Coach
Jo Birch
jo@jobirch.co.uk | | United KingdomBIO NOTES
Jo works as an executive coach and supervisor, trainer and psychotherapist. Working internationally and loving the richness of a diverse practice, Jo brings people together in global learning communities.
As Director of Crucial Difference & International Centre for Reflective Practice, Jo leads an international team providing cutting edge training for coaches to become supervisors and continue developing as leaders in the profession.
She is active in professional dialogue as Board member of Association of Coaching Supervisors (AOCS) and European Association of Supervision and Coaching (EASC), and previously Chair of BACP Coaching. Jo is an active volunteer within Association for Coaching, and is a 'showcased' Global Provider for EMCC.
Jo regularly writes for journals and is co-editor of EMCC Mastery Series publication Coaching Supervision: Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes and previously series editor of Thinking Global in Coaching Today.
Jo loves Asia. She speaks and reads Urdu although has become a little out of practice in recent years and hopes to resume studies soon. She currently lives in Edinburgh, and loves exploring - kayaking the Scottish coast, mountain biking, and drawing in restorative Spanish sunshine.
COACHING SPECIALTIES
Corporate/Executive Coaching,Cross Cultural Coaching,Global Leadership Coaching,Transition Coaching,Women in Leadership Coaching
COACHING MODE
Telephone,Global Reach with Telephone
COACHING CERTIFICATION
Unknown
OTHER COACHING CERTIFICATION
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
Jo Birch Ltd / Crucial Difference / ICRP
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
AoCS EASC AC
NUMBER OF YEARS IN COACHING
15
COACHING INVOLVEMENT
Full Time
GENDER
Female
What do you think you bring to Coaching
Cross-cultural experience, a committment to a global learning community....and myself.
Past Work Experience
Jo began her career in Nursing, specialising in Child Psychiatry. These early roots still inform her practice - sparking her curiosity in people, wondering and increasing her understanding of our similarities and differences as we each navigate our lives.
For many years Jo designed health and well-being services for people living in inner cities, often disadvantaged through poverty, mental health and through poor understanding of the needs of ethnically diverse communities. It was here that Jo came across coaching as a vehicle for conversations between local people and decision-makers.
Moving on from there, Jo has been an executive coach, working with C-Suite and leadership teams in corporates for over 10 years.
Her commitment to the profession, and working in partnership with colleagues, is fulfilled through training coaches to become supervisors - working across the world in English, and through interpreters in Russian, with a leading-edge supervision programme.
Current Position
Director
Nature of Employment
