Region
United Kingdom
Area of expertise
Developing Leaders, Working Parents, Women in the Workplace
Ana Paula Nacif
Executive Coach
Ana is an experienced executive coach, group coach, consultant and facilitator, with a career spanning over 15 years, working with senior leaders and managers in the private and public sectors. Her areas of expertise are leadership development, wellbeing, career transition and diversity & inclusion.
Ana is an accredited master coach and coaching supervisor with the European Coaching and Mentoring Council. She completed a master’s in coaching psychology and studied for a professional doctorate in coaching and mentoring, with a focus on group coaching practice and wellbeing. She is passionate about working with groups and has completed a certification in group work, with the Gestalt Centre in London, and the foundation course in group analysis, with the Institute of Group Analysis.
She is currently on the faculty at the University of East London, where she is a lecturer in coaching psychology, positive psychology and positive leadership.
Coaching Style
Ana’s coaching style is insightful, challenging, intuitive and energetic. She uses a range of coaching approaches to suit each individual client. She believes coaching is about personal development, learning and supporting people to make sustainable and impactful changes.
Her clients say:
- “Ana has a really lovely approach to coaching. A good listener and encouraging, but probing and challenging appropriately”.
- “Ana has an amazing natural empathy with those she is coaching. This enables you as a manager to open up with your issues and concerns enabling the coaching to be more effective and worthwhile.”
Special Interests
- Group coaching
- Developing leaders
- Positive leadership
- Wellbeing and life balance
- Working parents
- Diversity and inclusion
- Supporting teams
Training & Qualifications
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Coaching & group work training
- Foundation course in group analysis, Institute of Group Analysis
- Doctorate in Mentoring and Coaching, Oxford Brookes University
- ILM Level 7 Coaching Supervision, British School of Coaching
- Team Coaching, NHS Leadership Academy – TCP Health
- Certification in Group Work, Gestalt Centre
- Masters in Coaching Psychology, University of East London
- Certificate in Coaching, Coaches Training Institute
Professional memberships:
- Association for Coaching
- European Mentoring and Coaching Council (Master Practitioner)
- ICF (PCC accreditation in progress)
- Association of Coaching Supervisors
Conference Speaker
- Wales Coaching Conference, March 2021, presented the BeWell Coaching for Wellbeing model (developed during doctoral studies)
- 7th Coaching and Mentoring Research Conference, January 2021, presented findings of doctoral research into group coaching for wellbeing
- EMCC Global Summit Provider 2020, research round table discussion in group coaching (November 2020)
- University of East London Positive Psychology Symposium, July 2020, Power in numbers: Group Coaching
- East Midlands Coaching Conference, June 2019, Positive Psychology & Coaching
Current Clients
Ana comes into coaching from a senior management background, including board level experience. She has worked with clients across a variety of industries including professional services, banking, healthcare, technology and across the public sector, including central and local government.
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