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A snapshot of who we are

 

Helen Loveday – Executive Coach & Team Facilitator

Our Lead Coach and Managing Director of The People Development Specialists, Helen Loveday, is an International Coaching Federation accredited professional coach, coach trainer and supervisor, team facilitator and accredited assessor for leadership assessment and development centres. She has more than 20 years’ exec experience, including 15 years in the Middle East region. Helen provides in-person coaching, team facilitation and training in person within the UK and Europe and virtually across the globe.

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Helen’s clients have consistently described her as warm, empathic and insightful. They have really appreciated her abilities to help them think clearly and from different perspectives, often about themselves and their roles, which has led to some huge, positive shifts in their self-belief, inspiration and motivation for change.

Corporate Career

Helen began her career in the luxury travel industry where she was responsible for customer service skills, sales and ongoing professional development. In 2006, she moved to a global construction and property development organisation, where she worked in the Learning and Development field, designing and delivering a bespoke leadership programme and a brand new performance management programme. Since 2013, she has partnered with a number of leading Middle East HR consultancies delivering 1:1 executive coaching, assessment centres for recruitment and development and facilitating various leadership development and professional skills programmes. Helen has worked with many different industries with diverse organisations, developing entry level graduates through to senior executives.

Coaching training & qualifications

Helen has achieved the ILM Diploma in Management Coaching and Mentoring, accreditation with the British Psychological Society in Occupational Testing and a number of psychometric assessment tools. She is an accredited Results Coach with the Neuroleadership Institute and an ICF accredited coach. More recently, Helen has completed the Accelerating Coach Excellence Programme with the World Business and Executive Coach Summit and is also certified as a Self Belief Coach.

 
 

The People Development Specialists
Executive Coaching Online across the world

As Managing Director of The People Development Specialists, Helen Loveday provides 1:1 executive coaching within organisations, team facilitation, coach training and supports talent assessment initiatives. She also designs leadership development programmes and transitions organisations towards a coaching culture. Her clients include PwC, Dubai Airports, New York University, BP and NHS partnerships.

Our Team of Associates

We’re proud to work with a number of trusted and quality assured associates within the UK and the Middle East who are also highly skilled and experienced in executive coaching, leadership development, talent assessment, team facilitation and training. They are all accredited coaches who have undergone a rigorous selection process.

It is rare to find a coach who is able to blend high-quality coaching, administrative excellence and great wisdom and empathy.

I engaged Helen to coach staff at many levels from the C-suite to individual contributors, and she received nothing but high praise from all she coached. In my assessment, she is as good a coach as may be found.

Cecil Murray, Learning & Organisational Development Director

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Cecil Murray, Learning & Organisational Development Director

It is rare to find a coach who is able to blend high-quality coaching, administrative excellence and great wisdom and empathy. I engaged Helen to coach staff at many levels from the C-suite to individual contributors, and she received nothing but high praise from all she coached. In my assessment, she is as good a coach as may be found.
I’m so pleased to have chosen Helen as my coach; she built rapport quickly and I have already tangibly benefited from sessions in person, on video conference and by phone. Helen is an incredibly warm person, has bundles of empathy, but also is supportively challenging. She makes me think. She gives me the space to think. She helps me to order my thinking. Helen’s questioning style (the DNA of any good coach) is both intuitive and insightful. She has the ability in a conversation to ask what might be perceived as an off-the-wall question, which later we both realise has in fact “peeled the layers of the onion” further. It is clear that Helen’s years of coaching experience mean that she utilizes her unconscious abilities to ask the most enlightening question at the right time.

Partner, Big 4 accounting firm, based in the UK and Middle East

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2018-02-18T10:06:43+00:00

Partner, Big 4 accounting firm, based in the UK and Middle East

I’m so pleased to have chosen Helen as my coach; she built rapport quickly and I have already tangibly benefited from sessions in person, on video conference and by phone. Helen is an incredibly warm person, has bundles of empathy, but also is supportively challenging. She makes me think. She gives me the space to think. She helps me to order my thinking. Helen’s questioning style (the DNA of any good coach) is both intuitive and insightful. She has the ability in a conversation to ask what might be perceived as an off-the-wall question, which later we both realise has in fact “peeled the layers of the onion” further. It is clear that Helen’s years of coaching experience mean that she utilizes her unconscious abilities to ask the most enlightening question at the right time.
I would recommend coaching with Helen to anyone who is taking on a new leadership role. Honestly, it has been transformative to my work and has opened up a new way of thinking about how institutions are run, what my values are and what I can contribute. This has been the single most valuable thing I have done in my own professional development.

Vice Provost, Leading US University

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2018-05-17T09:38:19+01:00

Vice Provost, Leading US University

I would recommend coaching with Helen to anyone who is taking on a new leadership role. Honestly, it has been transformative to my work and has opened up a new way of thinking about how institutions are run, what my values are and what I can contribute. This has been the single most valuable thing I have done in my own professional development.
Working with Helen was my first coaching experience and I would highly recommend her.   She immediately made me feel comfortable, which in turn, helped me to open-up from the first session.   Helen has a great ability to truly listen and make a person feel validated.  She encouraged me to explore the situation and come up with various scenarios which helped me develop an action plan to resolution. Helen’s patience and calm demeanor helped me work through several concerns that I was facing both professionally and personally.  She provided various tools which allowed me to think and act out scenarios and eventually come to the right path forward.

Strategy Director, Leading Middle East airport

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2022-04-24T14:55:21+01:00

Strategy Director, Leading Middle East airport

Working with Helen was my first coaching experience and I would highly recommend her.   She immediately made me feel comfortable, which in turn, helped me to open-up from the first session.   Helen has a great ability to truly listen and make a person feel validated.  She encouraged me to explore the situation and come up with various scenarios which helped me develop an action plan to resolution. Helen’s patience and calm demeanor helped me work through several concerns that I was facing both professionally and personally.  She provided various tools which allowed me to think and act out scenarios and eventually come to the right path forward.
I was referred to Helen as I was looking to understand more about our team's dynamic, abilities and qualities. On discussing with Helen, we opted to use a tool called Strengthscope, which is now part of our onboarding toolkit. However, a tool without the master is pretty useless and this is where Helen’s ability and talent comes in. Helen has a great knack with listening and interpreting the results on a one to one basis with each person. The feedback from myself and my multi-cultural team is that Helen is excellent! Hence we have continued to work with Helen and I personally work with Helen as my coach and am getting a lot of benefit from our discussions. I would not hesitate to recommend Helen, she is one of a kind!


CEO, Global Tourism Body

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2022-05-07T10:17:22+01:00

CEO, Global Tourism Body

I was referred to Helen as I was looking to understand more about our team's dynamic, abilities and qualities. On discussing with Helen, we opted to use a tool called Strengthscope, which is now part of our onboarding toolkit. However, a tool without the master is pretty useless and this is where Helen’s ability and talent comes in. Helen has a great knack with listening and interpreting the results on a one to one basis with each person. The feedback from myself and my multi-cultural team is that Helen is excellent! Hence we have continued to work with Helen and I personally work with Helen as my coach and am getting a lot of benefit from our discussions. I would not hesitate to recommend Helen, she is one of a kind!
When I first started talking to Helen I was at a crucial point in my career and at a crossroads, I needed an impartial listener to talk through the possibilities I had to consider with. Helen was excellent in that she listened to my thoughts, dreams, concerns while asking pertinent questions to tease out what I really wanted and desired for my future. Before I spoke to Helen I was feeling conflicted and didn’t know where I was headed in my career then I worked with Helen and now I feel in control, I have a real plan on what I want to achieve and the building blocks on how to get there. If you are considering using Helen’s services I would say take the plunge, you will not regret it. You will find out who you are, what you want to achieve and come up with a plan on how to accomplish your career goals.


Head of Projects, Global Tourism Body

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2022-05-07T10:28:19+01:00

Head of Projects, Global Tourism Body

When I first started talking to Helen I was at a crucial point in my career and at a crossroads, I needed an impartial listener to talk through the possibilities I had to consider with. Helen was excellent in that she listened to my thoughts, dreams, concerns while asking pertinent questions to tease out what I really wanted and desired for my future. Before I spoke to Helen I was feeling conflicted and didn’t know where I was headed in my career then I worked with Helen and now I feel in control, I have a real plan on what I want to achieve and the building blocks on how to get there. If you are considering using Helen’s services I would say take the plunge, you will not regret it. You will find out who you are, what you want to achieve and come up with a plan on how to accomplish your career goals.
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