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I have been coaching since 2003, and on the faculty of the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) since 2008. My coaching practice includes both corporate and private clients, and individual and team coaching. As a coach and supervisor I provide an intuitive listening space where my clients are totally free to explore themselves. In supervision, the starting point may be our work, and inevitably this expands to take in our personal, as well as professional, development – and our consciousness as human beings.

Barrett McBride, PhD, MCC, has been coaching professionally for 20 years. For more than 15 years she has been CEO of McBride & Associates, an executive coaching and management consulting firm. The focus of Barrett’s coaching practice is leadership development of senior leaders, coach training and development, mentor coaching and coaching supervision. Barrett coaches senior leaders in many professions, with a special focus on leaders in transition, leaders new to senior leadership roles and leaders in organizations facing change. She has a strengths-based philosophy that has proven successful in helping senior leaders expand their personal and professional effectiveness. Barrett is also dedicated to developing the executive coaching profession through supervising coaches, research, teaching, facilitating workshops and seminars, and mentoring.

Edna is an Executive Coach, Supervisor and Psychotherapist.  She is passionate about empowering individuals and organisations to successfully manage, develop and grow in their work or through transition and change.  The ability to build trust and rapport rapidly facilitates her success in working individually or with groups, whether in coaching or as a supervisor.   She has a proven track record in creating awareness, encouraging capability uplift, fostering safe space for exploration and inquiry, and facilitating deep, positive and lasting behavioural change.

Edna’s broad senior leadership background, combined with her diverse training and knowledge provides a unique combination of skills and experience.   She spent over 25 years in international organisations, across UK, North America and Australia, in Management, Sales, Marketing and Consulting, prior to moving into the area of human behavioural change as a Coach, Supervisor and Psychotherapist.  

In 2000 Edna further undertook 4 years of study in Counselling, Human Behaviour and Group Facilitation.  Since then she has engaged in on going professional and personal development in the areas of Group & Individual Supervision, Executive and Team Coaching and Facilitation, and Psychotherapy.  Her own business now covers primarily:

• Supervision: Coach and Clinical Supervision for individuals and groups.
• Executive Coaching: Consulting to organisations as an executive and team coach;
• Individual Coaching: Behavioural Change coaching with individuals and groups;
• Group Work: Designing and facilitating group programs;

Within the above areas, her skills and particular expertise focuses on:  

• Leadership Development,
• Effective Communication,
• Conflict Resolution,
• Managing Transitions – Loss and Change
• Supervision and Education,

Qualifications & Training:

• Advanced Certificate of Supervision (Centre for Supervision Training, UK)
• Diploma Coaching Supervision: (Coaching Supervision Academy), UK
• Certified Master Coach: Behavioural Coaching (Behavioural Coaching Institute, Aust)
• Professional Development Certificate: Executive Coaching (Inst. Of Coaching & Consulting Psychology, Australia)
• Diploma Marketing Management (Sydney)
• Group Leadership & Facilitation (various Certifications)
• Bachelor Counselling & Human Change (Aust)  
• Extensive range of business, management, professional and psychotherapeutic certifications

Edna holds memberships of ICC (International Coaching Council), ICF (International Coaching Federation) and is an Accredited Supervisor of both PACFA (Psychotherapist & Counselling Federation of Australia and AAOS (Australian Association of Supervisors).

Julia is an AC Professional Executive Coach and Trainer at the practice she set up, Spark Coaching & Training, in 2001. Julia has been coaching for 15 years and supervising for 10 years. She has supervision qualifications from the Bath Consultancy Group as well as CSA. Julia is also the Regional Co coordinator for the Association of Coaching Supervisors in the Northwest. She is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and Institute of Training & Occupational Learning.
Julia started her career in retail operations for Lewis’s Ltd, Littlewoods and Mackays. After discovering her passion for people development she became a trainer at Help the Aged and then became UK Training Manager for Dedicated Micros (CCTV Manufacturing). Before becoming an independent coach in 2001, Julia set up and led the Training function at Greater Manchester Magistrates Courts responsible for all staff and management development.
Her joint honours degree in Biology/Psychology underpins a keen interest in Neuroscience approaches to coaching and a strong psychological underpinning to all her work. She has a number of one to one supervisees who she mentors by phone/skype and has been running a regular supervision group in Manchester since 2012.