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Alison is a coach, consultant, facilitator and supervisor with almost 25 years' experience in helping OD, HR, Change and Training Consultants manage their business and client work effectively.

Her current work is with executives in commercial organisations and external consultant-coaches. She has an MSc in Change Agent Skills and Strategies, and is a Master Practitioner in NLP. During 2006 she completed her Diploma in Supervision at the Metanoia Institute, London.

Alison finds that her tai ji and meditation practice is a vital ingredient to her ongoing wellbeing and development, and regularly attends workshops and retreats to support this. Her learning here includes the importance of balance: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Practising with mindful awareness and being present are paramount and serve her well in her professional and personal relationships.

She is an active member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council, on both the Conference and Ethics Committees. For this latter work, she co-facilitates their Ethical Awareness Workshops. Alison has EMCC European Individual Accreditation, at Master Practitioner Level.

Alison is an accredited coach with the Association for Coaching. She facilitates the West London branch of their popular Co-Coaching Forums, when member coaches gather to practise, learn and give feedback about coaching. She is an assessor for their accreditation process and offers telesupervision to members.

She is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the British Psychological Society, and actively participates in their Special Group in Coaching Psychology.

With her extensive hands-on experience, professional skills and academic underpinning, she offers a passion and enthusiasm for professional development that is inspiring and effective. Alison has worked with groups and individuals to facilitate change throughout her career and enjoys this as a means to empower people to find their own solutions.

Clients

Past and current organisational clients include:

National Magazine Company (Consumer Publishing)
AD IQ Global (mobile texting)
Sony BMG (Entertainment)
Presence in Performance (NLP Training Consultancy)
FT Extel
Evolutions (broadcast facilities)
Barkers Advertising
MTV

Workshops

See some of the workshops I have developed and facilitated in the field of coaching supervision

Experience

Since graduating in Australia in 1971, Alison started her commercial career in the UK in business magazine publishing, where she worked for 13 years, including time at Haymarket Publishing and United Trade Press. Latterly she became Publisher, responsible for teams of up to 60 people, and Head of Training.

In May 1985, Alison established her own company, Alison Hodge Associates, providing sales and management development and consultancy, initially in the publishing industry. This then extended to organisations across and beyond the communications industry.

Alison has continued to apply her selling and consultancy skills, learnt how to run a business, and directly managed a team of up to 10 consultants. She has extensive experience of developing training and workshop material, content and methods of delivery, and enjoys helping others to do the same.

Throughout this time she has maintained a portfolio of organisational client projects, ranging from developing skills-based training to group and team facilitation, corporate systems evaluation and one-to-one coaching at all levels of management.