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29 Harrogate Road, Leeds, LS7 3PD
t: (44) 7913 917330 e: Fiona@fionadayconsulting.co.uk w: fionadayconsulting.co.uk
World-class coaching and training for medical and public health leaders
Dr Fiona Day (MBChB, FFPH, CPsychol, EMCC EIA Master Practitioner) is the only Leadership Coach in the world with advanced qualifications in both coaching and coaching psychology and also in medicine and public health. Combined with her real-world experience as a medical and public health leader, Fiona is in a unique position to help your senior medical and public health leaders to flourish personally and professionally.
After several decades in medical and public health roles, including at Board and system level, Fiona now works as a Medical and Public Health Leadership Coach.
She has coached over 400 senior doctors, medical and public health leaders in the last seven years, supporting them to transform their leadership, careers, and working lives – across the UK and on all five continents.
Fiona’s clients are committed to improving health outcomes, and are senior doctors with leadership responsibilities and/ or public health leaders in local, regional, national and international roles.
Her clients are Medical Leaders– Doctors who are Clinical Leads, Clinical Directors, Medical Directors, Chief Medical Officers, Medical Academic Leaders, Medical Education Leaders, Medical CEOs, Clinical Chairs; and Public Heath, Global Health & International Health Leaders– Public health specialists who are Consultants in Public Health, Consultants in Health Protection, Senior Epidemiologists, Directors of Public Health, Unit Heads, Directors, Director-Generals.
Fiona also delivers bespoke training and development for medical and public health leaders, including accredited coaching skills training.
Find out how Fiona has supported medical and public health leaders, including reading over 100 testimonials, here.
A rigorous academic evidence-base underpins Fiona’s medical and public health leadership coaching practice: the positive impact of her Coaching Programmes for senior doctors, medical and public health leaders was published in BMJ Leader in 2023.
Fiona is based in Leeds, and work online across the UK and Internationally. She is a Leadership Coach for: the UK Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Doctorate of Public Health.
WORK WITH FIONA
1:1 Leadership & Executive Coaching
- Gain confidence and skills as a transformational, engaging leader; improve relationships and communication; find creative solutions for complex challenges; and take care of yourself.
1:1 Career Coaching
- Get unstuck, find clarity, direction and wellbeing in your career; make career or retirement decisions; secure a role; and do your own best work.
Staff Development & Training Courses
- For employers who wish to commission bespoke group training and development to support doctors and public health specialists in leadership roles, including:
- Transition to Consultant Courses
- Shine at Interview Courses
Coaching Skills Training & Supervision
- Be a health leader who coaches. Confidently use a coaching approach to develop, support and manage your staff, team, & the system around you.
Why Fiona’s coaching credentials are world-class
Fiona’s qualifications are globally unique. She is the only Chartered Coaching Psychologist who is also qualified as a doctor and / or as a public health specialist. She is known for her impeccable qualifications and the excellence of her professional practice based upon her decades of skill development in medicine, public health, leadership, coaching and coaching psychology. Fiona is actively involved in research, and has a rigorous academic evidence-base underpinning her coaching practice.
- Chartered Psychologist in Coaching Psychology 2023, British Psychological Society
- Independently Accredited as a Master Practitioner Coach and Mentor 2021, European Coaching and Mentoring Council (EIA20203806)
- British Psychological Society Approved Certificate in Third Wave Cognitive Behaviour Therapies 2020 – highly skilled in using third wave CBT based approaches in the context of leadership and career coaching, including Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused approaches, and ‘positive psychology’ (experience dependent neuroplasticity)
- Accredited and Licensed Career Coach and Counsellor 2019
- Diploma in Occupational Medicine 2017
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Teacher Training level 1 & 2 2016-2018
- ILM7 Executive Coaching and Mentoring 2016
- CCT and Fellow of Faculty of Public Health 2009
- MSc (Health Promotion and Health Education, specialising in emotional wellbeing) 1999
- MBChB 1996
- BMedSci (Psychology, first class honours) 1994 with British Psychological Society Graduate Membership (GMBPsS, 681578)
- Accredited Executive Coach with the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management; NHS Leadership Academy Healthcare Leadership 360’ feedback facilitator; Member of several professional mentoring and coaching networks and was the coaching lead for my previous NHS organisation
- Abides by EMCC Global Code of Ethics & BPS Codes of Ethics and Conduct
- In regular supervision, at least one hour per 35 hours coaching. Supervision: coaching hours ratio 2022= 1:28
- Over 2,000 hours of supervised 1:1 coaching experience since 2015
- Over 350 senior medical and public health 1:1 clients
- Expert in medical and public health sector; Clients mainly in senior leadership roles including at national and international level
- Approved Coaching Supervisor – on the British Psychological Society’s Register of Applied Positive Psychologists Supervisors (RAPPS)
- Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office as a Data Controller
- Privacy, confidentiality, cybersecurity, and inclusion statement
- Enhanced UK Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate
- Insured for my coaching practice
- Actively involved in leadership roles relating to the professionalisation of coaching: Committee Member of the Division of Coaching Psychology of the British Psychological Society and CPD lead; led EMCC-UK Spotlight Series (CPD for coaches programme) for 2 years
- Committed to transparency through annual auditing of impact and outcomes
- Engaged in practitioner-led research published in BMJ Leader and collaborates with international researchers
- Over 100 testimonials
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