Experience

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  Waitrose

  Oct 2004 - Sept 2010

  • Organisational Development Manager Waitrose

    Jun 2007 - Sept 2010

  • Business Improvement Manager

    Oct 2004 - May 2007
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  John lewis

  Sept 2010 - Oct 2013

  Manager organisation effectiveness

  Working with Waitrose and with Partnership Services - our shared service division - to improve the health, vitality and performance of our business, now and in the future, by making sure we have the culture, structures and the capability to change that we need

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  John lewis partnership

  May 2013 - Jan 2018

  Leading the investment in our Partners' personal learning and growth.Seeking to inspire, engage and support the individual in becoming their best self, in the firm belief that investing in our personal learning and growth not only supports our life choices and career progression, it enhances resilience and confidence, whilst building a realistic, healthy self-esteem and a positive state of wellbeing. Investment in our personal learning enables us to be at our best, to adapt and grow, to find meaning in our lives and to be fulfilled and happy.Applying a whole person approach that embraces the concept that the human being is multidimensional, suggesting an awareness of, and investment in, our mental, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual growth.We all have conscious and unconscious, rational and irrational aspects of ourselves. By bringing about deeper awareness of the patterns and controls to our behaviours as well as the thoughts and feelings we have about ourselves in any given moment, we have more insight of the impact we have on others, when and how we are at our best and when we are not. Show less

  • Manager Personal Learning and Growth

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  • Manager Coaching

    May 2013 - Jan 2018
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  Idcoach limited

  Feb 2018 - now

  Founder and director

  At idcoach we believe coaching the individual, the team and the organisation together, will deliver real value to your business. Coaching enables individuals to be at their best. A coaching culture in your business will maximise the potential of your team. Coaching the organisational system will ease the hidden system dynamics within your organisation.At idcoach we believe in a coaching approach to leading, managing and personal development. Our focus is supporting small and medium sized organisations to build a coaching capability. We can train employees to work as an internal coach and we can offer ongoing professional development of those coaches through supervision and CPD programmes.We can build programmes that support your managers or other key groups in taking a coaching approach.We can support your leaders in a unique 1-2-1 partnership of 'leadership super-vision' - a confidential relationship which explores the leader's practice and develops their reflective muscle.We can work with key teams in your business to explore and unlock the hidden organisational system dynamics which often make change difficult. Show less