Directors, Consultants &
Trainers
Stephen Palmer
Partnerships Ltd
The Director is Professor
Stephen Palmer PhD FRSA, a Business
and Coaching Psychologist. He is
an Honorary Professor of
Psychology at City University,
London, UK, and Director of their
Coaching Psychology Unit; the
first Visiting Professor of Work
Based Learning and Stress
Management at the National Centre
for Work Based Learning
Partnerships, Middlesex
University, an Honorary Senior
Research Fellow at the University
of Manchester, an Association for
Professional Executive Coaches
& Supervisors (APECS)
accredited Executive Coach and
APECS accredited Executive Coach
Supervisor. He has had over 30
years experience in business and
management and is also an
Incorporated Financial Accountant.
Currently, he is Honorary
President of the Association for
Coaching, Honorary
Vice-President of the Institute of
Health Promotion and Education,
Honorary Vice-President of the
International Stress Management
Association (UK). He was the first
Chair of the British Psychological Society
Special Group in Coaching
Psychology. He has lectured
in Europe, Japan, New Zealand,
Hong Kong and China on a range of
subjects and regularly appears on
radio and television programmes.
He is UK Coordinating Editor of
the International Coaching
Psychology Review. He is Co-editor with Gladeana
McMahon with Averil Leimon of the
Essential Coaching Skills and
Knowledge book series published by
Routledge, and Editor of the
Stress Counselling book series for
Sage.
Our External Contracts
Director is Kate Thomas BA MIHPE
MRSH. She co-authored with
Stephen Palmer and Professor Cary
Cooper, Creating a Balance:
Managing Stress published by The
British Library.
Nick Edgerton MSc CPsychol
DipCACP is Co-Director of the
Coaching programmes and is a
chartered psychologist. He is
attached to the Faculty of
Coaching Psychology. He developed
the cognitive behavioural SPACE
model of coaching, counselling and
stress management which he teaches
at the Centre.
Gladeana McMahon FAC FBACP
FIMS MISMA MIHPE is a
Honorary Vice President of the
Association for Coaching.She is a
BACP accredited counsellor and
supervisor, a BABCP accredited
psychotherapist and a UKCP
registered cognitive-behavioural
psychotherapist. She is also an
experienced industrial trainer.
She is News Editor of CPJ, the
Journal of the British Association
for Counselling &
Psychotherapy, and Editor of the
Journal of The International
Stress Management Association (UK
Branch). She has published
articles on counselling and an
interactive handbook Setting Up
Your Own Practice. Her recent
books include Client Assessment
(1997) and the Handbook of
Counselling (1997), both co-edited
with Stephen Palmer, and
Understanding Trauma (1997) with
Doggart. She is Co-editor with
Stephen Palmer of a new coaching
book series for Routledge.
Michael Neenan Dip REBT
AdDipREBT DipCACP is
Co-Director of the Centre for
Coaching programme. He is a
Honorary Vice President of the
Association for Coaching. He
is also an experienced industrial
trainer. He has published articles
and books on REBT including the
Dictionary of Rational Emotive
Behaviour Therapy (1994) with
Dryden, Counselling Individuals: A
Rational Emotive Handbook (1999)
with Dryden and Yankura, and Life
Coaching: A Cognitive Behavioural
Approach (2002) with Dryden.
Jennifer Liston-Smith MA
(Oxon) MSc (Psych) MISMA MIHPE
FRSA is Associate
Director of the Centre for
Coaching. Jennifer specialises in
coaching, training and
organisational stress management
consultancy, working at all
levels, including senior
management and Board level. She
draws on a broad training.
Kasia Szymanska MSc Psychol
AFBPsS is a Chartered
Psychologist, a UKCP registered
cognitive-behaviour therapist and
an Associate Fellow of the British
Psychological Society. She is
Editor of The Coaching
Psychologist published by the
Special Group in Coaching
Psychology (SGCP) and Ex-officio
Member of the SGCP Committee. She
is former Editor of Counselling
Psychology Review.
Dr Alison Whybrow PhD
CPsychol is a Chartered
Occupational Psychologist and a
leading coaching
psychologist. Her forthcoming
book with Stephen Palmer is The
Handbook of Coaching Psychology. |
