Conversations that transform
Alison Brunsdon, Founder & Global Executive Coach
Conversations, Coaching and Change
It is easy to talk about change and even implement change without much thought to the long-term impact on individuals, teams, and organizations. Traditional top-down conversations don’t stand up to the test of time. Intentional conversations and coaching drive embraceable and sustainable change.
We believe that professional coaching creates actions and accountabilities and drive results. A professional coach is more than a cheerleader within an organization. He or she uses education, skills, and experiences to assess an individual, team or organization and customize the best coaching approach for each situation.
“Coaching is one of the most, perhaps I could say, the most effective way of driving effective sustainable positive change for individuals, teams, and organizations.”
Coaching is the art and science that allows individuals to own their agendas and accountabilities and for individual development. The results can accelerate business changes and bottom-line results as well as develop individuals to achieve their full potential.
Effective coaching needs forward movement in the conversations and so this model shows my approach to coaching. With a start on relationship development, identifying results, reflecting on insights and feedback, planning to route and then setting up accountability, with the resolve and recognition of progress. We will work together in our coaching conversations to set and achieve your goals for results and development.
Leading, Supporting and Driving Results
Hartington Consulting is a boutique consulting firm focused on your business, your unique perspectives and your environment. Our experience, tools and resources are designed to help you and your organization lead the charge for sustainable change.
We offer a variety of services including:
Business coaching for leaders and executives to facilitate individual and organizational change
Team facilitation
Group coaching for peers
Programmatic coaching to support learning programs (group or individual)
Development and assessment center design and facilitation
Selection assessment and onboarding coaching for leaders
360 and personality assessments with feedback and coaching
Hartington Consulting clients include:
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Leaders at all levels including executives
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Entrepreneurs
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Leaders in non-profits
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Businesses from small to large global corporations
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Expertise in coaching senior women
Make Great Decisions
Assessment in selection allows objective information for the hiring organization to make great decisions. Using the information gathered in a selection process, with a coaching assignment for a newly hired leader, can accelerate their journey to performance in their new role.
Invest in You
Coaching is shown to be one of the most effective tools for individual development in terms of outcome and investment.
Teams
Coaching intact teams can greatly increase team effectiveness and build relationships in an action-oriented environment.
Groups
A powerful way to coach, and be coached, using the power of the group to drive accountability and results, as well as develop individually in a safe group setting of peers.
Coaching with Insights
Assessments, including 360s and personality, provide a great place to start coaching with insights gathered in a systematic usable way to take action for change.
Speaking Engagements
Speaker for conferences and events on coaching, leadership development and HR roles to developing leaders and assessments.
Founded with Passion and Experience
Founder & Global Executive Coach, Alison Brunsdon brings a wealth of real-life organizational, human resources, leadership experience, success and education to her role as the company’s leader. She saw the need for business coaching firsthand during her two decades of global talent leadership for international organizations. Alison designed strategy, directed and implemented change initiatives, talent development, and coaching engagements at all levels, in different sectors including manufacturing, retail, chemical, healthcare and nonprofit. Alison has worked globally with prior roles in the UK and Belgium for regional projects across EMEAI, but is now based in the US.
She has coached as a global leader, HR Strategic Partner and an internal coach before developing as a professional coach. Alison is an adjunct executive coach with the Center for Creative Leadership, a global coaching organization.
Her work experience as a top leader brings a unique element to her coaching assignments, enabling her to fully understand the challenges of working in a global 21st century workplace.
Alison’s coaching style has been described as passionate and authentic, with an ability to challenge in a strong but supportive way which creates the environment for insights, development and progress for individuals and organizations.
In addition to her certifications, Alison has been trained in coaching skills by leading global coaching experts. This has given her a broad understanding of the different approaches to coaching and what techniques to best to apply when working with organizations and individuals.
Alison began using ability and personality assessments in the 1990s in the UK in selection and development and went on to use these tools globally. She is certified on a broad range of assessments, as well as on the design and use of assessments giving her a unique ability to choose appropriate assessments to match the needs of the individual and organization.
Alison continues to develop her skills with additional training. She integrates coaching supervision as part of her practice.
What People are Saying
I was fortunate to receive professional coaching from Alison through an executive leadership development series. Alison is engaging and intuitive. I was impressed with her ability to quickly synthesize information and formulate thought provoking questions. Her coaching skills were effective in helping me identify and reach several professional goals. I would highly recommend working with Alison in a coaching capacity!
Alison was instrumental in guiding efforts associated with a visible and complex non-profit CEO search. She coordinated a wide variety of activities, including the posting, screening, interviewing, and evaluation process. This also included training the interview team members on effective interviewing and questioning techniques. Her structured and process-minded approach enabled us to progress in a disciplined manner in order to reach a highly desirable outcome.
I have worked with Alison for over ten years and what has always impressed me is her innate ability to connect various strings of information, insights and conditions to create a big picture idea, innovative talent strategy or essential components to execute a project plan. Alison’s global perspective and significant international experience has helped me develop as a leader. I appreciate her style of practical coaching and constructive feedback.
Alison has played a significant role in shaping the success and sustainability of The Gathering Place’s young professional group. She has a unique ability to illuminate and leverage individual talent to serve shared goals. I have witnessed Alison adapt her engaging facilitating style to fit both small and large size groups. Our young professionals have applied professional development skills learned from Alison in their work outside our organization. We are beyond fortunate to have Alison on our team!
I was impressed with Alison’s ability to think strategically and insightfully. Alison quickly grasped the issues, and was innovative and creative in her problem-solving approach. Later, upon learning of Alison’s core passion for and capability of developing leaders at all levels to drive organizational results, I asked Alison to relocate from the UK to corporate HQ in the US – as head of Global Talent Development and Acquisition, she turned local “training” into a global talent function, effectively challenging the status quo and implementing ‘best-in-class’ development processes and systems.
Alison worked as my strategic HR partner for 10 years in my role as business manager. This was a great experience for me, building on many years of leading business teams. In addition to providing state of the art HR advice Alison engaged with whole team, facilitating meetings to build and execute a better business strategy that all players could own and be accountable for. As an experienced leader, Alison helped me see my blind spots with the right level of challenge and humour – a great coaching relationship which continued when we both moved on to different roles. Alison changed the perception and role of HR at our corporation from passive personnel and pay roll to one of dynamic business partnering. Her coaching ability intellect and strength are available to all fortunate enough to work with her.
Certifications
Alison holds many professional certifications in human resources, coaching and psychometric assessments, questionnaires and assessment design and use. She earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in law and industrial relations from the University of Kent, holds a master’s degree in employee law and employee relations from the University of Leicester and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. She holds the CIPD Advanced Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring from Oxford Brookes University (UK). Her ICF certification is in progress.
She is certified in the following assessments:
Hogan, 16PF, OPQ/MQ, WorkPlace Big 5, MBTI behavioral assessments
SHL Ability assessments
Assessment evaluation (BPS)
CCL 360 Assessment Suite
SHL Assessment Center Design
A popular professional speaker, Alison shares her talent development experiences with audiences at conferences, trade shows and industry meetings. Her speaking talents have also extended to voice over assignments.
Why Hartington?
The company is named after the delightful traditional English village of Hartington in the Derbyshire Dales in the UK. Alison lived in this area for several years before relocating to the US. The name reminds her of home.
Get Ready for Change
We’d love to learn more about the change you envision for your organization, your employees and yourself. Connect with us via email at alison@hartingtonconsulting.com and let’s start talking.
