Jill Collett (executive coach)

Executive coach

Jill Collett

As a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society, Jill spent the first ten years of her working life as an Oxford academic before moving into Business Psychology over 20 years ago.

Jill works with leaders and high potentials to create flourishing and high performance, alongside a sense of ease. By helping clients to develop self-awareness, knowledge and skills, she challenges them to create organisational cultures in which performance moves from good to excellent.

Her style is open, informal and cordial. She takes a resourceful and innovative approach to get the very best out of the people she engages with. She has a deep conviction that grounded leadership and open communication are essential to excellence and sustainability in every organisation.

Jill works with a range of professional skills including psychometrics, coaching, design and implementation of competency frameworks and performance management systems, workshops and master classes on management and leadership, as well as the use of Appreciative Inquiry to encourage team based conversations. Jill works across a range of sectors.

Coaching style or approach:

A 'Clarifier': Jill will work with you to define what’s really important to you. This means setting longer term goals as well as understanding how you can live them out day to day. Clarity of vision forms the foundation of a coaching partnership.
A 'Thinking Partner': Jill believes that building trust with her clients is key to coaching at a deeper and therefore more meaningful level. This is crucial in order to address the ambitions, issues, and barriers that actually matter to you and bring them alive.
Insightful & Intuitive: by asking the right questions and listening deeply to what you bring to the sessions, Jill will help you to see things in a different light.
Motivational: we all have times in our life when we need extra resilience and motivation to push us to “the next level”. She’ll be there with you to support and energise you, helping you to develop a focused, healthy and balanced framework within which you can achieve your ambitions in a sustainable way.
Knowledgeable: Jill has years of experience as a psychologist which means that she has a very rich understanding of people and employs a diverse toolkit, ranging from working on leadership presence, motivating and enabling others to conflicts with colleagues, to creating a healthy and balanced daily routine.

Recent coaching examples:

HRD in the Health Sector
1-to-1 coaching of HRD to support her as she developed HR policies across the organisation. Jill also designed and ran a highly praised leadership development programme, covering a range of leadership topics, for middle management over several years.
CEO & Directors, English Heritage
Transition coach to the CEO as she came into role during a time of change as the organisation moved from Government funding to charitable status. Jill ran a series of bespoke team coaching sessions over a total of 8 days in the first year, to enhance the performance of the team.
MD & CFO of Multinational in Consumer Products Sector
Over an 18 month period Jill worked with the CFO to develop leadership presence and raise his visibility at the International level. She also coached the MD and subsequently ran sessions for the senior team over three x 2 day sessions to grow strategic and leadership capability.

Accreditations:

British Psychological Society (BPS) Levels A & B advanced in occupational testing
Mindfulness teacher and coach

Degree:

D.Phil (Oxon) in Psychology
Associate Fellow and Chartered Member of the British Psychology Association
Member of the Association of Business Psychologists
Member of the Special Interest Group in Coaching Psychology (British Psychological Society)
Certificate in Group Dynamics & Psychotherapy

Psychometric instruments:

Science of Happiness at Work™
CPI, OPQ,
NEO™
Lumina Spark
MBTI™
Firo B™
Hogan’s Assessment Tools™ (including Hogan Dark Side™)

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