DIRECTORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Dr Peter Hawkins (President)

Dr Peter Hawkins, joint founder (1986) and chairman of Bath Consultancy Group, is a leading consultant, writer and researcher in organisational strategy, learning, managing complex change, leadership and Board development. He has worked with many leading organisations in many parts of the world including Europe, South Africa, America and the Far East co-designing and facilitating strategy reviews as well as major change and organisational transformation projects. He has helped a number of Boards and senior executive teams develop their vision, values, leadership and strategy for the future, both in commercial companies, Government, large professional organisations and large and small charities

He has coached a number of Corporate Executives, Chief Executives and Chairman in both the Public and Private sectors, including: Chief Executives of FTSE 100 companies; Chief Executives of younger growing companies; International Lead Partners in PricewaterhouseCoopers, Local Authority Chief Executives and Chief Executives of international not-for-profit organisations. He is currently team coach of the executive team of one of the largest Government departments.

Peter is a thought leader in Executive Coaching, President of the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision and a member of the advisory Board of the University of Bath's School of Management. He leads the international modular training programme in the Supervision of Coaches, Mentors and Consultants through Bath Consultancy Group and works with a number of organisations helping them maximise the learning and value they achieve from their coaching activity. (www.bathconsultancygroup.com).

Peter is the co-author of the best selling "Supervision in the Helping Professions" Open University Press 1989, 2000 and 2006 and "Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision and Development" McGraw-Hill/Open University Press 2006 and the CIPD change Agenda "Coaching Supervision". He is also author of "The Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership" O Books 2005.

His current and recent client companies include Ernst & Young, Canon, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Department of Work and Pensions, IBM, Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw and the BBC.

Patti Stevens

Patti Stevens co-founded APECS, which was launched in 2005, to fulfil the need for a top level accrediting professional body of executive coaches and coaching supervisors, and also to recognise and respond to the requirements of corporate buyers of coaching and coaching supervision. Patti is currently a director and active member of the APECS Board.

Patti's professional training and background is in organisational, coaching, counselling and supervision psychology and practice. Throughout her professional journey which began some 25 years ago, Patti has gained extensive coaching and supervision experience both in the private and public sector working with many and varied corporate and private clients across all levels of organisational structure. This experience and her desire to contribute to the development and implementation of coaching supervision led Patti to set up the Coaching Supervision Consultancy (CSC) in 2004. CSC is the leading coaching supervision provider focussing on the support, development and evaluation of both corporate and individual coaching practitioners.

Patti is a Visiting Executive Fellow at Henley Business School and for the past seven years she has been a senior visiting lecturer and coaching supervisor on the MA in Coaching & Mentoring Practice at Oxford Brookes University which she also helped to develop and design. She is also on the programme development team for the Professional Doctorate in Coaching & Mentoring and the Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching Supervision.

Patti holds an MSc in Psychological Counselling & Psychotherapy (Roehampton), a Postgraduate Diploma in Organisational Psychology & Psychiatry (Kings College, London), a BSc Hons in Psychology (Brunel University) and a Diploma in Professional Coaching & Mentoring (OSC&M).

Professor Paul Brown

Dr Paul Brown is a clinical and organisational psychologist with an international practice that has taken him throughout Europe, the USA, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia and recently into China. He is Visiting Professor in Individual and Organisational Psychology at the Nottingham Law School; an Associate of the National School of Government; and an invited lecturer at the Royal College of Defence Studies.

Paul Brown has a long-standing interest in the development of individuals within corporate systems; careers; and the family management of landed estates. He worked in the NHS 1961 - 1974, during which time he became Hon Secretary of the Clinical Division of the BPS and was an Adviser to the then Secretary of State for Health on professional matters. He also established and ran the first Advisory Committee for clinical psychologists within a Regional Hospital Board. He has subsequently been managing director of a career counselling company in London, Paris and Geneva; has sat on the private banking board of a merchant bank; and has most recently been Director of Adaptive Research for Penna Consulting plc. His main professional fascinations are with establishing fear-free organisations; the nature of the self; the effective use of the endless supply of productive energy that human beings can create under the right conditions; and the neuropsychology of leadership. He is part of a small research and applications team that has developed a web-enabled methodology for mapping complex adaptive systems in real time, based upon how people perceive what is happening.

Paul has published three books, including Managing Meetings; over thirty scientific papers in academic journals; and has contributed to twelve edited books, including The Oxford Companion to the Mind. He is currently the Chairman of the Association for Professional and Executive Coaching and Supervision APECS.

Liz Macann

Liz Macann is the co - founder and Head of the BBC's in-house Executive, Leadership and Management Coaching Network. Co-creator of the BBC Coach Foundation Course, Liz is responsible for the selection, professional training and development of approx 80 coaches and the service they provide.

She continues to develop her own coaching practice by working with a diverse client group of senior executives and leaders both within and external to the BBC. Her approach is to provide support and challenge whilst facilitating the client to raise their self awareness and recognise self responsibility for making the changes necessary to fulfil their own potential and that of their team. She particularly likes working with clients in transition.

Nationally, Liz takes a leading role in the development of Coaching as a profession, participating in the activities of APECS, the EMCC, the Association for Coaches, and the International Coach Federation She is a speaker at national and international coaching conferences and seminars and sits on the editorial board of Coaching at Work.

As well as being an accredited Coach, Liz is trained in Brief Therapy, Constellations Therapy, Coach Supervision and is qualified to administer, interpret and give feedback on a number of psychometric instruments. Liz's belief in the basic tenets of coaching originated in her work with communities in developing countries and also with traumatised horses.

Dr Jeremy J Ridge

Jeremy specialises in senior management coaching, both with individuals, and leadership teams; and in designing and facilitating senior management and organisation-wide change programmes.

He has a wide range of international experience as a practitioner / consultant in both the private and public sector, across a range of multinationals, more entrepreneurial and creative businesses, and major professional services businesses.

His background began with a professional interest in Economics; which was extended to a multidisciplinary approach through his additional interest in Psychology. His main interest is in the use of Development Centre methodologies, which include strong emphasis on Team and Individual Coaching. Understanding of the context (e.g. of Business and Organisational Knowledge) is also an important feature in this work.

Jeremy's interest in APECS is based on the advantages for peoples' learning and development when it is focused at an individual level; and which uses the advantages that skilled personal interaction, through a coaching approach, can then bring.

Jeremy is a Chartered Psychologist. His research interests in Psychology have been based on the impact and measurement of 'helper' behaviour in a 'helping 'process.

Jeremy is Chairman of the APECS Executive Coach Accreditation Panel. This has helped to establish the importance of Practitioner 'experience' as an important and valid basis of knowledge and skill that helps to form the professional basis for Executive Coaching. He is also a member of the Supervision Accreditation Panel.