Julia Kalenberg is a Swiss based coach and trainer who predominately works in organisations. Less known about Julia, however is that she also has a long track record as a coach of many succesful professional or semi professional sailors. And that is precisely the focus of this interview: How she uses Solution Focus in sports coaching.
I am truly blessed to have found Solution Focused Practice, and to be part of this amazing global community. The early part of my career was spent almost entirely in a problem focused world.
I studied Engineering for my first degree, then joined Unilever as a management trainee in 1989. I learned so much about business, sales, marketing, finance, but very little about people and teams. My learning there was experiential, and when I look back on my early career, I realise I was coaching as a survival skill! Following roles in Manufacturing (ice cream and frozen vegetables) and then National Accounts, I moved to join Bass Brewers and started selling beer. In 2000, I was asked to run a project. Bass’ IT team had linked their stock and order system with the world wide web – an industry first – and I was tasked wit running a 6-month pilot project. At the end, I submitted my board paper and it was signed off in 2 weeks – another industry first! Two weeks later, barbox.com was launched which became the on-line ordering platform for the UK Licensed on-trade. In 2007, I made a choice to leave.
Christophe can draw on a two decades track records as Chief of Staff, Head of Business Management Operations and Director of International Sales in air navigation services, homeland security and telecommunications.
He has comprehensive expertise in strategic analysis/planning in deregulated markets, coupled with a broad engineering background in mission-critical surroundings.
Christophe has made a significant contribution to stakeholder management within Skyguide, Ascom and Alcatel groups; dealing with complex and result-oriented matters in intercultural and entrepreneurial environments.
Mrs. Yue Lei，known as Helen by her friends in the SF community worldwide， is a pioneer practitioner of Solution Focused Brief Coaching in Mainland China. She had been trained strictly and constantly in Solution Focused Approach for years before she was certified as CSFC (Certified Solution-Focused Coach) in 2015. Since then she has provide 1000+ hours coaching service to individuals and teams.
With her management experience in high technology companies , she followed her inner passion and found the SFiO China Chapter aiming to promote applications of the SF approach in organizations and to support SF practitioners in China. She co-founded the Hangzhou Centre for Brief Coaching, of which the purpose is to ‘inherit the essence of SF and disseminate SFBC in China’.
Jeff Matthews is a coach and facilitator with his own consultancy company, The Madison Group. He has been practising as a coach for nearly 20 years across a very wide range of UK and European organisations and sectors from banks to retail, from local authorities to health and charities. He styles himself as a “tax deductible excuse for a great conversation”. His particular interests at the moment, are applying SF to the challenging world of performance coaching and appraisals and also in developing an integrated model of coaching.
Jenny Clarke is the co-Director of the Centre for Solutions Focus at Work (sfwork). Following a long career in the energy industry she has spent the last 15 years as an independent facilitator and coach. She works with large organisations, groups and individuals adapting to change and as a personal coach to managers and directors. She loves travelling and has worked in both hemispheres and east and west of the Greenwich Meridian.
I am working with the solution-focused approach in the field of coaching, team coaching, large groups interventions and conference facilitation for Jesper H Christiansen and Solutionsurfers.
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Working primarily in Switzerland and Denmark and other European countries.
Based in Lenzburg, Switzerland, Copenhagen, Denmark.
For nearly two decades I’ve helped leaders in the non-profit and for-profit sectors successfully compete in the marketplace, find their “voice” in leadership, and strategize around how best to proceed to be effective with others, with themselves, and in their work places.
I’m an ICF-certified coach. For many years, I was a program developer and workshop presenter.
Part of my work in leadership is to help emerging leaders feel more confident in a role they may never have been prepared for. Another part is to help existing leaders gather more skills, become more resourceful, be better managers, and find ways to balance their work lives with their personal lives.
Katja Kiiski is a self-employed coach, supervisor and consultant. She is a Master of Social Sciences and he has studied and completed a degree in coaching and supervision at Helsinki University Centre for Continuing Education. Katja has used solution focused approach almost ten years first in many developmental projects and recently in coaching for workplaces, groups and individuals.
Reviewed piece of SF work: SF Group Supervision (January 2015 – May 2016) The group consisted of four participants working in a three-year project dealing with Social and Health Care. Solution Focused supervision was especially ordered for the last year of the project to support project implementation and assessment, goal achievement as well as strengthening the team before the end of the project. On one hand the process proceeded as usual, on the other hand as the project lasted eight months longer than planned, many unexpected matters occurred, especially in the thoughts and feelings of the participants and the supervisor.