The Coaching at Work Editor’s Awards 2021 ceremony was held online at Coaching at Work’s annual conference on 23 November, recognising contributions to mentoring, coaching supervision and coaching, including in the areas of social justice and climate change.
- Watch the Awards ceremony: https://bit.ly/3dWutvm
- Read the full report: https://bit.ly/3Jhj6wD
Lifetime Achievement Awards
The winners
- Lis Merrick
For contributions to mentoring and social change
Nomination comments included:
“It’s through examples like this (including in the humanitarian and aid sectors) that Lis is making a difference in parts of society that really count. Lis has largely gone unrecognised in this way and it’s time she was now.”
Merrick said: “…how much David Megginson helped me initially, shaping my thinking about how to use mentoring to support society, including those with different needs, and also Bob Garvey and David Clutterbuck.”
- Dr Siobhain O’Riordan
For contributions to developing coaching psychology internationally
Nomination comments included: “Siobhain has done so much over the years to develop coaching psychology in the UK and internationally.”
Accepting the award, O’Riordan said: “I have so many people to thank, because as a community, we always do it together… including Stephen Palmer for his friendship and mentorship over the years, and colleagues Alanna Henderson and Sheila Panchal.”
Hall highlighted O’Riordan’s “generosity with time and resources” and her many contributions.
- Professor David Lane
For contributions to coaching and coaching supervision
Nomination comments include: “David is the unsung hero, quietly being radical in the background but never pushy. He’s been talking about the ecological crisis since the 60s and 70s, he helped in the formation of APECS, writing about accreditation….”
Lane said: “We build on the work of others, Bob Garvey, Stephen Palmer, David Megginson, David Clutterbuck, Tony Grant, Michael Cavanagh, Sunny Stout-Rostron, Eve Turner, Lise Lewis, so many people. One of the things about getting a lifetime award is that you can look back and see how much things have changed, going back to the 80s, (when we were) trying to talk to organisations about coaching, it was really difficult to get anything, but it’s not just that (that’s changed), it’s the breadth of coaching, as we’ve seen in these awards – contributions to social justice, to climate change, in a Covid pandemic. Coaching has become something of real value not just to professionals and the work they do, but to society as well and it’s been an absolute joy to work with so many people over so many years to really push coaching and coaching supervision forward.”
Best article or series of articles award
The winners
- Clare Norman, Michelle Lucas & Sebastian Fox
For their series on fees in one-to-one coaching, coaching supervision and team coaching
Hall said: “a very needed well-researched series calling for and bringing greater transparency (around fees), and identifying next steps.”
- Read the series:
Part 1: coaching supervision fees (Norman & Lucas): https://bit.ly/32gAIEp
Part 2: coaching fees (Norman & Lucas): https://bit.ly/3q4WOoL
Part 3: team coaching fees (Fox): https://bit.ly/3sfGRid
Part 4: next steps – sharing the learning (Norman & Lucas): https://bit.ly/3209vcM
Highly commended
- Dorothee Stoffels’ article on role clarity in team coaching
Read the article: https://bit.ly/30DPxUr
- Diana Tedoldi & James Farrell’s article on working with nature in coaching
Read the article: https://bit.ly/3F9jBGu
- Tammy Tawadros, Debbie Wayth and Preeta Cooley’s article series on race equity in coaching:
Part 1: (Tawadros): https://bit.ly/2QFhs0K
Part 2: (Tawadros): https://bit.ly/3mhFA6J
Part 3: (Tawadros): https://bit.ly/3E4OCtB
Part 4: (Tawadros, Wayth & Cooley): https://bit.ly/3F9Ulj9
Climate Coaching Award
The winner
- Charly Cox
Co-founder of Climate Change Coaches
Hall: “for her courage, creativity and drive for getting climate coaching a place at the coaching table… really led the way for many others to step into that space… empowers people…inspiring, creative, humble and generous.”
Cox: “Linda (Aspey) and Zoe (Cohen) were power in my arm, so thank you to them….”
Highly commended
- Zoe Cohen
Executive coach, team coach, coach supervisor and carbon literate coach. Founding member of Climate Coaching Alliance (CCA)
- Linda Aspey
Executive coach, therapist, speaker and facilitator around climate change
- Diana Tedoldi
Speaker on topics like climate justice, coaching with nature to develop climate awareness and pro-environment behaviour
Internal Coaching Champion Award
The winner
Lead coach for NatWest Leadership and Coaching Faculty (see Profile)
Ceasar said: “I spend so much time blinkered and focused on coaching and my belief for how coaching can enable the humanizing and spiritualising of organisations and the reconnecting with our right brains and the other beyond…. getting this nomination has given me the opportunity to just pause.”
Highly commended
- Lucy Daykin, Grant Thornton International (GTI)
- Naomi Schwabe, Deutsche Bank, for her work promoting coaching internally
External Coaching Champion Award
The winners
(Individuals)
- Charmaine Roche and Jonathan Passmore
For contributions to social change (race equity)
Hall said: “Including for their in-depth report, Racial Justice, Equity and Belonging…a call to action”.
Roche: “I’d like to give testimony – without the coaches willing to talk about their experiences with me, or the international team who helped recruit them, the research wouldn’t be possible… and the other key stakeholders.”
Read the report: https://bit.ly/3J993JY
- Mark McMordie (individual)
Founder of the Conscious Leader
For his work on psychological safety, compassion and building not-for-profit programme, Coaching through Covid
Hall: “he inspired the Coaching through Covid team to consider its ethos, modelled a compassionate mindful agile adaptive and visionary leadership style informed by coaching. (For his work generally) around compassion and psychological safety which he embodied, and is pioneering … hugely generous and humble.”
McMordie: “the biggest accolade goes to those on the front line supporting us….the working culture of (the Coaching through Covid) team was what great organisations can be.”
- Coaching through Covid and Beyond (Organisation)
Nomination comments included:
“A tirelessly ambitious and passionate core team…embodied the core values of compassion, mindfulness and psychological safety…infused all aspects of the project.”
Co-founders Lindsay Wittenberg:
“we couldn’t have done it unless we were the team we were.”
Highly commended
- Leadership coach, Carol Braddick & team and executive coach, Alexandru Popa-Antohi
External Mentoring Champion Award
The winners
- (Individual) Premala Nadarajah, Consultant anaesthetist at the Royal Free London NHS Trust
For championing diversity and inclusion through mentoring
Hall: “committed and passionate not only about her own development but that of others, and feeling that there was more to be done to support people of colour in the NHS… took it upon herself to do something about this, championing the Mission INCLUDE programme within the Trust & more widely … not driven by ego and when she decides something should happen, really goes for it….”
- (Organisation) Mission INCLUDE
For championing diversity and inclusion through mentoring
Hall: “Founded in 2019 by Moving Ahead founder, Liz Dimmock and Oliver Wyman’s Rupal Kantaria, it is the first mentoring programme focused on broader diversity….”
Dimmock: “culmination of amazing individuals coming together and the brainchild of Rupal who said, let’s move beyond single diversity strands… celebrating that intersectionality and all that we are …the power of cross-company.”
Contributions to Coaching Supervision Award
The winner
- Lorenza Clifford, Chair-elect of the AoCS
Hall: “wider application of supervision and weaving it into all sorts of settings, including climate change.”
Clifford: “The award is for everyone in my eco-system with whom I’ve been developing and having conversations that matter.”
Highly commended
Coaching supervisors:
- Dr Henry Campion
- Jackee Holder
- Michelle Lucas