Tom has a background as a professional expedition leader. This involved living in the jungle of Belize for nine months, snow-tracking wolves in Poland, camel trekking in the Sinai Desert, building a school in India and renovating a Tibetan monastery in Nepal.

It was in this leadership capacity that Tom discovered his talent for coaching people through change. Since 2000, he has been working in the field of personal and organisational development, specialising in executive coaching.

Tom carries a range of relevant qualifications, including a degree in Philosophy and Psychology. He is an accredited provider of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Strengths Deployment Inventory, and he is a licensed NLP Trainer.

Having completed many coaching courses over the years, Tom is also a qualified coaching supervisor. Other learning includes Transactional Analysis, Emotional Intelligence, and Systemic Organisational Constellations.

Tom is a perceptive person with strong listening and empathy skills. He has a sharp psychological awareness and can be direct and challenging in his feedback. Clients say he helps them find meaning and purpose in their working lives.

Coaching provides the executive with a unique relationship that is dedicated to his or her success. Tom focuses on giving the client the time and space to develop insight and identify strategies that are going to work for them in the future.

Jerry is comfortable and experienced in working in a range of complex organisational cultures (businesses, Oxford University colleges, churches, trustee-run organisations, schools, legal firms) and in supporting leaders as they manage the competing demands of these cultures.

His background in education and Christian ministry equips Jerry to work empathetically with clients to address the overlap between professional and personal development issues. To this experience over 25 years Jerry has added qualifications in coaching from the OCM (Level 7), in psychometric instruments such as the MBTI and Firo-b from OPP, in remote coaching work with Creative Metier, and in a wealth of other practical and widely applicable instruments. He received his EMCC Accreditation at Senior Practitioner level in December 2011.

Our approach is rooted in gestalt and addresses the person in their cultural setting. We raise excitement about the possibilities for change in both the client and their situation. We enable individuals, teams and organisations to grasp hold of and take ownership of what really matters and what they are seeking to achieve.

In Ireland, in collaboration with University College Dublin (UCD), we deliver the Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching and the Diploma in Advanced Business and Executive Coaching.

In the UK, in collaboration with Leeds Metropolitan University, we deliver the Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching, the Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching Psychology and the Post Graduate Diploma in Coach Supervision. These programmes are the first two stages of the MA in Executive and Business Coaching, the third level of which is delivered directly by Leeds Metropolitan University.

The UCD Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching and the Leeds Metropolitan University Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching are recognised by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council at Senior Practitioner Level.

Organisations are increasingly viewing coaching as essential to enhancing performance, developing talent and increasing employee engagement in the workplace. We have extensive experience delivering shorter programmes in-company for organisations seeking to develop a coaching culture, thus enabling employees to develop a coaching mind-set and engage in coaching conversations in their everyday activities. Our 5 day in-company programme is accredited through the EMCC at Foundation level.

Formerly Human Resources Director for Europe and Asia of a US high tech company, Gill has extensive hands-on international human resources, organisaitonal development, training and coaching experience, gained within multi-cultural, multi-national fast-growing, rapidly changing environments. Gill founded Iridium in May 2000 and has built an impressive and loyal client base in both the private and public sectors.

Gill is an accredited EMCC Master Practitioner with an MA in Coaching and Mentoring from Oxford Brookes and a Diploma in Coaching Supervision from the Coaching Supervision Academy (CSA). She also has an MBA from Warwick University and is a fellow of the CIPD. She is certified to use a wide range of psychometric tools including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the Emotional and Social Competence Inventory, Realise2, OPQ32 and is an NLP Master Practitioner and certified NLP Trainer.

Gill’s clients consistently comment on her passion for her work, her use of an eclectic mix of coaching tools and techniques, her professionalism, sense of appropriate fun and her ability to gain the trust and respect of all participants and, having done so, provide feedback in a challenging but non-threatening way.

Gill is particularly interested in how we create and develop our impact with others and is author of the best-selling book, ‘Presenting Yourself with Impact at Work’.

The Forensic Science Service pioneered the development and implementation of DNA technologies. It also paved the way for the establishment of the world’s first DNA database, launched in April 1995.

Since 2005 FSS has been a 100% Government-owned company, or GovCo. The change in status from a Trading Fund enables it to respond quicker to changes in the forensic science market and compete more effectively with other business in the field.

The drive for innovation continued to yield ground-breaking results, with the introduction of the National Firearms Forensic Database in 2003 and Footwear Intelligence Technology (FIT), the UK’s first online footwear coding and detection management system, in 2007.

The organisation has been on a path of transformation over the last two years. Part of the recent transformation activity has included a programme of developing leadership capability to support the organisation through transformation. 

A key element of this has been to develop a coaching culture and style of leadership, of which the accredited programme has been a part. Two cohorts of managers have bene through the programme and we have seen a great development in coaching skills for these managers.

Unfortunately, the government has recently announced the closure of the FSS, so the prgramme will not run again.’

Jonathan has coached up to chief executive in the private, public and third sector. Particularly at a senior level, leadership development is primarily about discovering and exploiting your core strengths and incorporating these into a style which is congruent with your values and personality.  The best leaders are self-aware, and able to adopt a repertoire of behaviours suited to their particular strengths. As someone who values pragmatism and common sense, Jonathan applies a similar ethic to his coaching, using a repertoire of approaches, including his own, GROW, solutions-focused coaching, as well as elements of transactional analysis and emotional intelligence.

He helps clients to identify what they really want, what approaches suit them best, and then provides the thinking space, structure, support and challenge for them to achieve their goals.  Outcomes valued by clients include understanding better where to focus their energies, developing the skills & behaviours to make career transitions, seeing the bigger picture when considering future strategies, gaining a renewed sense of self-confidence, and enjoying more productive relationships with their colleagues/boss/team. 

Jonathan has also provided consultancy support and training to a wide range of organisations, both in the U.K. and overseas, to help them introduce coaching and mentoring successfully. This has included large multi-nationals, government departments, schools and universities.

Contact Details:

Tel. 07971 400696

Email – jonathan@fargoassociates.com