Gladeana McMahon is considered one of
the leading personal development and transformational coaches in the
UK who combines academic rigour with down to earth communication
skills.
She holds a range of qualifications
and is accredited with the British Association for Counselling and
Psychotherapy, Association of Rational Emotive Behaviour
Practitioners and the British Association for Behavioural and
Cognitive Psychotherapies as a Coach and Therapist.
She helped found the Association for
Coaching for which she holds the positions of Life Fellow and Vice
President. She is also a Fellow of the British Association for
Counselling and Psychotherapy, Institute of Management Studies and Royal
Society of Arts.
An innovator, Gladeana is one of the four
UK founders of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching and a pioneer in
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Coaching who also specializes in Positive
Psychology in the workplace or “Positive Profits” as she has named it.
She is an internationally published author with some 16 books of a
popular and academic nature on coaching and counselling to her name.
She has presented a range of coaching
programmes and was listed as one of the UK’s Top Ten Coaches by Business
Sections of both the Independent on Sunday and Observer on Sunday. She
coaches CEO’s and those at Director Level as well as politicians and
those in the media to master the psychological and business complexities
of 21st century corporate life.
She became head of coaching at Fairplace
in September 2004 and Director, Professional Coaching Standards for
Cedar
Talent Management in July 2008.