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Jackie Allinson ACC, CPCC, BSc

Location: Dubai

Jackie Allinson is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC) having studied with the Coaches Training Institute (US), one of the strongest and longest standing coaching organisations. She is also an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Jackie has a strong history of 18 years as a consultant in Health Safety and Environment (HSE) to the Petrochemical Industry. In that time she has been involved in setting up new projects in many locations and has been instrumental in changing the HSE culture of workers from top down and bottom up.  She has been a pioneer of Team Building, Hearts and Minds and Incident and Injury Free approaches to work in an industry where deviation from accepted practices can have serious consequences. Jackie has lived in the Middle East for the last 8 years being based in Oman, Qatar and Dubai.  As a qualified coach she has rapidly developed to be able to apply her coaching experience to all levels of management within companies and projects.  She is currently coaching numerous young leaders through the Sharjah Tatweer Forum having also coached senior management in Shell and BP. She brings creativity, understanding and unity to people and systems within businesses in order to maximise potentials and realise opportunities.

Jackie commitment to coaching and leadership is evident in her completion if the intensive, year long, Co-Active Leadership Program and Organisational Relationship & Systems Coaching Program. This has led to specific coaching projects ranging from CEO’s and management teams to sports teams. Jackie has a Degree in Geology and a Masters in IT and having reinvented herself several times, knows that there are no boundaries, only those we create in our minds.  She brings energy, vitality and optimism into her coaching. Jackie is also widely read and adds into the coaching useful structures, which help the executive manage him or her-self and the people surrounding them. She is the editor of the only regional coaching magazine as well as currently writing several books on coaching.

Jackie is keen golfer, who has represented UAE on the global stage as well as being a highly effective golf coach where she has been successful in bring her coaching skills to the sports arena. She is also a successful triathlon participant as well as being proficient in many other sports such as tennis, squash, rock climbing and rugby.

From The Blog

The action of challenge has been a recurring theme for me in recent days. I had forgotten how important it is to be challenged and to challenge others. Growth is dependent on this dynamic and as leaders we can forget that this is a powerful way to motivate, excite, engage, intensify and wake-up the talent around us. As leaders we must expand our range of styles in this domain of challenge.  

Busyness and action are the bywords of our current lives. There is no room for space/emptiness/quietness/nothingness. These seem to be the enemy that no one is prepared to succumb to, so we fight it off by always being on the go, most of it in the name of productivity. 

Sir John Whitmore shares a true story of a key moment of awakening that created a positive powerful engagement of his true capabilities. Speaking here at the recent ICF European Conference 2011, Sir John is considered one of the founders of the modern coaching industry. 

In a joint initiative aimed at self-regulation, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the International Coach Federation (ICF) today file with the European Union a common Code of Conduct as the benchmark standard for the coaching and mentoring industry.

 

Our interview today gives great insight into the challenge faced by all leaders in the Middle East namely, ‘how to adapt our leadership style to this specific market with specific nuances’.  

The ‘Executive Next Level’ interview this week is with a top US executive coach. The content is about leadership and the challenges being faced by those people leading organisations in the US as well as thoughts on the key steps we can and should take in stepping up in our leadership of self and others. 

This is the percentage of Middle East Professionals who are looking for a change in career. The recent poll by Bayt.com has highlighted the large gap that exists between employees and their engagement or commitment in their current organisations. 

Yesterday we were invited to speak at the Dubai Financial HR Forum. As people that are passionate about coaching it is great to be able to engage with this high level of HR experience in global organisations and see that coaching has a critical role to play.  

Following a fantastic event in Paris last year I will be attending the ICF conference in Madrid this year.  This is where the leading coaches in Europe convene to talk about and share coaching practices and thinking. 

31st May-1st June 2011
For the first time in the Middle East a conference dedicated solely to Coaching is being run in Kuwait. Woodthorpe Wright Associates have been invited to speak at the conference due to our extensive regional experience in this arena.