Coaching Psychology
Keynote Presenters
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KEYNOTE 1:
Coaching Psychology: Coming of age?
Dr Alison Whybrow, Coaching Psychologist Practitioner and Chair of the SGCP, British Psychological Society
Alison will address two key questions: What does it mean to practice as a coaching psychologist and what does coaching psychology offer? At the turn of this century, the phrase ‘coaching psychologist' had rarely been conceived and infrequently used. Here, in 2008, we find a fully fledged profession of Coaching Psychology and many thousands of practitioners spread across the globe. Indeed, Coaching Psychology is striving for recognition as a separate domain of practice within the broader profession of Psychology, differentiating itself from Clinical, Organisational, Health, Counselling and other applied psychologies.
What makes a coaching psychologist? How does this differ, yet build on developments in other areas of applied psychology? In this presentation, I will explore a number of dimensions of the profession of coaching psychology and what that means for our practice and our clients.
About the Speaker:
Alison Whybrow (C.PSYCHOL, BSC (HONS) PHD) is an experienced Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Coaching Psychologist who focuses on facilitating individual contribution and organizational excellence. Alison has spent her professional life studying, researching and working with people in organizations. She has very broad business experience from her work in the heavy manufacturing industries in the UK, to her more recent work within the Private Equity community. Alison has been deeply involved in the development of the coaching psychology profession in the UK from very early days.
Alison has extensive experience as a coach, and works closely with i-coach academy who focus on the development of individuals' professional coaching practice and delivering coaching consulting services to organizations. Alison personally works with executives and board level clients, as well as middle managers. Her focus is on developing capability to support the effective execution of business strategy. Alison has developed and delivered specialist coaching programmes for internal organizational coaches, stress coaching programmes and generic coaching skills programmes for managers and leaders within business.
Alison is keen to raise the profile of Psychology and Coaching Psychology within the Coaching industry and to raise understanding and awareness of the Psychological underpinnings of coaching. As a Coaching Psychologist, Alison has an interest in how psychologists make use of their scientist - practitioner framework and their psychological knowledge within their coaching practice. Additionally, as routes to accreditation for coaching psychologists are being developed, it is timely to explore what differentiates coaching psychologists from other applied psychological practitioners.
Alison is currently the Chair of the Special Group in Coaching Psychology of the British Psychological Society. Alison co-edited the Handbook in Coaching Psychology: A guide for practitioners with Professor Stephen Palmer. This was published by Routledge in December 2007.
KEYNOTE 2
The state of executive and management development: The state of the nation
Rosemary Howard, Executive Director and Conjoint Professor at AGSM Executive Programs
Rosemary will present a keynote address entitled The state of executive and management development: The state of the nation.
About the Speaker:
Rosemary Howard commenced in November 2007 as Executive Director and Conjoint Professor at AGSM Executive Programs, part of the Australian School of Business. Rosemary is responsible for the leadership and growth of AGSM Executive Programs and for deepening client partnerships and the alumni network.
Rosemary brings a wealth of management experience to her role with over 15 years executive leadership experience with Telstra in Australia and New Zealand and a further 12 years senior management experience in economic development and innovation in the NSW public sector and almost 10 years experience in public and private education and health sectors in Australia and the US.
Rosemary holds a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science from UNSW, Graduate Diploma of Management from AGSM. Rosemary was awarded an Australian Government Centenary Medal in 2003 for “service to Australian society in business leadership”, and won an Eisenhower Fellowship in 1991.
