Helen Whitten
Alchemy topics
Stress Management
Areas of expertise
- Accredited coach, Association for Coaching
- CEDR accredited mediator
- Facilitator, writer, trainer
- Cognitive-behavioural coach
About the author
Helen Whitten, Chartered MCIPD, founded Positiveworks London in 1993. She has created a unique package of integrated strategies to enable individuals, managers and teams to meet everyday challenges and perform at their peak. Her philosophy is that positive people deliver positive results and her methods enhance creativity, motivation and excellence in personal and team performance.
Helen is a lively speaker and coach, working with individuals and teams in major organisations throughout the world. She has worked across the Middle East and North Africa running leadership for women, emotional intelligence and thinking skills training. Helen applies Cognitive-Behavioural and Neuro-Linguistic Programming methodology to produce practical thinking systems that develop individual confidence, enabling people to break through old patterns of behaviour to achieve greater potential in their lives and in their careers.
Helen is an Accredited Coach with the Association for Coaching and is on the AC Accreditation Assessor team. She is a CEDR Accredited Mediator.
Helen is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, The Institute of Directors, The Association for Coaching, and the International Stress Management Association. She has a degree in History from King’s College, London University; and a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management. She has qualifications in cognitive-behavioural methodology, REBT and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and also trained with Tony Buzan. She is qualified to analyse and process the HBDI Herrmann Thinking Preference Profile and the Success Dynamics DiSC Personality at Work Profile and applies these profiles to individual coaching and to teambuilding.
Some recent clients
Helen works for blue-chip companies in the UK and globally. These include investment banks, retail banks, insurance, finance, environmental facilities, quantity surveying, construction, including Accenture, Beazley, Kent County Council, Leading Minds Beirut, Inenco, Inviron, NHS, PWC, Tate.
Publications
Helen has written four books:
Your Mind at Work, Developing Self Knowledge for Business success. Published by Kogan Page in 2000 Future Directions, Practical Ways to Develop Emotional Intelligence and Confidence in Young People. Published by Network Continuum Age Matters, Employing Managing and Motivating the Older Workforce which addresses the issues of the ageing workforce. Published by Gower Cognitive Behavioural Coaching Techniques for Dummies takes the highly effective techniques and principles of CBT off the therapists couch and in to the work place and the home. Published by Wiley
She has written and produced two CDs on this subject – How to survive life positively and Help yourself to a better life. She has also developed interactive software, Launching yourself, with colleague Diane Carrington, designed to build confidence and balance in young people entering the workplace.
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