Ian Mitchell

BA Hons in Philosophy

MA in Coaching Leaders through Transition & Change

“‘Working with Ian really helped me work through the key issues in developing my business plan, deploying my teams, and working more productively with my colleagues’
Paul Johnston, Director Data & Analytics, Deloitte

Ian works across organisational systems creating developmental inquiry based Coaching and Supervision relationships, with leaders, teams and coaches

For more than a decade Ian has worked closely with senior leaders and their teams as a supportive, yet appropriately challenging, systems focused coach with whom they can work through the complex issues and challenges that arise in times of organisational or personal growth, transition, and change. Acquired over many years, his key coaching skill is to help his clients to create for themselves time and space in which to make key decisions in otherwise stressful times and situations.

After spending some years as a youth worker in two of Belfast’s paramilitary-controlled areas during the N Irish ‘Troubles’, Ian moved to the financial sector where he held various leadership positions for many years – eventually leading the executive benefits consulting practice in ab Irish Big 4 professional services firm.

In 2010, he established his own coaching and supervision practice., initially as a sole practitioner, but predominately in partnership with Siân Lumsden, now a fellow Director within Harthill.

Currently the Association for Coaching (AC) Area Chair for NW Europe, Ian holds an MA in ‘Coaching Leaders through Transition and Change’ and a PGC in Coach Supervision. He has worked extensively in developing both internal and external coaches across the private, public and third sectors. He will shortly take on the chair role in in the AC ‘Future of Coaching;’ project.

Ian works both reflectively and reflexively within coaching and supervision conversations; creating and preserving a psychologically safe space in which leaders and teams can identify and engage in a developmental way with their personal and systemic leadership challenges.