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.

For the past seven years Patti 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 is a senior visiting tutor at Henley Management College where she has been engaged to design and deliver a 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).

Barbara Picheta

Barbara has been Head of the Coaching Centre of Excellence at PwC for the past two and a half years and an Executive Coach for 9 years. She is responsible for developing the service strategically, for supporting organisational coaching capability and for leading a talented internal team of specialist executive coaches and an equally talented, virtual team of external recommended coaches.

Her particular focus is on coaching, team and leadership development. Barbara works with senior people, helping them to address their business, leadership and development challenges and to maximise their potential – particularly at key junctures and transitions. She also has many years experience in learning and organisational development, career management and HR, in both the private and public sector, including the NHS and higher education.

PwC are corporate members of APECS. Barbara was invited to join the APECS Board as a Director and corporate representative, in September 2007, as one of the people most active in developing a coaching culture and practice within their organisation. PwC’s Coaching Centre of Excellence is a pioneer in ethical coaching practice and coaching supervision and has contributed to the recent CIPD/BCG research on this subject.

Barbara is a member of the CIPD and an Affiliate Member of the BPS and its Special Group in Coaching Psychology. She is completing the Tavistock Certificate in Executive Coaching and holds the Gestalt Certificate in Advanced Process Consulting, the Certificate in Counselling in the Development of Learning, a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management and a BA Hons in English.

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.