This is a directory of people who offer services that embody elements of the strengths approach.
Practitioner: Odette Beris
Chartered Psychologist & Founder, EnormousYes
Contact details: http://www.enormousyes.com or email odetteberis@enormousyes.com.
Professional offering: EnormousYes is a London-based coaching practice, led by Chartered Psychologist Odette Beris, specialising in the creative, technology and media industries. Our approach incorporates positive psychology and strengths coaching to help organisations and individuals achieve their goals.
Practitioner: Barrie Hopson
Helping people to become architects of their own future. I talk and consult around portfolio careers. changing nature of careers, issues for the 50+ generation and how to live happier – my latest business venture.
Contact details: www.portfoliocareers.net, www.theplusesofbeing50plus.blogspot.com barriehopson@ashlingpartnership.com, 0113 2300122
Practitioner: Sue Moore, Amadeus Network
Professional offering: Working with leading international organisations to assist individuals, teams and organisations to build on their strengths to shape and reach their picture of success.
Contact details:Tel No. +(0)1926 336086 Mobile: +44 (0)7970 029257 Website: www.amadeusnetwork.com
E Mail: sue@amadeusnetwork.com
Professional offering: Working with leading international organisations. Sue Moore founded Amadeus Network Limited in 1998, to assist individuals, teams and organisations to build on their strengths to shape and reach their picture of success. Amadeus offers:- * one to one strengths based mentoring for CEO’s, leaders on top teams and those identified within companies as high potential * workshops around the key considerations for building strengths based organisations and teams * help to organisations wanting to build mentoring faculties inside their businesses * key note speaking Published in the autumn of 2005, she co-authored a book with Mike Pegg on Strengths Coaching. It is the strengths approach which informs all her work.
Do browse Sue Moore’s website to learn more: www.amadeusnetwork.com Other important background information: Most recent comment on my work across three years from a Legal VP at Yahoo! " I’ve tried not to interfere with your own outstanding work with the EMEA Legal team, and I wanted to let you know that I’ve watched it all closely from the outside. Borrowing from criminal law, I’ll simply note that the team’s remarkable success has your fingerprints all over it. We’re indebted to you. THANK YOU. Thank you also for your important role in helping the EMEA Legal Leader design and achieve his own Picture of Success. It’s been a thrill to watch and learn."
Practitioner: Katie Ledger
Professional offering: "Get people/teams/organisations HEARD"
Contact details: www.talentnetwork.co.uk www.portfoliocareers.net katie@talentnetwork.co.uk katie@portfoliocareers.net
LlinkedIn Katie Ledger Twitter @katieledger
I choose a portfolio approach.
1. increase new business by pitch/presentation coaching with impact
2. improve communication by media/comms training
3. enhance audience participation/understanding by producing and hosting conferences, videos & events.
4. encourage people to play to their strengths – Portfolio Career author & speaker
Other important background information: After 13 years working as a TV News journalist for the BBC, ITN (Independent Television News) and Channel 5, Katie has created a portfolio career as an author, communications consultant, conference facilitator and speaker. She works for organisations such as Microsoft, Sony, Xerox, 3 Mobile, Metropolitan Police, Waterstones and HMV helping people to get to the heart of the matter and communicate in a compelling and memorable way. She is a passionate advocate of new technology, which spurred her to write “And what do you do? 10 steps to creating a portfolio career”(A&C Black) with Dr Barrie Hopson. A portfolio career is where you work for two or more employers. By utilising all your strengths and passions most people find they become more engaged in the work they’re doing and generally have more control over their working lives.
Practitioner: Simon Danciger, Barnes Auctions
Professional offering: Once a family treasure, I am now an unwanted antique. Somewhere out there is someone who will love me anew. They will prove their love by offering to pay more than any other suitor. Barnes Auctions will find me that someone…and take a 20% commission for doing so.
Contact details: www.barnesauctions.com info@barnesauctions.com 0208 878 9223
Practitioner: Sulynn Choong
Professional offering: Sulynn is a Positive Change Consultant / Certified Professional Coach working with professionals and executives to achieve optimal levels of performance and work satisfaction.
Contact details: email: sulynn@cappasia.com or sulynn@hcp2.com.my tel: +6013 3992868
She believes that strength-based change management founded on positivity and resilience makes the difference to individuals and organizations. Sulynn partners with CEOs of corporations to energise and build positive productive workplaces and works with executives to find a sense of balance through leveraging inner strengths and developing effective strategies for excellence and high performance. She also supports specialist consulting firms in public relations and organizational development, focusing on behavioural change through cognitive shifts and emotional mastery, to enhance employee engagement and communication. Sulynn’s lifelong passion is to help people find meaning and fulfilment at work and in their daily lives. She is a certified professional coach who integrates her experience and expertise in human resource development with applications of positive psychology. Her clients value her positive outlook, presence, authenticity and intuitive collaborative style. Sulynn is at her best telling stories and sharing experiences. She incorrigibly injects Fun and Laughter into the serious business of self transformation. Sulynn's recent positive interventions have included clients learning from a customised treasure hunt, a Christmas tea party, balloon blowing, and playing toddlers' games.
Other important background information: In 2006, Sulynn graduated with the pioneer Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) class from the University of Pennsylvania. She has integrated positive psychology with almost 30 years of diverse local and international management and operations experience in senior leadership positions across various industries, including two decades in business consulting. Sulynn is an accredited practitioner of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, FIRO-B, and SHL Occupational Testing. She also administers and applies profiling and measurement tools common in applied positive psychology. Her natural curiosity drives her to regularly explore and test new strength /positive trait profiling toolsSulynn founded the Asian Center for Applied Positive Psychology and acts as its Chief Engagement Officer. She is a Charter Member of the International Positive Psychology Association, a Visiting Scholar at University of Pennsylvania, as well as a member of International Coach Federation and International Psychological Type Association. Sulynn serves as a faculty member of Positive Psychology Centre, Singapore.
Sulynn is also a prolific writer, a frequent speaker, an inspiring teacher and mindful event organizer specializing in making applications of positive psychology come alive! She actively develops and facilitates positive living coaching/workshops targeted at people who are seeking self-empowerment strategies to live their Best Possible Life. She also designs character development programs for children and youth. Sulynn's research focuses on the nature and nurture of individual positive traits, character strengths and virtues, personality and psychological type, and their behavioural manifestations. Sulynn’s capstone research paper with K Britton was published in the International Coaching Profession Review, April 2007. She is also a co-author of Resilience: How to Navigate Life's Curves (2009).
Practitioner: Paul Bird
Professional offering: Enjoy Coaching provides leadership coaching and mentoring support to businesses leaders.
Contact details: Contact Enjoy at, www.enjoycoaching.co.uk, or call Paul Bird on, 07976 327377
The Enjoy LEADERS SECRET programme shows business leaders how to convey their strategy and message more effectively throughout their organisation and turn managers and teams into enthusiasts capable of driving real process and profit improvements. Enjoy's Emotional Fitness program provides a unique look at Emotional Intelligence revealing the secrets behind what drives human emotions and providing practical tools to help reduce stress and boost personal confidence.
Practitioner: Jenny Fox Eades
Professional offering: "We work with schools – primary and secondary – to help establish and maintain a strengths-based culture in a way that enhances personal and academic achievement.
Contact details: jenny@celebratingstrengths www.celebratingstrengths.com jennyfoxeades@yahoo.co.uk
Our focus is always on the professional development of staff – they have to live and model a strengths-based approach for themselves in order to inspirte students to do the same. We prefer to work with schools over the longer term – because culture change takes time. We focus on three things – the stories we well, the traditions we celebrate and the strengths we use and develop. Three day Celebrating Strengths workshops are offered to experienced teachers and coaches who wish to engage at depth with the concepts of story telling, celebration and strengths.
Other important background information: Celebrating Strengths is being adopted as a philosophical approach to teaching and learning by schools in the UK and Australia. The book, Celebrating Strengths, by Jenny Fox Eades, is to be translated into Danish in the near future. Celebrating Strengths is now being adapted for use in leadership development and executive coaching.
