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 

 

Tailor Made Development

All interventions are designed with your specific needs in mind

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Coaching
Coaching
Supervision
Supervision
Reflection
Reflection
Workshops
Workshops
“ 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