Julia Vaughan Smith

Julia is an APECS Accredited Executive Coach and Coach Supervisor, and a master coaching practitioner with over 2000 hours of one to one coaching and supervision experience. She works with a wide range of coaching clients at Board and Senior Management level, including clinicians, in all forms of health sector organisations.

Her aim is to facilitate clients to do the best thinking they can; that is to provide a confidential space for reflection, analysis, the challenging of assumptions and mental models, with the aim of generating insight, awareness and development. Her approach is to enable clients to enhance their self-awareness, self-regulation and resilience so that they can lead others in the delivery of socially beneficial outcomes.

As leadership is about engaging with the future and the current reality, which is challenging and highly demanding, Julia’s view is that successful Executives need to be able to access their full inner potential, emotional intelligence and courage to meet the emerging requirements of this external environment.

Julia works with the inner person, to enable clients to become authentically themselves while developing as leaders and in their enactment of leadership. At the same time, she works with the systems dynamics of complex organisational forms and relationships to support the Executive in achieving productive movement in the system.

She is qualified in the use of MBTI and FIRO-B, an accredited NHS LQF feedback facilitator, and experienced user of a range of feedback instruments. She uses solutions-focused, humanistic approach to inform the coaching process and framework. She is also a member of the EMCC, and a member of their Ethics and Research Committee. Julia is a qualified Integrative and Humanistic Psychotherapist (with an MA in Integrative and Humanistic Psychotherapy), and is a trained systemic constellations facilitator for family, individual and organisational systems. She is also a Fellow, Professional Network, Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter.