Biography:
Alex Szabo is a highly qualified, accredited personal and professional executive coach with extensive experience and expertise in strategic management and operations, specialising in moving clients from ideation to implementable action.
Alex has an interactive, collaborative and client focused relationship with clients in order to help the individual and organisation achieve more and manage change and challenges effectively. She works with clients who want and need to make changes to reach their goals and objectives. As a coach the role is to inspire, motivate, challenge and focus individuals and companies through the changes whilst maintaining confidentiality and accountability.
Alex is experienced at working at all levels of an organisation up to Board level and in a range of client agendas. In addition to excellent executive coaching skills the coach has extensive experience in strategic business planning, decision making, consultative leadership management, development and implementation of policies and associated systems, communications, achievement of operational targets, and people development systems.
Sought after by leaders and professionals because of an unusual combination of board-level business experience, strategic thinking and emotional intelligence with a good understanding of the skills required to achieve what the client wants. This unique background enables the coach to skilfully combine elements of solid business practices to help individuals and organisations discover and benefit from sustainable solutions to their challenges.
She co-founded the Association for Coaching and is COO of the AC’s Global Function Board and was awarded an AC Honorary award for Influencing the Coaching Profession in 2008-9.
Languages spoken:
English
Qualifications:
University of Penn – Positive Psychology Programme, Leadership Coaching, Intensive Coach Training Programme, Executive/Business Coaching Training Programme, Certificate in Coaching /Performance Coaching, Coaching for Success/Performance Coaching, Transpersonal Coaching, Problem Focused Coaching and Training, Cognitive Behavioural Coaching and Training, BSc – Psychology/Physiology
Industry experience:
Mining and Exploration, Law, Housing, Financial Institutions, Engineering, Insurance, IT and Consulting, Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical, Retail, District and Borough Councils
Intervention specialisms:
Change/ Transformation, Leadership coaching, Strategic Management, Managing Virtual Teams, Motivating and Developing Performance and Potential, Succession Planning, Stress Coaching, Work life balance.
Approach and competencies:
Action orientated behaviours, Business acumen, Good communication skills, Good listening skills, Intuitive, Powerful questioning, Relationship builder, Encouraging and flexible.
