Liam Moore talks to host Beth Clare McManus, offering an honest and refreshing take on his work as a coach and supervisor. He shares the importance of using your voice and the role of challenge, with integrity and care, for the betterment of the profession.

Exploring the influence of others on his practice, Liam reflects on how his practice and his self are 'growing together', and brings some interesting pop culture references into the conversation that help us consider how authentic we might be in our work.

Conversations with Members is a series of personal, community-driven conversations, celebrating the expertise, values and lived experience of the EMCC UK coaching, mentoring, and supervision community.

The series aims to inspire, inform, and connect our members by sharing insights into real-world practice and the evolving nature of the field. Each conversation balances storytelling with practical reflections, offering a unique window into the diverse perspectives of our membership.

For 15 years, Liam Moore has helped people to have a productive and fulfilling experience of work through coaching and supervision. He works with founders, leaders and other people professionals to unravel life’s complexities, and to find a healthy balance between doing what needs to get done and what makes us feel good while we do it. Liam has published research exploring coaches' professional development and has written for EMCC, Association for Coaching and Coaching at Work. Understanding the influence and impact of individual and collective difference on how we live and work together is central to Liam’s work.

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Beth Clare McManus is a psychologist, artist, and researcher living in Manchester, UK. She is an EMCC accredited coach at senior practitioner level and works as a coaching supervisor, with specialisms in coach wellbeing and the creative self. Her best work happens at the intersection of psychology, coaching and creativity.

At EMCC UK, we are passionate about sharing resources on relevant topics for our members. This includes sharing views from different perspectives. Please note that any views expressed in our content are based on individual contributor experience and not necessarily endorsed by EMCC UK. The content offered is for general information only and does not constitute legal, financial, or professional advice.

Produced and edited by ⁠Stephen Brown⁠.

Original music by Stephen Brown.

Dr Clare Mulligan-Foster and Beth Clare McManus dive into a celebration of the coaching, mentoring and supervision community and explore how inspiring and motivating collaborations and connections can be.

They also discuss the importance of looking after yourself in practice, and how reflecting on personal values such as kindness, curiosity and respect can inform not only the work we do with clients, but more broadly our ways of working and living.

Conversations with Members is a series of personal, community-driven conversations, celebrating the expertise, values and lived experience of the EMCC UK coaching, mentoring, and supervision community.

The series aims to inspire, inform, and connect our members by sharing insights into real-world practice and the evolving nature of the field. Each conversation balances storytelling with practical reflections, offering a unique window into the diverse perspectives of our membership.

Dr Clare Mulligan-Foster is a Chartered and registered Occupational Psychologist, a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, and an accredited executive coach.

She is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), a registered Occupational Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and a Certified Business Psychologist with the Association of Business Psychologists (ABP). Clare is also an accredited EMCC Senior Practitioner, holds an ILM7 certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring, and a Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision. She is an EMCC-accredited coach supervisor and is on the BPS Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors.

Beth Clare McManus is a psychologist, artist, and researcher living in Manchester, UK. She is an EMCC accredited coach at senior practitioner level and works as a coaching supervisor, with specialisms in coach wellbeing and the creative self. Her best work happens at the intersection of psychology, coaching and creativity.

At EMCC UK, we are passionate about sharing resources on relevant topics for our members. This includes sharing views from different perspectives. Please note that any views expressed in our content are based on individual contributor experience and not necessarily endorsed by EMCC UK. The content offered is for general information only and does not constitute legal, financial, or professional advice.

Produced and edited by Stephen Brown.

Original music by Stephen Brown.

Damian Vaughan, Mickaela Richards and Heidi Thomas explore how BetterUp and The Invictus Games Foundation have partnered to support recovery for individuals within the international Wounded, Injured or Sick (WIS) service community 365 Days a year and beyond the Games through mentoring. The key message being, you don't recover, you are always in recovery.

We discuss the powerful impact mentoring has on supporting individuals through life transitions, as well as fascinating stories about how mentoring has transformed lives.

Damian Vaughan leads program development at BetterUp with an eye for hitting on the inner work that it takes to aspire beyond one’s own limitations and, with grit and resolve, to achieve success. Damian’s deeply credentialed experience in positive developmental psychology, secured after an NFL career, has afforded him the opportunity to coach and consult for global companies and elite athletes.

Damian founded the Vaughn Center to develop leadership and positive social impact of executives, business owners, and athletes. Prior to BetterUp, he worked as SVP, human resources, at HBO Latin America, and as Director of Organization Development at 21st Century Fox. He is also a Clinical Professor at the University of Oregon.

Damian has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in positive developmental psychology from Claremont Graduate University.

Mickaela Richards saw service on HMS Portland and HMS Bulwark conducting anti-narcotics and anti-piracy operations. In 2011 Mickaela was involved in a car accident and was rehabilitated at Headley Court and Hasler Company.

She competed in the Invictus Games London 2014, winning two gold and one silver medal. After competing, she wanted to give back to the community and joined the Foundation and built our 'Beyond the Games' Programme now serving as our Grants and Programmes Director.

Heidi Thomas holds a Masters in Coaching and Mentoring and is an EMCC EIA Senior Practitioner Coach and Mentor. Her background spans over 20 years within global talent acquisition, business growth and coaching. Heidi is passionate about supporting human development and bringing opportunities where some may not previously have thought possible. Her award-winning research on the experience of mentoring for low-income single mothers found a clear need for greater supervision and ethics within mentoring and is an ardent supporter of peer-to-peer mentoring as a means to uplifting and developing vulnerable populations.

Nick Morgan and Holly Bennett discuss the challenges, responsibilities, and dynamics of managing mentoring programs, as well as the ethical considerations and the impact on mentors and mentees. They delve into the complexities of mentoring programs, focusing on the role of program managers and the dynamics of mentor-mentee relationships.

Nick Morgan is a learning and development consultant specialising in organisational and professional development, with expertise in leadership, management, coaching and mentoring. Holding a BA in Leadership and Management and a MSc in Coaching and Mentoring, he is currently pursuing doctoral research on mentoring, focusing specifically on the role of the Mentoring Programme Manager.

Holly Bennett is a learning and development consultant, HR practitioner and evaluation expert specialising in mentoring, coaching, and developing learning and development interventions. She holds a BCom in Management and Human Resources Management and a PGCert in Mentoring and Coaching. Currently she is working as a mentoring programme manager, HR lead and dedicated EMCC assessor and verifier.

Andrew MacKichan and Heidi Thomas discuss mentoring in a corporate setting, including how to structure this as an approach and options for evaluating programme effectiveness. They also explore supervision of mentors and the themes that emerge in this.

Andrew MacKichan is an EMCC Senior Practitioner Coach, Senior Practitioner Team Coach and supervisor. Based in Munich, Germany, he lived outside native Scotland for over 30 years (Japan and Germany). Andrew has a background in OD and L&D. Since 2009 he has worked as a coach, supporting mostly Germany-based corporates with L&D topics, including mentoring. He is also a member of EMCC Germany and supports the supervision of the membership.

Heidi Thomas holds a Masters in Coaching and Mentoring and is an EMCC EIA Senior Practitioner Coach and Mentor. Her background spans over 20 years within global talent acquisition, business growth and coaching. Heidi is passionate about supporting human development and bringing opportunities where some may not previously have thought possible. Her award-winning research on the experience of mentoring for low-income single mothers found a clear need for greater supervision and ethics within mentoring and is an ardent supporter of peer-to-peer mentoring as a means to uplifting and developing vulnerable populations.

Naomi Fergus and Clare Walsby explore the external mentoring scheme at McPin Foundation, a mental health research charity. They discuss the reasons behind its inception, the benefits it brings, and potential areas for future improvement, all from the perspective of their roles in operations and HR.

Naomi Fergus joined McPin in 2021 having worked as a medical recruitment officer in the NHS for adolescents with gender identity disorder and autism. During this time she developed an interest in the mental health service for young people living with neurodiversity.

She is a former teacher, where she advocated for and delivered art and textiles workshops as therapy for young people living with anxiety. Naomi hopes to support McPin’s mission and core values whilst promoting the benefits of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She is also a member of a community support group for parents and carers of children with autistic spectrum disorder.

Since arriving in 2019, Clare Walsby has developed her skills to give everyone at McPin kind, fair and respectful operational and wellbeing support. Clare finds her work experience in dance, theatre, education and administration to be a helpful and unique platform for working in Ops. Her work at an educational charity for women, where she supported students to overcome their fear of exams and provide equitable spaces for them to achieve, ignited a passion for using admin for good! Clare really values being part of the team that supports everyone at McPin to do their work and hopes to continue finding ways to improve and provide even better support.

Katharine St John-Brooks, Jeremy Gomm and Julia Menaul unpick how frequently a coach should be undertaking supervision. They also discuss the role of the supervisor in educating organisation clients on what supervision is or isn’t and explore the responsibility of coaches in handling and sharing client information.

Katharine St John-Brooks is the author of the first book to focus exclusively on internal coaches, Internal Coaching – The Inside Story, published in 2014 and currently being updated for a second edition.

She is a speaker, contributor to numerous books on coaching and now a fiction author having written a thriller whose main character is a coach. Previously she worked in the UK Government (where her first thriller is set) and later set up her own management consultancy and executive coaching business.

Jeremy Gomm is an ILM Level 7 qualified supervisor and a practising supervisor, coach and mentor, largely for clients in organisations.

He was a voluntary director of EMCC UK for more than eight years during which he developed corporate membership and began a keen interest in internal coaching. This led to him setting up the first international conference exclusively for internal coaches, the International Internal Coaching Conference, in partnership with internal coaching associations in France, Belgium and Holland.

Julia Menaul discovered her passion for people development as a trainer in 1991 after life as a manager in retail and worked at several companies as Training Manager focusing on management development. In 2000 she qualified as an Executive Coach with PB Coaching and in 2001 set up Spark Coaching & Training to help people excel in the workplace through great leadership.

She is an Accredited Master Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching, has two coach supervision qualifications and is a member of the Association of Coaching Supervisors and the British Psychological Society.

Hannah Butler, Thalia Carr and Zoe Cohen explore the intersection of coaching and civil resistance. They discuss the importance of being honest about the current state of the world, the challenges of setting goals in a rapidly changing environment, and the responsibility of coaches to support individuals in navigating these complexities. The episode concludes with reflections on the evolving nature of coaching in the context of civil resistance.

The guests on this episode are discussing matters of global importance and are sharing their personal experiences, as we appreciate this may be of value to some of our members. Please be aware that although the conversations touch on political elements, EMCC is independent, and our role is to bring topics of interest and importance to our members.

As a highly experienced board-level director, and Master Coach, Zoe Cohen combines her two greatest passions: safeguarding the future of our one, shared planetary home; with enabling and encouraging people to shine and to take action. She finds joy in supporting individuals, teams and organisations who share these twin passions, both personally and professionally. Zoe believes in aspiring to be our best adult selves – in the moment, every moment – and challenging ourselves to step up to what we know we are capable of.

At the time of recording, Hannah Butler was Director for Coaching Practice with EMCC UK. Hannah is a qualified coach and trainer. She has worked in education and training for over 20 years, in leadership and management for 15 years and at senior level for over 10 years. She has a deep knowledge, understanding and experience of the challenges of leadership. Hannah is a true believer in active learning, encouraging individuals and teams to be active participants in their training and facilitation.

Thalia Carr is a Facilitator and Leadership coach. Thalia helps professionals to step up to new challenges, find clarity and confidence and increase their impact for good in the world. Alongside coaching, Thalia facilitates open, creative spaces where groups, teams and networks can speak, share openly and come to brave decisions. Thalia’s mission in life is to support and enable people to protect and restore life alongside informing and inspiring others to both understand the dire situation we are in and join together to bring about radical change.

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Hannah Butler and Zoe Cohen talk openly about the challenges and joys of working in the eco coaching space. They explore the complexities of grief, societal collapse, and the importance of resistance, resilience, and regeneration in the face of climate change and systemic issues. They also reflect on the journey of self-discovery and the importance of finding fellow travellers in this challenging landscape.

The guests on this episode are discussing matters of global importance and are sharing their personal experiences, as we appreciate this may be of value to some of our members. Please be aware that although the conversations touch on political elements, EMCC is independent, and our role is to bring topics of interest and importance to our members.

As a highly experienced board-level director, and Master Coach, Zoe Cohen combines her two greatest passions: safeguarding the future of our one, shared planetary home; with enabling and encouraging people to shine and to take action. She finds joy in supporting individuals, teams and organisations who share these twin passions, both personally and professionally. Zoe believes in aspiring to be our best adult selves – in the moment, every moment – and challenging ourselves to step up to what we know we are capable of.

At the time of recording, Hannah Butler was Director for Coaching Practice with EMCC UK. Hannah is a qualified coach and trainer. She has worked in education and training for over 20 years, in leadership and management for 15 years and at senior level for over 10 years. She has a deep knowledge, understanding and experience of the challenges of leadership. Hannah is a true believer in active learning, encouraging individuals and teams to be active participants in their training and facilitation.

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Katharine St John-Brooks, Jeremy Gomm and Julie Danskin explore insights from integrating coaching and supervision practice within an organisation, including the number of coaches and supervisors involved, the use of one-to-one and group supervision, and the commitment to coaching as a practice. Julie also addresses challenges such as the helping orientation of NHS staff and the impact of the pandemic.

Katharine St John-Brooks is the author of the first book to focus exclusively on internal coaches, Internal Coaching – The Inside Story, published in 2014 and currently being updated for a second edition.

She is a speaker, contributor to numerous books on coaching and now a fiction author having written a thriller whose main character is a coach. Previously she worked in the UK Government (where her first thriller is set) and later set up her own management consultancy and executive coaching business.

Jeremy Gomm is an ILM Level 7 qualified supervisor and a practising supervisor, coach and mentor, largely for clients in organisations.

He was a voluntary director of EMCC UK for more than eight years during which he developed corporate membership and began a keen interest in internal coaching. This led to him setting up the first international conference exclusively for internal coaches, the International Internal Coaching Conference, in partnership with internal coaching associations in France, Belgium and Holland.

Julie Danskin's NHS career in mental health nursing led to a senior role as MD of a unique primary care organisation in Northumbria. Julie championed and led the introduction of coaching into an NHS Trust and now coaches and supervises in that Trust.