Lesley Thompson MCC

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Lesley Thompson MCC MICF


Lesley is an accredited Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), and an ICF Mentor Assessor and Coach Supervisor. She has significant experience of Executive, Leadership, and Resilience & Wellbeing Coaching in the public, voluntary and corporate sectors, including the NHS. She has a particular interest in enabling her clients to dig deeper, to change limiting behaviours, and live a fulfilled and happy life. She is a member of Sport UK coach and development faculty (coaching for elite athletes and staff engaged in leadership, driving high performance for the Olympics), along with NHS England and Innovation, NHS Confederation, and Guys & St Thomas’s Hospital.

Lesley has founded and led two successful companies over the past 20 years: We are Beyond, a one-to-one coaching and leadership development company working across UK, and Health Coaching Academy, an international coaching skills training company. She has also led many teams of coaches; including led a team of 100 coaches who delivered one-to-one coaching to over 3,000 General Practice Doctors and Clinical Directors across England. She is currently leading a team of coaches for NHSE/I which has delivered one-to-one coaching to many hundreds of primary care staff throughout the pandemic as part of an award-winning resilience and wellbeing coaching programme (Looking After You Too). She also leads a team of 14 Coach Trainers delivering Health Coaching skills training across primary care to enable person-centred conversations.
She is a Visiting Fellow and former Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University Business School Centre for Organisational Development.

Previously, she held significant non-executive Board-level positions in the health and social care-related sector. She was the Independent Chair of the 21st Century Joined Up Care programme in North Derbyshire and facilitated the thinking of Chief Executives of Acute and Community Hospitals, Mental Health Trusts and Social Care. In the past, she held positions including non-executive director for a Mental Health Trust, Trustee for SkillForce and ICAN. She was also a Trustee for ChildLine, where she played a key role in the decision, planning and implementation for the merger with the NSPCC.

Lesley’s Director-level executive positions have included Director at Mencap and Regional Director for Cancer Research UK, where she led significant matrix and hierarchical teams, managed multi-million-pound budgets, and built collaboration with over 1,000 local independent charity members during this time.

Listen to Lesley Thompson MCC master coaching demonstration via one her sessions that passed the ICF MCC exam. Scroll down and look under the "MCC Exam Sessions" tab.

To read more about Lesley and her coaching https://we-are-beyond.com/