Helen Whitten - Biography

Areas of Expertise Coaching - Executive and lifecoaching for individuals and teams Stress Management - Practical tools and techniques to manage stress creatively Creative Team Development - Applying the HBDI Herrmann Thinking Preference Model and DiSC Personality Profile to achieve value from diversity Work-Life Balance - Best practice to manage life and work in the new 24/7 world Emotional Intelligence - Practical development of emotional intelligence and emotional healing Positive Thinking - Thinking models to transform negatives to positives for greater success and happiness. Launching Yourself - enabling young people to make the transition from education into the workplace

Helen Whitten, Managing Director, Positiveworks Ltd
AC Accredited Coach, CEDR Accredited Mediator, Facilitator, Writer, Speaker, Trainer

HELEN WHITTEN, is an Accredited Coach with the Association for Coaching and a Fellow of the International Stress Management Association. She is founder and Managing Director of Positiveworks Limited.

Helen's expertise is in equipping people with the knowledge, skills and strategies they need to make the most of themselves in today's fast-changing world.

She is a specialist in personal and professional effectiveness and has been working in this field for 20 years, coaching individuals and teams. Her methods enhance self-awareness, self-confidence, motivation and creativity. She enables people to develop an enthusiastic and optimistic attitude, clear goals consistent with personal values, practical skills and knowledge, and the ability to maintain peak performance under pressure.

Helen is founder and managing director of Positiveworks, and works with organizations throughout the world to develop business practices that benefit the individual, the organization, and society as a whole. She applies Cognitive-Behavioural and Neuro-Linguistic Programming methodology to produce practical solutions that enable people to break through old patterns of behaviour to achieve greater potential in their lives and in their careers.

She has written 5 books: COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL COACHING TECHNIQUES FOR DUMMIES; EMOTIONAL HEALING FOR DUMMIES written with Dr David Beales; YOUR MIND AT WORK, Developing Self Knowledge for Business Success written with Richard Israel; FUTURE DIRECTIONS,.Practical Ways to Develop Emotional Intelligence and Confidence in Young People; AGE MATTERS, Employing Managing and Motivating the Older Worker. Helen has also written and produced three CDRoms: 'How to Survive Life Positively', 'Help Yourself to a Better Life', and 'Launching Yourself'.Helen has recently provided a coaching programme for MyAppMentor.

Helen's approach uses tried and tested thinking systems that encourage people to focus on solutions rather than on problems, enabling them to achieve more positive results at work and in life. She brings to her training an essential breadth and depth of experience crucial when dealing with the considerable range of issues which can potentially emerge in coaching and development programmes.