Full CV

Diana is an experienced coach and management consultant who combines a deep understanding of the requirements of senior roles with extensive practical knowledge of techniques to facilitate creativity, change and growth and has a proven track record in designing assessment & development methods. She provides in-depth assessment, feedback and coaching to support senior appointments, development and career transitions, has created self-help guides/ workshops for management leadership and interpersonal skills development, and coached individuals in a wide range of skills including leadership, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills, stress management and life-work balance. She has designed assessment tools to meet specific needs including questionnaires, tests and assessment centre exercises. As a consultant she provides integrated solutions to support the organisation's business objectives, and is the author of 'Assessment Strategies for Business Advantage'( Pitamn /FT 1999). As a coach she enables individuals to has been sucessful in transforming individual lives and individual contributions to develop their innate talents and overcome barriers to achieve personal and business success.

Varied career spanning over 30 years: research into individual differences in personality and mental abilities (Institute of Psychiatry); psychologist, manager and internal consultant in British Airways; successful consulting and coaching business

Large internal consulting projects, designing and implementing corporate systems, contributing to strategy development and organisation change programmes, providing and evaluating assessment, recruitment and development programs as well as individual feedback and coaching; designing, implementing and evaluating competency frameworks; audited top talent, designed corporate systems and senior assessment, recruitment and development programmes.

Consultancy sectors include public, financial, telecoms, transport, pharmaceutical, leisure, services, legal, petrochemical, manufacturing

Focus on in-depth assessment and coaching of senior managers, and in the design and delivery of specialised assessment, development and talent management methods; published author of ‘Assessment Strategies for Business Advantage' (FT/Pitman1999).

Considerable experience of recruitment, development, assessment and talent management programmes at senior levels across a range of industres .

Coaches individuals in a wide range of skills including leadership, communication, interpersonal, stress management, life-work balance.

Approach:

Combines a professional background in psychology with a wealth of practical techniques and experience to help individuals to make substantial change.

Draws on variety of disciplines including NLP, Appreciative Inquiry, Solution Focus, Relaxation/ Stress management, Visualisation and Symbolic Modelling

Starts with the simplest interventions which can bring about change; teaches simple processes/ techniques which the individual can draw on to radically enhance their personal & working lives.

Tailors approach to the individual; identifies what works and adapts both style and methods to individual needs and preferences; often starts with in-depth profiling of personality values & motives.

Client-centred: does not impose solutions but supports client problem solving; gently facilitates clients to identify and unblock barriers which have arisen from past experience

Challenges where needed to help dislodge entrenched behaviours and self-limiting beliefs.