Judith Firman

Judith is an experienced executive business coach who has worked with numerous individuals and teams in both the private and public sectors.  She appreciates the difficulties and challenges that leaders face in improving performance, managing diverse people and finding ever more productive and creative ways to succeed in today’s rapidly changing, highly competitive marketplace. Successful coaching creates benefit to the business and Judith is committed to achieving significant and measurable performance improvement. Her approach uses stringent enquiry, gentle humour and compassion to create an exciting environment for exploration and growth.

She is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, and is an accredited CSTD coaching supervisor of business coaches, an Inspired Leadership Coach™ and co-director of the Zentrum fur Psychosynthese in Bern, Switzerland.. She is on the Faculty of The School of Coaching, where she delivers both bespoke and public courses accredited by the University of Strathclyde and is on the register of coaches for the Clore Leadership Programme

For 18 years she was the co-director of The Psychosynthesis and Education Trust, London teaching on both the post graduate and MA courses. She also worked extensively in Switzerland, Holland and Germany teaching psychosynthesis. She was in private practice as a psychotherapist and supervisor for 25 years. Prior to this she worked for IBM, the Automobile Association and Jaeger.

Coming from a sales background Judith’s interest in people development began when she worked at IBM, where amongst other things she ran training programmes, during which she would help individuals overcome their “technophobia”. This led to an abiding interest in people and psychology and to training as a psychosynthesis psychotherapist in the USA where she lived and worked for 5 years.

Her coaching clients have included Egg, PWC, NHS, AON, Bank of Ireland, Zopa, EDF, Kingfisher, BHP Billiton, Jaywing, Deloittes, LTL, Lloyds TSB, Rolls- Royce, Zurich Bank.