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Alison is a UK based associate
of Katzman Consulting with a long history providing
business psychology services, with an emphasis on personal,
team, and leadership development.
Alison has coached literally hundreds
of executives and 'high potentials' from a very wide
range of organizations over the last ten years with
a particular focus on the financial sector. She has
consulted extensively at Board level, coaching and mentoring
senior individuals, facilitating meetings, and intervening
to improve management team and Board effectiveness.
Early on in her career she helped develop graduate recruitment
and competency modeling programs for clients such as
Deutsche Bank.
Alison's clients include Allianz,
Price Water House Coopers, KPMG, Cairn, Logica, The
Wellcome Trust, Fujitsu Services, Atkins, The International
Monetary Fund, AMP, Henderson, Aviva, and LloydsTSB.
Public sector clients in the UK include Anglia Ruskin
University, the Post Office and the Medical Research
Council.
As a Visiting Professor at Henley
Business School, Alison is the lead tutor on Henley
Business School's established and successful Certificate
in Coaching (a program she designed) that leads to formal
accreditation. She is an APECS accredited executive
coach and coaching supervisor ('APECS' - the Association
for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision
- is the UK's leading executive coaching body). Having
overseen the work of other coaches for several years,
Alison is the external supervisor for the internal coaching
teams at Price Waterhouse Coopers, and for the executive
coaches in Praesta's Dublin office.
She writes regularly for the UK HR
press, and has published eight books in her field. Her
latest book, 'The Coach's Coach,' was published in September
2004 and has become a standard text for many leadership
and coaching development qualifications. Alison is also
experienced in designing and delivering large-scale
interventions (100-plus participants) which expedite
strategic and/or organization-wide change. One of her
key interests is in the quality and impact of "conversation"
in all its forms in organizational life.
Alison is a regular speaker
at conferences in the UK and overseas on psychological,
leadership and coaching-related issues, and is also
used extensively by fellow trainers and developers in
their own professional development. In 2008 she was
ranked as 'One To Watch' in Human Resources Magazine's
third HR's Most Influential survey. Alison believes
in continuous learning and personal growth, in the importance
of genuineness, and in the pursuit of excellence.
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