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Ngozi Lyn Cole
Ngozi believes that everybody has the potential to achieve their personal life and work ambitions.
By focussing on helping people to identify their own unique strengths, Ngozi provides support and challenge to achieve the highest levels of performance, whilst maintaining wellbeing and celebrating the progress made. The person, or team, is always in control of the pace, scale and depth of all activities.
Ngozi is an Executive Coach, Leadership Catalyst and Mentor.
Ngozi works across the private, public, voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors.
Ngozi is one of the most inspiring leaders and coaches I have had the good fortune to meet. Before I started my coaching experience, I had attempted coaching twice with coaches to no effect and was very sceptical about the process and purpose. I was then offered the opportunity, through my organisation, to receive coaching from Ngozi. Despite my reservations about the coaching process, I seized the opportunity mainly because of the excellent reputation that Ngozi has as both a coach and mentor. I could not have wished for a better coaching experience throughout the duration of my sessions. The process was challenging at times but her leadership, guidance and support kept me both engaged and willing to work hard throughout the process.
As someone who works in a specialist sector that has both internal and external challenges, Ngozi’s wide-reaching knowledge of the voluntary sector and equalities was invaluable. She was able to tailor her expertise in management and effective leadership to meet my specific personal and organisational needs. She was also always on hand to offer robust and sound guidance or pointers so that I was also exploring new ideas and learning in-between the often reflective/reflexive sessions that took place.
Deputy CEO Charity
Key skills
Executive coaching; Leadership and performance coaching; Board and executive team coaching; Working with individuals at personal or career crossroads; Organisational development; Leadership development; Facilitation; Managing change; Managing projects; Managing relationships; Collaboration tools and techniques; Equity, diversity and inclusion
Style
Ngozi’s main coaching focus is working with individuals and teams at middle and senior management levels, helping them to set, realise and review their goals and ambitions. She uses a mix of support and challenge to keep up the momentum. Her clients include leaders and managers in charities and social enterprises; health/other public sector bodies, and grantmaking organisations. Her techniques include mentoring, coaching, facilitation and action learning. Her offer is always fully customised to meet the specific needs of the individuals.
Professional memberships
Association of Coaching; Chartered Management Institute; Royal Society of Arts
Career background
Ngozi has over 20 years of senior management experience including as England Grantmaking Director at the Big Lottery Fund until 2017. In that role, she was responsible for a budget of £550m per annum and leading 1000 staff across nine locations, developing and operationalising programmes and other strategies.
Ngozi qualified as a leadership and performance coach in 2011 and has coached people at various levels since. Ngozi has been self employed since March 2017, and now has a portfolio of paid and unpaid Trustee roles at the South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trustand the Justice Together Initiative for the North East. She also work as a leadership catalyst offering consultancy services.
Qualifications and training
Advanced Diploma in Leadership and Coaching; Professional Certificate in Management with Distinction; Post graduate Diploma in Education; Master of Arts (French/English Translation); Bachelor of Arts, French
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We are
professionally and experientially qualified, regularly supervised and have appropriate professional memberships. CBC is a corporate member of the Association for Coaching.
We offer
individual coaching to executives, and leaders and managers of various levels as well as group and team coaching
We follow
professional guidelines, principles and competencies including the Global Code of Ethics for Coaches, Mentors and Supervisors