Julia Vaughan Smith Profile

I am an APECS Accredited Executive Coach and Coach Supervisor, and a master coaching practitioner with over 1500 hours of one to one coaching and supervision experience, over the last 15 years. I work with a wide range of coaching clients at Board and Senior Management level, including clinicians, in all forms of health sector organisations

I have an interest in the psycho-dynamic understanding of leadership and coaching and am planning to carry out research in this area. For three years I was an Associate of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, University of the West of England.

Through the Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter Business School, where I am a Fellow of the Professional Network, I am member of the tutor faculty for the national RCGP Leadership Programme for GPs, Programme Lead for the NHS Aspiring Top Leaders programme for Devon and Cornwall, and Programme Lead for Clinical Leadership in a Commissioning World for NHS Devon and the NHS in the South West.

I am a qualified Integrative and Humanistic Psychotherapist (with an MA in Integrative and Humanistic Psychotherapy), and a trained systemic constellations facilitator for family, individual and organisational systems. My approach enables the coaching to focus on the inner person as well as the individual's interaction with their outer world and to support leaders as they develop and grow their internal leadership identity by addressing the questions 'who am I in this role?' ' who am I becoming in this system?'. At the same time, I work with the systems dynamics of complex organisational forms and relationships to support the executive in achieving positive outcomes in the system.

As leadership is about engaging with the future and the current reality, which is challenging and highly demanding, my view is that successful Executives need to be able to access their full inner potential, emotional intelligence and courage to meet the emerging requirements of this external environment.

I am qualified in the use of MBTI™ and FIRO-B™, an accredited NHS LQF feedback facilitator, and experienced user of a range of feedback instruments. I use solutions-focused, humanistic approach to inform the coaching process and framework. I have received training in a range of approaches including NLP, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis and Mindfulness. [MBTI™ and FiroB™ are the registered trademarks of Oxford Psychology Press Ltd]

My book Therapist into Coach was published by the OU Press in 2006, and is about to be translated into Chinese.

Professional Memberships

   Accredited Coach and Coach Supervisor with APECS [Association of Professional Executive Coaches and      Supervisors]
   Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, recently member of their Ethics and Research      Committee
  Fellow, Professional Network, Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter
   Member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

Julia Vaughan Smith is an APECS Accredited Coach and Coach Supervisor