Deborah has extensive experience working within the creative sector combining artistic practice with arts/business management at Senior Executive level. Deborah currently works as a Trainer, Facilitator & Coach; specialising in relational dynamics, personal development and leadership. She is a coach for the NESTA & Clore Leadership Initiatives (Arts & Social Programmes) as well as Business Coach and Action Learning Set Facilitator for the Management & Leadership Centre at Lancaster University (L.E.A.D Programme). She designs and delivers the Personal Leadership Module for the Creative Leadership MA at John Moores University, Liverpool and for 3rd Year Trainees on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Lancaster University. Deborah is regularly commissioned to design and deliver bespoke courses in Coaching Skills for Leadership: most recently, for the Arts Council’s Cultural Leadership Programme, Creative Partnerships-Hull, N.A.W.E with the Arvon Foundation. and PANDA Arts. She also delivers training for The Clore Short Course and regularly facilitates Action Learning/Coaching sets.
She achieved full membership with the Association for Coaching (AC) in 2005, is a BBC Accredited Coach and was shortlisted for the ‘Award for Influence’ at AC in 2010.
Rivca Rubin - Co-Trainer
Rivca is a creative trainer, facilitator, mediator and coach working with a wide range of organisations and individuals within the cultural, education and higher education sectors throughout the UK.
She specialises in team development, conflict resolution, change management. Rivca has been co-designing the Creative Agent training for Creative Partnerships in Merseyside & Manchester/Salford. Rivca is a consultant to the CITE programme developing 'mentoring for creativity' training for teachers.
Rivca is designer of The Arts of Coaching & The CreativeCoach training programmes and runs intensive short courses in the areas of interpersonal communication, creative thinking and conflict management.
Rivca has an M.SC in Applied Behavioural Sciences, is an NLP Master Practitioner, Independent Trainer of NVC and has Level One Certification in Spiral Dynamics. She has studied Philosophy and System Thinking and has extensive training & experience in movement and BodyMind techniques. She was a Research Fellow at ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity; Dept of Contemporary Arts for four years.
Carol Wilson – Programme Accreditation Consultant
Carol Wilson is Managing Director of Performance Coach Training and on the Executive Committee for Performance Consultants International and is Head of Accreditation and Honorary Vice President at the Association for Coaching. She experienced the value of a coaching culture first hand while working at board level with Richard Branson at Virgin, where she became the first woman to found and run a successful record company. Accredited as an AC and a BBC coach, Carol now focuses on transformationalleadership, consulting with organisations to transform their cultures, providing external accreditation to organisations, and is a keynote speaker, broadcaster and writer. Carol was nominated for the Association for Coaching Awards for Influence and Impact in Coaching.
Carol has written many articles about coaching and is the author of a comprehensive guide to coaching called ‘Best Practice in Performance Coaching; a Handbook for Leaders, HR Professionals, Coaches and Organisations’, featuring Forewords by Sir John Whitmore and Sir Richard Branson (Kogan Page 2007).
