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Jill Fairbairns (BA MSc C Psychol AFBPsS)

Executive Coach and Organisation Consultant

I believe that personal change and development comes from building on what is, rather than what should be. This can open the door to a new kind of learning. Often it means looking at ourselves, our roles, our working relationships and our whole organisations from different angles. It can mean developing new frames of reference and letting go of old ones. This in turn can open the door to a new kind of learning. What’s clear is that most people feel very positive about the discoveries that they make during coaching, and find they can create a new impact when putting them into practice.

As a coach, I can help people to take the first few steps on this transformational journey.

Professional expertise

Jill is a chartered psychologist and organisation consultant working in both the private and public sectors of the economy. She has extensive coaching and consulting experience in national, multinational and global companies across different industries. Her expertise is in coaching individuals and teams, in change management, and in learning and personal change. She also works as a coaching supervisor and consultant to consultants.

I’m a painter as well as a coach and approach both occupations thoughtfully, drawing on both inspiration and past experience.

As a coach, I have always delighted in new learning, participating in courses and workshops and collecting books, and experimenting with what I've learnt. I've provided training in facilitation skills, influencing techniques and meeting management. I've also trained trainers and coaches.

My work has taken me into a wide range of organisations, e.g. from public administration to discovery research, from mineral extraction to banking, from aircraft maintenance to pharmaceutical development. I learn a lot from my clients and store case examples of different situations at the back of my mind.

Taking all this experience together with my personal development, I have accumulated a store of models, tools and techniques that I use to tailor unique coaching plans for my clients, and to provide relevant inputs and exercises for our coaching sessions.

I find I can really make a difference.

Business and Organisational Experience

Jill has been running her own successful business since 1990 specialising in people and organisation development. Before this, she was with Sheppard Moscow Limited, specialists in organisation development, and with the PA Consulting Group. She first learned how to get things done in large organisations while a civil servant, running internal consultancy groups, both in the Cabinet Office and the Manpower Services Commission.

Professional Qualifications and Affiliations

Accredited Executive Coach with Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS)

Diploma in Coaching Supervision from the Coaching Supervision Academy (UK) approved by the International Coach Federation.

Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS)

MSc Occupational Psychology (Birkbeck College, University of London)

BA Psychology (University of Manchester)

Member of the BPS Special Group on Coaching

Member of the European Coaching and Mentoring Council (EMCC)

Registered Occupational Psychologist with the Health Professions Council

NLP Practitioner

Licensed to use a wide variety of psychometric assessments, including MBTI, Firo-B and 16PF5