Coaching at Work Awards 2023
Professor Annette Fillery-Travis
Editor’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Coaching and Education
Annette Fillery-Travis is one of those people who beaver away for decades, making wonderful contributions without shouting from the rooftops about their achievements.
It was high time she was honoured for her efforts in shaping and improving the coaching profession, including in the field of education.
Fillery-Travis is academic director of the Doctoral College Academic Experience at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, a senior coach educator, researcher and author. After being commissioned in the early days of coaching by the CIPD (with David Lane) to undertake research into organisational strategy for coaching, their book, The Case for Coaching – Making evidence-based decisions on coaching (CIPD, 2006) with Jessica Jarvis was the first coaching book many of us, including myself, read, making a compelling case for coaching in the workplace when coaching was seen by many as fluffy or solely remedial.
After a successful career as a research scientist, Fillery-Travis began a second career with the Professional Development Foundation, becoming CEO and designing leadership programmes and manager coach training programmes across sectors.
In 2010 she moved to Middlesex University where she was head of the faculty for the Professional Doctorate, supervising more than 20 coaching doctorates, and ran the Work and Learning Research Group.
Academic and research interests include: manager-as-coach, return on investment of coaching and development of coaching cultures, the role of doctorate supervisor/advisor as coach, and development of reflective practice in senior practitioners.
Coaching at Work Awards 2023
Paul Heardman
Editor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Coaching and Coaching Supervision
I first came across Paul Heardman many years ago when he shared his inspiring research at Henley on the positive contribution practicing the Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM) can make to coaching.
Heardman has an MSc in Coaching from Henley Business School, achieving a Distinction, and winning a prize for his research.
Heardman has a passion for coaching and coaching supervision which is contagious. Over the years, Heardman has been generous with his time and ideas, writing a number of interesting articles for the magazine, and connecting the editorial team with others who can fruitfully contribute.
Heardman, who delivered a successful session on internal coaching supervision at the Coaching at Work annual conference on 20 June, has been a coach supervisor since 2017, specialising in supervising internal coaches. His deep-dive article on this topic featured in the January/February 2023 edition of Coaching at Work.
Heardman is on the board of EMCC UK as director for supervision practice, where he oversees the body’s supervision activities. He is also a trustee for Spark Inside, a charity that offers coaching in prisons.
He is accredited with both EMCC Global and APECS. His current interests include exploring Jungian approaches in coaching and supervision.
You can read his article on his research into Loving Kindness Meditation here: https://bit.ly/3NobGdH
Coaching at Work Awards 2023
Salma Shah
Editor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Coaching and Society: diversity, inclusion and belonging
Salma Shah is a game changer in the coaching arena, helping individual coaches and the profession at large shift the needle around diversity, inclusion and belonging.
Shah is the author of the ground-breaking book, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Coaching (Kogan Page 2022), which invites and supports readers to confidently and courageously meet the complex needs of all employees, creating inclusive and future-focused organisations. The book was shortlisted for the Business Book Awards (2023).
Shah is the founder of the award-winning Mastering Your Power, a certified coach training programme designed with a wider systemic lens of diversity, inclusion, belonging and equity. She has been coaching clients and delivering workshops for more than 20 years.
Her clients include Co-op Group, John Lewis Partnership, Pearson, Skipton Building Society, Barclays, Ambassador Theatre Group, Infor, British Transport Police and the Metropolitan Police. She regularly advises clients on mapping their coaching culture and delving deeper to highlight the difference between knowing what coaching is versus an openness to coaching and being coached especially those from under-represented groups.
Her work seeks to enable people to ‘master their power’ and own their personal leadership story, enabling people to lead from a wider listening lens, take personal responsibility for delivering breakthrough results and treat individuals as partners, encouraging input to meet personal and business goals.
Coaching at Work Awards 2023
Dr Chris Johnstone
Editor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Coaching and Society: responding to climate emergency
I’ve known Chris Johnstone for many years – our paths first crossed when he was working as a doctor and I as a medical journalist. I was delighted to encounter him and his gentle and purposeful energy once again in the field of coaching.
After working for years as a doctor and addictions specialist in the UK health service, in addition to coaching, Johnstone focuses on mentoring, writing and training.
He’s known internationally for his work on the psychology of cultivating positive impact in the world, and his collaboration with activist and ecologist, Joanna Macy in their writing of the book Active Hope (2012), which has been translated into at least 18 languages. Active Hope is the go-to for many coaches and others who seek a positive, resourcing and fruitful way to engage with the problems of the world.
The approach outlined in the book and associated training has and continues to be hugely influential, and if we humans get out of this mess in one piece, I have no doubt it will have played a part. Johnstone has also written about resilience, including in his book, Seven Ways to Build Resilience (2019) and his online courses for resilience and active hope reach people from more than 60 countries.