About Joy Ferguson


Strengthens potential

Joy Ferguson's style is pragmatic, collaborative and challenging, strengthening the potential of each client and organisation she works with. Using care and considerable thought she draws on her high levels of skill, expertise and knowledge to make a tangible and sustained difference to Leaders. Theory is used to enlighten and inform, enabling practical solutions to the issues her clients face and furthering their Leadership journeys.

'Raises the bar'

Using her extensive business acumen together with her special expertise in Emotional Intelligence, Joy also brings the latest in research to help leaders increase their influence through understanding themselves and their stakeholders. Taking a systematic approach and interested in leading-edge thinking, she utilises her wide-ranging tool-kit which include the fields of Neuro-science, Psychology, NLP and Leadership to develop practices that simply work.

Extensive corporate experience

Joy's continuing success at senior levels spans over 20 years. She brings to her work an extensive corporate background in management including Finance, Telecoms, Procurement, HR, Recruitment and Internal Change Consultancy.

Accreditation & Professional Development

  • Fully Accredited Executive and Team Coach - APECS
  • Advanced Certificate in Coaching Supervision, Bath Consultancy
  • Coaching Certificates in ‘Business Excellence’ & ‘Leadership’
  • Certified in the use of NEO-PI-3 Personality Inventory, Hogrefe
  • Qualified - JCA EI tool, de-brief of wide range of Psychometrics
  • NLP Master Practitioner
  • 2 year Facilitator/Coach programme, BT & Surrey University
  • M.A. Counselling, University of Reading
  • Research projects - ‘Conflict at work’ and ‘Coaching Supervision’

    Additional Development:

    • Leadership Embodiment
    • Honest Conversations
    • Immunity to Change and Vertical development
    • Introduction to CBT
    • Organisation and Systems Theory
    • Business process improvement & re-engineering

    Professional Affiliations

    • Member and a Lead Coach with University of Oxford, Said Business School, Coaching Community
    • Affiliate member British Psychological Society, special interest group in Coaching Psychology
    • Fellow – CIPD