Coaching Connect Day

Speakers Bio and Topics

Clive Wilson: Dzukani – transformation in coaching

Dzukani is taken from Chichewa, the language of the Malawian people. It
simply means “wake up”. Clive and his colleagues at Primeast have been
helping people to “wake up” to the challenges and opportunities presented
in their workplaces for about 25 years. In their coaching and facilitation work, they help people to
take stock of who they are and what they bring to their “context”. This inevitably creates feelings
which carry information relevant to their most powerful contribution. Recognising this and making
a firm commitment to action is at the heart of the “Hero’s Journey” as proposed by Joseph
Campbell. Here, the work of the coach is invaluable as people rarely make this journey
unsupported. Clive will run a flexible workshop for Coaches Connect that explores these concepts
and provides the opportunity to try them out.
Clive is deputy chairman at Primeast, writer, speaker, facilitator and coach. He delights in
travelling to share his insights with leaders and coaches the world over and runs workshops
internationally. He is facilitating this workshop for Coaches Connect in lieu of a donation to the
Open Arms Infant Home in Malawi. Open Arms looks after babies and children who have lost their
parents to AIDS and tropical illnesses.

Zulfi Hussain: Improving team performance through working

effectively with virtual and distributed teams
Zulfi: is CEO of Global Synergy Solutions (GSS), author and internationally
recognised speaker in the specialist areas of social enterprise, entrepreneurship
and coaching & mentoring. He has worked across Europe, Asia and the USA on a range of
leadership and management projects and has contributed to a range of Diversity programmes
across the sectors as a Coach and Mentor for BT, ITV, Leeds Ahead, National Grid, and the NHS. He
has won numerous awards for his personal and professional achievements and his contribution to
Equality & Diversity and Social Inclusion agenda.
He is an inspiring and tireless worker for charities including his own organisation Global Promise,
which brings together local businesses to make a positive contribution within the communities
they serve with the aim of helping to widen participation and extend social inclusion, particularly
amongst ethnic minority and disadvantaged groups.

Jane Keep: Developing self care for coaches

Developing self care is a very practical and physical form of self development,
and, can offer ourselves a greater sense of wellbeing and vitality during our
every working and living day. It also offers the potential to inspire those we
coach, as, if they feel and see that we are ‘living’ in a way that supports us to
remain steady and consistent, well and harmonious, then they can get a felt sense of this
possibility for themselves, offering them the inspiration to build this for themselves too in their
daily living and working lives. This session will focus on the practical aspects of this 6 year study,
presenting those who attend a possibility of deepening their own self care, and kindness to self. It
will include deepening our own self observation and self awareness, and, creating a deeper sense
of self honesty. It will be a practical, play-full, and participative session.
Jane brings a philosophical consciousness to true wellbeing, authenticity, health and harmony in
organizations, teams and individuals through coaching, facilitating, writing, and esoteric healing.
She is freelance, also running an esoteric coaching and healing practice in Bristol, as well as an
Associate of CIHM at Leeds University Business School. She is currently writing up her PhD on self
care for coaches.

Keri Phillips: Coaching and betrayal

Working with a sense of betrayal, whether one’s own or others’ is a
fascinating and sometimes daunting challenge. This interactive workshop
will give participants the opportunity to explore some of the many facets of
betrayal and consider the implications for coaches and coaching
supervisors, from both personal and organisational perspectives.
Keri is a coach and coaching supervisor with a long background in individual, team and
organisation development. His current delight, and indeed obsession, is to write short, accessible,
yet hopefully engaging books, papers and blogs about coaching and coaching supervision; recent
topics include coaching women, self-sabotage, envy, parallel process, creativity, intuition,
transactional analysis, leadership as inconsistent parenting and the shadow within transition.
 Zandra Moore and Jennifer Holloway: How to market and sell your
coaching business

An interactive and practical workshop for participants in which you will learn:
 How to create a personal coaching brand
 The power of referrals and how to generate them
 Getting focused on sales – a few simple steps
Zandra Moore is founder and Director of Salescake and a qualified sales coach who is Vice
Chairman for the Institute of Directors (IoD) in West Yorkshire and a qualified member of the CIPD
and EMCC. Previously, Zandra was Business Development Director for PB Coaching and Sales
Director for Simply Personnel.
Jennifer Holloway is the founder of Spark and an executive coach specialising in personal
branding. Formerly Head of Media Relations for Skipton Building Society, she has appeared on
national TV and radio and is a seasoned business presenter

Steve Phillip & Michelle Beckett: Using social media to

create your coachee community

We will show how the audience can easily engage with social media tools such as LinkedIn,
Facebook and Twitter to find new business and to create a community of coachees that they can
engage with regularly – sharing their expertise and strengthening client relationships.
You will gain a clear understanding of how to communicate your own personal brand online, using
social media and they will leave with practical, non- technical- easy to apply actions, which will
allow them to get the most from their engagement with social media.
Steve Phillip is a personal branding and leadership coach with over 10 years leadership and
management consultancy experience and was a director of the successful international leadership
training organisation The Blue Water Partnership. He also created the Yorkshire based personal
branding business Red fm.
Michelle Beckett ran her own successful senior head hunting business, finding board level
candidates for multinational companies and providing competitive intelligence for organizations
looking for potential new hires. Michelle was one of the first million members of LinkedIn, which
she used as her sole method of finding new candidates, clients and business partners.
In August 2009, Michelle and Steve launched Linked2Success to help SME business owners and
their teams cut through all the ‘noise’ and hype around social media sites such as LinkedIn,
Facebook and Twitter - enabling them to engage with these tools to create practical new business
development and marketing strategies.

Kate Pinder: Lessons and experiences from the tendering process

Kate will lead a discussion on her experiences interspersed with discussion from
the group on what they have experienced; some tips about how to prepare
from any presentation stage and will share some lessons from failure!

Kate has over thirty years experience in management and personal development and is passionate
about helping people learn and make choices that fulfil their potential at work. She has a
background as a senior manager in a large organisation and has worked with and in all sectors and
sizes of organisations, national and local government, the third sector and private business. She
coaches people working in challenging environments; people seeking career change; and people
who are developing in their management role. She has a partnership that trains others as coaches
and mentors. She has a number of qualifications to support her wide experience

David Shindler: Coaching & Mentoring Through a Generational

Lens

Employability and sustainability require continuing personal and professional

development at any life stage. There are now four generations in the
workplace at the same time with implications for being more employable.
What challenge does this present for a 23 year old managing a 64 year old who doesn’t want to
retire? How does a 50 year old manager relate to a 22 year old in her team? What opportunities
exist for building effective relationships, resolving conflicts and making best use of the diversity of
skills, experience and values? What are the attitudes and values of these different generations?
What generational influences affect your world view and practice as a coach or mentor? What
generational influences affect your clients in their relationships with others at work?
David is a coach, consultant, facilitator, trainer and writer on employability, change and
performance. He has considerable experience of working with a wide range of organisations in
leadership, management and organisational development, individual and team coaching, and
personal effectiveness.With an OD consultancy and police service background, he set up daSh
Coaching Ltd in 2009 to focus on employability at all life stages. His first book, Learning to Leap, A
Guide to Being More Employable, was published recently.

Vera Woodhead: How coaching can help to support team

working

Does coaching support team working? Come and find out more in this
interactive workshop. Drawing upon research conducted in coaching teams
it will enable you to:
 Discover coachees’ perceptions of being coached in a team – what helped them to work
more effectively? What did they consider to be important when being coached in a team?
 Hear about out how coaching has helped team working from a team’s perspectives and
learn from their experiences
 Learn how to create the right conditions for team coaching: trust, challenge, dialogue, safe
space, team dynamics, relationships.…
 Engage in discussion on some of the challenges of coaching in teams and learn how to
overcome them
 Take away practical ideas, tools and techniques to use in your practice
Vera is an independent coach, trainer, facilitator and a part time university lecturer in leadership.
Utilising a systemic and eclectic approach she works with organisations, teams and individuals to
improve the quality of leadership, business performance, engagement and to support change and
talent development. Her research findings on, “How does coaching help to support team working”
is soon to be published. She runs the EMCC Yorkshire Network and is on a mission to connect
coaches.