The Centre for Mentoring & Coaching

creates high performing leaders and organisations. We employ the wisdom from a track record of over 20 years rich experience across corporate, governmental, not-for-profits and charities.
We value integrity, ethical practice and the developing strength of diversity whilst providing radical and challenging interventions. Our work is supportive, enabling and highly solution focussed based on encouraging new thinking by our clients. Ours is not a "prescriptive" practice; we build trust to get behind the surface to deep rooted issues which need fixing and to formulate owned solutions.

Our approach provides an excellent return on your investment, whether as an individual client or as an organisation seeking a wider intervention.

Who we are

The Centre maintains a small core team of experienced consultants who offer a diverse richness to organisational development. Our regular Directors' meetings provide peer supervision and external supervision to support the continued refinement and development of our practice.

 
Our consultants have a shared set of values around integrity, ethical practice and diversity. We provide organisational change solutions whilst maintaining the loyal confidential support for every individual client within that change programme. Creating this trust is core to our success in creating radical shifts in behaviour.

 
We call ourselves “boutique” firstly because our small size ensures that clients receive the very best service, and are not exposed to inexperienced consultants; and secondly because our services are individually designed for each client.

We unashamedly support our clients to work towards a world which is sustainable and fair.

Our Clients

The Centre works across a broad client base enabling cross fertilisation of ideas, best practice and learning between the sectors. Our clients range from executive coaching for the CEO to team coaching, organisational change and leadership programmes.

We have organisational and individual clients. Among our institutional clients are famous major, and minor charities, banks and manufacturing companies, major national and local housing associations, Criminal Justice, professional assocations, hospital trusts, medical and legal practices and Universities. Individuals, some of them self-financing include small business owners, professionals, Chief Executives, consultants and members of pressure groups.

What is consistent is that each client intervention gets a small highly experienced and skilled team led by a client manager. We develop robust and trusting relationships with clients.

Individual clients from many settings seek support for their career development, for generating strategic directions, for tricky management issues, working towards retirement, and for supervision. Some will continue with long term coaching and mentoring.

"You steered us through the changed agenda with poise and subtlety and we achieved what I wanted in the very short time we had.  At times, it felt like you had made time expand, giving us space to consider and reflect, but bringing it together on time" Mike Innes Chair CCG

Strategic Organisational Change

Coaching and Mentoring

Coaching Supervision

Coaches and mentors need professional supervision to ensure their continued professional development and the quality of their work with clients. All our consultants are supervised.

We provide supervision for external and internal coaches, both individually or in groups, working with them on three integrated areas:

Developing Coaches and Mentors

The Centre is renowned for its excellent programmes to develop coaches and mentors, whether this is for a cadre of internal coaches or to develop coaching skills for managers. We tailor-make our programmes to meet the specific needs of each client organisation ensuring excellent return on investment.

Releasing the Energy of Diversity

Realising the cutting edge potential of diversity is central to all our work, no matter how homogenous a team or organisation may appear. We believe diversity is key to developing excellent organisations, and to converting necessary bureaucracy from a standardising and inefficient drag on resources to a flexible and imaginative performance.

We work to support organisations to enable them to fully release the full potential of their managers and staff through celebrating difference and ensuring everyone is respectful, respected and able to fully contribute. In addition we work to support our clients to increase the diversity of their workforces to build on their strengths and ensure their client services can most effectively be met.

CARDIFF BREAKFAST SEMINAR 2ND DECEMBER HILTON HOTEL 7.45 TO 9.30

Come along and hear our guest speaker, Cerys Furlong, share her thoughts about leading in challenging times. Cerys is CE of GroupEd and former CEO of Chwarae Teg. There will be plenty of time for questions, networking and discussion.

The seminar is free to attend but please let us know if you are planning to come so we can ensure sufficient refreshments - you can use the enquiry form on the left. 

'Just what I needed - a real shot of energy' 

Women can still experience a glass ceiling, feelings of isolation and systemic organisational sexism. Opportunities to network and build leadership capacity with other women is both enjoyable and beneficial.

"Thanks so much for a great start to the day. It was just what I needed, so much on at the moment, and was just the pause, energy and connection I needed. Thank you!" Rachel Robinson CEO Learning Partnership West

Breakfast seminars have been running in Bristol since 2014 and nationally on line since 2017. We are now also running seminars in Cardiff. These informal seminars bring women leaders from all sectors together to explore ideas and share experiences. 

"... I thoroughly enjoyed the seminar. It made such a difference having an intimate session with likeminded people that we could open up to. I often find networking groups far too big to really gain any meaningful relationships and therefore make them worthwhile. The topic was relevant and thought provoking and I would certainly be interested in further events." Rebecca Kibby Legal Director Foot Anstey LLP

Topics have included: the impact of women leaders; leading change in uncertain times; systems thinking and organisatonal change; driving culture change; and "is there a business case for diversity?".

The seminars are informal, with plenty of time for discussion and networking. They happen 2 to 3 times per year in Bristol and Cardiff and also on-line.

Telephone: 

Wendy Murphy +447710 396906

Sarah Ackroyd +447931571396

Email: enquiries@mentoringcentre.co.uk

Address:
The Centre for Mentoring and Coaching Ltd
5 Great George St

Bristol BS1 5RR

The Centre works with a number of trusted partners to support our client offering.

NLP Coaching for Health and Life: Pippa Adamson

Pippa works with clients who are stuck with health or life issues using  brain-training techniques to create new neural pathways in the brain, changing old habits and feelings and focussing on what clients want instead

www.newleaf-changes.co.uk

http://www.newleaf-changes.co.uk

Breathing Fire - bringing creativity to workplace development

Breathing Fire is a theatre company comprised of women of Afrikan descent that specialises in interactive theatre. Our purpose is to work with, and support, communities and organisations to explore, discover and understand life's diverse experiences. We do this through a range of processes, mainly by encouraging people to share their stories and experiences using creative techniques, including interactive theatre productions and drama workshops. We work with people of all backgrounds and organisations across all sectors.

Stories, whether they focus on everyday existences or fundamental moments, shape our lives and who we are. Sharing our individual and collective stories enables us to find exciting ways to communicate, learn and empathise with each other. In our committent to equality, diversity and inclusion our processes and outcomes aim to feed into strategies that support organisational development.

Whilst we are a Bristol based company we deliver regional, national and international projects.

For more information: www.breathingfire.co.uk 

The University of the West of England: UWE Bristol
In partnership with the univesity we support their students through a number of graduation prizes.

Photos from July 2019 show Wendy Murphy presenting prizes to Scott Mayo (BA (Hons) Management and Leadership) and Stephen Holland-Morgan (Executive MBA) for best performance on their respective courses.

NEW! Future Leaders Development Programme with demonstrable impact running in Cardiff and in Bristol Spring 2026

This programme is for women in or aspiring to leadership positions in the public, private and third sectors. It includes four half-day workshops giving women the tools and approaches to resolve real-life challenges, including those specific to women in the workplace. It also includes two one-to-one coaching sessions and three peer learning workshops, plus materials to support preparation for and reflection on the sessions, ensuring you get the most from the programme. 

The Centre operates a sliding scale of charges for the whole programme: £1,000 for those working in smaller charities, £1,200 for those working in the public sector and £1,500 for those working in the commercial sector (+VAT on all prices). We don't want cost to be a barrier so please get in touch to discuss if this is an issue.

FREE TASTER SESSIONS FOR FUTURE LEADERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN - EARLY 2026

We will be running free taster sessions in Cardiff and Bristol for those who are interested in the Future Leaders Development Programme for women. Come along and experience how the programme will work, and connect with other women leaders. Get in touch for more information or to book a place.