Team Coaching Qualifications—Information Session

Dorothee is an experienced OD Consultant and Executive and Team Coach with many years of experience of supporting individuals, teams and organisations through major change.

Originally trained as a systemic psychotherapist, she has always taken a keen interest in how organisations function as systems and her interventions focus on the relational aspects of human interaction and change. Dorothee brings her systemic thinking and natural curiosity into all of her practice. She observes and works with the patterns that individuals and teams create with each other and explores narratives that exist about current organisational challenges and problems.

Following jobs in the UK National Health Service and with several London local authorities, she worked as a senior change management consultant for Logica, before joining Ashridge Business School as member of Faculty and OD consultant and executive and team coach. Since 2013 she has been developing and delivering leadership development programmes and culture change interventions and working with Senior Leaders and Teams. She teaches on the Master in Executive Coaching and on the Team Coaching Programme.

Dorothee has worked as a coach and consultant with a cross-section of organisations from a wide variety of sectors including the NHS, public sector, retail, automotive, finance sector and manufacturing and large infrastructure projects. She holds a Master in Organisational Change from Ashridge Business School and is qualified in a number of psychometric instruments.

Originally from Germany Dorothee has lived, studied and worked over the last 22 years in the UK. She is fluent in English and German and lives with her family in South London where in her free time she enjoys open water swimming at any time of the year.

Simon is an internationally experienced OD Consultant, Executive Coach, Coach Supervisor, Team Coach, Process Consultant, Facilitator and Lecturer. Simon draws on his experience in consulting, deep human systems understanding and psychology to enable individuals and organisations to successfully navigate the complexities of transformational change processes, develop leadership cultures and individual leaders. He is currently a member of faculty on the Ashridge Masters in Executive Coaching and for eight years led the Masters Programme in Coaching Psychology at the Metanoia Institute in London. He was also a faculty member on the Masters in Organisational Development – A Gestalt Approach, also at the Metanoia Institute. He works in the NHS, University Sector, Oil and Gas, Media, Retail, Financial Services and a number of Charities and Public Sector organisations such as the Probation Service.

As a specialist in human systems dynamics, individual and organisation psychology, Simon works to enable individuals, groups and organisations to understand and adopt the processes that facilitate effective functioning and goal attainment. He is particularly interested in exploring relational perspectives on organisational life and consulting and is committed to continually researching how these perspectives can be used to inform behaviour and learning in organisations. Relational approaches place the quality of interactions between organisation members, leaders and their teams at the centre of how meaning is made and desirable behaviour generated. This is particularly relevant in today’s organisations where different individuals and teams with different levels of authority, designation and agendas have to work out how to join together in service of the organisation’s success. He is experienced in coaching senior leaders transitioning into new and demanding roles in order to support them to navigate the networking, relationship and systemic complexities this often entails. He is deeply committed to creating respectful, supportive and challenging learning environments, where clients can increase their awareness, confidence and skills for intervening in new and effective ways.