Nana-Efua
A Chartered Psychologist with over 15 years of experience as an internal and external consultant specialising in leadership coaching, Nana designs and facilitates leadership development programmes, team coaching and senior team effectiveness.
Valuing a holistic, strengths-based yet multi-pronged approach, Nana guides leaders in examining their habitual patterns, mindsets, and values. In doing so, clients can explore how these were formed and how they serve them before experimenting with new ways of being and behaving.
Working with people from the inside out, Nana assists clients in cultivating better self-awareness and authenticity and creates a safe space where people, individually or collectively, can be seen and heard. From here, leaders can align their life purpose, meaning and values with those of the organisations that they lead. In a complex, uncertain, and changing world, making wise and values-based choices has never been more crucial for leaders. Nana has seen first-hand the power of reflective inquiry in disrupting thinking and the endless possibilities for clients when they are given the space to examine, explore and experiment.
As a coach and facilitator, Nana sees her role as a thinking partner who encourages clients to reflect deeply and act. Passionate about helping leaders realise their potential, Nana gets a real buzz from witnessing leaders make shifts to effectively lead themselves, their teams, and their organisations in more purposeful and sustainable ways.
Areas of Expertise:
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Leadership transition coaching
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Cross-cultural and expatriate coaching
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Increasing self- awareness
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Inclusive and values-based leadership
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Psychometrics & 360° feedback
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Positive psychology & strengths-based working
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Appreciative inquiry
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Psychosynthesis
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Team interventions & strategy facilitation
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Employee engagement
Qualifications and Professional Memberships:
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Chartered Occupational Psychologist (CPsychol)
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MSc (with Distinction) in Occupational & Organisational Psychology from the University of Surrey
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BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences: Psychology from the University of Edinburgh
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Member of the Division of Occupational Psychology & Founding Member of the Special Group in Coaching Psychology, British Psychological Society (BPS)
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Associate Fellow of the BPS (AFBPsS)
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Brain-Based Team Coaching certificate; Neuro Leadership Institute
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Principal Member and previously an elected board member of the Association for Business Psychology (ABP
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Certified as an Executive Coach by the Neuro-Leadership Group; International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited
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Post-graduate certificate in Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching; Association for Professional Executive Coaching & Supervision (APECS) accredited
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Strong Business Coaching Certificate; Strengths Partnership
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Psychometric tools used include Lumina Spark, Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Wave, the Hogan suite, Strengthscope (including Strong Business Coaching), PAPI, Leadership Judgement Indicator (LJI), TalentQ, The Resilience Questionnaire, NEO PI-R, and VoicePrint
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Certified Practitioner of NLP, Time Line Therapy, and Hypnosis
Nana has been my executive coach for the last 18 months following promotion to a Director position at one of the world’s largest and most successful financial services companies. During this time I’ve led an unprecedented amount of change within my business areas and managed to significantly increase employee engagement at the same time. Nana’s ability to question and challenge me in a constructive manner has been an absolutely critical part of our success over this period. Her wise counsel and vast insight into leadership behaviour and organisational psychology spans many industries and draws upon a range of resources, allowing her to immediately tune into the most complex of situations.
Nana designed and delivered a robust and engaging leadership programme focussing on the improvement of both individual and team effectiveness for our Senior Leadership Team. She is a very intuitive individual who can be both supportive as well as direct with participants and is not afraid to ask the difficult questions to really drive individuals to understand their own motivations, capabilities and effectiveness. Giving them the responsibility to take control of their interactions within the business to achieve organisational goals, Nana has been instrumental in the development of a strong team with a rounded capability. I would certainly recommend her for similar programmes in other organisations.
Nana is a highly insightful professional, with a clear understanding of drivers, motivators and barriers to individual and team effectiveness and development. Using a combination of well recognised assessment and profile tools, coupled with her own highly tuned observational and interpretation skills she is able to offer a full range of coaching and support to individuals to develop their effectiveness, both from a career and personal perspective. She is incredibly personable and great fun to work with. I would recommend Nana for Leadership Development Programmes, particularly of Senior Level Teams.
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