Gladeana McMahon

Gladeana McMahon combines academic rigour with down-to-earth communication skills and provides therapy and coaching to politicians, celebrities, senior business people and those in the media. A clear, informed and direct approach mixed with humour and compassion being her trademarks.

She was listed one of the UK's "Top Ten Coaches" by the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Observer.

Gladeana McMahon is considered one of the leading personal development and transformational coaches in the UK. She was instrumental in founding the Association for Coaching for which she now holds the positions of Fellow and Vice President. She is also a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, The Institute of Management Studies and The Royal Society of Arts. Gladeana is widely published with some 16 popular and academic books on Coaching and Counselling. Her most recent Self-Help Books include, 'No More Anger - be your own Anger Management Coach' and 'How to Make Life Happen'. Her Most recent professional books include, 'Performance Coaching for Dummies', 'Essential Business Coaching' and 'Achieving Excellence in your Coaching Practice'.

An innovator, Gladeana is one of the UK founders of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching together with Professors Stephen Palmer and Windy Dryden of City University and Goldsmiths College and Michael Neenan of Goldsmiths College. She currently works as the Head of Executive Coaching for Fairplace plc and is Co-Director of the Centre for Coaching and an Honorary Visiting Lecturer in the Psychology Department of the University of East London where she taught on the Diploma and Masters programmes for many years. She is passionate about her work in coaching business and public sector leaders to master the psychological complexities of 21st Century corporate life.