Senior Executive Excellence

Founder of Senior Executive Excellence

Professor Vlatka Hlupic

Professor Vlatka Hlupic PhD (LSE), MSc, BSc Hon Econ, CMC, MNLP, FORS, FBCS CITP, FInstCPD, Eur Ing, CEng, MHEA, a founder of the Senior Executive Excellence is one of the most qualified executive coaches in the UK. She is a Professor of Business and Management, Director of the Executive Coaching and Leadership Development Programme, a member of the team delivering the postgraduate course in Coaching and Mentoring and a Director of large international research network at one of the Universities in central London. In addition, Vlatka is a member of a pool of executive coaches working on the Senior Executive Programme for senior executives at a leading UK Business School. She is a Certified Master Coach, Licensed Master NLP Practitioner, Psych-KTM Practitioner, Certified Hypnotic Practitioner, Co-Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of the Behavioural Coaching Institute and a selected member of the Round Table Scholar programme, one of the world’s preeminent consortia of consulting professors.

Vlatka has been involved in personal and professional development, coaching and management education for more than 20 years. She has been coaching and mentoring clients at senior level in public and private sectors, and her clients come from blue chip IT and pharmaceutical companies, academia, the National Health Service, charity, tourism, publishing and management consultancy sectors. She has been researching, as well as attending training, in areas such as Executive Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Psychological Kinesiology and Educational Kinesiology having had the privilege of being trained by well known personal development experts such as Anthony Robbins, Paul McKenna and Richard Bandler. This extensive training and experience, as well as her personal values, empathy and integrity enable her to provide services of the highest standard.

Vlatka has also developed the highly innovative, interdisciplinary and holistic coaching model, EXCELLENCE©, for achieving executive excellence, facilitating positive growth, development and change at personal, interpersonal and business levels. This model contains more than 180 different coaching tools and methods, both scientific and complementary, which are used to achieve any combination of 77 coaching objectives. Vlatka has been successfully using the EXCELLENCE© model for coaching and executive education, providing a unique, individualised expert service with guaranteed results.

In addition to her coaching work, Vlatka has been acting as a consultant for a variety of private and public companies, as well as having held a variety of academic research and lecturing posts in England, Holland and Croatia. She has published more than 150 papers in journals, including Harvard Business Review, books and conference proceedings and she is an associate editor, a guest editor and a member of Editorial Boards for a number of international journals. She has presented her work at over 50 international conferences, and has given numerous invited talks at various national and international meetings. Vlatka also acts as an expert adviser for a variety of business and management related research projects including projects sponsored by the Croatian, German and Thai Governments. She is currently involved in several leading-edge research projects related to complexity leadership, emotional intelligence and leading knowledge workers.

Associates

For larger corporate training and coaching projects, Vlatka collaborates with carefully selected, very experienced associates who have business experience at senior executive level. Details of the main associates working with Vlatka are provided below.

Chris Walton

Chris Walton MSc is a Performance Psychologist specialising in adult human change and development. He has consulted, trained and coached in over 25 blue chip companies including Ernst and Young, SAP, Oracle, Norwich Union, Scottish Re, Tyco Healthcare, Prudential, Barclays, AstraZeneca, NHS, and Ogilvy among others, assisting them to expand and develop their mindset, innovation, creativity, performance and profit. He has also coached former world squash champions Rodney Isles, Sarah Fitzgerald and former British Open Champion Anthony Ricketts. He has a Master of Science degree in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology from Liverpool University.

Chris was trained and mentored by Professor Petruska Clarkson renowned worldwide in Relationship Psychology, and studied Leadership Developmental Theory with Harvard Psychologist and leading expert on Adult Development Dr Susan Cooke Greuter. Chris has also trained with cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton on The Biology of Belief, Dr.James Oschman in Energy Medicine, Frequency Medicine and Resonance, Dr. Douglas Diehl in the Bio Energetic Synchronisation Technique, Dr. Luis Luna in Psycho Integration Processes and Dr. Stanislav Grof in non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Chris was the pioneer of Psychological Kinesiology (Psych-K ™) in the UK in 2004. He is qualified in Myers Briggs, Firo – Behaviours, Feelings, Self Esteem and the Enneagram profiling systems. He has completed over 100 days of various trainings in Neuro Linguistic Programming and is an internationally certified trainer of NLP. He is also certified in Hypnosis and the Emotional Freedom Technique. In addition, he has completed 42 days expanded consciousness training at the world famous Monroe Institute in the USA and has studied ancient personal development practices in the Peruvian Amazon and Brazil.

Chris’s forthcoming book “The Belief Effect!” explains the latest science of the specific mechanisms that need to be integrated for human beings to change, grow and develop. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Chris’s continued research is at the leading edge of science in human adult development and organisational transformation. His current web site address is www.frontierdevelopment.co.uk.

Mark Hawkswell

Mark Hawkswell Dip hyp mhf is a performance coach and group facilitator. He has consulted with and worked with a large number of organisations such as Cable and Wireless, BUPA, SAS, Shell, Dawsons Rental, Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS, Nat West, Initial City Link, Royal Mail, Parcelforce, Post office, Toyota, Lexus, CPP, London Boroughs of Havering, Tower Hamlets and Kensington and Chelsea, Harrow PCT, Hillingdon PCT, NHS 24, Princess Marina Hospital, PC World, Hayes Recruitment, Premier Farnell – UK and Singapore, CPC, Indigo Press/Hewlett Packard – Maastricht and Barcelona, Surrey police, The Audit Commission, helping them to solve people and organisational problems.

Mark is a Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer of NLP and has studied with a number of renowned teachers in the field including John Grinder, Michael Hall, Ian Mcdermott, Robert Dilts, David Shepherd, Tad James and many others. His other qualifications include: NLP New Code Practitioner, Reversal theory Practitioner, Firo Elements B,F and S Practitioner, SDI Practitioner, Level A and B Psychometrics – NEO, PASSAT 2000, JTI (Myers Briggs),People Mapper, Learning styles Profiler, Hogan DS, Cymbion competency development, Neo 4. ATPI, Leadership Development Framework Practitioner, Spiral Dynamics Practitioner, Anneagram Practitioner, NVC Practitioner, Clean Language coaching Practitioner, Certified Meta Coach, Neuro Semantic Practitioner, Hypnotherapist DIP HYP MHF, TFT, Psych k, ICS Marketing Diploma, Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner, Magus Networker Practitioner, Systems Centred Theory Practitioner, Conscious Embodiment Practitioner, Systems Leadership Practitioner and Systems Thinking Practitioner.

Mark has a special interest in the unfolding of our human development and is very curious about how this maps over to organisational development. In this area Mark has studied with Dr Don Beck, Christopher Cowen, Dr Natasha Todorovic, Elaine Barker and Wyatt Woodsmall. He is also very interested in informal networks, how they operate and how these networks often get the job done in business and how they are used to create innovation in business.

Mark is an experienced Coach and Hypnotherapist, often combining the two methodologies to help clients make miraculous breakthroughs. He is trained in three powerful coaching processes – Meta coaching, NLP Coaching and Clean language. He is a member of the Hypnothink foundation and is qualified as a Hypnotherapist through the American board of Hypnosis and the General Hypnosis Standards Council in the UK.

Mark also has a real passion for team development. He uses a number of tools such as Reversal theory, Firo, SDI and Team measurement tools to facilitate teams to be greater than the sum of their parts. Dr Susan Gantt has also trained him in the principles of Systems Centred theory as they relate to team development. He has also been trained in the Systems work of Barry Oshry.

Mark is accredited by the British psychological society to deliver a number of psychometrics in support of the recruitment and development process.

Mark’s current website is www.kaizam.co.uk.

Karen Welch

Karen Welch BA, Post Grad Dip is a seasoned Organization Development (OD) Consultant who specializes in unlocking untapped Senior Executive potential. She facilitates senior individuals and teams to achieve greater presence in their organizations by learning to access their inner wisdom and core stability in complex, frequently ambiguous work environments. Karen has pioneered ‘Presence’ retreats in which individual senior managers explore engaging their fullest capacities as they negotiate changing role requirements.

The foundation of her practice is over 20 years delivery of transformation in organizations as an OD Consultant leading change/transition management and leadership development in the commercial, governmental and not for profit sectors, ranging from Shell Exploration and the Home Office to the Arts Council. Her pragmatic approach is also based on former senior management experience in the housing sector and latterly as a change agent in the BBC. Her contribution at the BBC includes developing hundreds of managers as an Executive Coach and Action learning set facilitator in association with Ashridge Management School’s BBC leadership programme where she also contributed to consultation on design. She also led direct delivery of the major culture change programme “Making it Happen” at both a divisional level and in central development.

Karen has a postgraduate diploma in Change Agent Skills and Strategies from Surrey University and is currently completing a three-year Mentor programme in the USA with Dr Richard Moss, a leading teacher in ‘practical spirituality’ who provides a ‘School for Consciousness’. She employs a range of approaches to facilitate change from psychodynamic, gestalt and process work perspectives to paradigm models such as the Leadership Development Framework (LDF), Spiral Dynamics and the Enneagram. She has a particular and growing interest in the impact of energy flow in organizations focusing on how polarities (especially between genders) affect performance.

Peter Smith

As President of The Leadership Alliance Inc. (TLA), Peter Smith maintains a worldwide consulting practice assisting leading public and private sector organizations enhance performance by optimizing activities related to critical innovation and sustainability drivers such as knowledge management, organizational learning, complexity leadership, and motivation.

Through his research and practice in Network Visualization & Analysis, Social Network Analysis, Complex Adaptive Systems, and other emerging paradigms, Peter has developed unique in-depth expertise in cross-organizational communication, collaborative community development, and the identification of Opinion Leaders and Initiative Champions – keys to enhancing Social Capital and successfully implementing any significant organizational undertaking.

Prior to establishing his consulting practice Peter held various senior positions with Exxon in New York and across North America in I/T, HR, R&D, Operations, and Mathematics. In 1990 as an Exxon representative he was one of the founding associates of Peter Senge’s Organizational Learning Center (OLC) at MIT, and during the period 1990-94, first as an Exxon representative and later as an independent consultant for TLA, he participated in various systems thinking, microcomputer simulation, and system dynamics activities and projects through the OLC. During this period he also became a TLA associate of Interact, the Philadelphia-based consultancy headed by Dr. Russel Ackoff. and Dr. Jamshid Gharajedaghi.

Peter has served as Professor of Management Learning with the Canadian School of Management, as Executive Director of The International Foundation for Action Learning- Canada, and as Chair of the International Community of Action Learners. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, and Consulting and Special Issues Editor of The Learning Organization. He is also Associate Editor (Practitioners) for the International Journal of Sociotechnology & Knowledge Management. Peter has had published more than fifty academic papers on a broad range of topics related to performance enhancement, including chapters in “The Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information & Knowledge Management”, “The Handbook of Business Strategy” and ““Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design And Social Networking Systems”. Peter is a member of the Canadian Society for Training & Development and is in demand internationally as a speaker, workshop leader and conference chair.

The breadth of Peter’s practical hands-on management experience has proven invaluable in ensuring that he can relate to the problems and pressures faced by organizations in today’s complex and ambiguous global environments, and it is fundamental to framing his research interests which include strategic capital, knowledge management, organizational learning, social capital, entrepreneurialism, innovation, networks, complex systems, complexity leadership, and related emerging paradigms.

Kerwin Hack

Kerwin Hack has enjoyed a long career as an executive in financial services, specialising in IT. His early business career included training thousands of people around the country, managing the trainers, as well as running help desks, technical teams and project teams. He then joined the executive team of the business services area in the mid 90’s and was responsible for business development, organising and running the annual conferences for up to 400 people, and supporting the graduate recruitment and development programme. Kerwin subsequently moved into the IT organisation within the company as a Customer Services Manager, acting as the liaison between IT and the business. During this time he assumed responsibility for IT Internal Communications, and subsequently started to head up the Service Management area. This brought him back into an Executive role and brought him to the attention of the Senior Executive, who moved him into the high potential talent scheme, designed to further develop new executives. As part of this scheme Kerwin received additional development and support, including his own executive coach. It was at this time that he was trained as a coach in a pilot scheme, aimed at introducing coaching to the talent group, as well as joining the faculty of the internal “university” programme.

He was then offered his first director position, managing an operation of over 300 people, with the unenviable task of shutting one of the London offices and relocating staff to Reading. This involved all the union negotiations, as well running a redundancy programme and organising the off-shoring of one of the functions to India. Once this was implemented, Kerwin was moved into a new directorship managing a new area and overseeing a multi million pound cost reduction and downsizing programme. By this time Kerwin was well established as one of the Senior Coaches in the organisation, working with people at all levels in the company as well as developing and running an internal talent management group and management development programme. Kerwin has also invested heavily in his own development, achieving Master NLP Practitioner level, a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy and becoming accredited as a Co-Active Coach.

Internal opportunities were limited at his level and having delivered this major change programme, he felt his future would best continue outside of this organisation. This was agreed with the senior executives and following an organisational redesign and senior management selection process, Kerwin left the organisation in the middle of 2007 to start his own coaching and training company, Unlocking The Cage. Kerwin now provides individual coaching and provides career development workshops for large organisations.