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Euro Coach List Conference 2008 - Presenters

Judy Barber

Judy's been running groups, classes and workshops with adults and teenagers for most of her career. She runs "Confidence and Creativity" workshops which combine arts activites with personal development and weekend "How to Lead Lively Workshops". She's got other workshop plans in the mixing bowl too.

Judy has a strong personal development and arts background. She brings Art and Drama Therapy, NLP and Clean Facilitation skills into her work. She's been a coach since 2003. she's author of "Good Question! The Art of Asking Questions to Bring About Positive Change", which includes contributions from 18 past and present Eurocoach List members. You can find out more about Judy on her website, www.judybarber.net, and on her blog, www.thinkingblossoms.com where she posts her nature photos and related thoughts about life and business. She loves bringing out the best in people in groups by getting them busy together.

Sharon Eden MA

Sharon's an NLP Trainer, Executive Coach & Catalyst who specialises working with women leaders, managers and visionaries who desire high performance presence and power to know exactly what they want and how to get there. With over 20 successful years' career in the personal and professional development fields, she's also experienced the corporate management coal-face in a previous 'Marketing' incarnation.

From Transpersonal Psychology to Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Sharon's trained and experienced in a wide spectrum of practical and evolutionary philosophies and systems. Her professional background includes Certified Coach, Founding Member Association for Coaching, NLP Trainer INLPTA, Trainer Member ANLP, Charter Member International Positive Psychology Association and UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, with an MA in the field. A Motivational Speaker she also belongs to the Professional Speakers' Association.

Sharon's coaching and training style's dynamic, often with out-of-the-box dimensions, yet deliciously engaging and encouraging with more than a soupçon of challenge, humour and wisdom.

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Paul Z Jackson

Paul Z Jackson (MA Oxon), is an inspirational consultant and facilitator, who trains coaches in the solutions-focused approach. His expertise in improvisation, accelerated learning and solutions focus has attracted worldwide corporate clients and public organisations.

Paul has taught and lectured at the London Actors Centre, , Cranfield and Ashridge schools of management. Recent clients include P+G, Beiersdorf (Nivea), KPMG, PepsiCo, Compact Commission, Tate, Petronas, Aon, Cooperative Retail Logistics, PHS and the Metropolitan Police.

A director of the consultancy and coaching firm the Solutions Focus, Paul presents and facilitates at conferences, and is co-founder of the applied improvisation network (AIN) and SOL (Solutions Focus in organisations Linkup).

As a journalist, a senior producer with BBC Radio 4 and as the founder of the More Fool Us improvisation comedy team, he has prompted a lot of laughter, on-stage and off, mostly intentionally.

His books include The Inspirational Trainer, Impro Learning and (co-author) The Solutions Focus - Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE.

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Diane Kutz

Diane is a life adventurer, following a Shamanic spiritual path.

She has been involved in people development for 20 years, from helping unemployed adults to access learning in video and radio production, to running self esteem workshops at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Her skill is in helping others to connect to the deepest part of the deepest part of them. Her desire is to assist in people to truly express who they were put on this earth to be. Human being rather than human doing.

Diane now runs workshops and retreats on working from the heart, as well as 121 healing and coaching.

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Alun Richards

Alun is a consultant and coach who assists coaches with their marketing.

Alun creates and distributes products that coaches use in bringing in more coaching clients.

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Aboodi Shabi, PCC

Aboodi Shabi is one of the UK's most senior coaches, and a pioneer and leader in the UK and European Coaching community. He was a founding co-President of the UK ICF, serving the profession at all levels internationally.

He is a sought after speaker at coaching events, and a recognised authority on mastery in coaching, and has spoken in coaching chapters across the UK, Europe and North America, as well as being regular speaker at Association for Coaching Conferences in London.

He has worked in the field of personal development for over twenty years, and in coaching since 1996. In that time, he has worked with hundreds of coaches across the world.

He is a CoachU Graduate, and is a Newfield Network Certified Ontological Coach, and also holds the highly regarded Professional Certified Coach Credential from the International Coach Federation.

Aboodi runs, and teaches in, workshops and seminars for coaches across Europe and North America. He has worked as external assessor for the Academy of Executive Coaching, as well as teaching with CoachU and Newfield Network. Aboodi is currently manager of European programmes for Newfield Network.

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Janine Waldman MSc FCIPD

Janine Waldman is an executive coach, consultant and facilitator who has trained numerous managers and professional coaches in the solutions focused approach and presents at conferences worldwide.

A director of the coaching and consultancy firm the Solutions Focus, she specialises in implementing coaching programmes in organisations, working with clients such as Beiersdorf AG (Nivea), The London Metropolitan Police, Co-operative Retail Logistics and John Laing Social Infrastructure.

A certified business coach, Janine also teaches on post-graduate programmes at Birkbeck and Westminster Universities.

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Marian Way

Marian started her career as a teacher and later worked in Weight Watchers - as a group leader, a trainer, and finally as Programme Development Manager of Weight Watchers UK, where she and a colleague developed the POINTS diet. She also developed and delivered training programmes which benefitted thousands of people.

Marian founded Apricot Island in 2001. A skilled facilitator and trainer, she uses a clean approach with individuals, couples and groups to enable them to achieve their goals. She is an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer who specialises in trainings and workshops related to Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling. She is a great fan of the World Café, which she believes has a similar ethos to Clean Language. She is currently writing a book about Clean Language for coaches.

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Alan Wilson, transformative family coach

Alan Wilson is a visionary. His vision is to develop sustainable self empowerment in children, young people, parents and the professionals working with these groups. His clients experience evolution as they access their essence, unleashing their truest potential. Alan has coached uniqueness in companies during the last 15 years, leading to his primary focus on creating successful programmes for families.

Alan founded Develop Your Child www.developyourchild.com to satisfy his passion - to wholistically develop millions of children globally, by using life coaching and related techniques. He has written a variety of programmes and a popular self help book "Listen to your children ...and they will listen to you" to help parents break through the communication barrier. And produced a leading edge DVD "Kids Are Really Different These Days" showing how and why we need to review our parenting and education systems.

Within Develop Your Child is a growing network of licensees, already established in the UK, US, France, Singapore and New Zealand. Alan has also formed a not for profit to take these programmes into the community, Every Family Matters www.everyfamilymattters.org.uk

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