Judie Gannon

Judie is Subject Coordinator of the Doctorate of Coaching & Mentoring and Deputy Head of Doctoral Programmes at Oxford Brookes University. Her research and teaching interests include organisational approaches to coaching and mentoring, specifically the social and political issues around coaching and mentoring programme development and delivery. She has attended UfHRD conferences for the last six years (prior to Covid). In 2019 she was recognised for her contribution to the world of mentoring by the EMCC,as the Winner of a Global Mentoring Award. She writes and reviews for several high profile HRM, HRD, organisation and management journals and is Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Evidence based Coaching & Mentoring based in the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies at Oxford Brookes University. Jude can be contacted via @doctorjudieg and  jmgannon@brookes.ac.uk

Joanne James

Dr Joanne James is Reader in Leadership Development and Director of Executive Education at Newcastle University Business School. The Executive Education portfolio comprises three masters level programmes in business, leadership and coaching and mentoring with an emphasis on experiential learning practice development and translating academic expertise into practical organisational contexts. Joanne’s teaching includes modules in critical reflexivity, strategy as practice, coaching and mentoring in complex contexts and coaching groups and teams.

Joanne is a coach practitioner and researcher with an interest in supporting leadership and coaching capability within the North East Region. For example, Joanne leads on the Business School relationship with North East Together, a network for social leaders with the aim of facilitating inspiration, collaboration, and mutual support amongst leaders within the VCSE sector. She has a reputation for supporting the development of coaching practitioners, having led a coaching programme since 2009. Joanne is a member of the Association for Coaching and the Newcastle University Coaching and Mentoring Forum. Joanne has co-chaired the Coaching and Mentoring Stream of the University Forum for HRD conference since its introduction in 2016.

Dr Paul Stokes

I am currently  Associate Professor of Coaching & Mentoring  and a Master Practitioner with the European Mentoring & Coaching Council. For the last 25 years, I have worked with many different organisations and their leadership teams on the development of their staff using a range of group and team based interventions including action learning, open space methodologies and appreciative inquiry. I am also an experienced researcher and, using action research methodologies, have developed impactful interventions within organisations on creating a culture, organisational learning and organisational design.

As a coach and mentor, I have worked with a range of individual coachees and mentees, as well as teams, from the public, private and third sectors and with first line managers up to senior executives. As a teacher and people developer, I was instrumental in setting up one of the first Masters courses in Coaching & Mentoring in 2002. I have  worked on numerous leadership development programmes with clients such as Diageo, BP, Health Education England, Norgren, Sheffield City Council, South Yorkshire Police, Barnsley Hospital, Sheffield University and Robert McBride Ltd. I am also an experienced supervisor of coaches and mentors, with both individual and team supervisees. I have co-written two best selling books on coaching & mentoring: Mentoring in Action (Kogan Page) and Coaching & Mentoring Theory & Practice (Sage) as well as several book chapters and journal articles.