Kent Coaching & Mentoring conference

Our annual Kent Coaching and Mentoring Conference was held this year on Wednesday 10th November 2010 at Oakwood House, Oakwood Park, Maidstone. We were pleased to welcome all of our speakers to the conference.

Zoey Hudson, Amie Crews and Kim Churchill from from Southern Rail and Liz Macann from the BBC shared their experiences of how a coaching environment had changed their organisations and how they were ‘ developing leaders through coaching’. Ian Procter, Road Safety Manager, from Kent County Council also shared his experiences of working with his team in developing ‘Coaching as a Leadership Style’

Liz McCann - BBC

We were thrilled to welcome our Keynote Speaker to the conference, Nancy Kline, who is President of TimeToThink, an international leadership development and coaching company . Nancy is also a published author and innovative public speaker. Nancy created and pioneered the development of the theory and process called The Thinking Environment® and spoke to the conference about this model . This model allows people to turn their teams, organisations and relationships into Thinking Environments in which people at every level can think for themselves with rigour, imagination, courage and grace. The process increases the quality of thinking in, and thus of concrete results from, all human interactions, both in pairs and in groups and decreases the amount of time it takes to achieve them.

It was a truly inspiring and successful day, so thought provoking and our coaches were all able to take something away from the day to enhance the coaching skills they already have.

Kim Churchill, Zoey Hudson & Amie Crews – Southern Rail

Some comments from coaches:

“I just have to comment on Nancy Kline. It was an absolute pleasure to listen to such an inspiring lady talk for one and half hours unscripted, unaided, positive, clear, structured and incredibly uplifting but not patronising and completely relevant to our organisation and coaching. Absolutely stunning and I congratulate you on achieving such a coup for a speaker. And to give her the "graveyard" slot after lunch made not one jot of difference to her at all. Absolutely brilliant. If the next Conference is even half as good I will definitely be there”

“Thank you for an interesting and thought provoking conference. I was totally blown away by Nancy - how inspiring is she ?? “

“What a fantastic and inspiring day, I can’t wait to put it all into practice!”

Ian Procter - Kent County Council

Comments from Nancy Kline:

“The conference inspired me, as does the entire work of Kent Coaching and Mentoring and this achievement of Coral Ingleton and all of her colleagues. Arriving in time to hear Zoey Hudson and her team, Ian Proctor and Liz McCann, I found myself wishing all people who serve others could have heard about their work and the very human, as well as business, difference it is making. It was an honour to carry their impact and warmth and the stories of their experience and success with me as I spoke in the afternoon. I also felt as I was speaking the privilege it was to be with everyone there, and to celebrate our mutual dreams for the development and thriving of human beings everywhere”.