Executive coaching programme
The Executive Coaching Programme (ECP) is Tavistock Consulting’s professional 18 months training. Being an effective executive coach requires the right combination of skills and experience supported by a solid theoretical underpinning. Demonstrating that you have this depth of capability is an important part of establishing a productive coaching relationship and in developing your practice as a coach.
What is the Executive Coaching Programme?
Our internationally renowned executive coaching programme draws on our systems-psychodynamic model and is designed to develop your confidence as an executive coach and help you to work in a more meaningful and deeper way. The Programme has been accredited at senior practitioner level by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
Using the systems-psychodynamic model as part of your coaching practice will enable you to understand and address the personal and organisational dynamics that impact on the coaching relationship and your effectiveness within it. It is a highly sophisticated and unique approach that will enable you to get to the root of complex issues, help clients through challenging circumstances and enable the development of lasting and highly impactful change.
What will I learn?
As well as focusing on you and your coaching skills, the programme introduces the idea of a wider systems-focus including:
- The impact of coaching on the client’s organisation
- Linking coaching to the wider business and professional environment
- Professional development and ethical practice.
We explore these topics using a variety of techniques including theory presentations, experiential learning, reflective practice, role play, skills practice and video analysis. In addition to these modules, participants receive intensive supervision, both one to one and in groups.
You may be a practising coach who wants to work at a deeper level with clients or an organisational consultant wishing to develop your one-to-one skills or a clinician, manager or leader wanting to develop a coaching approach to use within your role.
Who this is for?
The course is suitable for:
- practising coaches who want to work at a deeper level with clients
- organisational consultants who wish to develop their one-to-one coaching skills
- executives, managers and clinicians wanting to add coaching to their portfolio.
Looking to be coached rather than to train as a coach? See our Executive Coaching offer.
Need supervision for your coaching or consultancy practice. Find out Supervision .
Looking back, I do think this is an excellent programme and for me, absolutely essential to bring to fruition my previous learnings. The Executive Coaching programme has really enabled me to integrate what i previously learned at the Tavistock into my practice. I would recommend it strongly to anyone who wants to apply systemic psychodynamic thinking to coaching and consultancy
Previous Participant
Course facilitators
Beth Neustadt
Programme Director
Dr Beth Neustadt’s early career, in the US, was in mental health service delivery and programme evaluation and then organisational consulting. This led to work with a British firm undergoing transformation from government agency into a FTSE 100-listed corporation and precipitated her relocation to the UK. She later established her own London-based consulting business, Neustatus Consulting, Ltd.
For over 25 years, Beth has delivered organisational consulting, including role consultations, through her firm and in association with other established consulting firms, including Tavistock Consulting, where she also earned executive coaching certification and subsequently became a visiting lecturer for the Trust’s professional doctorate in Advanced practice and research: consultation and the organisation (D10D).
Jennie McShannon
Programme Co-Director
Jennie McShannon is an executive coach and organisational consultant with a client base spanning local to global, charities to higher education, NHS, government, banks and businesses. She has designed and delivered a range of development interventions and programmes for leaders and teams in complex settings, including individual coaching and supervision or whole system and place-based support. Jennie brings to her practice 20 years of senior leadership experience in the social care sector including at CEO level, and has worked at the front-line of health, housing and substance misuse services as well as in the realms of politics and policy. She is particularly interested in leadership across boundaries, what makes for sustained and meaningful system change, and fostering and harnessing diversity in the workplace.
How to learn more and apply
Please visit Tavistock Education and Training’s website to learn more about our Executive Coaching Programme (ECP), including entry requirements, course fees and course dates. You can also register to attend an upcoming open event, where you will meet the course team and get a taste of our approach.
