Katharine St John-Brooks, Jeremy Gomm and Julia Duncan discuss the role of the supervisor and the impact of supervisor training on coaching practice. They explore the dynamics of group supervision and highlight the importance of contracting with coaches and organisations.

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 Duncan is an ILM Level 7 qualified coach supervisor with a diploma in coaching and mentoring management and is a Fellow Member of CIPD and the Association for Coaching.

A pragmatic and experienced business leader and coach, Julia offers a deeply personal level of service, putting the client at the heart of the coaching supervision relationship.

She is a coach trainer and often follows on from training internal coaches by supervising them in their practice.