Pauline Willis Coach Profile
Pauline is a Director of
Lauriate Ltd
through which she provides a range of services.
Pauline specialises in delivering programmes that link individual
performance and potential with the achievement of strategic
organisational objectives. She does this by aligning change
programmes with core business objectives and supporting key
individuals within the organisation to successfully negotiate the
change process. Knowledge and skills transfer to individuals within
the client organisation leads to sustained growth and change without
creating a dependency on external consultancy support.
Pauline delivers a range of business psychology services including
the provision of tailored, client focussed coaching and mentoring programmes.
The design, implementation and evaluation of coaching and mentoring practice
is currently Pauline's core area of professional interest.
Coaching clients are predominantly executives, leaders or 'high potentials'
working within large blue chip companies. A number of Paulines clients are
leaders of strategic organisational change who are themselves acquiring advanced
coaching or mentoring competence.
Pauline also works with a small number of self funded personal coaching
clients. These are all people who have the courage to invest in significant
work/life change. In 2002/2003 Pauline worked with 'Ruth', a personal coaching
client on behalf of the
BBC Radio 4 programme Nice Work as part of a media experiment to test the effectiveness
of coaching as
'stressbusting' strategy
With a strong professional background in business psychology and consulting
with 15 years experience spanning a range of industries
including health, energy, electronics and information technology both
in Australia and the UK, Pauline possesses the expertise and breadth of
experience to support individuals and organisations to achieve maximum
potential.
Current projects
As Past Chair of the Special Group in Coaching Psychology, Pauline is actively
working towards the recognition and value of psychological and business competencies in supporting significant
personal and organisational change.
In collaboration with INA pauline has developed of a unique personal
development package that focuses on cross cultural communication and negotiation. The package
includes a tailored needs assessment, workshop, self-directed learning tools and coaching programme.
As a founding Executive Board Member of the EMCC Pauline conducted the first stage of the EMCC's Standards Project
which focused on the identificiation of core coaching and mentorng competencies. Pauline resigned from the EMCC EB on
the 13th of December, 2004 and has been contracted to conduct a second project associated with Coaching and Mentoirng Competencies.
The aim of this project is around industry wide consultation and providing a sound research base to guide the development
of professional practice standards for coaching and mentoring.
Credentials
Pauline is a qualified business psychologist who maintains registrations
with key professional and accrediting bodies in both the UK
(BPS) and
Australia (APS).
She is also co-founder and joint Managing Director of the
Coaching & Mentoring Network, the UK's leading independent
web-based resource dedicated to coaching and mentoring. Pauline has
been quoted in the press as an expert on coaching and mentoring practice,
written articles on coaching and mentoring for business publications
(Total Business Article) and is a speaker for a variety of
conferences and networking organisations including the
European Mentoring & Coaching Conference (Cambridge),
Linkage International Coaching & Mentoring Conference (London),
Professional Women International (Brussels)well,
Institute of Electrical Engineers(Oxford).
British Psychological Society's Division of Occuaptional Psychology, and
Special Group in Coaching Psychology
Professonal Memberships & Accreditations
Chartered Psychologist (BPS)
Occupational Psychologist (HPC)
Past Chair of BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP)
Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS)
Member of the College of Organisational Psychologists (APS)
Member of the APS Interest Group in Coaching Psychology
Founding Executive Board Member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (2001 - 2004)
External Assessor: International Standards for Mentoring Schemes in Employment
External Avisor to Oxford Brookes University for the MA in Coaching and Mentoring
Certificate of Quality Management in Healthcare (University of New South
Wales Medical School/Australian Council on Healthcare Standards)
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