Suzanne Skiffington B.A., MCP., PhD., MAPS., MISH.


"Dr. Suzanne Skiffington is internationally recognized as one
 of the world's leading educators in organizational coaching
 and her Master Coach Training School as the pre-eminent coach
 training  institution."  - H.R.Today. 


- Dr Skiffington has been interviewed on T.V., radio and in the print media around the world. Her work and research in coaching has been reported in the world's top business, professional and scientific journals. She has lectured in leading universities, consulted with various government committee meetings and hearings, opened international conferences with key note speeches and has had numerous coaching articles published in various journals, magazines and newspapers.

Dr Skiffington has a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Masters of Clinical Psychology and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. In the early 1990's while teaching psychology at university, her research in human performance in an organizational environment led her to begin coaching. In 1997 she pioneered and published research on 'Towards a Validation of Multiple Features in the Assessment of Emotions' that has stimulated new research and instrument development in this domain by personality, social and developmental psychologists. She is a best-selling author and today, as a guest lecturer, she still finds time to teach coaching in some of the region's leading universities

Background:
Over the last few years Suzanne has been invited to speak to hundreds of organizations and professionals involved in training, teaching, therapy and consulting on her successful coaching techniques. Time and time again in her travels she would be asked to provide a coaching certification program and her secrets for establishing a successful coaching practice. 

Her first priority though, was managing her own large practice which consisted of nine coaches and an international business client base. Her loyal clientele, spanning six countries, included several Fortune 500 companies and a number of high profile business and sporting identities. But something was to change all that. McGraw-Hill Education approached her about writing a how-to, practical coaching reference text that was urgently needed to fill a void in business literature. After considerable thought she accepted the challenge and passed the day-to-day running of her practice on to her partners.

With some justification for several years work, her best selling, groundbreaking reference books ('The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work', 'The Coaching at Work Toolkit: A Complete Guide to Techniques and Practices' and 'Behavioral Coaching: How to Build Sustainable Personal and Organizational Strength' -see top of page: 'Books etc' tab) have received numerous awards and are course reference texts in many universities, colleges, coaching schools and numerous Fortune 500 companies internal training programs. The introductory-level, reference books are also the UK's, Australasia's and North America's top selling organizational coaching texts. The Chinese government recently selected the books to be the first coaching texts to be translated and distributed throughout China. The first print runs where sold out within several weeks.   

New Objectives:
As a trained, experienced adult educator, Dr.Skiffington has now dedicated her life to teaching the professional coaching and business skills she developed during her distinguished career to others who seek to gain their highest potential in coaching. Through her unique professional development short course (as the Graduate School of Master Coaches Director of Education and Course Facilitator) she is able to share her success formula with accomplished, busy, professional people who desire to be qualified, credentialed professional coaches. The one-to-one, "hands-on", tailor-made four day course shows participants how to establish, market and manage a world-class standard coaching business or/and implement a successful internal coaching program.

Dr. Skiffington is a world authority in training organizational coaches to achieve positive, sustainable, measurable behavioral change and learning.
With her team of Master Coaches she has spent several years of research, application and fine tuning in developing her course. With campuses in New York, London and Sydney etc -the break-through fast track course trains and equips its graduates in the shortest possible time while providing a proven formula for achieving the greatest level of PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION and STANDING, SATISFACTION and SUCCESS. Over the last decade, working with Perry Zeus, she has now accredited over several hundred professionals involved in consulting, training, management, therapy etc. on her successful personal change coaching methodology and business practice.

Graduate/Partner Support:
Behavioral Research Laboratory
Dr Skiffington and her team are currently engaged in research to develop data, knowledge and expertise in several coaching practice areas. The ongoing research not also advances the quality of our certification course but also the follow-on specialist courses as a part of our Graduate Support Program.  

The Behavioral Research Laboratory as well as our Graduate School of Master Coaches is part of the Behavioral Coaching Institute (our parent organization). The Laboratory is available to support the faculty and their students to conduct state-of-the-art research on issues that affect human and/or organizational performance, change and learning. Research findings are also published in our publications.

Suzanne still maintains high level consultative positions with a number of Fortune 100 and 500 companies, so she can share valuable, real-world experience. Her organizational clients are leading corporations, ranging from large multinationals, government departments and public organizations to emerging entrepreneurial businesses and learning institutions. Our private, individual clients range widely, from management consultants, CEO's and HR personnel to established coaches, psychologists, and senior executives. This means everything you learn in this program can be immediately applied to your career success.

Dr. Skiffington's Coaching Institute's quality standards are very high. Everyone who applies does not get accepted. Our interview process ensures those coaches, consultants, HR professionals and other accomplished professionals who become Certified Master Coaches have the experience, the expertise and the ability to use their training and get results. As Dr. Skiffington personally delivers the program there is a strict limit to the number of certifications we can logistically provide. This also means that there is always a high demand from talented, experienced prospective candidates for the limited number of regional
places available.

 

    Perry Zeus B.A., Fellow V.A.A.R.
We've learned a lot over the past 14 years, working with coaches and clients on a broad range of development issues, and we've attempted to capture and document the best processes and proven techniques in our 1 to 1 personal development methodology."

In the 1980's Perry worked as a project and business development management consultant (both in the United States and Australasia). In the early 1990's as an executive coach and management mentor he also conducted various specialist coaching clinics with a variety of professional groups including management consultants. In 1995 he teamed up with Dr.S.Skiffington to establish a coaching practice that spanned six countries. Perry and Dr. Skiffington then went on to establish specialist coach training workshops. Perry is also the founder of the Graduate School of Master Coaches and the Behavioral Coaching Institute. He oversees all course development, ensuring the training programs are always in step with world best practice and the latest organizational thinking. As well as being the Course Registrar and head of the Institute's Partner Program and Project Support Program, he is a sought after organizational tactical coach, facilitator and lecturer. He has written numerous articles on organizational coaching for the Institute of Management, H.R. Monthly, Business Review Weekly, the Organizational Psychologists Journal etc., co-authored 'The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work', 'The Coaching at Work Toolkit: A Complete Guide to Techniques and Practices' and 'Behavioral Coaching: How to Build Sustainable Personal and Organizational Strength', is currently writing another text book and now devotes much of his time in coaching research and development.