Division of Coaching Psychology Conference 2024

Jonathan is Professor of Coaching & Behavioural Change at Henley Business School and Senior Vice President at EZRA, LHH. He is a a chartered psychologist, holds five degrees and is a master coach, team coach and supervisor. He was the inaugural Chair of the BPS Division of Coaching Psychology, and has been involved since the inception of the Special Group of Coaching Psychology. 

He has published widely with over 40 books and 250 scientific papers and book chapters. and spoken at some 350 conferences and events worldwide.  He has 4 new titles appearing in 2024: 'The Digital & AI Coaches Handbook' (Routledge), 'The Heath & Wellbeing Coaches Handbook' (Routledge), 'Becoming  Team Coach: The Essential ICF Guide' (Springer-Nature), 'Becoming a credentialed coach: The journey to ACC, PCC and MCC' (Libri) and a second edition of 'Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide' (Springer-Nature), plus research papers. You can access much of his writing for free from: www.jonathanpassmore.com as part of his commitment to Open Access. 

In this session Jonathan will explore the psychology of outdoor coaching, share insights from his research, as well as wider research into the benefits of nature and blue-green environments, and offer practical tips and advice on how to leverage outdoor coaching in your practice. As part of the session Jonathan is planning an 20-30 minute outdoor coaching activity which will be the centrepiece of the conference, (participation is voluntary) following his presentation.

Dr Ana Paula Nacif (DProf, MsC) and is an experienced executive and group coach, consultant and facilitator, with extensive experience in coaching for leadership, wellbeing, and inclusion. She is an active researcher in the fields of group coaching and wellbeing. In 2023, she published the book Coaching for Wellbeing: An Evidence-Based Guide for Practitioners, based on her doctoral research. 

She is a senior lecturer at the Masters of Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology at the University of East London. She is also the co-editor of the Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal. She is an EMCC Master Practitioner Coach and Coach Supervisor, and an ICF Professional Certified Coach, and currently applying for Coaching Psychology Chartership with the BPS.

There is magic in numbers: benefits and challenges in the emerging field of group coaching

In this session, Dr Nacif will talk about this emerging field of research, theory and practice. She will delve into current evidence, as well as the challenges facing academics and practitioners in this often misunderstood coaching psychology modality. She will explain how group coaching can benefit individuals and organisations across sectors and in a variety of contexts. She will discuss the added value of group coaching as an effective, scalable and cost-effective intervention which has the potential to increase the reach of coaching across a wider population, making it more sustainable than individual coaching. Finally, she will offer some thoughts on what is needed for this field to continue to grow, including more research, better coach education, and clarity for those involved in designing and commissioning coaching programmes.

Richard is currently Professor of Organisational Psychology and Head of the Applied Psychology and Organisational Behaviour Group at Cranfield University.  He has been a senior organisational psychologist and manager in private and public organisations, and is a consultant to companies, partnerships and consultancies across the world for over 40 years. He is a Chartered and HCPC Registered Occupational Psychologist and Counselling Psychologist, former Chair of the British Psychological Society's Division of Occupational Psychology, and former Chair of the BPS Ethics Committee.

He has been coaching people since the 1990s and still has his certificate of attendance at the Inaugural meeting of the Special Group. He has been on the Ethics Committee of several Coaching Bodies.  His talk will (briefly) chart the development of coaching from the National Institute of Industrial Psychology in the 1920s to the present, but will focus on practice, position and rivals; plus context , mechanism and outcomes, before examining impact, ethics and the (compulsory) topic of AI. Expect to be asked questions about the future of your division.

Nikita is a Chief Neuroticism Officer at PsyPub community and co-founder of Goodness of Psychology Ltd consultancy. His speciality is personality based coaching, and he enjoys collaborating with professionals from variety of fields to deliver value added projects to a wide range of clients ranging from corporates to couples and individuals.

Working together across disciplines to deliver fantastic coaching and maybe even a brighter tomorrow

Nikita's Key Note will focus on how we can continue building a multidisciplinary, diverse communities of professional practice  and providing the best coaching that we can to our clients.

Dr Nancy Doyle is a Visiting Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, where she co-directs the Centre for Neurodiversity at Work. Nancy is a Chartered Occupational and Coaching Psychologist and an Associate Fellow with the British Psychological Society and an International Associate of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the USA. 

Nancy has co-authored Neurodiversity Coaching: A Psychological Approach to Supporting Neurodivergent Talent and Career Potential, as well as a long list of academic papers, guest chapters and business articles for Forbes magazine. Nancy is a section editor for Neurodiversity with the PLOS Mental Health journal and an associate editor for the Neurodiversity journal, published by Sage. Nancy is a co-founder of the Occupational Psychology special group for the Society of Occupational Medicine and a long time volunteer at the British Psychological Society, currently a member of the Committee for Testing Standards.

Almuth is Professor of Organisational Psychology at Birkbeck University of London where she co-directs the Research Centre for Neurodiversity at Work (C4NRAW). She's passionate about making the world of work better and more inclusive by applying the science of psychology.

 Her research focuses on neurodiversity and diversity, occupational health and worklife balance as well as coaching and professional competence and has won awards for impact to practice. She is widely published, sought after as a keynote speaker and regularly appears in the media. In 2023, Nancy and Almuth saw their bestselling book "Neurodiversity Coaching" published to positive acclaim. She's a fellow of the International Society for Coaching Psychology.

What we will talk about:

Neurodiversity Coaching: A psychological approach to supporting neurodivergent talent and career potential

In this talk Nancy and Almuth will outline their motivations for co-authoring their book and its relevance to the coaching psychology community. The book culminates in the INVESTS model. This has an explicitly intersectional neurodiversity lens, reaffirms a position of unconditional positive regard to affirm individual strengths, stresses the importance of specific strategy coaching and finally calls for engagement in domain informed supervision and targeted professional development.

Why I am coming to the conference?

We are honoured to be invited as joint keynotes. We are longstanding research collaborators and academic best friends - our tagline is "we challenge each other". Writing our book together was a joy from the first to the last page. We are both passionate about coaching psychology. In fact, we were founding members of the then 'special interest group for coaching psychology' and attended the inaugural event at City University. We've always found the coaching conferences rich and welcoming events. This year promises to be no differen

Dr Natalie Lancer is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, Chair of the Division of Coaching Psychology, Chair of Senate and a Trustee of the British Psychological Society. She is the host of their DoCP podcast 'The Coaching Psychology Pod'. Her research focusses on existential psychology, coaching psychologists' and coaching supervisors' identity and the impact of coaching supervision on supervisees. She coaches doctoral students, helping them get to the finish line of their studies in good psychological health and she supervises coaching psychologists, coaches and supervisors.

Natalie is a Master's and PhD supervisor at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling. In 2016, she co-authored Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring with David Clutterbuck. She is a BPS registered supervisor, an accredited member of the Association for Coaching and a regular keynote speaker.

Radically Re-inventing Coaching Psychology Supervision?

As Coaching Psychologists, we know not to re-invent the wheel. We liberally borrow from psychotherapy, counselling psychology and occupational psychology, amongst other fields. We realised that as professionals it is important to engage in supervision and readily adopted models from the helping professions. In this keynote, Natalie Lancer argues that supervision often feels hierarchical and surprisingly alien from the coaching ethos. And what makes coaching psychology supervision different from coaching supervision? Are there different and radical ways to do coaching psychology supervision effectively?