Our two core services are executive coaching and team development - in central London, the UK and internationally - for senior people, managers and team leaders.

We believe in working with our clients, harnessing their skills and energy, to facilitate profound, positive and sustained change.

Our support is always tailor-made to fit the needs of those individuals, teams and organisations. This includes an appreciation of the challenges and culture of the working environment.

We offer executive coaching and organisational development consultancy in central London, the UK and internationally. Organisations adapting to the demands of rapid change, performance targets and globalisation are increasingly seeking change agents to help manage internal transitions. However, this can bring uncertainty for the people within the organisation, amplified by working with conflicting perspectives and diverse cultures.

The evolving disciplines of coaching and organisation consulting are practical and results-oriented – yet their practice is a human art as much as a science.

Executive coaching enhances management performance, within the framework of a pre-agreed number of sessions spanning several months. Coaching programmes are tailored individually and can be delivered concurrently for all members of a management team or all those affected by a particular organisational change.

Coaching sessions are goal-oriented toward successful outcomes, while allowing time for personal reflection and developmental learning.

Our coaching helps clients, and through them their organisations, by:

• Helping them become more effective in their current role and preparing for new roles
• Recognising performance drivers and effective ways of delivering against them
  Focusing on leveraging their existing strengths and skills
• Identifying and overcoming obstacles to performance
• Improving communication skills and positive behavioural change

The fee depends on the location and frequency of the coaching. Typically at Wimpole Street, central London, the fee is £60 - £100 + VAT per session.

To discuss the changes you’d like to make or to make an enquiry about our coaching service, please call Sarah Briggs, Director, on 07973 368512 or email her at info@thegrovepractice.com.

With an ethos formed from humanistic psychology, our consultancy team works at large process level within organisations using a transformational model for management teams engaged in change. Our consultants work on strengthening executives’ interpersonal and behavioural skills in relation to achieving strategic goals. This involves attending to system process, culture and gender. Our approach focuses on organisational process, drawing on humanistic and integrative theoretical models.

Organisations benefit particularly in circumstances such as restructuring or relocation, mergers or acquisitions, redundancy or role changes, promotion or formation of management teams, or change to meet performance targets. The Grove in central London supports CEOs, directorates or HR teams in delivering transformational change.

For further information or to discuss the performance issues your organisation may be facing and the kind of behavioural change or performance results you would like to see, please call Sarah Briggs, Director, on 07973 368512 or email your contact details her at info@thegrovepractice.com.

Sarah Briggs

Sarah is a Director of The Grove Practice, responsible for designing and delivering coaching programmes and management development training. She is an accredited coach and counsellor, as well as a trainer and facilitator.
Her recent experience includes delivering performance coaching for university students who had achieved sub-optimal grades; conflict resolution for the small management team of a European hedge fund; using actor role play in complex contract negotiation training for a technology sales force; facilitating the UK board of a global construction firm in developing authentic leadership and communication to enhance business performance.

Sarah holds a Diploma in Organisational Development, a Diploma in Business Coaching, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a certified NLP practitioner and accredited member of the Association for Coaching and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Bernd Leygraf

Bernd initially trained as an organisational consultant at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Ohio and has worked international with commercial, government and charitable organisations. He has trained organisational consultants in the UK and abroad. More recent work has been primarily with large organisations adapting to globalisation. He has also conducted specialist projects helping clergy and religious communities develop child protection policies, as well as assignments to address awareness of gender in the workplace.

Over the past 25 years, Bernd has demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of organisations including:

Amazon, Lucent, plus MOL, Flow Consulting and ARK in Hungary, Impact in Athens; financial institutions such as Accenture, Andersen, Deloitte Touche, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young, Rabobank, Lloyds, JP Morgan, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, plus RTL Luxembourg; universities including South Bank, Middlesex, Surrey and Sheffield Hallam in the UK, as well as Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and University of East Africa in Kenya; a variety of religious organisations: Archiocese of Nairobi, Diocese of Nakuru, Institute of St Anselm, Diocese of Plymouth, Archdiocese of Westminster, Buckfast Abbey; charitable and health organisations including RSPCA, Save the Children, EAR, WHO, German Minister for Health.

Bernd is also a UKCP-registered psychotherapist and BACP-accredited trainer and supervisor.  He runs coaching courses internationally, including The Grove's Diploma in Organisational Development and Executive Coaching which is a training recognised in the UK by the Association for Coaching.

Ben McKie

Ben is a qualified executive coach and accredited psychotherapist who has a passion for change and development.

He combines his knowledge of psychotherapy and coaching to suit the individual client and has the expertise to work with any underlying emotional issues that can be impeding growth and development.

This enables a more genuine and balanced change that comes from within. Ben’s work supports all aspects of the self – which improves performance and relationships, leading to a greater quality of life.

Ben qualifications include Diploma in Organisational Development and Executive Coaching and Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy. He is also a certified NLP practitioner.

Professor Andrew Samuels

Andrew is a well-known psychotherapist and Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex, also holding visiting chairs at New York, London and Roehampton universities. He has authored may books on political and therapeutic applications of psychoanalytic theory.

Andrew has worked as a consultant for DelMonte, Nokia, Tesco, the cities of New York and St Petersburg, the Labour party and political groupings in the United States, South Africa, Poland, Russia and Israel, in addition to the National Health Service and interfaith groups.

Andrew uses the following methods, among others:

• Using narrative techniques to connect people in organisations to their vision and mission, addressing underlying emotional aspects of change;
• Taking office politics seriously – using his work in conflict resolution to illumine tensions and increase the organisation’s capacity to manage conflict openly, including the concept of generational conflict between age groups;
• Good enough leadership – how to avoid unimaginative and over-cautious leadership fuelled by fear of failure, to maximise realistic potential of leadership resources.

David Sears

 

From a corporate perspective, David brings over 25 years of experience in retail, corporate and investments banking as well as management consulting in the banking sector.  This includes executive and board roles with SG Warburg, SBC and UBS, with responsibilities covering people policies such as establishing the global graduate recruitment programme at SBC/UBS. With Deutsche Bank, he was global head of branch operations before joining Deutsche Bank's London board.  His roles included Group CIO for Europe and responsibility for setting up many of the professional management practices required of a large organisation, inlcuding talent management.  He has lived and worked as an expat internationally and has managed teams across30 countries, which adds a great dimension of cultural understanding to his work.

David in recent years has extended his passion for people through the establishment of his own executive coaching practice.  He specialises in the banking and financial services sector where he provides both mentoring and non-directive coaching services supporting middle managers through to senior executives.  He is qualified in corporate coaching and personal performance coaching.

David holds a first class BSc in banking and finance, as well as being a qualified banker and ACIB.  He has maintained his banking interests as managing director of his companies which provide principal lending, capital bridging and specialist financial broking services.