Greetings from the team.

�Like other BACP divisions, BACP Coaching is managed by BACP members on a pro bono voluntary basis, and supported by BACP staff. Several members of the Coaching Division Executive have a specialist role in addition to their Executive role, and new applications to join us are always welcome. Just contact us at [email protected] to find out more about the areas in which we're seeking expertise.

�Executive

Jo Birch - Chair

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�Jo has been active on the Coaching Executive since the Division first began. She was elected Deputy Chair in December 2011 and appointed Chair in February 2012. Jo previously took the lead developing regional networking groups in Scotland, and she remains committed to the development of accessible coaching through the Third sector and within communities. Jo is especially keen to develop the Division into a more intentionally inclusive, collaborative space through which members feel able to participate in a variety of ways, and in which their professional needs are fully met.

Jo has a Masters in Counselling, and hopes to progress later this year into doctorate studies, through which she will combine her therapeutic background with her coaching expertise. Jo is passionate about the role of supervision in supporting those within the helping professions - after 15 years providing supervision for counsellors and health professionals, Jo has recently completed the Diploma in Coaching Supervision and has been working internationally with coaches.�

Dr Kate Anthony - Executive Specialist for Online Coaching

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�Kate is a world-leading expert on the use of technology in therapy, now extending her interests into coaching. She has trained practitioners and organisations worldwide in online therapy for over ten years, with both her online training courses and offline workshops endorsed by BACP. She is co-editor and co-author of three textbooks on the subject as well as numerous articles, chapters and journal symposiums, and Ethical Frameworks for the use of technology in mental health. She is a Fellow of BACP and Past-President and Fellow of the International Society for Mental Health Online. She is co-founder of the Online Therapy Institute and the Online Coach Institite, and Managing Editor of TILT Magazine (Therapeutic Innovations in Light of Technology). Her focus within BACPC is on ethical delivery of coaching using technology.

Gill Fennings-Monkman MBE - Executive Specialist for Diversity

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�Gill has a Masters Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Distinction), is a qualified teacher, teaching counselling at Certificate, Diploma and Degree level and a Certified Trainer of NLP with a specialist qualification in coaching. She has been BACP Accredited since 2005. Alongside her private psychotherapy practice, Gill is Consultant Director of the Women's Business Centre, the first purpose built centre of its kind in the UK. Launched in May 2008, the centre has held Prowess Flagship quality standard for 7 years and in 2009 won Flagship of the year making it the best provider of women's enterprise support in the country. Gill was awarded an MBE for services to women's enterprise in 2010. She manages and supervises the all women coaching team in the third most deprived and diverse Boroughs in the UK. Under Gill's lead, the centre has supported 3500 women and helped create over 750 businesses, (and 100's of jobs). She created a unique and holistic business support package including; counselling, coaching, training, NLP, mentoring, networking and workshops. Gill is Executive Specialist for Diversity in BACP Coaching, helping us to become more inclusive and reflective of our wider membership base.�

Barry White - Executive Specialist for Professional Standards and Deputy Chair

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�Barry has had a long career in working with people in a number of different settings, including youth work, social work, counselling and coaching. He is particularly interested in solution focused approaches and brings that to bear in his counselling and coaching work. He has just changed direction career wise becoming self employed after seven years of employee assistance work. He had responsibility in the last four years for the organisational coaching work for an employee assistance programme, which included selection and supervision of coaches as well as coaching individuals at all levels.�

�During his time within the EAP he developed a keen interest in process and how things could be done more effectively - leading to a further responsibility and training as Lead Auditor (ISO 9001:2008).�

�It is the combination of his interest in quality and process and his clinical and coaching insights that leads him to be ideally placed to work with professional standards within BACP Coaching. He served on the National Committee of the United Kingdom Association for Solution Focused Practice in various roles (including Chair) prior to joining us on this committee.

Kirsten Leslie - Executive Specialist for Communication

Coming soon .......�

Anne Calleja - Executive Specialist for Network Groups

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Anne has been a member of BACP for over 20 years and joined BACPC in 2010 when she set up the Oxford, Berks, Bucks and Midlands Region.. The region has been growing rapidly and has over 40 members regularly attending meetings.

Anne is an Accredited Coach, Coach and Therapy Supervisor and Psychotherapist. �Anne initially studied consumer psychology, went into Education, Senior Operations Management before entering into Management Development and Learning. She then continued her psychological studies and became a registered psychotherapist and now has a private therapy practice as well as working in both the private and public sectors as an Executive Coach. �

She brings a combination of leadership, business acumen and psychological mindedness to the division.�