Guest Speakers

Ioannes Alexiades 
Ioannes is a qualified supervisor and an integrative dual practitioner – coach and psychotherapist. He has over twenty years’ experience in the corporate sector and has helped organisations fulfil many training and leadership development programmes. In addition to providing clinical supervision in an academic setting, he offers executive coaching to individuals as well as in the context of senior leadership development programmes for organisations.? His approach to coaching is relational, and the work focuses on identifying inner strengths and resources and harnessing these for the purposes of achieving high performance.??He is a Member of the Association for Coaching and currently sits on the executive of the Coaching Division of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy where he is also an accredited practitioner and Chair of their Supervision Interest Group.

Julia Vaughan-Smith

Julia is an Accredited Master Coach and Supervisor, with an M.A. in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (now retired as a psychotherapist).   Julia has a long career in leadership and organisational development, as well as Executive Coaching. She has been researching , exploring, teaching and writing about coaching and trauma for over 15 years, building on her learning as a psychotherapist..  She is the author of ‘Therapist to Coach’, ‘Coaching and Trauma’, and ‘Daughters:How to Untangle Yourself from Your Mother’. 

Julia Robinson

Julia is an accredited executive coach (EMCC Senior Practitioner) and a certified Business Psychologist. For her MSc in Coaching Psychology she conducted qualitative research on how trauma shows up in coaching supervision. Julia is a member of the City of London Law Society’s training committee and a Fellow of the RSA.

The Organisers

Mia O’Gorman – Supervision SIG Co-Chair

Mia ‘discovered’ coaching early in her career, sparking a passion of 20 years and counting. She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Business & Executive Coaching, a Diploma in Coaching Supervision, and is accredited by EMCC as a Senior Practitioner coach.

Mia’s approach to practice integrates relational, behavioural and psychological dimensions, including emotional intelligence, Transactional Analysis and vertical development.

Mia’s career background in corporate HR in the automotive, finance and energy sectors led to consultancy roles in leadership assessment, leadership development and organization development. Now a freelance executive coach, supervisor and development consultant, she works with leaders, organisation coaching teams and independent coaches. Mia is a tutor and assessor for an ESQA-awarded Accredited Diploma in Coaching Supervision, and volunteers as an accreditation mentor and assessor for EMCC Global.

Mia sees supervision as a source of professional and personal support for coaches and mentors that is developmental, renewing and inspiring. During her supervisor training, she felt at odds with the benign authority figures often offered as metaphors for the supervisor’s role, such as the security guard, the teacher and the nurse. Instead, Mia prefers the metaphors of a personal trainer taking you through a workout, a physio who can ease the aches and pains of practice, and a chef offering a nourishing meal. Supervision can therefore be both challenging and renewing, like a day at a health spa to take care of your wellbeing and power up your performance!

 Kevin Cowley – Supervision SIG Co-Chair

Kevin has been coaching both internally and externally for 15 years. During a career as a Senior Leader within the Civil Service, Kevin set up the original cross-government internal coaching provision and since 202 has been the Director of Kevin Cowley Coaching Ltd. Kevin holds an MA in Coaching & Mentoring from Oxford Brookes University and is also an NLP accredited coach. In addition, since 2015 Kevin has been supporting coaches as a Coach Supervisor, having undergone training with both Ashridge and Oxford Brookes University. Kevin is accredited as a Senior Practitioner coach within the EMCC, Accredited Coach Supervisor and also volunteers as an EMCC mentor supporting new and developing coaches. 

Kevin sees supervision as a restorative process, a reflective space that has been specifically reserved for the coach to look at anything that is important to them, anything that might get in the way of being present and of service to their client. The coach can use the space to examine how they feel about coaching, about their client, the organisation in which they work, the various relationships and how they are intrinsically linked, but most importantly , they have a space where they can just be. 

This group is free to EMCC UK members and, as an introductory offer, free to non-members for the first three sessions and then £20.83 + VAT thereafter.

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