Amanda Phillips MA MSc FCIPD Dip. Psych.

Amanda is a people strategy and leadership development specialist, working with organisations to create climates for inclusive and sustainable high performance and innovation. Amanda works 1:1 and facilitates teams, up to and including board level. She brings a powerful combination of business acumen and psychological insight to optimise the performance of leaders with whom she works. Her style is collaborative, and she works in a results-focused way to strengthen resilience and mental toughness, and further developing clients' skills for leading others in today's turbulent and highly competitive environments. She is also a supervisor of executive coaches, and is coaching supervisor for the Oxford Brookes University Business School MA in Coaching & Mentoring Practice.

At PricewaterhouseCoopers Amanda was responsible for global development programmes designed to foster creative thinking and innovation in partners and directors, and to develop skills for peak performance and 'keeping pressure positive' at top levels of the organisation.  She has also held senior HR roles working with leaders to define and implement strategy, and building organisational capability through leadership development, talent management and employee engagement. She has a particular interest in supporting the progress of women in their teams, organisations and wider business world, and believes that inclusive working environments deliver better business results and real value.

On the Steering Committee for the London Managing Partner/CEO Forum, Amanda is also a judge for the European Management Awards. She is a former member of the Ethics & Professional Standards Committee at the Metanoia Training Institute and, for a number of years, was the external examiner for London's South Bank University Masters programme in HR.

Amanda holds Masters Degrees in Human Resource Management and Integrative Psychotherapy, and a Diploma in Supervision for Coaching & Mentoring. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and a registered practitioner with the UK Council for Psychotherapy. She is a fully accredited Executive Coach with the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS) and holds membership of the Association of Business Psychologists (ABP), the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology (BPS SGCP) and the Association for Coaching (AC).

Amanda can be contacted on +44 (0)20 7868 8945
Email: amanda@apconsulting.co.uk