Angela Goldberg

BA (Hons), Post Grad Dip CG, MSc (Distinction), CIPD, ILM, ABP.
Senior Associate

Originally a careers counsellor, Angela is now a versatile learning and development professional, and an accredited coach (ILM). She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Careers Guidance, and an MSc in Strategic Learning and Development (where she chose to specialise in ‘leadership’ and ‘coaching’). A strengths-based practitioner, Angela is qualified to use a wide range of psychometrics and has worked across many development settings. These include leadership profiling, coaching, business simulation, career transitioning, recruitment, change management, team-building, and performance management. With her extensive cross-sector experience, Angela’s work is grounded in a strong knowledge of contemporary leadership know-how, including the change management agenda and diversity. A skilled communicator and agile facilitator, Angela brings empathy and clarity to every dialogue, presentation and group process. Her report-writing is pithy, and accessible.

Some of the major projects Angela has been involved in:

• Design and delivery of management development programme with Achilles Supply Chain Management.
• Executive coaching at CEO level with Agily3 Ltd.
• Executive coaching and supervision of Director at Trinity Laban School of Music & Dance.
• Executive coaching at Director level for Veolia Environmental Services.
• Strengths-based graduate screening for the Met Police.
• Diversity-confident recruitment with Great Western Railway.
• Leadership profiling for senior leaders at Daikin (South Africa).
• Assessment and development of middle managers for GlaxoSmithKline (US & Far East).
• Design and delivery of performance management training programme for Garbutt & Elliott Accountants.
• Delivery of ILM 3 Coaching & Mentoring Skills for the British Army.
• Design and delivery of ILM 7 Strategic Leadership for Devon County Council.
• Assessment for senior roles for HS2.
• Assessment for senior roles for Highways England.
• Leadership team profiling for the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• ‘Career Development for Women’ workshops for Legal & General.
• Leadership development events, comprising coaching, workshops and psychometrics, for National Farmers Union Mutual.

Qualifications:

• MSc Degree in Strategic Training and Development (Distinction). Dissertation on coaching and diversity was winner of the CIPD Management Report of the Year Award.
• Post Graduate Diploma in Careers Guidance. Key subjects: theories of occupational choice, counselling theory and practice, educational psychology, career development.
• Psychodynamic Approaches to Careers Counselling – Birkbeck College, University of London.
• Institute of Leadership and Management Coaching & Mentoring, level 5
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
• Member of the Institute of Leadership & Management
• Member of Association of Business Psychology

Psychometric Accreditations:

Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing (Levels A and B). Recently (July 2014) undertaken the BPS’s re-affirmation process, and on the Register of Qualifications in Test Use; reports were described as “being of a very strong standard”. Attained the European Test User Certificate (level 2): Work and Organisational Assessment. An accredited assessor by SHL business psychologists, and licensed to use a range of psychometric tools including WAVE, OPQ 32, Firo-B, Hogan Development Systems, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Strengthscope, TLQ, NEO P-IR, the Talent Q suite, the Leadership Judgement Indicator, Lumina Spark and the Decision-making & Self-regulation Assessor (DASA).

The following are some of the organisations that Angela has worked with: