Coaching & Mentoring

BBFD believes that when we better understand ourselves and how we engage with others, we are better placed to develop insights into ourselves, to find our own answers and solutions and take control of our own work. 

When we have opportunities to pause and reflect we are better placed to build our resilience to manage the demands of working in challenging environments. 

When we have someone to listen to us, believe in us and support us, we can take advantage of opportunities and create the changes we want to make. 

In the humanitarian and development sector and UK third sector too many women and those identifying as Black or a Person of Colour can find it hard to make their voice heard. Too many workers experience bullying or harassment.

That’s where coaching can help leaders and practitioners.

Coaching can provide a safe place to be curious, to reflect on experiences, be heard and re-author your narrative. You can receive questions which enable deeper reflection and, importantly, enable you to identify and make choices.   

Want your voice to be heard?

In the humanitarian and development sector too many women and those identifying as Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour can find it hard to make their voice heard.

Angie has a history of coaching to explore how you can be more confident and create spaces to be powerful and listened to.

What is Coaching?

In a positive coaching environment you’re able to grow and develop personally and professionally. Coaching helps you to recognise the possibilities of change and enables you to tap into your strengths whenever you feel ‘stuck’. Best of all it enables you to explore and make the most of your growing potential.

How does coaching work?

Coaching won’t give you the answers! A good coach will help you to:

• Define what you would like to achieve through the coaching
• Strategically reflect and explore challenges, ideas and opportunities
• Identify your own alternative ways of thinking and acting
• Build your own awareness to successfully lead and engage with others
• Develop and manage strategies to deal with change, complex situations and challenges
• Expand your ambition for what you can achieve
• Hold you to account and celebrate your successes

How does mentoring differ from coaching?

This is the million dollar question! Coaching and mentoring use the same active listening skills and powerful questions to find solutions. Mentoring is a related but fundamentally different role to being a coach. A mentor acts as a support and educator helping another person to develop a particular skills, knowledge or expertise. The mentor is an experienced expert in a particular field supporting someone else gain that same expertise. On the other hand a coach is less interested in particular types of performance and focuses on growing the untapped potential of the person they are working with.

My varied global experience has shown me that regardless of background or profession everyone can benefit from working with the right coach or mentor.

Who is Angie, Your Coach and Mentor? 

I qualified as a coach in 2008 and in 2020 completed my MSc in Coaching and Mentoring. My dissertation focused on coaching aid workers who have experienced workplace bullying and this remains a passion. I am a caring coach and my sense of justice motivates me to work with those who have less agency.

I am an experienced mentor for safeguarding leads, child protection practitioners and senior staff working in national and international bodies.

I am a member of EMCC UK and I subscribe to EMCC’s Code of Ethics.

Examples of clients

• Save the Children UK- Leadership Development Programme
• Save the Children Sweden- Child Protection Technical Advisor
• Save the Children Norway- Caring for Child Survivors practitioners
• Mines Advisory Group- Safeguarding team and other staff
• UN and INGO- Staff who have experienced workplace bullying
• Private clients

Learn more about how BBFD can provide you with coaching or mentoring     

Confidentiality

All coaching and mentoring is confidential. The only exception is risk of harm to you or someone else. If you disclose these risks I will discuss with you what needs to shared with local authorities or regulators before doing so.