Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Developing People and Culture

Geraldine Fitzpatrick
Developing People & Culture

Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Developing People & Culture

Coaching

Coaching provides a safe confidential partnership to support people who wish to improve their personal or professional situation or make some change or enhance their performance, or develop their best selves.

The agenda is client-led. I use a forward-focussed strengths-based developmental approach, asking powerful questions rather than giving advice. This creates space for people to reflect and access their own insights. In this way it is different from counselling or therapeutic approaches.

I offer individual and group coaching for people at all levels, and particularly for senior leaders, emerging leaders, teams, and peer-cohorts.

I am also a StrengthscopeMasterTM accredited coach and can offer validated strengths assessments for individuals, teams and leaders, including 360s.

Request a free 30 minute consultation to discuss how coaching might fit for you

individual coaching

Individual coaching can be a one-off session to address a specific issue. Or it can take place over a series of 6 sessions, ideally spaced 2 weeks apart. We will agree specific aims and objectives at our first meeting and review these periodically to ensure our sessions continue to meet your needs. A Strengthscope Strengths assessment can also be part of this.

We can conduct a coaching session in-person or over Zoom and it will last for one hour unless agreed otherwise. You drive the agenda.  Coaching sessions will usually begin with us prioritising and agreeing areas that you want to work on in that session. 

Individual and leadership coaching can also be supported with an independent and confidential review of your working relationships (a qualitative interpretation of a 360 review with the option to use a Strengthscope360 assessment).

Group/team coaching

Group coaching applies the same client-led and developmental principles to shared discussions and reflections.

Examples of situations when group coaching can be useful include:

  • Establishing a new team and how to work together effectively, e.g., a new research project or research group
  • Understanding the collective strengths and performance risks of a team, using StrengthscopeTeamTM;
  • Establishing belonging and psychological safety in a group;
  • Reflecting on and learning from recent team experiences
  • Using an Action Learning Set approach to create a facilitated ‘brains-trust’ group with a cohort of peers in similar roles;
  • And more…

 

 

credentials

I trained as a personal, executive and group coach with Results Coaching Systems in 2007 and an Action Learning Set Facilitator in 2023. I am also accredited as a StrengthscopeMasterTM coach for individuals, 360s, teams and leaders.

I have a Masters degree in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from University of East London, UK, awarded 2018.

I also bring more than 30 years of leadership, mentoring  and teaching experience in diverse sectors including healthcare/medical, industry/consulting and academia/research. I comply with the International Coaching Federation Code of Ethics.  

“I Thank you for my coaching session. I really appreciated having someone impartial to talk to about the various possible futures, and in talking to you, you helped me become much clearer about what the problems are here and why I need to move on. The questions you asked me helped me to think through the opportunity from different perspectives and to really understand what I need from work, and what my priorities are.“
Academic, UK. Single 2-hour coaching session
“The pacing of the meetings was well thought of. While in the initial phases it helped to have more frequent meetings, as I gained confidence, the lesser frequency helped me to feel confident enough to make my own changes. The focus on what I want as an academic and researcher was very well maintained. There was no push to influence an agenda, leaving time and space for me to contemplate on what I want.”
Academic, India. Coaching series

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