Dr Pritpal Singh

Consultant Psychiatrist, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Having qualified in India, Pritpal moved to the UK and has worked with the Wrexham Community Mental health team as a Consultant Psychiatrist since 2004. He has held senior educational roles as postgraduate organizer for Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Faculty lead for quality of postgraduate medical education in North Wales, and Performance lead for psychiatry training in Wales.

Currently alongside his clinical work, Pritpal is an executive member and lead for mentoring at the Royal College of Psychiatrist in Wales, Health Assessor and Medical Supervisor for the General Medical Council, and is an executive coach with the Wales Coaching network. He has an enduring interest in the link between personality, learning and behaviour change.

Sharon Rooke

Master NLP coach and internationally accredited trainer

Sharon’s mission and passion is helping people to be the best they can be. Delivering professional Neuro Linguistic Programming training and coaching programmes to Public and Private sectors since 2003, she utilises experience from her corporate background.

Sharon is a UKCP Registrant, Accredited Psychotherapist and Supervisor by NLPtCA since 2011. She served on the NLPtCA Board for 7 years and was appointed Chair for 3 years. Sharon is an Executive of Constructivist & Existentialist College. She is currently the vice-chair of UKCP Ethics Committee. The Ethics Committee recruitment and selection process took place on-line as Sharon was in Canada; receiving further training in Satir Systemic Psychotherapy, becoming the first person in the UK to hold level II qualification.

With a walking the talk philosophy, learning continues as Sharon is studying a MSc in psychological trauma.

Mary Hughes

Director, OMH Coaching and Supervision

Mary is a qualified coach and coaching supervisor who is continually developing from noticing how her work fits with today’s connected and diverse society. Taking a relational approach as a consequence, one that thinks hard about connections, stories provide her structure for sense-making and searching for meaning. Creativity has served her (and those she has worked with) well over the years and it characterises her promise to attend with unconditional, unbiased and close regard. Her rewards come when sense emerges from apparent nonsense, freeing clients from their limits.

She has twelve years’ experience as an internal public sector and free-lance coach with three of those years as a coaching supervisor. She has provided support for academic research and is an active networker, helping organise and connect communities of coaches within Wales and beyond. Mary is an Associate of the University of South Wales providing coaching supervision and support for the Wales Coaching Centre. Also an Associate of Grays Learning, she has both coaching and supervision clients. She is the in-house supervisor for a major UK Housing Association and increasingly called upon to review coaching publications, design coaching (and related) workshops and write for journals.

Helen Coffey

Powys County Council

Helen’s role supports the design and development of Powys County Council through facilitating the ILM L3 Leadership Programme, coaching development and support, team building and bespoke team intervention sessions, manager induction programme, knowledge management support and workforce development programmes.

Helen’s role see her leading on the development of the Powys Business Coaching Pool to help coaches share good practice, sustain their coaching skills and receive supervision. Helen gained her ILM L7 Coaching and Mentoring qualification in 2012 and is a passionate advocate of all that coaching can bring.

Helen delivers a one-day course entitled ‘Coaching Conversations for Managers’ to try to encourage managers to give their employees opportunities to come forward with their own solutions via use of coaching type questions as part of a leadership type remit. Helen is also responsible for overseeing the process of matching coaches and coachees within the organisation taking care to place a coachee with the right coach so as to gain maximum benefit from the relationship. Everyone signed onto an ILM Level 5 programme is allocated a coach.

Sue Ling

Powys County Council

Sue is a Communications and Engagement specialist by day and a qualified coach who gained her ILM Level 5 Coaching and Mentoring qualification in 2015 after having to resubmit her assignment for not having enough supervision evidence to pass.

This experience led Sue to put forward a proposal to a senior colleague in the Workforce and Organisational Development team to consider how to strengthen coaching supervision for all trainee and qualified coaches to support their continuing development.

Sue seized the opportunity to undertake a further five-day course in coaching supervision run by ECF Training and Coaching in 2016 and endorsed by ILM. This has led to an agreed approach at Powys County Council that sees all coaches receive one to one supervision twice a year using accredited models such as Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet’s Seven Eyed Model and Peter Hill’s supervisory questions. Sue is convinced that coaching delivers for people and is now continuing her journey by studying a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology via long distance learning through the University of East London to add further tools and techniques to her coaching toolkit.