Welcome to Ford Consulting

Thank you for visiting my website.

I am passionate about personal and professional development and thrive on helping my clients to get the best out of themselves and their teams.

I have a particular interest in the training and ongoing development of leaders, managers and coaches and work in partnership with my clients to facilitate development in a way that realises individual and collaborative potential as well as achieving both personal and business goals.

I offer a comprehensive portfolio of services which enables me to tailor-make development initiatives to suit most individual or organisational needs including:

  • Enhancing leadership capacity
  • Expanding coaching capability
  • Maximising individual and collective performance
  • Promoting accountability and responsibility
  • Enabling change
  • Engaging staff
  • Managing the transition from doing to leading
  • Connecting with others more effectively
  • Unlocking individual and collective potential
  • Promoting collaborative working
  • Integrating theoretical learning with real-life issues
  • Making career decisions
  • Embracing neurodiversity

I also have strong links to a network of enthusiastic, experienced and highly professional coaches, supervisors and facilitators, so if I'm not the right person for you I can offer alternative suggestions.

All photographs used on this site have been taken by myself in places I find beautiful, awe-inspiring and inspirational.

I hope you enjoy browsing the site and that you'll want to contact me to find out more.

Liz Ford 

 

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Coaching
Coaching
Supervision
Supervision
Reflection
Reflection
Training
Training
“ Coaching enabled me to build my confidence and take a much more hands-on approach to my career development. Liz is a star and I would recommend her to anyone ”
Management Consultant, The Nichols Group
“ Coaching has had a deep and lasting impact on me. It has helped me to make some very big personal and career decisions. ”
MBA Student, Bradford University School of Management
“ Liz did a great job of structuring a programme which both met the academic criteria, but also conveyed a very real sense of practicing coaching in the real world context. A great experience! ”
Kevin Hull, Group Human Resources Director - Marshalls plc
“ From the very first session I was able to make changes to my day to day working practices that have been invaluable. ”
Senior Manager, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
“ Coaching helped me to understand the benefits of putting into words the feelings and thoughts that were in my mind. ”
Business Development Manager, global pharmaceutical company
“ Liz helped me see my full capability; giving me confidence to achieve appointment to the Board. ”
Chief Nurse & Quality Officer, NHS North Derbyshire CCG
“ Liz Ford is an excellent coaching supervisor. She provides a safe, non-judgemental space where she encourages me to stretch myself. ”
Jenny Cooper, Coach & TFT Practitioner
“ Liz’s coaching helped me to unlock time, become more effective in my professional role and, more importantly, it enabled me to enjoy my life outside of work. ”
Dave Vickers, Assistant Head Teacher, Humberside
“ I find Liz an exceptionally gifted supervisor. She always helps me to see and think more clearly and really contributes to my development as a coach. ”
Ailie Kerrane, Coach
“ I have gained greater focus in the tasks required to manage my team, and confidence to put plans into action. ”
Regional Rural Head, Savills
“ Liz is a fabulous woman, who has helped me to develop my leadership capability and secure a Deputy Director post in my organisation. Thank you! ”
Deputy Director Commissioning Community Services, NHS CCG
“ Liz has an outstanding coaching style and understands fully the wider challenges in the organisational system. She is able to ask powerful questions and provide a safe reflective space. ”
Director of Nursing
“ Conversations with Liz helped me to explore a tangle of thoughts, ideas and anxieties and sort it into something meaningful. I’ve regained lost confidence and courage and found my true self again. ”
Project Administrator, Macmillan Cancer Support
“ I started the coaching experience very cautiously with a little scepticism but cannot believe the difference it has made to my life. I am challenging myself, putting myself forward for opportunities, rather than blending in the background and finally moving forwards. ”
Macmillan Cancer Care Coordinator