA. Professional Pension Trustee Diploma PTP.

Tools & Diagnostics: Insights Discovery. ECR & ECR 360, Envisia 360. Coaching Constellations. Team Connect 360. Team Diagnostic Survey (6 Conditions)

 

He is a highly experienced Coach Supervisor, coach, counsellor and psychotherapist. In addition he has worked for many years in higher education as Course Leader and Programme Manager for the delivery of courses at Undergraduate and Masters Level. Geoff is particularly interested in the education and training of people in work settings, developing their capacities as “reflective practitioners”, and facilitating the integration of knowledge, skills and personal awareness to enhance performance in their professional roles. His extensive university lecturing and programme management background provides firm support for those participants unfamiliar with undertaking a programme at postgraduate level.

Geoff also has an extensive background in, interest for and understanding of the key ideas, writers and research in coaching and related fields, and a talent for presenting complex ideas in a concise and engaging manner. His particular area of interest and research is the importance of the relationship in professional settings. He is a member of the EMCC.

 

Jenny Stacey is an executive coach, coach supervisor and educator based in Yorkshire, UK. She competed her coach training programme with PB Coaching in 2000 and from 2004 was an associate and senior coach tutor at PB Coaching, running both coaching psychology and coaching supervision diplomas. She is also a registered gestalt psychotherapist (UKCP, HCPC) and so brings interest and expertise in the psychological dimension to her coaching and coaching supervision.

Jenny has extensive experience as an educator and facilitator of adults. Currently she is joint programme leader of the Diploma in Advanced Business and Executive Coaching at Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD Dublin, a training programme that combines her professional experience in executive coaching and psychological theory. 

She is a senior leadership consultant and facilitator at Courage and Spark Peter’s Bluckert’s transformative leadership development programme. She runs Creative Expansion, a coach training company with Tsafi Lederman, which uses creativity, the arts and body to bring additional layers of awareness and provides a rich learning environment. 

Jenny is very interested in the impact of the wider system and has completed an organisational constellations training course to develop her skills and understanding. 

Publications
Jenny and Tsafi contributed Working with Shame, using Embodied Coaching in 101 Supervision Techniques, Approaches Enquiries and Experiments edited by Michelle Lucas (2020) and co-authored Embodied Coaching: pathways to implicit knowledge using the arts and somatic process Coaching Today July 2014.

 

Isolde is an experienced and qualified leadership and team coach and coach supervisor, working with clients in Ireland and Internationally. She is a coach supervisor on the Smurfit Business and Executive coaching diploma since 2013. She has also built a coaching supervision practice providing individual and group supervision.

Her development as a coach and coach supervisor has been informed by a number of disciplines and experiences. She has an MSc in Executive and Team Coaching and a diploma in Coaching Supervision. She also holds an MBA and has many years management experience working in a high pace, high change, global environment. This gives her the coaching, business and organisational competencies required to effectively support her clients.

Her coach training is grounded in the Gestalt process and this strongly influences her approach. She has also trained in yoga, meditation, energy and somatic practices which deepen her knowledge and ability to work with clients at a deeper level when they feel stuck.

She also provides executive coaching, team coaching, leadership development and executive coaching programmes and works across a diverse range of industry sectors including; Technology, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Telecom, Legal, Health, Fisheries, Travel, Transport, Agri-Food, Professional Services, Universities and not for profit.

She is accredited as a coach at Master level with the Association for Coaching. She is also an accredited member with ICF and EMCC.

 

Alan's coaching philosophy derives from his fundamental belief in the power of coaching as an enabler of personal learning, development and growth. His practice brand "Positive Interventions" expresses his values and vision.

Alan is passionate about supporting leaders, teams, individuals and colleagues / coaches with their own development and in achieving their full potential. He is an empathetic coach with excellent facilitation and communications skills, which he applues sensitively and diplomatically. His coaching work encompasses clients (incl. CEO's, senior leaders, executives and individuals) in private, public, and not-for-profit organisations operating across many sectors including Medical / Health Sciences Education, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, Retail, Research, Leisure / Hospitality and I.T.

During his career he have held senior management and HR positions. As senior HR Manager / Business Partner with an internationally renowned academic / health sciences institution he delivered strategic projects and operational services globally. Previously he worked in the highly competitive telecommunications sector when he held senior management and leadership roles in HR, Business Transformation / Change Management, Sales, Marketing and Operations. He has a strong blend of strategic, general and operational skills combined with practical OD, change management and employee engagement expertise. He has extensive experience of managing comprehensive resourcing / recruitment projects and initiatives and designing and implementing performance management systems.

Alan is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD) and a Member of the Association for Coaching (MAC). His qualifications include: Diploma in Business & Executive Coaching (UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School); Fundamentals of Coaching Supervision (UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School); Diploma in Personnel Management (DIT/NCEA); Diploma in Employment Law (NCIR/IBEC)..

 

Orla is the Deputy CEO of the Higher Education Authority, a Chartered Director, a Non-Executive Director, and an Executive Business Coach. Orla has had an international career spanning 25+ years in the Public and Private sectors working in higher education, financial services, technology, and consulting. She has led organisations during periods of significant change successfully delivering large scale Change Programmes.

Orla is an experienced business and executive coach in both the public and private sectors. She has designed and implemented Leadership Development Programmes in Higher Education and commercial settings, an integral part of which is coaching. Orla was part of the leadership team and board of management that designed, financed, and set up a Project Management Consultancy business including an e-business service.

Orla holds an Engineering Degree from Trinity College Dublin, an MBA from University College Dublin (UCD) Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, a Master’s in Business and Executive Coaching (UCD), Leadership and Coaching qualifications from the Harvard Kennedy School, Institute of Directors and UCD. In her spare time Orla enjoys golf, tennis, hiking, travel and reading.

 

Billy is a Gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor, OD practitioner, and dialogical educator.  His practice includes working one to one, with couples and with groups across different cultures and organisational contexts.  He is a committed embodied practitioner-researcher with a particular interest in expressive form and early developmental movement.  

Billy has previously worked with Ashridge /Hult Business School as OD consultant and faculty. He is is guest faculty at different Gestalt training institutes in the UK and Europe. He is a certified trainer of Ruella Frank’s Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy. He regularly presents at conferences and has published several peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters on subjects such as; group work, experiential ways of knowing, sustainability, spirituality, sexuality and homophobia. He has co-authored a book, Introduction to Gestalt (Sage, 2013).

He is a former board member of the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT) and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Gestalt Review and Gestalt Book Series.   Billy teaches across all modules of the MA/Postgraduate Diploma at the Gestalt Institute of Ireland and leads the Action Research practitioner-researcher final year of the MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy. 

 

Báirbre is a coach and coach supervisor with over 12 years’ experience in executive coaching. Her coaching practice is informed by 25 years of people management in roles such as CEO of a medical device company for 11 years, global leadership/organisation development lead and finance director. She works with senior executives and leadership teams, in Ireland, Europe and the US, helping them drive significant personal and organisational change and in doing so enhance workplace connectedness and business results. In addition she has a coaching supervision practice, providing individual and group supervision.

An accountant by profession, Báirbre’s early career spanned accountancy practice, financial services and banking in companies including Deloitte and Bank of Ireland. Transferring to manufacturing, she played a lead role in the Management Buy Out of a US-owned Medical Device company, growing the business significantly as CEO and selling it to US Vention Medical, before transitioning into an organisational and leadership development role across their 12 facilities.

In parallel, Báirbre spent 6 years researching, developing and refining a unique and highly impactful coaching approach to Mental Well Being (MWB). With referrals from GPs and Psychotherapists, she spent over a thousand coaching hours, supporting over a hundred people with low MWB, delivering a 70% improvement in MWB, sustained over the long-term. The process is a one-of-a-kind solution crossing coaching, the psychological dimensions of coaching and Focusing; a technique which helps us tap into and connect with, the wisdom of the body.

Báirbre holds a Masters in Business and Executive Coaching from UCD Smurfit School of Business, is a qualified coach supervisor, a focusing Professional with the International Focusing Institute, has a Masters in Management Practice from Trinity College and is a Chartered Accountant.

 

Stephanie is a Talent Development and L&D Executive with 20+ years experience working in a fast paced multinational environment. A key focus of her leadership is in leading strategy for organisational change through into implementation and she brings a specific interest for the impact of the organisational system on individuals, teams and cultures.

Stephanie has worked as an executive coach since 2008 and a coach supervisor since 2016 (as internal coach/ supervisor and in her own practice). She holds accreditations from both Ashridge Executive Education as well as the EMCC. Her practice is focused on relational coaching and transactional analysis and she brings a systemic lens to her work.

Her approach to organisational supervision is grounded in her education at Ashridge Business School. As described by Erik de Haan and Willemine Regouin (2017) she sees “supervision as the key platform for practitioners to connect what they learn in theory with what they learn and do in practice, and therefore as being at the core of all continuing professional development.”

As a supervisor she focuses on three main functions of supervision - with reference to Brigid Proctor’s well known description of restorative, formative and normative supervision (2008):

● To care for and help restore energy levels and focus for new coaching work (the ‘restorative’ element).
● To develop and learn new and more effective ways of executive coaching (the ‘formative’ element).
● To guard and protect professional excellence (the ‘normative’ element) and to ensure that supervisees are working to high ethical and professional standards.

As a coach and supervisor she sees herself as a partner to her clients working shoulder to shoulder in a co-creative environment. In dialogue she will reflect with her client on their work and co-create insight and meaning together.

Originally from Germany she lives in Dublin with her husband and two sons.